Foods you can't stand

Oh where to begin....

Things I have tried and can't stand the taste....
seafood, other than canned tuna fish. I have tried so many kinds of fish and did not like any of them.
lobster - I liked the butter it was dipped in
oysters
sushi
bananas - blech
coffee - even the smell (I was told I would like it when I grew up, so at age 55, I have not grown up yet, which I am totally ok with)
nuts - do not like the consistency - tree bark? chocolate dipped macadamia nuts are tolerable
seaweed - salty
frozen pizza - cardboard
peanut butter, including the smell

Things I like, but my digestive system does not like (and lets me know)
beans - mexican style
onions (I can handle a small amount)
peppers

Things I just will not try, totally irrational....
Cheese curds - based on the word curd alone, I will not try
tripe
liver

My stomach can be sensitive and I always hate asking what is in something before I eat it (at potlucks). People can act like oh you are picky - me - I don't want to get sick.
 
I can't stand most seafood, and won't eat basic white fish. It's a consistency thing with me along with taste. I may think that a bite of fish tastes okay, but much more than that and I'm turned off.

Raisins, after they're cooked in something. I refer to them as "bugs". Bug bread, bug toast, etc. It's the slimy texture they take on after being baked into something. I still like them out of the box.

Anything "weird". And by my definition, "weird" includes any game (except bison, love that), organ meats, weird "delicacies", etc. I won't even try duck because it's "weird" to me. And my sister tricked me into eating rabbit once (yes, it tasted like chicken), but as soon as I found out, I spent the next hour trying to not hurl.

And yet....I love fried calamari and grilled octopus, not to mention mussels (which I swore I'd never try, but once I did - yum!).

I'm very strange.
 
Wow, I like almost everything mentioned here! The only things I really detest are body parts rarely eaten in the western world (e.g. tripe (stomach), head cheese (brain jelly), pig's snout and feet) and smelly moldy cheeses like blue cheese, stilton, and limburger. I love most wild game meats, seafood and shellfish. My husband will eat almost anything, except cilantro which he thinks tastes like soap - he's got the gene that dislikes it, but I love it. I probably wouldn't eat most of the stuff shown on the Food Channel's Bizarre Foods series or things Anthony Bourdain tries in third world countries.
 
I like a lot of things in this thread: eggs (love!), cilantro, coffee, Brussels sprouts, seafood, olives...

I hate:

Bananas: When I was 6, my brother ate one in the car, and then proceed to get carsick everywhere. Guess who was seated next to him?

Liver: Ugh, no. Nothing can cover up that taste.

Mayo: It's gross and unnecessary and I can't think of one time where it improves food.

Cottage cheese: the texture :scream:

Duck: too gamey for my taste.
 
smurfy said:
Oh where to begin....

sushi
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Yes. With my general squeamishness about proteins, sushi is a non-starter for me. Nope. Will not try it. No matter how popular it gets. All right, I did try a vegetarian piece of sushi once ... Cold rice and cucumber. This is good??? ;)
 
Raisins- can't stand them. Must take them out if they are even in my favorite foods

Eggs in any form- raw, omelette, sunny side, boiled. I don't mind them in cookies and cakes as long as I don't get the smell

Melted cheese - may occasionally tolerate on pizza

Sea food

Sharp cheeses

Meat
 
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I like all of the foods mentioned in this thread and will eat just about anything, but I have no taste for coffee. I keep retrying it thinking I will enjoy it, but nope. I don't love the smell of it either.

Give me all of the liver, cheese, olives, mushrooms, tomatoes, and bananas--although preferably not in the same dish.
 
I'm glad to see I'm not alone on eggs cooked as eggs (soft, hard, scrambled, fried, poached, etc). If they're cooked into cakes or cookies they're perfectly fine. Oddly enough, I will eat an egg raw if it's mixed with milk and chocolate and possibly ice cream! And all thrown in the blender.
Won't eat anything out of the sea except Cloverleaf white tuna, although I did have tuna at a restaurant last year that tasted good, but somebody told me the restaurant probably got it from a can.
I also don't drink coffee, any kind. I always thought it was something you just automatically liked when you grew up. The smell makes me nauseous.
I adore tomatoes, and bananas, and lots of different cheeses, except brie.
 
quartz said:
Vegetables cooked in the old Dutch style - boiled for three days into a slimey sloppy mess of phlegm and mucous. I have no clue how a firm and crunchy vegetable may have become such an evil thing that it must be pulverized, smashed and destroyed in order to be considered "edible".
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:lol:
 
CassAgain said:
I like all of the foods mentioned in this thread and will eat just about anything, but I have no taste for coffee. I keep retrying it thinking I will enjoy it, but nope. I don't love the smell of it either.
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Ha-ha, the key is to try some of the coffee "concoctions" at Starbucks. I started getting mochas there years ago--with enough chocolate to make the coffee drinkable! :-) Then gradually over a 10-year period, I started adding less & less chocolate, more & more coffee, to the point where I can now drink (and actually quite enjoy) a caffe latte, with no chocolate or sugar, just coffee & steamed milk.
 
I really hate fish taste. Any form of fish. Most of all though tuna in tin. The combination of the taste, smell and oil is really gross for me. I would rather die from starvation than eat that. As a child I was forced to eat cod liver oil, and now everything that smells or taste as fish completely turns my stomach. Surprisingly, I can eat seafood, like prawns, lobster, scallops, calamari, if it is fresh and doesn't taste and smell too much like fish. But sea urchins and cockles made me gag.
 
Oh, I'm also not a fan of melon (honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelon) or papaya. It's so annoying when you get a fruit salad and its 90% melon.

I'm not a fan of pickles or cabbage either.
 
I will try just about everything (well maybe not big squishy bugs though I have tried some crunchy small ones), and I like almost everything, but I could do without:

Lima beans when they are mealy mush
Marmite/vegemite
Stinky or oily or canned or pickled or creamy fish like sardines, herrings, anchovies (which I will eat in Caesar salad), but I love all other seafood/fish
Chicken Livers, sweetbreads, tripe (though I like Calves liver)
Pig skin, pig feet including in soup
Tongue (I'll eat it in tacos in Mexico, but I prefer other things)
Snake meat (yes, tastes like chicken, but too rubbery)
Well done steak (I love rare/medium rare)
Venison (ok marinated in lime and grilled, but could do without the gamey taste in stews/roasts)
Sea Urchin sushi

No miracle whip - I love mayo though - the real stuff.
 
KatieC said:
I'm glad to see I'm not alone on eggs cooked as eggs (soft, hard, scrambled, fried, poached, etc). If they're cooked into cakes or cookies they're perfectly fine. Oddly enough, I will eat an egg raw if it's mixed with milk and chocolate and possibly ice cream! And all thrown in the blender.
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Celebrating Easter in my country would be really painful for you. We hard boil eggs (loads of eggs), then we spend hours decorating them. Then on Easter Monday males carry braided whip from willow tree and are whipping females on their bottom. Females pay them off with the boiled decorated egg. (No, we are not a nation of masochists and I can assure you that the females don't particularly enjoy this awful tradition. If you get up early and have anywhere to hide, good for you. This whipping ends at midday.)
Because you never know how many males will turn up, you usually make more eggs than needed because you really don't want to run out (how else would you make them stop?). So then the whole family spend about a week eating all those hard boiled eggs!
 
I'm surprised to see how many people answered eggs, I thought I was the only one. I don't mind them scrambled or in omelettes, but anything where the yolk is whole and wobbly gives me the heeby-jeebies. Poached, fried, soft-boiled ... ick!

A lot of my food dislikes are more about texture than taste, so that probably has something to do with the egg thing. Squeaky green beans, gelatinous anything (but especially Jello), tapioca, and a lot of mousse-like textures including whipped cream. Pass on all of the above.

I don't eat any meat or seafood but that's to do with reasons other than taste. (Though I never did like the taste of red meat even when I still ate it.)

Foods I dislike on taste alone are actually fairly limited. Horseradish is one -- I like spicy, but don't like "regular" horseradish or wasabi at all. Turnip is another.

And I'm very particular with coffee taste. Hot coffee must be black no sugar -- I can tolerate some milk in coffee but if it's sweet it makes me gag. But iced coffee does need a bit of sweet.
 
Any kind of fish except tuna fish, broccoli, cauliflower, any kind of cheese and any kind of chewing gum
 
hanca said:
I really hate fish taste. Any form of fish. Most of all though tuna in tin. The combination of the taste, smell and oil is really gross for me. I would rather die from starvation than eat that.
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Really fresh fish shouldn't taste or smell fishy. But when it does :scream:

I forgot to mention peanut butter and celery, together or separately :scream:

Almond butter and fennel are my substitutes but certainly not together. Almond butter on Anjou pear slices is one of my favorite snacks. Fennel goes into Thanksgiving stuffing instead of celery and shallots sub for onions.

Oh and goat cheese, no thank you. Any other kind of cheese, no matter how stinky, is great. In fact I love me some stinky, runny Muenster, yum. The whole house stinks like dirty socks and my husband gives me the stink eye, but still, yum.
 
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IceAlisa said:
Really fresh fish shouldn't taste or smell fishy. But when it does :scream:
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I think I am over sensitive to the smell and taste. I can detect it in food event when hundreds of people would swear that it doesn't smell/taste fishy. One mouthful and I just know if fish is in there, no matter how well hidden it is.
 
hanca said:
Then on Easter Monday males carry braided whip from willow tree and are whipping females on their bottom. Females pay them off with the boiled decorated egg.
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Somehow this hardly seems like sufficient revenge. More like encouragement.
 
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