What foods do you hate?

There are many things I do not eat (picky eater). However, sour creme always seemed especially gross.

What will you not eat and why?

because they taste crappy

Liver makes me quiver;
Liver makes me curl right up and die...
It makes me cry!

Actually, when I was child, I would cry when my mother cooked beef liver. The smell was horrible, and it made me think about how I was going to feed it to the dog without Mom seeing.

I had to eat the fried curled up black liver every Wednesday for years and years right before Prayer Meeting, yuck! To smell it makes me sick, sick, sick.

If you had ever tasted my grandmother's "Braised beef liver with black licorice gravy"!

Seriously, I don't do any organs (liver, kidneys, gizzard, chitlins', etc". And God, do I ever hate okra!

Eat it I cannot
Beef liver from cattle guts
Makes me want to puke

because miniature cabbages are just so wrong to begin with

eom

the smell absolutely grosses me out.

except dog, whale or bushmeat.

on tacos or a burrito. Real nice.

Calamari must be cooked (fried) very quickly or braised very slowly. Any other way it is just yucky.

I first tried Calamari in Venice when we were sitting next to a lovely Greek couple who looked like they were eating tiny onion rings. They offered us some and then told me it was squid. I would never have tried it if I had known. I thank them whenever I eat it now.

Try it again at a good Italian Restaurant.

and uneatable when overcooked. Love the breaded thai version but the name escapes me -- Mee krob?

I actually know people who eat beef brain or beef or pig tongue. Just the thought of it is extremely disgusting :puke:

I'd grab the tongue --which really does look like a tongue when it's whole-- unwrap it, and chase the wimmin around the mall with it whole lowing "Mooo-ooo-oo!". What's that you ask?

No, I didn't get many dates when I was younger.

It wasn't bad, actually. Neither is beef tongue, I acutally liked that. Pork tongue I don't know, but I suspect it would be okay as well.

:puke:

DDQM

I hate that crap.

and it bums me right out. His parents had him when they were in their 50's, i think he was raised on old person food.

Other than that, I'm pretty much an omnivore. I like food. :D

I don't eat Beef, or any type of condiments (ketchup, mao, you know the drill). When I eat salad, I don't add anything to it in the form of dressings and such.

Other than that, I don't have a problem with much else.

Not a food exactly....but it is the most vile herb on this entire planet.

I also detest basil.

:puke:

can't even stand the SMELL x(

Basil on the other hand is my FAVORITE herb!

Does your mother know this? :P

P.S. Do I even have to say it? :)

My mother finds cilantro quite vile as well.

of your ethnic group over this? :)

It is not native to Latin American cuisine! :P

I stand corrected.

Hey. I'm headed off to a staff meeting and birthday party. Cookies and ice cream. Mmmmmmmmmmm. :)

I'll drop you a line when I get back. Be good while I'm gone. ;)

What is it - 40% or so of the population thinks cilantro tastes like soap? I can understand hating it, then.

I think it's yummy.

....but if just ONE piece finds itself in my food....it destroys all other tastes. It's just too strong.

that it tasted like soap . . .for a few years. Now I love it. It tastes fresh. Maybe I just like soap. :+

cilantro hate train. It tastes like dirty laundry smells. yech

I once grabbed a bunch of cilantro thinking it was basil and I recoiled at the vile odor of decaying extraterrestrials, which I imagine the uniquely offensive bouquet of that weed to be.

One speck of it in food I would ordinarily love will wreck it for me. Otherwise I love all vegetables and herbs except parsnips and spearmint.
For some reason as an adult spearmint smell gives me a horrid headache.

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beans, mayonnaise, liver and other organ meats, game, cooked greens other than spinach, beets, turnips.

My momma used to cook them all the freakin' time when I was a kid. Bane of my existence. Blech. :puke:

Luckily I was never subjected to them as a kid. I tried them out of curiosity.

holdovers from traumatic encounters with the foods when I was young.

I want to like cauliflower and broccoli, but just can't. Black licorice - the SMELL from it makes me feel queasy.

Something else that always disappointed me was that the SMELL from a really ripe muskmelon does not match the TASTE of it. Anyone else this way?

I've got a long list of stuff I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, but that's at the top. I won't do potlucks, because someone always brings their special salad that aunt whatever used to make and I don't want to offend.
The taste, texture, color just shuts down my appetite.

of my food hate list. Just the smell of it will drive me out of the house. Despite the vile stench, I was talked into trying it once, and the texture ::shudder:: Ugh.

All melons, sour cream, cottage cheese, cabbage, sauerkraut, sun dried tomatoes, cheese (except melted), lamb, pork (well I am a Jew), veal, bananas, some squashes, wheat bread where you can see the seeds, lunch meat of any kind, pine nuts, anything chocolate (allergy, I believe), anything too sweet (like icing, cake, etc)...I know there's a lot more, I'm too picky. :evilgrin:

Liver - Because it tastes lousy and I know what the liver's function is.
Bluefish - So oily, so fishy
Tempeh - Like Spoiled something
Sweet Potatoes (unless in a pie)
"Old Lady" Candy (Brachs' Assortment mostly)
Anything besides Ice Cream, Nuts or Nut by-products covered in Chocolate

although I do like sweetbreads.

But I love most of the foods mentioned here -- liver is great if it's cooked right. So are brussel sprouts, fish, okra, limas (although butter beans are better). I bet a lot of it's due to bad preparation.

Cilantro I would bet is a genetic thing where it physically tastes different to different people. Too bad -- it's one of the most wonderful food smells there is.

most of the stuff here people are talking about I love.. I love liver and onions, condiments, saurkraut, cabbage, brussel sprouts and broccoli and fish. About the only thing I can think of I don't like is radishes and catfish. Catfish just takes like a lake bottom to me. If I have to eat catfish.. I'd just as soon eat a cup of mud.

Disgusting.

There is no other food commonly eaten in the United States (no bugs for me) that I truly hate.

I'm not a fan of mussels (though I love clams and scallops), but I don't hate them. Just not my thing.

Yes! Point: jpgray.

...I do not EAT my records.

I will do what I will with your musical tastes.

You have lame wisecracks, I have a gold lame suit!

We have some of the best food in the USA/world and okra is in a lot of it.

I'll eat your jambalaya and crawfish ettouffe.

I checked it out a little... "Gomer goes Egyptian" cracked me up! Here's a site I believe you will appreciate:

http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html

Both should be classed as weapons of mass destruction -- which would mean that Iraq would finally have some!!

nasty stuff, that and that damn secret sauce people insist on slopping on food.

like liver, tripe, toungue, etc. yeeeech. The only meat I do like is Beef, Chicken (white meat only), Turkey (white meat only), Pork, Shrimp and Lobster. Any other meat/fish/shellfish... yeeeech. Lima beans are gross. Lime jello follows shortly behind. Fluffernutter makes me gag.

cannot stand lima beans, scrapple (a Pennsylvania Dutch dish-yuck), exotic cuts of beef - like steak but that's about it, have a hard time with Oriental food but I like sushi

Okra, tomatoes, most fruit.

Pickles, or fried tomatoes, etc are OK.

I don't eat much fruit.

Weird animal parts like chicken gizzards and hearts, pigs feet, tongue, brains. Time for me to quit. My stomach is getting a little uneasy right now.

My list is way too long to print here. Although, celery is a big one, since its in everything. Same with pickles. blech!

like butternut, acorn, hubbard, etc.

And Cool Whip.

...liver, pickles, brussell sprouts, mayonaise, butter beans, mushrooms, anchovies and SPINACH!

My dad use to make Menudo because he loved it. Yuck! It is tough and disgusting IMHO. Fast food is really gross....all of it! :hippie:

But strangely enough, I like German and Cajun sausages (Boudin is good).

Black licorice, anise, onions, and rocky mountain oysters and other organ foods don't do it for me either. YUCK.

yuck. Each time that I have tried it I had to run to the toilet lightning speed. I'm about to have to run again just thinking about it.

It was one of my sister's favorite foods, but I never could stand to eat it.

The rest of my family loves the cottage cheese. I am not the least bit finicky, but the cottage cheese taste epitomizes the taste that I would most closely associate with what dirty gym socks would taste like.

edit: sp.

What could be worse than canned green beans in a cheesy mushroom soup sauce? Bleccccch. I don't even make a pretense of trying it anymore, even to be polite.

You don't put no stinkin' cheez in green bean casserole! That's sacrilege!

I hate liver.

Just could never get into it.

at the Road Kill Grill?

any kind of squash, pumpkin pie (and it seems everyone else in the world loves it), eggs, melons, organ meats, etc.

I'm basically a pretty picky eater. I could live off of beef kebabs and grapes (what I'm eating right now).

On edit: after reading many of the posts, I have noticed that I actually like lots of the things that top peoples lists. I love black licorice, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lima beans.

poultry, pork, or any animal meat processed in the USA. After taking cattle and other animals to slaughter with my uncle (truck driver), I got to see how beef is actually processed in this country in the biggest factories of the Southwest... I will NEVER eat beef again. The memory of what I saw has kept me beef free for nearly two decades.

Ha ha! I'm glad you do not like seafood - that means more for ME!

Though, if we had a nuclear winter I'd happily eat people... with lots of Cajun spices, okra cilantro, brussle sprouts, mushrooms, coconuts, oranges, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, beans, etc. Everything you guys WON'T eat.

Seriously though, I eat things that most folks here would puke if they just watched. A woman from California puked at one of our crawfish boils when I sucked out the brains of a big crawdaddy in front of her. Another time, a person got sick when she saw baby octopus legs sticking out of my mouth as I was chewing it down.

I do not eat liver, heart, etc...

:puke:

Organs and Oysters.

Organs were too much in early diet and oysters look like phlegm.

Sticks in your teeth and is generally yucky. One of the vey few things I will never eat.

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I won't eat anything that I think smells funny or looks unappetizing. That includes:

Mushrooms
Olives
Sea Food (just the smell of fish makes me sick)
Pork
Lima beans
Sour Cream
Guacamole
Nuts

I could go on. I'm a picky eater and if it smells or looks funny or I can't identify on sight what it is - I WON'T EAT IT! My poor mother went through hell trying to feed me growing up.

and mussells are just gross.

I hate them. Always have. Have tried them in various stages of adulthood, and still can't stand the taste or texture, no matter how many people try to shove them down my throat!

And for years I wouldn't eat yogurt. It's something about the texture that makes me gag.

Read whatever sick psycho-sexual interpretation into it that you want. :-)

Milk
Grapefruit
Yams
Pumpkin


That's all for now

For those of you blissfully ignorant to the existence of lutefisk, let me expain. It's basically fish, that's been dried and heavily salted for several weeks. It is then marinated in lye, until it gets mushy.

Then you eat it. Most people survive.

...than lutefisk, hands down. The smell alone has been known to kill people...lol.

For those who have never had the "pleasure" it's salted, fermented, sour herring...it's stored in cans and occasionally the cans will explode leaving the most horrible smell to waft through the store.

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

Pork is the finest food possible. Especially slow smoked pork.

In order of deliciousness - here is the list of good products of the pig which everyone should eat. (I understand certain religions forbid eating of pork. That is too bad.)

1. Pulled pork shoulder.

2. Bacon.

3. Pork tenderloin.

4. Bacon again.

5. Pork chops.

6. Ham.....hmmmm...ham

From snout to curly little tail, the swine is delicious. Prove me wrong.

Pulled pork sandwiches
B-B-Q deliciousness
I can eat it all

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EEWWW!

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They are nothing but fat with a bit of bone stuck in the middle. Just thinking about them makes me want to hurl.

Also, I'm sure many of us here in the U.S. have FOND memories of eating those nasty mixed vegetables that came in a frozen block. You know what I'm talking about -- tasteless green beans, little cubes of carrot, a sprinkling of corn, and especially vile lima beans. Years later, when I ate a casserole prepared with lima beans, I found out that particular legume wasn't always disgusting. Your standard-issue frozen mixed vegetable package from the supermarket is, though.

And count me among those who don't care for black licorice either, although anise flavored coffee is something I've enjoyed. Go figure.

I think it's the seaweed, though, because I like sashimi.