ditto:
mushrooms
organ meat
most spoiled milk products
Another rule of thumb I use is, if you won’t tell me what it is, I don’t want it.
example of said rule:
them: here, try this.
me: what is it?
them: just try it, it’s good.
me: but, what is it?
them: trust me, you’ll like it.
me: no thanks.
Blue food
Most of my life has been spent eating. No major food no-no’s. I like mushrooms, whole tomatoes, most all veggies.
There is still a lot of food that I havent tried yet.
Brains.
My uncle loved 'em scrambled with eggs.
Fine.
More for him.
1)Prairie Oysters
2)JDT’s Foreskin
3)Hi Opal!
I am much MUCH less picky than I was as a child. I’m a mking a concentrated effort to try things I didn’t like before and to thereby re-educate my palate, but even after a re-evaluation, there are several things I still won’t eat if I have a choice:
*chicken with bones
*mushrooms
*olives
*tomato sauces (raw tomatoes are yummy)
*onions, unless they have been cooked to death and mixed in with many other things
*cucumbers
*cooked peppers
and now, the coup de grace…
***Chocolate
Feel free to taunt me at this point.
My dad and stepmother work in advertising and it is pretty much the norm on ANY food commercial to have “barf cans” on the set, sometimes right under the kitchen table (or wherever they are eating) for the actors to spit out or throw up the crap they have to keep eating…and pretending to like! Must make for a pretty interesting work day.
“So, what did you do today, honey?”
“Oh, I watched people throw up Sunny Delight all day.”
No, they aren’t still alive, but they are raw. Definitely an aquired taste. I love 'em, raw or fried. My mom makes oyster stuffing at Thanksgiving that is out of this world. I like most seafood, but it has to be cooked right. Likewise veggies. If you over-cook them, they get yucky. My MIL is queen of the over-cookers. Add to my list of foods I refuse to eat anything made by my MIL. When hubby and I started dating, he told her I liked broccoli. She now buys that Green Giant boil-in-the-bag broccoli and fake cheese combo thing, boils the hell out of it, and thinks she’s Emeril LaGasse. It’s just sooooooo bad. She also makes lasagna with…(gag) cottage cheese, instead of ricotta and mozzarella. I like cottage cheese, but not in place of ricotta! [barf smilie]
I agree with those of you who said you like most anything. I like most stuff, except the few things mentioned in my earlier post, and am willing to try new things. We were in Colorado a few years ago, and we had Rocky Mountain Oysters, and they were…um, different. Guess that’s an aquired taste, also. I would try them again, though. We also had Buffalo Joes, sloppy joes made with buffalo meat. Tasted like beef to me.
Celibant, non-drinking vegertarian checking in. Lots of things you can figure out.
Shellfish of any type makes me gag. It takes like something that went bad. Even I wasn’t veggie, I would not eat that stuff.
Blueberries and razzberries. Whoever decided those things were edible was ill.
Witchety grubs.
'nuff said.
/Kate
I am willing to try anything, even things I previously didn’t like. Usually, I’ll taste something I don’t like if I haven’t tasted it in a long while. Often, I find my tastes have changed and I now like what I used to hate. Sometimes, though I find that I still hate it (like blue cheese–Nope, still don’t like it).
I have’nt yet been offerred anything that I refuse to even taste.
This is a list of things that I have tried over time and still don’t like:
I once took a trip in mid-Chesapeake Bay with a grizzled old fisherman (probably Bboy) who “dredged” up some oysters and proffered me a newly opened, tabasco-sprinkled one.
Tasted like spicy snot.
The point is, I guess it was still alive. More the fool me for eating anything from the bottom of the Chesapeake 
/Kate
I think this is my most successful thread to date (not that I start a lot anyway).
Anyhoo, I almost forgot one: anything with the word lite in the title, and no, I did not misspell that.
If/when I ever become the all-powerful ruler of the world (not that I’m in the running, but ya never know) these three foods are going away forever…
Sour Cream - What the hell is up with this vile substance?! Hey everyone, here’s a clue: IT’S SOUR! The stuff has gone bad - don’t eat it. Throw it away. And for that matter, anything that looks white and creamy - buttermilk, ranch dressing, mayo, etc. If I see that white creamy gook all over somebody’s mouth one more time, I’m gonna puke.
Cilantro - Who decided that this was a pleasant taste? If one tiny little flake of this stuff gets in my food, it taints the entire meal. Oh, yummy, do I detect the soothing taste of sweat socks! Give me a second helping please!
Celery - This stuff should remain in the ground. Why do so many people insist on adding this “food” to soups? You’re just ruining perfectly good soup! I don’t know if it’s the taste or the lovely bland-green coloring that makes it oh-so appetizing.
Thanks for the info on “SunnyD”-my daughter 913) and stepson (12) love this crap-why, I cannot imagine. My question: what is this stuff made from? Is it like “Tang” (“it’s what the astronauts drink”)? The really weird thing-they actually PREFER this crap to FRESH SQUEEZED orange juice!
As an aside-I cannot eat brussels sprouts, and I loathe most organ meats (livers, kidneys, brains, etc.)!
The following vegetables, if cooked, make me all nauseous:
Carrots (ick!)
Celery (bleah!)
Peppers (urgh!)
The following make me nauseous in any form:
Eggplant (eesh!)
Cabbage (blurgh!)
Sweet potatoes (yam!)
And no, my dislike of these is not because I’ve never had them cooked properly. I dislike them because they are evil, and vile, and just plain icky.
On the other hand, that one time I got to eat a handful of just-recently-deceased, just-off-the-carcass tuna flesh… that was heavenly.
Fresh shucked oysters served on the half-shell are alive when served. If they’ve been dead, there is a potential for food poisoning (when they die in the shell, there is a build-up of toxins). Other bivalves such as clams and mussels are also alive before cooking, for the same reason.
Speaking of oysters… I love Oysters Rockerfeller. I think tomorrow, I shall go to my favorite seafood restaurant and order a plate of them, with a glass of champagne. Yum.
Wow, I had no idea so many people didn’t like cilantro. Color me surprised.
I love brussels sprouts and mushrooms and broccoli and almost everything else. I live anchovies on my pizza, I’ll eat steak tartare, sushi and I’ll try anything once. But there are two things that I’ve tried and I just won’t bother with:
Orange Juice that’s not fresh squeezed
and
Coconut flakes (I like fresh coconut)
Have you heard about hyper-tasters? Turns out that people have a unique number of taste buds and some people have an extremely high quantity making them hyper tasters. They can really, really taste things which probably makes them more picky. Discover magazine did an article on it. Supposedly you can paint your tongue with blue food coloring and press it on a white piece of paper to see how concentrated the buds are. I didn’t do the experiment but given my penchant for eating anything and everything, I’ll be my concentration of buds is a bit low.
Sorry for being wordy, just thought I’d share.
I’m only posting because I have two nobody else has mentioned yet:
However I dig all dairy products, fungi and foods that live in salt water. (Except the aformentioned oysters.)
I was so intent on mentioning my dislike for seafood and making a little joke that I forgot everything else!
I’ll not eat:
chicken on the bone (this includes buffalo wings)
mushrooms
raw tomatos
liver
tripe
tongue
brain
collared greens
Brussel sprouts
“soggy” asparagus (crisp is good, though)
fruit salad (well, at least not without picking it entirely apart)
any of the V8 Splash drinks
I think that’s it.
Wow…I’ve never seen so many picky eaters in my life! I thought the women in my previous department were bad. One woman wouldn’t eat any food that touched on her plate…everything had to be segregated. Another would eat condiments on burgers as long as they didn’t squirt out the sides…if she got any on her hands, she’d throw the burger away while gagging. Bizarre people.
Personally, I’m very nearly omniverous. There are only a few things that I actually dislike, and even fewer that I outright won’t eat under any circumstances.
Lima beans
Cooked apples* of any sort (apple pie, applesauce, etc.)
Raw bananas - this is a texture issue for me. Banana chips and banana flavored things are fine.
Sauerkraut
*I think this one is a survival instinct issue. I have only had a vomiting-type illness once in my entire life (barring college alcoholic binges), and it just so happened that the last thing I’d eaten before the vomiting onslaught was a warm, delicious piece of Jewish Apple Cake that Mom had baked. My body now rejects anything remotely similar to baked apples. Although I can pinpoint and acknowledge the effect of this event, I still can’t eat them. The human body is an amazing thing.