What foods do you DESPISE!

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well head cheese I'd never tried to this day...

 

When I first saw it my mom warned me I wouldn't like it, so I'd taken her word but I guess if I see any maybe I'll resolve my still curious about...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

As for chicken wings, you need an awful lot of them to be full...

I don't know what the thing is with the cut celery accompanying buffalo wings, usually that doesn't get eaten...

We actually bought a whole chicken that I thought was a tenderloin, so naturally because of all the bones even for its huge size it had to be given to my dad to feed his cats, mostly the alley cats/strays...

-- Dave

 

[mattl]

I make a Polish version of head cheese, kholodets. It's an aspic made with pig hocks and various vegetables. Little  bit of work so I don't make it often.

 

[rinso]

I despise mushrooms, especially raw ones used in salads. Their earthy taste is just not for me. A couple of exceptions are mushrooms sauteed in wine and butter for a steak topping, or on pizza.

 

[ea56]

Any kind of cheese that stinks, like Brie, Camembert, Feta, Gorgonzola, Goat Cheese,  Roquefort, but on occasion I do like Blue Cheese salad dressing.

 

If I can’t get it past my nose, I can’t eat  it!  My husband David is even more particular than I,  he hates all of the above cheeses, but he won’t eat Parmesan cheese either, says it tastes like vomit, and he’s Italian!  I like Parmesan very much myself.  Sometimes I’ll try to sneak it into Meatballs, and he can always tell!  

 

Eddie

 

[whitewhiskers]

Disappointing school lunches

From 1st to 6th grade, my elementary school lunch on Monday was the same thing, hotdogs with sauerkraut and green gelatin for dessert. For the hours leading up to lunch, a smell usually from the lavatory was wafting up the hallways and into the classrooms. I hate sauerkraut. And green lime-flavored gelatin is also terrible.

I'm also not a fan of egg salad sandwiches for the same reason, it smells like caca. I don't like food that smells like crap.

 

[mattl]

I'm not sure where folks dislike for a food comes from, my hunch is much of it's psychological, a portion may be genetic. Growing up my brother and I were exposed to a vast array of food, and were encouraged to try everything. At almost 70 I can't think of any food I truly dislike, there are recipes I dislike though.

Plus, as we age things change. For me, cilantro always tasted off and soapy, yet recently when I had some it did not. So I would encourage people to keep sampling food, your tastes may change over time.

 

[volvoman]

For me, there are very few foods that I despise.

Tripe is up there, along with any other "organ-esque" meat (tongue, liver/liverwurst, sweetbreads, et al). I also loathe avocado with the fire of a thousand suns (texture), bananas (both regular and Plantains), bologna, and meatloaf*.

(*-save for Mrs. Volvoman's meatloaf. I'm convinced that it is made with gold shavings, fairy dust, and the tears of a thousand unicorns. She'll disagree, and simply state that it's "made with love"...which is certainly better than sorrow and indifference.)

 

[me]

For me, mushy peas, I find the smell of hot mushy peas quite unpleasant and tasting them literally makes me vomit.

Pea consomme too, which I found out in a restaurant.

Fresh garden peas I'm fine with.

 

[justjunque]

Eddie,

Your post made me laugh. One of my mom's guilty pleasures is Limburger cheese. I can't imagine a cheese (or anything else edible) gets much worse smelling than that.
On a recent visit to her house, she asked me to cut up a chunk of it that my nephew (her grandson) had sent her for her birthday. He lives in Wisconsin, and it's my understanding that the place where he got it is the only producer of Limburger in the United States.
The smell was almost unreal. But, like Matt, I was raised to always try something before you decide that you don't like it. So, yes. I had to try a small piece. And I mean small!
The taste is nowhere near as harsh as the smell. And, I've tried Limburger at her house before, but I don't remember it being as strong smelling as this one was!
Just last night, while I was visiting again, I cut up a chunk of a different kind that he sent, called German Brick.
Nowhere near as pungent as the Limburger was, but still somewhat smelly. This one, I was able to sample a larger piece, and it was very mild and creamy. I would eat it again. I bet it's nice on crackers or something like that.

Barry

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

CHIPS!!!!

Well prices of chips are needlessly on the rise, and go stale or lose interest in that I can’t often buy dip for them or even sour cream which I prefer so I seem to need to lop them off my diet too…

Though the salt intake is not that harmful but amid the skyrocketing prices are being a slave to buying all those flavors!

— Dave