I also hate onions!

I luv cottage cheese but I hate beets.

Oh I KNOW what you mean...

But first on MY list is DEAD ANIMALS...

Not knockin' on anyone else's, but my own self told me when I was 15 years old that FLESH is NOT food for me.

So yeah.

... And cottage cheese just reminds me of my old girlfriend that had the bad yeast infection...

Why eat dead animals anyway? I mean if you already do not like 'em... I'm just sayin'...

Me myself I stopped eating flesh foods in 1982... I was 15 years old then...

Now I am 42 years old...

I still get carded when I buy beer.


TRUE STORY

About the only thing I don't like foodwise -- beets, cooked carrots (like raw carrots) and baked sweet potato (though I love sweet potato fries)

The first 23 years of my life I did not eat cranberry sauce 9from a can) as it looked like beets and I could not fathom to eat something that looks like something I detested. then I broke down and tried the cranberry sauce and have been eating ever since.

I never thought I would like mountain oysters until I was "tricked" into eating them. Ever since it has not been a problem - not that I go out of my way to eat them.

Here is a partial list, with some contradictions noted:

Liver. Absolutely abhor it. Even the smell of cooking liver makes me queasy.

Eggs. Scrambled, poached, etc. Actually, any eggs from the frying pan are revolting to me. Especially the odor. And yet, I don't mind them hard boiled or cooked into a dish (I love pasta carbonara, for example).

Most meats that are organs: kidneys, heart, brain, etc.

Yogurt. Hate it. But if it's cooked into something, then it's tolerable.

These are the first ones that come to mind. Doubtless, I'll eventually remember others.

Signor V.

Canned spinach. I like frozen and I love fresh spinach but canned spinach tastes awful.

Any canned vegetable is gross - salty and soggy. The only canned vegetable that I actually use is canned peas. The frozen ones are too much like BBs for me.

No eggs of any kind under any conditions.
Not overly fond of turnips or rutabagas.

I love turnips, and I couldn't possibly live without eggs .

Is the egg thing cultural?

I really don't know how to be politically correct, so I'll just ask. My best friend of the last 30 years is a black man. Eggs and mayonnaise make him cringe. He literally runs from me when he sees me eating either of these things. He says, and I'm quoting here, Brothers don't do mayonnaise .

The mayonnaise thing is overblown I think. You can't really quickly make potato salad without mayonnaise. On the other hand there might be a cultural predilection towards spicier foods -have you seen that "mayo" scene in "Undercover Brother-but this is likely as much regional (southern) as it is ethnic.

As far as the eggs, nope. I just never liked them. Everyone else in my family did. This would cause epic battles as a kid when my parents would expect me to finish everything on my plate and I would-EXCEPT for any sort of egg. Once they realized I wasn't just being deliberately defiant things were cool...

Well, being that you brought up "Undercover Brother," what about orange soda?

We weren't allowed to drink pop or have candy growing up... Once I was old enough to do things as I saw fit my favorite pop was



In keeping with the spirit of the original post my least favorite pop is this, which is to me literally like drinking sugar with food dye added.

Pop?

You're such a mid-westerner .

We should call it soda?

Map of Soft DrinkTerms (Pop/Soda/Coke)

When I was in the Navy, all the white guys drank coke/pepsi, the filipinos loved grape crush and the african-americans drank the hell out of orange crush. I can't remember what the latino guys were crazy about...I seem to recall them liking pineapple juice. I could be wrong? "Pop" is definitely midwestern speak.

No way it is called POP!!!

When I lived in VA my boss use to have go on a sody pop run.

Oh yeah I hate turnip greens, mustard greens, spinach.

I think it is a Midwestern term. When I lived in Michigan it was always "pop."

When I first moved to California, 30 years ago, we went to a restaurant and I asked what kind of pop do you have. The waitress said, "you're not from around here are you?" It's been soda ever since. Now, when I hear my family in Michigan refer to "pop" it sounds so weird.


TIS

You sillies. It's coke. (And I see I fit the map... )

TIS, my 4th grade teacher would say "pop," and though I hadn't thought of this recently, I wanna say she was from Michigan. My classmates teased her about it!

I have to wonder what "other" is...? My grandpa is funny - he'll often say "so-dee water" or "so-dee pop."

Um, "Coke" is a brand name for a specific cola-flavored soda (pop). How would you order a Pepsi (infinitely better than Coke, BTW) or root beer or 7-Up, by saying "coke" all the time? Pepsi-coke? Root Beer-coke? 7-Up-coke?

I wouldn't order a Pepsi. I'd order a Coke.

And Coke happens to be a type of coke.

Sheesh. And here I thought you were part of the English Police!

You should've explained all the requirements before I joined! I'll return my badge.

You can't return your badge. We need you for the "Guys Thread" and ALL the other threads. The BB needs Gina.

So down South, someone can ask you what kind of pop -excuse me- coke, you want to drink and theoretically someone can reply "I'll have a Pepsi" ????

That's almost as good as going down South to visit relatives and having "dinner" at noon while the evening meal is called "supper".

I always thought that was funny.

In Texas it's always been Coke or Dr. Pepper although I started out asking for pop.

Thanks Mama Mig, but there's just no pleasing Geoff when it comes to the English language.

Okay...Lilo's taunting inspired me to ask my parents. My dad says he used to do exactly that as a kid - he'd ask his dad if he could have a coke, and then he'd say a Dr. Pepper is what he wanted. Then when I argued that it's fine to say that, he laughed! But all he drinks are Cokes anyway, so what does he know? My mom says "soda water." So I'm polling Facebook friends to find out the "truth" about Houston.

But whatever someone eats at noon oughta be called lunch.

(So sorry for trying to hijack this thread, btw!)

Exactly. Y'all can argue about "soda" and "pop" and "coke" (the latter means cocaine here, by the way ) ... it's obvious that lunch is mid-day. I have yet to figure out the difference between "supper" and "dinner", but I almost always say "dinner" for the third (main) meal of the day.

As long as there's a place set for me - call it what ever you want!