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Fish and cabbage!!!!! Hate both and have always done. The smell of it make me almost sick... and believe me I have tried to taste it several times.

Fish is the worst.

I can't stand the smell or the taste..... Eyuck

Pia

Re: What Food Do You Really Hate and Why?

Postby TML13 » 29 Jul 2013, 23:13

"Kiwis, because they are slimey and taste bad. "...................

Please tell me you mean the fruit and not the delightful Antipodean people?

Ballerina x

The food! Although I haven't met anybody from down there and I've no idea how they taste, LOLOLOL!!!

Sweetcorn - because I threw up after eating it when I was little.
Gin - because I threw up after drinking it when I was a teenager.
Apart from those two things I like everything....

I have the same problem with rum.

My tastes changed when I had children. All the things I couldn't stand before like olives, anchovies and sprouts I quite like; meanwhile I don't enjoy crisps or chips anywhere like I did. Sauerkraut is about the only recent thing I've tried and don't like. Oh, and I'm with Jemima about bananas,

I like rice and I like cold milk BUT heat up the milk and chuck in some rice - yuk. Can't stand the smell, never get as far as the taste.
The only other thing I can't abide is ground almonds. Ruined the flavour of many a cake for me! I always ask if they are in the cake these days. Although I usually prefer a fruit or cheese scone generally without butter.

Love celery raw on salads or steamed with a dinner
Hate Marmite. Hate sweetcorn sweet sickly stuff and a coworker told me it ''floated'' no way Hate yogurt
Hated water but do try to get it in me most days ( not enough though)
Hate kidney yyuukkkk Sue

I love offal, one of my favourite foods is liver & onion casserole yum yum. I also love haggis, probably second favourite on my list.

But I HATE tripe & andouillette (tripe sausage). Problem is that tripe is a serious speciality around here & as soon as you say "I'm sorry, I've tried tripe many times but I really don't like it" the reply always is "ah, but you haven't tried ..........."

The other big speciality around here is calves head - something I also DETEST

Thankfully they also have camembert, livarot, pont leveque, calvados, pommeau .......

As I am on a liquid fast some of these 'hated' foods look ever so appealing! Marmite on buttered toast is my go to food if I want a real treat. But used to hate it. I also used to hate olives and sushi until I really tried to like them and now I do. Plus beetroot which I always thought looked like blood but now I love roasted.
Hated foods - the older I get I can't abide warm creamy sauces, makes me heave. Also oysters, whelks and the like.
I used to be a vegetarian and the only time I have been really ill after a meal is after eating quorn, twice!

Semolina and blancmange eeeuuuurrrgggghhhhhhh.....yuk yuk yuk ( horrid school dinners)
Milk eeeeeuuuurrrgghhhh retch yuk retch ( free school milk)
Liver eeewwwww( over cooked by my mum)
Aubergines eeeewwww slimy slimy no no no ( have no idea why)

And finally, I know some of you may gasp, neigh faint at this one but.....here goes........ Chocolate brownies and chocolate cake.......really don't like either of them! I'd rather have a spam fritter with marmite on a bed of celery and sprouts, with a side order of shellfish......slurp yummy

Minsmum! You've just reminded me of the horrors of school dinners! Cabbage! Grisly meat! Spam! Horrible grey boiled potatoes! Congealed custard with a skin on bleeeuuurghhh! Lardy dumplings!

And worst of all WARM MILK! (note: everybody who's been to school in the sixties will know that I don't mean the kind of warm milk you get in fancy coffee shops these days - but milk in those special little milk bottles, with the cream on top, left to stew nicely in the sun, or worse near a hot radiator, before morning break BLLEEEUUUGH!)

Anything offal like - liver, kidneys, tongue, heart, etc etc BLEURGH!
Apart from gross meat stuff, I'm not overly keen on aubergine.

This is a funny topic for me and like I always tell people, "I didn't get this size by being picky."
Unfortunately, there are no foods that I hate. The closest thing I can think of is Vegemite. Tried it once and that was enough. It reminded me of eating beef base. Vegemite and cervelle.

Oh yes, I too hate vegemite and milk. My list gets bigger and bigger!

I like most stuff - or will manage it in small quantities (even coriander where I must have the 'soap flavour' gene).

I'm not that keen on liver/kidney/tripe but that's more texture. I have eaten excellent versions of all in tasting menus at restaurants but wouldn't choose it by preference.

I used to loathe coffee - I could tell when someone had stirred my tea with the same spoon that they'd made their coffee with. But then I decided to train myself to like it for work dos - and now I drink espresso and love the stuff.

Same with peppers and raw tomatoes.... both went from yuck to yum.

I'm less likely to eat a ready meal that anything where the main ingredients are identifiable. I'm one of the few people I know who the thought of an M&S dinner makes me go 'yuck'.

The only way I will eat eggs is scrambled or in an omelette (which is essentially the same thing). Can't stand them fried, hard boiled, soft boiled, poached, baked - there is something about yolk on its own that grosses me out - don't know why. Every Easter I used to give my dyed eggs to my brothers. Egg salad/egg mayonnaise to me looks like puke, as do devilled eggs. Blech!

The one food I remember from childhood that I really hated, and still hate to this day, is baked beans. My mom used to make us franks (hot dogs) and beans as a quick supper (what you Brits would call "tea") and how i hated the beams! If someone offered to make me beans on toast now I would ask what horrible thing I had done to deserve such punishment.

I can't stand ketchup or mustard (mustard mixed in a vinaigrette or cream sauce for meat is fine though). I always eat my cheeseburgers and chips and bacon sandwiches COMPLETELY plain (I'm a joy when I go to McDonalds) and get very cross when someone tries to adulterate them with nasty sauces. (Homemade mayonnaise, especially if it has garlic in it, is, however, sublime with chips.). I've also never been able to persuade myself to like olives or raw tomatoes, and I have tried.

That is all pretty arbitrary - most of our aversions are I guess. that said, I don't consider myself too picky an eater - I used to be MUCH worse. Then I started going to nice restaurants when I was interviewing at law firms and didn't want to embarrass myself by being picky. I'm so glad I adapted - there is little worse than going out for a meal and dreading it because you're afraid you're going to be forced to eat something you don't like. I've known that feeling and prefer looking forward to the adventure! I will try most anything - especially if it would be rude not to. I'm not a fan of offal for example but I would eat it if required to be polite.