What foods or flavors do you not like?

Black licorice, zucchini, sweet potato, sweet mustard, aspartame. I do not care for raw onions either, but I love pickled fish. Just put it on a bread roll with some pickles, and I will wolf it down whole.

In general, I don’t care for foods that smell bad. People will often say to me, “yeah, it smells bad, but it tastes so good ” and I’m like “nah”. If it smells bad to me, I’m not going to like the taste either. Foods that fit this criteria include pungent cheeses, eggs in most of their forms (this is the one that stands out the most; not liking eggs can be a challenge sometimes), and some kinds of seafood. I like almost anything else, though I guess I find the rubbery texture of some mushrooms off-putting. They taste alright, though.

I also despise liver, and the grainy texture of mussels.

Liver and onions.

Any diet drinks with aspertame

Light beers

Asparagus sometimes. Its a mood thing and I always hate it when I pee later.

Kidneys

Some of the new recipes I tried. Yuch.

So I like a lot of foods people HATE. I love black licorice and black jelly beans. I love olives, cilantro, sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, mustard-based BBQ, sardines, liver& onions…These are some of my favorite foods. I will demolish any olives within reach. I pick out and eat the black jelly beans first and I’ll pick cilantro right out of the garden and eat it. Liver and onions? yes please bring me a second helping, by the way do you serve chicken livers? Stinky cheeses? yup, I love it too.

I love eggs but hate runny eggs, they have to be over-hard. I’m with Loli on any fake sweeteners. I also hate light beer, it’s piss in a bottle. I can’t stand oysters but love clams. I love lengua (beef tongue) but can’t bring myself to try tripe on my tacos.

I’m a little sensitive to gluten so I don’t eat much pasta, but I don’t care for it anyway. There is just no sexing up a boring spaghetti dinner enough for me to like it.

I hate beer. All of it.
Hate whiskey.
Do not care for wine, unless it’s sweet.

Trying to stay with strictly flavor and not texture:

I don’t like honey mustard dressings or sauces. I like mustard and I like honey, but not combined.

Cilantro tastes like soap, I have that gene I guess. I can tolerate a little bit of it now, I’m around it a lot since my husband loves it and his mom uses a lot of it, but usually she makes my food without.

I hate heavy garlic in dishes. Sometimes there are actual shaved pieces of garlic or a lot of crushed garlic, and when I bite into it, yuck.

Whipped cream.

Liver.

Blue cheese.

Parmesian cheese I can tolerate it if it’s diluted in a sauce, but overall I don’t like it and always ask the waiter to hold the Parmesan if it’s sprinkled on top. I don’t understand how people can like loading it on a salad of pasta.

I like to bite off chunks off of Parmigiano wedges. So yummy.

I like everything BUT raw cucumbers do nasty things to my gut. https://allergylosangeles.com/allergy-blog/cucumber-allergy-can-come-in-many-flavors/

@Demosthenes I can’t eat eggs either. It’s not an allergy but a lifelong aversion. I’m find with them in cakes and cookies but a too eggy quiche is skirting the line. And I won’t eat them cooked on their own for love or money.

Other than that, offal, licorice, and blue cheeses come to mind.

I can’t stand chunks of fatty beef in something like a stew but I will eat it, if necessary, if it’s not fatty.

I could drink egg yolks all day.

I don’t care for beer or wine – I’ll take a little, maybe a glass of wine at the most, but if I’m going to drink, i’d rather have a mixed drink with a whiskey blend or some tropical drink like a daquiri, or a dessert drink like with Khalua.

I like licorice and anisette/anise flavored pastries and cookies.

I don’t like parmesan cheese sprinkled on pasta or salads and I don’t like stinky cheese like blue cheeses.

I don’t mind cilantro.

I do not like black licorice, or cinnamon in cinnamon buns.

Pickles. Except in potato salad.

Pickles, many mustards, asparagus*, Brussels sprouts*, baby corn*, whatever those tiny onion ball things are in some US pot pies, some egg salads, canned green beans, most McDonalds’ products, most US Southern “white sauce”, most US beer, runny eggs.

* I seem to have a natural gag reaction to these.

Offal, organ meat, aged fish, Gefilte, fish eggs, chewy meats like octopus (though it’s possible I’ve never had it when it was cooked property), gamey meat, blood-based food, funky cheeses. I’m sure there are others that aren’t coming to mind.

^^ I won’t have what he’s not having!

I forgot mayonnaise or anything it has touched. Nasty.

@Zaku I think those onion ball things that you’re referring to are known as pearl onions.

@Blackwater_Park I like mayo when it’s used in salads like potato salad, egg salad (light on the mayo), chicken salad, etc. but not when it’s slathered on a sandwich. I don’t want mayo on my sandwiches.

All my sandwiches get mayo.

I LOVE pearl onions in peas

@Dutchess_III I also hate that mayo smell when it gets on my hands. Even with soap and hot water, it’s still there.

I can’t stand chicken salad.
I also gag at just the thought of drinking milk. That’s one I hate that most people are ok with.

I love milk!

I hate mayo smeared on bread. I use it in tuna or chicken salad, but a very small amount. There is one pasta salad that used to be at the Ruby Tuesday’s salad bar that I would guess is made with some mayo that I liked, but I reduced the mayo by adding more veggies to it. Otherwise, I always pass on any type of macaroni salad or coleslaw that is made with a mayo base. American picnics tend to be difficult for me. I don’t like a lot of the food and the rest is so bad for me.

@Blackwater_Park My husband’s family and mine never drink plain milk. My husband once in a while drinks chocolate milk, but never with a meal. We both put milk in our cereal. Even the guy I dated in high school his family never served milk.

As a kid the school cafeteria only had milk or chocolate milk and I hated that milk was my only choice. Once in a blue moon I dunked chocolate chip cookies in milk when I was very young. When I went away to college in Michigan I was shocked students chose to have milk with dinner. I figured it was a Midwest thing.

Eggplant, except when it’s pickled in chutney, or in Indian curry called Bharta: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/baingan-bharta/, or the smoked eggplant dip called baba ganoush. Otherwise it’s like biting into thick, waterlogged corrugated cardboard.

Similar situation with okra. It’s OK pickled or in Indian curry, but that’s about it. In other preparations it’s too slimy.

Black licorice, especially the salted kind.

Dark chocolate is too bitter and too sweet for my taste, but it’s OK in small doses like when it’s shaved onto another dessert.

Black licorice, yogurt that has even a hint of sour, gefilte fish from a bottle, artificial sweeteners

What is geltfish? It just sounds nasty.

I forgot that I don’t like hearts of palm, either.

@Dutchess_III Gefilte fish (pronounced geh-fill-teh fish) is described like this from Wikipedia:

The late 1930s brought a brand named Mother’s from “Sidney Leibner, the son of a fish store owner.”[6] This ready-to-serve fish was followed by “Manischewitz, Mrs. Adler’s, Rokeach and others.”

The post-WWII method of making gefilte fish commercially takes the form of patties or balls, or utilizes a wax paper casing around a “log” of ground fish, which is then poached or baked. This product is sold in cans and glass jars, and packed in jelly made from fish broth, or the fish broth itself. The sodium content is relatively high at 220–290 mg/serving. Low-salt, low-carbohydrate, low-cholesterol, and sugar-free varieties are available. The patent for this jelly, which allowed mass-market distribution of gefilte fish, was granted on October 29, 1963, to Monroe Nash and Erich G. Freudenstein.

Gefilte fish has been described as “an acquired taste”.

Grocery stores also sell frozen “logs” of gefilte fish.

Gross!

Gefilte fish is gross. I’m Eastern European Jewish and my family never served it. I never heard of it until my 20’s when I had passover seder at someone else’s house. Some people love it.

Another thing that looks absolutely gross is pickled herring in a jar.

@jca2 I think my dad used to eat that.

I used to think that bread pudding had to be gross. Then Rick made me some!

@JLeslie I used to work with a woman who would bring a jar of pickled herring and eat it for lunch. Just watching her eat it made me want to puke.

I imagine it smelled too @jca2

@Dutchess_III I don’t remember, I just remember it was creamy looking and she was eating it out of a jar, and it was all over her lips.

@jca2
You all have no idea what you are missing.

My friend’s mom made gefilte fish for Seder, and it was delicious! Months later, on a road trip I eagerly picked up bottled gefilte fish, thinking it would be just as good. I almost spit it out!