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What is the one food item you refuse to eat, that most people like?

Asked by flip86 (6213points) June 30th, 2014

I will not eat seafood of any kind or fish. I get nauseous at just the smell of it. People think I’m crazy for not liking it.

Please, it doesn’t matter who cooks it or how or when. I don’t like it.

That being said, as asked.

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ragingloli's avatar

bacon.
liver
stomach

talljasperman's avatar

Chocolate milkshakes

JLeslie's avatar

One?

Blueberries, fresh tomatoes with nothing on them, cheesecake, cream cheese, raw clams, raw oysters, blue cheese, just to name a few.

Berserker's avatar

Well I don’t know if everyone eats it, but I absolutely despise licorice. It’s fucking disgusting, like sucking and chewing on plastic. If I want that, I have dildos.

talljasperman's avatar

Hummus…I had some in a sandwich and I gaged. I also don’t like cream cheese in my lasagna. I don’t like ice cubes in my milk and pop. I don’t drink coffee.

flip86's avatar

@talljasperman Do you mean ricotta? I hate ricotta in lasagna. Mozzarella and meat sauce is where it’s at.

JLeslie's avatar

I’m a coke no ice girl. I married my husband because he ordered a Coke that way on our first date. I figured he could be part of the family.

Kardamom's avatar

Well, because I’m a vegetarian, meat. But for the sake of this Q, I shall go back to my pre-veggie days.

The only fish I ever tasted or ate was canned tuna, fish and chips, and shrimp cocktail. I refused to eat any other kind of fish, because most of it has a bad smell and it just looks creepy to me. Clam chowder looks like what would come back up if I’d ever been willing to eat it.

Coming back into our own time period, most vegetarians and a lot of non vegetarians love eggplant Pamesan. It’s just so squishy and slimy, uggghhh!

ucme's avatar

Onions are absolutely rank, hate them.

Kardamom's avatar

@Symbeline has to have won some sort of award today for her response to this Q!

Well I don’t know if everyone eats it, but I absolutely despise licorice. It’s fucking disgusting, like sucking and chewing on plastic. If I want that, I have dildos.

Kardamom's avatar

@ucme Have you ever had beer battered onion rings? Even most of the people that I know who don’t like onions will eat them like that. I plan to eat some when I go to the county fair this week.

flip86's avatar

@Kardamom I agree with the eggplant. I don’t like zucchini for the same reason. I’m a pretty picky eater overall. Most vegetables disgust me.

ucme's avatar

@Kardamom No, my gob is a no onion zone, it’s the law.

Kardamom's avatar

@flip86 I can take zucchini raw, but when it’s cooked, like in a vegetable lasagna, it gets that same slippery slimy feeling too.

Ha Ha Ha, I’d be in a world of hurt if I didn’t like vegetables. What veggies are you willing to eat?

Kardamom's avatar

@ucme Well, at least it keeps your breath fresh. Do you like garlic?

ucme's avatar

@Kardamom No, i’m a vampire, did I not divulge this earlier?
I do like me some garlic bread though, work that one out & stay fashionable.

Kardamom's avatar

@ucme Garlic bread is one of the finest things in life.

Coloma's avatar

Buffalo wings. I hate that sauce, yuck!

JLeslie's avatar

Again with the buffalo sauce! It troubles me you don’t like it.

tinyfaery's avatar

Mayo—blech.
Onions—smell like BO

flip86's avatar

@Kardamom I’ll eat onions, green beans, wax beans, white potatoes, peas, cucumbers, corn, carrots, celery, iceberg lettuce, peppers and really, that is it. Tomatoes too, if you consider them a vegetable. Everything else is disgusting, including sweet potatoes and squash.

I love pumpkin pie though. Which most people hate.

El_Cadejo's avatar

Mayo (unless mixed with other stuff, like spicy mayo), yogurt(unless frozen) , sour cream . I have a weird aversion to white foods it seems lol.

Coloma's avatar

@JLeslie Well… I hope it won’t ruin our relationship. lol

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Chick peas plain. They taste like chalky sawdust. Hummus well done is good though.

Kardamom's avatar

@El_Cadejo I’m guessing that it’s just tart, creamy white foods, huh?

Do you like mashed potatoes or white rice or jack cheese or hearts of palm?

We used to have potlucks at work every few months or so, and one day we came up with the theme of colored food day instead of just picking an ethnic cuisine like Italian or Mexican. We had some of the best meals ever! As I recall white and green were the winners. I think someone made a coconut cream pie for the white themed food party.

Berserker's avatar

Humus RULES.

talljasperman's avatar

@flip86 What ever the white stuff is… I hate it and it cools the lasagne down too much… I would rather have more cheese and beef.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Kardamom It’s a texture thing really. They just all happen to be white. I can’t eat pudding either now that I’m thinking about it.

majorrich's avatar

I’ve never been much of an organ meats eater. But that puts me in the majority for that. I have a weird dislike for raw tomatoes. I Do like them cooked, but not raw.

CWOTUS's avatar

beer

I’ve had it twice in my life, in any kind of quantity. The first time nearly killed me, and the second one may have saved my life. But I still don’t like it.

Oh, and coffee. Funny thing, too, because coffee ice cream is my favorite flavor.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@CWOTUS On the note of beer….. :P

snowberry's avatar

One more vote for nix on the buffalo wings. The wings are nasty, the sauce is just as bad, or worse.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@snowberry Sounds like you haven’t had good wing sauce. What area are you from? IME wing sauce ranges from god awful to holy fuckin amazing :P

gondwanalon's avatar

Ice cream. It has too much fat, sugar and chemicals. It is definitely not healthy to eat. Perhaps you’re thinking: “Everything in moderation”. But why eat any amount of anything that is not healthy for you.

AshLeigh's avatar

Greek Yogurt.
Fish/Seafood.
Raisins.
Sweet Potatoes.

ibstubro's avatar

Meat [obviously].
Carrots, cooked. I see no attractive application. They are just gross.

snowberry's avatar

@El_Cadejo Every wing sauce I’ve ever heard of has lots of vinegar in it. I like some sour things, but that stuff makes me gag, and after I choke it down, I feel awful. No thanks.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@snowberry Exactly my point about bad wing sauce. I make it all the time and avoid vinegar because well, it sucks.

snowberry's avatar

@El_Cadejo I don’t tolerate grease very well and wings are mostly skin (fat) with a little bit of meat. I’d might try one wing, with your sauce but I sure wouldn’t eat much.

Coloma's avatar

@snowberry Totally agree, nasty sauce and wings are too much work for too little return. haha
On top of that, they are messy and greasy. Ick!

El_Cadejo's avatar

I feel so bad for you guys. Missing out on what wings could be. Around here they’re really big and meaty, the sauce, well the good wing sauce is usually made with a good hot sauce as a base(ie one that isn’t vinegar based but rather carrot based) and then some butter and brown sugar is added. When I make wing sauce I like to add some blue cheese at the end to partially melt it in. I also tend to get my wings dry and then dip them in the sauce.

Haleth's avatar

I never met a food I didn’t like.

JLeslie's avatar

@AshLeigh Thanks for reminding me. Yogurt. For me it is all yogurt, even frozen yogurt. It’s all disgusting.

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

Things that I don’t like, that most people like:

Bread, watermelon, hamburgers, anything breaded, and gummy candies

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

Oh, and pecan pie. And mincemeat pie.

Coloma's avatar

I don’t like gummy candies either or mincemeat, but I do like Pecan pie. Now Rhubarf pie…oh my, yuck!

Berserker's avatar

LOL rhubarf. Yeah, I hate that shit too. Rhubarb sucks the Devil’s arse.

Coloma's avatar

@JLeslie Haha really? I love yogurt, just had a lemon yoplait. Okay…you stick to your buffalo sauce and I’ll stick to my yogurts. lol

Berserker's avatar

How about chicken flavored yogurt?

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

And I love rhubarb pie. The perfect bite of sweet and sour. Even better with hot custard poured over the top.

Kardamom's avatar

@ibstubro Before you give up all hope of liking cooked carrots, try out This Recipe. You barely steam the carrots, but it makes all the difference. This salad is a flavor bomb!

Coloma's avatar

Chicken yogurt…gag! lol
I do not like giblet gravy either. Ick!

AshLeigh's avatar

Pecan pie is the worst thing ever.

ibstubro's avatar

Pecan pie is almost as good as rhubarb, but gooseberry rocks both out.

Brian1946's avatar

M&M’s: mushrooms and mollusks!

Coloma's avatar

@Brian1946 Okay..I have always liked you but now, not so sure anymore. lol

Blondesjon's avatar

@ibstubro is correct about the gooseberry pie.

ibstubro's avatar

I have this all dialed in, @Blondesjon. I buy bags of frozen fruit and berries, and give them to older ladies at the auction that love to cook. Hasn’t been a month since we had a fresh gooseberry pie, and the day after I gifted a 2 pound bag of rhubarb we had the most delicious cobbler!

Coloma's avatar

Red Velvet cake is another one. I don’t get the appeal, funky stuff.

ibstubro's avatar

I certainly agree with that, @Coloma! How is dumping quantities of bitter red food color in a chocolate cake appealing?

Kardamom's avatar

@ibstubro and @Coloma Did you know that the original incarnation of red velvet cake did not have red food coloring at all? The cake was more of a brownish red (more maroon in color) and the reason it looked red at all was because it was made with beets. Beets gave the cocoa the sweet flavor it needed, as well as keeping it moist, rather than using white sugar.

The History of Red Velvet Cake

Coloma's avatar

@Kardamom Interesting. There’s a book to be written, ” The history of Cake.” haha

Kardamom's avatar

@Coloma Do you think it should be called “Let Them Eat Cake”? With a nod to the irony? I think I like that title.

JLeslie's avatar

@Coloma Now we’re talking. The only time I thought red velvet cake was interesting was the first time I saw it in the movie Steel Magnolias. Since then I have tasted it, and it tastes like nothing.

My mom a few years ago was talking about how she was going to her neighbors for a party for the son’s graduation. My mom complained to me in her very Bronx accent that, “the kids favorite cake is red velvet so that is what they are having. JL, red velvet isn’t chocolate.” I said, “I know Ma, it’s red velvet.” She said, “there is cocoa in it, but not enough.” Me, “I know, if you want chocolate cake you will have to go get you some.” I think she is very confused by red velvet cake. LOL.

You have to understand, she used to make for me from scratch chocolate chocolate cake for my birthdays. I always wanted those nice rectangular sheet cakes with the white icing and flowers on top with the pretty writing that says happy birthday like my friends. Now, in retrospect, I appreciate the effort she made making me a cake, and as an adult I would much prefer the chocolate cake.

ibstubro's avatar

I’d be interested in trying Red Velvet with beets, @Kardamom. Dispite my dislike for cooked carrots, 3 day old carrot cake is the best there is. I don’t care for beets, either, but I make and enjoy Harvard Beets a few times a year.

It took me 40+ years to get over my aversion to sweet potatoes (which was aided and abetted by my disgust for marshmallows!), but I love them now with butter, pecans and brown sugar. I still consider them dessert, however.

Coloma's avatar

I don’t like beets either. :-p

ibstubro's avatar

Harvard Beets are good, @Coloma. This is a version if what I’m referring to. Like a marinade, it covers the beet ‘twang’.

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

Yes, Harvard beets are yummy. The recipe is in my Joy of Cooking cookbook. I have a couple of kids that don’t react well to red food coloring, so red velvet cake is out. I actually liked it until I found out that it is nothing but red food coloring. How gross is that? I am going to search online for a recipe to make it the “right” way, with beets.

I haven’t had gooseberry cobbler for decades. I remember that it also is the best with warm Bird’s Eye custard poured over the top.

ibstubro's avatar

Unfortunately, the resurgence of the wild turkey also seem to have resulted in the demise of wild gooseberries around here, @Skaggfacemutt. I’ll take that. I can buy frozen gooseberries, and I love the wild turkeys.

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

I had a gooseberry bush in my backyard at one time. Maybe I should work on planting another.

ibstubro's avatar

Recipe for Red Velvet Beet Cake

#2

I think this is gonna be messy, @Skaggfacemutt. You know how those beets stain! I don’t know how to operate a food processor and putting my hands on a blender could be a chore. Still, I’m considering it!

(Yeah! I read all the way through, and one says canned beets are fine, the color just won’t be the same.)

jca's avatar

I hate olives.

I hate radishes.

I am not a big red velvet cake fan.

I hate bologna.

I am not a fan of mayo on sandwiches or hamburgers. In chicken salad or tuna salad or egg salad, yes, it is ok.

Also on the list of things I will tolerate but am not thrilled with: Beer. Raw tomatoes.

AshlynM's avatar

Mushrooms, coconut and Lima beans. Disgusting. Oh and I hate beer.

Coloma's avatar

Oh man, I adore olives of all shapes and colors and sizes. Just call me Olive slut. lol

ibstubro's avatar

^^^
Olive, you stupid slut!
Is your real name Jane?

Coloma's avatar

@ibstubro Curtain? lol

ibstubro's avatar

No, BLINDS! ~

Coloma's avatar

^^^ LOL

majorrich's avatar

Boiled Okra is a particular substance that is like Kryptonite for me. once again it’s not a universal thing.

ibstubro's avatar

OMG. Great answer, @majorrich. I’ve filled Kleenex with better. ;)

Kardamom's avatar

@ibstubro If you do make the red velvet cake DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT used canned beets. For one, most of them are pickled, and two, even if they’re not pickled they’re canned cooked which changes the flavor and the texture.

I think both you and @Coloma might be able to tolerate this raw Spiralized Beet and Sweet Potato Salad. Raw beets are very different from cooked beets, flavor-wise. Also, cutting them super thin (with a spiralizer or julienne slicer) gives them a very different mouth feel than big chunks. This light dressing will transport these veggies into something very different from what you are used to.

Coloma's avatar

Oh! Creamed corn! Gag…who the hell likes that slop? lol

majorrich's avatar

Even though it is a traditional favorite, I cannot abide Natto, fermented soybeans. I can’t even adequately describe it. I’ll leave it to ma Asian brothers and sisters.

Berserker's avatar

@Coloma I haven’t had creamed corn since I was little when my mom was always giving me some. I didn’t like it. I found it tolerable and ate it…but…the texture, man. It’s like eating snot..

ibstubro's avatar

Creamed corn makes a great casserole mixed with a can of corn and Jiffy corn bread mix. I think there’s sour cream in there somewhere, too.

ragingloli's avatar

creamed corn. is that some sort of innuendo?

ragingloli's avatar

Is that a visual innuendo?

Berserker's avatar

I sure as fuck hope not.

ragingloli's avatar

there was a scene like that in a hentai game I played recently

Berserker's avatar

Did it come out of an orifice? Cuz if so, ew dude.

ragingloli's avatar

yes, it did.

majorrich's avatar

Yellow chunky ooze coming out an orifice can’t be a good thing.

ragingloli's avatar

well, only the white fluid did.

Kardamom's avatar

I guess I’m one of the few who likes creamed corn, especially in the casserole that @ibstubro mentioned. It also makes for a really good version of Corn Bread

ibstubro's avatar

Actually, I’ve eaten creamed corn from a can and liked it. Bit too much sugar, too little corn, but I think the brand makes the difference.

Do you deep fat fry, @Kardamom? I have a helk of a time managing that!

flip86's avatar

I use creamed corn in my corn chowder. Just one can. Adds to the consistency quite well.

snowberry's avatar

Caviar. I’ve heard lots of people like it.

Also fizzy drinks- everything from soda pop to champagne. Hate the stuff.

Kardamom's avatar

@ibstubro I like it right out of the can too. No I’ve never done deep frying. It’s not good for you (so I only eat stuff like that once a year at the county fair LOL) and it seems rather dangerous and messy too.

Oh, yeah, I do occasionally eat tempura veggies at a sushi place

Berserker's avatar

@snowberry Caviar? Isn’t that for like, super rich people? I’ve never even sene it in real life. (sure does seem gross though)

snowberry's avatar

@Symbeline It’s super salty, and tastes fishy. Ick.

Coloma's avatar

Oh, head cheese. OMG…who eats that stuff anyway?!!!

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Symbeline you can get caviar from flying fish or salmon for rather cheap. They’re pretty common in sushi. I’m quite fond of it. The flying fish is really small and has a nice little crunch to it. The salmon is a lot larger I guess I would best describe it is if icebreakers made a salmon flavor :P . I didn’t find either however to be salty. Then again I’ve never had fancy smancy caviar which probably is salty.

@Coloma I do :P

Coloma's avatar

@El_Cadejo Well that sinks it, no kissing you ever. haha

shego's avatar

cottage cheese makes me want to puke just writing this

majorrich's avatar

Organ Meats in general, including tongue.

MooCows's avatar

I will not eat any meat except that which is raised on our farm
so I know without a doubt there is absolutely no chemicals
in it and the grass it ate was not full of fertilizers.

CWOTUS's avatar

s’mores
most candy bars (except straight dark chocolate, some other chocolate or Mounds™ bars)
most fruit pies (except apple; apple pie is cool when warm)

ibstubro's avatar

Marshmallows.
They’re just disgusting.

AshLeigh's avatar

Good one! I do not see the appeal of marshmallows.

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