Run of the mill foods that you just can’t stomach?

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What’s your ‘normal’ run of the mill for that you just can’t?

I’ll go first…

warmed tuna, like tuna tomato pasta or a tuna melt… anything with warm tuna is a hard pass.

mystery meat, like frankfurters etc, i could never eat a hot dog, and those hot dogs that you see in jars Vom.com

Also tuna, porridge and scrambled eggs.. can’t stomach the thought of it. Makes me feel nauseous even thinking about them!

Full English 🤢

Yes!

My DH can't stomach mushrooms which I gather is a fairly common dislike due to the slimy texture, and deeply dislikes carrots, but also has a phobia-level hatred for peas. I once (at the start of our relationship, before I realised the depth of his feelings!) jokingly tried to feed him a forkful of peas and he had a full on panic attack, retching and hyperventilating. He's normally not a drama queen type at all by the way, it was a very real and involuntary reaction. Peas are now no longer kept in the house, even seeing me eat them makes him want to vomit!

Eggs.. in any form except cake
Can't face quiche or custard tarts
Tea.. can't stand the smell and it tastes of musty leaves( I know it is but)
Strong " fishy" fish

Milk (I've never liked it and refused the little bottles we were all expected to drink at infant school breaktime in the '70s).

Tea (think I had a sip aged about 2, the smell made me gag and I've not touched a drop since. Fortunately I married someone who hates it as much as me!)

Coffee (although I do love the smell. DH hates this too!)

Any drink containing milk.

Most puddings containing milk.

Goats cheese, parmesan, blue cheese, cheesecake (hate the biscuit base as well as the cheese-y texture).

Butter on bread (I hate the smell as well as the taste, but over the years have steeled myself to eat it as an unseen ingredient of meals generally).

Egg white (although can just about tolerate it if hard boiled and love meringues).

Mushrooms in any shape or form (I love beef Wellington but have to pick out the mushroom duxelle).

Tinned tuna/tuna pasta bake (looks/smells like cat vom...but will eat fresh tuna).

Oysters and mussels.

Risotto.

Stirfry.

Mac and cheese.

Suet dumplings (even worse if in lamb stew!)

Corned beef (my dad called it corned dog too @speedymum1968!)

Peanut butter.

Tinned sweetcorn.

Pickled walnuts.

Have recently gone right off sausages (even the expensive ones taste awful - although I'll eat frankfurters/hot dog sausages in tins/jars).

However, I love beetroot, liver, kippers, tinned (red) salmon and I'll eat baked beans as long as they're not on toast which is disgusting.

Tinned salmon 🤢

Onions make me boke, unless they are sweet red onions and fried. Hate garlic with a passion, especially here when us Brits have got a habit of smearing everything in strong tastes. Not too keen on the whole allium family tbh.
See also chilli and the new 'trend' truffle.
Ps .. I actually love chilli but on the proper food not on bloody everything!

Scrambled eggs and omelettes. I don't understand why they're so disgusting though. I quite like an egg sandwich!

I like cold tinned baked beans, tinned rice pudding. Straight from the tin. Prefer it cold as heating makes the sauce too runny.
As a child I loved the crusty first slice off the roast beef.
I didn’t like cooked veg, preferred it raw. I still eat raw cauliflower, mushrooms and white crunchy cabbage. I liked a bit of raw potato too but mum rationed me to one small slice, she said it would poison me if I ate too much.

100% behind you on that. Vile things

Rice pudding
Mouldy cheese, especially blue
Cucumber
Gristle
Tinned, slimy meat
Custard
Courgettes
Indian tea (green China tea is fine)
Full fat milk

Where do I begin ….
agree with tuna that’s just cat sick
milk cows mammary gland fluid
mushrooms slimy
cauliflower
celery
shellfish how anyone could eat a prawn or a mussel is beyond me the texture
all fish really
all meat especially if it looks like the animal it came from and has fatty bits or veins
liquorice
turkish delight
jelly (again it’s the texture)
eggs chicken periods and if I see a bit of blood in them 🤢

so I’m very fussy then and squeamish when it comes to food

Roe, fish eggs, they make me gag
Hay, as used on Masterchef
Meat, red raw, not for myself
Tins, containing hot dog flesh
Dough, with onion and goats cheese
Sprouts, and frozen garden peas
Tea, that's made of red berrieeees
That will bring us back to vom, oh, oh, oh

I can't think of any, but the many tuna mentions brought back the utter horribleness of colleagues eating tuna from the tin at lunchtime.
Extra vom for doing this at their desk and then disposing of the tin in the waste basket. Yes, we had a staffroom with kitchen facilities.

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Hang on, I've thought of something: vegan cheese.

Goat’s cheese, rice pudding, semolina, chilli con carne, black cherries, cinnamon, egg custard, trifle.

Hedjwitch · 19/02/2023 20:38

Porridge. The very smell makes me retch

I loathe it, too. I remember my mother forcing it into me and having a tantrum, when I was 3 and refusing to eat it because "It's full of germs."

I don't like nuts except for ground almonds cooked in things.
Can't abide coconut.
Not used so much now but was around a lot from my childhood - salad cream. Yeuch.

There is a reason for this. Many cheeses are made using rennet which is extracted from the stomach linings of slaughtered young bovines - from the abomasum which is the fourth and final stomach of a cow. In cheese, enzymes from the rennet act on the fatty acids and create a substance called butyric acid. That is also produced inside the large intestines of humans also as enzymes in our stomachs break down fatty acids.

This is the same substance - butyric acid. We experience it in two distinct ways. Firstly, humans can vomit which is our brain telling our stomachs there is something there that should not be. In other words, when we are sick out comes partially digested food rich in butyric acid. Secondly, bovines cannot be sick in the way we can. They ruminate (chew the cud) which means they chew then regurgitate grasses typically back up from the first stomach - the rumen, before it is then passed down to the reticulum, omasum and abomasum. In these last three stomachs further processing takes place, including extraction of water in the omasum (if I remember correctly). It is in the fourth and final stomach, the abomasum, that rennet is extracted. It is not sick but when added to cheese in primary production produces the same substance that is found in great quantities when we throw up.

Butyric acid!

The production of Butyric acid is enhanced when cheese is encased in plastic. Parmesan cut from a fresh block in a cheesemongers had a more subtle herbier smell. But Parmesan stored in plastic as we see in supermarkets is going to have a stronger butyric taint.

Hot sliced tomatoes. Like in a toastie or something.

Wet, too hot, and squishy.

I would not say vegan cheese it a run of the mill food.

With apologies to vegans I don't really think of it as a food at all more a contradiction in terms, it can be vegan or it can be cheese but not both

Cooked carrots. Can’t stand them. Can tolerate small amounts raw in a salad.

Also fish skin and pork crackling. Yuck.

Pork belly is too rich for me, usually makes me feel sick so I avoid it now.

Meat fat
Cream
Full cream milk
Goats’ cheese
Uncooked egg white
Fennel

My mum used to say it was the hard skin she scraped off her heels