What food(s) do you wish you liked, but don't?

Any fish that looks like it has a bone in it makes my throat close. Also macaroni and cheese. Yuck.

Avocados, lima beans. I have recently taught myself to eat mushrooms, but they do taste like rubber bands.

Mayonnaise. It seems to be in or put on everything. I get tired of passing up foods I really like because of yucky store mayonnaise and I get tired of holding up drive thru lines in order to check the wretched glop hasn’t been smeared on my foodstufffs.

Any kind of…<shudder>… squash. I gave up pumpkin pie for years when I found out that pumpkin was a kind of…<shudder>… squash. I can eat pumpkin pie again, if I go to my happy place first.

Seafood. I watch people tucking into lobster and hear raving about the soft shell crab and wish I liked any of it.

I have a mental and physical block on bananas. Mom says that as a baby I would pick up a slice and start to shake and shudder. The feeling, the texture just repulsed me. I have a hard time being in the same room with a peeled one. I don’t particularly care to eat one, but I wish I wasn’t so repulsed by them.

Coconut.

mayo (any kind), sour cream and guacamole make me want to puke on sight.

Tomatoes.

Cheesecake, onions.

@Neizvestnaya Mayonnaise is disgusting. I always ask for people to hold the mayo and if I find even a drop of it on my sandwich, I will send it back. Yuck.

I am not fond of vegetables at all, really. I will eat them in pastas or as a component of sauces, or snack on celery and carrots when dip is provided… but I just don’t eat them otherwise. Salads are disappointing. Steamed vegetables look (and often times smell) like something aliens might consume.

I also absolutely hate jelly, but have no desire to enjoy eating it.

It would be a tad more convenient for me if I liked shrooms, but I usually have no trouble finding a yummy item that doesn’t have them, or having them withheld from one that does.

Tomato soup. Looks good but it’s just too sour for me. I sometimes cheat and sugar to sweeten it up.

Most stews——eg., Irish stews, Chunky soup (which is more like a stew than a soup), beef stews, etc. Salty and bland.

Anything with lamb or lamb itself. Goat’s milk, deer meat, bison, etc. I hate the gamey taste of all these.

Shellfish. My husband enjoys it, but I just can’t gather the courage to eat the stuff. It’s just too smelly for me.

Fruit. I have texture issues with most fruits, so I can’t eat them. I can drink fruit juice, but not the actual fruits themselves.

Butternut squash seems so delightful but I don’t like the taste of it.

@Deja_vu : <shudder>

Chinese food, which a lot of my friends love and crave, and I detest even just the smell of it.

The worst is sauerkraut though. Ugh.

@mcbealer My husband loves sauerkraut, I detest it. I decided to give it a try. Big mistake. He simmered some brats in sauerkraut and the house smelled for days! I was miserable.

Is beer a food? How people get pleasure from drinking it is a mystery to me.

Well that’s it. My new goal in life is to get Gail to like beer.

I can’t stand strawberries. My fiancé loves them and can eat them all day, and I run the other way.
I don’t like lamb, ( I’m screwed for Christmas), sour cream, yogurt, and tomatoes.

Cake. Almost everyone likes cake. At parties when I say I don’t want any and then people ask why and I tell them, “Because I don’t really like cake,” I get looked at like I’m a freak. “How do you not like cake?” “Wait, what?” “What the fuck?” Let the questions begin. I’m not exactly sure what it is about cake that makes me dislike it. Maybe it’s the texture, maybe it’s that lots of cakes (especially birthday cakes) seem to have really crappy icing on them. (Icing ≠ frosting) I don’t know, I just know I don’t like it. I LOVE another kind of cake though…. cheesecake.

As many of my friends on here know, I HATE onions. I have no desire to like onions. I will not say I wish I liked onions.

@Allie My husband doesn’t really like cake either, so for his birthday, I make brownies (his favorite).

I make birthday cookies for Jon. He hates cakes. Especially cupcakes.

I’m not alone! :D

For those of you who abhor mayonnaise, do you like a vinaigrette?

@gailcalled I hate the taste of beer too. When I was in university, I used to accompany my buddies to places where they served beer, and they’d drink pitchers of the stuff all evening. I drank one or two mugs just to be “in the gang”, but I hated every drop of it. Yes, I can’t understand how anyone would love the taste of beer. Yeech.

@gailcalled according to husband beer is a food. If he drinks one in morning he says he is having his grains (go figure). I dislike beer too, but it always look so refreshing. :D

Tuna. I do wish I liked it but I just can’t. I HATE mayo, enough that just the smell can make me vomit, so I can’t put mayo with it. I’ve tried it straight from the can and covered in mustard. Nothing seems to work. I just don’t like it, even though I wish I did.

@Allie you’re def not alone!
I don’t like cake either! Really the only kind I can enjoy is devil’s food cake.
Oh and cheesecake, which I agree is in a whole other league, ha ha.
@jonsblond sauerkraut used to pollute the air quality of my elementary school’s cafeteria every Friday… I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I saw or smelled the stuff… ‘nuff said

Tomato and onion, only because they seem to be in everything.

I’m like @breedmitch I don’t like bananas I wish I could as they are a quick and easy energy, hole filling snack but I just can’t stand the thought of the slimy texture in my mouth!

Does beer count? I don’t like it at all so I pretend to enjoy a glass when a kind person volunteers to buy a pitcher for the table. There’s no way I’ll say “No thanks, I’d rather have water.”
I guess I never outgrew peer pressure.

Cottage cheese. The taste isn’t appealing and it always invokes mental images of baby barf. I give it another try every couple of years, to no avail.

To the mayonaise-haters: I’m in your club. Since it’s not healthy, consider it a blessing you don’t like it.
@Neizvestnaya If I’m going to get something from a fast food restaurant, I park the car and go inside to get it customized and then check it before leaving.
@Randy Have you tried grilled fresh tuna? It tastes very different than the stuff in the can.
@gailcalled Yes, vinagarettes can sometimes be an excellent substitute for mayo. Our SIL makes excellent cole slaw with one instead of mayo.

Anything healthy.

@Pied_Pfeffer: Interesting; mayo is simply oil, vinegar and an emulsified raw egg. Home-made mayo (easy) is very different from the stuff in the jar. It is also important to spread it thin.

@breedmitch: Getting me to enjoy beer is akin to cleaning out the Augean stables…exhausting and unprofitable. xox Maude

Sushi.

I like the sound of it, but I just can’t handle the consistency of raw fish. Whenever we order, I get something that’s either get California rolls or something strictly vegetable.

@gailcalled: The whole reason I detest mayonnaise is the vinegar so no vinegarettes for me. I’ll eat home whipped mayo and occasionally some best foods mixed into mash salads but no other brands so far. I LURVE dill pickles but it’s all dependent on the taste of the vinegar for the ones not cured in brine.

@Randy: I used to hate canned tuna also until I discovered solid pack white albacore and now I’ll eat no other. Make or get someone to make you home mayo without the vinegar and see how that tastes for you. I make a piggie out of myself when I get a crack at home made potato, macaroni, tuna salads.

Strawberries. I have always hated the flavour whether of real strawberries or strawberry-flavoured things. But they look so nice.

chicken wings dear god they smell so good but i just cant bring myself to eat them

@downtide: `Doubtless God could have made a better fruit than the strawberry, but doubtless God never did.``

Dr. William Butler

I absolutely loathe raisins. I always pick them out of my food. It would be nice to like them. I also can’t stand prunes, but I love dates.