Organ meats?!? Olives???! Seafood?!? You people seriously imagine that these count as “foods that everyone else loves”?
Rubbish. They are high up on the list of foods traditionally considered (in everyday western cuisine, at least) to be acquired tastes and/or not universally popular, if not downright generally loathed (such as liver). Likewise mushrooms, coconut, mustard, and avocado, along with probably half the other items named in this thread.
Come on, folks, the thread title isn’t “What Foods Do You Dislike that Are Currently Trendy Among Foodies and/or Traditionally Ranked as Gourmet Treats?” If more than one other poster has already admitted to hating it, that’s a hint that it probably doesn’t qualify for the category of “foods that everyone else loves”.
As for me, the apparently-almost-universally-popular food that I inexplicably loathe is orange juice. I love oranges and orange-flavored stuff, but if you take even the freshest nicest orange and squeeze it into a glass and immediately hand the glass to me, I think it just tastes nasty.
White bread, like Wonder bread.
Raw tomatoes in my salad. Cherry tomatoes are fine, but big spongy mushy chunks or slices with the gooey seeds - eww.
Cherry flavored anything. Inevitably tastes like cough syrup.
Chocolate and mint combined. Inevitably tastes like mouthwash. Especially Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies. Hate. Them.
Runny sunnyside up eggs.
Donuts, pancakes, and waffles. Especially pancakes, which are only useful for filling up small children. (I’ll eat these things if I’m hungry enough, but I don’t enjoy them and I really, really regret those wads of sugared flour sitting in my stomach after.)
Bacon bits and cheese over half the menu items at a place like Applebees. Potatoes. Chicken. Hamburgers. Like bacon, like cheese, but it besmirches too many menu items in too many restaurants, and I’m gulping gallons of water later.
Pepperoni on pizza. Sick to death of it, I’d rather have plain cheese.
Jello - dishes of plain jello. As an ingredient in a salad, it’s OK, but otherwise, feed it to 5 year olds and people in hospitals.
American cheese. Feh! Velveeta is all right as an ingredient, sometimes.
Commercial peanut butter, like Peter Pan or Jif. Natural for me, please.
Commercial hot dogs, like Oscar Meyer or Ballpark. Too salty, too piggy, too sweaty (if boiled). Natural casings, fried, are irresistible at our local hot dog emporium, though.
And I’m the only American who isn’t weeping over the demise of Zingers, Ding Dongs, and Snowballs and such things. Little Debbie fudge rounds are good, though.
I will eat the above if I have to, if I’m starving and there’s nothing else - but under silent protest!
Let me add: Fruit punch, orange juice with pulp, or Pepsi. Gagggg!!!
Avocados and guacamole. I have never had these in any form that I liked. Though from this thread, not everybody likes them.
There are lots of foods that depend on the context. Mushrooms or pineapples on pizza? Revolting. Mushrooms on a shish kabob? Good. Pineapple by itself? Not bad.
Chicken. There is just something horrible about the texture. I happily eat just about any other meat, including turkey and duck, but chicken grosses me out.
Another vote for the green bell peppers (capsicums), the pollute everything they touch and make me want to gag. Any other type of pepper is fine with me, those things are pure evil.
Orange juice. I hate the sticky way it coats my mouth and tastes just wrong.
Strawberry jam. WTF? Why is that stuff about the only jam you can always get in restaurants, yet it tastes like gooey white sugar with a hint of wrongness? I will eat my toast as-is before spreading that crap on it. I am fine with fresh strawberries and strawberry pop-tarts (goddam things), but the jam is just awful.
To be honest I know some people who like them, but among those who hate them the hatred is just incredible. I despise peas, but I’m nothing compared to my best friend, because I can actually eat them. Serve 'em to me and I’ll be polite, and anyway they’re good for me. But Scott simply cannot physically bring himself to consume peas. He is actually, viscerally repelled by their taste, and can’t swallow them. My sister isn’t QUITE as bas as my best friend but she’s close. She refuses to eat them, period.
I know a lot of people who don’t like, say, broccoli, but I don’t know anyone who literally can’t consume it without gagging.
I just don’t like sweet food - desserts especially (my major eccentricity), but also fruit. I don’t hate any of it, but I never crave it or choose to eat it on my own.
I had kind of a strange flip around age 18 or so - I just really stopped liking sweet food/dessert. I remember really liking candy and sweets as a kid, but that’s gone. It’s persisted for over a decade now.
I love vegetables, meat, cheese, eggs, spicy, umami, salty, bitter, coffee, tea, sour, tangy, yeasty, bready, rich - but sweet? Eh, no interest, don’t hate it but don’t enjoy it.
My mom has grown tomatoes forever (she is 88). Everyone raves about how great they are and she grows so many I have memories of piles of tomatoes going bad in the the kitchen. I just recently learned that she doesn’t like tomatoes and never eats them!? How could I have never noticed?