What do you refuse to eat?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I mean, stuff that everyone else seems to think is fine, but you won’t touch.

For me, there’s a couple:
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[li]Fat free anything. This is not natural. I don’t have to lose weight, it doesn’t taste good and it can be more expensive. Why, God, why!!?[/li][li]Overly processed foods. This includes gravy in a can/bottle, frozen food meals (Marie Callendar’s, Stouffers, etc), and the like. This includes stuff where the ingredient list of 10 items has maybe one that you can identify.[/li][li]Food that has no natural counterpart. I mean, aerosol cheese, powdered cheese food product (whatever!) etc., that “lunch spread” that has some kind of mystery meat in it along with ground pickles and mayo, “fruit juice” that has no real fruit juice in it.[/li][/ul]

I’m sure I could come up with more, but that’s it off the top of my head.

I’m not down on anyone who eats these - they just aren’t for me. I tend to be kind of a “natural-health-granola” type person anyway, so these are just my picks.

Anyone, anyone?

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I also avoid fat-free imitations of real food - invariably they taste horrid. In fact, I pretty much try to avoid imitation foods of any kind - like artificial cheese-food-like substances. I don’t like mystery meat products either - if I wanted to eat chicken lips, I’d buy chicken lips.

I don’t like overly spicy stuff either, hence I avoid Mexican, Indian, and certain oriental dishes.

gee, with all the stuff I don’t eat, why do I weigh so much?? Oh yeah - chocolate…

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Watermelon and cheesecake. I don’t like them. I don’t care how good everyone keeps saying they are and I don’t care who made the cheesecake, I’m not going to consume 30 grams of fat to make you feel better, because I won’t like it!

Sorry, a bit of a rant. You know how it is when everyone loves a food and you. . . just. . . don’t.

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Besides the obviously revolting overprocessed unidentifiable foods already mentioned, I won’t eat organ meat. My mom would always try to smuggle miniscule pieces of liver into the gravy at Thanksgiving, but I always could taste the foul stuff.

And green tomatoes, BLEAH! Why would anyone DO this, when tomatoes are so good ripe?

/Kate

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Mushrooms and olives. Yucko. Also, anything from McDonald’s.

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Beets, pickled pigs feet, macaroni salad, sweet and sour items and “Nouveau Cuisine” swile.

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Hi, Bunnygirl! Nice thread idea - you’re gonna get a bunch of responses here, cutie!! :wink:

Liver - I was forced to eat it as a kid, and the dislike has stuck. Haven’t touched it for over 30 years.

Liverwurst - Ditto what I said above. Missus Coder loves the stuff. I think the smell is so awful I have to leave the room when she makes a sandwich with this stuff. I don’t think our cats would even eat it.

Processed individually sliced cheese product slices - why eat this when real cheese exists?

Anchovies - Fish does not belong on pizza - no way, no how. I won’t eat from a pizza that has anchovies on only one side. The oily fishy taste contaminates the whole pie. Blech!

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Brussel sprouts. If cabbages had balls…

Liver. It’s the body’s septic tank, people.

Cheap beer. If I’m going to put alcohol into my body, it’s gonna be good-tasting alcohol, dammit.

Uncooked olives, except kalamata olives.

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[li]Onions (including leeks, scallions, etc.)**[/li][li]Peppers (green, red, yellow, whatever)[/li][li]Cabbage (green, purple, whatever)[/li][li]Spaghetti sauce with chunks of tomatoes (is the blender not working or what?)[/li]
Allergies to the first 3, the fourth is just visually unappealing.
**I also include under/uncooked celery in a cooked dish - the crunch is too much like onions

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Everything from the OP

plus

Low-fat spreads. I don’t understand why anyone would slather their bread in damp, bubbly margarine when they could use less butter.

Tinned sweetcorn.

Salad cream(the same as your Miracle Whip, maybe).

Raw beansprouts, which I’m slightly allergic to.

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Raise yer hand if you’ve ever tasted “Vegemite”. Without a doubt the VILEST substance ever to be scraped off the underside of a septic tank cover.

Ethilrist: I’m right there with you. I painted the walls with brussels sprouts when I was young and I’ll NEVER touch them again.

And as far as cheap beer goes, I don’t care if you DO see me as some kinda yuppie beer-snob, I’d rather be “chillin’ with an import” than drinking Budweiser. (What are you doing?)

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I mostly dislike:
Lima beans
Peas
cheesecake

I will never eat liver, brussel sprouts, most condiments-except in special situations and never ever will I eat Sour Cream.

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Sour cream, kumiss, cream cheese, cottage cheese, buttermilk, yogurt; why do people eat slightly spoiled diary products? Euwwww!
I also hate organ meat, canned vegetables, anchovies, coffee, bell peppers, white button mushrooms, cooked spinach, hotdogs, any kind of meat, cheese or fruit juice that comes in a can.

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Fish.

Canned tuna is the only exception.

Some sea bugs are ok. Lobster tails,the occasional shrimp and I once had crab legs and they were ok.

Aside from that I never met a meal I didn’t like.

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Mushrooms. A) They’re fungus. And B) Even if they weren’t fungus, I wouldn’t eat something that looked that much like a little penis.

Yes, I know that beer is brewed with yeast which is a fungus. That’s completely different. Somehow.

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I can’t eat eggs or tomatoes by themselves; french toast–great, tomato sauce–fine.

The smell of broccoli, spinach, or sauerkraut is enough to make me flee. “I don’t care if I am mostly German, I’m not eating that! Can’t you smell it?!” Olives, pickles, sardines, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and beets just scare me. OK, maybe I’m drifting off the OP…

Anything topped with coconut or chopped nuts; it’s not really the taste, but the feel in my mouth. “That dessert would have been nice, except someone ruined it by putting that stuff on top…”

I won’t touch fruit salad, or most salads for that matter. Bananas, strawberries, and pineapple are edible, but I think they have too strong a flavor and would just as soon not eat them. “You jumbled a bunch of random foods together, none of which I like that much, and you expect me to like them now?” “I don’t really like lettuce, so why would I want to douse it in some smelly dressing?”

This is actually better than I used to be. I was a picky kid.

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Ethilrist…if cabbages had balls??? :smiley: That was funny.

I refuse to eat beans, peas, or anything else that has a little shell around it. They make me gag. When I was a little wolf, my mother made me eat peas. Aarrgghhh! I sat there and seperated the intact peas from those with the broken shells. I even had to broker an exchange deal to acquire more whole peas to meet my “pea quota”. Since I always drank milk with dinner, I would carefully use a spoon to scoop up a bunch of peas, and then swallow them whole with a milk chaser.

If I ever decided to end it all, I feel certain I could swallow a mouthful of barbituates without any problems. (As long as the capsules were all intact :stuck_out_tongue: )
I also can’t, uh, stomach the idea of eating organ meat. Urf. No freakin’ way. Add to that most of what’s already been mentioned, like fat free food, artificial food, and canned vegetables.

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In no particular order:

I won’t eat ny of what I would call the “Weird” vegetables. This includes asperagus, eggplant, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, broccoli, and cabbage. Tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, and celery are all I can stand there.

I won’t touch anything that has mayonase. If you want the fastest way to make me puke, just put mayonase (or any of its counterparts) on it.

I won’t eat any kind of nut. Nor will I eat plumbs, prunes, grapefruit, watermellon (or any kind of mellon for that matter). I will not eat any fruit with seeds in it.

I don’t like saurcraut (sp). I won’t eat raw onions, and I just found out that celantro will make me gag as well.

I will never drink an alcholic beverage (I just hate the taste).

I don’t like sunflower seeds, or any seed that is eaten (with the exception of sesame seeds on my hamburger bun… I just don’t notice them there.)

I won’t eat pickles, cucumbers, or radishes. I will never order mushrooms, peppers, or anchovies on my pizza.

I won’t eat yogurt unless its frozen yogurt. I don’t like butterscotch cookies, and will never ever EVER drink coffee.

I won’t drink any diet soda pop except for diet 7-UP.

But the thing I will ABSOLUTELY never touch to my lips is potatoe salad. One taste of that and I my stomach immediately starts spewing everything up.

I apologize for such a long list, but I am quite a picky eater. I am fortunate to have a wife that also doubles as a food taster (Here, honey. Tell me if I’ll like this.) She’s pretty accurate too. It was quite funny the first time I had dinner at her house. Her mother was cooking and there was nothing that she prepared that I liked. They still pick on me over 10 years later because of that.

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Egg Plant, bannanas, beans (the type used in Chilli, pinto, navy, etc)

It’s just one of those things where the feel of any of these in my mouth makes me nausiated. Icky.

-Doug

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There’s only one ‘group’ of foods I absolutely won’t eat: anything raw on the half-shell. I just can’t do it!

I’d eat almost anything else. Most of the things other posters named I don’t eat as a rule. I’ll eat liver when it’s pate de foie gras. I don’t like American ‘cheese’ so I avoid it. Microwaveable foods are usually gross (that Marie Calender seems to be on the right track, though). I, too, dislike cheap beer and avoid American macro-brews like the plague.

But, I’d try cow’s tounge and sweetbreads. I’d even eat tripe and brain. Sushi? No problem. Rare steak? Sure! Spicy ethnic foods? Bring 'em on! But slurping down slimy, raw oysters? Blech!!!