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| Luzy |
Posted - Nov 04 2006 : 5:35:40 PM
I guess this is a strange topic, but I was just wondering which foods you REALLY dislike. For me it's crunchy onions. I like the aroma of cooking onions, and onion salt but NO fresh onions. It's a texture thing. Can't handle the chunks. I have a very bad gag reflux, and those onions just send me in orbit! (I can think about yesterdays dog poop and gag!!) Others are oysters, sushi, calamari, boiled egg whites, bell peppers. Yuck!!! Again texture!! So has anyone ever tackled a negative texture issue when it comes to food, and won??
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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 5:35:40 PM
lol I JUST tried liver this week and had it again..the texture is a bit odd but eh I need the iron! I don't like the white part of an egg cooked or hard boiled. BUGS ME and my teeth. I can't eat peach pie..got sick one time and saw it again :-x and the same with this one restaurants pizza and i'm sure theres others.
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| Phils Ann |
Posted - Nov 11 2006 : 08:38:58 AM
This is one of the funnier (and fun) threads I've read. I can't eat raw oysters.... and don't want any cooked, either. It's the texture. I grew up hating eggs (texture again), and my husband used to have a reaction to eggs unless they were fully cooked, so we basically had no eggs for years. Then, voila--one day I cooked them, and liked them--and his reaction had ended. They're a weekend breakfast feature, now.
I admit to having cooked some kidneys, and Jenny--ewwww is right! My English MIL made beef and kidney stew, so DH wanted me to do the same. Once was enough. The whole house stunk. I confess to liking liver and onions, but as DH does not, I don't ever eat it... which may be just as well.
I hated the taste of milk all of my life until a few years ago when I bought organic. What a difference that made. Now goat's milk is another problem. As a small child visiting a farm family, I was served grapenuts cereal with goat's milk...yuck. Very strong smell and taste. Not eating what was served as a guest was out of the question.... but I still have trouble with goat cheese, and have never, ever eaten grapenuts cereal since.
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| susan kate |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 7:52:14 PM
ditto on the bananas. i can eat banana bread but fresh bananas make me gag. the person i live with eats one or two per day and leaves the peels on the counter for hours  (i think it's passive aggressive behavior) the other one is raw or undercooked onions unless they are scallions. i am weird...
also beef and pork (i love cows and pigs too much)and most kinds of fast foods - food that is so tasteless and devoid of nutrition that i don't see the point in eating it.
oh and runny undercooked eggs. no fried or soft boiled. i upchucked a fried egg when i was 4 and have never again touched any egg that had any part that was runny. i routinely send back my eggs in resturants to be nuked or i order them "burned". |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 7:37:38 PM
Anne,
I second all of the above plus cold cured smoked salmon. I ordered a smoked salmon sandwich from room service at a ritzy hotel in Edinburghonce...it sounded so good. I told my daughter I thought it had a rotten tomato on it or something. When I tore it apart it was the salmon. Slimey!
Actually I don't like meat much at all.
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| asnedecor |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 3:47:49 PM
Liver - the smell, the texture, etc. - Yuck! Breakfast sausage links and patties - worked in restaurants for years and smelled that every morning - can't stand it.
Anne in Portland
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 2:21:34 PM
Annab - oooh, that sounds like fun! I love African food. What did you try? I have a cookbook from the Dallas Safari Club which has some really wild game recipes... and I'm not talking moose or elk... Plus we have some great Ethiopian and Nigerian restaurants here in Dallas.
I saw some antelope and ostrich (and a couple of other animals which I won't mention for fear of offending our more sensitive souls here...) at one of our local ethnic stores, but I was too chicken to try it.(No pun intended!) I had no way of verifying that it was what they said it was, and since there was some doubt, I passed... It looked absolutely wonderful - very lean. Pricey though.
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| Annab |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 10:13:54 AM
Hey Erin, I ate my way through Africa! Talk about some good wild game!
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| bramble |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 12:15:19 AM
Beets win by a mile! They just taste like...dirt!
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 10:54:01 PM
Oh Ali, I am so with you on the olives  . I really figure they have to taste and smell different to most people than they do to me. Funny as there is very little food I don't like the taste of, but olives are just horrid! Even the smell of them in the bulk display case will nauseate me.  Strange eh?
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| lilpunkin |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 8:34:42 PM
I can remember when I was a kid my dad bought a big box of cordial cherries(chocolate covered cherries). We were going to some friends house and in the car he gave me one. EWWWW! I would not swallow! I held that thing in my mouth until we got there (about 30-45 minutes later) And as soon as my dad opened the door of the car I spit it out as fast as I could get it out. YUCK!
There are several other foods I just dont like, but my thinking is "If it sounds gross to me, than it is gross" No changing my mind. My husband tries to get me to try stuff all the time like sushi( I dont eat it cooked, why would I want to eat it raw). Nope is my answer if it is even questionable to me.
Now as far as things I like. I pretty much like any kind of potatoes, baked, mashed, you name it. I love fruit and salads. Cereal is always a hit. I guess I like pretty healthy things, but I dont always eat that way. I like the goodies too. Bakery stuff is my favorite! Yum. And how about some chocolate...anyone,anyone?
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| ali2583 |
Posted - Nov 06 2006 : 3:01:57 PM
The only food I really don't like is olives. I've just never been able to stomach them.
Oh, and now that I think of it, cilantro is another food that I don't like. As soon as there is some Pico de Gallo on the table, I can smell it instantly.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Nov 06 2006 : 08:19:52 AM
In our family growing up, we weren't really allowed to not like anything. We had to eat it anyway cuz there might not be anything else. Being the main cook from an early age helped me develop ways to make almost anything edible.
I was the oddball kid that loved liver and spinach, but didn't like lobster. I still like bizarre stuff like haggis, octopus, wild game, and most veggies.
The only things I truly dislike are half cooked eggs (hubby's favorite), artifical smoke flavorings or anything with that in it, hominy and kim chee. I'm not sure I'd like cow's tongue or brains, but haven't tried them. There are a few other body parts I'd rather not try as well.
French toast must be well cooked. I don't like it slushy or slimy.
I love grits but hate hominy. Go figure.
I've developed a taste for most fish and seafood, but have certain ways I prefer it cooked.
Will eat fresh brussel sprouts cooked with stewed tomatoes and italian herbs, but not any other way. (Please send me brussel sprouts recipes if you have found a way to like them! I'm willing to try them new ways to see if there is any way I can learn to like them.)
[for some reason, this forum keeps changing my spelling of brussel sprouts... weird. Maybe it doesn't like them! LOL.]
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| Beemoosie |
Posted - Nov 06 2006 : 04:51:06 AM
Mine would be beets. It's a childhood thing too. I had to stay at the neighbors one night for dinner and beets were served. I was only 6 or 7 and had never had them before. The smell made me gag and I told the lady I couldn't eat them. She insisted...I remember gagging them down. I have never tried them again since.
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| Annab |
Posted - Nov 06 2006 : 03:44:25 AM
for me it's got to be lima beans and peas. I'll eat both in polite company,but have to swallow them whole every time. For the peas it's the pop in your mouth and for limas, it's the pasty slime. Sometimes undercooked baked beans are like limas to me and I'll have to swallow them whole too. I love home made chili, same for those kidney beans (and Wendy's chili) swallowed whole.
As a kid I never really much cared for meatloaf either....until I discovered BBQ sauce! Now I can eat it ' cause it's basically like hamburger loaf.
Don't like mayo...it's the slime factor too. So for BLT's, I'll stomach the tomatoes as long as I can doctor w/ salt and pepper, but I'm a mustard kind of gal through and through.
I can cook w/ eggs but can't eat something like a quiche or omlette or raw cookie dough. I'll get a bad reaction and my stomach will hurt all day! But boy, it all sure smells great! Real mayo will do the same so at picnics and large food gatherings I have to be careful w/ potato salads and coleslaw. Give it about 10 minutes, and my system will tell me so. Oh the agony!
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| sunshine |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 5:06:53 PM
one way to keep it from getting slimmy is toast bread first then dunk in egg then recook. instead of putting syrup put whip cream and stawberris or just use powder sugar no syrup and use thick bread not thin normal bread from the grocery store. the bread that is twice as thick on sliced size
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| Woodswoman |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 3:57:26 PM
Mine is, are you ready?, French Toast. Actually, I can eat SOME french toast, but if it gets at all soggy, forget it. It's more the texture thing. When I was in middle school I spent the night at a friends house, and her mom made us french toast in the morning. It was so soggy and slimy I almost lost it, but I MADE myself eat some because I was trying to be polite. I've become very suspicious of french toast since then!
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 10:09:53 AM
I'm lactose intolerant so don't like ice cream any more. It's just not worth it. Plus since I had bariatric surgery a few years ago, the sugar in one scoop of ice cream gives me such a rush that I have to go lie down and recover. Same way with cake and doughnuts, just not worth the illness. For some reason cookies and fruit pies are OK, but cream pies are a BIG no-no.
Since I switched to brown bread and whole-grain food I really don't like white bread much any more, esp. like Wonder Bread. It tastes like a sponge.
I had liver and onions once a week as a kid and like it OK, stopped eating it in the eighties when the publicity about toxins was published widely. I still like it once every few years or so.
When I was a kid, my mother was from Florida, I HATED grits. I like them now. Maybe because they remind me of my mother.
I had kidneys a few times when I lived in Spain, they were OK. I had squid (calamare) at the Japanese restaurant for dinner last night and everyone else said "YUCK" but I learned to like these in Spain too.
I don't like okra (probably the texture) and collard greens (too strong) but love spinach, turnip greens, and cabbage.
I like most fish but some kinds are just too "fishy" for me. Like bass and bluegill from my dad's pond. They smell like algae.
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 08:59:09 AM
I love food and will try ANYTHING at least once and believe me I have tried some weird stuff! I really can not think of anything I would refuse to eat because of taste or texture. The only things I AVOID are Velveeta Cheese (it's not really cheese, margarine (it's not really butter) and a lot of fried foods but if I went somewhere and it was served I would eat it and enjoy. And for the record I cook the giblets from the turkey and while my cats usually get most of them as a special thanksgiving treat I would and have eaten them and enjoyed them!
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| JenniferJuniper |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 07:18:48 AM
Bananas. The smell & texture both make me gag. (Strangely, I can eat banana bread without any problems) Also with you on the mayo.
I stopped eating meat at age 12 after years of dinner table battles with my mother, I always hated the texture & was the oddball kid who would eat all the vegetables on my plate and not touch the meat (or slip it to the dog under the table). I'm the only veggie I know who made the choice for taste reasons as opposed to ethical/environmental ones. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 06:42:15 AM
ihave such fond memroies of going 'downtown' to the five and dime store with my nannie when i was a little girl ... and also to a local hotel restaurant ... and we would order 'liver and onions' ... and i did indeed create a 'fancy'for it ... or maybe it was a 'comfort food' because of the time spent with my nannie. as an adult, i must say i still like the taste .. but haven't eaten it since growing up and reaizing it's function in the body!
i like most foods .. just the 'strange' ones like 'unidentifiable body parts' .. will NOT pass the portals of my lips! thought i didn't like 'catfish' .. but that too, is a childhood memory of hearing how dirty the potomac river had become and that is where manyof these 'homely' critters came from .. but when moving to kentucky, i was enticed to try it .. and i love it!
i do like most foods! (nothing RAW or really nasty tasting though!)
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 06:17:08 AM
Jenny- My son can echo your distatse for mayo!! When he was in Mexico, the first dinner he had was ended with a bowl of bananas and cream being presented to him. Following the lead of the family, he sprinkled sugar on it, took a big bite and..........Gagged!!! It was bananas and MAYONNAISE! Yuck! But, it beat the goat eyeball soup he had to eat!
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| katie-ell |
Posted - Nov 05 2006 : 05:30:35 AM
Hate liver. Love chopped chicken liver on bagels with cream cheese and onion!
Hate meat. Haven't had beef for 30 years.
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| Libbie |
Posted - Nov 04 2006 : 9:09:46 PM
Yuck on the mayo, here, too. I also just CANNOT eat fat - I have to trim off little tiny pieces of meat to avoid it most times - even on meat that comes from my own farm. Also, raw eggs. I had a raw quail egg on some sushi, and I LOVE sushi, but that one about did me in. NEVER again!!!
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Nov 04 2006 : 8:04:33 PM
Kidney?? C'mon now, anybody REALLY eat that?
Oh and I'm with Aunt Jenny on the mayo...yik.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 04 2006 : 7:45:41 PM
I really really really don't like pasta. I mean ANY pasta..I know..most people love the stuff. I just have always hated it. It is a texture thing for sure. That and mayo..yuck!!! (and I don't like miracle whip either..none of the gross greasy white stuff!!)
I have a bad gag reflex thing too, and when I was a waitress it was all I could do to carry the plates to the table when people ordered liver..ugh!!
Besides that I am not at all picky...well, maybe a little about HOW things are cooked..I don't like my veggies over cooked and don't want that mayo on anything ever.
When my husband and I were getting married..first time I went grocery shopping I asked what his favorite type of meat for sandwiches was..he always brought his lunch to work and I wanted him to like the sandwiches I made for him. He said he liked liverwurst best of all and I made him pick something else. He hasn't had it in over 10 years now..I told him he would just have to pick another favorite. He was good natured enough to go along with that.
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