Milkshakes too?
You come from kinder folk than I.
Seafood. No seafood. Can’t stand it at all. If it comes from water. . . fuhgettaboutit.
I can barely choke down fish oil capsules.
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.
Liver – the smell makes me retch
Lima beans
Brains
Chitlings
canned peas
blood sausage
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.
Pea soup is the devil. How can anybody possibly like that stuff? It makes my head spin.
-Linda
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.
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!
Groan!
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.
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.
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:
Some of you people scare me. :eek:
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.
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…
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…
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.
Beef with cinnamon.
Weirdly specific I know. The smell of it just makes my stomach jump around.
You could have included -Linda in the quote, ya know? Or should I have signed with the name Regan?