Foods you’ve never tried .... Silly lighthearted thread!

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Recently I happened to mention to a colleague the fact I’d never tried Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. He seemed totally amazed and I felt like a bit of a weirdo, more than normal anyway! So I promptly went out the next day and bought some and loved the two flavours I tried, I am a new convert and will be trying all the other flavours now, bang goes the diet!
So it got me thinking about other foods and drinks I’ve never tried that are pretty mainstream but I’ve never had. Some examples:

• Tea and coffee - Yes I know! But i’m not keen on hot drinks and just couldn’t bring myself to try drinking them.
• Olives - Strange as I like olive oil but just never thought of trying actual olives!
• Squid and that kind of thing - Just can’t even think about eating this!
• Fresh tomatoes - I just don’t like the smell and look of them! I’m perfectly fine with cooked tomatoes in a pasta sauce or tomato purée on a pizza base and that kind of thing.

How about you? Am I the only one who has led a somewhat sheltered life in more ways than one?!

I’m trying to think of something but can’t. Normal stuff obviously, rather than pure yak’s tears freshly squeezed.

There's lots of foods I haven't tried (really exotic ones), but probably the most normal one that I would like to have tried is escargot. I eat everything generally. I've had sea snails (!) in a seafood restaurant once, but not the proper french land ones. I'm not brave enough to contemplate making them myself.

Porridge. It just looks vile. I gag at the thought of eating it. It's even worse if made on milk as warm milk makes me heave.

Oysters. I couldn't try them now even if I wanted to because of my IBS but even before that I couldn't get over how slimy they look.

Thanks for your replies.

Escargot - You won’t be amazed to hear for me they are too ick to even think about - no offence!
But @mindutopia - Could you make this something on the list to try when the restaurants reopen?! Treat yourself!

Porridge - I don’t mind it, but I can easily see what you mean when you describe it that way @OchonAgusOchonO.

Yes @BearSoFair - I totally agree with you on oysters, the fact they look so slimy that’s exactly it.

I've never eaten a kebab....was veggie when I went to uni, so never had one after nights out.
I eat fish now but have never had oysters, they look gross
but DD (9) and I wolfed down the crispy chilli squid DH made tonight

Oysters. And it's probably one of the few "normal" foods (excluding spiders heads, rats bottoms and what not you can get in some posh delicatessens) I'd refuse to try too!!!
Just the though of it..... bleugh!!!!

Lobster

I’d like to but never had a chance

Oysters. Just too slithery

Cottage cheese. Just no

I’d never tried coffee till last year!

I never tried Indian food/curry till I went to India. Now I can’t get enough of it. Would eat a Vindaloo every day of the week.

A kebab! Thought of one.

Even when I’ve been really really really really really drunk, I’ve never bought a kebab.

I’m very much a ‘try anything once’ person, so I have eaten most things. I’ve never (knowingly) eaten brain, though. I did see them for sale in French markets many years ago, but I wasn’t tempted....

As I discovered today in a zoom chat, fruit cake eaten with a slice of cheese. I have never tried it even though my granddad used to eat it! Apparently I'm the only one who doesn't know of this gastronomic delight.

Sushi ..... raw fish ..... just yuk, yuk yuk .....

And any kind of shell fish still in its shell .... oysters, cockles, mussels etc ....

Escargot are genuinely the worst thing I have ever tried. Like eating snot. My parents bought them to try when I was a child. I mean, who does that?

@RJnomore1

Lobster

I’d like to but never had a chance

Supermarkets sell Canadian Lobsters cooked and frozen. I have seen them in Lidl, they cost about a fiver. If you ever get chance to go to coastal regions of New England, Lobster is plentiful and you can get a lobster roll for around $8-10. Lobster is tasty, but I prefer crab.

I couldn't eat horse.

Escargot tasted very grassy. I wouldn't bother with them again.

@EatsShootsAndRuns that fruit cake with cheese sounds good tbf.

Mine would be: Christmas pudding- the smell is just too much. Sandwich paste/spread, cockles, ryevita (looks like paper).

I don’t believe I have ever had a Cornish pasty, I’m now veggie but when I wasn’t the thought of eating something like that, or a steak and kidney pie turned my stomach.

I have had veggie Thai veg ones though - very nice. And I loved a sausage roll. Mmmmm.

tripe

Aldi and Lidl do lobster 🦞 - definitely at Christmas, possibly in bbq season

Turkey because it's just too ugly! Cheese because it's just wrong

oh and pork because the bristles made me feel sick when I was a kid (although I do love a bacon sarnie)