What food do you really want to like but just don’t?

[Unicornhamster]

Friend bought me some vegan mince pies (I have a dairy/egg allergy) because I was moaning about the lack of Xmas sweets available for vegans or people with allergies. Very sweet of her to think of me, except I just can’t stand the taste of them. Every year I see them, think they look so good and try one and every year they are just as rank as the last
Another example for me is grapefruit, my DH makes this citrus fruit salad with oranges, grapefruits, lemons and limes he has it with Greek yogurt and honey, he even adapts it to the seasons and adds toasted nuts and cinnamon in winter. Ohhh god it looks unbelievable and the grapefuit colour just makes the dish but I actually cannot stand the taste of it...
So what food do you really wish you liked but just don’t??

Tofu - I want to like it but...

Actually fresh home made tofu is much much nicer than the commercial ones but there are still many things I'd rather eat.

Avocado. I think it's vile, can't bear it, and seems to pop up in loads of otherwise nice looking sandwiches or salads that I wouldn't mind trying. But I'm not going to sit in the staffroom deconstructing my lunch to pick it out.

White wine - all of it without question is like vinegar, no matter how cheap/expensive. I can drink fizzy stuff though.

Mushrooms - used to spend hours picking them out of ready meals. I can tolerate them in a bolognese though.

Goats cheese/milk.

Tuna.

Oysters, I wouldn’t even try. The very thought makes me heave.

Baked beans - most places use them as a cheap filler on breakfasts and the juice pollutes everything.

Porridge, I don’t have an issue with it as such apart from it’s just so pointless as I’m hungry again within the hour so I just never eat it.

Cheese! Anything cheesier than mozzarella makes me gag. It makes life surprisingly difficult.

Pears. They have a horrible, gritty texture. That is literally the only thing I don't eat.

Oh, almost forgot, Parma Violet sweets !

Cucumber. I’ve tried and tried and tried to be grown up about the stuff but the texture - they are crunchy yet... slimy and that’s just not a combo I can get down with.

Sometimes I try to just suck it up and eat it (in a sandwich for example) but without fail I take a bite and wish I’d just taken the goddamn cucumber out.

I like most of the things commonly listed here especially fish, bananas and avocado.
I can't stand mushy peas. If a restaurant meal comes with mushy peas I can't eat it until they are off the plate. The taste, smell, texture are all awful.

I can't tolerate chilli. It burns so much it's painful and I can't taste anything else for hours.

I wish I liked eggs. I can eat things with them in but not eggs as eggs or omelette. Such a useful, quick nutritious food, low carb, good cholesterol etc. They are my room 101 and I would gag even if I was at tea with the Queen (funnily enough she hasn't invited me yet).

Ah I see there are lots of us re eggs. Isn't breakfast out a nightmare? I end up ordering eggs benedict without the poached egg (bizarrely I like hollandaise) I think it's a texture thing. In Carluccios I think I can only have mushrooms on toast (without the egg).

Root vegetables, peppers, tomatoes, aniseed flavoured things and olives. And pasta. Raw tomatoes too. Tea. Squashes and members of the marrow family.

I love most of the things mentioned so far though!

Eggs. It makes eating breakfast out pretty difficult but I just cannot eat them

Porridge for me as well.

Costa and Caffè Nero both have very good vegan mince pies in at the moment.

Eggs and mushrooms. I love watching Jamie Oliver with a pan of mushrooms, butter, thyme and garlic on a wedge of sourdough toast.

Can I eat them? Can I heck. Like mouthfuls of slug

Mushrooms (texture)
Bananas (texture)
Tomatoes (slimy juice)
Peppers (flavour)
Goats cheese (texture and flavour)
Feta cheese (texture and flavour)
Asparagus (just weird)
Courgette (🤮)
Slimy salmon, because, well it's slimy. Salmon fillets aren't an issue.

Mince. I can't eat mince, lasagne, bolognaise, chilli etc as I can't stand the taste/texture of it. I like veggie versions of these dishes, it's just the mince bit I don't like. I think it comes from the horrendous school mince I was made to eat in about 1978!

Butternut squash - texture and flavour, it's weird.
Use to hate olives - now addicted 😂
Porridge - it's all claggy.

unicornbanana - can I ask which mince pies they were so I can avoid them please?😂 I've had some lovely ones this year.

Avocado

Red wine

Soup!! Any kind...can't get over it being like vomit in a bowl...

All wine - white, red, rose - doesn't matter I simply don't like it!! I definitely don't feel like a grown up haha!!

Beetroot. Tastes like mud!

Sweet potato
Avocado
Olives
Wine
Oranges/satsumas
Beetroot
Toffee
Herbal tea
Steak
Mouldy cheese

I see someone has mentioned butternut squash. I'd forgotten about that horrible stuff. Pudding masquerading as veg.

Cheese, I'd love to enjoy a varied cheese board, as it is I only like cheddar, and the inside of Camembert, the skin tastes like cheesy feet, and I once had a piece of Wensleydale with cranberry, and I had to spit it out as it tasted like sick to me