What popular foods do you dislike that leave people baffled when you say you don’t like it?

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I have ARFID so my diet is extremely limited anyway, but anyway here are some foods that I get people saying “how can you not like xxx”

I’ll start with

Pizza
Cake
Any cheese stronger than a cheddar

Will probably add to it as the thread goes on

Cooked Spinach - the texture makes me heave. Raw is lovely though in salads.

This too. Love it in a salad or in a sandwich, but it's vile when it's cooked and goes all soggy.

Cream.
I’m far from the only one, but so many people seem to assume that everyone likes it. A friend we used to stay with would make 2 or 3 elaborate desserts that had taken a long time - each one slathered with cream, even though I’d told her so many times I can’t bear the stuff. Her brain evidently couldn’t process that!

And I’d then feel really bad for not eating things she’d taken a lot of trouble over. Might add that she’s Swedish, and puts cream in just about everything.

Apples, boiled potatoes, wine.

But the worst offender is lemonade, even the smell turns my stomach.

Tea and coffee
Tomatoes
Prawns
Pickled things - gherkins, red cabbage, jalapenos
Sushi

Tea
Coffee
Gin
Most cheese
Eggs
Fried breakfast

Mine;

pizza
icecream
chocolate
bread generally

Give me savoury any day of the week. But bread (so pizza) makes me feel heavy and bloated.

Beer
Coffee (though I love the smell)
Custard
Curry (I've been in situations where I'll just have a bowl of rice)
Porridge
Pureed Carrots/Parsnips (though I love carrots otherwise)
Rice Pudding/Semolina/Tapioca (it's a texture thing)

I don’t like any drinks at all except sparkling water and wine (not together though 🤢). I can’t make myself drink anything I don’t like and I’m even fussy about the brand of water.

Not drinking tea or coffee marks you as a grade 1 weirdo, let me tell you.

Meat, even bacon!

Yes but on the plus side, nobody ever, ever asks you to make them / the office team tea or coffee if they know you don't drink it. Worth it for that alone 😂

That’s true @PurpleSky300 but they also think you’re a snotty, lazy cow so it’s not much of a win 😀

Mince, beans, pasta, tea, coffee, rice....my list is endless, but these are the ones people comment on most. I haven't sought a diagnosis, but I believe I have ARFID, too.

Peanut butter
Cadbury's Cream Eggs (shudder!!!)
Doughnuts

Strawberries!

Bagels...dry, tasteless, like chewing a blanket.

This!! Just the thought of them makes me heave!

SMASHED avacado and Poached egg on toast.People seem to want me to be amazed/woed/delighted that they tell me they eat it,and shocked and vexed I dont like it.And does there have to be so much emphasis on the word 'smashed'.Riles me up 😂

Coffee
Cheese
Dark Chocolate
Cream

Sweets. Harbour type ones. It's not that I don't have a sweet tooth, I love chocolate, biscuits, cake etc but sweets are just so much chewing effort I don't get the appeal.

On the flipside I think nearly all sandwiches are improved by mayonaisse and don't understand the hatred for it.

Also birthday cake ( to sickly sweet)
Any type of white wine (headache inducing vinegar)

Haribo not Harbour. D'oh.

Bloody hell I wish I hated pizza, chocolate and sweets like some pp's

As it stands I hate quite healthy things like mushrooms and lettuce. I also can't stand lamb.

Prawn crackers 😂 (there's a current thread about these) but I wouldn't have told the OP of that thread not to buy them!

Avocado
Brussels
Olives

Coffee also. The smell alone is enough to turn my stomach.