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

Bacon - never tried it

tea
coffee
chocolate cake 🤮
pasta -can just about eat 2 mouthfuls then full

I find it impossible to get excited about wine or cake in general. There are a few examples of both that are nice, but on the whole wine tastes like antifreeze and cake is just a dry, flavourless waste of calories.

Beer
Eggs

Butter.
Christmas pudding.
Mince pies.
Fruit cake.
Anything containing peel or sultanas.
Marmalade.
Any meat but specifically kidney or liver.

Same here. Can't stand cake and have always felt that way, so I'm really not being rude. I wish cake wasn't seen as so desirable because it gets shoved at people all the time. Give me a crispy chicken wing any day.

😂😂🤣🤣 this cracked me up.

Mine is chips/fries. Never liked them.

Oh I’ve never heard of that condition but I think I must have it! I now avoid going for meals out as i feel embarrassed that I hardly like anything on a menu (they put onions in nearly everything!) I can’t bear certain textures, smells and tastes, they make me retch or feel ill. These are some of mine, there’s probably loads of others.

onions
nuts
garlic
pasta
tea
alcohol
cola
Hot/spicy
porridge - too thick and lumpy
burger (meat texture is like someone has already chewed it)
peel (in cakes)
cherry
peach
veg that have ‘earthy’ flavours
parsley

Honey
Jelly

Chips
lamb
aubergine
peas

I can actually eat those foods but I really can’t stand them.

I'm not very fussy (though I was as a child). Most of mine are sweet:

Banana, even worse in some kind of pudding or cooked
Meringue, too sweet
Marshmallow
Fruit salad, I like the fruit, just not all mixed and mushed up

Also posing as savoury but actually sweet:
Tomato ketchup, too sweet
Sweet and sour (I'm now allergic to pineapple, so can't eat it anyway)

Vinegar on chips, though I like both vinegar and chips, but not together.

Bacon - never tried it

I love bacon but I really need to be more disciplined about it. I don't eat it often because of the fat/salt and cancer risk, so when I do buy it I really ought to get high-quality stuff that costs more (and tastes better). It is quite difficult, though (because of our very lax product labelling regulations), to identify bacon that has actually been cured rather than just soaked in preservatives.

I'm pretty unfussy, but I don't eat cheese and people can't get their head around this at all. It doesn't agree with me, I get raging stomach upset from it. But no idea what it is about it because I can eat every other form of dairy, including yoghurt etc. My grandma was the same.

The main thing though is that I also find it really unappealing. I don't know if that's some kind of learned response but it smells sour, sometimes worse than sour, it's really greasy, it just doesn't seem like it would be nice.

Also not a fan of pasta, though it's ok if I really like the sauce.

It is easier to avoid cheese now that dairy free and vegan stuff is more available, so happy days.

Oh I don't like lamb either its ,farmyardy

Baked beans, peas.

My aunt was exacting like this

She blamed it on overcooked watery boarding school pasta and not even a year in Italy cured her

EXACTLY

Chocolate
Most cake
Biscuits
Most booze
Most sweets
Ice cream

Sweet potato
any squash
coffee

dairy (vegan/ethics/grossness)
meat/fish (never eaten - ethics/grossness).

Beans
Coffee
Ketchup
Brown sauce
Krispy Kreme doughnuts
Cake
Mint matchmakers (dp loves them)
Mini eggs (ditto matchmakers)
Mc Donald's (awkward as I work there)
Anything with millionaire shortbread/caramel/flapjack in it
Gin/whisky/wine/lager
Homemade brownies (some shop bought are okish)
Tomatoes
Apples
Margarine
Hash browns
Stuffing
Gravy
Broccoli/cabbage/spouts/peas/carrots/mash (am OK with boiled potatoes)

I'm such a fussy cow

Bananas
Any drinks with milk as an ingredient

Raisins vile

Capers vile

Ultra blended soups or anything that has been pulverized to nothingness from its original texture

Prosecco, no thank you

Lima beans, grotesque things on school trays in grammar school, would not touch with a ten foot bean pole

Rice pudding 😱

I can't think of anything I hate more than roast potatoes, followed by roast meat of any kind apart from chicken and Turkey. I swore as a child that I would never eat another roast dinner once I'd left home and apart from Christmas dinner and a roast chicken maybe twice a year, I've never endured another roast again, although I do regularly cook a roast for my husband and daughter when she's here.

Gravy.

Gin.

Any kind of nut (no allergy, they're just all awful)

Peas that have been mashed up 😳