What a bunch of picky eaters. Oh well, by some standards I am too. Count me out for:
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[li]Raw tomatoes[/li][li]Organ meat[/li][li]Vegemite (I didn’t like everything about the land down u nder)[/li][li]Balut (ChiefScott has been to P.I. Ask him)[/li][li]Rocky mountain oysters - used to like them but not now. Real oysters on the half shell I can handle but don’t particularly like.[/li][li]Okra[/li][li]Rhubarb - who would put this stuff in a pie for God’s sake?[/li][/ul]
My brother live in Japan for nearly a year playing piano in a hotel. Food was the big hardship. He likes sushi, as do I, but getting a bucket of tentacles from KFC isn’t exacatly a taste of home. He has a cartoon of the Japanese food groups that included, slimy, not quite dead and looking at you.
I’m okay with menudo, or as my dad calls it “cow guts 'n popcorn” so go figure.
I’m not a picky eater, though I won’t touch any milk but skim, and that only rarely, or on cereal. That and Tofu tha’s not perfectly cooked.
It’s not quite along the lines of the OP, but the smell of cooking bacon is the worst smell on earth. period. I have to leave the house if someone is cooking it. I’m a vegetarian, so I wouldn’t eat it anyway, but most of the time I have no problem with meat being around me. Bacon is horrible, I don’t know how you guys can eat something that smells like that.
I don’t like cornbread or cole slaw. Living in Texas, this has caused no small amount of conflict with relatives who adore these two foods. I don’t care for most casseroles either. I do like lasagne though. I don’t like mayonaise at all. I don’t like eggs either. Overall, these are just things i don’t care to eat when given a choice. For pure gag factor, i’d have to go with mayo though. It’s just nasty.
Other than that, i -can- eat just about anything set before me. I may not like it, but i’ll eat it. I’m pretty adventurous, i think, so i won’t refuse to eat something new just cause i’m unfamiliar with it, or it looks funky. I will stay away from most filterfeeding seafood, like clams or oysters, based on all the crap in the water. I lived for years in Galveston, and i won’t touch food caught nearshore.
That’s not really taste or aesthetic based, it’s toxic based. Between algal blooms and chemical spills, you have no idea what last weeks oysters have pulled of the local waters.
Although I’m not Jewish and therefore not averse to non-kosher foods (hope you don’t hold that against me, Zev ), I can definitely agree on the tomatoes. For as long as I can remember, I have taken the tomatoes off of my salads or hamburgers. I think they’re vile. Don’t have a problem with peaches and the like, although I don’t go out of my way to have them.
As for the others dissing mushrooms and olives, it’s your choice. I personally love them, especially the portobello mushrooms.
It’s not so much the taste or smell as it is the consistency. Imagine putting a banana slug in a glass of luke-warm tap water, adding a little salt, and swirling it down in one big drink.
God invented celery for one purpose, and one purpose only…so we would have a way of getting the peanut butter from the jar to our mouths without using our fingers or dirtying a spoon. Putting celery in chicken salad, tuna salad, soup, turkey stuffing, green salads, or anything else is just WRONG.
Raw seafood/meat. Sashimi and oysters on the half shell are the only foods I’ve spit out due to taste. Throw steak tartare in here, too. Oddly enough, I do like caviar - maybe it’s the salt?
Sauerkraut. The happiest day in my life was the day I met a woman from Germany who hated the stuff, too!
Alfalfa sprouts. If Mother Nature wanted me to eat this crap she’d have given me cloven hooves and a voice that goes “Mooooooooooooo”.
I won’t touch chicken wings or drumsticks, BBQ ribs, lobster or clams.
I despise canned veggies, especially those anemic, putty gray canned peas. I can’t even stand the smell emanating from a freshly opened can of peas. I like most fresh veggies. Slimy okra tends to put me off, though.
I also hate to eat or drink diet anything, and it shows.
If you ask the FDA there is a big difference between “lite” and “light”. Except the beer that’s a trade name and well back to the topic… Inari, I won’t touch it.
I eat a lot of suhshi, eel, octopus, squid, whatever. You put it on some rice with some seaweed and wasabi I’ll eat it by the truck load.
But the first time I ever tried Inari I was completely disgusted by it’s taste, texture and smell. I was physically retching after eating it.
It’s fried tofu.
After all the odd crap I’ve shoveled past my pallet; snake, all manner of sea creature and vegetable matter, just about any mammal that’s not a protected or endangered species I can get my hands on (and just about any part of them they’ll let you eat too), I’m done in by Fried bean Protien
avocadoes, bananas, chestnuts, macadamia nuts, papyas (I think). All of the above have latex in them, or latex proteins at least. If you have a latex allergy, you might want to avoid them.
Foods I just dislike:
1)tomatoes in their natural state (I’m not a big salsa fan, nor a big “chunky tomato sauce” fan either)
2)any fruit that isn’t “hard” (I like pears, apples, melons…no squishy shit)
3)mushrooms
4)any seafood besides very mild fish (i.e. flounder)that has been fried to death
Pseudo-meat. This means soy-meat, garden burgers, textured protein, yada yada yada. I tried some imitation bacon bits the day before yesterday, being as how I’ve not eaten meat since March, and really hated it. The stuff absorbed the water in my ramen (food of kings) like a sponge, and tasted exactly like… raw meat. Yech.
Soft drinks. I used to guzzle the stuff in barrels, and now… they all taste like ten packs of sugar diluted in water, and shaken into oblivion. Blech.
Warm sauerkraut. I love Germany, I’m part German, and hope to visit Germany when the US recognizes my adult status, but sauerkraut? I’ll give it a chance if it’s cold, but warm sauerkraut tastes like rotten peat.
Any liquor stronger than wine. I normally don’t drink alcohol, but when I do, I’d like alchohol that doesn’t burn holes in my throat lining.
-Steak or hamburgers or any meat that is still pinkish in the middle, even if that means burning the outside.
-Spam. 'Nuff said.
-Cheeze whiz or any other kind of scary cheese product. That goes for nuclear orange Kraft macaroni as well.
Those disgusting protein/excersize/slim fast meal bars. It’s just wrong.
-Squash or string beans. I hate the consistency. Way too mushy and…ew!
Anything involving curry
Anything involving cumin
Hi, Opal! (hehehe, I did it and I know why, too!)
Anything from a Chinese/Japanese restaurant (I dunno, it makes me gag?)
Sushi
Grits
Fried okra
Barbequed beef
Snap beans
And I’m pretty sure that Ashtar is onto something.
Absolutely untrue, as my list proves!