Let’s talk about food. Feel free to talk about the food you love, but what I’m really interested in is the food you hate! The idea of personal taste is so strange to me — that I can love mushrooms but my wife can’t even look at them. That my wife adores olives but they make me want to vomit. Such a strange thing.
On the whole, I tend to eat almost anything. I don’t think of myself as fussy. I’ve eaten some weird things in my time: lamb’s brain, insects. I’ll generally try anything once.
But…
Olives are horrible.
I don’t like artichokes for some reason.
That’s pretty much it.
My wife will not eat mushrooms. EVER. I love mushrooms. I love garlic mushrooms, I love mushrooms is my bolognese I love mushrooms in my scrambled eggs — but I can’t add mushrooms to anything I cook. It’s brutal.
Anyway, what food do you guys and girls completely despise?
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131 responses to “Off Topic: What Food Do You Absolutely Hate?”
Olives and Seafood for me. I can eat some fish under specific conditions, I think it psychological..
heh, same as my list too. I’ll eat salmon cooked cleanly when it is more or less by itself on the plate, I can eat calamari if it isn’t rubbery but that’s it.
I have had an issue with fish ever since I was about three. We went to a fish farm in the UK, caught our own fish and I was forced to clobber one to death with a stick. Then eat it later. It tasted revolting and the whole affair put me off fish completely. Taste and texture aversion both.
Many years later on a trip to Japan with my Dad, I tried sashimi and found I had no issues with it and actually really liked it, so raw fish was fine. Additionally I’m okay with most shellfish (except cooked oysters) and completely fine with squid and so on. So earlier this year I started having really mild fish cooked with sauces and stuff to try and get used to it a bit, and found that with the right fish and the right recipes, I actually enjoy it. Slowly widening what I can have by trying more fishy stuff. I’m completely over the issues I had with the texture of it now too.
Still can’t stand tinned fish though. Something about the canning process accentuates that gross oily fishy taste and smell.
I suspect this is a common phenomenon then, I can’t eat most fish too. I can however, eat prawns, crab, battered calamari, and cans of tuna liberally mixed with Kewpie mayo and whatever hot sauce I have lying around.
I will eat raw mushroom in a salad, but I will not eat a cooked mushroom in anything.
Yeah, fungi is weird.
Some people find them slimey once cooked.
My mum growing up wouldnt eat mushrooms, but one day out of the blue did and loved them, very strange.
The only thing i wont eat is capsicum, i can smell and taste that filthy vegetable a mile off.
Here’s a link explaining why it’s not the best to eat mushrooms raw, even the common supermarket ones.
http://www.mykoweb.com/articles/EatingRawMushrooms.html
And maybe you should all just try some different mushrooms to what the supermarket sells. Porcini will blow your mind, shiitake is great too. As are saffron milk caps and others. They are VERY different to the ones supermarkets sell which are all the same variety, agaricus bisporus, just at different stages of growth.
Generally considered carcinogenic and difficult for humans to digest. I think that probably applies to lots of things that I eat. #yolo
Fair call. I haven’t tried a broad variety.
Olives, anchovies. Yoghurt. I used to loathe mushrooms but over the last 10 years I’ve tried to eat them a little bit and converted. Olives will never be on my plate though.
Cantaloupe/Rockmelon: Never developed the taste for it. I can tolerate it if it’s mixed into a juice or a fruit salad where other flavours drown it out, but not on its own.
Boiled Eggs: More of a texture thing for me. I was allergic to them as a kid, and never developed a taste for them. Any other style of egg is fine, but not boiled.
Same here, I have never liked rockmelon. I think that’s about it, I’ll eat pretty much anything else.
Cantaloupes must have been cheap at some point when I was a kid, as mum used to serve them up for dessert so often it got the point where I said I didn’t like them to get out of having to eat them. I was completely over them. So, I can eat them now, but I choose not to more often than not. I really don’t like basil. Pesto is vile. But I LOVE coriander and a lot of people can’t stand that.
I’m much the same Mark, I’ll try anything, there really isn’t anything I won’t eat – no, just thought of it, fennel. Can’t stand it, but I’ll eat aniseed rings all day long.
How would you describe the insects? I’d love to try them but haven’t as yet.
I was culturally guilted (I reckon that’s a thing) into trying fried grasshoppers, which were placed in front of me in Japan. I went for the crunchiest, most overcooked one in the bowl – kind of like the brittle bits of fries that are left at the bottom of the bag.
It didn’t go down too badly – in fact, well enough that I figured I’d give another one a crack. The next one was bigger and exploded its guts against the inside of my cheeks when I bit down on it. I gagged, and spent the next two hours trying to worry the remnants of its legs out of my teeth with my tongue. I thoroughly do NOT recommend insects.
Seafood, nearly all varieties.
There is some fish I will be able to stomach, but all shelled sort of seafood is disgusting.
Vegemite; the smell alone makes me gag.
I agree with everything you say except the vegemite. It makes such a tasty breakfast.
Coriander!
It is the devils food and should be eradicated for the noxious weed that it is!!!
It reminds me of fish food.
Yup. It’s all in the genes, apparently those with a certain gene find Coriander to taste like soap, which really kind of ruins any dish it’s in.
Interesting. I know a few people who hate coriander and I’ve never understood it as I find it a pretty unobtrusive flavour.
I find it completely obtrusive in a good way. It has such a unique flavour and there are so, so many dishes that can be enhanced bit a bit of coriander, either as an ingredient or sprinkled on top garnish style.
More info – http://reasoniamhere.com/2013/09/24/why-10-of-the-population-hates-cilantro-and-the-rest-doesnt-know-any-better/
I just learned something! I always assumed it was sauce-bearnaise syndrome.
My brother thinks fresh coriander smells like dead ants.
I love the stuff, though. Really enjoy a sprinkle of fresh coriander on noodles and salad.
Coriander is awesome
I’m super judgemental (to the point of absurdity?) about adults who “hate” certain foods – it feels so childish to me. My kids “hate” lots of foods, but the more we persevere (and continue to read them Green Eggs and Ham) the more they start to try them and eventually develop a taste for them.
But once a person becomes and adult, they don’t have to learn to develop a taste for certain foods because they’re their own boss and nobody can tell them what to do, so they just never bother. Through childish laziness some people just miss out on huge ranges of the food spectrum, like seafood or curry! It just hurts to think about all that pleasure they’re missing out on because they are stuck in such a childish mentality. Grow up!
You do not like them. SO you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may I say!!!!
Having said all that, I hate cooked chunky tomato, can’t stand it! EEUGH! Gross, get that shit away from me. 😛Totally agree, We went to an Asian restraunt the other day with my parents, my dad refused to the point of childishness to try satay sauce on a spring roll.
but the killer is that he refuses to eat pineapple and my mum refuses to eat mushrooms.
their logic makes no sense to me as they haven’t had this food since as long as I remember as they just flat out refuse.
When I cook, I use mushroom in absolutely everything (that and spinach), in retort I usually refuse to leave it out of a dish, if mum wants to be childish about it and pick out all the little pieces she is welcome to, but I won’t sacrifice the full dish for the sake of something that just makes no sense (mushroom barely changes a flavour either so I just don’t get it)
It makes buying a pizza particularly annoying as I love both pineapple and mushroom but neither of them will eat a supreme or a ham and pineapple unless the ingredients are removed from it. It just reminds me of being a 10 year old.
I have an aversion to certain foods (Olives and anchovies for instance and cucumber is the spawn of satan) but I still begrudgingly eat them although will avoid if given the option.
It just doesn’t seem like the mature thing to do to stand up and make a song and dance about refusing to eat a certain food because I didn’t like it upteen years ago (probably from external influences) and refuse to change my ways and try it again or acknowledge my tastes might have expanded since I was 10.
I agree in that I find people who hate entire cuisines are generally pretty childish. The “I hate chinese food” crowd really gets me all the time. Really? You hate chinese food? Do you even know what chinese food is? Do you have any clue how much food varies from region to region in China?
@darren
I have a 60 year old relative who refuses to eat pretty much everything unless he can have tomato sauce with it. I don’t get how people can think that.
I know a guy who is an adult and super fussy. He is in his 40’s at least, has a wife and 3 kids. Kicker is that his wife is an amazing cook and makes great stuff. She will make something separate for him.
He will eat only 2 kinds of cereal, tomato soup, plain chicken, sausage, steak, no veggies except potato and I think either carrots of peas. Bread and a few other things.
I can’t understand it.
That’s crazy. I have a young relative who is very similar, but with an even more restricted diet (no veggies, barely any fruit, no meat etc, mostly just bread). I have no idea how he is not terribly sick from it. He’d been enabled his entire childhood to not have to try any food and I’m worried he won’t be able to ever break out of that.
It’s just funny when you become a parent and you hear your kids saying “I don’t like strawberries” and you know it’s just because they’re being kids… and then you hear an adult say “I don’t like seafood” and you wonder why people think it’s okay for a grown up to be fussy.
Kids are funny. My not quite 2 year old will sometimes refuse to try something new. However if the same thing is on my plate and I’m eating, it’s obviously awesome and he wants a bite of that.
edit – Just remembered that a work colleague does not eat anything green. Gets salad substituted for chips, doesn’t eat garnish etc.
I do that. Salad is just so damn boring to me that I’d prefer chips. That said, I have a vegie shake every night to even it out.
I’m 38 and I hate seafood. I used to eat it as a kid, but now I can’t stand it. Just the smell of it makes me want to throw up. Same with bananas. It’s fine for “grown-ups” to not like stuff, as long as they’re making sure their kids know that sometimes we all have to eat things we don’t like because it helps our bodies and brains work properly.
I just don’t think it’s childish to not like certain foods. As an adult you’ve earned the right to choose what you eat, whether it’s good or bad it’s your decision and you have to live with it.
I don’t know how you “earn the right” to choose what to eat though – unless you went through years of eating things you didn’t like as a sort of culinary initiation of suffering that was your childhood, culminating in a final test of endurance by downing a dozen raw oysters. 🙂
Okay, seafood is a hard one because some people are really put off by the smell, not the easiest food to get used to if you’re not. I feel bad that you’re missing out on seafood, but it’s well within my range of semi-reasonable dislikes.
But what if a grown up said the same thing about all vegetables or fruit? I would absolutely lose a little bit of respect for a grown up saying “I’m an adult now so I don’t have to eat my veggies, I just want to eat meat!” – being older doesn’t make a person an adult, acting like an adult does.
Hehe I don’t know how I can continue arguing this without insulting people personally, so I might stop now with one final “You’re all a bunch of fussy fuss-pots, and if I was your dad you’d learn to love whatever food you say you don’t like or so help me there’d be hell to pay!”. 😉
As a child I really did have to try a whole bunch of different stuff, and eat all manner of things I didn’t like so yes, I really did earn my right to choose not to eat seafood! Except I do eat it on occasion, because it’s good for me. 😛 That is also my right to choose.
Chickpeas. I lived with a vegitarian woman who used to cook them in meals about 5 times a week. The house used to constantly smell like chickpeas. I do not miss that smell!
There’s generally nothing I won’t eat, but there’s some caveats.
Tomato, love cooked or in sauces. Not a giant fan of them raw.
Salmon has to be done right. Probably my least favourite fish.
Anything meat that still resembles the original animal, can’t touch it. Examples such as whole fish, pig on a spit, etc. Makes me feel physically ill. Maybe it’s something about eyes. Prawns that have the head removed I’m fine with, even though they resemble the original animal. Never thought about this in any detail.
Apart from that, I’m pretty easy going with food. I think food preferences are learned (nurture vs nature) – I don’t think there’s any kind of genetic predisposition to liking or disliking certain foods. Well, actually that’s not right. Coriander / Cilantro enjoyment has been shown to be genetically linked… I’m just talking out my ass now.
Oats.
Just kidding.
Ginger and celery
Celery. That thing has such a strong disgusting taste. I classify it as a garden weed, not a vegetable.
I’m in the middle with celery. I’ll tolerate it in a dish/soup or whatever, but by itself it’s just nasty. Such a weird taste.
I can’t stand the shit in anything. It just ruins the taste as soon as it touches my mouth. It’s like the taste equivalent to a bit of sandpaper in a bowl of icecream – extremely jarring and very unpleasant.
Parents are european and they hate it too. Said they never even saw it before coming here.
Oh man. TOMATOES. Seriously. The revulsion these things evoke for me is immeasurable. 30+ years of testing have narrowed it down to the physical consistency. Taste is fine – tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato soup – hell, even tomato juice is OK. But raw tomato is just awful. Even the smell of someone cutting fresh tomato is awful.
Further to that, pineapple is the same. Taste is fine, but the physical fruit itself is just wretched. Stringy, weird consistency that makes me gag.
Strangely, I also hate fruit pretty much across the board. Except for staples like apples or maybe bananas. But on the flipside, I can’t think of a single vegetable I’m not happy with. Even brussel sprouts are good. Freshly cooked vegetables are amazing, but fruit is weird.
EDIT: GINGER. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. WHO EATS THAT. NOPE.
Pretty much agree with everything you say…. especially pineapple…. Love pineapple juice, but the raw fruit is fucking vile….. As is most fruit….
If it’s any consolation, fruit is basically the semen of the plant world…..
EDIT: And yes, vegetables are awesome!
Wow, I’ve never seen such passionate fruit hatred before. Can’t say I relate in that respect, except for kiwifruit. My mouth has a love-hate relationship with those things. Sometimes I really crave them, but they do something really strange to the back of my tongue. Like a weird fuzzy feeling. Unpleasant.
Re: tomatoes, my dog used to go nuts whenever I’d cut them. Don’t know if it was the smell or the sound but something told her that they were delicious and must be eaten. Then I’d give her some and she’d turn her nose up at them every time.
NOOOO GINGER IS AMAZEBALLS!!! How could you ;_;
Seafood and mushrooms. I forced myself to eat seafood on a date once and I can still taste it, years later.
Sounds like that date ended in an interesting night if you still get the taste of seafood 😉
Onions!! Of any kind. I hate them. HATE THEM!!!
Is it cos the meanies make you cry? 🙁
Totally agree with this! I actually can’t stomach them well though, I got a gene from Dad that makes me physically feel horrible and bloated. Problem is I’ve developed a pavlovian response to the taste so any onion and my mind immediately tells me to shelve that shit before I feel like Dilbert’s Dad at the buffet :/
Avocado. It is the most obnoxious of fruits! When I don’t like something in a salad (like tomatoes for instance), I can pick around them and still enjoy it. But avocado makes a point to smear itself all over every other ingredient and also the damn salad tongs!
Nature’s butter my ass…
I’m with you their buddy I made the mistake to first try avocado on a foot long sub worst taste had to scrap as much as possible before I could bear to eat it ruined my lunch
We would not get along.
Any type of seafood. Particually Tuna, as soon as that smell wofts near me I commence with the gagging.
I’ve adopted a mantra over the past few years, since moving to Sydney and dining at some of the finest restaurants: look for the enjoyment in every possible type of food. If someone likes that food, then there is a reason for that and I want to try find it and experience it. It may sound silly and you may disregard the idea as preposterous…but it has genuinely worked.
Apart from mustard and dark chocolate. They can fuck right off.
Eggs, Mushrooms, Bananas, Avocado, Olives, Anchovies, and nearly all types of Seafood. I’ll pretty much eat anything else.
Seems like it may be a texture thing for me. I still try them all semi-regularly to see if my tastes have changed, but it’s usually a resounding no.
hmm. I also don’t like a lot of types of ham. Perhaps that stems from the smoked flavor though, as I’ve had plenty of Christmas hams that dominate all.
Ask your Deli section for ham off the bone, it is the least processed ham and actually tastes like ham (it is what Christmas ham comes from I think). The one warning is it is 20 plus dollars a kilogram
I enjoy eating pretty much everything – except alfalfa sprouts – those are vile.
I’ve found most people will say that they enjoy eating everything and that they’re not picky, but once you get into the details it turns out they don’t like spicy food, seaweed, oysters, asparagus and all manner of other deliciousness. I learnt from my dad that just because you don’t enjoy something once doesn’t mean that next time you won’t have different expectations and find something to savor.
Edit: All this food talk.. I’m going downstairs to make an open-grilled turkish bread sandwich with chedder, olives, mushroom, grilled capsicum and pesto… mmm, you cowardly olive-haters don’t know what you’re missing out on.
I love everything everyone’s already listed on the page, and was struggling to think of anything I don’t like. A couple reminded me of some things though.
Eggs – I absolutely HATE a hard yolk. Scrambled is fine, but if the egg is still with yolk intact then it needs to be runny, otherwise it’s just gross. And the guy mentioning disliking salmon – between the two, I love salmon but am not that big a fan of tuna. There are some tuna dishes that I love, but generally I’m not that big on it.
Otherwise yeah food is pretty rad.
Olives. Mushrooms. A lot of things really, but I eat it anyway, except olives. Nope to olives.
Don’t like mangoes. I dont hate them. I just don’t like them.
Garlic can be so good at times.
Blue cheese. It tasted like being punched in the balls and all I could smell was feet for the next six hours.
Yep. I’m with you there, one of my uncles is of an Italian background, so one christmas, his parents brought some blue cheese over, and begged me to try it… “it’s the most amazing thing ever, you’ll love it…”
It tasted like dust and feet.
Mushrooms… I’ve tried and tried, they taste like rubber and they smell like my brothers socks from when he used to be a tradie.
I used to hate Avocado and Olives, now I love them.
I’m not fond of celery or capsicum, but I do enjoy chilli, so go figure. I won’t partake in licorice either, but I love sars and root beer. Crazy huh?
“I had a feeling there’d be mushrooms in Hell…” – Guybrush Threepwood
I’m also not much good with some of my wife’s more intense Chinese ingredients, like fermented beancurd, stinky tofu, etc.
Zucchini.
Swede, turnips, tuna and I’m with you on the olives Mark.
Things I used to hate with a passion, melted cheese, mushrooms and I went off mince for ages after continuously getting bits of gristle in it. I now love all of these things
Preparing for probably the most downvoted comment in the history of this site……. but….
Bacon……
My goodness that shit is fucking disgusting. I don’t even ‘like’ it in general, let alone understand the internet fanboi-esque praise of this fried pig flesh stuff….
get out
This will certainly not be a popular opinion.
I’ve got the pitchforks, who’s bringing the flaming brands?
I just up-voted you because I felt bad for you being downvoted just for expressing your (terrible) opinion.
But he’s wrong!!!! JUST WRONG. The number of times I’ve heard from friends and family that “I’d go vegetarian, as long as Bacon was a vegetable. But it isn’t, so I’m not.”
Eggs. I will happily eat anything else bar eggs and tin sardines. Mushrooms, Avocado, all other Seafood, Tofu, Celery no problem at all. Chickpeas? I will eat hommus until the sun rises. Licorice I wouldn’t pick but I don’t mind things with Fennel in them and I will swig back a black Sambuca better than your average punter. Salmon isn’t by any means my favourite fish but I will eat it.
You put eggs or tin sardines in my general direction and I will be immensely displeased.
I’m one of those Asians who was born here and don’t eat things such as chicken feet, tripe etc.
I also dislike octopus and muscles especially on pizza.
Yeah, I’m an Asian as well, but I wasn’t born here.
I also dislike muscles. I don’t mind mussels though. =P
I am white and born here and I love chicken feet.
Me too dogg. All that sticky collageny goodness.
I LOVE eggs, but runny eggs make me gag.
Scrambled, cooked, you name it, so long as the yolk is firm. Sadly runny is how most of the foodies prefer them, and how they’re served in cafes unless specifically requested.
A runny egg even smells different. It’s very upsetting.
Olives and Mushrooms….and Seafood and beans and broccoli and cauliflower and raw tomato, and onion and i don’t eat meat off the bone or the fat on or around the meat, only eat chicken breast, don’t eat skin or any kind, meat or vegetable. Phew! That’s just for starters.
Mushrooms, Seafood of any kind, Avocados & Olives
Scanning through the comments, I can’t say I hate anything. Not a massive fan of rockmelon/cantelope/watermelon/honey dew melon…. I don’t hate them, but if there’s pineapple, grapes, berries, or anything else, I’ll go to them first.
Avocado, olives, seafood, mushrooms, all awesome. You’re all nuts (lol)
I will eat anything 😐
Me too! There are things I don’t tend to eat, but that’s less because of hate and more because there are other things I like to eat more, and only so much eating one can do.
I have 4 daughters which are into cooking like my wife and I’ve learned to be open minded we even have themed weeks occasionally were we will try food from a particular country……next week it will be east European foods for example.
my wife collects cook books as a hobby as well as gaming 😀
Anchovies. Everything else is fair game.
Mayo and any food covered in mayo.
It’s smells gross and is made of egg which kinda weirds me out. :c
I can’t actually think of anything natural that I just can’t bring myself to eat, but then maybe that’s because I haven’t eaten a lot of things to know. Now, if we’re talking processed foods, I can name a whole bunch of stuff that I don’t like.
Chinese fish balls or fish sticks. I hate those things. Also peas.
Lambs Fry… or for the uninitiated lamb liver. My mum absolutely loves it and as a kid used to cook it up quite often because it was a cheap meal, weirdly i love the bacon and onion gravy it is cooked in.
Not a huge fan of tomatoes, i can have it in a pasta sauce and have recently started it like tomato sauce, if i have a pie it’s usually without sauce. I’ll just leave my Australian card on the desk shall i. 😉
Im not fond of onions if they are cut into large chunks and i have only just started to eat chicken again because of a cooking incident back in school.
Its not on the menu but some Nando’s will do a peri peri livers….an African at work told me about it and behold they actually do it at my store for about $10
Lots of stuff I dislike… But will happily try again every now and then.
But what I can’t stand… Even hate…
Tinned tuna.
Take that filthy grey, fibrous stench and launch it into orbit around Jupiter.
Yoghurt – hey here’s some soured milky cream stuff – enjoy!!
Any seafood other than fish or calamari – do not like squishy gross textures – I’m from NSW originally and went to a fish n chip shop in Vic and ordered scallops…. They ain’t no potato cakes!
Corn, I can eat it… but once you become a parent you realise nobody digests corn…
Lychees (I think they may be poisonous to humans cuz they taste vile)
Olives, Sundried Tomatoes, Exotic Cheese (basically anything where people are testing the limits of human tolerance to bacteria)
Kimchi, olives and anchovies. I’ve tried them all a few times and I really don’t like them.
Pumpkin and pretty much any type of melon. Bleurgh.
Also, I don’t mind the taste of asparagus, but the smell of tinned asparagus makes me want to wretch.
Bananas are the most disgusting thing in the history of the universe
Olives, mushrooms, asparagus, eggplant & seafood are all things I don’t like but I’d happily eat a plate full of them rather than smell the vile stench of a banana
Parmesan smells like vomit to me, and it makes me gag and want to vomit, myself, whenever someone has it within a 10m radius. Preferably ON the parmesan, to spare everyone involved. Similarly, I am convinced that the noxious blue cheese is a tribal/native “let’s see what we can get the outsider to eat out of respect for our customs” joke that went way too far.
Squash is a nothing vegetable and serves no-one as ‘food’. It is not food. You might as well chew on tree roots or leaves. Anyone who puts them in with actual food must be irrationally and unnecessarily desperate for nutrients and obviously takes no actual joy in eating. Cauliflower very nearly falls into this category itself, and its only saving grace is that people very frequently cook it with so much cream and cheese that its blandness is possible to ignore in favour of the beauty that is cream and cheese.
Pineapple I simply cannot stand. My uncle owns a pineapple farm and we had plenty of them as kids. Perhaps too many. When I am king, people who put pineapple on pizza will be branded enemies of the state and dragged out into the street to be shot in the mouth.
NUTMEG!!!
I love all types of food, and almost everything others have mentioned above I enjoy, but there are a couple of standouts that I just hate:
Cooked capiscum, blegh :p
I like fresh capsicum in a salad, but cooked it goes all mushy and horrible, keep that rubbish away from my pizza.
I hate white chocolate, even good quality white chocolate. Absolutely disgusting, yuck.
Boarding school, 2 overdone grilled lamb chops, lumpy mash, julienne carrots and peas,
every. single. night.
25 years later and the smell of lamb cooking still turns my stomach.
I’ve forced myself to try it, as the wife and kids like it, so occasionally now I’ll eat a lamb roast or cutlet, but I don’t enjoy it.
Other notables:
That last 1cm at the bottom of a bannana.
Love/Hate relationship with prawns, some days I love them, other days I wont touch them.
Roll Mops.
Porridge.
I never had them growing up (being of Asian heritage) and when porridge was presented as breakfast for the first time in my life at a school camp, I tried it and I couldn’t eat it. I just don’t like the taste, nor texture or anything about it. Never had any since.
This really shows the big disconnect people have with where food comes from, in particular meat.
Though I’m pretty much the same, I remember we used to own chickens when I was younger, could not stand the site of killing it, stayed inside when it was happening, but once it was cooked up one of the most delicious chickens I’ve ever had in my life, I probably would not have eaten it had a seen, maybe, cause it was good.
Capsicum. Just capsicum.
I cant stand seafood to the point it makes me sick
Cannot stand the taste of lamb (so unaustralian I know)
Most seafood and shellfish I find revolting, strangely I love canned tuna
Don’t like watermelon or rockmelon.
I was extremely fussy as a child, wouldn’t eat mushrooms, onions, pickles, any green veggies or red meat.
as a man of italian descent, not liking olives makes me a failure to my family.
Also not a fan of tomato unless it’s in a Kebab, that’s the only time i can tolerate it.
oh and pumpkin, disgusting horrible pumpkin.
Chocolate, can’t stand the stuff.
One: don’t like the taste
Two: when I eat enough, like six malteasers, (I kept eating despite the taste due to primary school social pressures) I actually feel ill.
All these bizarre articles have ruined Kotaku.
To the dismay of everyone I know, Mangos! Can’t stand them. To me they have a bizarre metallic taste. Maybe it is genetic like the coriander debate earlier in the comments.
Raw tomato can eat sundried cooked chopped finely but you throw a large piece of tommy on my plate and i will throw it back. Broccoli, Cucumber, cannot actually chew peas i have to swallow them and even then im not a fan.
As mentioned earlier, I can’t do onions. I know they’re in everything, except in my house when I grew up. Dad and I can’t eat them due to our guts swelling up like nobody’s business and feeling bloated for what feels like eternity. It’s just the bloody worst!
Also having eating all sorts of things in my life (pan fired crickets, whole deep fried river shrimp, raw horse meat) I can’t do Uni (sea urchin). It just tastes like mud 🙁 No matter how many times I try it I can’t get on board. However if I ever end up in the Tsukuji fish markets, I’ll try it as fresh as possible.
That’s the key with uni – freshness. When fresh it’s like an oyster and butter had a baby. Chowed down on about a ton in Mexico last year and they were cracked open then and there, whereas the ones I’ve had at Japanese restaurants in Australia have tasted like iodine.
Yeah seems to be the consensus. Cheers for the tip 😀
I tried it fresh as part of a sushi plate in the Tsukiji Fish markets in tokyo. For Breakfast no less! It was delicious – rich and luscious like a soft-boiled egg yolk.
I’m kinda with you on the olives @markserrels. Never really liked them myself. I can handle a bit on a pizza or such, but on their own.. bleah!
Corriander is one of the few things I try to avoid as well. Again, a little bit in some things is ok, but I find it dominates a lot of other flavours, and seems like it’s all I can taste in some dishes.
Apart from those though, there’s not much else I flat out refuse to eat, or hate with a passion. Perhaps Kidney… can’t say I’ve ever had a dish with kidney in it that I wanted to go back for seconds of before, but then I haven’t had a lot, and I’ve never had a kidney dish cooked by a proper chef, so that may change my opinion.
My sister is dead set against tomato’s, and gag’s if she tries to eat them, but she’s also fussy about a lot of foods too.
Seafood
offal just hate it and tripe yuck!
There’s a long. long list of foods I dislike, but I’ll keep it brief.
Spinach is the devil’s smegma. In fact, if I could go back in evolutionary history to eradicate the processes which caused spinach to survive through differentiating itself from rotten cow’s shit, I would. Even if it meant that an entire branch of the food spectrum is subsequently erased from its potential existence, so help me God I would laugh as I watched spinach’s biological predecessor burn.
Last time I visited Taiwan I had a bowl of fermented tofu, I really couldn’t eat it….i did give it a shot though. I also went to a place that does fugu but they weren’t serving it that night :'( …. I just wanted to say FUGU ME
Wow, nothing in this thread is something I wouldn’t eat with gusto… maybe tofu but that’s mostly because the of the fact it would be replacing some kind of meat. I can’t see myself eating a chickens foot because I can’t imagine there being anything to chew on, besides if I have a chickens foot where the hell is the rest of the chicken? Not sure about insects but if I was ever offered one I’d have to give it a try even if I immediately after decide that it’s filthy disgusting and only fit for post apoc survival rations
If you like chicken wings, you like chicken’s feet. Same taste, just different shaped bones. Remember in chinese cooking the whole bird gets eaten up.
Avocado, any from of offal/tripe, clams / mussels.
Out of curiosity, I’d love to know for those who said blanket ‘seafood’, did you grow up in the country / away from the coast? I was born and bred along way from the coast, and it took me years and years to be able to eat seafood..
I reckon a good portion of the issues here could be solved with better quality ingredients and better prep. If you don’t like mushrooms you are doing it wrong. They’re pretty much pure umami.
Me, I don’t deal well with oily food. I tend to avoid hot potato chips and bacon and like needs to be dabbed clean of the pools of oil that they tend to come with.
Broccoli – disgusting!
I don’t have any food that I really dislike, but I can’t eat supermarket frozen fish. I’m not sure why, because I don’t mind the taste, but just the scent makes me gag.
Sweet potatoes, pumpkin, beet root and tofu (might as well eat a sponge).
Tomatoes can go ahead and die.
Capsicum. Fucking. Capsicum.
Eggplant – I can eat it, but would rather not be in the same room as it.
Dates – Grainy fruit poo coated in roach wings.
Figs – Grainier fruit poo which look like buttholes when dried.