Foods you can't stand!
 

Avocado.

I know, I know--most people love it. But I LOATHE it!

shredded coconut in candy.

Scrapple.
Whiz.

All seafood, esp. :lobstah: and crab

guacamole

All organ meats.

rock candy.

Asparagus is overrated.

Me too on crustaceans (and shrimp...is that a crustacean?)

Me too on coconut.

Hate peppers. Hate potato salad, pasta salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, turkey salad. How'd they ever get the name salad anyway? It's just the ingredients with mayo, isn't it? Hate prime rib.

olives

Seafood and salad (for salad, it's primarily that I dislike vinegar, radishes, peppers, raw tomatoes, and pretty much all salad dressings, so it's a pretty good chance I won't like a particular salad.).

Pickles

Mayonnaise. It's the only thing I can think of that I dislike so much that if I can taste it at all in a dish, I won't want to eat it.

Hey, me too! I can't stand any seafood. (For some reason all my professional colleagues love it, so they're always hunting for seafood restaurants when we go out for dinner at conferences. I once made an entire table do a double take when I ordered the "conch burger," but it was just a hamburger, named after the restaurant--the Conch House.)

I can't stand strawberries. My family thinks I'm weird.

Innerds , oh and cran breeies

bernie bots every flavor beans ( the vomit flavored ones) I like the grass flavored ones.

Broad Beans and Tuna...together, or separate.

I'm with Zippy with the *innerds*.

grape juice
olives
cucumbers
cottage cheese

not a fish fan, tho I do like shrimp, crab, and yum - lobster!

don't like raw onions (but cooked are okay)

don't much like nuts either.

. . . wtf am I doing here? ;)

I'm staying out of this thread. I like every single thing listed here. Except two. Envelope puhleeeze.

Scrapple is not of this earth.

But I do have a vague recollection of one Cellar Dwellar who may have professed a certain fondness for scrapple at some point in the ancient past.

I love scrapple. You've got to cook it until it's crunchy on the outside though. I don't like soggy scrapple.

bell peppers
curry on anything

All the colors? I don't particularly like the green ones (but I wouldn't bother picking them out of something either), but :heartpump the red ones. Orange, yellow and purple are ok by me too.

I heart all the hot peppers but to my taste buds the bells cover up all the other more enjoyable flavors.

Man, you guys hate a lot of things I like.

Avocados are essentials for guacamole lovers like me -- I recommend the Trader Joe's Guacamole Kit with all the fresh ingredients right there including the jalapeno in one box. [Haas avocados, shallots, garlic, jalapeno, a tomato, a lime, salt it to taste: scoop the very ripe avocado out of the skin, mince everything else but the lime -- squeeze that -- and stir them in as you moosh up the avocado.] Avocado dip, on the other hand, is insipid stuff next to the original guac. Sliced avocado also makes Caldo Tlalpen~o from just another Mexican chicken soup (peppered up) into a memorable meal. Tlalpeno's good for anyone with a cold; think Mexican Jewish Penicillin.

Having defended avocado's honor, I'll offer my entries for the Hall of Bleuch: canned diced beets and overcooked beef liver. Raw beef liver always looked more appetizing...

Strong curry in quantity for dinner makes for better smelling sex that night. Try it sometime.

:eyebrow:

I hate anything with an aniseed flavour. Sounds like something you could easily avoid, but you'd be amazed how often good restaurants cook fish with fennel or add Pernod to pork. Grim.

I also hate cucumber - which means I often check check and recheck salad or salad sandwich ingredients. My Mum is still amazed if I order a salad - she thinks I am still 10 and refusing to eat salad because it consists of raw tomato, limp lettuce and a big pile of cucumber. And Heinz Salad Cream - which has a great advert at the moment, but is still revolting.

Not a huge fan of still squirming octopus tentacles. (video not for the squeamish!!)

no liver (bad experience), beets (ewww), turnips (stink), beans (yeah, stink too)

Have you had them? I haven't but I have had cooked octapus, and they were a little chewy. I imagine that raw ones might be more tender.

Me: I'm hungry
Her: Here's a carrot
Me: Oh, god no.
Her: Whyyyy?
Me: Orange
Her: ungh?
Me: Crunchy, evokes memories of a cross-dressing rabbit. And orange. No orange food unless it's curry, candy, or citrus.
Her: ... *crrrruuuuuunch!*

And do you really wanna know how I know? :p :thumb:

no liver or octopus for me, either!

no sushi.

Nothing with that powdered cheese crap on it, like cheetoes or doritos.

Now **that's** fresh!!

Food I can't stand:


CornNuts. Better known as Salted Dental Emergency Lottery! Now in single serving packets!

You must be crazy.

That reminds me. I can't stand cilantro. I can deal with iit f used very sparingly, but not much. There is an "authentic" Mexican restaurant (no, not Taco Hell) in town that uses mostly that in its salsa.

But I know those who adore it.

oh, me either! cilantro is gross. And I eat Mexican food all the time, but if it's got too much cilantro--nope.

I'm with you two. I'm forced to get the tacos at my nearby Qdoba because they lace their rice with the stuff.

(Eff you for hatin' me for going to Qdoba. Actual authentic Mexican = chicken anuses in hot sauce no thanks)

I don't know what Qdoba is, but I've been going to Mexico for 45 years, had Mexican cooks, lived in Mexico (and live on the border now) and never, never had chicken anuses. My cats probably have, though.

I've eaten eggs, which come out of chicken vaginas though and contain, well, you know--unbaby chickens. Also see my comments about TRIPE in the scary foreign foods thread (shudder).

So, you go right ahead and order those tacos!

Haggis
Brussel Sprouts
Brains & Eggs
Tripe, scrapple, or chiterlings - uggg and gross!

You people are weird.

No, just never been hungry.

I like cilantro; it gives depth to tomato salsas which otherwise merely taste of onion and varying amounts of minced chiles. Any damn fool can make salsa hot -- making it complex and subtle takes understanding of the ingredients, one of which ought to be cilantro.

A friend of mine says cilantro tastes like soap, which puts him right off. Tasting, I understand why he says that, but cilantro doesn't bother me -- it doesn't come up to that borderline where it would start tasting nasty.

Brussels sprouts are greatly improved by a generous drizzle of olive oil, as is cooked cabbage.

I vote for Indian food. All of it.

I've tried many kinds and varieties from (allegedly) competent chefs.
Nothing and I mean NOTHING tastes good. Even the Pepsi is 'off' somehow.

I am friends with the owner of a big Indian restaurant in Bensalem despite ordering takeout Chinese at his fetes.

Brian

That you KNOW of. They probably don't label it Los Anus Felinus on the menu. :p

Anything "curry" that's british. Ugh. I don't know what it is, but it's not curry! Blech.
Lima beans -- though I won't pick them out of something.
Green peppers raw give me reflux, but I love other peppers, cooked greens and all chilies.

Hershey's syrup. That's my test for most restaurants -- if there's hershey's "chocolate" sauce on their desserts, they get a failing grade.

Not too fond of :lobstah: either. But I love all other crustaceans and fish in general.

EGGS... can't stand them. I'm talking just straight up eggs or eggy things... if they are mixed into cookies or something like that, I'm fine.

Organ meat... no way in hell.

Mayonaise on sandwiches.... I can tolerate mixed in with things.

I know there are more things, but those are tops.

huh, I've eaten and enjoyed most everything mentioned so far, save the live octopus tentacles. I would probably like the flavor and texture, but am ambivalent about eating something that could walk away from me. I wouldn't go out and buy scrapple, but grew up eating it. Chitlins need to be cooked by someone other than me, and if they are cleaned well, I'm all over them.

Fake cheese in general is common enough in fast food, so it doesn't bother me.

Tarragon is one herb I avoid. It's in a lot of things, it smells as if I should like it, and the taste is not bad if I'm being analytical. I've associated it with migraines somehow and will reject even trace amounts in dressings.

I think I'm having chicken anuses tonight.

Haggis makes me ready to fight the Sassenachs after a long day of marching and piping -- with the breeze at the knees. Can't say as I've met a bad haggis yet.

"Och, my congratulations sirrr. It's the rare foreigner gets to see a wild haggis romp!"