Cow throat. Cow throat does not taste bad it is just a completely useless food. It absorbs no flavor from anything it is cooked in and basically has no taste and is almost impossible to chew. One of my colleagues said it was like chewing on a tire patch.
It’s the creamy part. I can almost relive the gagging sensation I felt when I had it in my mouth. But I’m sure yours is good :o
Ah. I’m sure it’s like anyone else’s. Sounds like a textural aversion. I get it.
As a young “Men at Work” fan, I was highly motivated to like it. It showed up in our college cafeteria one day and my friend (also a fan) and I decided to give it a try to show our solidarity with the band.
Nope. Nope, nope, nope! Sorry, guys! Stuff tastes like you made a paste out of pure salt and dyed it with a brown crayon.
The farm market woman thought it was culinary. She made some for dinner and knew right away that it wasn’t cooking right, which led to her review her seed purchase records. We were the only people who bought any, luckily.
The obvious problem here is that vegetables don’t have lungs. It isn’t haggis unless it has lung in it.
Yeah, I hate it when my steak is overcooked too.
Ah, lutefisk. Even the people who like it don’t like it. I remember seeing a lady on the news once saying, “Well, when I was little, I’d only eat a teaspoon or so, because it was a tradition. But now that I’m an adult, I can eat a whole tablespoon.”
For me: posole. Sorry, not gonna try it again.
I felt the same way until I was convinced to try a grilled oyster dish. It was fantastic.
Eel.
I assume it was properly prepared; it was in a Norwegian military base’s chowhall, and the Norwegians were certainly enjoying it. It was also the most beautiful military chowhall I’ve ever had the pleasure of dining in, with lots of beautifully cut and finished exposed wood beams and natural light aplenty.
Street Tacos: How did this ever become a thing?
Chimichanga
Chicken Van (At a catered affair)
Chicken covered with some kind of sauce with olives in it.
Liver: I can’t even stand the smell
Sauteed Mushrooms served at Golden Corral.
Guacamole
I don’t know who ever decided that avocados were edible but they didn’t ask me first. And while the whole fruit is bad enough somebody got the idea to mash it and add raw onions and hot pepper. You can’t eat it and it isn’t even smooth enough to use as spackle.
Jellied tongue. If the meat’s chewiness doesn’t get you, the aspic sliding down your throat will.
They served it cold, but I’m pretty sure temperature didn’t matter.
Liver in any form. Just absolutely disgusting.
I’ve eaten with great enjoyment nearly all the foods listed above. Never tried haggis or vegemite. I really enjoy liver and onions. My wife once took a large ornamental kale plant and cooked with onions, carrots, potatoes, and a hunk of ham. Delish!
I have had lutefisk once so I don’t have to have it again. But it was okay, sort of. The one so-called food that I have had that I would never have again is sea cucumber. Like concentrated gristle. We were invited to dinner at the home of my Chinese grad student. We were of the persuasion that you have to eat what is offered. It turned out that his parents were of the persuasion that you serve guests until they leave some stuff. So we ate everything and finally his mother served us sea cucumber. Presumably properly prepared. We didn’t finish it and she was able to stop.
YOAR MOM!
(Sorry, I had to. The opportunity was too good to pass up.)
This thread reaffirms my belief that I am not a picky eater in the least and repeated exposure to unusual foods means everything. I actually like almost all of the things listed. However, the first time I tried blue cheese salad dressing, I was working in a catering kitchen and I was shocked that we almost served a dairy product that was so obviously spoiled and vile but I caught it. I showed it to the chef, she tasted it, and said that is just what it is. I actually like blue cheese in all forms now but it took a while.
I have eaten fried ants, grasshoppers, all kinds of game animals including roadkill, rattlesnakes, alligator (quite good) and lots of other exotic foods without incident. The one thing I would be hesitant to try is Icelandic Hákarl (shark that has been fermented for months). It smells like ammonia and tastes much worse. Even the most adventurous eaters sometimes barf involuntarily when they try it. Chitlins really do smell like pig shit when they are cooking but at least they taste sort of OK.
I’m the same way. Just don’t like it.
Hee. That’s one of the short list of foods us picky kids WOULD eat. 
Mom served it over white toast.
Mine would be this dish served at a volunteer community I lived in, where the food budget was slim. Shreds of turkey plus other cut up vegetables suspended in plain aspic. Something like this, but more sparsely populated and the aspic was clear:
>hurl<
Something more like this? Were the people you were with of Eastern European background? I grew up with this stuff, and I love it, but, I admit, my brother also grew up with it and thinks it’s the vilest thing on earth. I can understand. It’s certainly a hard sell. ETA: The aspic gets clearer than that, like here.
