I’m curious to know what you do eat. It sounds like it would be a short list!
I’ve never had hummus. To me it seems like some sort of potato chip dip, but I notice some people treat it like actual food.
Ramen.
And by ramen I mean the super cheap stuff that’s like 20 cents for 10 packages or whatever. It never looked appealing to me and doesn’t even smell appetizing enough to try it even on a lark.
I’m a Kraft Mac and Cheese kid and can eat that every day no problem, so my go-to poor college student meal was always just that.
An excellent excuse to eat garlic and sesame oil.
My answer is “lots of things”, though I may not have it as bad as TRC4941
I’ve never tasted mayonnaise and I’m not kidding when I say I’d probably have to be under threat of death to consider doing so. The mere smell of it makes my gorge rise.
I’ve never tasted eggs cooked any way but scrambled or in an omelet.
Chicken pot pie
Casserole of any kind
Cole Slaw
Potato salad
Pasta salad
Of course there’s lots of other miscellaneous stuff but those are the most mainstream I can think of at the moment.
Mayonnaise or Miracle (bletch) Whip?
Duck, goose, really any type of bird other than chicken or turkey.
fresh (not canned) tuna - Love try this sometime, just have not made it happen yet.
raw oysters - I really just don’t get the thrill some people get from these. I guess I wouldn’t oppose trying them but really, what’s the point?
Yeah, oysters. Nasty gobs of mucus.
Yeah. I’m a sort of picky eater and I don’t eat fish, but even I will choke down some fried perch on Fish Fry Fridays.
I haven’t had most of the stuff on a Taco Bell menu. I’ll just do tacos.
I finally had a Big Mac a few years ago, after 30+ years of avoiding it. I was always afraid I wouldn’t like it then I’d be out the however much it cost, and without dinner.
I guess the most “mainstream” thing I’ve never bothered to taste is oysters or clams. Clambakes are pretty popular here and I’ve even been to a few. Never partook.
Hummus is just bean dip. If you don’t like beans or whatever, then feel free to skip it, but it’s pretty benign.
There are things I don’t like that much, but that’s because I’ve tried them. Yeah, organ meats are not to my taste. Every few years I think to myself I should try liver, and then when I do I remember why I don’t eat liver.
I honestly can’t think of a mainstream food that I won’t eat and have never tried. I’m sure there are some because I don’t go out of my way to eat different foods every day. Sure, there are random packaged food products that I’ve never tried, but singling out a particular day-glo children’s breakfast cereal doesn’t seem like the purpose of the thread.
Depends on what you mean by mainstream. Round these parts walleye definitely isn’t.
I’m pretty sure I’ve never had oysters, but I would have a go if they were cooked. I’ve tried a variety of shellfish and, sadly, I just don’t like 'em. Tried them several times over the years, because your tastes do change, but I didn’t like them then and I still don’t like them now.
With that in mind, here are my four food rules. Don’t eat it if:
- It’s black
- It rattles
- It filters for a living
- It can outstare you
There are also two cooking rules, which, taken with the above, provide a Unified Theory of Food.
- If it’s squishy, cook it 'til it’s crunchy
- If it’s crunchy, cook it 'til it’s squishy.
You’re welcome.
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I don’t believe I’ve ever had Nutella. I wouldn’t be opposed to trying it, just don’t think I ever have.
Hard pressed to think of anything else, despite eating a vegetarian diet for over a decade.
Wait! fondue, I’ve never had fondue.
I’m sure I have eaten them in the past before I knew better, and I’ll eat those same fish from sources other than the Great Lakes, and I’ll eat all sorts of ocean fish, but I won’t eat any part of the Great Lakes food chain. The water itself is fine now, but all that mercury and other contaminants didn’t just go away when the zebra mussels came and filtered them out.
Of dishes mentioned in this thread, I think that pig’s feet and chitterlings are the only ones I haven’t tried, and I’d be up for either if I were someplace where they were served and recommended. But I wouldn’t call either mainstream, at least in any place where I’ve lived.
The best I can come up with is (I think) pork liver (I might be getting the pork and beef mixed up). Mom likes beef liver but not pork liver, so she served it occasionally when I was growing up, but neither is a dish often served for company, and nowadays liver of any sort is contraindicated for me.
That seems a little bit hard to believe- you’ve never had pickles, mustard, mayonnaise or any seafood at all? And you can go on forever? Are you one of those weirdos who eats the exact same thing every day or something?
The only common thing I can think of that I’ve never tried are raw oysters. Most of that is essentially knowing where they come from, and not wanting to eat anything raw from there. Cooked ones are great though.
Don’t think I’ve had sole. Maybe no skate wing, either.
I don’t care for sweets anymore so most sweet stuff that came out in the last 15-20 years have gone untried. Things like McFlurries, sweet Starbucks drinks, most ‘energy’ drinks like Monster though I’ve had Redbull (dreadful). I don’t think I’ve had bubble tea.
I’m not a big fan of steak or big chunks of beef there are probably steak cuts like T-bone I’ve never had. I’ve never had beef Wellington.
Neither Vegemite nor Marmite have crossed my lips though I’m eager to try them. I’ve seen them for sale locally but, at $8-10 for a little jar, too expensive to take a chance. These probably wouldn’t be considered mainstream here, anyway.
Reported.
Why? I’ve never had rye whiskey either.
I once grossed out Jewish Stepdaughter (v.2.1) showing her a can of “Pig brains in milk gravy” in an Arkansas Kroger. I sure as hell wouldn’t eat that, even if I were still a Methodist.
Chronos @53: For lake perch taken out of the water within the past few hours, filleted, dipped in seasoned flour and fried quickly in clean oil, I would swallow any given amount of contaminants. What, you plan on living forever?. Pass the tartar sauce.
That’s funny! When I was in college, I worked at a moderately upscale restaurant, and someone spilled a container of French onion soup. Another waitress made loud retching noises over it; it was hilarious.
The one Big Mac I ever had is memorable, because I was with a group returning from a week canoeing in the Boundary Waters, and the McDonald’s we stopped at was decorated in pastel shades and looked like a bathroom. :dubious: This was in the early 1990s.
I’ve never had fondue of any kind, either. My dad used to eat sardines occasionally, until he developed gout, and tried to get my sibs and I to try them but we wouldn’t.
Hummus? It’s not just a dip; it’s a staple of some Middle Eastern cuisines. And it’s delicious! I like to eat it as a sandwich spread. There are flavored hummi (?) but I just like it made from chickpeas, tahini, and garlic, the way it’s been done for centuries.
I love that, even though I can’t say I follow those rules.
The only mainstream foods I can think of that I have never eaten are scrapple, sweetmeats, blood sausage and tripe. Those just seem wrong to me, even though I am OK with other organ meats.