It isn’t hatred, I just don’t care for 'em. I’ve tried them again and again over the years (recently) and they (including beet sugar) still taste like dirt to me. Now mind you, a good rich loam. But still not something I can savor. So I don’t eat them. 
Also, I join in solidarity with my fellow beet-haters.
What’s wrong with frozen/canned food? Unless it is full of artificial ingredients (or fat, sodium, and sugar) it isn’t necessarily unhealthy; in fact, canned/frozen vegetables can have more nutrients than fresh vegetables, unless the latter are straight from the farm/garden (nutrients are lost just from sitting around).
I’ll eat any foodstuff I could get my hands on, bugs and wiggly things included, the more adventurous the better. Except cilantro. That stuff is foul.
When I said “anything canned or frozen meant to turn into a meal” I meant “as soon as it’s opened or thawed”. I guess it was a little ambiguous since frozen peas are meant to turn into a meal, but then it’s not a useful qualifier at all since almost all food is meant to be part of a meal.
To clarify though, I meant frozen or canned things that are fulled prepared meals, aka full of artificial ingredients, fat, sodium and sugar. Like spaghettis and hot pockets.
But it’s not about how unhealthy they are, I really think they’re gross. I liked that kind of food as a kid.
I can’t believe no one mentioned eggplant. Speaking of snot-like.
And bell peppers as someone said earlier, ruin the entire dish. I have seen no difference in the taste if the pepper is red or yellow either.
I love beets though.
I probably wouldn’t eat brain due to fear of some outlandishly mutated prion, but other than that, there’s nothing I won’t at least try. The nastiest thing I ever ate was sea urchin roe (on pizza!), and I won’t be having that again. I have never seen durian, but I’d like to try it. I always wanted to try fugu but when I lived in Japan I could never get anyone to go with me to a fugu restaurant and I didn’t want to go alone. I am allergic to kiwi, of all things, but it’s not common and easy to avoid.
Bugs, brains (I’m fine with other offal), fermented meat of any type, and Miracle Whip.
I haven’t tried the more exotic gross stuff on the list (brains, balut, poop coffee, etc) but would pass.
Normal things I don’t like and would prefer not to eat:
Green peppers
Passion fruit
Caraway seeds
Fennel
Sea urchin
Fresh papaya (but dried is okay)
Black jelly beans, black licorice
Epic SDMB thread.
Food porn at its best!
Eggs that aren’t cooked solid
Raw meat, including Sushi
Offal, except for beef liver.
Custard
Cream Cheese
head cheese and trotters.
But if it’s fried, game on!
Moving over to Cafe Society.
Sweet potatoes.
Beets.
Sweet potatoes.
Olives.
And sweet potatoes.
Did I mention that I can’t stand sweet potatoes?
Cheez Whiz - imagine my horror, reading they pour it on perfectly fine cheesesteak sandwiches! In fact, melted cheddar sauce poured on food, which is found everywhere - Arby’s, Applebee’s - often with bacon bits. Ick. Scrape, scrape, scrape…
Octopus or squid, deep-fried or not, stuffed/tentacles/tentacles in rings. No!
Any cartilage in any meat. Bite down on the cartilage = spit out.
Mint. Anything green, called ‘mint’, especially ice cream (and while I’m at it, NO chocolate chips or M&Ms in ice cream!). Includes Thin Mint cookies. It tastes exactly like mouthwash to me. A sprig of mint is OK for a garnish, but why does spearmint overtake my garden and all those fancy designer mint plants I bought at the nursery immediately curl up and die?
Blood anything. Sausage, the unfortunate pressed duck, even bloody rare meat. Steak pink in the center is OK, but raw and bloody, I have a hard time getting it down.
Canned peas. Why? Why canned peas?
Cheap hot dogs, without casings, all fat and salt, served on cheap white bread rolls with yellow mustard - suitable only for filling up the mouths of 10 year olds at a cookout, and so getting them out of the way when the good stuff is cooked for the adults.
Anything made with Splenda. Yes, I can tell. No, it doesn’t taste just like sugar. It tastes like vile chemicals.
Cereal, especially sugary kids cereal, especially Froot Loops. I wish I did like cereal, but I was raised on the stuff for breakfast, and I didn’t like it when I was 7, either!
Cherry flavor anything, jello, kool-aid, popsicles - tastes just like cough syrup. Corollary: fruit punch. Cloying and artificial.
That’s one good thing about being a grownup, you don’t have to eat stuff you don’t like, any more. And if you give it to your kids, they either like it or don’t, and if they don’t, you can thankfully not buy it any more.
guts of any type
Soylent green.
Why are so many people anti-organ meats? Is it the taste? The texture? Or the function of them ? They are actually pretty varied in all those aspects. I had some sweetbreads (calf pancreas) once that made me think I’d died and gone to heaven. But tripe is like rotten wool carpet.
I haven’t noticed it in this thread, but usually when these discussions flow and I say I’ll never eat, say, sauteed raccoon assholes (George Carlin reference), someone pipes up with “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!”
Well, I haven’t tried it, and I’m perfectly comfortable knocking it. I’ve never sat on a porcupine either, but I’m pretty confident that I would not enjoy it.
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For me, they just taste yucky, like something that was scooped up out of a dumpster (don’t ask me how I know). Since internal organs and even blood figure in so much of Thai food – which you would not know if your only experience with the cuisine is in Thai restaurants in the West – that I’m constantly on guard.