Foods you can't stand - why
 

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

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.

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.

Garlic and onions. Smell vile..


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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).

Blue cheese smells like vomit to me...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

brussel sprouts.

Evil little cabbages.

Ketchup. Can taste it even if it is an ingredient.

Brussels sprouts are great if cooked right.

My stepmother is Australian. She would find Vegemite somewhere in SoCal and always put it on toast, sandwiches, etc..

That stuff is NASTY. Its like mold filtered through a sumo wrestler's diaper.

You guys are missing out broiled with balsamic reduction = fantastic

Watermelon....hate the smell and texture turns my stomach.

Tuna and most fish literally make me want to vomit. It will make my stomach start to retch, dry heave.

One of the worst textures was a dessert from Gujarat India. It was paneer wrapped in a cilantro leaf dripped in a sugar syrup.

It tasted like sugary detergent with a consistency of lard mixed with sawdust.

I am one of those people that cilantro tastes like detergent.

Or Bovril...

Baked with bacon and red onions? Yum.

I'm a very picky eater in terms of veggies and what not.
But I'll eat pretty much anything if i don't have to chew on it.

whole, stewed or cooked Carrots used to make me gag, as an adult I can put myself over it, but i Just don't like biting and chewing carrots..
When I cook, I'll use carrots for loads of dishes.. I slice em and dice em and if they are small enough, no biggie, I even grow my own carrots in the garden.

Same with onions, cauliflower whatever.

needs to be chopped small enough or i'm not touching it.

And everything is great once it's in a soup, and the soup has been blended properly.


This all boils down to having been left to my vices as a kid, with parents that didn't do anything right. And ran a snack bar... Basically I grew up in the Belgian equivalent of a McDonalds.


Brussels Sprouts is just rank on all levels.. Smell, taste, texture, Eff that chiiiit.

Arugula lettuce. Went to a snoot snoot restaurant up in L.A. for lunch. I ordered something that had arugula on it and I took one bite and asked for the desert menu. And more wine. I couldn't erase that taste no matter what.

It literally ruined my day.

And I eat salad at least once a day. All kinds.

Vegemite tastes like truffles compared to Brussels sprouts. Only way to cook them to be palatable would be to throw them in a volcano.

Those that hate brussel sprouts, when did you last have them? From what I've heard, they've been genetically modifying them to be less bitter, even I can actually eat a few (especially grilled or broiled) these days, when I couldn't even get near a plate of them (usually poached or boiled...) back in the day.

For me? Pineapple. I had two really bad incidents with pineapple as a child (maybe allergic?) and it's prevented me from voluntarily eating it ever since. The smell does it for me now.

Also, oysters and sushi. I LOVE raw oysters, sashimi, sushi, whatever, as long as it's quick and easy and tasty. Once you get into the crappy oysters that require chewing, or sushi that is just a bit too larger for one mouthful, then things go bad quickly. In this case, it's the mouthfeel.

Bitter describes my ex wife, not Brussels sprouts' flavor