What foods do you DESPISE!

[johnrk]

Beets

Have always loved, adored vegetables. My mother told me that when I was a toddler and preschool she could open a can of spinach or peas, etc., and that I'd happily eat them like that. I was never a kid who had to be forced to eat broccoli, carrots, cabbage, any of that stuff.

But--I couldn't do beets. They would stop at my throat. I don't know why, and fortunately my mama didn't fix them anyway. I'd come across them in the cafeteria line at school.

I went vegan at 18 in college, though, and learned that I loved beet juice! I own a half dozen juicers now and my favorite daily juice is carrot, beet, spinach/greens with a little lemon and ginger. And I love borscht. To this day, though, I can't touch cooked, sliced beets.

 

[tbolt25]

fish

The one food that gets me is fish-but I don't have a problem with canned sardines or mackerel. Just regular white fish-the way it flakes apart psyches me OUT-I get fidgety whenever I eat it-I am a finicky fish eater-shrimp, no problem-crab and lobster-I can eat that with no problem, even though I kinda don't care that much for the taste of it-but fish to me is potent food-I can only handle so much of it at a time-the Mrs. Paul's, Van De Kamp's, Gorton's, Long John Silver's, and Captain D's batter dipped is my favorite way to eat it. Also codfish and Alaska pollock are my two favorite fish to eat. But I can only handle so much of it at a time-it psyches me out-the flakes-and I don't care that much for catfish. And I dread eating naked fish-it has to have a batter or breading on it.

 

[sudsmaster]

In the last decade or so, I have discovered that I can tolerate watermelon if it's ripe and sweet. I don't know why, but it used to make my stomach turn over. And when I was a teen, that reaction extended to other melons like cantaloupe, even fellow curcubits like cucumber (pickles always OK). But I enjoy cucumber in salads now, as well as various melons ... as long as they are ripe. Honeydew seems to be best.

I will still put down a slice of watermelon if it has "that taste"... lol...

 

[circlew]

I don't like watermellon very well; however, I do like watermellon rind pickles.

 

[mopar65]

For me it's

1. Sea food.
2. Chicken.
3. Spinach/asparagus.
4. Mayo.
5. Mushrooms.
6. Sweet pickles.
7. Dirty dick lol

 

[tolivac]

Hers some more---PEAS!!!!!LOATHE THEM!and ANY CANNED vegetables.

 

[circlew]

I don't like peas very much either. I can tolerate the dark green ones, but refuse to eat the ones that are an olive color.

 

[ovrphil]

You can keep

anything that's canned..especially canned peas. While S&W brand, which I discovered when I moved to California, are really a cut above so many other brands....canned peas are godawful.

Some foods I have hated include stewed tomatoes,
Spanish rice with shoe leather chops(the way my dad ordered his food, beyond well done)
Asparagus
Grits (maybe I need to use a lot of DARK gravy? lol )
Hush Puppies (not the shoes! )
Collard and Turnips
Standard red beets (the golden colored ones are actually decent tasting)
Stuffed Cabbage (barely)
Fast food - overall, I like french fries in limits
Some game food (squirrel and rabbit aren't my favorite)
Potatoe dumplings (they don't seem to like me)

I commented before, so hope I didn't make anyone sick reading this. LOL.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

One of my wife's friend's husband can be quoted w/ saying "I don't eat anything that swims or that SWAM"--no fish or seafood for him, in other words (& to my knowledge I don't think he's ever eaten in his life)...

Behold, the AMKrayoCatfish w/ Wonder Chips:

-- Dave

 

[hairyskinbear]

Foods I hate

Calamari, prawns, those are the only 2 foods that could make me puke. Its not the taste its the texture. YAK

http://www.sebastiangoldfingle.talktalk.net

 

[hairyskinbear]

hairs on your chest (green veg)

I don't know if you have heard the expression, but my mum used to say when I was a kid if you eat your greens they will put hairs on your chest. errrrrrm LOL oh my goodness she was right, the thing is now THEY ARE TURNING WHITE LOL please don't tell app nut Bob

 

[lordkenmore]

I don't know if you have heard the expression, but my mum used to say when I was a kid if you eat your greens they will put hairs on your chest.

 

There is also, I think, a saying about putting color in your cheeks. There's certainly a joke about that:

 

Mother: Eat your spinach. It will put color in your cheeks!

 

Boy: Who wants green cheeks?

 

[foraloysius]

According to my grandmother children would get green hair from drinking coffee! lol

 

[ovrphil]

More -

You never know what you don't like until you try it...these "TRIED" I can say, I don't like : artichokes, pickled herring, liver, caviar, raw oysters, crawdaddies/ crayfish, depending on how it's prepared... asparagus.

It's ineresting how our tastes sometimes change as we age. Some things I can handle now that I didn't like in my teens...not many.

 

[iej]

Sorry Canadians...,

Maple syrup. I absolutely can't stand the stuff. I've tried various fancy versions in Canada and I still just really dislike the flavour, to the point I would have to brush my teeth and use mouth wash to get rid of it.

 

[johnrk]

Calamari

I read not too long ago that over 2/3 of the food sold as calamari in restaurants is actually seasoned pig's anus. Duplicates the chewiness, etc.

 

[vacerator]

Yuck John!

that's dusgusting. If squid is chewy, it is over cooked (fried), or needs to be cooked a long time to make it tender, as in sauce. In a cold salad, like with octopus, olive oil, lemon, olives,onion, etc. there is no way to cover that stink up.
I can't imagine chitlins (pig guts) not having a gutty after taste, even after soaking in vinegar, I could tell it isn't squid for sure.
I love calamari, and get it from an Italian market, and only order the flash fried from a finer restaurant.
I make it in marinara sauce for Christmas, being Italian.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

And all this time I'd thought Calamari was SQUID!

Maple syrup, I can't stand when it's emitting from the smell of dirty dishes, of which an odor of copious amounts came from a pile of plates just at my mom & dad's years ago, when my sis & I were still living there & someone (not me) may have put too much on pancakes or waffles & not have eaten all of that remained on the plate...

Seems to have happened just this morning, as my daughter & a friend of her's who'd slept over this past weekend, couldn't shmush their syrup in the frozen mini pancakes I'd made them (I was toooooo tired to make real ones amid my daughter's begging) so even not able to determine which plate was whose & not wanting to waste any of the remaining syrup just made some corn bread (w/ the last of my Aunt Jemima mix) to soak it all up...

Naturally (pun intended?) I like REAL Maple Syrup better than the myriad "imitation flavors" out there, but then, if I would just splurge the double-digits on the real stuff, I think I would be ahead, as I must have spent perhaps TWICE that amount there, so while I can't stand the smell, I LOVE the taste & there, it better be the REAL DEAL...!

-- Dave

 

[hairyskinbear]

johnrk

I am sorry john so close after losing my partner Terry, I am in tears with laughter here. If you don't understand me I am sure the older more educated would explain, oh yes all you can eat Chinese Buffet restaurants. I have eaten horse meat that was used as curried Beef, putting it politely my stomach rebelled 6 hours later. The restaurant now does not exit. Any way if you like a good literacy read the web site I have been quietly sharing is Terry own web site. There is also a short story about Terry him self but be WARNED, get past the disclaimer the introduction is from me and how we met. Be warned the introduction will curl your toes but please read his story,to those who dont know me I lost my partner in August 27th 2017 its still rough right now

http://www.sebastiangoldfingle.talktalk.net

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, I never thought that this would be a food that I this day (or yesterday) I would despise, or simply do not enjoy eating:

SOUP!

This is made w/ the meat juice (beef & pork) drippings, that I add a bouillon cube & a cup of water, per-cube, to... And I often add kimchee, teriyake or even ordinary beef or pork (if there are pork remainders) Raman noodles to--which somehow out of every case, this just became the turn to the worst dislike, in that I can no longer eat...

(And of course, liquid, hot or cold like this would be hard to transport to my dad's, unless I get a big thermos...)

-- Dave