What foods (if any) do you loathe?

Cooked carrots
Hominy

I keep thinking I’ll like Brussels sprouts, and I keep not liking them. I ate them as a kid.

Other foods, like beets, I can only stand if they’re doctored up. I like Harvard Beets.

I love onions, and I eat them raw with most fried foods, including french fries.

Sushi.

Rabbit.

Fried tomatos

Fried liver.

But all the foods mentioned above I quite enjoy. Roasted Brussels Sprouts with onions and pecans is delicious.

Chipped beef in cheese sauce. My dad LOVED it. Gag me. He called it SOS. It didn’t help when he eventually told me what SOS stood for, years later, when I was gagging and whining about the food. Shitbird! (That was one of my dad’s few cuss words.)

As I’ve commented many times on Fluther, the only vegetable I find truly repellant is peas. Love split pea soup but cooked peas—ugh.

Growing up, I was strongly encouraged by my parents always be open to trying new foods, and I took it to heart and stomach. My dad took us out to all kinds of restaurants and loved to prepare all kinds of recipes in our kitchen.

I’m so grateful for that upbringing.

Red kidney beans. Yuck.

Marshmallows. The texture disgusts me.

I’ve learned to live with jello and whipped cream – two of my other childhood pet peeves.
I was texture oriented when it came to food. I wanted something substantial.

I don’t know what I like more – kidney beans in a hearty chile or in a salad.

I don’t like olives and capers. I don’t like artichokes. I don’t like fried fish but will eat it if I’m really hungry and there’s tartar sauce. I don’t like mayo on my sandwiches but I like mayo in salads like potato salad, egg salad, etc. I don’t like canned veggies, except maybe canned beets. I don’t like bologna and I don’t like margarine.

Most junk food makes me want to chuck. I hated okra all my life because most people just boil it with a little salt. Terrible. Thus prepared, it’s like trying to swallow a bolus of slime with a three day beard. Then a real-life Cajun made a plate of breaded and pan-fried okra with a bunch of Cajun spices and it was heaven.

Stewed tomatoes from a can. Ugh.

I will not eat these foods by themselves:

Cooked Spinach
Lima Beans
Kale
Okra
Turnips
Beets and especially pickled beets. Ick!
Dates

I will eat spinach salad, spinach dip and spinach in soups and quiches. All of which I love.
Same goes for the other veggies mentioned, in soups, in moderation, with the exception or red beets, but..I like roasted golden beets.
I also do not eat organ meats like liver and do not like rare meat of any kind.

I do not get the appeal of bloody Prime Rib at all. I like my meats well done, no pink, no blood.
I do not like Clams and Mussels and Oysters either, but will eat a bowl of Clam Chowder on occasion. The problem with Clam Chowder is there is ALWAYS sand it it, somewhere, and crunching down on a grain of sand just sends me. In a bad way, eeeee, like nails on a chalkboard.

I LOVE Brussel sprouts and anything Cabbage. I make a baked cabbage with thinly sliced onions, sea salt, pepper and olive oil. I could eat pans of it.
I am not a fan of raw Onions or raw Bell peppers but love cooked and grilled onions and sweet red, yellow and orange peppers and cook with them a lot.

One of my true hatreds is Rhubarb! Gah…how anyone can eat the stuff is beyond me.
I call it Rhubarf, nasty stuff, just nasty IMO. haha

@Espiritus_Corvus You don’t like Pizza,Tacos and Hamburgers and fries and Onion Rings, or just the fast food versions?

@Coloma No,no,no. I’m talking about all the sugar coated crap, including almost all breakfast cereals. Just because something is put together quickly on an assembly line doesn’t mean it’s junk. Not in my mind, anyway. That would make most first class hotel dinner entrees junk.

I just can’t get into ground beef! There are always little chunks in it that feel rubbery and wrong. I don’t eat hamburgers and meat sauces and lots of other typical American food because of this.

I was a super picky eater as a child but nowadays I will try and enjoy most things.

I was never comfortable with hamburger, when I ate meat, @Mariah.
On top of that, the supermarket versions is nearly tasteless, IMO.

@Espiritus_Corvus Aaaah, I see. I just found a Honey Glazed moth stuck to one of my Honey Nut Cheerios this morning. Breakfast of champions ey? lol

THIS was a first world question!

Man, the chef in the mansion has a tough job.

@Pachy….when the kids were little their dad, my ex now, toldthem peas were really rabbit poop painted green! Shitbird. So I never served peas although I like them, especially with pearl onions.

This question got me hungry. I bought 2 grilling rib steaks. I walked.

All of those water animals that look like bugs: shrimp, crab, lobster, etc. It grosses me out because I hate the feeling of eating a giant, juicy bug.

@Dutchess_III, yikes, what an awful image your ex planted in those little brains!

Right? They won’t eat them to this day! But I never cared.

If they were canned peas, he did them a favor.
But you said green, not gray, didn’t you? lol

OMG! Canned peas are hideous!

Grey peas? (I’m doong good on my phone aren’t I guys! and im 3/5ths drunk to boot)

Canned peas are gray, or modeling clay colored.

Fresh and frozen peas are green.

Canned peas in Kansas are green.

@Dutchess_III Are you keeping the Jolly Green Giant in your basement or what?

Aged fish
Kimchee
Lamb/goat meat or cheese
Deer meat
Cilantro
Animal guts or brains
AND anything that doesn’t look good and smell good to me.

Oooh, I don’t like Lamb, Deer, Elk or Goat cheese/milk either. I have never tried goat meat, I’ll pass, thanks anyway. I also do not like SQUID!

As you probably already know, I am a vegetarian, so I don’t eat meat, fish, or fowl, but I can’t say that I ever had any particular aversions to any of that when I did eat meat (at least not when I was an adult), although I’ve only ever eaten a few kinds of fish in my life: tuna, cod in fish and chips, and shrimp. I’m pretty sure I would not have enjoyed most other fish. It always looked gross and smelled gross to me, except for the 3 I have mentioned.

I pretty much like and eat everything that is considered vegetarian (fruits, vegetables, grains, fungus, eggs, dairy). I do have 2 things that are not my favorites, though. They would be eggplant, and okra. Although I continue to try those items in different preparations, and have found a few things that contain those ingredients that I actually like.

With eggplant, I like Makdous and Baba Ganoush

With Okra, I had it once at a restaurant in which it was flash fried, so that it was crunchy and not greasy at all, and sprinkled with some type of Lebanese spice. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. I also like it Pickled.

When I was a little kid I was extremely picky. When I entered my early 20’s and decided I was going to be a vegetarian, I knew that I would need to “develop” my tastes if I was going to be healthy and not turn into a “Cheetos vegetarian.” So I tasted lots and lots and lots of things, then tasted some of those things multiple times, with multiple different preparations. I learned to like all sorts of things that I had never heard of before, and realized that my taste buds had actually changed, and now I like all sorts of things that I used to hate.

Anything that tastes like it’s been soaked in formaldehyde, like capers, canned black olives, and artichoke hearts.

- PEAS! Can’t have a single one touch even the tip of my tongue.
– Sour Cream. There is a Mexican restaurant in my area where my best friend had her birthday dinner several years ago which unbeknownst to me when I ordered drenched their enchiladas in the stuff, most horrible enchilada experience ever. Could barely eat any of it.
– American Cheese, especially those processed slices in individual plastic coverings. It took time before I got my mom to understand that I CAN NOT eat grilled cheese with that crap.
– Coffee, it just tastes horrible to me and the caffeine level scares me.
– Diet Sodas, they all taste like piss! And are apparently worse for you than regular sodas because of the artificial sweeteners.
– Alcoholic drinks, they taste like piss as well.
– All varieties of Cows milk other than 1% Gross, just gross.
– Frozen Pancakes I used to be able to eat them, up until sometime in high school. I’d sleepover at my best friend’s house frequently and they didn’t have a microwave for years so we always made real, pancakes from batter and eventually I was totally converted.
– Most anything generic brand, they are made with cheap shit that causes bland flavors.
– Asparagus, it tastes like metal to me.

White rice,I would rather starve than eat it.

I’ll eat damned near anything.

Plain mayonnaise is disgusting. At least put some chipotle in it or something.

I’m not a fan of grits, but I try them again every once in a while to see if I can get used to it. I just don’t like the texture. Similarly, I find the texture of applesauce offputting.

I don’t enjoy eating sweetbreads, except as a gravy. I’ll use liver as an ingredient, but not a main course.

Okra – a mixture of squash and snot
Dates – sweet mud
grits – cream of wheat with a quality control problem
rhubarb – illicit offspring of strawberry and plywood

@SmartAZ LOL..Your list has 3 of my most reviled foods too, Okra, Dates and yes, Rhubarf!
I ordered fresh cherry pies from my local bakery a few years ago at Thanksgiving and they gave me Rhubarb by mistake. Oh man, I was so disappointed, and, Rhubarb pie looks like your cutting into a pie made of raw chicken too, just nasty,
The taste, color and texture.

Some people swear by rhubarb and strawberry pie but I don’t think anything can disguise that stuff. haha

I LOVE all those pickled things – art hearts, capers, olives, hearts of palm, etc, etc!
Rhubarb is divine!

“Okra – a mixture of squash and snot” YUP! And if you’re going to fry it? Can’t we just have hush puppies instead?? Why use the weed at all?

Expired over ripe avacodoes.

Y’all just pass that fried okra my way.

Welcome to it, @Seek.
BTW, I have a friend that pulls fried chicken meat off the bone and dredged it in straight mayo out of the jar.
It so disgusts me!

::gag::

I just lost my appetite.

Lox and cold smoked salmon.
Pickled herring.
Ceviche.

I can do small bits of raw fish in sushi, but otherwise, cook the damned fish!

Now this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG62zay3kck

Search “Pina Massaro 9 months ago” for the translation.