Ditto on the never tried, but I am averse to trying it. I can’t get past the “raw fish” thing conceptually. Yes, I am aware that there’s more to it than that – I don’t care.
If it is any consolation I didn’t try sushi until this last year and all because of my daughter. She took a cooking camp and really wanted to try sushi, so we took her out to a sushi restaurant. She loved it, and my wife already loved it. So there I was sitting with my teriyaki (good by the way), and thinking—hell I should try that.
So about a month later she did well on something and we let her pick the place to celebrate and of course she chose Sushi. So we went again but this time I decided to try it.
LOVED IT!!! If you had told me that I would have been shocked. I easily say it is one of my favorite foods now. Go ahead try it You can try starting with something a little tamer–like the ebi. It is basically a cooked shrimp on the rice and go from there. Or a California roll–no uncooked fish there. After you are comfortable then you can try the raw fish!
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I’m 50 years old. My mom never fixed me one in my lunch and they just always sounded gross to me. Peanut butter and jelly seem like an unlikely combination.
Hmm, the raw oyster thing is the only thing that anyone’s mentioned that I haven’t tried before - I haven’t ever been in a situation where they would exist. I typically hate shellfish, but would try them for the experience, just in case. I can gag at least one of anything down, just to say I’ve tried it and don’t like it. Pigs’ feet for me don’t count, because I don’t consider them a ‘typical’ food. Is hominy ‘typical’? I love grits, but have never eaten hominy. So I guess my list of foods of questionable ‘typicality’:
Pigs’ feet
Hominy
Caviar
Field greens (fiddleheads, dandelion greens)
Gooseberries
Parsnips (that I know of)
I can’t drink milk without a bit of chocolate powder in it. The taste of straight milk makes me ill. Also count me in for never trying chowder, raw oysters, sushi or liver.
Spam
Vienna Sausages
Tuna
Potato/egg/tuna/macaroni or any other such salad
Raw clams or oysters
Chittlins or however you spell southern cooked intestines
Collard/turnip/mustard greens
Green beans
Pinto/navy/black beans
Chicken/cow/pigs feet
Deviled eggs
There are plenty more, if I think about it a while. These things have never and will not ever even touch my lips. None of this, “just one bite” nonsense for me. Oh, and add me to the, “never had a Big Mac” tally.
I’ve never eaten any meat other than beef or chicken. I’ve been a vegetarian most of my life and for the period that I wasn’t, I still kept kosher, so my options were limited. I didn’t eat that much meat even when I was trying it out, it didn’t do anything for me.
I’ve never had a Twinkie either! Yay us! I’m glad you posted this because I was having a hard time thinking of a typical food I have never tried.
I can’t say never, but I don’t remember ever tasting a strawberry. I know I tried one once when I was quite small because my parents know I had a severe allergic reaction, but I don’t remember it. It must have made quite an impression on my subconscious, though, because I’ve never had the urge to try one again. Sometimes when people learn I am allergic to strawberries, they think they should feel sorry for me, as if I am pining away for them, but really the idea of eating a strawberry is about the same as eating a rock for me. In my mind, it’s like a non-food. I do vaguely wonder about the texture of them … with all those little seeds they look like they would be gritty, and that doesn’t seem very appetizing.