Foods/Drinks You Can't Stand

[MoonCat]

Clams and oysters. Yuck.
Beets
Okra. It's slimy.
Runny eggs. I'm fine with cooked ones.
Czarnina (aka duck's blood soup). Gross.
Kiszka (blood sausage). Double gross.
And the worst one of all....limberger cheese. Fun fact: The bacteria that makes your feet smell bad is the same bacteria that gives limberger its distinctive stench. Seriously, not making this up.

[Kittish]

Popcorn. The smell is what gets me here, and it's simply disgusting. Microwave popcorn is, I suspect, what ruined it for me. I used to love popcorn, and I can still eat and enjoy caramel and toffee coated popcorn.

Onions, raw. Ick flavor. Cooked onions are fine in a dish, and well done beer battered onion rings are delightful.

Avocado. In any form. Bleeeeech.

Don't like the taste of alcohol (and I can taste it, unless it's cut with a LOT of fruit juice), though I do cook with alcohol regularly. A splash of white wine in alfredo sauce is mmmmm good. Likewise burgundy or Guinness in beef stew. But booze is not for drinking.

Brussels sprouts. Can't get past the smell, and the one time I did manage to actually get one in my mouth it tasted just exactly like they smelled. I almost didn't make it to the bathroom in time.

That fake butter flavored oil that most restaurants use for anything they cook on a flat top grill or in a skillet and for 'buttering' toasted bread. Please, for the love of food, skip it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Raw tomatoes. I'll eat tomato sauce as long as there are no chunks of tomato...it's a texture thing. But raw tomatoes I can't stand the taste, either.

I don't eat seafood. I can't stand the smell; there's no way I'd eat most of it. I'll eat the occasional tuna sandwich but it has to have lots of celery and onion and lettuce.

Runny eggs. I like them scrambled as long as they are well-done and not at all wet or runny, and I'll eat egg salad (though I don't particularly like hard-boiled eggs on their own). Any form where the yolk remains liquid? Not happening.

[Tama]

Any kind of energy drink. I'd rank them at "piss" level for how Monsters taste. The others aren't much better.

Any kind of alcohol/non-alcoholic beverage that even smells/tastes like beer. My dad and uncle were drinkers and I never could reconcile myself to it. I even freak out when drinking...I think it was sparkling white grape juice?

[cindybubbles]

Cranberry juice and prune juice taste better when refrigerated. Seriously, they do. I need to drink them to relax my bladder and help my bowels, so I had to find a way to make them taste good.

Cranberry juice tastes OK when not served cold, but prune juice is best drunk cold and immediately.

I also cannot have ANY alcohol or caffeine with the drugs that I am taking for my bladder problems. Not even a little sample. I learned that the hard way when I sampled alcohol at the Toronto Christmas Market.

I will not eat ANY grapefruit products. This isn't because of taste, but because I need to take drugs for my bladder and anemia problems, and grapefruit and grapefruit-based products will probably only make the drug-related reactions stronger.

As for taste/texture/smell, I absolutely WILL NOT tolerate meals with too much juice in them, unless they are soup-based. They have a tendency to make me gag, so I have to drain/mop up any excess liquids from my meals before I can eat them. Even then, with my bladder problems, I cannot eat soup, because I will end up going to the bathroom more often.

[MoonCat]

I forgot squid and octopus. Dis-gust-ing!

[cindybubbles]

I forgot squid and octopus. Dis-gust-ing!

I hope you don't mean squid AND octopus MIXED TOGETHER in the same dish!

Anyway, I used to hate squid until I tried it deep-fried. Now, deep-fried squid is one of my faves!

[AnaKhouri]

I can't stand alcohol or coffee. It doesn't matter how much you tart them up with other flavors, I can still taste it. I love the smell of coffee but never drink it.

Shellfish. It's not so much that I hate the flavor but it's just...so much work.

Bananas, mushrooms, and cauliflower. Although I don't 'hate' them so much as dislike them. I could eat them if I had to. In fact, I could eat almost anything if I had to, so there's really no food I 'can't stand' per se. Although I haven't eaten every food in the world so there's probably one out there.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

About the only food that I currently despise is popcorn. Haven't been able to stand it since I worked in a movie theatre back in high school. Can't stand it without butter ever since, and ever since then I also know what's in the butter pump at the concession stand so I won't touch that stuff.

Not even counting contaminants, insects, etc, each application of butter is 140 calories, 135 of them from saturated fat. The theatre I worked at would put about 10-12 squirts in the large tub. I think it would be healthier melting and drinking a stick of butter.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

English muffins, they taste like feet.

Cooked carrots and cooked green beans, although I will happily eat those items raw.

Beets and squash, for...some reason.

Fish that isn't fried.

Coconut. To me it's like eating sawdust.

Not a fan of champagne, to me it tastes like vomit. And people drink this in celebration?

[DeltaSierra]

I'm pretty easy going when it comes to foods, but there are a few things that I simply can't stand - it could be taste, or texture (I have issues with both)

Taste wise: parsnips, liver, oysters, saeurkraut, okra, I dislike cooked carrots and peas, but like them raw.

grapefruit, prunes, fake banana (love real bananas though,) pumpkin, blueberries, cantelope and honeydew melons, anything with rosemary.

texture - anything "custardy", or with the texture of tapioca/rice pudding, mealy apples fall into this category too. Anything that has a texture of wet/soggy bread - bread pudding, cake that's soaked in anything, undercooked pancakes or french toast. Tongue fits this category too - it TASTES great, but the texture makes me gag.

Drinks: beer, gin, orange or grape soda grapefruit juice, eggnog

[MoonCat]

Hmm, I LOVE parsnips.

Cindybubbles, I can't stand squid or octopus alone or in combo. They're gross.

It's funny how foods that some of us can't stand are other people's favorites.

[Teefies2]

About the only food that I currently despise is popcorn. Haven't been able to stand it since I worked in a movie theatre back in high school. Can't stand it without butter ever since, and ever since then I also know what's in the butter pump at the concession stand so I won't touch that stuff.

Not even counting contaminants, insects, etc, each application of butter is 140 calories, 135 of them from saturated fat. The theatre I worked at would put about 10-12 squirts in the large tub. I think it would be healthier melting and drinking a stick of butter.

I also worked at a movie theater in high school. Still like popcorn, but only DROWNED in butter. But then again, I like eating just plain butter

[Barracuda]

Garbanzos (chickpeas.) I like hummus, but for some reason I hate garbanzos.

[Spork4pedro]

I can't stand any sort of cooked fruit. Jellies, jams, pies or anything similar have me instantly gagging. Just describing a PB&J can make me want to puke (I'm having trouble just trying this up) I've been told it has something to do with the pectin in fruit.

texture - anything "custardy", or with the texture of tapioca/rice pudding, mealy apples fall into this category too. Anything that has a texture of wet/soggy bread - bread pudding, cake that's soaked in anything, undercooked pancakes or french toast

I'm with you on this one! I can't deal with anything squishy. Blech!

On the other hand, I seem to be the only person I know that can handle most startches raw. I love raw pasta, potatoes, and turnips. My favorite is raw rice.