Barbecue. Bleh. Granted, there is some variability in that. I have had barbecue pork that was OK if a bit sweet.
I’m not a particular fan of seafood, but it’s shrimp that really grosses me out. I’ve thought they were disgusting ever since I was a small child. This is problematic because other people often seem to feel that shrimp are so delicious that they MUST offer me some, and persist even when I’ve refused. On a few occasions I’ve eaten an appetizer that contained shrimp either by accident or just to shut someone up, and with one exception (a dish that contained only tiny pieces of shrimp) this has always led to me throwing up within the next 15 minutes or so. I don’t to my knowledge have any sort of shrimp allergy, I think it’s just that I find them so disgusting it literally makes me sick.
I have an aversion to several types of fruit that a lot of people enjoy, like strawberries, peaches, pineapples, and mangoes, but since it’s not really the taste that bothers me (it’s hard to describe, but they just sort of make my mouth feel weird), these are all fruits associated with oral allergy syndrome, and I do suffer from hay fever, I suspect that may actually be the issue.
Eggs.
Oh, I’m fine with them if they’re used in baking, such as in cakes and cookies. But eggs on their own, such as sunny-side-up, over easy, fried, scrambled, poached, boiled, hard-boiled, deviled, etc.–nope.
Vanilla, both the taste and the smell.
It must be a bummer when you get the inevitable Dunkin Donuts gift card we residents of li’l Rhody are legally obligated to exchangewith one another.
My food is mustard. I don’t even like to touch a sealed container of it.
Blasphemer!
For me, it’s green beans, but I’m not sure how much everybody else loves them. I’ve always suspected they’re just posing.
Flan and creme brulee. Shudder.
I, too, love the smell of coffee. The taste is an acquired taste, but I have by now acquired it.
Tea, on the other hand, smells and tastes nasty.
i’ll eat anything at least once. i order my pho with tripe and tendon in it.
i refuse to eat any culinary abortion containing cream of anything soup as an ingredient though.
I don’t like any fruits. Well, any fresh fruits. Fruit flavored things aren’t an issue, but you’ll never see me eating a strawberry or a banana or a watermelon.
When I was little I remember trying lots of them and they would always irritate my throat so I sorta gave up on them and for whatever reason my mom never pushed the subject.
Everyone always looked at me funny when I said that and then one day I found out it happened to my brother as well (for certain fruits). A couple of years ago, I ran across Oral Allergy Syndrome on this board (and mentioned above) and maybe it’s that. It seems to sound like it. Eat a few bites of fruit. Throat feels weird/sore/itchy (minor, but annoying), goes away 10 minutes later.
Also, once in a while I’ll be having a margarita and someone will say something like “What’s wrong, you look like a raccoon?” or “Have you been crying, your whole face is red and puffy?”. I usually figure that means it was made with real fruit (strawberries). The handful of times that happened, I didn’t even know it happened until someone told me (no throat reaction). All I have to do to get it to go down is stop drinking and it’s gone in 10 minutes.
Having said all that, even if I did ‘like’ fruit. There’s still some I don’t like. I really hate peach. I can’t stand even the smell of bananas. I like watermelon flavored things, but as a fruit it’s way to sweet for me.
Funny story. When I was little, my father was complaining that I was a picky eater. I said, “well, you don’t like eggs.”. He replied, “I like eggs okay, I just don’t like to have to watch you eat them.”. 45 years later, I remember that moment.
Just to complete the triptych, I can’t stand fresh bananas but am fine with banana-flavored things like ice cream or candy. With me its not a flavor issue, but rather textural - that weird granular-velvety sliminess of fresh bananas ruins almost everything it touches. Banana bread that isn’t too wet and chunky is an occasional exception. But even the texture of fresh bananas in a blended smoothie will put me off.
My deep and abiding shame is my utter lack of tolerance for sushi/sashimi. It isn’t from lack of exposure, either. Everyone in my family loves it but me. But raw or undercooked fish just makes me gag. When I watch cooking shows and judges go on how the tuna is perfectly prepared while being deep red in the center I just have to shake my head at my utter lack of a sophisticated palate - I couldn’t get that stuff down if you paid me*.
- Possibly related as I get older I also have less and less tolerance for “fishy-tasting” fish. Can’t eat sardines anymore for example and I used to love them. It’s pretty much down to thoroughly cooked firm, very fresh white-fleshed fish like lingcod or halibut.
Coffee
Tea, iced or hot
Diet soda
Cantaloup
Watermelon
Cranberries or thier juice
Grapefruit or it’s juice
Cheeseburgers. I like cheese, I like burgers, but put together a horrible taste is created.
Also tea.
Amen! I can’t stand mustard in any form from seed to jar. It tastes like shit and smells worse.
First and foremost are foods in which the “enjoyment payoff” is small. By this I mean foods which require a lot of work in order to get not a lot of actual food. Foods such as artichoke, crab-legs, lobster, even ribs just annoy me so much that by the time I manage to eek out enough of the food to make a bite, I’m ready to throw my fucking plate against the wall and order a pizza.
Also, I hate most all seafood. Yea, barf. Chicken of the sea for me, please. And that’s it.
Oh yeah, canned tuna. Can’t eat it or be around anyone who is even thinking about it.
Canned fish, all types. This is obviously not people food, but some people didn’t get the memo.
Connective tissue: tendons and ligaments. These are not even food at all; they’re what you make your bowstring out of.
Miracle whip. Even if you are out of mayonnaise it is not ever, ever okay to use this.
Barbecue sauce. Way to taste like ketchup someone ate and then later threw up.
Asparagus. There are so very many things wrong with you, asparagus. Get your freaky, lingering odor far away from my junk forevermore.
Organ meats. All of them. They taste like pee, but in a bad way.
Tomato it’s a big problem because so many recipes use tomato. We always substitute tomato sauce or puree for chunks of tomato. I don’t get nauseous if I don’t see the tomato in my food. I prefer pizza with little sauce. I can only eat lasagne with a smooth sauce. Chunks of tomato are just so nasty.
Jello. Bleah