Beans, in any way, shape or form.
But especially refried beans that people insist on sneaking into otherwise edible burritos, enchiladas and other Mexican staples. If the taste were’nt vile enough, the TEXTURE!!! UGH!!!
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Stuff that is absolutly evil:
[li]Tofu/fake meat[/li][li]Diet pop[/li][li]Brains[/li][li]Cheap Musrooms[/li][li]Fake Cheese[/li][li]Fat free anything (I like baked potato chips though)[/li][li]Colliflour[/li][li]Grits[/li][li]Non-pickled cucumbers[/li]
Stuff I will only eat if I’m real hungry and nothing else is around:
[li]Cheap TV dinners[/li][li]McDonalds fish sandwiches[/li][li]Sardines (only if I’m about to die of starvation)[/li]
Stuff othes listed that I love:
[li]Red meat[/li][li]Bananas[/li][li]Chicken on bones[/li][li]Eggs[/li][li]Peas[/li][li]Pears[/li][li]Cheesecake[/li][li]Swiss cheese[/li][li]Real Mayo[/li][/ul]
Corned Beef
Carrots
Inards of any kind
wild game of any kind
low fat anything
Dairy products since I can’t digest them. Eating ice cream is not worth days spent in the bathroom.
I HATE liver! What a hideous item to call * food! *
I used to say I’d never eat eggplant, because I hated its name, but I’ve since had it and loved it, oh well. Another good hate down the tubes!
I detest McDonalds and Wendys. In fact, most fast food is pretty awful. I also used to work at a burger place, and I know what they did THEN to the food, so it has to be worse nowadays.
Amazing. I’ll cheerfully eat Spam (have it fried on top of musubi rice! It’s great!), peas, lima beans, sour cream, mushrooms (nowadays I rarely eat burgers if it’s not absolutely covered to overflowing in mushrooms and swiss cheese… mmmmmmmmm…), lettuce of all types…
But I’ll peel pepperoni off my pizza. Every time. No matter how stunned my fellow pizza-eaters are. Red cabbage? Forget it. Peppers? Nope. There are plenty more, but my brain is freezing right now. 
I don’t like but will eat Cauliflower, Liver, brussel sprouts, asparagus, plums/prunes.
I won’t eat if I can help it other organ meats (Kidney, tripe, tongue, brain, etc) Natto, eel, anything still alive.
I will not touch, and the smell makes me want to puke, Banana’s. This hatred has existed since I was a baby, banana’s are evil, the texture is of slime, and the taste is of sulphur. Bleech.
anything except
veal (look, i eat meat, i just don’t think it should be tortured first)
foie gras (ditto)
and, weirdly Heinz Baked Beans.
the smell of cheap “tomato” sauce makes me vomit.
i’ve pretty much eaten most of the other normal dislikes.
and i like vegetables and fruit. all of them. without exception…except raw, unpeeled, unsliced apples…don’t ask me why, but i’ll eat them if they’re cut into pieces.
Mountain oysters.
Real oysters.
Crawfish/crayfish/crawdads/mudbugs/I don’t care what you call it, I’m not eating it! I used to have one as a pet. You wouldn’t offer me a boiled puppy, so why do you expect me to eat a crayfish?
Chicken off the bone. I love chicken fingers, chicken fillets, chicken breast, chicken chicken chicken, but I can’t eat it if I can see the bone.
Eggplant.
Tomatoes in cheese.
Partially-spoiled dairy products. (Or completely-spoiled ones, for that matter.)
Beans.
not to change the subject or anything, but
am I the only person who used to mix powdered brewers yeast in o.j. and drink it?
Did any one you ever smell it?
If not, don’t…
We give Brewer’s Yeast tablets to our cats to keep fleas away.
Just sharing…
Pork.
I will absolutely, positively, emphatically NEVER eat pork. At all. Ever. Even if it’s just a bacon-bit snuck into a salad. And I can’t just pick it out. It makes me sick to think of. The smell of bacon cooking makes me gag.
It’s foul, foul stuff.
I’ve started telling people that I’m either A)Jewish or B) Muslim because people seem to have a big problem with me not eating the stuff.
OrcaChow : The thicking agent of birds nest soup is a sea birds nest. The nests are built with sticks held together with a gelentous substance regergitated by the bird. In other words digested fish puked up to cement the nest together.
Podeyes post where it said “slimy, not quite dead, and looking at you”
reminds me of some singles bar nights:)
Canned Spinach----Looks and smells like green diarrhea.
nuff said.
I like lots of stuff. And I’m particularly fascinated by the raw tomato thing with so many people here. I love raw tomatoes, but I often do not like cooked tomatoes, whole, chopped, sauced, or ketchuped. How weird.
Anyway, my food issues are purely texture. I can’t eat anything . . . well, . . . phlegmy. For example, pudding, eggs in which the whites are too “loose” (strangely not a problem for the yolks), and evil of evils . . . Flan. I see that jiggly mass of tan goo, and I’m fighting off the gag reflex. I don’t discriminate against food, though. Seeing or hearing people expectorate, putting my fingers into wallpaper paste, seeing slugs or worms–it all has the same effect. Just thinking about this stuff is making me nauseous. Ewww.
Things I will not eat [ul][li]Tapioca (looks too much like semen)[/li][li]Tomato’s (Not soup, not ketchup, not fried, NEVER, I even get my pizza sans sauce)[/li][li]A1-Sauce (what is that stuff?)[/li][li]Ham[/li][li]Veal[/li][li]Hotdogs[/ul][/li]
I never knew so many people did not like mushrooms. Me? (I know you wanna know) I love 'em! Grilled, fried or stuffed they are so f’ing good.
BTW-Where the hell does one buy brains? Do cow brains taste any better than, say, that of a dolphin?
Gee, I feel like a mutant. I really love most of those things…mushrooms, lima beans, peas, brussels sprouts (although I prefer them steamed fresh and with a good cheese sauce, I must admit). In fact, my problem is more that I never get to eat these things because nobody else will and I won’t fix a huge amount that’ll go to waste. Cilantro isn’t bad in small quantities – I use about a teaspoon (dried) when I’m steaming broccoli and it really does add to the taste. Or I think so, anyway. And I like sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese; I’ll eat most cheeses (although I don’t really care for cheese ‘food’ and won’t buy it just because I’m suspicious.) I even like turnips and I love greens, any sort except collard. Even sauerkraut has its place (although I didn’t like it as a child). If it’s seafood, I like it, period, no matter how it’s prepared (although those shrimp had BETTER be deveined and I won’t eat it breaded unless I did the breading for that reason.)
I do think that a lot of these foods have simply been cooked in a way that wasn’t appealing or been badly prepared. I was spoiled. Both sides of my family are just incredible cooks and we traveled all over,so I never developed the “ew, it looks gross so I won’t eat it” syndrome. (My mother would have skinned me alive if I’d tried.) Despite her best efforts, though, I do have some things I won’t eat, which I divide into two categories:
Things I might eat if it were a choice between these and utter starvation, but otherwise, not unless it was for a large amount of money or a working over with a cattle prod:
- Fake meat. I don’t CARE if it’s better for me, it’s vile.
- Tofu.
- Beets. I do not care how they are fixed, these should be outlawed. I hate the smell, sight and taste of them and I can’t even stand the juice to be used to pickle eggs. I will not eat them, Sam I Am!
- Beef liver. This is simply the nastiest organ meat going. I’m fine with chicken livers and I love foie gras, prepared correctly, although I inevitably end up paying for it digestion-wise.
- Most potato chips. Too darn greasy. Baked – OK. But I wouldn’t touch the standard kind when I was a kid. It wasn’t until Pringles came out that I would eat potato chips at all. On the other hand, my dislike of those and my take-it-or-leave-it attitude about chocolate is probably why I escaped my teen years acne-free.
and…
The single three things which go hand and hand that I will not and cannot touch even if I were starving, beaten and otherwise tortured…
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Peppers. (With the exception of bell peppers of any color.) This includes banana peppers, chili peppers, those disgusting huge snotballs called jalapenos and anything else similar. If it has a noticeable amount of capsaicin in it, forget it. Period. This crap’s used as a disabling weapon and you want me to EAT it??
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Most Tex-Mex cooking. MEXICAN food, I like. The Tex-Mex garbage seems dedicated to burning out your taste buds so you can’t taste what’s underneath. I’m not at all a picky eater, but darn it, I want to be able to taste what I eat, especially if I’ve paid for it. (Not to mention that I can’t help but recall that the reason Europeans liked strong spices was that it helped mask the taste of semi-rotten meat.)
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** “REAL” Texas chili.** That dross that many people call chili in Texas is nothing more than red-tinted nuclear waste, sez I, and for some strange reason, they all seem to be proud of eating it. More fools they. See theory on Tex-Mex cooking as to why I can’t stand to eat something that hot.
And with that out of the way…I’m happily going to go order some MSG-laden moo goo gai pan, some pork-fried rice and smother it all with soy sauce.
I agree with those who can’t stand any sort of “meat substitute”: tofu, portabello mushrooms, whatever. People say, “Ooh, it’s really hearty, just like eating meat.” You know what really tastes like meat? Meat!
I’ll try just about anything. If it is served to me (in other words, I’m a personal guest of someone) I will eat it (or at least push it around the plate enough so it looks eaten, and use the never ending diet as an excuse as to why I didn’t finish it) - as I’m not technically allergic to anything, and it will not kill me.
I just don’t like very many of the foods that are inflicted on me.
With a few exceptions, I never purchase the following for myself:
-seafood. (Except cheap canned tuna, but anything else is just out, that includes lobster, salmon, crab, oysters - I don’t care how good they are or how well you’ve cooked it. I’ve lived my entire life in an area with amazing seafood, I don’t like it.)
-meat where there is evidence of blood. Cook it already.
-organ meat
-most frozen foods
-most microwaveable foods (the only exception I can come up with is popcorn)
-instant foods
-fake foods & foods that substitute for other foods (fake meat, fake dairy, diet stuff).
-beans
-fungus
-Soy. I have yet to find soy edible in any form. And I’ve tried a great deal of the forms, it just doesn’t work as a foodstuff.
-chicken with bones. The bones need to be removed before it gets to me, whether I’m cooking it or just eating it. It also can’t be reconstituted (most “nuggets”). It needs to be a piece of chicken with the bone removed.
-turkey.
-hot dogs (i had a bad experience)
-avocado
-tropical fruit
-nuts
-chocolate and fruit together. It’s simply nasty. As is chocolate cheesecake.
Along with most 5 year olds, I firmly believe that foods shouldn’t touch. And chances are, I won’t eat the parts of the foods that did touch.
And I am firmly against sauce, or spreads, or anything that makes food soggy and/or mushy. If it is absolutely necessary, perhaps on the side. I like dry food.
I will avoid beets, brussel sprouts, and squash at all costs. I can digest broccoli, spinach, or cauliflower raw, but will not eat them when cooked. Luckily, my college cafeteria understands the tastes of 19-year-olds and doesn’t serve these items very often.