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Your most hated food (or drink)

I loathe flax seed. My mother makes me eat a spoonful every morning. It tastes somewhat like powdered stomach acid with a hint of sardines.:mad:
 
UltraNEO* said:
I'm reading this thread and I don't see anyone mention Nattou..

So I take it you all like it? :D Cause, I heard most foreigners hate it, find it really disgusting... not only the appearance but the aroma too.
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I'll go for that :D

I tried it the first time I went to Japan. Let me describe it for those not fortunate enough to have tasted:

Natto is fermented soy beans. The beans are light in colour, and they're left to form mould (which you can see). The fermentation also forms a stringy clear mucous type slime which coves the beans, and which strings up as you pick at the beans with chopsticks. On top of all this, Natto smells like a cross between the smelliest blue cheese and something that's died.

Natto is consumed at breakfast. You mix in a paste (is it mustard or wasabi? can't remember) then eat cold :eek:
 
robanga said:
Lima Beans, about the only vegetable ( or food for that matter) that I truly dislike.
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I'm convinced that Lima beans would cease to exist if they weren't packaged in every "Mixed Vegetables" package I've ever seen. You almost never see them packaged just by themselves, and just as frequently served as a side by themselves.

Cromulent said:
Baked beans. The worst food in the world.
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I'm with you on that, of course my distaste for them extends to black-eyed peas, chili beans, kidney beans and all other variants. The only beans I will eat are green beans, and I can stomach lima beans since as noted above they are almost always mixed in with other veggies.

My dislike of other beans can be traced back to grade school hot lunch when they forced me to take a portion, and subsequently a taste that invoked a gag reflex that almost had the rest of an otherwise edible lunch back on the tray it came from. (I had a similar experience with a McRib sandwich and a chunk of something that didn't match the rest of the processed meat texture and have not had one of those since then either.)

In college I had eaten many bean burritos from the dorm cafeteria before I knew what was in them, and recently had a dinner that I was able to stomach well, until I saw the beans... It's a borderline phobia, I even hate cleaning the pots when my wife decides to make beans/black-eyed peas. I know it's 100% psychological and I'd probably like them if I could get past the mental block and it would save me a lot of trouble when going out for Mexican food. I have yet to find another food (other than the McRib that I will not try/eat on a regular basis).
 
Didn't put a drink down...

I can't drink vodka - makes me instantly sick, even in tiny amounts.

I used to love it, until I drank over 30 shots of it in an evening about 15 years ago :eek: - now I can't touch the stuff.
 
firestarter said:
Didn't put a drink down...

I can't drink vodka - makes me instantly sick, even in tiny amounts.

I used to love it, until I drank over 30 shots of it in an evening about 15 years ago :eek: - now I can't touch the stuff.
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Same here, except with tequila. Love the song, can't take the drink anymore. The last bottle I drank, about 15 years ago in Hawaii, cost me $300 in damages to a hotel room. You can probably still see my picture in the hotel lobby. :)
 
Cheese. All cheese, with the single exception of mozzarella on a pizza. Yuck.

I can't think of many drinks which I don't like. I'm not the world's biggest vodka fan, but I'll drink it if there's nothing else going.
 
I know a French guy once doesn't like cheese. He loved his wine, but not his cheese. I didn't really believe he was French because of this. He must have been French Canadian or something.

firestarter said:
The fermentation also forms a stringy clear mucous type slime which coves the beans, and which strings up as you pick at the beans with chopsticks. On top of all this, Natto smells like a cross between the smelliest blue cheese and something that's died.
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Yep, I think natto tastes like soybeans mixed with cheese and egg white.

I don't like it because it tastes like egg white. No, honestly. I'm not trying to be a smartass just because I don't like egg. I think the egg appearance and texture really urks me.

atszyman said:
In college I had eaten many bean burritos from the dorm cafeteria before I knew what was in them...
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What's in them?
 
I'm open to anything really although I do dislike the taste of eggplant (the texture for that matter too) oh yes and I do not enjoy any cheese that is cold or raw it tastes way horrible and chicken of the sea tuna that is another thing I could never stand ever!. Then theres stuff I don't "like" but can stand.
 
Black licorice is right up there for me, barf on a rope.

"Christmas pudding" WTF is that? (what sort of translation was given to the british when they made "fruit cake"?) It's like a big thick turd cake.

I can't think of many foods I hate but I have quite a few odd quirks with food.

E.g....

Even though I really like calamari, I can't get my head around what I am eating and become instantly grossed out, no matter how good it tastes.
I eat variations of sushi though.

I can't eat most cherry flavoured things because it reminds me of cough syrup. ("I hate cough syrup, don't you?")

Lemon and lime flavoured candies/"sweets" will always be left behind by me. They're just not right.

I like pickles but keep them away from my hamburgers. No, picking them off isn't enough, that flavour gets soaked into the bread and you can't get rid of it.

I love coffee. I love ice cream. I do not like coffee flavoured ice cream.

I don't like the texture of coconut but it tastes great.

<shrug>
 
Last week, I was reading of a stew made by villagers in Mozambique...




...a stew made from flies.

Without ever tasting it, this is easily my most hated food.
 
Anyone tried Malaysian "sotong with petai" curry?

I ordered a big plate of it at a Malaysian restaurant in London (the owner warned me that I wouldn't like it, but I have a low boredom threshold and need to try new things all the time :) ).

The sotong bit of the curry was squid and squid ink (which was OK). The Petai is an EVIL bright green bean, which tastes sour/accrid/putrid and smells ungodly. I ate the whole plate to prove that I was right (I wasn't).

Worst thing is that this bean lingers in your body for DAYS and makes you fart/belch this evil smell up again and again. :eek:

Apparently it's a delicacy. :eek:

Parkia speciosa (petai, twisted cluster bean, yongchaak or stink bean)

Petai beans or seeds look like broad beans. Petai has earned its nickname 'stink bean' because its strong smell is very pervasive. Like mature broad beans, they may have to be peeled before cooking. It lingers in the mouth and body. Like asparagus, it contains certain amino acids that give a strong smell to ones urine, an effect that can be noticed up to two days after consumption. Like other beans, their complex carbohydrates can also cause strong-smelling flatulence
 
Anything from McDonald's.

There are many foods I don't like, but very very few that I would say I loathe. McDonald's is one of them.

Wait - does fast food count as food?
 
iMpathetic said:
I loathe flax seed. My mother makes me eat a spoonful every morning. It tastes somewhat like powdered stomach acid with a hint of sardines.:mad:
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I've been taking that stuff since I was a child. Mix the oil with water, or juice.

I personally mix mine with pomegranite concentrate and water.
 
The grilled chicken bacon ranch salad and sweet tea is the only thing I can eat from mcd's. The rest of the stuff is pretty nasty.

And not all fast food is nasty. I love Arby's beef'n'cheddar sandwiches.
 
RISENs
(chocolate coverd carmel/chocolate mixture ..aka death)

those rip your teeth out hard ass candy. HOW can you enjoy them. Its just not a fun candy to eat.
 
ctt1wbw said:
Black eyed peas??? You heathen! How dare you insult a main staple of the Southern-boy diet!! :D
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In my defense I'm a transplant in TX, originally from WI...

Abstract said:
What's in them?
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My assumption was that they included a substance of similar texture and flavor to the beans which invoke the mental consumption block. This would also be the point at which the dorm's salad bar became a staple in my diet due to various inedible substances they tried to pass off as food, most of the avoided ones had something to do with beans, coincidentally.
 
I like almost any food. The only think that comes to mind as hated is Japanese pickled things (I think plum and squash, or something?). Those were really gross. And some Japanese canned drink. I have no idea what it was (I like trying new things because I like most things), but man, I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for at least a day.
 
1. Seafood. I can't get the look of it out of my head long enough to eat it, although I used to be able to tolerate fish from Long John Silver when I was younger.

2. Meat fat/gristle. I hate processed meat foods, mainly because not matter how careful you are, or how good it tastes, eventually you are going to bite into a bit of something that doesn't belong. Yuck. Also why I don't particularly care for hamburger.

3. Liver.

4. Stuff with waaaayyy too much garlic. Lingers on people for days...
 
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