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

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

@RainMustFall - what do you like to eat? That’s a very long list.

@RainMustFall - what do you like to eat? That’s a very long list.

Why do you dislike so many foods @RainMustFall? Do you never eat out?

Sardines
Pickled herring
Snails
Potted meat
Any offal
Rabbit / venison / pheasant etc
Fish with eyes and tails
Lamb shank

Oh dear, quite a lot actually

@RainMustFall you've never tried anything on that list?

Liver/heart. Just can’t understand what would possess anyone to eat those things.

Oysters.

My grandad once told me that you could feel them wriggling around your stomach.

I never forgot that

Lots of things that are normal to dislike, such as offal, lots of fish, and so on.

The thing that I encounter the most that other people have a lot with no problem is tea. How can people get near it to drink it? The smell makes me heave and invariably if you’re out and having a daytime drink somebody nearby will have one and it smells so bad and is enough to put me off my own food and drink

Can't do leaves: spinach, lettuce, watercress, rocket .... I have an absolute aversion to leaves. Even struggle with leafy herbs like coriander and parsley.

Love all other forms of salad and eat pretty much everything else.

Tomatoes.

I despise everything about them.

I can cook with tinned tomatoes though.

In days when you could go actually out dd used to order Banana fritters from the Chinese restaurant we go to they smell weird she loves them though.

I refuse to try oysters I like seafood but the thought of oysters yuck!

Banana fritters are yummy, OP.

Tripe (although I did once try it as a tapas dish smothered in a flavoursome tomato and garlic-based sauce. It was still disgusting).

Not keen on offal of any kind (bleurgh). I didlove Brains faggots with mash and veggies when I was a child, but as soon as I discovered what was in them it put me off for life. Same with haggis (although I like a veggie one).

White boudin is gross too.

Otherwise I'm up for trying everything. I have two very fussy DC who both like really ripe and smelly cheeses, snails and mussels!

I once had oysters (on a very sexy date night). I can't remember anything about eating them . That suggests I didn't dislike them.

The smell makes me heave and invariably if you’re out and having a daytime drink somebody nearby will have one and it smells so bad and is enough to put me off my own food and drink

That's a bit of an extreme reaction to tea don't you think?

IMO everyone has preferences, and I don't think I know anyone who likes absolutely everything. I eat most things, but draw the line at eating parsnips because they taste so vile. Every time I mention it the answer is "but roasted parsnips are lovely". No they're not they taste of parsnip!

It strikes me that many answers on this thread are more about texture than taste.

I'm clearly not a super taster because I will eat things I'm not fussed about if I am hungry enough (not parsnips though ).

Oh I don't like parsnips either @Ginfordinner although two of my family love them roasted in honey! I am not keen on turnip either but happened upon mashing swede with butter and nutmeg (yummy!) as a weaning food for the DC many moons ago.

I quite like a frogs leg but only cooked by someone French who knows what to do with them. I once bought a big bag of frozen ones when on holiday in France. I didn't really know how to cook them and the experiment was not entirely successful.

Oysters, sushi, smoked salmon, bloody steak.

Thought of another one: coriander.

Ugh. It smells and tastes disgusting to me.

I may have vomited once as a (hungover) 18 year old when I opened a bag to feed my guinea pigs.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

In theory I should like them . But .... Blergh

Shellfish - slimy, little sea insects

With reference to Prawns, someone I worked with told me that when they were on holiday in Thailand, they saw a sign near a jetty saying fresh prawns. There was a fella sat up at the top of the jetty with baskets so he walked up and asked where to buy the prawns. The man nodded and pulled at a rope that was dangling into the sea, he pulled up the carcass of a long dead small animal and the prawns were feeding off the rotting bits. I have no idea if this actually happened but its put me off prawns forever!

Any type of fish
Lamb
Liver

When I was growing up liver and bacon and steak and kidney were dinner time stalwarts. Lambs liver is quite nice but I never did enjoy kidney. Even less so when someone commented that when you fry them they release urine (double bleurgh).

There's probably lots I choose not to eat but absolute no's would be

Anything that could appear on IACGMOIH
Walnuts
Marzipan
Sprouts - I try but I think I'm one of the 13% as they never get any better
Goats cheese
Blue cheese
Veal
Rabbit
Goat
Macaroni cheese

There are some foods I wouldn't eat from a moral/ethical point of view. Frogs legs, sharks fin soup and foie gras immediately spring to mind.

When I was growing up we would boycott anything from South Africa because of their views on apartheit.

Anything that comes from the sea. Ate a piece of trout once as it doesn't come from the sea. The memory of repeatedly gagging still hasn't left me, so anything that lives in water. Also insects . Snails are not food!

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