What foods do you DESPISE!

[iowabear]

Jello/Gelatin

Surprised this wasn't on more lists.  I think my aversion comes from growing up here in Iowa, where it seemed like most ladies had some kind of Jello Salad "Family Recipe" that they would always bring to potlucks or picnics.

 

And as I child I was taught to take a reasonable sized serving and eat it (no matter how repulsive) in the name of good manners!

 

 

 

[tolivac]

Don't like gelatin-jello things,either.My stepmom used to make that stuff-gagged each time I ate it!Mushrooms on steak-ACCCCKKKK!!!!!Why RUIN a fine cut of steak with mushrooms!!!????

 

[richimaor]

I hate...

Mayonnaise, ketchup and canned tuna, I’d literally rather die than have a taste of that garbage. I can’t even stand the smell from them.

 

[tolivac]

To me canned tuna is CAT FOOD--like the canned cat food that comes in similar cans!And besides with Tuna you get your healthy dose of Mercury and PCB!

 

[iej]

Cloves, particularly used in anything sweet. Absolutely just turn my stomach. I'm not a fan of licorice either.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, then you might like Twizzlers that is somehow still called "licorice" but vastly available in other flavors that I dislike if it's NOT Licorice...

But, to me, it's the mostly it getting stuck in your teeth...

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

They are The Pits!!!!

Behold! The impossible AVOCADO:

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I want BILL KNAPP’S!!!!

Tasteless, generic Grocery Store Cake:

(No matter where you bought or order it from—or even where you work at—, it’s (to ME, Ooooh, YUK!!!

— Dave

 

[vacerator]

A lot of avocado's

are coming from Peru currently, and have no flavor. California are the best, of course, and Mexico second. It's the same with pineapple. Hawaii doesn't grow enough anymore to ship to the mainland, so we get them from Costa Rica now.

 

[sudsmaster]

Avocados... I grow my own... right now my Hass tree is full of fruit. So ripe it's falling to the ground on its own.

I plan on processing a bunch of it into oil this weekend.

 

[gusherb]

The Costa Rican pineapples are nasty. We found some from Mexico that were decent. My absolute favorite pineapples are the ones in Taiwan that taste like a Pina Colada.

 

[lakewebsterkid]

Won’t eat...

Miracle whip, crab or lobster, black licorice, anchovies, olives, cottage cheese, liver, & calamari (for reasons posted above).
Won’t drink: red wine, diet anything, and Kambucha.

 

[strongenough78]

Liver and black licorice. Blah!!

 

[justjunque]

The fact that I'm probably 50 or so pounds overweight should tell you that there aren't many foods that I despise.
I'm the type who's usually willing to sample anything. I've never understood people who decide that they don't like a food item without ever trying it.
That being said, the one thing that I ate one time, and have no desire to ever have again was lamb.
And even then, as much as I disliked it, I've had people tell me that it all depends on how it's prepared.
So...I probably would try it again; prepared differently.
But then, if I still hated it, I'm done!

Barry

 

[turbokinetic]

After having a job which involves extensive overseas travel, I have had to adapt to eating more foods than I would have before this. But, there are several things that I really despise!

 

1 - Cooked squash. It's just so mushy, nasty, and the texture is horrendous!

2 - Mayonnaise on a sandwich, or anywhere I can see it. It is pure filth crawling with disease-causing bacteria!

3 - Anything with bones - small game meat, chicken, ribs etc. Takes me back to biology class in dissection lab. I can almost smell the formaldehyde when I see it. If I eat meat, it's got to be finely cut covered in sauce and mixed with vegetables to hide it. Also, my empathetic nature makes it very hard to break apart chicken bones because it is clear that was a live creature. Even though it's dead and cooked, it affects me to watch the joint rip apart when breaking off a piece of the food.

 

Those are three which I encounter and cause me disgust / wasted food from time to time. 

 

[justjunque]

Dave

I actually went through a time where I felt that way about chicken!
Over time, my love for how it tastes overcame most of the negative or guilty feelings.
I still prefer when foods don't in any way resemble how they looked when they were living, breathing creatures though.

Barry

 

[norgeway]

You would have never made it,,LOL

Seeing my Aunt wring a chickens neck,,but it sure was better than the stuff you buy at the store!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Look, only if you can stomach what's not for--

--the faint of heart:

 

Okay, re: foods that resemble when they were living:

 

Let's show you my thanksgiving turkey: Of which, merely reheating, made my dad wonder if when I gave him the bones and other inedible remants, if it was BURNT...!

 

But, actually, the cranberries, and onion soup mixture, saw a more appetizing BONELESS breast, finished, but unfortunately not shown...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[norgeway]

What on earth

Happened to the poor thing!???

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Years and years of finding that the mouth and nose are connected but often in the derogatory sense, the kernels left on an ear that are too many to just throw away, the stabbing from a holder, sometimes it jabbing and stabbing you right in and/or around your mouth area...

Has anyone mentioned CORN ON THE COB?! —Well, I will!

And the way the butter sometimes doesn’t go or stay thoroughly around it, and the way the salt just falls off on you plate...! Oh, and those kernels stuck in your teeth...! —there!!!!

— Dave