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What don't you eat and why?
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Mushrooms - they're gross and disgusting. Enough said.
Mac & cheese and green beans - grew up rather poor, and roughly 6 nights a week, dinner was the same thing - ground beef patties (the 73/27 super-cheap mix), and mac & cheese and green beans that weren't even store brand, but the nasty generics that came in a plain white box with black lettering. I haven't had either in nearly 20 years, and won't ever do so again.
Mac & cheese and green beans - grew up rather poor, and roughly 6 nights a week, dinner was the same thing - ground beef patties (the 73/27 super-cheap mix), and mac & cheese and green beans that weren't even store brand, but the nasty generics that came in a plain white box with black lettering. I haven't had either in nearly 20 years, and won't ever do so again.
Mushrooms - gross me out & don't like the texture
Human - I'm not a cannibal
Milt - I will eat caviar, yet milt grosses me out
Canned anchovies - gross and nasty smelling
Canned smelt - gross and nasty smelling
Pickled herring - utterly repulsive, gross and nasty smelling
Meat (land and air animals, i.e. chicken, beef, pork, etc.)...experiment of not eating meat for a year
Polish food - I find most of it gross. Was forced to eat some as a kid which kind of scarred me for life. The sausages were good but I don't eat meat now.
Human - I'm not a cannibal
Milt - I will eat caviar, yet milt grosses me out
Canned anchovies - gross and nasty smelling
Canned smelt - gross and nasty smelling
Pickled herring - utterly repulsive, gross and nasty smelling
Meat (land and air animals, i.e. chicken, beef, pork, etc.)...experiment of not eating meat for a year
Polish food - I find most of it gross. Was forced to eat some as a kid which kind of scarred me for life. The sausages were good but I don't eat meat now.
Avocado - slimy, greasy...yuck.
Guacamole is OK, its mixed with stuff so it's not so slimy. But sliced avocado - nope.
(This from a man who will eat ANYTHING -( duck tongue soup, snake bile soup, sea slug - lots of interesting stuff while in China. But avocado...
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Guacamole is OK, its mixed with stuff so it's not so slimy. But sliced avocado - nope.
(This from a man who will eat ANYTHING -( duck tongue soup, snake bile soup, sea slug - lots of interesting stuff while in China. But avocado...
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First off, this is subjective, so why all the DOWN votes???
That's kinda the whole idea of water chestnuts. I like them.
Mushrooms are varied. Portobello mushrooms are the *****.
I'm with you on spinach. It's like hot seaweed.
But in a spinach dip, with almonds, in a bowl of pumpernickel, mmmmm.
That is the other end of the texture equation, and they are, well, schmecky, is as close as I can come to it.
Waiter, there's a snail in my salad!! Been there, done that. Outside of Vienna.
Calves liver is excellent, if not over-cooked. With some nice cooked Vidalia onions.
That's kinda the whole idea of water chestnuts. I like them.
Mushrooms are varied. Portobello mushrooms are the *****.
I'm with you on spinach. It's like hot seaweed.
But in a spinach dip, with almonds, in a bowl of pumpernickel, mmmmm.
That is the other end of the texture equation, and they are, well, schmecky, is as close as I can come to it.
Waiter, there's a snail in my salad!! Been there, done that. Outside of Vienna.
Calves liver is excellent, if not over-cooked. With some nice cooked Vidalia onions.
BigMac's. And anything from McDonald's.
I ate one some time ago and threw up like I never did.
I've eaten a Big Mac before that was nasty... turned me off from every eating them since! The last time I went to McDonalds I ordered a side salad
Coriander is one of these spices which you either like or hate. There's no in-between. I love it, everytime I eat something "mexican", I make sure to put a good amount of it. Not too much, though, as it quickly becomes overpowering.
The worst thing I could eat would be oysters. There is a french comic called Kid Paddle in which the character, in bed due to a cold, spat some mucus in his hand and said "who wants a warm oyster?". I already found oysters repulsive, but this was the final blow for me.
Other than that, I hate asparagus, altough I could eat some if it was necessary. Rapini is also disgusting (way too bitter), and so are green olives (black olives are fine though).
Do you eat yougurt or cheese?
Of course. Yogurt is a bacteria, which is much more appetizing.
Haha.Some interesting responses. I had no idea that mushrooms and tomatoes were on so many people's do-not-eat list. Weird.
Like many people, I have a distinct aversion to brussels sprouts and most other cruciferous vegetables. I'll eat sauerkraut and coleslaw, but mainly because that tastes mainly of vinegar or mayonnaise. As for the others? Broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, collard greens, kale, and radishes - all part of same evil-tasting bunch. I've been known to slip a baggie into my pocket before sitting down to a Christmas dinner where consumption of brussels sprouts was pretty much required.
Researchers have determined that a fairly large fraction of the human population has taste buds that simply find cruciferous vegetables to be extremely unpleasant tasting.
Why so many people should wish to inflict these vile-tasting things upon us is beyond me. God's green earth is filled with delicious things to eat. Why spoil them with Brussels sprouts?
Like many people, I have a distinct aversion to brussels sprouts and most other cruciferous vegetables. I'll eat sauerkraut and coleslaw, but mainly because that tastes mainly of vinegar or mayonnaise. As for the others? Broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, collard greens, kale, and radishes - all part of same evil-tasting bunch. I've been known to slip a baggie into my pocket before sitting down to a Christmas dinner where consumption of brussels sprouts was pretty much required.
Researchers have determined that a fairly large fraction of the human population has taste buds that simply find cruciferous vegetables to be extremely unpleasant tasting.
Why so many people should wish to inflict these vile-tasting things upon us is beyond me. God's green earth is filled with delicious things to eat. Why spoil them with Brussels sprouts?
Liver - can't get used to the taste
Sweet Potatoe - I don't like certain foods types to taste sweet
Sweet Potatoe - I don't like certain foods types to taste sweet
Yep. That's me. Mushrooms are fungus. Mushroom in Italian is Funghi. Mushrooms' closest relatives are bread mold.
A lot of other things I didn't like....turns out they were cooked wrong.
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Carrots only need to be barely boiled - not made into a mash. Add a teeny bit of maple syrup or honey to slices of cooked carrots ... yum.
Same with many veggies that are boiled.... people boil the life out of them, and they taste dead and mushy.
Brussels Sprouts. Fry up some bacon (cut small). Add brussel sprouts and onions. Cook in a fry pan until the sprouts get that roasted outside and are soft. I pop a lid over the whole thing, with dash of water, for a bit too... this steams them and keeps them from drying out.
Cut Eggplants into slices - no thicker than a pencil... coat with olive oil, salt and pepper, and BBQ them until they're cooked. Crispy is good - or just almost crispy. The flavour of eggplant is nice, but most other ways of cooking left their texture too icky for my tastes.
Love sushi.... but you have to have fresh fish.... if it tastes fishy, it's not fresh. Fresh fish ironically doesn't taste fishy... but if you don't come from a coast...don't bother. We're lucky here in BC.
In general I try to eat a bit of everything. There are things I don't like but very few that I absolutely don't eat.
I don't eat things like oysters, mussels, snails... Slimy things just weird me out.
I don't eat organs (like liver or intestines, very common in my hometown) or things cooked with or made from blood. Just the idea of it makes me feel sick.
I'm a bit picky about cheese. When I was a kid I didn't eat cheese at all, it just made me nauseous. Nowadays I eat mild cheeses like mozzarella, if they're a small quantity mixed in with food (feta in greek salad) or melted cheese (pastas, pizza, nachos, etc.). Other than mozzarella I can't eat any cheese by itself, much to the dismay of my whole family.
I don't eat things like oysters, mussels, snails... Slimy things just weird me out.
I don't eat organs (like liver or intestines, very common in my hometown) or things cooked with or made from blood. Just the idea of it makes me feel sick.
I'm a bit picky about cheese. When I was a kid I didn't eat cheese at all, it just made me nauseous. Nowadays I eat mild cheeses like mozzarella, if they're a small quantity mixed in with food (feta in greek salad) or melted cheese (pastas, pizza, nachos, etc.). Other than mozzarella I can't eat any cheese by itself, much to the dismay of my whole family.
I can't eat vegetables unless they're mixed in with food, like a soup or something similar, they make me gag so hard I get sick . I hate the texture or something, thought I'd outgrow it but I never did.
. I hate the texture or something, thought I'd outgrow it but I never did.
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, thank you for this post.
I LOVE black (blood) pudding. With bacon. Anyone else??
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, thank you for this post.
I LOVE black (blood) pudding. With bacon. Anyone else??
I remember eating it once when I was young. It didn't taste particularly good or bad, at least that's what I recall. I should try it again... how does one cook it?
Donuts. Unless I'm totally hammered, it's 3am, and I happen to walk by a Dunkin Donuts.
There's nothing good about a donut to justify shoving it into your body.
I'm also trying to give up pop. At first I thought I would just stick to diet pop, but non-diet pop is just so prevalent and delicious that I realized it wasn't good enough. Plus it's better for the teeth. So trying to stick to that.
There's nothing good about a donut to justify shoving it into your body.
I'm also trying to give up pop. At first I thought I would just stick to diet pop, but non-diet pop is just so prevalent and delicious that I realized it wasn't good enough. Plus it's better for the teeth. So trying to stick to that.