# Your food "NO WAY!"'s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070 "2010-11-01T07:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/1 "2010-11-01T07:57:03Z")
Aside from offal and weird fish, it’s gotta be wet bread and fruity meat. I’m so freaky on the subject of wet bread that I will remove any squishy bread from a burger, and I can’t eat anyone’s stuffing but mine, because I make it very dry. The only moisture is butter and what seeps from the vegetables as they cook, then I make sure to sort of dry and crisp it. And just about any meat recipe that involves cherries, apricots, pineapple, apples, pears, etc. NO. Fruit is dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/2 "2010-11-01T08:25:01Z")
[Ratatouille](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille). It’s French for “slime.” ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/3 "2010-11-01T08:45:43Z")
Peanuts and chocolate. Peanuts are salty. Chocolate is sweet. It’s Just Not Right. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/4 "2010-11-01T09:02:49Z")
I’ll try anything _at least_ once, and thus due to their disgustingness I’ve added a few to my NO WAY list…tripe, brains, sea urchins and commercially produced ham-steaks. Thanks all the same, but I’d rather starve to death. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/5 "2010-11-01T09:03:24Z")
Any sort of fruit that has been manipulated into anything other than juice: purée, pie, “fruit and nut” chocolate, chopped up and put into some sort of yoghurty crap - no. Either the fruit is in it’s natural state or it’s a juice, there are no other options. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/6 "2010-11-01T09:34:51Z")
Misuse of fruit, including: Pineapple pizza, apple pie, fruit yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/7 "2010-11-01T11:21:52Z")
Oh actually, I forgot to mention that I really like pineapple on pizza, so that’s another of my exceptions. I think I’ve covered every acceptable use of fruit now. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/8 "2010-11-01T12:47:26Z")
Store- or deli-packed fruit cup. All the fruit juices leaking out of the fruit, mushy melon, red-tinged pineapple, tart tart grapefruit ruining the taste of all the sweet fruits. GROSS. Any kind of liquor in desserts. blecchh. My mother used to make this nasty pork chop dish. She’d pour milk over the top and bake those mofos til they were tough as leather, then insist that the milk kept 'em soft. oh, sorry. That really can’t be considered food I reckon. heh! ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/9 "2010-11-01T12:56:15Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I’ll try anything _at least_ once, and thus due to their disgustingness I’ve added a few to my NO WAY list…tripe, brains, sea urchins and commercially produced ham-steaks. > > Thanks all the same, but I’d rather starve to death. 😃 Have you had fresh sea urchin? As in, I just pulled this off the rock and bashed it open fresh? Any urchin more than a few hours old has this particular taste, and smell to go with it, but fresh urchin has all the deliciousness with none of the stank. They live in Oz, right? Next time you’re snorkeling, give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/10 "2010-11-01T12:58:17Z")
Anything excessively hot or salty. Oysters. Stuffed shells made by my ex-sister-in-law, altho those barely qualify as food… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/11 "2010-11-01T13:18:43Z")
- Mushy overcooked pasta. - Gristle in meat. - Cold cuts with flecks of fat, like salami or mortadella. (This used to include sausages - I was one of those kids who picked apart a piece of kielbasa or Italian sausage! Now I just eat it without looking…) - Chocolate with fruit, and this includes Black Forest cake, those chocolate oranges candy they sell at Christmas, and why is it that every chocolate cake (on the cover of a happy homemaker magazine) is festooned with strawberries or raspberries??? - Those awful, cheap, frozen, gluey pies they sell during holidays - doesn’t matter what kind, apple, blueberry, cherry - they are an abomination and designed for one purpose: to fill up stomaches of men and kids who don’t care what dessert is, as long as there’s plenty of it. - Ringdings, Ho-Hos, Little Debbies, Hostess - I have to be faint and starving before I’ll willingly eat them. They’re so…blah. - Cube steak. Nothing good is ever made with cube steak, there’s something about the texture that says: “spit this out, quick!”. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/12 "2010-11-01T13:20:35Z")
Shellfish. It tastes like something that’s gone bad. Fruit belongs in the fruit bowl, not the chocolate dish. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/13 "2010-11-01T13:28:23Z")
Beets. I just don’t like the taste. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/14 "2010-11-01T13:30:05Z")
I can’t stand wet bread either. I don’t really mind, say, a moist burger bun, but I cannot stand soup in a bread bowl or bread pudding or that bread that comes with French onion soup (but I’d never go without it 'cause of the nummy cheese on it), etc. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/15 "2010-11-01T13:36:47Z")
Anything in the cruciferous family. I don’t care how “good” they are for me. The sight of them alone is enough to make me run screaming into the abyss. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/16 "2010-11-01T14:47:11Z")
I’ll eat most anything and I’ll tolerate eating almost anything, but there are two things I won’t eat 1. Blue cheese 2. Bleu cheese Either of them makes me want to blew cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/17 "2010-11-01T15:00:16Z")
Gosh, I love it all… Offal - I’ll fight you for the eyeballs! Sea Urchin - raw or cooked! Insects - been there, done that; I recommend grasshoppers! Live Octopus - easier to start with the heads; once the brains are disengaged, the tentacles will _mostly_ stop moving around The ONLY thing I don’t care for us **balut** - boiled, fertilized, partially formed duck eggs. For those with a strong stomach, [here are some pictures.](http://www.google.com/images?q=balut&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1440&bih=640) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/18 "2010-11-01T15:28:55Z")
Coffee Coconut Beer (as a beverage – I’m wary of it in cooking, but haven’t hated it). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/19 "2010-11-01T16:45:44Z")
Mushrooms. Ich. Okra. Can be okay if prepared in a non-slimy way. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/20 "2010-11-01T17:30:48Z")
insects. That mythbusters where Keri ate bugs - no fucking way. I would rather be covered in scorpions and spiders and snakes. I include nematodes that you find in a slab of fish in that class. Anything I am actually allergic to of course =) [mushrooms, bivalves, palm products] Okra, zucchini, eggplant. I used to be nice and try them when anybody told me that I just hadnt had them prepared correctly. After probably 10 years of living in both the north and south, and eating that crap, I decided nevermore. I will not willingly let any of them across my lips. I have had them in pretty much every single way they can be prepared. We need a vomiting blarghy face. I hate liver and kidney. I wont eat eyeballs, or brains [not overall fond of the taste] though of all the organs I like heart when prepared properly. I dont like most fish, especially the nasty fishy crap ones like mackeral. Even just opening a can of that shit to make croquettes makes me want to hurl. I eat sole, trout, perch, cod, haddock, salmon [sushi grade as sashimi only] tuna [canned or raw sushi grade only] Don’t care for sea urchin so someone else can have my share. Detest eel in every form I have tried. Hate smoked or dried or reconstituted fish [that means lutefisk is right out, as is that fermented shark shit] I prefer my spinach fresh and slightly wilted or plain raw with dressing, will grudgingly eat it frozen refuse it canned. Refuse canned peas, prefer fresh properly cooked veggies to frozen or canned, but most people are like that=) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070.md?page=2)