What foods do you DESPISE!

[norgeway]

And wont eat, for me there are a few, eggs in any form other than baked goods...YUCK!..Mother made me eat 2 every morning growing up, I swore if I got grown I wouldn't eat another one!!I shudder when I see someone eating deviled eggs, it gags me just to smell them, number 2 would be liver, that too we had once a week,I haven't eaten it since I was a kid and unless im on a deserted island starving and that is all there is..im not going to!!!!Three is Cooked spinach...raw is fine on a salad but not cooked!four is peanut butter, I never would touch it, love it in stuff like cookies or pie, but not by itself, just like a mouth full of Crisco!!!LOL..Donald wont touch the two best things on earth, pineapple and coconut!!! I can eat a bag of coconut and a can of pineapple!!!!!

 

[countryguy]

#1 would be boiled potatoes. I absolutely despise them. My mom made me eat them when I was a kid...we had them almost every day since my dad was a meat and potatoes man.

#2 liver

#3 cooked spinach/brussel sprouts - tie

 

[polkanut]

For me it's rabbit, squirrel, avocados, squash, asparagus, and raw tomatoes.  I love tomatoes any other way though.

 

[mamapinky]

I'm with Norge on eggs, can't stand even the thoughts. Also mushrooms I can't get them past my nose, and guacamole although I never tasted it it reminds me of an episode on The Exercist, so no way its going in my mouth lol..cheryl

 

[chachp]

Eggplant!!!

<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">YUCK!!  I'm some Italian aren't I?  I don't hate much of anything else which is probably the reason I was a thousand pounds as a kid.</span>

 

[iheartmaytag]

There are few foods I won't eat. I may like some better than others, but for the most part I will at least try most things. . .except: Mountain Oysters (Pig Testicles) I refuse to eat them.

Now condiments, Mayonnaise I can't stand the smell, the texture, the taste. If I have something that requires Mayo, I will usually substitute either sour cream, or plain yogurt. And Burger King, No mayo on my Whopper please. Arby's-When I say no Mayo, I don't mean a smige, I don't mean drown it, I mean NO mayo. Did I mention I can't stand Mayonnaise?

 

[whirlcool]

I hate canned green peas. But I don't mind fresh or frozen ones. When I was young my father used to give me an "extra helping" of them just so "I'd get used to them". It didn't work.
I'm not big on Rhubarb either.

 

[mrb627]

Hmmm...

After some thought...

1) Catsup.
2) Buttermilk.
3) Lobster and/or Crab.
4) Oysters.
5) Any seafood that has been battered and fried.
6) Rutabaga.
7) Green/Red/Yellow Peppers
8) Most Fast Foods.

Malcolm

 

[mattl]

Wow, I guess I'm the odd man out here, their is little I hate, let alone despise.  I'm open to just about anything.

 

I've had on several occasions czarnina and it's interesting, but odds are few here would try it -- it's duck's blood soup.  I was brought up to be open to all kinds of food, my folks made all kinds of our ethnic food,  Polish, and experimented with other foods too.  When we travelled we always tried indigenous food.

 

From some of the comments I get the feeling it's not so much the food that is objectionable, it's the memories and history associated with it.  Growing up we were expected to eat was prepared for us, it wasn't anything my folks forced us to do, they made it a fun exploratory  adventure.  I see my relatives kids and how they are raised now, and I see 2, 3 or 4 different dinners made each night as this kid won't eat anything but chicken finger, another has to have hot dogs, one adult likes neither and has to have something else and so on.  It's ridiculous in my opinion, food should be a communal thing, it should be enjoyable and there should be a bit of adventure tossed in with surprises along the way.

 

[washerboy]

my list

I'm not too picky when it comes to food; But there's just a few things that I can't deal with. It's not so much the taste but the appeareance and texture that I cannot deal with. 1 and 2 make me think of throw-up
1. Hash-canned or homemade/gross
2. Eggs with stuff mixed in them
3. Mayo
4. Zukennie (sp? sorry)
5. Fried shrimp (smell makes me gag)
6. Fresh pork
7. Cooked prunes

 

[AndyinMA]

Red, green, yellow orange, etc peppers. Despise isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about them. The flavor, smell is just vile.

I also hate uncooked celery. Especially if it's an ingredient in a salad of some sort. Cooked I don't mind.

 

[abcomatic]

I hate liver! I get it close to my nose and my gag reflex takes over.

 

[jerrod6]

For me it is :

 

Watermelon, cantaloupe, or honeydew melons

Canned vegetables except beans, although I love almost all vegetables fresh or frozen

 

Ice Cream - can take it or leave it - mostly I leave it.

Any type of animal intestines.  I actually don't eat meat anymore but I do eat fish, but I've never liked animal insides or organs

 

Milk - this I absolutely cannot stand. It is all right in something like a cake but I will never drink it by itself or in a drink largely composed of it, like egg nog. 

 

Canned fish like tuna

Poached  or soft boiled eggs

 

Not a fan of white bread. Dark, pumpernickel,rye wheat or other is ok once in a while.

 

I am allergic to walnuts and eggplant so can't go near these even if I do like them.

 

American Cheese plus any other thing described as processed cheese food.

I love most fruit except peaches, but prefer fruit to be fresh and not canned or frozen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[philr]

I hate 

 

Vinegar and it's terrible smell, I can stand it in some sauces or salad dressings but just smelling it drives me crazy. Even if someone just uses vinegar diluted in water to wash windows... I can't stand the smell of silicone sealer while it cures as it often contains acetic acid and smell just as bad as vinegar... 

 

Milk, I like most dairy products but not milk itself. Not even in cereals or coffee...

 

Mayonnaise, I like eating eggs but I hate mayonnaise. 

 

I also don't like ketchup or yellow mustard or relish, when I eat fast food in restaurants, I try to get some kind of BBQ sauce instead!

 

Mushrooms, I think my mom scared me with mushrooms when I was a kid as she insisted about not eating those outside (apparently, there are more chances of being poisoned by eating other plants than mushrooms!). I still can't even touch them!! I don't like their smell when they're being cooked either. 

 

Buckwheat, it smells bad and tastes bad!

 

Watermelon or most melons or large fruits (but I love Pineapple, I could eat a whole pineapple and still want more!). 

 

Liver, almost as bad as mushrooms!

 

There are a few more things that I don't like but I can still eat them!

 

Now that's not considered food by most people but just seeing it almost makes me sick!

 

LOL!



 

 

[iheartmaytag]

Ok I will have to add one.

I will second Jerrod6. I originally didn't list intestines, because I would have never considered them as food to begin with. But knowing that some do prepare them, I would pass such an offering.

 

[ea56]

Smelly cheese

like Camembert, Brie, goat cheese or Feta. Poached, softboiled or fried eggs, scrambled or omelet I like (deviled eggs or egg salad sandwiches or OK once in a while), Oysters, crab (except crabcakes), clams (except in Chowder), cooked broccoli (raw is OK), raw fish and tofu, eck!!! Organ meats, except once in blue moon calf or chicken liver, if its prepared well, but I don't like to eat it any more as its really not good for you.

 

[maytagbear]

I am one of the

anti-egg brigade. When diguised with butter, sugar, flour, flavorings--then, ok.

I also am against sweet potatoes.

Do not care for liver.

I have become allergic to chocolate, much to my dismay.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[wayupnorth]

Seafood of any kind (sort of sacrilegious living in the top lobster producer in the country)

Mushrooms, black olives and raw carrots, broccoli and cauliflower

White milk

Raspberries and blackberries

Liver

Otherwise, I like pretty much everything else.

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 I don't know that I really "despise" any of these.   It's mostly things I don't like, won't eat or refuse to even try based simply on principle or the "gross factor".   

1. Insects or bugs of any type, chocolate covered or otherwise. I've had many opportunities to sample these while in Asia, but NO thanks, pass!

2. I could be specific here, but let's just say I won't eat any part of an animal that's not readily available in the meat dept of every regular grocery store across the USA.

 

3. As I've gotten older, I've noticed I like eggs less and less.   I still eat them once in a while, but they need to be scrambled, over hard, in omelette form or deviled.   Don't like runny yolks and if any of the "white" isn't completely cooked, EWWW GROSS!

4. Most mushrooms, but specifically the very common white button mushroom everyone puts in everything. YUK!  One argument my mother tried was "Just eat them, they have no flavor", my reply..... "If they have no flavor, why do you put them in?"

However, I like (or am more tolerant of) most mushrooms found in Asian cuisine, i.e. enoki, shiitaki, oyster and straw. And while this isn't a mushroom, I also really like cloud ear fungus, an edible jelly fungus most often found in Chinese cooking.  <span style="font-size: 12pt;">YUM! (photo 1)</span>

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5. Foong Jow (Chicken feet) as found on the "Dim Sum" menu at Chinese restaurants. Sorry, but I don't see any reason to enter this dragon! (photo 2)

6. I really dislike liver (except pate or liverwurst)! I can only stand to have (liver & onions) once every few years and in VERY small quantities!

7. Also tend to bypass / avoid crab, lobster, scallops, oysters, clams, mussels and any "fishy fish".

8. Another giant "NO" is Durian! This is a very unique fruit native to Southeast Asia. (photos 3 & 4) Even when the husk is intact, it has a very distinctive, overpowering and revolting odor. It's often described as "rotten onions, turpentine and raw sewage, garnished with a gym sock." Yes it's that bad!
In fact, it's forbidden from hotels, subways, airports and other public transportation in Southeast Asia! (photo 5 - at a cable car station in Singapore)

I heard someone say "It's hell on the outside and heaven on the inside."

I did actually give in and try it while in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I have to say it was surprisingly sweet and actually quite good! The problem however is, the "odor" is also there as a not so subtle background flavor, AND... the need to "clamp ones nose" in order to eat it is rather inconvenient.  

  

  

Kevin

[this post was last edited: 6/24/2015-20:23]