Yeah. Perhaps we are having a failure to communicate.
Cantaloupe. I shuddered just thinking of it just now.
I was being sarcastic that time.
Things I’ve tried that I will not eat again: balut, sea urchin (raw? sushi restaurant), raw crab (Korean restaurant).
Thing I’ve tried that I *might *give another chance: durian.
Things I haven’t tried and never will: pig’s feet, chicken feet, head cheese, blood-anything, insects, larvae and foods containing them.
Hey I’ve tried kopi luwak. It tastes just like normal coffee. (I don’t drink much coffee)
I thought I was a picky eater, but apparently I’m not. Most of the things mentioned in this thread are on my like list.
I don’t know how you can put those two even in the same category. I might if I was feeling brave have the tiniest taste of casu marzu, avoiding the wriggliest bits, but I’d happily brew up and savour the civet coffee every morning if you gave it to me for free. It’s still made from coffee beans. They wash them off after they’ve been through the cat, you know, and then you’re passing boiling water over them. What’s possibly not to like?
The only reason I’ve never tried it is because it’s stupidly expensive for coffee that, by all accounts, tastes exactly like coffee.
I steer clear of deep fried tarantulas. I also would take a pass at rotten seagull (eskimo dish), and rotten shark (hakarl-it is big in Iceland).
Mushrooms
Red licorice
Tomatoes
Olives
Cauliflower
Organ meats
Oysters (Have not tried them. But they just look disgusting.)
One of my friends is Icelandic and according to her, it never really has been “big in Iceland”. These days, it’s kind of a minor curiosity and/or something to scare the tourists with. I wanted to try another Icelandic dish, puffin (freshly killed and cooked, not rotted!) but my wife vetoed it on the grounds that she hadn’t yet seen a live one. (And when we did track down some live ones, she decided they were too cute to eat. I kind of agreed, too.)
I’m not getting all of the hate for beets. I know of only two restaurants that serve them as side dishes (though the waitresses don’t mention them as available unless you ask), and those are about three blocks from each other. I’m spending the long weekend right between them, and I will eat beets at both.
I believe that tonight I will have beets along with dead sea bugs and something dug up from the ground, topped with rotten mammal juice. And maybe a nice glass of spoiled grape juice.
That’s funny. I’m not a hugely adventurous eater. I don’t eat a wide variety of fruits. But to me cantaloupe has such a perfect flavor (when exactly ripe) that I can’t see how everyone doesn’t love it. Funny how much tastes differ.
The bold part is key. I can’t stand most melons unless they are perfectly ripe. Then they are absolute ambrosia.
An ex of mine just adored puffins (for all I know she still does), so I wondered how she would react when she and her later-to-be husband went on a sailing trip around the islands of the North Atlantic. She informed me when they came back that after seeing how many puffins there are she had no hesitations about eating them (and they were very tasty, too).
ETA She also told me that the Faroese kitchen was, well, different.
Nothing I can think of really. Honestly, I’ve never tried anything and found it so revolting that I would never, ever eat it again. I don’t care for broccoli, fish sauce and raw oysters, but I’ll certainly eat them prepared properly. If all I had to eat was a big ol’ plate of both covered in the third, I’d tuck in. Not happily mind you, but it’s better than going hungry.
I’ll try anything at least once. Pass the pickled deer’s heart, please.
Oysters. Snotty, mucous-like chunks of phlegm.
Hot pockets.
I was an overweight teenager so when I set out in life on my own I decided to establish better eating habits, which included never eating most processed foods like hot pockets or frozen dinners or frozen pizzas or most fast food.
At this point I’m pretty darn disgusted by that type of stuff. I don’t usually tell people because it sounds so damn pretentious but it’s not pretension, I really find them revolting.
And I do eat plenty of processed foods. Anything frozen or canned that’s meant to turn into a meal though, I’d really prefer to go hungry.
Raw I agree with you. Grilled they’re quite nice.
One that I forgot: Greek yogurt. That stuff is vile, and it’s taking over store shelves.