I’m really not comfortable eating in the presence of people slurping on raw oysters. I’ve worked at an oyster bar (I needed a job!) and the one thing on the menu that I would never try (part of our training was to try everything on the menu) was raw oysters.
It just kinda sicks me out. Raw oysters look like snot. They’re wet and raw and oozy and drippy and they are served in dirty ugly rocks. Aka “shells.”
Blegh.
I love every single food mentioned so far.
The only foods that I can’t stand eating or smelling are limburger cheese and haggis. Fortunately I don’t encounter them very often.
Meat. Any kind of meat, including seafood. Don’t eat it, don’t ever plan to.
Canned vegetables with the exception of beans and tomatoes. I went to a friend’s house for a holiday meal and she served canned asparagus and canned potatoes and I was very so saddened by that meal.
Lastly, but by no means least, iceberg lettuce. It’s a complete waste. It has next to no nutrition value. It’s mostly water and indigestible fiber which means that it’s more effective as a laxative than a food. And most important, it has no meaningful flavor. It’s just nonsense.
Celery. I’m normally quite the omnivore, but when it comes to this vegetable abomination, even my big mouth grinds to a halt.
As I get older and move upwards in my income bracket, I get snobbier and pickier about the QUALITY of my food. Lately the taste, smell, and texture of frozen vegetables makes my throat close up. When you start getting used to fresh, crisp salads and gently sauteed green beans with garlic everything else is just swill.
While I hate fish and other forms of seafood in general, three items stand head and shoulders above all others for their ability to gross me out: Prawns, shrimp and - worst of all - tuna salad. Frigging cat sick, that is.
Also coffee. Hate the smell.
Anything mint, particularly gum. Unfortunately for me, though, the world seems loooooooooove it and its smell so I’ve been forced to just deal with the smell my entire life. Still, though, if it gets strong enough I start to feel a little ill.
Oh goody, another thread about food hate! I am *all *about the food hatred and I hope **Malleus **does indeed start a thread asking for help finding a healthy diet for us picky people.
There are too many foods that gross me out to list so I’ll just mention a couple that I literally will not remain in the same room with.
Feta cheese. Fuck me, how does anyone put that in their mouth? I remember working for Little Ceasar’s and we had a Greek salad on the menu. Good job I was an excellent employee in every other way because I simply could not touch that stuff.
Tuna fish. Well, the canned stuff anyway. I’m not too crazy about it in any form but if you bust out canned tuna around me I will vacate the premises.
Hard boiled eggs. An abomination unleashed upon the world by Beezlebub himself. Invariably someone will bring it to the office pot luck and the stench will permeate the whole friggin’ building. Not that I participate in pot luck situations anyway, but hard boiled eggs necessitate an emergency evacuation.
Cinamon gum. Thoroughly revolting in and of itself, but if I can smell your gum you need to learn to chew with your damned mouth closed.
Aaaah, I love to rage about my food hatred:p
My husband’s like that - I’ll only cook eggs when he’s not in the house because they revolt him so much, and even then when he gets home he’ll sniff the air suspiciously before saying accusingly “You’ve been cooking EGGS!”
Which is a shame, really, cos I love 'em.
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
Hot tuna and hot tomatoes. I love both, but neither should ever be eaten if above room temperature.
Lima beans
any kind of liver
White Castle sliders (because of a drinking incident in college)
Screwdrivers, but plain orange juice is fine; related to the White Castle issue
Mushrooms of any type
Maraschino cherries
Orange marmalade
those little canned orange slices
I’ve had food aversions where the smell of the food in question made me feel nauseous, after getting very sick after eating something. I got very sick once from eating a cheesesteak sandwich (obviously, this was before I kept kosher). After that, the smell from someone else eating one at the same table as me was enough to make me nauseous. It did get better, in that I could eventually sit at a table with someone eating a cheesesteak sandwich, but I never ate one again. Now that I keep kosher, it’s likely that I never will (though I do eat mushroom-and-cheese subs that are similar).
i jokingly say the two reasons my boyfriend is with me is because I live walking distance from where he was staying when we first met, and because I hate peanut butter almost as much as he does.
He has always hated it since his brother used to (bad smell thought alert) melt it and make runny messy concoctions. I just ate about three peanut butter on white bread sandwiches, got a mild concussion and a migrane and threw up sandwiches for an eight hour drive from Wawa to Thunder Bay.
Yeah Im pretty much done with PB for this lifetime. And have a peanut butter free household. The boyfriend had reservations about moving in with a mom with a kid… partly because of the PB. That little detail actually smoothed the way to our turning a fun for a few weeks thing into a permanent relationship.
Oh but otherwise he is way pickier than me…and its mostly a smell or texture thing. I hate nacho chips that smell like feet. Can’t get past that. Or the smell of pureed fish. Or pureed cauliflowr. Like them ok by themselves cooked whole as Og intended, but purees? forget it.
And Im a nurse and feed a LOT of patients puree. I hate Fridays.
I am not a picky eater, but I cannot stand to even watch people eat raw oysters.
Cold non-veggie salads, like pasta salad and especially potato salad. I can’t stand the taste, the smell, the texture, or the way it looks. I don’t even like to hear the shhhrlurrrp noise it makes when people are mixing it up or serving it. And no, I won’t like your ‘secret blue ribbon potato salad recipe that everybody else just can’t get enough of’ either, so please don’t keep at me to ‘just try a bit.’
I’m not a picky eater. Even if I don’t like a food I can usually eat it and pretend to enjoy it for politeness’ sake but I will turn down potato salad every time no matter what. I just can’t stand it and I’m afraid I’d actually throw up if I tried to force it down.
Oh, and I’ve met one or two people in my life that will slather ketchup all over mac and cheese. The sight and smell is even more repulsive than potato salad. I have no clue how it tastes and I’ll never know. This is actually worse than the potato salad but thankfully it’s not nearly as common.
I can’t stand mayonaisse, could never understand the appeal. Which is a bummer because it excludes so many standard picnic foods, pasta salad and potato salad and such. Makes family cookouts boring.
Asparagus is something I avoid, but not as much as when I was young. My mom would occasionally make canned asparagus, which I’m convinced is some sort of practical joke instead of food. Fresh asparagus, on the other hand, I can handle. Same with spinach. I don’t seek them out, but won’t leave the room to avoid them.
It’s a product of a sick and sadistic sense of humor, if it is a joke.
Eggplant/aubergine, courgette/zucchini, and cooked spinach. shudder