What food/drink did you finally admit to yourself you don't like?

Olives. I want to like them and buy endless tins of Perello olives in various guises for my olive-loving family, but I hate those nasty, bitter little fuckers.

Wine - I've tried every kind but I still make a grimacing face trying to get it down my throat. OH loves it and raves about different types, but cheap/expensive - they all taste awful to me.

Hot chocolate (would rather eat a kit kat)
Any herbal tea
Gnocchi (truly pointless)
Cream cheese
Ratatouille

I could go on and on

Coffee..fancy shmancy or nescafe it's horrible...rather have water.
Burrata. Tastes like greasy mozzarella..gross why would anyone pay £10 for this??

Tea. The world likes tea. This country really, really loves tea. I think tea tastes awful.

I had green tea-flavoured ice-cream once and it made me realise that no amount of milk or sugar would turn tea into a pleasant flavour.

Pasta.

Game. It makes me sad as I really want to like it, but I don’t.

Marzipan.

Black coffee. I've just embraced that I like a truck of sugar and tonnes of cream in it.
Mexican food. I love spicy food, and I like the idea of it. But there's just some flavour in most of it that I do not like and I can't put my finger on it.

Pasta. It's just so very pointless. It tastes of nothing, and all the good stuff is in the sauce or the meaty or fishy bits that are included with the pasta. So why do we need the pasta itself?!

I don't enjoy most alcohol, coffee, olives, anything aniseed-flavoured and parsnips.

Olives.

I've tried so hard. I love pickled things, I love olive oil, I love Italian food, I love all the typical flavours olives come infused with, I love strong flavours, I feel like I should like olives. And I'm not a fussy eater, I'll eat basically anything. But for whatever reason olives make me gag.

Some things I dislike hugely but not an actual aversion:
Instant coffee
American style pizza
Woody tasting carrots

Aversions have tried and failed to overcome:
Anything liquorice-y
So liquorice
Fennel
Aniseed.
Celeriac ( sometimes)

Oyster ( love mussels though and other shellfish as long as it is de - shelled- hate messing around with it on the plate and can't abide shell in it)

Also anything with an extreme earthy taste

Extremely mature cheddar
Too much truffle

So pleased to see people trying things several times as I have.

I've had a partial win with aubergine and courgette. courgette spiralised and fried in butter is very nice. Cutted up in a dish of other things or roasted- no.

Everything else - bring it on!

Things i try periodically to see if i've grown to like, but still hate:
Coffee
Wine

Things i've always hated but is common in/on so many foods:
Sweetcorn
Mushroom

Brazil nuts just evil - don't care how good they are for you. They have a bitterness that I can't take.

Taramasalata - I llove fish and sea food - but dipping a bread stick into pink fishy tasting gloop -- just can't.

Crab - fresh dressed crab at the seaside - food of the gods. Out of a little tub from the supermarket not so much.

Gnocchi, had some in a gorgeous Italian restaurant and they were little clouds of loveliness in a cheesy sauce. Tried the ones in vacuum packs from Sainsbury's .... so different not nice at all. But I am not going to be making my own....they weren't that nice.

Steak
Courgettes
Baby corn
Avocado
Goats cheese
White and milk chocolates
Anything with salt in that should be sweet
Calamari

Macadamia nuts.
I love nuts in all guises but then noticed these horrible fatty tasting ones in mixed packets or in chocolate. Ghastly.

Tea.

I think the thread should have been called what food/s have you tried to like and just don't. Or, what foods did you "think" you'd like and don't!

So going by that premise -
Rocky Road (love it all separately, just not together!)
Okra
Anything crinkle cut - crisps, chips
Taramasalata
Venison sausages
Whisky
Pies and pasties with beef and gravy inside
Banana and caramel spring rolls (cheers Gok Wan, I thought I'd love these, made them and they were vile!)
Thai curries onto -
Lemongrass
Parsley, the crinkly one

Salted caramel or Salted chocolate. Basically any sweet delicious thing with salt added. I can tolerate but really why ruin a lovely pudding with salt!?

I don't really like cake either I'd never buy it in a cafe or wherever and as you say sometimes eat it out of politeness.

Alcohol.

chcolate flavoured things. If I make my own chocolate cake it’s different. Ditto brownies etc

margarine. I just don’t buy it now. Bed thing I did.

chicory. I love its texture, how it cooks. But the bitterness. Duck that.

It's always the same for me on these types of threads - RISOTTO - what is the point!?

Olives 🤢

Really dark chocolate. Hate the taste AND it gives me a headache.

Gin. I’ve always hated it but when it became crazy popular a few years ago I really tried to like it, but I just don’t.

Coffee
Olives
Frankfurters
Prosecco or Champagne
Oysters
Mussels
Chocolate cake
Cockles & Whelks
Raisins