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Mayonnaise
Eggs
Bananas
Mushrooms
Liver
Tomatoes (although I love tomato sauces)
Kippers
Beetroot

And finally, and this might upset a few people, I loathe cheese. Any kind of cheese. And melted cheese is even worse.
 
Chris, one of  my coworkers hates cheese.  She also does not like white meat chicken or anything that is kind of "creamy" nor Italian food.  Consequently, my work group has never been invited to my house.  Between all that and all but one is diabetic, no motivation to cook for them.  They get offended because I never bake for them.  I don't want to contribute to the delinquency of their diabetes. 
 
for me

1.  Broccoli

2.  Asparagus

3.  Guacamole....can't even swallow a tiny bite

4.  cooked cabbage (love it raw)

5.  Beets

6.  Green peas

7.  most seafood besides cod...no shrimp, no crab, no lobster, no oysters, no clams

8.  Turnip greens, collard greens, spinach

9.  butter beans and lima beans

10. Never tried sushi...not gonna

11. Kimchi...Tony is part Korean and he loves it...the whole house smells like it

12. Anything still moving or bleeding

 

 

But I'm not picky......
 
I eat almost everything. My ex's Italian grandmother and her friends used to try to come up with something 'the American' wouldn't touch. I won!

But there IS a short list of things I will NOT touch:
1. RAW apples. But I'll eat apple-anything cooked.
2. Fennel, licorice, anisette... GAG ME! Seriously? licorice flavored celery? God's revenge on mankind.
3. Asparagus.... revolting.
4. Root Beer... total NFW.
5. Jelly fish, insects ... no, thank you.
6. Plain stewed tomatoes.

That's about it. weird, right?

I like liver, heart and game meat. I like *every* vegetable I've tried except for asparagus. I love snails, and any crustacean come to think of it.

There's stuff I'd never buy/cook myself or order in a restaurant, but do eat when it's put in front of me: tripe/flaczki, kidneys, sheep brains.

Weirdly, I don't like mixing sweet and savory foods. but like spicy food.

Jim
 
For me it would be:
Turkey
Dark meat chicken
Pork(other than ham bacon and bulk sausage)
Raw peppers
Scrambled eggs
Wild game
Any seafood(with exception of tuna salad or crab cakes during lent)
Organ meat
Any type of melon
Bananas(but I love banana bread)
Yogurt
Gelatin
Sweet potatoes
Milk
Corn
Beets
Beef or lamb that is less than medium-well
Ketchup
Ranch dressing
Marshmallows
Graham crackers
Hot dogs
Any mint flavor
Cinnamon
Cilantro
Milk chocolate
Any type of cold breakfast cereal
Hot breakfast cereal: oatmeal, farina, mush, grits etc
And above all coconut, just the thought of it can make me vomit.

Some dishes that turn my stomach are: chili, chicken noodle soup, hamburger helper
 
I forgot two major ones:

Steamed Blue Crabs:If done properly as in the Old Line State are my favorite seafood ever! IF not made in the true "Merlin" tradition they taste like the mud in Bawlmer harbor.
Crab Cakes: Don't put green peppers in them and bread them. Thats a waste of crab shit cake. Use a tried and true MD recipe and grill the cakes on a well buttered grill or fry them in the deep fryer without breading.
WK78
 
There is really nothing I don't like except I cannot stand RAISINS--unless they're baked into something (but not bagels or store-bought bread) even though I can tolerate them in cereal ie. Raisin Bran...

I had a phase where I did not like bananas (though I loved them as a little boy, but later, stopped eating them), though I love them now as long as I have something good to eat with them....

I don't know why when I was little I didn't like MILK, after being fed it as a baby--I must have been Force-Fed, if I was in a stage where I was again circa. Kindergarten & First a Grade, then everyone left me alone & let me quit drinking it, until almost my twenties, when I just had to drink it with sweets, and DO like it...!

Now, right now I am so disenchanted with MEAT! Seems as though NOBODY (my mother-in-law, in particular) will let me eat it...! There's health reasons, the Kosher vs. non-Kosher product (I can't understand why we're not allowed to eat meat that looks GOOD!, but when I see a rump roast or ham go by, at where I work at, I have to check to see if my tongue is still in my mouth) and rising costs! So I don't know where to go there...

What good is having a slow-cooker or a broiler in my stove? (I ran my oven broiler with nothing under it, and the heat down there with nothing under it, but to almost burn up the stove wasn't a good thing!)

So excuse my rant, here...

Oh, WATERMELON! Has NO TASTE to it, but I flavor it with syrup, or at least eat it with other fruits, so I like it, after long ago, in my childhood, being asked in a surprising tone: "You don't like all-American watermelon?!"...

-- Dave[this post was last edited: 6/29/2015-03:44]
 
forgot Milk!

I like cheese, ice cream, milk shakes, yogurt, even eat cereal....but I can NOT drink MILK! The school system tried to force me to drink it when I was in kindergarten and first grade....so in first grade I started taking my own lunch and did so for the next 7 years until I started high school. HS was different, they had tea, punch, lemonade, and good old water as alternatives to MILK.
 
I've heard it said taste buds change every 7 years.  May explain why some things we detested in childhood now like or can passably eat.  I used to hate raw tomatoes, now I will eat them in salads some, but not always. 
 
For as long as I can remember, I can't stand watermelon. Don't know why, but I find the taste nauseating. Used to be most types of melons had similar effect, but I can tolerate cantaloupe and honeydew melon if it's perfectly ripe. Unripe, no way.

 

Other than that, the usual suspects:

 

Liver (pate is OK)

 

Sea urchin (disgusting)

 

Raw clam (cooked is OK, and I do like sushi/sashimi)

 

Tripe

 

Anchovies (not on my pizza, please)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
this has got to be one of the most fun topics ever

I'd better not say anything nasty like "some of you people sure are picky." "Particular" or better yet "discriminating" is probably a better choice of words. There's plenty of things I don't eat. 

 

Raw seafood. A friend and I drove to Venice (Southern California, not that anyone would think I meant Italy) and we visited a popular sushi bar. Watching people eat raw fish made me sick. Swallowing raw oysters whole was equally nauseating. The things people put in their mouths in the name of "trendy." 

 

I was addicted to milk and drank it like water. It's one of the many things I shouldn't have due to my diabetes. They gave us milk, pint-sized waxed cartons, in kindergarten and first grade. You lined up and got your milk and the teacher would come around and hand out graham crackers. I'd chew the corner of the carton and then stick my thumb in it. When the teacher got to my desk I'd pull out my thumb and the milk ran all over the floor. The class laughed their heads off but I was soon crossed off the milk list. I was a bad kid. We had milk delivered when I was young, about 8 quarts every other day. My mom had a crush on Louie, the attractive milkman which could explain why my brothers and I drank so much.

 

I love anchovies. If you're ordering a pizza with others, telling them to make it half anchovies will almost always guarantee half of the pizza will be yours. 

 

I don't believe cauliflower or broccoli was ever intended to be eaten raw. They're delicious when cooked. 

 

Chicken salad sandwiches are one of my favorite things (a diabetes no-no) but I hate it when people add apples, grapes, walnuts or miniature marsh mellows. I'm not a fan of savory mixed with sweet. Applesauce with pork chops, pineapple on ham...I guess that's more tradition than trendy but I'll pass. Mango chicken...it's a good thing the Colonel has passed.

 

 
 
Foods I like

I like some foods that some people here hate. Go figure.

 

Broccoli: (I listed it as my favorite food on a card in the 1st grade!). My mother was very amused. I think I acquired a taste for it when my parents coaxed me to eat it by telling me I'd be like a dinosaur eating trees. After that I was hooked.

 

Avocados: a perfectly ripe avocado is the food of the gods. I enjoy them sliced with salt, mashed with hot sauce for salsa. I have even put them in blender with hot chicken broth, jalapeno peppers, and garlic, and made  a very tasty soup.

 

Artichokes: another great food, although I've learned one can over-do them (the inulin starch they contain is not digestible). I'm traditional, I like to eat them with mayo (a favorite condiment)

 

Black olives

 

Brazil nuts (only if they are not spoiled, rancid, or rotted!)

 

yada yada yada... there are more but you get the picture...

 

 

 

 

 
 
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There's plenty of things I don't eat. Raw seafood.

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I'm with you on that one. YUCK!!

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The things people put in their mouths in the name of "trendy."

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What do people put in their mouths? LOL

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I was addicted to milk and drank it like water.

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I'm addicted to milk as well. I don't drink it quite like water, but I do have a couple of glasses of it with my supper.

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I love anchovies. If you're ordering a pizza with others, telling them to make it half anchovies will almost always guarantee half of the pizza will be yours.

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I've actually never had anchovies on pizza. I tried to order it once, but that pizza place didn't have anchovies. :(

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I don't believe cauliflower or broccoli was ever intended to be eaten raw. They're delicious when cooked.

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I have to disagree with you on this one. I love cauliflower and broccoli raw. Dip them in some ranch dressing. To die for.

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Chicken salad sandwiches are one of my favorite things (a diabetes no-no) but I hate it when people add apples, grapes, walnuts or miniature marsh mellows.

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I as well like chicken salad sandwiches but not with all that extra added in.

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I'm not a fan of savory mixed with sweet. Applesauce with pork chops, pineapple on ham...

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Another thing that I don't care for is pineapple on pizza. It does not belong there. Quit trying to put it there.

 
 
Can't stand raw tomatoes (love all forms cooked / processed however), cucumbers (any form), boiled okra (fried to death or in gumbo is fine), hominy, frog legs, raw oysters (both textures bug me). That's really about it. There are some other things like buttermilk that I wouldn't drink on a bet, but are essential to some recipes so I use quite a bit.

I am at least fortunate to not have any significant food allergies. We have both a tree nut and shellfish allergy in my house, so Thai food doesn't happen too often around here....
 
OK, here are TWO THINGS that it took hanging out with my daughter, (going out to dinner at Olga's Kitchen, actually) to come up with that are "obvious kiddie food", not fit for adult consumption (or MINE at ANY AGE!) as I will NOT finish her left overs of:

 

Applesauce (Can't STAND the stuff--it reminds me of BABY FOOD--and telling Laura that it was "baby food", in turn, had her telling me "there's GROWN-UP applesauce--and I remember when I out-grew eating baby food wanting to eat some berry flavored baby food my little sister wouldn't eat right out of the jar when I was two...

 

Chocolate Milk--that is, that I didn't make Chocolate! I like a chocolate milk-SHAKE--made w/ ice cream, syrup and an egg! (or if there must be milk flavored w/ chocolate syrup, then I would just put in some soda water (if we have; we mostly don't) and make an Egg Cream (and I remember thinking it was literally made w/ an egg or egg-S, if not thinking it was an alcoholic beverage, given my impression when I read something as "going out for such")...

 

Getting back to my childhood dislike for milk: there was a real neat pink juice that came in a can--maybe it was Passionfruit?--it was too sweet to really be grapefruit--that I was supposedly allowed to drink in place of milk--and supposedly it seemed OK to have, in that none of the other kids were jealous wanting to "BYOB" their own, or trying to barter mine off of me, bully me over it, or beat me up for it, etc.

 

 

-- Dave

[this post was last edited: 7/1/2015-23:03]
 
 
Many of the foods mentioned have not crossed my path or not been tried.

Love peanut butter ... jar and a spoon, or a sandwich with sugar sprinkled ... but need to keep it minimal due to oxalates.

Detest egg nog.

Had a stomach upset incident years ago after having some honey, although I don't suppose the honey was the cause as it doesn't spoil, and avoided it for a long while but have mostly gotten over it.

Oysters are nasty.
Will not take boiled eggs or fried but like scrambled.
Boiled/cooked/canned cabbage but slaw is OK.
Liver and other organ meats.
Licorice.
 
Along with Licorice, I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Root Beer or Root Beer-flavored stuff...

Wonder how a lot of people I know dislike Onions, but actually love Garlic; me, it's the opposite: I cannot imagine ANYTHING without Onion--gimme it anytime!

Garlic, though--it STANKS!!!!

-- Dave
 
Fritos & Olives: I had a similar experience with peanuts when I was a kid. Ate a vending machine bag of peanuts just as I was getting the stomach flu. Couldn't eat peanuts or peanut butter for a few years after that.
 
"if possible, can I have it without onions, please?"

Interesting thread this is.
I might have understood "I do not like xy food" but I was not aware of "I despise xy food".
Very astonishing to what an extent some childhood mistreatments are the story behind the story.

Anyway, I work in the quick food area (food to go, pizza and all that).
The food is prepared freshly, goes to the shelf for about 10 seconds and is baked from there and handed out and sold after a few minutes, the prep cycles and baking patterns overlapping so that each client has his/her meal in a matter of 15 seconds (which means a continuous flow of raw meals towards the shelf for the baking cycle on and on, so that the oven is always full.)

And how do I HATE them, these ultra-picky pale allergy mystery creatures on high heels (can I have it without xy but more 7 on one corner, yet less 20 on the other side? Have you got something without gluten, without lactose, without ....) (I am continously waiting for the ultimate "without anything at all")

And those 6 foot 2 guys with wrestling shoulders mumbling "please no onions, please, please no!"
Hey! A guy not eating onions, how far have we come? Pansies!
Onions are good for your blood and they help "any grandpa climb on the bike" (as you will problably guess).

Months ago I was still eager to fulfill these Heidi Klum extravaganzas but today I just shout "no. next"

The only exceptions I make are pregnant mothers or persons with REAL allergies (as in most cases it turns out to be "I dunno, I just don't eat them") - and THAT is just a bad childhood or some other high-maintenance attitude, not an allergy.

Extra wishes of extra princesses are neither any good for our baking shop and its speed (one miss for 10 secs in the team and a whole oven full with 8 meals is burnt) nor are they any good for my nerves.

Which does not mean that I reject any "shudderings" of anyone at all, but please just don't see our business then. With more than a dozen variations (even veggies and vegan ones, with kosher and what have you, there is plenty to pick from without slamming the whole queue to a standstill).

The latest trick: Choosing the cheapest standard veggie size asking "but can I have just some meat bits on it ? Just a few, just to have the taste?" (the meat version is 1 € more) - once I get to explaining that this means 1,- more they start a lengthy discussion about "unflexible customer service". So which part of no didn't they get? It is: No, goodbye, next.
 
Gluten...

Isn't it amazing how many people suddenly find themselves "allergic" to gluten? I watched one of those "reporter on the street" things where they stopped people and asked them about it. Most people said they could not eat it and knew it was bad for them yet almost no one knew what it really was. Every shelf in the grocery store has labels that proclaim "Gluten Free." I expect to see it on packages of Charmin very soon. Apparently those words make stuff sell.

 

At least Mrs. Noh Nah Ning spoke the truth about doughnuts and never mentioned gluten..."you know they are bad for you!"

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt-x6lkFvY
 
Despise would fit the response of my teens and early 20's to some foods. Keep in mind, my mum was English/Scottish and whether it fits or not, she didn't really like to fuss for meals. So, the following were my most hated and still do not appeal to me at all, along with just the foods I've tasted after leaving my good mom's cooking:

1)Spanish Rice. Prepared well-cooked - well cooked pork chops or other in rice and tomato sauce.

2)Stuffed Green Peppers(believe I'm allergic to these, but not the orange, yellow or red variety)

3)Asparagus (although I will eat the tips, generally no likey this veggie which my Nanna and Grandpa grew abundantly on the sunny side of the white single car garage.

4)Capers

5)Most, not all, sushi,escargots(snail), lobster(it's just too rich for me) and oysters(God bless those who can swallow a bad head cold. tmi, I know.)

6)Indian food - I can't include EVERY kind, but from tasting everything that was offered at a large engagement party, I didn't enjoy anything I ate. Some curry is sweet, but I have yet to discover a love for Indian food.

7)Stewed Tomatoes

8)Liver/Liverwurst

9)All lunchmeats, except Boar's Head products

10)Most fast foods(90%)

11)Many pastas - dislike spaghetti, linquini, and macaroni, but I love a well-made mostaccioli which is hard to find.

12)Lima Beans - can eat them, but don't like!

13)Plain white bread, plain pancakes, white rice, and white cakes/cupcakes.

14)Poi, but I love TAROT chips! Hawaii was the only place I found large bags of large, delicious TAROT chips

15)Some of the Southern greens; not that I can't eat them, but that they don't agree with my "system".

16)Greasy food - i.e; most anything fried.

and that's enough from me. Interesting how people hate or can't eat coconut, milk,
and other things I enjoy.

Another interesting thread - I really enjoy discovering other's likes, dislikes and interests.
 
In no particular order:

Brains
Meatloaf
Frogs legs
Rabbit
Chitterlings
Haggis
Liver
Kidneys
Tongue
Full English Breakfast - Bacon fried, poached or scrambled eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, sausages, and baked beans by themselves aren't bad, but all on one plate and first thing in the morning is more than one can endure.
Kippers - Well they aren't that bad going down, long as they stay down. Oh and the smell whilst cooking puts me right off.
 
Re Gluten

The current trend towards GF, even for people that have no allergy to it whatsoever makes those of us who've been diagnosed with a legit allergy to it (Celiac) look stupid. Whenever I order something and request GF I always wonder if they think I'm another one of "those picky morons".
OTOH there is a major flip side to the current GF trend, SO many options! I started eating GF in 2003, back then and for the longest time staying GF was very hard to do unless you just stuck purely with protein and vegetables.

These days I still stay away from the stuff but every once in awhile I give in for the things i love (like pizza, baked goods etc). Can't do that too much or the symptoms start coming back fast.
 

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