Interesting that cilantro tastes like rotting meat to you. Most people I know who have that genetic thing where cilantro tastes bad - and I’m one of them - say that it tastes like soap.
I’m proud to say that I’ve eaten blood pudding, haggis and durian. Durian tasted better than it smelled, but it didn’t taste very good - it tasted like the chemical gas companies add to natural gas. I could eat it if forced to. Blood pudding and haggis are both essentially sausages, so I found them quite yummy.
There are foods I’d rather not eat but will, but the things I WON’T eat are:
Anchovies, sardines.
Grilled cheese sandwiches, mac & cheese.
Sushi. Any kind of shrimp is okay. And whatever kind of fish (white fish!) they serve at Long John Silvers & Capt. D’s.
Vienna sausage.
Rare beef.
Cooked broccoli, cauliflower or turnips. Love them raw.
I think I could eat insects tho, if at least seared. They’d already be crunchy.
Squid, octopus, anything close. THIS IS NOT FOOD, PEOPLE!!
And I’m Italian. My late relatives may be spinning underground for me saying this, but I’m still a Locriane for loving the shit out of pasta and bread.
I can’t stand the smell or taste of anything from the sea. Seriously.
My parents are huge seafood lovers, and once when I was fifteen, for my mother’s birthday we went to a seafood restaurant where I had a plate of fries. The smell was so fishy I had a very immediate run for the bathroom.
And eggplant is disgusting to me. I can’t stand either the texture or the taste of it.
Cilantro - allergy
Anise seed - allergy
Licorice
Dill - allergy
Fennel & Fennel seed - see above. Way to ruin a good Italian sausage.
Any botanists want to weigh in on commonalities of the above? I would like to know.
Cinnamon in savory dishes - WTF people? Bake a crumb cake, but no cinnamon in MY chili, ok?
Eel sushi = salty phlegm
Calves liver - once a month as a kid was enough for a lifetime
Canned peas; vile and disgusting with no right to live.
I might like them if I could get them past my nose.
Once I worked in an office that was right next to the cafeteria and every other Thursday liver and onions were on the menu. I would literally sit at my desk turning green and shaking from the smell.
It’s the smell of red beets and bananas as well, just a whiff and my stomach starts churning.
There are other food I don’t like (olives, mushrooms, coconut) but I will eat them rather than be impolite when they are being served.
Liver, red beets and bananas? It would be more impolite to throw up at the table.
I don’t understand the hate for green peppers. I love them.
The secret is to smell them before you buy them. If they smell bitter put them back, if they smell sweet then they are good. Although I like the bitter ones too, just not as much.
Liver
Intestines
Asparagus
Olives
Bell peppers
Mushrooms
Any extremely hot peppers, etc.
Coconut (can’t stand the texture with all the little pieces floating around in my mouth.)
Never eaten any insect and have no desire to.
I’m going on the premise that the dish is presented in an undeniably appealing way. I might not refuse anything if it is beautifully presented and smells delicious, and you don’t tell me what’s in it until after I’ve had a taste.
Things I would refuse to eat if I knew what it was, regardless of how scrumptious it looks and smells, and I would walk out the joint post-haste so as not to appear to support them in any way:
Meat that is still moving or taken from a living animal (I don’t count oysters. They don’t move, and are delicious)
Cats, dogs or anything in those families
Shark-fin soup
Things I don’t morally object to, but wouldn’t eat even if everyone who ever lived in history praises it’s life-altering deliciousness:
Brains
Eyeballs
Cockroaches (I do think they are eaten in some cultures, though I don’t want to google it)
Things I have tried and would never allow to pass my lips again:
Dried fruits prepared with sulphur dioxide - it gives me an asthma attack.
Super-duper-extra HOT peppers. Not jalapenos, but the mega-hot varieties that are more sport than food. I don’t like pain with my meals. (used as flavoring, in very tiny amounts or whole pods that can be avoided, I’m okay with)
Having never faced balut or durian, rotten-stinky cheese etc, I’m not opposed to the concept of eating it, if you could get it to be appealing in the first place. But if you put it in front of me and I gag at the sight/smell, then I’m not likely to choke it down just because.
Other than some chinese dishes they taint the flavor so much that I can’t even just eat around them. If they’re there, the whole dish is ruined. I don’t know why it sometimes doesn’t ruin chinese.
If you aren’t going to eat your veal chop, I’ll take it…KIDDING!
I would never ever order or eat veal just on principle. I did eat it once, they accidentally brought me veal marsala in a restaurant instead of chicken marsala, and I was half way through before I noticed it was not chicken. (I felt like an old school jungle explorer chowing down with the natives on ‘long pig’, finding out it was not actually pig.)
I’ll eat anything and everything that is put on the table. I am not picky. As far as choice goes; again I will eat anything and everything I am allowed to eat.
If I am given a free pass to eat any meat in the world; I will except for humans. I will eat dogs (I actually tried dog soup in Korea), I will eat horse (horse meat tastes better and is healthier than beef), I will eat croc meat, snake meat (I should go to Vietnam).
I want to try whale/shark meat but due to the ethical reasons of whales being endangered I will not eat them… But again if I find a dead whale and it’s not spoiled, I will eat it if I am allowed to.
I used to love eating veal but I stopped out of ethical reasons as well. Just letting you know I have ethics but I am down to try anything that tastes good. Even deep-fried tarantula.
While I’ve tried balut, I wouldn’t ever eat it again. I wouldn’t try ortolan. Or anything else where you’re eating something with whole bones that still looks like it’s living.
Other than those two, I’m fine: maggot cheese, fried testicles, tongue and all.
Thank you for clearing that up. My grad school roommate offered me some one time without divulging what it was. He was quite put off by my indecorous response.
For the record, I’ve told many people that story; you’re the first one to ever hear of pork jelly.
Am I the only one on this board with a fanatical, deathless, completely-out-of-proportion hatred for ::shudder::** lima beans???** :eek::eek::eek::eek:
That particular plant should be ripped from the ground across the world and the ground sown with salt. Then the sites should be nuked from orbit. Often.
for loving the shit out of pasta and bread. 
