# What common food items have you never had? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749 "2016-08-04T16:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/21 "2016-08-04T21:26:22Z")
I’ve never had a corn dog. I was probably 40 before I had my first sno-cone (I think I was 25 years too old for that). I’ve never had hard alcohol and really only sips of beer - not because of any prohibition against it, but because I think it tastes bad. StG ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/22 "2016-08-04T21:32:14Z")
I have never had an omelette. Don’t like eggs in general. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/23 "2016-08-04T22:03:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Big Mac. They have that yellow goop they call cheese on them. > > The McRib is disgusting on the face of it. You can request a Big Mac without the cheese. I request mine without pickles and Secret Sauce. Much better that way. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/24 "2016-08-04T22:49:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Big Mac is about the only thing I can think of. Mom found it too high in calories for us as kids and as an adult I think “what if I don’t like it? Then my dinner is ruined.” > > I think I’ve had every other common food. I’m a middle-class Ohioan - common foods are our thang. I’ve had one Big Mac in my life, and it was memorable for the reason I will describe here. It was somewhere in eastern Minnesota in 1991; I was in college and had just finished finals and we were coming back from a week-long canoe trip in the Boundary Waters. This McDonald’s was memorable in itself because it was decorated in pink, mauve, and lavender, and looked like a bathroom. :o p.s. It was OK. Never had another one. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/25 "2016-08-04T22:54:02Z")
I’ve never had lobster; how closely to crab does it taste, for those of you who have? I don’t like crab, and didn’t even like serving it when I was waitressing because of the smell. I would hold my breath while carrying it out to the table. Frog legs are delicious! They really do taste a lot like white meat chicken. I’ve never had baba ganoush, mainly because I know it’s made from eggplant and I have never had an eggplant dish that I liked. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/26 "2016-08-04T23:05:51Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve never had lobster; how closely to crab does it taste, for those of you who have? I don’t like crab, and didn’t even like serving it when I was waitressing because of the smell. I would hold my breath while carrying it out to the table. Crab and lobster have different tastes. You may not like either, but I would think someone could enjoy lobster while not liking crab. Worth a try. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/27 "2016-08-04T23:08:39Z")
Out of all of these suggestions, I guess I’ve never had bugs. Well, not intentionally. We’ve ALL eaten bugs before, unintentionally. I really don’t think there’s ANY common food I haven’t eaten. Head cheese maybe? Is that common? ETA: I recall a thread about something common in the Pittsburgh area, scrapple I think. But it too sounds kind of head-cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/28 "2016-08-04T23:14:39Z")
I don’t drink alcohol. I have tasted beer and wine, but that’s it. No Big Macs for me. I avoid fast food and chain restaurants, so I’ve never had most of their offerings. I tasted a McDonald’s quarter pounder once, and thought it was awful. I’ve had KFC and other fried chicken, and also Subway sandwiches, and I think I once had something from Taco Bell (back when it resembled a Mexican restaurant). I’ve never had a raw oyster. Also, no escargot (to me, snails are vermin). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/29 "2016-08-04T23:47:57Z")
I can’t think of anything “common” I haven’t had at one point or another. > [@Trinopus](#): > > I was at a Bug Fair the other weekend, and they had a booth offering tastes of grasshoppers and meal-worms. I’m ashamed to say, I chickened out. No, you didn’t. A chicken would be all up in those bugs! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/30 "2016-08-04T23:50:47Z")
Not a damn thing mentioned above. You people is weird! I’ll try just about anything once. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/31 "2016-08-04T23:57:57Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > They’re okay. Nothing special either way. Raw oysters, nothing special? BLASPHEMY! You gotta imagine someone takes a very thin sausage skin. They hock a giant loogie into it, piss in it, and drop in a pinch of sand. How can you possibly call that “nothing special”! I’ve tried every five or ten years to like raw oysters. I really have. No success so far. And yeah, it surprises me I’ve got a contribution for this thread, but a Big Mac and a Whopper both qualify. I’m not a fan of fast-food burgers, and as a kid we just had the tiny ones. Some day I’ll try a Big Mac, but it’s not something that sounds very exciting to me. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/32 "2016-08-04T23:58:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not a damn thing mentioned above. You people is weird! I’ll try just about anything once. Right? I’m way too adventurous to miss out on something new I might like, but I did see one thing listed that I don’t ever remember trying because the smell of it (fried, at least) turns my stomach… Spam. Just no. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/33 "2016-08-05T00:06:55Z")
Spam, also. I’ve eaten other kids of meat “loaves,” like Leberkase in Austria, but never dug them out of a can. > **[Leberkäse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberk%C3%A4se)** > > Leberkäse (help·info) (German, literally 'liver-cheese'; sometimes also Leberkäs or Leberka(a)s) in Austria and the Swabian, Bavarian and Franconian parts of Germany, 'leverkaas' in the Netherlands and Fleischkäse ("meat-cheese") in Saarland, Baden, Switzerland and Tyrol) is a specialty food found in the south of Germany, in Austria and parts of Switzerland, similar to bologna sausage. It consists of beef, pork and bacon and is made by grinding the ingredients very finely and then baking it as a ... And if you guys aren’t eating those raw oysters, pass 'em over here. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/34 "2016-08-05T00:07:08Z")
Ramen Noodles and Tuna fish are the only common food items I haven’t tried. Never liked the smell after friends fixed them in our dorm. Frog legs are delicious. Get them often at seafood buffets. I don’t like catfish so fried shrimp and frog legs are what I eat at seafood places. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/35 "2016-08-05T00:58:40Z")
Any kind of organ meat. Lox. Clams on the half shell. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/36 "2016-08-05T00:59:15Z")
I have never had coffee. Never. I had a very serious reaction once when I got grapefruit juice on my skin, so I have never tasted grapefruit. I’m allergic to scallops but not to clams, so I don’t know if I can eat oysters or mussels. Therefore I’ve never tried. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/37 "2016-08-05T00:59:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Out of all of these suggestions, I guess I’ve never had bugs. Well, not intentionally. We’ve ALL eaten bugs before, unintentionally. I feel like I must have had a bug at some point, but I can’t recall. I have had everything else mentioned so far. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything really common that I haven’t tried, but the hubby says he’s never had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He avoids peanut butter and it’s taken years to convince him that pecans, almonds, etc. taste nothing like peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/38 "2016-08-05T01:17:17Z")
Never had rice, pizza, lobster, crab, fish of any kind (except fish sticks), tasted shrimp once (one of the worst things I’ve ever eaten), tea, alcohol, lamb, any Mexican food, any Japanese food, and Mac and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/39 "2016-08-05T01:22:25Z")
It’s not never but I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I’ve had Starbucks coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/40 "2016-08-05T01:28:51Z")
Rammen Noodles Lute Fisk Blood Pudding Pig’s Feet Mc Ribs Deep Fried candy bars green tea icecream tripe …along with almost every variety of caviar, preferably on a flat-bread waffer with a small dollop of sour cream. (All the rest can wait until until after the caviar…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749.md?page=3)