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What don't you eat and why?

Can't stand:

Broccoli - taste
Water chestnuts (never would have remembered if you didn't say it :) ) - taste and texture
Lima beans - taste
nuts - texture
Eggs - taste, love the smell of omelets but just can't eat them no matter what I put in them
Most veggies actually, though I do love spinach
Eggplant - yech - taste
tomatoes but do like tomotoe sauce - slimy

I'm a really fussy eater actually :( The only beans I'll eat are green beans. Love chili but can't stand when it's loaded up with beans! Afraid to go to a mexican restaurant due to black and refried beans.
 
senseless said:
Pickles have zero calories. You could eat a thousand and not gain weight.
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(Um... yeah... but see the thing with pickles is... it's about the SALT. You could eat fifty and stroke out!)

Well now that I've weighed in here, here's my list of stuff I don't like to eat. Despite my remark above, I do get it that this thread is supposed to be about taste, not health or safety, so I'm not listing some critters and fruits/veggies that I don't eat any more or only eat local organic versions.

I dislike extremely salty or extremely sweet things, except for pickles and pickle relishes. I thoroughly loathe most commercial cereals, rice/noodle mixes, pastries, etc. The focus groups that test that stuff must show up with pre-destroyed taste buds.

Only kind of cow's milk that I can stand is skim milk. In a pinch, 1% butterfat. Anything more than that seems like motor oil to me.

I hate deep-fried anything, no matter who does it or how they do it. I like the IDEA of tempura, samosas... but not the reality.

I do not eat raw fish or raw oysters; not a fan of the textures. I don't like calamari. I do like snails but maybe it's just about all that lemon butter and garlic! I don't like fried clams but I love clams casino and home made clam chowders (New England or otherwise).

Don't like really strong black coffee. Used to drink it by the bucket, room temperature, day-old. Yuck! Now it has to be freshly brewed typical American (fairly weak) coffee, really hot, with a lot of almost boiling skim milk added.

Not a big fan of citrus fruit although I will eat oranges. I really dislike orange juice. I love all kinds of veggies and will often eat them for breakfast with quinoa or bulgur wheat.
 
Not much love for the Brussels Sprouts around here. Too bad. :D
I like them, but I'm the only one in my household that does.

I forgot milk - I don't drink cow's milk, and haven't for probably 7 years. Just sort of stumbled into it when we started buying soymilk in bulk, and now that's all my body has seen in forever. I'm healthier now than I've been in 15 years, but I don't attribute that to the lack of milk, really.
 
These poor people. Can you imagine eating one thing all your life? my diet is bad enough and very limited but this would be bad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/2 ... 92160.html


Thirty-three-year-old Claire Simmons, of Notting Hill in London, is in a monogamous relationship with a dangerous partner: pizza.

For the last 31 years of her life, she has eaten nothing but plain cheese pizza for every single meal, she tells the Sun. And now, her doctors say that Simmons' monotonous diet could kill her.

Simmons says she exercises and drinks plenty of water. The problem is that her limited diet -- the result of a mental illness known as Selective Eating Disorder -- doesn't provide all the minerals and vitamins she needs for solid health.

Simmons exposed her difficult story to the public after reading the story of Stacey Irvine, sometimes called "Chicken Nugget Girl," a fellow Brit who was hospitalized after eating only chicken nuggets for a decade and a half.

This fall also brought to light the story of Jonathan McGowan, a British man who, for the past 30 years, has refused to eat any meat except roadkill. The BBC has even aired documentary-based multiple series on the topic of extremely picky eaters. Could there be something in English water that gives its drinkers Selective Eating Disorder? Maybe -- though it seems even more likely that there's something about English tabloids that helps these stories find an eager public.

Here are 10 other foods that people have tried -- most often, with less than fantastic results -- to eat to the exclusion of all others:
 
Pickle's - will literally gag if I smell them and have thrown up after eating potato salad that had pickles cut up in it.
Yellow Mustard (fine with honey mustard for some reason)
Green/Red Peppers
Veal
Beets
 
NutsNGum said:
Mussels are my ipecac.
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Mmmmmm, Salt and Vinegar mussels with a fancy white wine.

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Gluten, I recently figured through experimentation that eliminating it from my diet makes me feel spectacularly better.

Strangely I'm not caeliac, so it must be some kind of other gluten sensitivity.
 
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MonkeyBrainz said:
A surefire way to end dates and alienate friends.
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Mussels and Wine isn't a food to be shared with friends or a date. It is a food to be indulged with high class work acquaintances at a company lunch or networking building events. Nothing says professional like some good tastes in wine, brandy, seafood and a fine cotton shirt. You couldn't even pretend to know the importance which side of the port the Directors sit at or the complexities of setting a table.

The lower class and their ignorance. :rolleyes: So insulting.
 
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I do not eat eggs.

The taste, smell, and thought of egg makes me sick. It's unfertilized gamete. Think about it for a second. Cover that thing in rooster/cock excretion, and you would get a chicken. :confused:


I don't mind eating anything else. I can eat any veggie (Brussels sprouts and broccoli are 2 of my faves!), fruit, or spice. Liver is kind of gross, but do-able.

I have even eaten raw chicken while in Japan (I was incredibly skeptical...), and I was fine. :cool:



Surely said:
You either love it or hate it. My wife loves it. To me it tastes like soap or perfume. It ruins food. It should be illegal instead of marijuana.
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I used to hate it too,until I taught myself how to cook.

I'm not an expert, but it (only) tastes good when the food you're eating is Asian, and covered in some sort of soy sauce based sauce (soy sauce + lime juice + raw sugar + fish sauce, for example) This is particularly true if you cook fish Asian-style.
 
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I don't eat shrimp. Besides reminding me of little curled up insects, I don't care for the texture.
 
iJohnHenry said:
Peas??? :eek:

Man, I'd be about 4' 2" if I hadn't eaten peas as a kid. I was über fussy.

Loved mixing them with mashed potatoes. Sadly, I don't do that anymore.
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Oww. Forgot about that. Nice comfort food. Gonna have to try it some day the girlfriend is away (else she'll think I'm weird again).


No one mentioned lutefisk yet, I read it's popular in some parts of America!
 
Meat and animal products because of the cruelty caused to them.

I saw the site meat.org (not for the squeamish) I stopped eating meat the same day and became vegetarian and now have become vegan four years later.

Also the idea of hormones and antibiotics being added to my food was also a factor.
 
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