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What don't you eat and why?

Mushrooms and beans. Can't stand the taste/texture of both. Don't care how they're prepared, they always taste like crap to me. That and whenever I eat mushrooms, the bathroom is usually where you'll find me....in there for quite some time actually.
 
I don't eat mushrooms (already posted this, so not news) but my room-mate at university didn't eat peppers (red/green) or onions. In my case it was just choice, in his case it was stomach sensitivity.

We were a joy to have over for dinner - People would splurge a bit and add mushrooms to their creations... which ended up in little pile on the edge of my plate. And my room-mate would just not eat a bunch of stuff.

So we ended up hosting our own dinner parties....

I still don't eat 'shrooms, but my wife loves them.... so she gets extra some dinners. But she can't eat shrimp/lobster/crab - which I like - so I get extra. All is well in the end.
 
Poultry: I hate the smell, taste, and texture of chicken but I do love eggs and keep chickens as pets.

Freshwater fish: blarg. However, I love seafood and sushi.

Marbled steak: flesh-flavored chewing gum... oh, joy

Pork tenderloin: tastes like chicken, to me, so no thanks. Pork barbecue, however, yumm!!

Honey: allergic

Pears, peaches, melons: never cared for them

Yes, I am a 46-year old fussy eater. 😉
 
SuperCachetes said:
Not much love for the Brussels Sprouts around here. Too bad. 😀
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.
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I forgot milk. Makes me gag. Have not had any since I moved out of my parents house in the mid-80's. I do have other dairy though.

And how could I forget squash? My uncle once forced me to eat an entire serving of summer squash. I never stayed there again.
 
I'm not picky about food. I will eat just about anything. However, I make a conscious choice to not eat the following for health reasons :

- Anything fried
- Anything too sugared

Firestar said:
Chocolate- It's just too sweet.
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What chocolate ? This is far from sweet :

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I just remembered something else. I generally don't eat nuts, any nuts. I'm not allergic or anything, I just really don't like them.
 
Uncooked tomatoes and 'raw' cheese 😀
Tomatoes and melted cheese on pizza = lovely.
Tomato sauce and cheese on pasta = lovely.

But tomatoes and cheese on their own, RAW? Disgusting!

And I also don't eat meat, as I'm a vegetarian.
 
I can't eat nuts. Its not an allergy (because I love peanut butter) its the texture. If I bite into one I almost always throw up.

One of my friends thought I was lying and tried to test me once by giving me a piece of candy with an almond hidden in it, and after cleaning up the inside of his car (since I refused) he learned not to test me!

Mushrooms, again its texture but I don't throw up or anything, I just dislike them.

Coconut. I get deathly ill at the taste and smell of it and stay sick for hours.

Lobster. I just don't like it. I can eat it but its nothing great.

Black olives. Horrible nasty things.

And thats about all I can think of.
 
iJohnHenry said:
Peas??? Loved mixing them with mashed potatoes. Sadly, I don't do that anymore.
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That's too funny. Mixing peas with mashed potatoes is the only way my brother in law will eat peas. It's funny to think about how often those foods are served together. 🙂

Aeolius said:
Freshwater fish: blarg. However, I love seafood and sushi.
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Really, how odd. What do you think is the difference for you between fresh water and salt water fish?

Catfish is excellent, you are missing out.
 
cambookpro said:
You won't say that about spinach after eating this:

http://www.carluccios.com/about-us/blog/food/my-first-blog-item

They're just delicious, little crispy balls of spinach on top of a bed of pasta and courgette and chilli.
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I like how ppl think that somehow preparing something someone hates differently will make them like it. We all have different taste buds for a reason. It can be something as small as the texture of the food that is nauseating.
 
MonkeyBrainz said:
I like how ppl think that somehow preparing something someone hates differently will make them like it. We all have different taste buds for a reason. It can be something as small as the texture of the food that is nauseating.
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Because the way you cook it does make a difference. I used to think I hated broccoli but it turns out I only hated them the way my mom cooked them, she overcooked them to the point where they were yellow and soggy. It turns out I love lightly steamed broccoli.
 
mscriv said:
Really, how odd. What do you think is the difference for you between fresh water and salt water fish?

Catfish is excellent, you are missing out.
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I'm much the same way - the flavors are very, very different to me.

I do enjoy catfish, if it's seasoned and fried or blackened (in other words, if there's a bunch of spice drowning out the flavor).
 
anjinha said:
Because the way you cook it does make a difference. I used to think I hated broccoli but it turns out I only hated them the way my mom cooked them, she overcooked them to the point where they were yellow and soggy. It turns out I love lightly steamed broccoli.
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I do agree you can make food taste better by preparing it differently, but some people dislike something regardless. Not liking something because it was prepared poorly and not having it made any other way would make me think I don't like as well.
 
MonkeyBrainz said:
I like how ppl think that somehow preparing something someone hates differently will make them like it. We all have different taste buds for a reason. It can be something as small as the texture of the food that is nauseating.
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anjinha said:
Because the way you cook it does make a difference. I used to think I hated broccoli but it turns out I only hated them the way my mom cooked them, she overcooked them to the point where they were yellow and soggy. It turns out I love lightly steamed broccoli.
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I think both opinions have some truth to them. From personal experience, I used to dislike cooked carrots/broccoli .... until I started eating ones that weren't mushy. I used to hate eating cooked fish (Sushi - Yum! though) until I started cooking it myself. Most cooked fish is way over cooked, and - I hate fish bones. So, I make sure any fish I cook is absolutely de-boned. I can get a bit obsessive about this... but our dinner guests have commented (without knowing my particular thing about bones) how much they enjoy my fish (and the fact that there are no bones).

On the other hand... I will not eat mushrooms. Cooked, raw, sauteed, poached, or minced. I will not eat them if I have any choice. Prepare them anyway you want ... I don't like them. That said, if I am at someone's house for dinner, and they have chopped them big I just leave a pile on the plate. If they have chopped them very small, I will accept the inevitable and eat them (because I know it's a mind thing - not a physical thing). And when they then try to brag about how they fooled me, I will point out that I only had one serving, left some of it behind, and had lots of the other non contaminated stuff. Because I'm polite. I'd rather eat bread mold. Seriously. In fact, when desperate.... I will eat bread with a little mold on it.

I think other people are same way. Some hate a food simply because they've never had it prepared properly. Others - it is in fact all in the mind, and the mind is a powerful thing - not to be messed with.

And for others it is truly a physiological sensitivity - and you can't do anything about that.

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I am noticing how many people don't like raw tomatoes. I suspect that many of these people have never actually eaten a truly ripe tomato, instead of that artificially reddened green vegetation they sell in supermarkets. Sad really.

For most of the year we don't eat tomatoes much at all. But for a few months in the summer here, it's tomato pig-out time. Tomatoes in our food. Tomatoes on our food. Tomatoes as food. Yum Yum. Then it's reddened vegetation season, and we merely talk about tomatoes.
 
Not overly fond of prawns or squid - texture like plastic and basically no taste to speak of but I can pretty much eat anything except cheese. The smell of that makes me retch.

How people can stand the honk of parmesan is beyond me.
 
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