What normal foods have you never eaten?

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I've never eaten beetroot, cauliflower or pickled eggs.

What everyday food have you never eaten ?

Beetroot not eaten since school dinners.
Vegetarian so obvs list of fast food things.
Trifle.
Christmas cake.
Ready meals other than Italian things. (Eat other things in restaurants/take away - for some reason never wanted ready Thai/Indian etc)
Truffle - hate the smell and taste.
Sweet potato - have tried.
Figs. Just not interested.

Olives and sprouts little balls of guff

McDonalds
Nandos
Mexican "kit" type meals
Super 'hot' curries
Pizza with pineapple

I've never had a pot noodle or a kebab-shop kebab. I don't feel I'm missing out.

Steak

I've been vegetarian for almost 30 years. People always assume I miss meat terribly and go into rapture about steak, then when I tell them I never had it anyway before I stopped eating flesh they assume I had a dreadfully deprived childhood

Pesto.
I haven't had oysters but I don't think they're ordinary are they?
Never been to a Nandos. I had subway once, but have never been in one to actually order my own.

Never had a kebab from a kebab shop.
Never had a Subway sandwich.

The kind of kebab that’s slathered on to a rotisserie thing. I’d never fancied it anyway, and felt entirely justified when a Greek Cypriot friend told me about one local to him (N London) which had been totally dismantled for once. The inside was alive with maggots.🤮

Agree about the kebabs - always think of that rotating slab as reformed bacteria.

No Pot Noodle or Subway here either.

PomBear, you haven’t missed anything - IMO oysters are vastly overrated - raw ones anyway - it’s not all that long since they were considered poor people’s food. There’s a quote in Dickens about oysters and poverty going together.
IMO they’d be much nicer cooked.

Tripe

Fresh truffle

Real caviar

Are truffles and caviar 'normal' foods though?

Oh sorry, no truffles and caviar aren't normal foods..I don't think there are any normal foods I haven't eaten..

I haven't had a pickled egg but that's because I don't like boiled eggs. I've eaten them when I was small but just went off them as a child, ditto friend me eggs and poached eggs - it's the white I can't stand but I have eaten them in the distant past. Can't think of anything else normal - eg I haven't eaten weird offal (I've had liver and kidney but avoid fried due to the texture (love pate though) but not tripe, brains etc) and I love lots of the things people here seems to detest - oysters are a particular favourite, olives and blue cheese are too more

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A little truffle grated onto pasta, fries etc is amazing and caviar, well I had two pots for Christmas time (Lidl cheap stuff of course) - a blini, topped with cream cheese, smoked salmon and literally 3 caviar is too die for

Raw fish. No, I don’t want to ‘just try it’ - the mere thought makes me heave.
I’m not at all fussy in general.

I’ve never eaten a fig. Every time they appear on a cooking programme DH and I say as one “nobody really eats figs”. I don’t know where this came from, I just don’t like the idea of figs.

Tripe
Those French sausages that are supposed to smell of excrement

I'm not convinced pickled egg is a normal food!"

Course it is - anything sold in a chippy is normal surely?

I've never met anyone that eats them so I don't think they are
Also fried chocolate bars are not normal!

Steak tartare. Raw mince with a raw egg on top? No thanks ! I get the feeling posh people eat it and pretend they love it just to look posh

Meat
Fish
Dairy
Artichoke, it doesn’t look appealing

Krispy crepe donuts 🍩 eww reminds me of poo 💩 not sure how anyone can it the brown donuts 😂

donuts
Any product that isn't even spelt correctly is dodgy. I don't mind the occasional doughnut.