What foods will you simply NOT eat?

I prefer to avoid mayonnaise and liverwurst. However, should they be presented in a new way, I’m sure I’d try them again.

My daddy always said to try everything twice.

Anything that has gills, an exoskeleton or a blowhole. I also hate green vegetables like broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, spinach, etc. Oh and Marshmallow Fluff. Nasty horrid stuff.

Onions
Cabbage
Tomatoes
Raisins
Prunes

Sea Urchin.

I don’t eat snails, calamari, cauliflower, blueberries, plain fresh tomatoes, veal, muscles, oysters, clams (I will eat clam chowder) whipped cream, cheesecake, cold cheese (mozzarella is the only exception) cream cheese, and sushi.

I hate mushrooms. The texture kills me.

Can’t eat Cucumbers, they do terrible things to my intestines.

Veal. Tongue. Any part of any primate. Anything with tentacles.

I also avoid things that are spicy-hot, but that’s a different sort of aversion.

But these are luxury sentiments. I feel very sure that if I were starving, my little sensitivities and prejudices would not matter much. Under extreme conditions, the question isn’t “Do I want to eat it?” but ”Can I eat it?”

bacon.

Veal, okra, artichokes, olives, unusual meats like tongue, intestines, stomach, feet.

Sauerkraut the word even repulses me

Radish and brussel sprouts

Oysters and avacodoes. I don’t trust that they are good in the expiration dates. I used to love them but I got purple smoked oysters and bad avacodoes. I only trust my mom’s shopping skills for fruit and sea food. Also I won’t eat peppers and chives. I wouldn’t drink juice that is called drink. Is fake juice. Purple is not a juice.

@JLeslie, I think you mean “mussels,” don’t you?

@Jeruba Yes I do. Thank you.

Liver, celery, raisins are my top 3.

Foods I would refuse to eat that I could find in my local grocery store? That’s a very short list. Chitlins and potted meat are the only two I can think of.

I’ve had acquaintances who ate lamb heads for special occasions. The kids would vie for the eyeballs. I wouldn’t eat that even to be a polite guest. Prairie oysters are not in my future.

For those of you who hate beets, forget the cooked beets and pickled beets.
If you like vegetables you will like raw beets, they’re sweet and crunchy. They’re REALLY nutritious and tasty. Like this

Onions, liver, tongue, pickles.
Funny, but I love the smell of liver and onions being cooked.
@jaytkay , I will try your beet advice.

M & m’s*

*Mushrooms & mollusks.

I will not eat brazil nuts, I’m allergic to them.
I won’t eat this either

Oh, and fucking mayo. I’ll eat that fish stuff in the link before I’ll eat mayo

@JLeslie You just listed some of my fav foods.

This thread makes me want to try durian.

Has anybody here tried it?

Can we all agree on casu marzu? (If you have a weak stomach, don’t look.)

Can we all agree on casu marzu?

Agreed

What about toddlers?

I’d try it. The cheese definitely. The toddlers, come the zombie apocalypse, if it’s me or them, it won’t be me.

I’d try Surströmming properly on crackers and potatoes, or perhaps not. I’d try the cheese at least once too but I’m picking the maggots out. I probably have parasites anyway from all the sushi I used to eat.

turnips
parsnips
sweet potatoes and yams
eggplant and squashes of all kinds
head cheese
haggis
braaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnss

I’m not eating this

There are a few that are passed on due to texture, like cottage cheese and soft shell crabs. It doesn’t stop me from occasionally trying them again to see if the sensation has changed.

Some foods are bypassed on ethical reasons. Foie gras reigns the list. This category is challenging without the knowledge and money to support it for basic needs. For example, should I buy tomatoes locally sourced, organically grown, or the cheap tasteless ones from the grocery store?

Then there are foods that are just repulsive upon sight, smell, and/or finding out what it contains. Scrapple, tripe, and the French andouillette sausage are a few experienced that were given a pass.

With that said, the more I travel to different countries, the “yuch” factor is overcome by biting the bullet and trying the local delacies of the region. some turn out to be quite tasty.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Then come sit by me. :). Anything I don’t like you can have.

God you guys, I LOVE olives, avocados, Sauerkraut, brussel sprouts, radishes, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, mollusks, cucumbers, calamari, snails “escargots”, artichoke hearts, cauliflower, blueberries, plain fresh tomatoes, prunes, cabbage, bacon and cold cheese. Literally my favorite things to eat.

@ARE_you_kidding_me I love avocados too, but I don’t want to risk eating another spoiled one. Spoiled avocados are nasty.

@RDG – if it’s moldy, it’s spoiled. Otherwise, you’re more likely to cut it too early, rather than too late.

Even if it’s a bit soft, that’s when you add salt and lime and call it guacamole.

Well, I shall answer this from the position of a well-fed, probably over-fed first world citizen, which I am.

Chipped beef in cheese sauce over toast. GAG ME!!!!
Brains.
Liver.
Eyeballs.
Butts.
Ears.
Grubs.
Ants. Even chocolate covered ones.

I actually really like shit on a shingle. It’s a good lunch.

I also won’t eat anything still twiching. .. like freshly killed lobster.

@RedDeerGuy1 I love avocados too but I don’t want to risk eating a spoiled one

True. I wish I had an avocado “Eat Now!” monitor. I think I eat only half the avocados I buy. It’s tough to find the right moment between “too green” and “ewwww”.

I don’t like avocados. I forgot that one.

Rocky Mountain oysters.

@Seek, they made a hamburger SOS for lunch when I was in grade school…it was SO GOOD! It would probably be outlawed today. But that chipped beef shit my mom made once in a great while was so nasty. Yuck. It didn’t help when my dad told us, in the middle of dinner, what SOS stood for.

I seriously considered doing my neighbor physical harm when he accidentally killed his avocado tree. I counted on that tree for Guacamole season.

@RedDeerGuy1… Freshly killed lobsters are boiled or grilled before they’re served. They aren’t served raw so they can’t be still twitching.

I pretty much draw the line at insects.

Anything else?

Why not?

@Dutchess_III I saw a video where the chef chopped the lobster live, and was still twitching. Yesterday.

I’ve eaten ants, crickets, and caterpillars on purpose. They’re crunchy and have little flavor of their own. No biggie.

For those who dislike beets, theres definitely a solution. Just wrap them in foil and bake them like potatoes. This concentrates the natural sugars and makes them sweet and tasty.

I don’t know why people usually peel and boil them. That’s horrible and totally washes out the flavor.

Also, they are delicious with Gorgon zola cheese, either crumbly or cooked into a creamy sauce. A classic combo.

II can’t ear raw onions without getting a severe headache but cooked is fine.

My mother used to cook and serve brains and if they could have been disguised, I probably would have liked the soft texture. But they look like exactly what they are, so that’s a definite NO.

Also I’ll never eat raw oysters or clams. When I was a kid we used to go clamming in our boat and my parents would take out a pen knife, open the shell, slice the clam away from it and down the hatch.

The thought of swallowing something which had been alive a scant two seconds ago (and possibly still) just totally grossed me out.

But with the risk of food poisoning from oysters, I don’t think I’m missing anything crucial.

(That video of the Japanese fish being literally eaten alive was barbaric and unnerving to say the least. Shudder !! )

I’ve tried to like olives and dill pickles but it’s just totally a no. Sweet gherkins are OK tho but dill is just awful.

There’s a local restaurant that has a rotating selection of homemade soups which are mostly delicious. But one of them sounded great. It was a Cheeseburger soup.

So, i asked for a little sample before getting the quart. I took one taste and almost threw up on the spot. It had pieces of dill pickle in addition to the ground beef, cheese and tomato. Gross. What a horrible taste.

But I love liver and always have, especially chicken liver. Delicious as pate.

@RedDeerGuy1… and what did he do with the lobster after he chopped it? All animals have to be killed on way or another before we eat them. We don’t normally eat them without some sort of cooking process before we eat them.

@Dutchess_III He put them on plates and served them to customers raw. I’m sorry that I can’t show you a link.
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OK, well, I have never heard of raw lobster being served. Or crabs. I can only imagine they’d be really rubbery and unappetizing. And if they were chopped up they’d have shell bits in them.
And it’s OK about the link. I can find it myself it I want.

Eggs

Meat
Cooked carrots
Peppers hotter than jalapeno

Oysters, Lobster, Prairie Oysters, Menudo.

Ambrosia

I’m with @SecondHandStoke. No bugs for me, including ones from the sea.

Any kind of meat

There is nothing I wouldn’t eat. I don’t much like tripe and never eat it now though I ate it as a kid. Anything with antenna or eyes I don’t think I could manage but I wouldn’t describe this as food. I also love children but couldn’t eat a whole one.

Let me add to my list radishes and sauerkraut.

I can’t help but think that many here drew the line at certain foods and resisted further attempts.

For instance, I never could stand sweet potatoes. I remember trying them up into my 20’s and thinking they were vile. Eventually, however, I tried sweet potato pie, and it’s better than pumpkin. That led to sweet potato casserole, with all the nuts and brown sugar. I love it…as a dessert.
I creamed cooked radishes one time, and they were very good. Subtle taste, lavender color.
Same with turnips. boil and mash with a little powdered non-dairy creamer and they’re great.

Raw fish, however, is hard for me to stomach, upon reading the other answers. It’s the texture, not the taste. I don’t like foods that glom onto my palate.

@rojo I won’t even try menudo.

Green peas (except in split pea soup), tongue, canned pineapple (although I’ve grown to love fresh). That’s about it.

I love a wide range of meats, fish, vegetables, fruits and ethnic dishes—and even late in my life I still enjoy trying new dishes.

@Pachy
peas are great.
now, pea soup, that is disgusting slop

^^^ the world is coming to an end, I agree 100% with @ragingloli on something!

@JLeslie Menudo is the best damn cure for a hangover ever. And delicious to boot! Especially when served with a quesadilla with avocado slices!

@ibstubro if we don’t like it the first time, what’s wrong with resisting it from then on?

@zenvelo my kid’s dad used to tell them that peas were really rabbit poop, painted green. Guess what I never served at dinner or lunch!

@Dutchess_III
Your kids’ dad?

Yes. They had a dad. They all even had the same dad. One had a different mother, though.

what I meant was, “you never served your kids’ dad (as in, never gave him food) at dinner or lunch”

I thought you might have been referencing serving the kids’ dad as dinner or lunch.

I don’t know, @Dutchess_III, I guess I’m just curious by nature. I constantly revisit my likes and dislikes. Once upon a time I disliked tomato products and I had a particular dislike for tomato combined with cheese. Now I love lasagna. Once upon a time I really liked cooked cauliflower, now I have little use for it.

I hated beets until I made and ate Harvard beets – those I like.
I keep revisiting cooked carrots and I still hate those little bastages. Too bad, too, because it keeps me from enjoying a lot of other dishes they’re in.

I guess that’s why I keep resisting my dislikes – they snowball and keep you from trying other dishes that might be delicious.

Well, I don’t have that same curiosity, although I’m curious by nature. The last new food I tried, at the urging of my husband, were jalapeno poppers. This was 3 years ago.
All he had to say was, “It has cream cheese in it…” to get me to try it just a leetle…i love cream cheese! To my surprise, and to everyone elses, because I generally don’t like spicy hot food, I couldn’t get enough. OMG, SO GOOD!
Too bad they’re such a pain to make, else I’d eat them every day.

My husband very kindly, and very carefully, scrapes every last scrap of seed out of the pepper so most of the heat is gone, and I can actually taste the pepper.

(You can cut the peppers in half, toss in a plastic bag, and scrape the seeds out with your fingers, like you would a green pepper. You never have to touch a seed.)
(Or just buy poppers at the Walmart Deli.)

@ibstubro How else would he get the seeds out if he didn’t cut them in half? He scrapes them out with a melon baller or a knife, and then rinses them and examines them. He likes hot, so he doesn’t mind the hot on his hands, but he likes me better, I think.

I’ll see if Walmart really has them. What some people consider poppers, I don’t, like breaded so they have to be fried, or filled with cheddar cheese or something. That’s what Sonic calls poppers. Bletch.

I don’t mind touching peppers, but OMG – do not forget what you’ve been doing and rub your eyes anytime in the next three days.

Ouch.

You need to puree the chili, and rub the paste directly into your eyes.

That was my point.

Once halved, you can throw the peppers back in the bag. Scrape the seeds out with your fingers, and leave the seeds in the bag, untouched.
If you don’t handle the seeds, the green part is tolerable.

It isn’t a problem for us @ibstubro. But thank you. I’ll let Rick know if it does become a problem.

I can grow some seriously mean peppers in pots. You starve them of water and they just get hotter, meaner and mad at you. I cut a couple of them up for a pot of chilli and when I was done I um… scratched my nuts. This was a mistake. I wear gloves when cutting them now.

I despise red kidney beans. I prefer my chilli without them.

Try the bag trick, @ARE_you_kidding_me. Even with the gloves on, you run the risk of touching something.

Eating seafood which is still alive is all the rage for some.
These are super gross. Don’t watch if you can’t handle seeing torture.

Dancing squid.
Lobster served alive and ready to snap off fingers. It is more sporting that way.

The only hard rule for me is yogurt because it upsets my stomach. I’m open to trying all sorts of new foods.

^^Yogurt is disgusting. That’s another one for me.

I won’t eat three bean salad or Greek salad . Also I won’t eat Greek yogurt. I don’t like hummas. I don’t like Fanta soda.

Deep fried butter.
Deep fried mars bar.

What’s not to like about Fanta soda, @RedDeerGuy1?

@ibstubro Fanta soda was made by Hitler in WWII to replace cola. Also it makes me sick to drink it.

Sardines in mustard sauce
Sardines in chocolate sauce
Sardine-flavored ice cream
Beet ice cream
KY jelly
Boiled bacon
Bacon sushi
Deep-fried peanut butter

@CWOTUS How about green eggs and ham?

I doubt that Hitler was particularly worried about stuff like that, and he isn’t mentioned in your link, @RedDeerGuy1.

From your link, ”...it was created by “Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland,” so that it used ingredients found in Germany, because of the difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during World War II, due to a trade embargo.

It’s called money, money, money.

I might have some of those in the fridge, @janbb – in which case I have not yet decided.

I was thinking of deep-fried lard, but that’s something I might decide on a case-by-case basis, based on who prepares it and the quality of the lard involved.

@RedDeerGuy1

You need to read your own links. Fanta was NOT made by either Hitler or the Third Reich.

Look under References and read the first link to an item on Snopes.com

Max Keith was never a Nazi even tho under heavy pressure to be. He created Fanta because the ingredients for Coke were mostly unavailable due to embargo.

Following the war, he handed ownership (including profits) back to Coca Cola.

Neither Max Keith nor Fanta were affiliated in any way with Hitler or the Nazis.

Read your own links before spreading unsubstantiated rumors !!

@Buttonstc I’m sorry. Don’t blow a gasket. I read The drink originated in Nazi Germany under trade embargo for Coca-Cola ingredients in 1940 . I didn’t read it all. Thanks for reading it for me.

@Buttonstc I followed your link. Thanks.

Originated by the German division of Coke-Cola. That was the very next line.

I also don’t care for many sweet things or fried things. The thought of fried ice cream makes me feel sick.

I don’t even get that fried ice cream. I just think of ice cream with melted Crisco dribbled on top.

Yuck. I tried it cause I was with a group of people and didn’t want to be a buzzkill. I used to live by a boardwalk beach, and this was on the front page of their ad.

That is just disgusting! Except for the bloomin’ onions, @dxs.

But, I guess people go in and eat that crap. Then bitch because the food the place offers is making them fat.

fried cola? how does that even work?

Baconnaise Not even Paleo-Baconnaise And for certain not Bacon Scented Underwear

The fer realz of fried butter on a stick.
Wheeeee!

@ragingloli – I had to Google it myself. It’s apparently an abomination of flavoured dough that is deep-fried and then soaked in cola concentrate, and eaten with a spoon.

Eww won’t it get all soggy though? I don’t care. Whatever it is, keep it away from me.

@rojo

I’ve previously seen articles about the company making these products and altho I’m not personally a fan of bacon and it’s taste, apparently plenty of people are.

What I like about this company (basically just two guys) is their big heart for our troops currently stationed in the mideast (where bacon/pork is forbidden) who long for the taste of home that bacon provides.

Since their product is entirely vegetarian, it’s the perfect solution for those in Muslim countries and plenty of grateful soldiers receiving free bacon salt from them.

Here’s a little sample of some of the pics and letters they’ve received.

While I’m not a big fan of the product, I am a big fan of their heart and support for troops stationed far from the comforts of home.
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http://www.jdfoods.net/our-story/operationbaconsalt/
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Fish, melted cheese, goats cheese, custard, fresh cream, offal.

Calve’s liver. Never ever ever again.

Octopus. Frog’s legs. Brains.

Of course, I’m not starving to death, literally, either.

@Dutchess_III Octopus is calamari, delicious! Frog’s legs are like sweet chicken wings.

I’m sure it’s nothing but the “ick” factor getting to me. But I just recoil at the thought. I’m pretty sure my throat would initiate the gag factor before I could even taste it, which is stupid. I mean, frog’s legs are no grosser than chicken wings, or any other kind of meat.

Soylent Green

@zenvelo

I tried calamari once at an Asian restaurant. The taste was not the issue but the texture sure was. It was like trying to chew rubber bands.

But I understand that some Italians cook it with a long slow simmer so I’m wondering if that would eventually tenderize it. But it’s just difficult to imagine rubber bands ever being tender :)

@Dutchess

Believe it or not, my mother served brains when I was a kid. (she was really old school and apparently offal has been used frequently in many parts of Europe for centuries so for her growing up it was normal to be eating that stuff.)

and since then I’ve found put from watching Food Network that brains is really very creamy and delicious. But the problem I had is that when my mom cooked it, no attempt was made to disguise that it was a brain. I just couldn’t get over that.

Perhaps if it were served in some disguised fashion I very well might find it delicious (as long as it wasn’t cow brains).

On one of his programs Alton Brown stopped off at a place down south that still served fried brain sandwiches and be was ecstatic. He also made sure to check that it was pig brains being used :)

But so far I’ve managed to resist the urge to seek out brains to eat :)

Calamari is squid. The advantage it has over rubber bands is that it does not dissolve in hot grease. ~
I will no longer eat octopus since I learned how smart they are.
Watch this.

Frog’s legs are delicious.

I’ll stick to mushrooms, thanks.
”...the combination of scrambled eggs with brains is “an unpleasant one, because of the similar textures of the two things. Instead, I think brains should be cooked so that they are crisp, and should be served with crisp things to offset the custard-like quality of their interiors.”
Hey, Ralph?! Have you seen Earl??
Did you toss him a cookie?

I’m on my old iPhone right now so can’t do YT. But if that’s the one where he’s opening a jar by unscrewing the lid, I’ve seen it. It’s really pretty impressive.

Opening a box after being taught by a master octopus, @Buttonstc.

I will not eat any ABC* foods.

*Those of you who went to grade school in the US or Canada, might know what I mean. ;-)

^ I want to know!

atomic-biological-chemical weapons

@longgone

ABC= Already Been Chewed. ;-o

Peas. Yuck.

None of the foods I ate as a kid were artificially produced.

BTW: For anyone interested in crispy fried brain sandwivhes , this link takes you to the Hilltop Tavern. This is where Alton Brown visited and the YT clip also gives a little bit of history about how taverns started. And he also tries Hilltop’s Burgoo which he apparently liked better than the brain sandwich.

(Also Simon Majumdar, a notedly picky eater has the brain sandwich at Hilltop on his list of ten best dishes. Go figure.)

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www.wegotbrains.com
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https://youtu.be/YYnL_nN7-tc
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Enjoy.

What foods did you eat as a kid @ibstubro?