Foods you can't stand - why

[masraum]

We've got a long thread on what foods everyone can't stand. Now WHY can't you stand them?

[masraum]

For me, I think the main reason would either be texture or that the item is gross. I've had foods that didn't taste good, but I usually mark that up to it being poorly made, made with bad ingredients or just a recipe/version of that food that I didn't like.

I love, love, LOVE cheese. I'm also pretty sure that I will not eat maggot cheese. (never say never, but it's damn unlikely). I also don't have much interest in eating brains, eye balls, testicles, etc....

I will eat chicken or calves liver. I also eat sushi including the raw stuff.

THe main thing that I can think of that would fit the "texture" thing is fat, like from pork or beef or if the ends of bacon aren't cooked. I've had tongue that had a great flavor, but the texture bugged me.

[KFC911]

Smell ... I've never even tried sauerkraut ... the smell of my mom cooking it made me wanna puke... I couldn't be in the house.

Reuben sammiches might be good ... but I'll never find out

...and I generally like spicey slaws.... but that stuff reeks.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by KC911

Smell ... I've never even tried sauerkraut ... the smell of my mom cooking it made me wanna puke... I couldn't be in the house.

Reuben sammiches might be good ... but I'll never find out

...and I generally like spicey slaws.... but that stuff reeks.

I've got a buddy that's the same way for kraut and, I think anything cabbage related. His family is Hungarian, and I guess the smell of his grandmother cooking cabbage and kraut was the same for him.

I make sauerkraut. We normally eat it cold, but sometimes we heat it up. I've never noticed that strong a smell. I know that some folks will cook cabbage with vinegar and call that a kind of kraut too.

[VINMAN]

Garlic and onions. Smell vile..


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[masraum]

Smell, that's one that I should have had a separate entry for.

I get it too, I eat several foods that smell bad, but taste good (tuna, fish, stinky cheeses).

[dheinz]

Blue cheese smells like vomit to me...

[Evans, Marv]

For the foods I don't care for, they have a combination of things in your poll - smell, texture, taste, etc. Including a choice like that might draw more votes.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

For the foods I don't care for, they have a combination of things in your poll - smell, texture, taste, etc. Including a choice like that might draw more votes.

I definitely should have included smell, but I made the poll a multiple choice, so folks could choose more than one item since I imagined that there might be multiple reasons.

[Evans, Marv]

Ah, I didn't realize it was mulltiple choice.

[KFC911]

I didn't know this thread was even a poll ... mobile view.

[stevej37]

I'm sort of like Robert on ELR. (but half his size!)
Instead of touching my chin with new food....I almost touch my nose.
If it doesn't pass that test...no way.

[Seahawk]

For the little drips of heaven the rest of my family loved, liver, is to me is a complete, gag a maggot, make a buzzard puke, make a train take a dirt road epicurean disaster.

Smell, texture, taste. Texture, taste, smell. Taste, smell, texture.

You get the idea.

[GH85Carrera]

Recently we went to a local expensive seafood place. They had fresh Atlantic Salmon on special so I ordered it. I should have asked for the sauce on the side. It was VERY sour and tasted like a vinaigrette salad dressing. It was like sucking on a lime and I could not eat it. It just sucked with so much sourness. A ruined meal. They comped my meal.

[Evans, Marv]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

For the little drips of heaven the rest of my family loved, liver, is to me is a complete, gag a maggot, make a buzzard puke, make a train take a dirt road epicurean disaster.

Ha! Ha! This is one of the funniest descriptions I've seen in a loooong time. Gotta be serious!

[jcommin]

In the other OP I listed, I checked the eating it too much in the past.

Golden Delicious apples
Cantaloupe

My family was in food: restaurants and food purveying. As a child, my uncle would bring home cases of both items all of the time. It was just overload.

I like apples and other melons but GD apples and Cantaloupe, I will take a pass on.

The last item is mac and cheese. I never grew up on this and I find the stuff in the box just gross. And I don't get mac and cheese attraction. My sons loved this stuff when they were younger. I made mac and cheese once using artisan cheese and good pasta and my kids hated it - They preferred the stuff in the box.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by dheinz

Blue cheese smells like vomit to me...

Tastes like it, too! Cilantro has a horrible taste, just like bittermelon. Beets reminds me of having to eat them as a child.

[Tobra]

Not just the taste, the smell.

Mom used to cook liver and onions for dad, he likes that crap. I could not even go in the house if she was cooking that stuff.

Brussels sprouts are about the only food I will not eat.

[ckelly78z]

Broccoli, and Cauliflower almost make me gag from the smell, let alone the taste, and the texture.

Thanks ^^^Tobra, I will add Brussel Sprouts to the list as well.

[Pelicun666]

brussel sprouts.