# What foods gross you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514 "2009-06-02T22:28:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/61 "2009-06-03T19:26:56Z")
> [@psycat90](#): > > Drinkable yogurt type things like Gogurt or whatever. > > My husband loves them, but the idea of drinking a thick liquid like that just totally turns my stomach. > Off a spoon? No problem. Just don’t like the drinking thing. Milkshakes too? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/62 "2009-06-03T23:11:02Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > **missred** - The family always made sure they left me some bacon. “Greater love hath no man than to give up his bacon for his brother” Or in my case, sister. > > StG You come from kinder folk than I. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/63 "2009-06-03T23:59:53Z")
Seafood. No seafood. Can’t stand it at all. If it comes from water. . . fuhgettaboutit. I can barely choke down fish oil capsules. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/64 "2009-06-04T07:30:38Z")
Tuna, salmon, kippers, sardines, smelly fish in general. I can’t even be in the same room. However, I love sushi/sashimi and especially tuna and salmon. Another vote for Doritos. They do smell like stinky feet. Canned vegetables, especially green beans. I love them fresh or frozen and steamed, but canned veggies are revolting. They just taste dead. Black licorice. Bleah. Anise, too. I have to say, one of my favorite shows is the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. His zeal has made me more open to trying unusual foods. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/65 "2009-06-04T08:29:10Z")
Liver – the smell makes me retch Lima beans Brains Chitlings canned peas blood sausage ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/66 "2009-06-04T08:42:25Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Milkshakes too? Milkshakes are ok. Smoothies are ok, as long as they are real, fresh smoothies, not yogurt in a container called a smoothie. I can’t even explain it. I am not a picky eater at all, and I will try just about anything once. It’s just a texture thing when it comes to drinking yogurt. Gloppy and drinkable just don’t go together in my head. But..I like yogurt. off a spoon. 😉 And unlike overlyverbose, I love rice pudding, ricotta and cottage cheese and lots of other things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/67 "2009-06-08T19:38:27Z")
Pea soup is the devil. How can anybody possibly like that stuff? It makes my head spin. -Linda ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/68 "2009-06-08T20:44:28Z")
Green beans are gross gross gross. Folks are welcome to eat what they like but I wish no one would eat Green beans in my general vicinity, vile repugnant things. ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/69 "2009-06-08T22:50:34Z")
I’m a picky eater, but I don’t care what other people eat, unless it’s sauerkraut, or cheese (and some type of fried cheese with eggs). These smell like feet+poo. It’s revolting! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/70 "2009-06-09T01:28:07Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Pea soup is the devil. How can anybody possibly like that stuff? It makes my head spin. Groan! ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/71 "2009-06-09T02:04:35Z")
Tunafish. I’m not mostly a very picky person in terms of what _other_ people eat, but I do feel very uncomfortable being near someone who’s eating it. I think what makes it worse than other things that squick me out is that it’s so viscous and non-discrete that, unlike solid foods, little globs of it could go anywhere. Other foods that gross me out to be near are egg salad and cold cuts (though not to the same degree). Even though I’m a vegetarian, hot cooked meats only squick me out if I think about it a lot, while cold ones do on a visceral level. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/72 "2009-06-09T02:06:22Z")
Oh, also the Indian spice hing (asafoetida). I lived with a family who way over-used it and just the smell (or occasionally the thought) of it makes me gag. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/73 "2009-06-09T04:07:45Z")
While I’m positive there are many foods worldwide which I’m not accultured to and would/do gross me out (for example, I can’t stand the smell of curry), the one food that I was given regularly as a child, and absolutely refused to eat because it made me want to vomit, was **corned beef hash**. :vomit: ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/74 "2009-06-09T06:54:33Z")
Some of you people scare me. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/75 "2009-06-09T14:27:05Z")
I’m hard pressed to come up with a food I couldn’t even be around, but I guess the closest thing would be raw green olives. Cooked black olives are fine - not my favorite, but I wont bother to pick them off a pizza. Green olives, though, with that little red whachamacallit in the middle - \*shudder. They taste like they’re aspiring to be a fruit, but failed horribly. They smell at least as bad as they taste. Naturally, my mother is going through a “green olives are the best!” phase, and I fight the urge to wrinkle my nose whenever they’re around. No, mom, for the thousandth time, I don’t want to try your baggets toasted with olive oil and green olives on top. They smell. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/76 "2009-06-09T16:35:56Z")
I have a lot of love for most of the foods mentioned in this thread. Something that I find a bit gross, however, is watching people eat crawfish. You know, when they break apart the claws and suck off the meat… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/77 "2009-06-09T16:56:43Z")
Iced coffee. Coffee is a hot drink. When it gets cold ,I nuke it or dump it. Now I am supposed to pay a bunch to deliberately make it cold… ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/78 "2009-06-09T21:04:31Z")
I’m a very picky eater, and have been all my life. A lot of my _shudder_ and _ugh_ inducing foods have already been mentioned, like potato salad, hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise, but probably the worst is vinegar, and anything soaked/composed/flavored with it. Pickles, salad dressing, tabasco…all of these have me swallowing heavily and looking for proper ventilation. I cannot understand how anyone can eat, much less enjoy, anything that stinks that badly. Mustard is on this list, too - the smell makes me reel. Ketchup is hit or miss - some smell worse than others. There are very very few foods that I will eat cold, as well. Even baked goods like cookies and muffins get a zap in the microwave beforehand, if at all possible. And no, I don’t mean stuff like ice cream. About the only thing I can think of that is okay after it’s been cooked and cooled down is sausage. Even then, I prefer to reheat it. Hmmm, what else? Spinach (never liked it, then was traumatized by it), squash, cauliflower, broccoli (only time I ever agreed with Bush 39), oh, heck, most vegetables. Shellfish are out, though I love shrimp, and if you put enough goodies on it, I’ll eat most types of fish. Not tuna in a can, unless you use Tuna Helper, and even then, I’m very unenthusiastic, as the smell is really pungent and unpleasant. Oh, yeah, almost forgot mushrooms. It’s the texture, mostly. Flabby, dense, whatever. Can’t stand it. Cut them up really small, I won’t care. If they’re large enough for me to see, I’ll pick them out. ---
**Author:** ![AquaPura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AquaPura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AquaPura)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/79 "2009-06-09T22:34:46Z")
Beef with cinnamon. Weirdly specific I know. The smell of it just makes my stomach jump around. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514/80 "2009-06-10T01:02:18Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Groan! You could have included _-Linda_ in the quote, ya know? Or should I have signed with the name Regan? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-foods-gross-you-out/498514.md?page=3)