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Not a whole lot of foods I don't like but here are a few in no particular order.
1. Whole olives black or green,.. yuck! They have to be chopped up.
2. Clams or oysters. Simply can't handle phlegm balls.
3. For years I hated cantaloupe. The smell would make me nautious . Now I am alright with them.
4.For years my mom made Asparagus out of a can... absolutely disgusting and mushy. Now I love the fresh. Whole different taste when it hasn't been cooked to death.
5. Don't like liver either. Liver wurst is OK but in small portions.
6. Sweet breads. Not into innards.
7. Sardines.
8. Brown rice. No matter how long you cook it it comes out chewy. Rather stick to regular long or short grain.

9.Black licorice - That fennel like taste is a total turnoff to me.

There might be some others but I can't think of anything else.
 
Never cared for sea food. I won't suger coat it, but I am a picky eater! If it smells like rotten garbage, I will stay far away, if it has a weird texture I won't eat it. I'll eat scrambled eggs if it has small pieces of diced up breakfast sausage, but if there is no sausage to go with my eggs, I will not eat eggs.
 
Feta cheese.Even though I am greek, I hate it.It's the most foul-smelling cheese in the world.It also looks disgusting.I wonder why someone would put in their mouth something like this.
 
I also don't like stuff that you can't get out of the package completely, which in addition to the sauerkraut above, is frozen spinach...

There are probably other packaged foods, like that, and of course, as the thread title suggests, tastes also may vary...

-- Dave

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Fascinating

I don't eat meat, stopped in 1989 - do occasionally eat fish, but that's it.

Not really anything else I don't eat. I'm convinced food likes/dislikes are real, not imagined. I live with a dog who loves omelettes - but hold the eggs, please. She has a longer list of things she won't eat than does the cat.

When we cook for friends and acquaintances, it's always a major planning affair. He doesn't like this, that or the other. She doesn't eat this, that or anything from that family. He only eats broiled, never fried. She doesn't 'do' microwaved anything......

 

Wow. Then the whole spices thing - yes or no and the whole 'spicy hot' thing, - yes or no and the whole tomato ketchup on prime filet minion yes or no...and, worst of all, anything, anything new and untried or varied in any way from how it's always been done.

 

Americans aren't as bad about is as are Germans, but, gosh - something which runs this deep has to be biological and not (just) psychological. Wonder if two aspects of our heritage play a role here. First, we're related in equal parts to Chimps and Bonobos (I said 'related', not descended, so you hysterical pseudo-scientists can just put down the mouse right now) and, two, except for some pure Africans (not too many of them, either), we're all more or less a mixture of at least two hominid species who ate differing diets.

 

As to the psychology and early childhood and other nonsense - we were always permitted to eat or not eat whatever we liked. If one didn't eat the main meal, though, whatever it was, there were no snacks or desserts later. I ate everything and took seconds, my brother was the pickiest eater (he'd outdo those here with the longest lists easily) and still is. My mom commented many years later that the easiest days for her in the kitchen were when I was the only one home - she could cook exotic Scottish food she had a yearning for and know I'd eat it whilst cooking for my dad and brother meant following a rule book a metre long.

 
 
Another thing I forgot was bleu cheese. I don't get how anyone could like that nasty looking and tasting lab experiment.

Someone like Rachael Ray may say it is "yummo", but I say YUCKO!
 
There're things I'd never order in a restaurant or cook for myself, such as tripe, but will eat if I'm a guest and it's put in front of me. Otherwise, I eat pretty much everything.

Organ meat? No problem.
Ditto most things that come out of the sea.
"Weird" things most Wonderbread Americans have a reputation for not touching are fine with me: Goat, rabbit, deer, duck, goose, guinea hen, etc.

One day, however, I DID draw the line:

I was walking on the beach with my Italian 'grandmother-in-law'. We came upon a huge jellyfish that had washed ashore. She offhandedly commented," You know, in Italy we had a recipe..."

I cut her off, "NO. NO. Not happening. Congratulations! You've finally found something I refuse to eat."

She cracked up. She really thought she'd had me a year earlier when she served me sheep brains in the skull. Unfortunately, I scarfed them down and asked for more because they were so good.
 
 

 

Do not try to tell me you can swallow a molecule of anchovy without tasting it, as in "There's only a little anchovy on the last slice of pizza.  You won't even know it's there!"

 

Or as the late great Erma Bombeck put it "By the time that tiny particle had made the trip from the tip of my tongue to the back of my throat, it had swelled to the size of a salted rotting whale."
 
Genetics

I love coriander, know some folks who insist it tastes like soap and who therefore hate it.

I love anchovies, think it's fascinating how many people love foods in which it plays a 'silent' but enormously important role.

But, hey - we're all different and that's just the way things are.

Still in all, Americans are much less picky eaters than folks back home in Germany.
 
In no particular order

Haggis - don't ask.

Brains

Kippers (well the smell while cooking at least)

Full English Breakfast - black bacon, eggs, grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, and sausages. Black pudding, baked beans, bubble and squeak and hash browns. All on one plate and first thing in the morning is more than one can stand.

Fried oysters
 
Oysters! Thank you, Laundress, for mentioning--I bought a couple cans, one I made with some rice, and the other I brought with me to my dad's house along with some other food-stuff that we'd grown tired of or found disgusting & belonging in the ranks of the "Why the HELL did I buy THIS?!", so whether he eats them, or makes cat food out of them, I don't CARE!

"Milkshakes are fattening, and I hate oysters!", I can quote a family friend/baby sitter, nice lass across the street I grew up on, the last remnant of the old neighborhood, left to take care of her ailing parents and gently correcting me on my mollypropisms, such as the "imaginary" turn signal on my sister's Little Wheel being "middle cuts it off", whereas Down was Left and Up was Right, so I don't remember what my impression was with "Down" (her mother visiting was amused w/ my sister and I mimicking the "Tut, tut tut" turn signal sound & imitated it along with us...

And my saying "the oysters were kosher"--I'm back to the milkshakes & oysters I made in the sandbox as 'Robin' her name was gave me the whole schpiel on shellfish, convincing me that they can't be, or just simply making them "imitation" just like imitation Krab"...

OK, back on topic: What do you think of Crab, Crabs-SSSS or KRAB?! I like as long as it's the real thing, although I can't stand the tools you need to shuck them--or OYSTERS--if they're (usually) in shells, and I guess besides the reason that Lobster is too expensive, then I don't eat it, either--but likewise, I hope these stores that can't sell to those poor like me will mark some of this expensive shellfish down...

-- Dave
 
Donald wont eat

Olives, mushrooms , pineapple or cocoanut.....I love them all, I'm getting ready to make something I bet most of you will think is gross...Souse Meat, I have 3 fresh hog heads in the freezer!!!
 
OK, this time the "O Word"--Organic...

What is there about vegetables, fruits, eggs, and even meats, that just naturally grown isn't good enough?

I have seen entire grocery orders consist of nothing BUT organics, often--and to the least they are sooo Higher-Priced!--and worst yet one time my grocery was out of regular bananas (or there were no large 8-count, or even 7-count bunches) that I bought organic once, and while I didn't think there was any difference or wouldn't be any difference in taste, I hated them! (Couldn't wait to be done & go back to regular...) Almost as bad as a garden that a neighbor's cat uses as a litter box for making or using as fertilizer...

-- Dave
 
Ah, but farm to table

organics is all the rage today! I think it's mostly for upscale eateries, but farmers are making money doing it. Municipal farm markets are very busy. Rural and urban.
 
Whipped Cream in a SPRAY CAN! 'Cause it's not the whipped cream in a spray can FROM BACK IN MY DAY!

It has grown very EXPENSIVE, and my daughter is all over me to buy it (although it is cute when she wants to spray it in her mouth) but back, long ago, when those cans were empty, you KNEW they were EMPTY!

So these days, I think there is still SOME left in there, but it refuses to spray out & it even feels like the spraying is somehow disengaged...

And given the shoddy way 'new things of today' are made, I am even, ever fearful of these cans explodin'...

-- Dave
 

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