Question Of The Day, Friday, July 20

[Winchester]

Good morning! And Happy Friday! I'm waiting for the weekend.

You all know my feelings for cream cheese. IMO, it's diseased and should be declared illegal. It's just nasty stuff. I also feel that way about eggplant. My MIL made ratatouille one time and forced me to eat a bite. I gagged and had to put it into a paper towel. Awful, awful stuff. Shouldn't even be considered food. I think those are the only two foods I simply cannot tolerate (although sour cream is right up there, too; my MIL put sour cream on a baked potato for me one time and I wouldn't eat it).

So....what food or foods do you absolutely despise? Is there a food that you think is diseased or shouldn't even be considered food?

 

[denice]

Asparagus I know it is a delicacy. I actually grew up with it, my father had it in the garden every year which I guess is a bit of a feat for a home gardener. We had it a lot for about a month every year and I never cared for it.

 

[Draco]

Mustard. Don't like the color of it, don't like the smell of it, don't like the taste of it.

it's gross.

 

[foxxycat]

Sardines. Nasty buggers. Cooked cabbage like New England boiled dinner (ham/onion/potatoe/cabbage) YUCK.

I love cabbage in stir fry or in egg rolls but swimming around in water?! Nope! My sis loves that dinner...i hate it! I will eat the ham but nothing else.

 

[Lari]

Mustard. Don't like the color of it, don't like the smell of it, don't like the taste of it.

it's gross.

I agree.

Also tomatoes/ketchup/red sauce.

And cilantro tastes like soap, but my bf loves it. Idk.

There's probably more, because I'm kind of a picky eater, but I'll stop here for now.

 

[sivyaleah]

Fennel. Anything anise/licorice flavored.
Just. No.

 

[weebeasties]

Rosemary and mushrooms. Blech!

 

[Katie M]

Mushrooms and carrots. No matter how well they're cleaned and prepared, they always taste like dirt to me.

 

[Kal_shadowsmom]

Growing up my dad would always eat pickled pigs feet. Most disgusting thing ever.
My mom would eat blood sausage growing up, I never could wrap my head around that one.

Tripe: never had it, never will. Looks gross, smells gross. Nope.

 

[Kieka]

Brussels sprouts. Just can’t do the flavor or the texture. Blah.

 

[Willowy]

Shrimp, crab, lobster. Sea bugs, ick.

It's the texture I can't stand, not the taste. So I can eat, say, crab cakes or lobster dip or shrimp-flavored chips or whatever. But that buggy texture, the buggy eyes and legs of shrimp, and cracking the exoskeleton of crabs and lobsters. . .nope.

 

[kashmir64]

Okra, carrots, and don't even get me started on Tofu.

 

[1 bruce 1]

Eggplant, beets, ham salad, egg salad.

 

[cassiopea]

Anchovies.

It is one of the only foods where I will literally spit it out in mouth-suffering horror if I accidentally eat it

Wasabi too, I find it quite awful!

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Eggplant is definitely #1. I can eat no more than 2 bites of breaded and fried okra. If it's bad fried; imagine how bad it is unfried! MIL makes it but thankfully even DH doesn't like it.

 

[kashmir64]

If it's bad fried; imagine how bad it is unfried!

We used to call it snot pods.

 

[Willowy]

I like pickled okra. Not slimy okra.

Eggplant is good in eggplant parmesan. Otherwise it's mostly gross. Eggplant tempura can be OK, too, if it turns out right.

 

[verna davies]

Sorry folks but pizza. Even the smell makes me gag. Anchovies are another but I love cabbage and sprouts with vinegar on. I have been called odd a few times, could this be why?

 

[MoochNNoodles]

We used to call it snot pods.

I have never and will never try it cooked any other way than fried. It tastes like feet. I'm not 100% sure what feet taste like; but I imagine it's okra.


I forgot about "Spring Mix" salads. I used to be able to choke one down by evenly distributing things like cucumbers, cheese, tomato, etc. and not thinking about what I was eating. But it got so my gag reflex would kick in by the first bite. I don't care for raw spinach either; but nothing hits me like the spring mix aka weed salads. They need some Roundup dressing.

 

[bodester413]

Fried liver....braunschweiger......I'm not a huge fan of beets. Pickled herring is horrifying. Canned salmon freaks me out. I know they say the little round things are bones you can eat, but to me they look like fish eye sockets.....lol... I forget the name of the last thing on my list. It's basically German pork jelly.