THIS so hard.
I can’t even eat around them most of the time. If a mushroom has even touched it it’s tainted and will taste of foul mushroom filth. The only exceptions are some chinese dishes, where eating around them is possible, for some reason they haven’t tainted everything else, but still not preferred if it can be avoided.
When team went to a Yum Char lunch my Chinese co-worker talked me into eating chicken’s feet… in a sorta satay sauce.
I have a short No Way list. 
(And it was well worth it just for the looks on the faces of the other team members).
It’s a damn good thing we don’t have an annual doper picnic.
The menu would consist solely of water and we’d still have arguments over bottled vs tap
Ah well, to each his/her own.
Raisins. They ruin thousands of loaves of Irish soda bread every year.
I also agree with the vote for hard boiled eggs. I can’t understand why anyone would willingly eat something that smells like a fart.
Mushrooms and/or tofu. How these are considered foodstuffs, I’ll never know.
You obviously haven’t had mine.
Wowsers. Some interesting things on here. That fertilized egg, balut? is something I probably wouldn’t try.
This has come up before, but it seems a lot of dopers have some strange food aversions. Perhaps an idiosyncracy that goes along with high IQ?
For me it is hazelnut flavored anything. I can eat hazelnuts, no problem, will much them by the handful, but the liquor or anything flavored with the extract, hazelnut coffee, pastry, candy, etc., not on my list. Too cloying. Not gross, but something I don’t prefer.
And the bug thing. Not into the bugs. Except for lobster.
No offal or organ meat…ever. It just grosses me out. This includes “trotters”. Head cheese is utterly revolting.
Oddly, I prefer natural casings on sausage and hot dogs.
Any seafood consisting of an entire creature…whole fish, lobster, shrimp, crab, clams/oysters, etc… No invertebrates at all!
I’m also not too fond of entire poultry bodies such as roast chicken or turkey, but I can manage.
Nothing too “far out” from mainstream US cuisine… not insects or balut, which seems quite horrifying.
I dislike overly fatty or gristly meats.
Lettuce of any kind in a “hot” meal, such as on a burger…I can tolerate it in a salad, but cool lettuce on a hot burger or in a wrap turns in a slimy repugnant mess.
Veal. I’m about as far from an animal rights person as you can be, but the deliberate cruelty of veal production just squicks me out.
I’ve always thought offal was something like decaying rotted meat, so I was shocked to see it named in this thread of things that could possibly be considered as food. Then I went to the wiki page on offal and found out it’s just entrails and other organ meat.
By the way, reading that wiki page highlights the danger of eating in an unfamiliar environment, even in your own country. You might order something that sounds tasty, like turkey fries, only be served a plate of testicles.
That article made my mouth water, and not in a good way.
Olives. I’ve tried black, green, kalamata, expensive, dirt cheap. They all make me pucker up. I always politely ask for no olives if it’s listed in the dish or if I suspect it’ll be in the dish. If they’re there because the kitchen or server forgot, it’s the one food I won’t “eat around” or pick out/off. I’ll send it back.
Mint jelly or hot pepper jelly. Nooooo thank you.
Pumpkin. The smell is unbelievably vile, and at this time of year it’s everywhere, in the form of those coffees that everyone else seems to live for. Shudder.
Right? It’s fungus. Why the fuck would I want to eat that?
I’ll eat olives, I don’t necessarily dislike them, but I don’t understand why other people can like them so much. Just tastes like squishy salt to me.
Tomatoes. Yuck.
Mushrooms. Yuck.
canteloupe
Mushrooms: I gag if I even see them touching my food.
Liver is not food.
My housemate brought back some peanut butter cups from a trip to the US once. I managed to choke down about a quarter of a mouthful, then pased the rest on to my SO.
I’m sure it’s entirely psychological. But it does limit my chocolate bar selection quite substantially…
Okay, there is no politically correct way to say this, but does it seem like east Asia has a disproportionally high amount of absolutely disgusting food? The stuff that even starving people in Africa are like, “no thanks, that is not fit for human consumption?”
I have a pretty strong stomach and even looking at those pictures was a little “urp.”
I think most of it is just perspective, though, and how you perceive the food you eat. You might think that fish eggs are weird, but why is it any less palatable than chicken eggs? They’re both from animals reproductive organs, right? In the same way some people might not be able to get around the whole internal organ aspect, but when you put the idea aside, the taste really isn’t very different than “normal” meats. Sure liver has a stronger, more bitter taste, but stomach and intestines taste much less strongly than a steak. Why waste all that meat?
Besides, I’d rather east something tasty that has a strange concept attached to it than something that doesn’t taste at all. Look at traditional Irish cooking, for example: boil the crap out of everything until the only flavor left is cabbage. And you want to start pointing fingers at east Asia, you better be prepared to explain haggis and blood sausage first. Or hot dogs, for that matter
Mayo in fruit salad, mayo on lunch meat, disgusting… urp!