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What food do you refuse to even try because the idea of it makes you heave?

292 replies

00100001 · 22/05/2020 07:48

For some reason I will not try banana fritters.
Just the idea of eating them makes me go gaaaaaaah 😣

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Paperdolly · 22/05/2020 10:31

I love the seafood is just underwater insects thing. 😂😂😂

I hate cottage cheese and tinned spinach. Both make a plop!!! sound as they leave the container and then taste disgusting. 🤮

Cosmos45 · 22/05/2020 10:32

Baked beans

Meruem · 22/05/2020 10:39

Chicken kievs, I like the ingredients that go into them but when someone cuts into one the stuff that oozes out reminds me of snot!

Destroyedpeople · 22/05/2020 10:41

It's true about the seafood. ...I didn't eat prawns for years after I noticed the striking similarity they held to dead cockroaches. ..

inwood · 22/05/2020 10:42

cottage cheese.

ememem84 · 22/05/2020 10:45

Tripe.

Black pudding.

Cottage cheese - neither liquid or solid. Make. Up. Your. Mind. Which. One. You. Want. To. Be!

Chicken feet - I have tried these but hands down (or feet down) worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. The look of them. Eugh.

MitziK · 22/05/2020 10:46

Insects. I don't give a flying fuck if it's the Protein of the Future. I'd rather go vegan. At the moment, in developed countries, it's more a willy waving contest - 'look how macho/ecofriendly/brave I am to eat this bug!'.

Frogs. I've seen how they are prepared (or were at the time of the film). Take live frog, chop in half across blade, chuck conscious half in bin, valuable half in bucket.

Hedgehog. I understand the value they used to hold for extremely poor people, but no.

Squirrel. Nope. If I were genuinely starving, perhaps. Otherwise, no.

Sharkfin Soup. Morally indefensible. If you eat this, you're a cunt.

Whale Meat. See above.

Birdsnest Soup. And above.

Eels. Because we seemed to be determined to cause their extinction.

Songbirds. They aren't a fucking delicacy. Same with Puffins and Shitehawks/Guillemots/other sea birds. Fine when you're going to starve to death without doing it, the rest of the time, leave them the fuck alone.

Abalone/Sea urchin/various endangered shellfish/caviar. No. You're an arsehole for eating anything that's on a CITES schedule.

I'm fine with Goat - it's sort of like the equivalent to Lamb/Mutton that Duck is to Chicken. Pate is fine, black pudding is delicious and haggis is even better.

Never tried tripe. Never likely to make a special effort to, either. Sounds like a waste of vinegar that could be better put to use on chips.

Other than that, most of the things listed here are things that I would be happy to eat or at least aren't that bothered about.

LizTaylorsFabulousTurban · 22/05/2020 10:46

Stinky tofu. It is a block of tofu marinaded in a really pungent sauce. I want to try it to tick it off my list but every time I have been near a food stand that sells it I have found the smell too upsetting. It's a bit like a mixture of sewage and rotten meat.

Londonlassy · 22/05/2020 10:46

Rabbit

Bellablahhole · 22/05/2020 10:48

Custard.

Louise91417 · 22/05/2020 10:51

Liver, prawns, mushrooms and i know im a real weirdo with this one....pasta..i just cant, the texture is just awful, especially those shaped ones, remind me of something from slug family..ugh..

tsmainsqueeze · 22/05/2020 10:58

Mushrooms , mushroom soup , chicken soup , any savoury meal in a pale coloured creamy sauce , rare cooked meat .

beebeeduck · 22/05/2020 10:59

Oysters
Mushrooms
Banana
Piccalilli
Beetroot
Veal
Pate
Eggs

AgeLikeWine · 22/05/2020 11:06

My motto in food as in life has always been ‘don’t knock it until you’ve tried it’, so I will genuinely try anything once. Then, if I don’t enjoy it or it’s not for me, I am basing my choices on evidence and personal experience rather than hearsay, preconceptions or prejudice.

Be open minded. Try stuff. You never know, you might broaden your mind and actually enjoy it Smile.

RaraRachael · 22/05/2020 11:07

Any kind of offal
Cabbage
Mushy peas
Most seafood

littlemeitslyn · 22/05/2020 11:35

Ivykatie What ?????

littlemeitslyn · 22/05/2020 11:37

Did you mean 'vinegar '?

littlemeitslyn · 22/05/2020 11:38

'Cod worms'?????

Mistymonday · 22/05/2020 11:40

All meat, all fish, anything derived from an animal.

00100001 · 22/05/2020 11:41

@AgeLikeWine

Nah. I'm good!

There's not much I won't eat... banana fritters being one if them! 😂

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smokescreen · 22/05/2020 11:42

I thought I was picky! There's lots I don't like and don't eat but conversely not much that I would never ever try or pass my lips.

Except spring rolls. I last had them over 35 years ago and I can still remember the smell

Lailaloo747 · 22/05/2020 11:43

Jellied eels 🤮

AmelieTaylor · 22/05/2020 11:43

I'm vegetarian & don't eat eggs - so that gets rid of most 'urghh' food!!

I won't go near a terrine - horrible texture!

But I can't think of anything else that's vegetarian- no egg right now.

CoronaIsComing · 22/05/2020 11:44

Celery

Iwouldbecomplex · 22/05/2020 11:49

Any kind of shellfish. I literally cannot get my head around why someone would voluntarily eat it.