What popular food have you always disliked?

[malaise]

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I hate cheese cake and donuts. I have detested every variety of porridge from infancy and never liked milk as a drink, although I like ice cream and milk shakes. In my world oats are for oatmeal cookies or granola bars.
I liked both red meat and pork, but stopped eating them in 1979.I just woke up one day and said I'm not eating them again.
I never had allergies so I have a wide range of food options.

[janterry]

1. Ketchup

yuck

[malaise]

2. Interesting

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. SPAM.....

Even the Monty Python sketch will not convince me. I ate so much of it as a kid, I cannot stand the stuff.

[malaise]

7. The only canned stuff here is

tomato paste - I ate SPAM and some other luncheon meats as a child but haven't touched anything like it since the 1970s.

[hlthe2b]

53. ewww, Spam. No way. Can't even stand to smell it, though I did appreciate the Monty Python sketch...

LOL

[hlthe2b]

55. Any organ meat: liver, kidneys, well, you know the list.... NOPE

[malaise]

56. I actually like chicken liver

but don't mess with the rest

[electric_blue68]

186. Bwaahahahaaaa! I -hear- you! (shudders)...

except I do love liverwurst.

Haven't had in a long time

[ProudMNDemocrat]

86. I cannot make my Spaghetti sauce without tomato paste.

[malaise]

87. Same here Indeed

and although I use fresh tomatoes in both spaghettis sauce and my curries, I must have tomato paste.

[frazzled]

4. Cilantro

Yeah, I’m among that group of people who want to retch just smelling it. Love every other herb and green on the planet.

I don’t care for whipped cream. If it comes on some dessert I’m gonna scoop it off and give it to you. Don’t ask me why; I take most of the icing off cakes, too. I just don’t care for mushy things. I like texture.

[malaise]

11. I have a close friend who also hates it

I love it and even grow it

[malaise]

18. I'm picky about icing -like some but scrape off others

Also avoid whipped cream

[Maraya1969]

100. Me too!!! And they put it in everything now!

I don’t think I ever heard of cilantro until 10 years ago and now I can’t get away from it

[electric_blue68]

187. The reason some people hate cilantro...

If you get this recessive gene from each parent -

cilantro will taste like soap to you!


I love it, though I get a -slight- soapy taste that's way countered by the green, and tangy taste.

[frazzled]

201. It smells like sweaty gym shoes to me

I know it’s some genetic thing, but tell the truth, I’m not sure my parents ever ate any cilantro. It was not a thing in either their era or culture. So I have no way of knowing if they hated it or not.

[electric_blue68]

202. Oh dear that's worse than soap!

If you inherited a Recessive Gene from each parent - then you could get the soapy taste.

[magicarpet]

5. Lima beans,... yuck....

[hlthe2b]

52. Yeah. I generally like every variety of bean but NOT LIMA BEANS. Uggh.

[catbyte]

6. Sushi, mascarpone cheese, radicchio.

Donuts are way too greasy which is why I don't like mascarpone cheese. I hate that "oil slick" sensation in the roof of my mouth I get from both of them. I don't like bitter or "fishy" either.

[malaise]

92. Never had that cheese but I like regular cream cheese in omelets with green onion

and turkey ham. I had to look up radicchio.

[catbyte]

93. I like regular cream cheese, too. Also creme fraiche, but mascarpone is oily.

[yellowdogintexas]

115. masacarpone all by itself is greasy but put it in a tiramisu

and you are in a whole 'nother world.

I have made frosting with it but only for in between the layers- a whole cake frosted with it is too much.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Raw tomatoes, pickles. nt

[malaise]

13. Adore tomatoes

It's a rare day when I don't eat them.

[Laffy Kat]

21. Most people do.

What makes me even weirder is I was raised in the south; absolutely everyone around me loved "maters'"

[Omnipresent]

9. Chitlin's and miracle whip

[malaise]

14. Not fond of inners

outside of chicken liver

[tblue37]

10. Okra. It tastes great, but it has the texture of snot.

[mitch96]

17. Vinegar works for me to decrease the slime quotient...

https://www.thekitchn.com/technique-lower-13285

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[malaise]

22. Usually use a little butter and fry them take the slime out

and add later - love shrimp and okra.

[yellowdogintexas]

113. okra is best eaten tossed in cornmeal and fried. Preferably in an iron skillet

The best I have ever eaten is at Red Hot and Blue BBQ
It also makes a great stir fry. I slice it very thin and toss it with bell pepper and garlic. Then I take it out of the pan and stir fry zucchini , yellow squash, red onion and celery if I have any.
Set those veg aside and stir fry chicken, pork, beef or andouille sausage

Add some Worcestershire sauce, Cajun seasoning and put everything back together to heat all the way through.

Serve on hot rice. `

There used to be a vegetarian Indian restaurant over in Arlingto that did an okra and tomato stir fry curry that was really good.

[Laffy Kat]

138. Not if it's fried!! nt

[mitch96]

12. Liver... Looks good, smells good cooked with onions.. get it to my mouth and the gag reflex hits.

but But BUT I used to eat liverwurst as a kid. Chopped chicken liver looks like baby shit to me...no thanks..
I don't eat meat accept for an occasional piece of salmon or Avocado/sardine toast a la Alton Brown... YMMV
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[ironflange]

89. I had a big mess of chicken livers for dinner just last night

And boy, were they delicious!

[malaise]

96. I like chicken livers

Nice Sunday breakfast here

[ironflange]

105. Ever tried them wrapped in bacon?

[malaise]

107. Haven't eaten redmeat or pork since 1979

Guess I could try it with turkey bacon

[ironflange]

120. Go for it!

[underpants]

15. Satan's cabbage - brussel sprouts

Evil. Pure evil.

[mitch96]

23. LOL..... almost ruined my keyboard...Satans cabbage..I'm gonna have to remember that one..nt

[malaise]

29. Love 'em

I love most vegetables. I come from a fairly large family and learned early that most of them hated vegetables so I always had my fill. I never needed more than a chicken thigh.

[intrepidity]

169. Speaking of chicken thighs...

do you eat/like that organ (kidney?) in the thigh? It tastes like liver, to me. So if you like chicken liver, you'd probably like those.

[malaise]

170. Indeed but these days I buy mostly deboned thighs

and that's not included. Let me add that for decades I never noticed it.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

16. Any kind of seafood, hazelnuts, kale, rhubarb, ground turkey...

Cooked cereals made me gag (literally) when I was a kid. Still don't like them either.

I'll take your cheese and donuts, LOL!

[malaise]

35. Are you allergic or do you just dislike them?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

84. Oh, I just dislike them.

[Kali]

95. Ugh

Hazelnuts. What is so attractive about hazelnut? So many better nuts out there. Those and Brazil nuts

[50 Shades Of Blue]

98. Ugh x2!

Hazelnuts adulterate so many things and they just taste so awful to me! I don't know how many gifts of chocolates I've pitched or given away because of these nasty little nuts. OTOH, they've saved me lots of calories, LOL!

[tblue37]

117. Almonds & Brazil nuts are my favorites!

[Kali]

126. Almonds are good

Brazil nuts are the kidney beans of nuts. Too big and too much

[malaise]

162. Walnuts and Brazil nuts are my favorites

but I can't tell you the last day I saw a Brazil nut.
One of my siblings sends me three pound bags of almonds, pecans, walnuts and a one pound bad of pine nuts every three months. Most nights those are my late night snacks, but some nights I add chocolate, pastry or raisins.

[MANative]

19. Coconut

Hate EVERYTHING about it - taste, scent, texture. Makes me gag (literally) when I'm near someone using coconut-scented skin or hair-care products. Completely intolerable to me in any quantity.

Raisins (but I'm okay with craisins - weird, I know!) and cilantro never cross my lips.

[malaise]

31. You'd never eat my cooking

I put coconut in everything Love raisins

[MANative]

43. Aww, bummer!

I'm sure you're an amazing cook, but I also think you'd rather not have a dinner guest holding back her gorge!

[malaise]

163. I used to think so until I saw real chefs on TV

I am a rank amateur

[katmondoo]

20. I remember even as a baby in a high chair I hated oatmeal, cream of wheat and all other cooked

cereals. To this day I cannot eat any form of cereal. Should you have to be in a hospital overnight the first thing they serve is oatmeal for breakfast.
I gag and won't touch it. My brother, a year older than me loved his cereal. This gave my mother many problems. At that time this was what all children were given for breakfast. Needless to say I was a very stubborn child.

[malaise]

24. Mom says I spat them all out early

Just hated oatmeal/porridge - nothing has changed

[samnsara]

26. mushrooms, oysters and clams

[Buckeye_Democrat]

144. I've STILL never ate a mollusk of any kind!

No oysters, clams, snails, octopus, squid, etc.

They're often not cheap in the Midwest, but just seeing their generally slimy texture has always been such a turn-off for me that I never tried them. And my grandparents ALWAYS had oysters to eat during Thanksgiving, but I'd close my mouth tightly whenever family members urged me to just try one of them.

Maybe I'll discover later that I love mollusks?

I've been pretty content without them so far.

[brewens]

27. Yellow squash and yams. I think that's why I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin pie as well.

It's just okay for me. I kind of like it but will always go for another variety at Thanksgiving. I hate to deprive those that live for that stuff of even one piece.

[zanana1]

157. I don't like pumpkin pie either.

[Walleye]

28. Bell peppers, red and green, trigger migraines

[Atticus]

30. Crow. nt

[malaise]

33. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

You win the thread

[Clash City Rocker]

32. The first ones that come to mind are mostly sweets of some kind

Marshmallows and anything gummy, mainly because of the texture.

Also licorice, just because I don’t get why people like the flavor.

[malaise]

34. Always found marshmallows insipid

Am very picky about sweets/

[electric_blue68]

192. Lots of things are too sweet for me. And I highly prefer bittersweet choc

I was in heaven once the darker European chocolates made their way to NYC!

[malaise]

193. Check on the dark chocolate from Trinidad and Tobago

It's one of the best chocolate secrets on the planet

[electric_blue68]

194. I might have had some these past 10+ years 👍

[AllyCat]

36. I'm with you on the doughnuts. And bacon is foul.

When I see bacon doughnuts I want to run.

[malaise]

38. Holy Shit there are bacon donuts?

Way too much grease

[MissB]

69. Usually it's a maple bar with a crispy piece of bacon on top.

Sweet and salty. Eh, in practice not that great.

[malaise]

71. I pass

[Diamond_Dog]

37. I dislike hamburgers, ketchup, and mustard.

I have never eaten a McDonalds hamburger. The smell of them turns my stomach.

[malaise]

39. Same here

but I don't eat red meat period

[Diamond_Dog]

40. I don't believe it!

Thank you malaise!!!

Any time I have told anyone I dislike hamburgers they look at me like I have two heads!!



Never even ate em as a kid.

And I don’t like ketchup on French fries, either. It’s the smell ... I guess I’m very smell oriented. The smell of ketchup and mustard turns my stomach.

I, too, stopped eating red meat and pork years ago. Chicken and fish, baby!!!

[malaise]

44. I like ketchup and hot pepper sauce with fries

Love most seafood, chicken or turkey. I don't mind chicken or turkey burgers but I rarely eat them. I had hamburgers in my youth, but they were never that popular here. My generation prefers patties.

[LeftInTX]

134. I had this problem when I was pregnant

However, I love hamburgers

[a kennedy]

159. Only use REAL MAYO on French fries.......OMGAWD. Delish, crept I was getting so fat.

Just eat fries plain now..... but damn mayo was delicious on hot French fries.

[3catwoman3]

41. Bananas.

Not a food, but coffee. I don’t even like the smell.

[malaise]

45. Mom was allergic to bananas so dad would take us to the market

after our morning walk and we'd eat the most perfect bananas.

For that reason I have never liked them when they're too rips. I make banana break once they are too ripe.

[kirkuchiyo]

42. For me its

Bananas. Can't stand them, unless they are aged and turned into bread form.

My oldest daughter hates carbonated drinks of any kind. She will not drink any kind of soda at all. Just milk and water and may be juice from time to time. Probably best for her from a family with a history of diabetes.

[Nay]

46. Steak. And fatty pork chops. nt

[malaise]

152. Wow!

Do you eat meat otherwise?

[Nay]

185. I do fine with chicken breasts and turkey breasts, and truly fresh fish. But I would be happy to be

completely vegetarian.

[Yavin4]

47. Macaroni and cheese

Literally makes me gag when I eat it.

[malaise]

70. I like mine spicy with mustard

but bad mac and cheese can be awful

[a kennedy]

160. Me as well, I always got the sensation my throat was swelling up eating those fat round noodles.....

can’t eat them to this day......can only eat the long flat for skinny noodles just for that reason.

[Throckmorton]

183. Agreed,

My brother insists on making lobster mac and cheese every time we visit. What a horrible thing, in my humble opinion.

[panader0]

48. I have never eaten cheese. I like almost all foods but cheese is a no-no.

I order a pizza to go from my favorite place and when I say No Cheese, they ask,
"Is this panader0?"
My first wife was a strict vegetarian (there were no vegans back then), so I tried three years of that.
I went back to meat when we split up.

[malaise]

59. You have pizza without cheese?

Amazing

[soothsayer]

49. I like it all

That explains a lot about this quarantine 19....

[malaise]

54. Are you part of the weight gain poll?

[soothsayer]

58. Oh yes! I think I'm winning

[EYESORE 9001]

50. Octopus and squid

Perhaps I've never had it prepared properly, but the texture is off-putting to me. Too chewy.

[malaise]

51. Never had octopus but one of my good friends is

married to a guy from the Philippines and damn he can cook squid

[hlthe2b]

57. We now know how incredibly intelligent Octupus are so that would drive me away even if the texture

did not. It feels a bit to me as though I were eating a human--on an intellectual basis. I would never knowingly eat dolphin either

[EYESORE 9001]

61. Don't worry, I haven't had either in a very long time

and I’m even more disinclined to eat them after finding out how intelligent they are.

[Ocelot II]

60. Onions. Damn, I hate those things and they're in *everything.*

I haven't eaten in a restaurant since last March on account of you-know-what, but I might be able to get out again before long, so I will be faced with having to pick bits of onions out of salads, scraping them off burgers and sandwiches, or begging the server please to leave the effing onions out of whatever and finding them in the food anyhow.

[malaise]

63. Howling with laughter

I know a few onion haters

[hlthe2b]

65. I have cravings for raw onion every once in a while--even the pungent ones... Not sure why

Maybe it is the crunch combined with the sweetness of ketchup on a hamburger...But not in "mixed" company...LOL

And onions are the WORSE for those with acid reflux--especially at night. They contain a compound that relaxes the sphincter, so it is probably just as well you don't like them.

[Ocelot II]

66. The problem for me is that they taste like rotting garbage

with a soupçon of battery acid. I don't want them in my food at all, ever.

[Goodheart]

62. Watermelon. YUCK.

[malaise]

64. I love watermelon but I have had a few slices that are

absolutely insipid. I usually squeeze lime or lemon and then it's good to go.

Some watermelon has no taste, but we have lovely tasty watermelon here. I remember buying one in Miami that looked good but was inedible.

[smirkymonkey]

136. I love watermelon!

It's probably one of my favorite foods, but I love anything watery, like cucumbers, certain greens, etc.

I hate milk, cooked cereals, eggs if the yoke and white are separated (will eat omelets, quiche, fritatas if well cooked), tarragon, organ meats or any kind of pureed meat or seafood (pates, mousses, etc.), tuna salad. I'm sure I could think of a few more things, but generally I am pretty adventurous except when it comes to questionable animal products.

[ShazzieB]

67. Too many things to list here.

I'm a ridiculously picky eater, have been all my life. I actually eat a ton more things than I did when I was younger, but there are still a lot of things I can't bring myself to touch.

9kay, I'll name just one: mayonnaise. I can't even stand the smell. It smells absolutely disgusting to me.

[parkia00]

68. Popcorn!

I hate pop corn! Every time entering a cinema I have to hold my breath! The smell of the butter and popcorn make be want to gag. In my nightmares I can see people buying large tubs of popcorn and have that cheap artificial watery butter flavored syrup pumped all over it!

[malaise]

74. I like popcorn at home

but not the fake butter one in the cinemas.
I can see how the smell would upset you.

[MissB]

73. I truly dislike Brussel sprouts and oysters

I’m allergic to the good shellfish like lobster, crab and shrimp. Over the years, I’ve convinced myself that they are horrible foods, to the point where I have a bit of a gag reflex.

I’m allergic to mangos too, but love them. Just can’t eat them.

Pretty much everything else is fair game.

Love the term Satan’s cabbage.

[malaise]

75. Satan's cabbage

looks like the most hated food

[SCantiGOP]

127. Read a while back

That Brussel Sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli are all derived from the same original plant.

[malaise]

128. Makes sense

There is a common flavor - love all three

[electric_blue68]

188. There was a great graphic showing this

[Duppers]

142. Sprouts in England taste entirely different

Than those grown in the States. I was pleasantly surprised.

[musette_sf]

206. What do you perceive as the difference?

I never dug brussels sprouts until I moved to Cali... maybe it's the fresh and locally farmed difference?

[Hoyt]

76. Can't stand mayonnaise. Only like cheese on pizzas and burritos.

[malaise]

79. I know lots of people who hate mayo

I can take it or leave it but I prefer the home made mayo

[Hoyt]

80. I've gone hungry many times because I just can't eat it.

[pnwest]

77. Guacamole. Avocados are just foul, plus

it makes my mouth and throat itch.

[malaise]

81. I'd eat avocado daily if it were available

Love it but I grew up with a tree in our yard and a tree in my paternal grandma's yard.

[pnwest]

85. That's a lovely memory

[SarasotaDem]

78. Sauerkraut

Yuck ...

[malaise]

88. Don't think I had that one since the 70s

with a New York hot dog. I can take it or leave it.

[tavernier]

108. Drain and rinse.

Sauté for half hour adding water from time to time.
Add stick of butter, cup of brown sugar and fry until a little carmelized. Add a handful of caraway seeds toward the end.

You’ll never hate it again. And suddenly you’ll be able to speak Latvian.

[Duppers]

143. Yep! 👍

Never heard of caraway added tho--must try.

I love Ruben sandwiches & make great homemade ones IF I can find really good deli cornbeef & good rye bread. Yum. But one must add proper dressing & sauerkraut, which I find too sour by itself.

[malaise]

171. In my entire life I met one Latvian - a stunningly beautiful woman

over six feet tall. She's my friend's mother Her parents met in England during their college days. She died suddenly last year at the start of the Covid mess. She walked 2.6k four days a week almost to the end.

[musette_sf]

195. or Lithuanian

but yeah, we had this growing up as well. I think it may be time to add some sauerkraut to the Instacart list. (And either kielbasa or knockwurst.).

[malthaussen]

82. Well, I used to hate pizza, but...

“Pavlov’s Dog Needs Only One Iteration”


“I hate pizza,” I said, and she smiled
as she held up a wedge to my mouth.
A bite, the cheese and sauce blending
on my tongue; crunch of crust as I chew, then swallow.

A few bites more, and then with mischief in her eyes
she presses her lips to my startled mouth.
Quick flicker of tongue, as she steals a crumb,
a taste cooler than any liquid to wash down
the commingled flavors.

God, I love pizza.

-- Mal

[malaise]

83. ROFL

[ironflange]

90. Cauliflower

Raw or cooked, doesn't matter, it's just vile.

[malaise]

91. Ha

I love it even in mac and cheese

[jalan48]

94. Cooked cabbage

[malaise]

97. I like most vegetables almost raw

Hate soggy veggies

[jalan48]

99. I love raw veggies too but not cooked cabbage for some reason.

[applegrove]

101. Squash. I could not swallow it as a kid. Would pack it into my cheeks

as a kid so i did not have to swallow till my grandmother would say i looked like a chipmunk.

[Harker]

102. I was going to say "sauerkraut"...

then I remembered I do like it mild and in small amounts in limited circumstances.

[malaise]

103. LOL

Fun thread.

[Harker]

104. Isn't it?

[tavernier]

106. Snickers

Any other chocolate bar is fine, but America’s favorite leaves me cold. I’d rather not have any.

Also I can’t see the big excitement over Prosecco. Nasty. Give me a glass of Sauvignon Blanc, or better yet a good old Manhattan

[malaise]

109. Wouldn't buy them but would eat a small one if offered

I'd give you coffee & chocolate fudge with rum

[tavernier]

110. Keys kid here... rum is mother's milk.

My preference is the gold over the white or dark as a sipper, but it’s all good with coffee or chocolate.

[malaise]

111. Juat two tablespoons of dark

instead of vanilla

[tavernier]

114. I once had a friend who blew up her stove

baking a cake with ovenproof rum. Well anyway, the story gets better every year.

[malaise]

116. I can see that happening

Rum in fudge creates quite a bubbly stir

[tavernier]

118. I should have read that over because my auto correct

changed it to oven proof rum when it should have read over proof rum. But of course you knew that!

[malaise]

119. Bur your friend actually needed oven proof rum

[tavernier]

121. OBVIOUSLY

[Skittles]

112. spaghetti

just fucking nasty

[malaise]

122. Are you serious?

You hate spaghetti as in the noodles?

[Skittles]

123. yes

I just cannot stand the smell or the taste

[malaise]

124. Wow!

I bet there are many others like you

[Shrek]

125. Shrimp

Hard to imagine anything nastier.

[malaise]

148. Love shrimp

[csziggy]

129. Chick peas also known as garbanzo beans

The stuff they make hummus from. I just can't stand the flavor, even when they are in other stuff. I've had them canned, cooked from dried, dried for a crunchy topping on salad, in hummus, and just any other way they can be prepared. Nope, not eating them.

What's odd is that I do like most other kinds of beans that can come dried, fresh, or canned. Just not garbanzo beans.

I also can't handle the bitterness of greens - turnip, kale, whatever. All I get is bitter flavor from them. Raw is impossible, and I've tried cooking them all sorts of ways. The closest I came to being able to appreciate them was in sort of a sweet and sour cooked dish. It was OK, but when I reheated the left overs, I just couldn't eat them.

[malaise]

149. Whenever I want to lose weight, I can eat chick peas

for three days straight. Love chick peas

[csziggy]

165. I'd lose weight, because I'd rather go hungry! nt

[malaise]

166. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah1

[sinkingfeeling]

130. Pea soup, although I love green peas. Can't take the texture of the soup.

[Disaffected]

131. Egg white, raw or cooked - the WORST

Tofu
Peppers, especially uncooked (but I love salsa sauce).
Sweet potatoes (they taste like burnt carrots to me).
Cilantro (tastes like soap).
Organ meats, especially kidneys.

[Duppers]

145. Yep, any organ meat disgusts me.

DH loves disgusting chicken livers. Me cook them? Hell no, he can order them when out. He likes beef liver too but I forbid him to even consume it in front of me.


Story: took our red-meat-eating son out to the most hailed steak house in Baltimore to celebrate his grad school graduation. Everyone at the table ordered steak, of course, but when they brought those rare steaks to the table I had to leave for the restroom. Spent the next 45 mins there until his gf came in to tell me dinner was over. True story.

[Generic Brad]

132. Mochi and natto

They are popular in Japan. My wife can’t believe I don’t like either.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

146. I used to eat natto every day!

I generally avoid anything that looks slimy, but I forced myself to eat it because there was a hypothesis that my rare genetic condition resulted in low levels of vitamin K2 in my body. That was proven to be incorrect in later medical research, and I then stopped eating it.



It didn't seem nearly so awful after I ate it hundreds of times, but it wasn't exactly cheap and it's not like I ever loved eating it.

There was a nearby Japanese grocery store where I'd buy it. (There's several Japanese-owned businesses in my area.)

[malaise]

151. Never had either

[Xolodno]

133. Menudo.

And of course, liver.

[LeftInTX]

135. Ewww...hate it

That blubbery tripe........
I don't get it.

I know it's a holdover from when people couldn't obtain decent cuts of meat, but why the nostalgia????

[Duppers]

147. Geees, had to look that up.

It'd be one of those foods like sushi that I'd never try.

[LeftInTX]

156. I was in Family Dollar and saw canned menudo

I took a picture of it and all menudo loving friends were pretty disgusted...

[hunter]

207. All the grocery stores here sell canned menudo.

It's what you eat in the morning after a night of Bud Ice and cheap tequila.

And just like Bud Ice and cheap tequila it's nothing like the real thing.

[malaise]

161. Me too

[LeftInTX]

137. Malaise: I think you, no hamburger lady and no cheese are the thread winners

Everyone else hates things that everyone else seems to hate.
I love cheese cake.
I like donuts. (I confess, I like them too much)
I like oatmeal, cream of wheat.
I love hamburgers
Can't imagine life without cheese.

[malaise]

150. What about no spaghetti and no chick peas

Those are be two of the planet's staples
Cheese is mostly eaten in the Western hemisphere - you rarely see it in Asian cuisine.
I love cheese.

[LeftInTX]

154. I don't care for chick peas

I love spaghetti though

[Work360]

139. Sushi

[Buckeye_Democrat]

141. That was something that I assumed that I'd hate, but...

... a Japanese woman kept insisting that I try the sushi during a company picnic at a Japanese-owned company.

Almost nobody had touched the sushi except for the Japanese, since the other employees were likewise wary of RAW tuna.

After I started, I probably could've ate the entire gigantic plate of the stuff!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

140. McDonald's McRib sandwiches.

I even ordered them more than once at different locations, thinking that I might understand the appeal eventually. Then I finally gave up on them.

[malaise]

153. Had to look that up

Didn't even know about it

[Buckeye_Democrat]

155. Yeah, they only offer those sandwiches periodically.

I had so many coworkers who raved about them, I was finally compelled to try them.

A big thumbs down for me!

It reminded me of how I usually despise the TV programs at the top of Nielsen ratings too, like "reality shows" and the like. They'll often make me feel like we're all doomed, if that's what is so popular among others. Lol!

[sarge43]

158. Watermelon, squash, sweet potatoes, yams. n/t

[malaise]

164. Mom made a wicked stuffed squash

with either hamburger meat or seafood. Squash is nice in chicken stew - barely cooked

[Tommy Carcetti]

167. Mushrooms.

I just find them unappealing.

Edible fungi--just not a fan.

[malaise]

168. LOL

Love them in certain dishes

[seaglass]

172. Butter. Especially on bread or toast. That makes me gag. I can have a little bit on noodles

or popcorn and also sauteed mushrooms or shrimp scampi - so I think it is just the combo with bread/toast. Same for mayonnaise on bread/toast but a little is ok with tuna or potato salad.

[Tikki]

173. I just like Dark Chocolate...no milk chocolate, white chocolate or truffles.

See's Dark Chocolate Nuts and Chews...twice a year.
That is my only chocolate treat.


Tikki

[malaise]

174. We get pretty good local dark chocolate here

although Trinidad has the best chocolate in the world. I prefer our dark chocolate when baking
I like it way more than I did when I was younger.

[Tikki]

175. There are quite a few Trinidad Dark Chocolate sites to order from online.

Thank you ...I am going to order some and try.

I will let you know how it works out for me.

Tikki

[malaise]

176. They're good enough for Harrods

The experts tell me that Ecuador and T&T have the best cocoa beans on the planet.
Trinidad has some mighty fine dark chocolates - enjoy.

[NNadir]

177. Beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, duck...

I used to eat that stuff when I was a kid - it was what my mother made - but it's been many decades since I ate that stuff, and basically, that stuff grosses me out.

I also hate coconut.

[malaise]

181. Do you eat seafood?

I eat seafood, chicken and turkey.

[NNadir]

184. On occasion, rarely, but on occasion. n/t.

[pacheen]

178. Peanut butter

Makes me gag. Hated it since I was a kid.

But I like peanut butter cups...

[malaise]

182. That's interesting

I thought everyone but folks with nut allergies loved peanut butter

[Rhiannon12866]

179. Peas. I can't stand anything about them. Just the thought makes my throat close.

And I've never been a fan of milk, either. When I was a kid, I couldn't leave the table until I drank my glass of milk. I put it off as long as possible, often just drinking it down to get it over with and then feeling sick to my stomach. I do like ice cream, though.

[malaise]

180. I'm like you with milk

and ice cream but I love peas. I never liked cereal either.

[electric_blue68]

189. Organ meats, sardines ("fishy" fish), mollusks, licorice, cottage cheese, very bitter stuff, sushi

When I was a kid I was such a picky eater. Drove my poor parents crazy.

I started to get better in my teens, and by my 20's I was really going good. I eat Indian (Northern, southern), Chinese (including dim sum), Mexican, Italian, Middle Eastern, Down home Southern, Eastern European, Japanese (cooked)..

I'm half Greek-American (2nd gen) and I hated lamb, yogurt, raw tomatoes, peppers growing up so no shesik kabob for me till my 20's - and we had it each summer from the time I was a kid!

Interesting that I liked feta cheese as a kid. I'd say it was an acquired taste. When I was a kid feta was a cheese -only found- in a Greek Deli !

One of my Greek style salads is feta cheese, sliced beets, walnuts, good olive oil, garlic. Maaaaybe w one other item.

[malaise]

190. You sound like the sibling after me

She too has improved but damn she was picky.
You clearly hated Greek food

[electric_blue68]

191. Ha! Luckily I grew into my Greek heritage! 😄

You can see from all the cuisines I started eating in my 20's that I really blossomed out!

So much more fun this way! 👍😁

[musette_sf]

196. Beets, any winter squash, salmon

Those are my Big Three EWWWs.

I wish I liked them all, especially salmon, but I just can't.

Worst catered lunch ever at work was salad with golden beets, salmon filet, and butternut squash ravioli. I picked around the salad to avoid the beets and that was all I ate.

[malaise]

197. Any salmon or just canned salmon?

I'm not a can of canned foods period and fish in particular although I had no problem as a child.

[musette_sf]

198. Both

though I used to be able to get through salmon croquettes as a kid, I dislike them now. And fresh salmon, just yuck. I can't get past the taste. All freshwater fish has that taste, to me. Probably a holdover from actively disliking pickerel and perch, which were the two kinds of fish we would have when I was a little kid. I like most saltwater fish.

On edit: But I like lox. Go figure.

[malaise]

199. Not a fan of fresh water fish either

[musette_sf]

200. I'll eat speckled trout all day in NOLA

but don't get near me with any of that rainbow trout!

[malaise]

204. My favorite fish is snapper

Yellow Tail or Red but I'll eat most sea and ocean fish.

[jmowreader]

203. Asparagus

I have been to restaurants where the only vegetable on the menu was asparagus. I get that it makes a pretty plate, but I can stand neither the taste nor the smell of cooked asparagus.

Also hate cooked broccoli, but it’s good raw.

[Paper Roses]

205. After reading this thread, I realize how much food I really dislike.

Top of the list: Liver

[Joe Nation]

208. Mushrooms. Any kind. Yuck!!!

How do people eat them?

[area51]

209. Hamburger meat. n/t