It’s the same for me with peaches. At the daycare center I spent everyday during the summers we had peaches everyday. I’ve tasted peaches since and they taste fine but my whole body just goes, “Ugh not again.”.
Don’t have an SO now but the last one didn’t like anything spicy while I love spicy. It’s because he mom made everything so bland when she was growing up.
He can’t abide chocolate, beans, chocolate, nuts, chocolate, most vegetables, or chocolate.
Tomatoes, on anything.
Mushrooms, in any form, even mushroom bisque.
Beets. He won’t have them in any form. If he sees the bottle of pickled beets in the fridge, he’ll turn it so he doesn’t see the word beets. Now that’s an aversion!
Fortunately he eats most anything else, loves leftovers, cold pizza, stale bread, things past their ‘best before’ date, are all good for him!
My wife dislikes:
Chocolate
Fish, or really any seafood
Mushrooms
Spicy food
She is like me in that she will eat anything.
The last time we were somewhere with brains (calf or lamb, I forget which) as a special, she ordered it just to freak out my kids. Turned out the last order had already sold, but she would have had them.
I agree with you. What she’s really getting is grilled chicken. But she’ll agree to go out for barbecue so the rest of us can get pulled pork or ribs or brisket, if she can order dry grilled chicken.
She doesn’t like most anything spicy. Her spicy is my mild.
She won’t tolerate a medium rare steak. She cooks all her meats very well done. Butterfly it down, pound it flat, and fry the hell out of it in oil seems to be the cooking instructions she follows. Chicken. Pork. Beef. No matter. Sigh.
Oh, she has an appetite, all right. But she claims her boiled kale with quinoa has PLENTY of flavor, and that people like you and me have DESTROYED OUR PALATES by CONSUMING SPICY FOODS.
Oh, yeah, she doesn’t eat blue cheeses, either. And if I’m making curries or chili, I had better go easy on the hot peppers, buster.
Ethiopian food. And Brussels sprouts. Probably not in that order.
Ah, the inherent contradiction that is my SO.
She loves Italian and Greek food, except tomatoes (unless in a sauce), olives, mushrooms and cucumbers (unless it’s tzatiki and even then only in small amounts).
Red peppers yes, green peppers no.
Also, on the yuck-o list: Asparagus, cooked spinach, cooked carrots (both are fine raw), onions unless in onion rings or diced finely and cooked to death.
Spicy foods are meh, unless it’s mole then all systems go.
Apparently vegetables are suspicious and should be approached with caution in most cases.
I, however, am a human garberator except tapioca and durian. Ugh.
Most vegies, except for broccoli and cauliflower
Most fruits, unless they’re peeled and cut up and ready to eat without making a mess
Chicken unless it’s boneless chicken breast
Anything which requires some sort of skilled work at the table, like cracking a crab or peeling leaves off an artichoke. He likes these foods, but wants nothing to do with deconstructing them.
She eats even more adventurously than I do (and that’s saying a lot), but she is not really into chocolate that much.
She also seems to have natural resistance/distaste for the classic ‘fast foods’, proclaiming many of them unpleasant after a few bites.
I don’t think there’s a vegetable she doesn’t like.
And she’s up for any cuisine, and never afraid of trying new things.
He doesn’t like beets, but will eat them to be polite if they’re served to us at someone’s house. If the only sweet thing in the house is chocolate, he’ll eat it, but chocolate is never his first choice. Pretty much any cooking or baking in the house is done by me, but I’m lucky in the sense that he is easy to please. I have more food dislikes than he does, so sometimes I make things that are all his (like mac and cheese).
I have always loved spicy foods. In my thirties I cut way back on spicy foods and now as I enter my forties I find I am ramping up, and adding hot sauce to everything. I mean, I was eating spicy things as a baby. If I have ruined my palate, it was from before I even started walking - my first solid foods were whatever my auntie had on her plate. (My mom didn’t do much more than have me, breastfeed me a little, forget about me.)
My husband will eat anything.
*Anything.
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Beets, canned veggies of any sort, okra (we agree on that one, at least), and overcooked meats especially fish.
He’ll eat anything if politeness requires it, bless his heart.
A nit: it’s more likely the citric acid that makes him break out. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is in many different fruits and vegetables. Broccoli, brussels sprouts, kiwifruit and strawberries all have more vitamin C than oranges do. If these foods don’t give him cold sores, he doesn’t have a problem with vitamin C. This is a good thing, by the way, since vitamin C is an essential nutrient. Without it you’ll develop scurvy.
He isn’t used to anything super-fishy. Grilled salmon or crab is fine, but give him some marinated anchovies, and he has reservations. He freely admits this is down to lack of exposure.
Cooked sweet peppers. This is a stone cold dislike. He thinks he’s a supertaster for some chemical in them. He can detect it in minute amounts. Don’t even try to put them in the coulis.
Lastly, he’s pretty sure that some dark legumes and grains have a toxin that upsets his tummy. Black rice. Wild rice. Kidney beans. He has problems.
Nothing too spicy (as in Mexican food. Tex-Mex OK)
No seafood except fried catfish. Used to enjoy lobster until she was served one undercooked.