I was interested in what foods the folks don't like?

We talk all about the stuff we do like so i just wanted the flip side of it. Besides when i have everyone over for dinner i need to know what not to cook

Only two things i don't really care for are butter which has made me feel sick since i was a kid and cauliflower cheese which is strange cos i love cauliflower and i love cheese

Mix them together though and i go green......

That's so funny, Yogi! I'm the exact opposite. I can't eat cauliflower unless it's covered with cheese, or batter dipped and fried - in other words, disguised in some way. If I have to look at cauliflower, it reminds me too much of brains, and I can't eat it.

I like most foods (and I look it, btw), with the exception of some vegetables. I can't stand brussel sprouts or lima beans, for example. I also don't care for most fish, except for shellfish, which I love. Oh, and I dislike most berries, especially strawberries and raspberries. I do love blueberries and blackberries, though. I think with the other berries, I don't like the seeds.

And with the exception of desserts made with strawberries and raspberries, I pretty much love dessert.

Liver! Liver! Liver! I can't even stand the smell of it.

A close second will be beets.

SB, i love brussel sprouts.

Beth, i love liver and beets.

I don't really have a sweet tooth as such but i do eat desserts...but only 3 times a day

I love liver, too. The first time I ever had lunch with Plawrence, I ordered calves liver. He was completely put off. I haven't had beets since I was a kid, but I don't remember disliking them.

Yogi, my husband loves them, too. He dislikes peas and artichokes, though, which I love, so we rarely have those. And pasta with peas is one of my favorite dishes, and I haven't had it in years.

My kids hate nuts and beans, which we like, so it's pretty hard to get a meal going in our house, unless it consists of broccoli, steak and macaroni and cheese, three things we all agree on!

I guess I wont' be invited to either of your houses for dinner..haha.

Another food I'm not too fond of is cranberry sauce. I think really my sister Angel is the only one who likes it. I had Thanksgiving meal at my house one time. I bought a can of sauce just for her. I opened the can, and the sauce slid right off the plate and onto the floor. I said, "Boo hoo, no cranberry sauce for you". We all started singing, "On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese. I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed....". My family's wierd, what can I say. Now you know where I get it.

Let's see I don't like beets, cottage cheese, seafood, theres not a whole lot I don't like.

I know he hated liver. We went to a deli once and he ordered a tongue sandwich (that shit grosses me out) so I ordered chopped liver on purpose. He had the nerve to ask me how I could eat that.

Besides tongue, I absolutely abhor cottage cheese. It looks like something I threw up when I was REALLY sick. Just the word "curd" makes me wanna puke.

I don't like most beans, although I love baked beans.

I can't eat sushi but I like most baked or cooked fish.

I'm not a big fan of tomatoes but I love pizza, ketchup and tomato-based pasta sauces.

It'd take me WAY too long to respond to this, and not because I have a long list of things I dislike, but the opposite -- I cannot believe all the great things everyone else is dissin'!!

Next time. I gotta hit the sack early (gotta meeting in NYC tomorrow)

I see cottage cheese getting a mention and i forgot about it. I can eat cottage cheese,but i wouldn't go out of my way to get it if you know what i mean?

Eldest son Michael doesn't eat chips(fries), yet he eats other forms of potato. Andrew does not like mushrooms and Jennifer hates tomatoes,yet loves pizza's.

Buncha weirdos

Beth, I don't eat cranberry sauce either. Whenever I have Thanksgiving, my mother makes some from scratch, otherwise there's a very real risk of there not being any at all. My mother-in-law has been known to bring a can, just in case.

I forgot about cottage cheese. That's just nasty stuff.

Yogi, my girls have the same eating oddities. My one daughter loves ice cream, loves cake, but won't eat ice cream cake. My other daughter loves jelly on bread, loves cream cheese on bread, but won't eat cream cheese and jelly together. The oldest loves chicken, the youngest can't stand it. One loves spinach, the other hates it. One loves green beans, the other won't eat them.

Ditto on the above. I enjoy all seafood, except sushi. I can live without tomatoes on subs and in salads, but I love ketchup, pasta and pizza sauces.

What I dislike most is mayonnaise. It gives me the creeps. As a result I don't eat creamy salad dressing or macaroni or potato salad.

I don't care for mushrooms either. And I don't like ricotta cheese.

I love apples, apple pie, apple streudel, apple tarts, muffins, cobbler and cake. I love apple cider and baked apples, but I can not get myself to eat apple sauce.

There are not too many foods that I don't like. My Mom was a stickler when it came to me and my brother eating whatever she managed to put on the table. We had to eat liver, tripe, sweetbreads . . . all that stuff. When you're a 5 year old kid and you've already tried calves brains, there's very little left to gross you out. But I wouldn't go out of my way to have them today. And when it comes to fruits and veggies, I can't even think of a single one that I wouldn't eat.

How could I have forgotten pickles and mushrooms? Also I don't like cooked carrots but I love them raw.

DITTO Beth! I hate liver with a passion! Just the thought of it make me want to

I love liver, smothered in bacon and onions. The trick is to not overcook it. Eat it nice and BLOODY.

You forgot Spaghettio's DC. I actually like liver and onions. Oh yeah another food I won't eat is mountain oysters.

I can eat all vegetables. And all fruits as juices... I hate peeling, de-seeding etc. I dislike the sight and smell of all meat products and can eat them only if they are well disguised in smell and look.

I love minced beef. I grew up on it. Minced beef and mashed potato was something we had 3 times a week when i was a kid.

Yet i hate the smell of mince cooking....

Weird eh?

Now being on nights for a while again, i always take something in for a midnight snack. Last night i took in a shop bought tuna pasta salad,something i usually like!

This one however was rank. Enough to put me off it for life. Can that happen to you with food? One bad experience,eating something you like(that is horrible) and it puts you off that food forever?

That's what happened with me and gin.

I dislike any internal body part with the exception of liver (with plenty of onions, of course).

Now PB, isn't your taste for liver cooked (barely) that way a little Hannibalish?

Only if you serve it with fava beans!

It happened to me with sherry

I was 14

Did Sherry's dad ever find out?

Not yet Klyd,not yet....

After reading the gravy thread, I feel very confident saying I don't Tangled guts (whatever the hell that is). I don't have to taste it. It's title says enough.


TIS

Calf's liver with bacon, onions and ketchup is the BEST.

About the only thing I don't like is anything with coconut in it.

After reading the other topic........BALUT!

I won't eat bananna's or any type of meat, I'm a strict lacto-ovo vegetarian, I've been my whole life and I just don't eat bananna's cause I hate the taste of them. I used to eat bananna's when I was little, but later on I began to be disgusted by the taste of it.

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!

I'll bring the TANGLE GUTS and SPAGHETTIO'S.

Because Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine, hence the "coca" in the title. This was back in the day when cocaine was sold over the counter, of course. Eventually, when public opinion changed about the casual attitude towards certain drugs, they took it out and people then complained that it no longer gave them a kick, so they added caffeine. Spokespersons for the company will now pooh-pooh the amount of cocaine, saying it was "trivial".

Is that true? I did not know that.

There aren't many foods that I don't like. I hate mayonnaise, and refuse to eat any type of mayonnaise based salad (macaroni salad, pasta salad, etc.).

I'm not a fan of liver, but I don't hate it. I don't like oysters, but LOVE clams and scallops. I've never tried squid or octopus, and have no desire ever to do so.

I don't like grapefruit or grapefruit juice. To me they taste like vomit.

Other than that...I really can't think of anything else.

I quite understand - and catching them can be difficult!




Me neither. Too acidic and bitter for me, even if I try to load it up with sugar. Oranges and orange juice I like, but definitely not grapefruit. Besides, it always reminds me of the old James Cagney movie:



I can't stand (read: loathe) liver. Also, eggs in almost any form when they're served alone: scrambled, poached, over easy, etc.

Also do not like anything that is still alive and flopping around on my plate when it is served. I know in some cultures this is considered a delicacy, but it's not for me.

So, I guess I will not end up as a guest on that cable TV show Bizarre Foods or anything like that. Let Andrew Zimmern, Anthony Bourdain and their ilk chow down on fermented sloth gonads, and all that sort of thing. I'll stay home and make a tuna sandwich.

Signor V.

Fried or Grilled Rattlesnake . Some say it tastes like chicken . Not sure what kind of chicken they grew up with, but sure wasn't like mine.

I don't like fish, although shellfish is ok.

Jesus Christ, I have to visit South Dakota just once .

Lots to see in South Dakota, to be sure, but for rattler, consider Sweetwater, Texas - home to the world's largest annual Rattlesnake Roundup. It's held every second week in March, so it's still not too late to plan your vacation!

However, for the adventurous home cook, there's this website: www.rattlesnakerecipe.us. Today's featured recipe is Spicy Rattlesnake Pasta. Yummy!

Signor V.

Yeah, but is it Kosher, and do they serve it in Marine Park?

I don't think reptiles are Kosher, so Marine Park? Probably. But Borough Park? No way!

And remember, it tastes like chicken!

Signor V.

I would like that and you can bring JC with you I really think you would like at least the Black Hills , but the Badlands are cool also, from one extreme, to another. We can also share a buffalo liver right out of one that has been harvested ! Raw, warm, bloody, and usually nice in cold weather. Helps the ole pencil Would love to show you around. Bring Frogskins (money) we will go to Deadwood "Little Vegas"

I'm not a fan of the old serpents.....wouldn't like to meet one and certainly would give munching on one a miss

I can't believe what I'm reading here! Butter, strawberries, raspberries, peas, nuts, cottage cheese, pickles, bananas, eggs, yogurt, mayo, grapefruit, fish -- those rank among my favorites! lol

I also can't believe it was 2.5 years ago when I said I'll get back to the question, and apparently didn't!

There are very few things I dislike, and the list gets shorter as I get older as I like to try things again and guess what? Many things I didn't like as a kid now I like!

Liver is the exception. I try it now and again and still dislike it. But I LOVE liverwurst!

I haven't tried other organ meats (brains, kidneys, testes, etc), but I'd probably try them once...from someone else's plate. As for muscle meat, I never met an animal I didn't like. Then again, I haven't tried Mig's hillbilly rodent diet, so wouldn't be too crazy about trying possum, squirrel, 'coon, etc -- but I would. Haven't tried snake, but alligator is good.

I like all seafood (including sushi) except sea urchin. Tried it once as sushi and it was disgusting. But I'd try it again as who knows how fresh it was. All fish, clams, mussels, oysters, squid, octopus. Not seafood I suppose, but I also love escargot (snails).

Off the top of my head I cannot think of many fruits or veggies I dislike. Canned veggies (except corn and peas) are nasty, tho. Not a fan of pickled beets. Avoided cooked cabbage most of my life but tried it again last St Patty's Day and it was actually quite good! Love Brussels sprouts, so it's not a far reach I suppose. I'm not crazy about the bitterness of white asparagus, but love green asparagus. Slimy okra is nasty, but it's been a while.

Often it's just a texture thing -- I love tomatoes, I love tomato sauce, but can't stand chunks of tomatoes or slivers of its skin in my sauce. Same for too many slimy green peppers (tho raw they're good, and I don't mind slimy red or orange or yellow peppers - go figure).

LOVE my beef tongue, of course!

My friend drives me crazy, though. She hates mayo, sour cream, ketchup (except when it's mixed with mustard), pancakes (!), peas/lima beans (texture), chocolate (!), milk (except in coffee)... oy. And she's my co-foodie-in-crime!

Oh, and shoot me here -- but I really dislike Braciole (involtini), but that could be because the times I've had it it just sucked.

"Casu marzu" in Italian: formaggio marcio "rotten cheese") is a Sardinian sheep milk cheese, notable for containing live insect larvae. It is found mainly in Sardinia, Italy.
I'm half Sardinian and I personally do not like it.

Green beans.

Generally speaking, unless it's been on Fear Factor or an Anthony Bourdain special, I'll try anything once. And I like almost everything. I grew up eating organ meats once or twice a week because they were cheap. We ate calves liver, tripe, sweetbreads, chicken livers and gizzards, etc. a couple times a week. I still eat these foods once in a while because I like them.

Yeah... I've seen that on TV, and just read more about it. No thanks!

eh eh! Eat this cheese It's a hard challenge!

It's too much of a challenge for me!

I just read the article Geoff linked to in his post above, and that settles the matter once and for all. Cheese with jumping maggots? Intestinal problems from one (or more) of those little bastards playing "Destination: Colon" and hitching a ride into my innards?

NFW

I think I'll leave food like that to the guys on the reality shows.

Signor V.

I'm sorry but what does NFW mean? I can not traslate it

No EFFING Way!!

I won't eat honey. I haven't touched it since I was about 5 years old. I won't eat olives either. Some obvious ones I won't have are nasty things like insects or gophers or something strange like that LOL.

Another thing I find utterly repulsive is blood sausage. I tried it once and I was throwing up for days. Disgusting!!

Reese's Peanut Butter cups. I used to LOVE them until I opened one that was filled with worms and eggs. Now that the THOUGHT of one makes me barf.

Well thanks for ruining my FAVORITE candy bar!!

I hate quiche.Makes me vomit if i even smell the stuff..

Stuff like that happens to me sometimes, but I don't avoid it forever -- I just look more closely the next time.

Reminds me when I was cracking open eggs for my mom and I was horrified and disgusted when one had a fucking chicken inside it -- feathers and all! ...but I still love eggs!

Your mom played a yolk on you?

What the hell?! That's crazy, I definitely would have been scarred for life. That could have made a great lawsuit.

Lot of these items I haven't heard of . I was thinking when people are starving such as the people on Donnor's Pass just how far we would go ? Arm of Larry or a leg of Mary ? Just wondering. Ok, so it cold out ! Didn't mean to upset everyones cookies here.

How about lizzards, gator, and stuff down in the swamp ? That work.

Mayonnaise is the first thing that comes to mind. I'm not fond of mushrooms. Except for a few of the fattier deli meats, I can't think of any meats that I dislike. I've had alligator quite a few times and on three occasions was served rattlesnake, which was pretty good. I can eat tripe, liver and other organ meats, but it's not my first choice. Rocky Mountain oysters are okay if you can get past it mentally.

Is blood sausage what we would call black pudding??

I love that!!

As a kid i remember eating tripe and beef dripping on sandwiches....

Lovely food designed to make you a man...put hairs on your bumhole and all that

Quite a description, Yogi! I'd settle for a food that would put some hairs back on my head!

Today I started reading "The Year of Eating Dangerously" by Tom Parker Bowles. I have a sneaking suspicion that this book is best read on an empty stomach.

Signor V.

One thing Gentleman and I do not say that lightly . We aren't some lightweights. SV, I sure would agree about the hair. I am not Gentle Ben , but wish I could have kept some on the top knot LOL !

I have never had blood pudding before . Yogi, could I get your little ladys ? Do your kids like it ?