Foods/Drinks You Can't Stand

[Kaylyn]

I hate raw tomatoes for the most part. Don't want them on my sandwich or on my Taco Bell or salads. I don't mind them in Ro-Tel dip or if they're extremely scarce in the dish I'm eating. I also don't have a problem with tomato sauce. I appear to have gotten my dislike for tomatoes from my biological father.

I never could stand lima beans (I think that's what they are...my family calls them butter beans). They're too...big, and gross texture-wise and flavor-wise. Maybe I could handle them in smaller doses, if eating one weren't like getting an entire mouthful of yuck.

Cooked cabbage (raw red cabbage is fine), brussel sprouts (which are really just demon cabbage babies, let's face it), cooked collard/turnip/mustard greens (I do like fresh spinach though), rutabagas, most mussel-type shellfish (shrimp and crab are fine, oysters and clams are NOT), squash (zucchini fries are actually pretty good though and don't have that overly squash-y taste to me). Used to hate broccoli on principle but now I love it. Very picky with my calamari, can't taste too "fishy". Most nuts. Yogurt. COCONUT. Not a fan of pineapple, either, so I guess pina coladas are out.

I love eggs but I appear to have developed IBS over the course of the past year and eggs do not agree with me anymore. Same goes with beef.

[Cia]

- avocados and anything made from avocados - it tastes....green -shudder-
- raisins in milk
- sauerkraut - apologies to my German heritage but ick - pickled red cabbage is fine in small amounts though
- liver, heart, tongue - innards in general
- well done beef - if it doesn't kick a little bit than it's not worth eating
- any seafood w/ tentacles, spines or shells - if it has all three than I must be stuck in a scifi movie
- fish eggs
- aspartame - makes me physically ill
- sucralose - in small amounts only otherwise it has the same nasty aftertaste as aspartame
- salt on watermelon
- undercooked rice
- pistachios - nuts aren't supposed to be green nor dyed
- brussel sprouts
- cabbage is fine in Asian foods but not on its own
- cooked spinach and carrots
- wet, slimy undercooked eggs
- overcooked bacon

[mathnerd]

Two of my most hated foods are avocados and mangoes. The truly funny thing about this is that my parents' property currently sports 40 avocado trees and 24 mango trees (along with a couple banana trees and one key lime tree). There used to be more, but Hurricane Andrew and subsequent major storms knocked down dozens of of trees and the citrus canker eradication program a few years back caused the loss of several orange and key lime trees (they missed the one that's still here, and we sure as heck didn't tell them about it!).

[crazylegs]

I detest nuts. All nuts: brazils, peanuts, macadamia - I hate them all. Thing is, because I don't eat them I find it really easy to taste nut contamination and my word there's an awful lot

I also don't like courgettes and aubergine (egg plant) but that's mostly because of the texture - just slimy

[Jester]

Lima Beans are the worst of the worst when it comes to beans. Fortunately,as the one who does all the cooking at home,I don't have to cook anything I don't like.

A few years ago I was talking to Mom about Lima beans. Found out, much to my shock, that she didn't like them either. Nor did either of my sisters. "So Mom, why did we have to eat them so often?!?"

"Your father loved them."

"So we all were forced to suffer because of him?"

"Well, yeah, I guess so."

"Mom, I loved Dad, but HELL no!"

- raisins in milk

Is this a common thing?

- liver, heart, tongue - innards in general

You realize that, technically speaking, ALL meat is innards, right?

- cooked spinach and carrots

Forgot to include in my list how much I hate creamed spinach and creamed corn, despite the fact that I otherwise love corn and spinach in other preparations. Hell, a good spinach salad or corn on the cob are among my favorite things!

- overcooked bacon

I am notorious for my love of bacon. Cook it to a cinder, you are guilty of sacrilege!

[wolfie]

How did I forget Lima beans? They were the bane of my childhood. Yuck!

I seem to have some strange tastes. When I was a kid, lima beans were my favourite part of frozen mixed vegetables.

[AccountingDrone]

I love baby limas cooked gently until just done, and dressed with a bit of butter, lemon juice and sea salt. If you can get them fresh and not frozen or canned they are best.

If I am going to cook spinach, in soup I chop it roughly and toss it in towards the end so it isn't boiled to mush. Otherwise we fry up bacon and remove/reserve then keep enough bacon fat in the pan to saute the mess of spinach we are cooking until it is just barely wilted then add back the bacon crumbles and some balsamic dressing. Sometimes we fry up a little garlic with the spinach.

Creamed corn is troublesome. I have yet to find a frozen or canned creamed corn that is worth eating. It is best to get freshly picked corn, toss it on the grill after opening and removing the silk reclosing it and soaking it in a touch of water for a few minutes turning frequently. Then you husk it, cut all the kernals off into a bowl, add a touch of salt, pepper, paprika and a tiny amount of heavy cream. If you want to turn it into a timbale you can gently add in whisked eggs and cook in a timbale mold. I think the issue with most creamed corn is it is too bland but you need a very light hand with it - the light smoke taste from grilling the corn helps it a lot.

I find that most vegetables can be palatable as long as you don't go nuts with the cooking and seasoning. Though I admit I adore artichokes with hollandaise sauce but the calories

[Jester]

I love baby limas cooked gently until just done, and dressed with a bit of butter, lemon juice and sea salt. If you can get them fresh and not frozen or canned they are best.

Creamed corn is troublesome. I have yet to find a frozen or canned creamed corn that is worth eating. It is best to get freshly picked corn...

My opinion is not based just upon my childhood and canned varieties of these. I worked in a high end brewpub that occasionally did made-from-scratch creamed spinach creamed corn. Both of them were foul to me.

One day years ago, my fiancé and I were out for dinner at one of my favorite places in Key West. When ordering my dinner, I asked what the vegetable was. Upon being told it was Lima beans, I politely asked the server for something, anything else. He chuckled. "Ya know, I don't normally like Lima beans either, but these are amazing!" And he went into detail about how they were prepared, including the fact that they were sautéed with bacon. Priding myself on being willing to try anything, and knowing that bacon makes everything better, I went ahead and got the Lima beans. Shortly after our dinner arrived, the server came by and checked on us, and specifically asked about the Lima beans. "Well," I said, "I can honestly say these are the best Lima beans I've ever had. And...they're still repulsive!"

[crazylegs]

You realize that, technically speaking, ALL meat is innards, right?

Not really. Organs, which are, y'know, inside you, would be innards. I wouldn't call a bit of leg or chest muscle from my animal of choice innards as they're not really inside the animal. That's probably the distinction most people I know have.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I HATE beer. Kind of overshare, but if anything on earth makes me gain water weight like a camel, it's a beer. I can grow a pooch and fart like a rhino after drinking a beer. When it's ice cold, it tastes alright. After that, naw. And it's not worth coming home, weighing myself 5 pounds heavier, farting nonstop.

On the topic of unpleasant side effects, I don't know if it was the steak I just had, or the salad that went with it, but I'm farting like I just had a colonoscopy right about now.

Good thing smells can't be transmitted through the internet.

[Jester]

Not really. Organs, which are, y'know, inside you, would be innards. I wouldn't call a bit of leg or chest muscle from my animal of choice innards as they're not really inside the animal. That's probably the distinction most people I know have.

So let muscle that you eat is not inside the animal? Neither is the breast? Unless you're eating the skin, say like with salmon, technically you're wrong.

Are these things organs? Are they inside the thoracic cavity? No, of course not. But as they are not on the outside of the animal, they are by definition inside. So, innards.

Yes, it's a technicality. Yes, there's a reason my one buddy refers to me as Captain a Literal.

[mathnerd]

On the topic of unpleasant side effects, I don't know if it was the steak I just had, or the salad that went with it, but I'm farting like I just had a colonoscopy right about now.

Good thing smells can't be transmitted through the internet.

I just finished a three hour drive during which my children insisted I turn off the a/c and open the windows, because being trapped in a small car on a long, mostly two lane road for three hours with me was apparently repulsive to even teen/pre-teen boys. My intestines are rolling.

[dalesys]

...Good thing smells can't be transmitted through the internet.

Google's working on it. They're building a bionic dog as the transmitter/receiver. The formulation of their special food, Goo-Fed® is a trade secret.

In unrelated news, there has been a sudden upsurge in construction of new zombie re-education camps.

[Cia]

Quoth Cia
- raisins in milk

JESTER: Is this a common thing?

My sister loves it, I don't know where she first picked it up but I wish she wouldn't have cause it's rather disgusting.

Quoth Cia
- liver, heart, tongue - innards in general

JESTER: You realize that, technically speaking, ALL meat is innards, right?

Well yeah, but I don't want to eat something that used to make urine or licked a cow's butt or whatever kidneys do. How about - I dislike organ meats immensely.

[strawbabies]

I hate bell peppers. And jalapeños.
raw carrots
peas
American cheese that is not on a grilled cheese sandwich (I love grilled cheese sandwiches). I can't eat a cheeseburger with that stuff--it has to be cheddar.
I've given haggis 2 tries. Didn't like it either time, so it's not getting any more chances.
Any potatoes that come from Ore Ida, especially those ones you're supposed to steam in the bag. I'd rather make mashed potatoes from scratch, thanks.