# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/21 "2010-11-01T17:41:32Z")
I haven’t tried a lot of organ meats, eyeballs, etc (though I eat turkey heart every Thanksgiving and love it), but I’d be willing to give them all a shot at least once. I’d also try insects, and I’m kind of morbidly curious to try an earthworm. As for stuff I commonly come across, I am always very reluctant to eat: -artificial sweeteners, -most non-fried seafood, and -romaine lettuce\*, but I’ll choke them down if I have to. I will absolutely not touch: -cilantro, and prefer not to be in the same room with it. \*the second to last time I ate romaine I gagged and almost vomited, but then I tried it again a couple months later and managed just fine, so I’m still ranking it above cilantro. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/22 "2010-11-01T17:48:02Z")
There’s no “NO WAYs”! for me, but as far as things I’ve tried that I didn’t particularly care for, the only thing I’ve had that was offensive, so far, is surströmming, a Swedish fermented herring. I liked pickled herring and strong flavors in general, but this stuff is in another league. I reckon it’s probably similar to that fermented shark the Icelanders eat. The stuff smells like a cross between a fresh dog turd and rotting flesh, and attracts flies just as effectively. (Seriously, when I opened up a can of this stuff on my stoop, within a minute it seemed as if all the flies in the neighborhood had gathered on my front steps.) I’ve never had balut, though, but I think I might have some difficulty trying to get that down. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/23 "2010-11-01T17:58:29Z")
I don’t like the idea of eating reptiles (you might convince me to eat gator, but snakes are right out) and there’s no way I’m eating anything’s brain. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/24 "2010-11-01T18:43:29Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve never had balut, though, but I think I might have some difficulty trying to get that down. I attended a dinner party in the Philippines at which balut was served. I did not partake (when I saw it, I decided it was NOT vegetarian), but a number of my classmates did. One of them really liked it. One of them declared herself to be immune from disgusting food because she’s Mexican and has eaten every part of the animal. The rest were not impressed. Apparently it wasn’t the flavor that was bad, it was the texture that was gross. [The balut.](http://oi53.tinypic.com/2n1gx0i.jpg) [Matt tries balut.](http://oi54.tinypic.com/1fblsw.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/25 "2010-11-01T18:44:41Z")
One time my roommate (from China) talked me into trying pork jelly. No. No. No. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/26 "2010-11-01T19:21:48Z")
It’s been mentioned by the Queen before in a previous thread about foods you hate (can’t find the silly thread now, but it was _ **there** _, damnit), but nonetheless it bears repeating. Until my final breath of life while upon this mortal plane, I stand by what I consider to be The. Most. Hated. Food. Everlasting: lima beans. The very \*\*words \*\*make me shudder with horror.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/27 "2010-11-01T19:26:55Z")
Grapefruit Beets Liver Alcohol ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/28 "2010-11-01T19:38:46Z")
I’m so NOT there with almost all of you, except for **aruvqan**. Liver and lima beans I agree with. And wet bread except in stuffing and onion soup. Yum. Jello salad. Any jello containing Miracle Whip, cottage cheese, cole slaw, or marshmallows. That shit is a sin against God and man. Mayo-based “salads.” That includes seafood, egg, macaroni, and potato. Odd, because I adore seafood, eggs, macaroni, and potatoes. Tuna steaks are great, tuna salad is fishy barf. (Yeah, I know. I’ve also never seen The Godfather.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/29 "2010-11-01T19:39:44Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > One of them declared herself to be immune from disgusting food because she’s Mexican and has eaten every part of the animal. Any good peasant cuisine eats tip-to-tail. I’ve eaten most parts of the animal: from brains to eyeballs to intestines, stomachs, hearts, kidneys, etc. But a fertilized duck egg would give me pause. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/30 "2010-11-01T19:54:51Z")
Pretty much everything that lives underwater. Mayo. Brussel sprouts. Parts of a chicken or turkey that ain’t breast. Offal. Beef. Fresh tomatoes. Sweetcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/31 "2010-11-01T21:03:24Z")
Hardboiled eggs. EFF. THAT. Pretty much everything else is on the table. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/32 "2010-11-01T21:28:31Z")
I was going to agree with the wet bread thing (Summer Pudding makes me gag), but then again, I absolutely love bread and gravy - if there’s gravy left at the end of a Sunday roast, and I’m hungry, I can very happily tuck into slice after slice of bread soaked in gravy. Pretty much anything else is OK (hence the username). Durian didn’t work for me, but I’ve only tried it in preserved form. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/33 "2010-11-01T21:31:27Z")
I’ve eaten lots of different things, but balut looks really nasty. Of things that I’ve tried and hated, I offer [natto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D). I thought it tasted like a Rice Krispie treat made with stale coffee and cigarette butts. ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/34 "2010-11-01T21:46:06Z")
-I agree with soggy, overcooked noodles. Add rice to that. -I have thrown up from the mere _smell_ of canteloupe. Not only will I not eat it, I actually have a physical fear response, as if I am in some sort of danger, when I see it. -Raw or even rare meat. Get away. Everything else is pretty much ok as long as it’s not slimy. ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/35 "2010-11-01T21:50:32Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Peanuts and chocolate. Peanuts are salty. Chocolate is sweet. It’s Just Not Right. :eek::eek::eek::eek: Reeses?? Haagie’s PB & Choc ice cream? ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/36 "2010-11-01T21:52:26Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Any kind of liquor in desserts. blecchh. Ding ding ding! Let’s take this delicious cake and dump nastyass rum all over it…WTF??? ---
**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, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/37 "2010-11-01T21:55:46Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > 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) Hmm… Maybe you were Icelandic in another life: > [@](#): > > Something that you might not be keen on trying is “hakarl” which is rotten shark. The light-colored pieces have a stronger flavor and this dish is made by burying a shark in sand for six months. The flavor has been described as a cross between strong cheese, ammonia, and rotten fish. > > Another curious Icelandic dish is “svid” which is burnt sheep head. A sheep head has the wool burnt off to make this dish. It is then split in two to take out the brain, and boiled. > > Another dish, which you might not fancy trying, is “hrutspungar.” To make this Icelandic treat, rams’ testicles are pickled in whey before being combined with gelatin and pressed into a pate or a cake. For “hvalrengi,” fresh whale blubber is mixed with milk to give it a sour flavor. Seal flippers are also soured with milk and salted to make “selshreyfar.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/38 "2010-11-01T22:00:14Z")
I am hard pressed to think of any serious food aversions. Processed cheese is the only thing that comes to mind - whether it’s Cheez Whiz,Velveeta, those nasty little “slices” which aren’t sliced off of anything, aerosol cheese product, “American Cheese” of the sort used in hotel omelettes and which I have been assured by earnest U.S. Dopers is not like _real_ “American Cheese” which is asserted to more closely resemble cheese - all of these things fall well short of anything that might reasonably be classified as “food.” Oh, I might also add that (while I am grateful for the gift of lactobacilli and appreciate the tireless work that those little bastards put in transforming mere milk into something that’s much more useful in the kitchen) I can confess that I am at a total loss when contemplating the appeal of kimchi. Sauerkraut is something I can get my head around. Kimchi is a mystery to me. ---
**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, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/39 "2010-11-01T22:01:39Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > 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) I think [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotelbookingpro/1002999765/) is definitely the topper. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070/40 "2010-11-01T22:03:37Z")
This is a bad time of year for me, because I really don’t like any of the fall vegetables. Gourds of any kind - pumpkin, squash, I’m not liking any of it. I also don’t care much for sweet potatoes, turnips, beets, brussel sprouts, radishes, rutabaga, etc. I do like broccoli and cauliflower, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-food-no-way-s/559070.md?page=3)