Brussels sprouts & organ meats are way up there, but I hate peas also.
Count me among the masses that love green peas and brussel sprouts. I don’t like green olives though.
I love green peas (fresh or frozen, despise canned). I’m not fond of brussels sprouts or green olives, although I love black olives.
I also dislike cooked egg yolk, such as in hard-boiled, but like the whites.
Raw oysters. I thought people only ate that crap on a dare…
According to Americans, all Australians love Vegemite.
Not this Australian, and I know plenty of others who also don’t like the stuff.
Dark chocolate.
To me, its horrid tasting stuff, a mouth full of bitter. I understand that some people think it’s a real treat. I find it nearly inedible.
There are a lot of other foods that I don’t like, but they tend to have their fair share of detractors. Dark chocolate is one of the only almost universally loved foods that I don’t like.
Donuts… cake donuts are great but the other, “real” donuts just make me gag. Especially if they’re glazed or have filling. Same with danish. Something about it is just too sweet for me… and I’ll eat frosting with a spoon.
I love the way coffee looks, the way it’s nice and warm, the way it makes me feel, and the way it smells.
But coffee tastes like shit. Why do you think people have to put so much into it just to get it down?
And shellfish tastes like something that went bad.
Almost any kind of steak. I grew up on a cattle farm and it was a source of pride to my parents how much (due to an arrangement with a butcher) we ate T-bones and Porterhouses; then and to this day I’d rather have a piece of meatloaf than the best steak on the menu.
Another disliker of alcohol in general and beer and wine in particular. Dry wine is probably my absolute least favorite alcoholic beverage that doesn’t require a bartender to make.
I’m glad to see there are others who don’t like strawberries. It seems like everybody loves them.
Bananas.
Green beans, although I can choke them down if they are in soup.
Red beets.
Most fruit.
Coffee.
I don’t like bacon much although it won’t make me gag or anything. I just don’t understand the love for bacon.
I too love peas and brussels sprouts.
But y’all can keep the olives, I don’t care what color they are.
Then probably “organ meats” shouldn’t qualify either. I don’t think they fit into the category that “everyone loves.” Oysters, too. Although a lot of people love oysters, it’s far from universal.
I live in the southern U.S., and I don’t care for grits. I do my best to hide it.
Clams. Just about any other seafood item is the yum. Except clams… horrid little chewy pieces of yuck.
Stuff I haven’t seen on other lists (or I missed it):
Black pepper (it’s tough to live near the South with this one!)
Macaroni and cheese
ANYTHING alfredo. Alfredo sauce is the devil’s diarrhea.
Marshmallows
More common, but makes people roll their eyes at me:
Peanuts/peanut butter
Bacon
Any pork products except ham
Any nuts
(Most times I’ve mentioned hating peanuts or peanut butter, people ask me “Are you allergic?” No, peanuts are gross!)
And the rest:
Bananas
Cilantro (yep, I have the gene.)
Coconuts
Coffee
Strawberries
Olives
Watermelon
Peas*
Licorice
Pineapple
*I used to like peas, but I got sick after eating peas and carrots once in elementary school. Since then, no thanks. I still don’t eat small cubed carrots, either.
Mushrooms. How can you eat those things?
I started out not liking them, and still am not a huge fan. BUT if you fry up a good steak in a cast iron pan, then sauté some shrooms in the juices remaining- man, that’s great.
Anything almond-flavored. As a kid I had to down a second piece of almond cake my aunt made, because I didn’t dare say I hated her cake. Torture.
I had to do a lot of trying to find a non-minted toothpaste.
Until I read this thread I thought I liked everything but I discovered there are quite a few things I wouldn’t touch anymore.
Organ meats. A little bit of liver in something like pate, or dirty rice, or maybe a slice of liverwurst on a sandwich with other stuff is as far as I can go. Maybe they aren’t foods everybody likes, strictly speaking, but they seem to have become much more popular in the last 20 years or so. Sometimes it seems they have become the sort of litmus test for food hobbyists that sushi was in the 80’s.
Raw bivalves. Blargh, what an awful combination of taste and texture.
Gulf oysters, prepared any way. I thought I hated oysters until I had some cooked Pacific ones. Turns out they’re quite nice.
Bell peppers. All other peppers are fine. One tiny piece of bell pepper in any dish and the whole thing reeks of it. I can see why someone who likes the taste might enjoy it raw but when it’s cooked it smells like mildewy old socks times 100. Apparently there is a law that requires bell peppers be included in any dish that calls itself vegetarian, so as much as I’d like to get off the meat I can’t risk it in restaurants.