Bananas. I don’t think my reaction is as strong as Jadis’, but l also loathe bananas.
Shkembe, a “comfort food” stew made of sheep’s stomachs that’s really popular in the Balkans. You can get it everywhere between Turkey and Bosnia, should you be so inclined. Just being around it grossed me out. (I’m a vegetarian, but usually I don’t give a shit about what other people eat. Shkembe is just nasty, though.)
Cheese in a can, like EZ Cheese. Just looking at it makes me want to puke.
I had a bowel obstruction when I was a kid. The foods I airmailed at that time have repulsed me since. I can not eat butterscotch ,Spam and a banana split.
I get sick if I’m in a place where someone is cooking sauerkraut. It sucks because that is a staple at so many family meals.
I loooove ketchup. Put it on fries, burgers, meatloaf. Even pork chops and poorly-cooked steaks. But I cannot STAND the idea of putting it with things it “doesn’t belong with” so it needs to be gone from the table when it’s time for dessert. If someone is at the table with me wanting to put it on some eggs, I feel a little bit pukey.
No quiche, no creme brulee either. If it’s got eggs as a main ingredient, I cannot eat it. I make sure I specify steamed rice at Chinese restaurants (the fried rice is bad for you anyway.)
I don’t like mushrooms and cooked broccoli either, but I can stomach them if I have to. But eggs…I think I’d starve to death first.
Milk. I used to be/sort of am lactose intolerant. I can’t drink milk to this day. (Though am fine with cheese.) I can’t look at it. Smell it. I really, truly hate it.
Hard boiled eggs. My dad absolutely loves them and usually cooks up a big carton of them about twice a week. Just the smell of them boiling on the stove is enough to make me gag, and I can’t even LOOK at them when they’re sliced up. Eeeewwwww.
Gristle. I have targeted this as the A-number-fucking-one reason I don’t eat steak very often. I can’t stand fatty, unchewable bits of rubbery gunk in my mouth, no matter what.
This includes oysters, whole clams, and chicken-on-the-bone (particularly wings and drumsticks).
I’m surprised I like shrimp because even while I’m eating them I’m thinking “sea bug”, same with lobster tail - “giant sea bug”. I can get why some indigenous peoples eat grubs, I imagine they’re probably a lot like seafood. Just to be clear, I will never eat a grub knowingly, but it’s no worse than seafood.
I thought you were making a movie reference, and that quote is a classic. The relevant clip is here. (Just let it load, and then scroll forward to about 13:00)
I also loathe drinkable yogurts. I made the mistake of getting one once. Once. After that, I just reverted to regular yogurt.
Ricotta cheese also grosses me out, as does rice pudding and those fried dough balls soaked in yogurt and frequently served in Indian restaurants. I can take cottage cheese, but other thick, milky fluids with chunks in them just do something awful to me. Even looking at them makes me want to look away.
Bologna - the most vile processed meat product in the history of the world. I can’t even eat a hot dog that is slightly undercooked (as in non burnt) because it reminds me of bologna. I do love most processed lunch meats though, just not bologna.
Orange “flavored” things - I love oranges, orange juice, any orange colored citrus fruit… I HATE anything orange flavored, orange candies, sodas, vitamins etc. All make me throw up in my mouth a little
Any creamy white food substance (I know the joke is there but it’s true) - I hate Mayonaise, Sour Cream, Cream Cheese, Ranch Dressings all of them make me ill and for some reason it is really difficult for people to get when you order a burrito with NO SOUR CREAM that you actually mean NO SOUR CREAM and no I won’t eat around it because it taints all food within a 10 inch radius with its rancid yaks’ puke smell and taste.
My biggest gross out food are raw tomatoes. I’m fine with tomato sauce, salsa, ketchup, sun dried tomatoes…basically any tomato by product you can think of but I will not touch them raw. I’m kind of envious of the people who love them because they really seem to enjoy them but I just can’t bring myself to eat the awful things. I tried a small cherry tomato picked from a local farm (after my boyfriend kept going on and on about how awesome they were) and spit it out after about 2 seconds. YUCK.
Also, raw oysters are nothing more than giant sea boogers. Ew.