What food item do you just dislike? - Page 6

[annettemarie]

Raw onions give me a migraine. Even a sliver. I hate hate hate when people play "hide the onion".

[Drummer's Wife]

Originally Posted by annettemarie

Raw onions give me a migraine. Even a sliver. I hate hate hate when people play "hide the onion".

me, too. I do okay with cooked onions, but not raw. I hate when they are hard to pick out of things.

[_ktg_]

Mushrooms - all i can think of is ... fungus
Green Peppers
Liver like in ramaki I just can't eat it yet... but I need to work on that to be more TF like

[kaleidoscopeeyes]

The major condiments. Mayonnaise is an absolute no, not even a little, no way, nu-uh. Mustard and ketchup I can stand in very small quantities, mixed into something else (i.e. mustard in a vinaigrette). Sour cream and all creamy dressings are also a big no. (I will use sour cream in baked goods sometimes though)

-Beets
-Blue Cheese
-Liver (though I recently discovered chicken liver pate is delicious!) or really any organ meats (working on this)
-Canned meat products of any kind.
-Coconut (mainly dried, I'm overcoming my aversion to all other forms)
-Raw celery (in a mire poix is fine)
-Eel
-Pickled jalapeños
-Chinese "sweets" (I live in San Francisco, I feel like I have to dodge these things at every turn! Terrible, because they are usually being given to me by someone trying to be nice. Blech)
-Goat cheese
-Processed cheese of any sort

I feel like I've come a long way though! I used to be the pickiest eater ever. I wouldn't eat anything that was creamy, "popped" (grapes, peas, fish eggs), onions, corn, anything that looked like it came from an animal, etc...
Now I'll at least try most stuff. I've come to love just about any kind of seafood, even stuff my friends won't eat (oysters, squid, octopus, salmon roe). There are still a lot of things I don't really like much, but will eat.

ETA: I won't eat anything made from soy or highly processed foods, but that is mostly health concerns, not because I have a real big aversion to their taste.

[faeriecurls]

cooked bell peppers and red bell peppers in any form
raisins
panna cotta
jello
Almost any pickled vegetable - but I love olives & half sour pickles
caraway seeds
tapioca & rice puddding
lima beans
peaches
baba ganoush (the texture of it is awful)
fruit ice cream
cooked strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or cherries (like in a pie)
orange marmalade
lime or lemon pies

I think that is about it - it's a much longer list than I thought it would be... especially because I don't consider myself a really picky eater in the scope of what I eat (lacto-ovo vegetarian, hardly eat processed foods).

[lapis]

raw celery... since I was a kid, makes me gag. can eat cooked in soup and stuff though.

raw tomatoes used to be the same way until I was 16 or so... now i really like them in salad or even alone.... but generally need some oil/vinegar/salt

mostly love everything but am super picky about combinations of flavors (dh made something with yams and tomatoes once and I could not handle it!)

and I don't love green peppers or raw onions but can tolerate them.

and I really don't like that pectin fruit pie filling stuff.

[robugmum]

This is a funny thread! I love love love food!! I am a pretty adventurous eater; I like pretty much everything.
I can think of only 2 things I can't stand:
-black licorice candy
-tripe ( I have tried it all manner of ways but just can't get into it)

[erratum]

Originally Posted by SaraCate

About the only thing I can think of that I've tried and don't like is boiled peanuts. But I only tried them once, years ago, so I'd probably try one again if it was offered me. (I was working in SC at the time... )

boiled peanuts: blech! Let's take something that could taste awesome if we roasted then and instead let's just waste them by soaking them in salty water until they're all bloated and mushy and call them food.
(my DH, who I met in alabama, loves them.)


I hate grits, green peppers, water chestnut, and pickles, too.

there are quite a lot of foods I have a tenuous relationship with. 9 times out of 10, I like them fine, but the texture or taste might turn the wrong way and throw me off the whole dish. That list includes but is not limited to most fermented foods, onions, olives, mushrooms, eggplant (anything that can get slimy.) and milk.

[Viola]

Lamb, mutton, anything like that. I can eat some lamb, if it's really young. I generally hate goat cheese, but some I like. I don't like the cheeses that overwhelm with ammonia, either.

I used to hate mashed potatoes & celery, but I've been getting potatoes and celery in my produce delivery so I've revisited mashed potatoes and eating celery raw. Celery is good raw with a dip, but I can't really eat it plain because it is bitter and numbs my tongue. I still don't like mashed potatoes a whole lot, but they can be pretty good when I make them myself. I make them without adding milk, just mashing up cooked potato with butter, or garlic so that helps. But the instant mashed potatoes that we had in school lunches, or my mom made--yuck. I used to try them after awhile, and even the smell made me ill.

I loathe chocolate covered strawberries. Something about wet chocolate--just seeing people eat those dripping things disgusts me. They can probably taste OK, but they usually don't. And if the strawberries are really good, I want them alone. The chocolate they are dipped in is usually not very good anyway.

Which reminds me, I hate bad chocolate. Like the Palmers brand with the hydrogenated oils. I tried some not long ago, and I had to spit it out. White chocolate can induce the same reaction.

I also hate black licorice flavored stuff, and tripe, but I've only had tripe once. It smelled like dog food.

I used to hate green peppers and beets, but now I like them well enough.

I'm not really picky, I can eat foods I hate, for the most part. I still try and eat lamb and goat cheese occasionally, that's how I have found out there are some of these I like. But Boca burgers, I cannot stand them. I used to really like them, and then a flip switched and I can't tolerate the taste at all. And that disgusting chocolate, I can't even swallow it. I don't know what it is. I think in part it must be texture, which is a big part of why I dislike mashed potatoes and chocolate covered strawberries.

[oceanbaby]

Goat cheese. Blech. I can't even eat something that's been touching goat cheese.

[LittleBlessings]

liver

[tsfairy]

I hate iceberg lettuce, especially shredded. I will.not.eat mushrooms or anything that lives in water (fish, shellfish, kelp, etc.) I can sorta tolerate mushrooms if they're tiny and mixed in really well, but it skeeves me out. Sea life - the smell is too much and I can't eat anything that contains it or has touched it.

DH can't stand any kind of bean, mayo, coconut or coconut flavor, and cherries (though he likes cherry-flavored sodas.)

[CherryBomb]

I hate liver, which sucks because I know it's great for you, and raising chickens I have access to "organic free range" chicken liver! But dh eats them all, I can't stomach it. The iron taste and the texture just gross me out.

[CherryBomb]

Oh, black licorice, uck! The thought of it makes me gag. I have a hard time with seafood (outside of fish). Like crab and lobster and shrimp, I mean to me they're basically sea bugs, and that grosses me out. It's like eating a cockroach (yes I know in many cultures people eat bugs, yay for them, but my culture doesn't and I have a serious aversion to insects, uggh).