I'm in my 50s and I've never eaten...

[FridgeJenga]

Tiramisu.

I'm about to try some.
I know I'm not going to like it, but hey ho! 😅

Anything you've yet to try?

I grew up in a house without pickled onions, Marmite, piccalilli, salad dressing, sandwich spread, yorkshire puddings, salad cream and probably dozens of other things that were common staples to other people. Families are all different.

Now that I come to think of it, I believe I've still never had salad cream.

What happened if you visited these other families? Did they offer to feed you?

This is one of the most fascinating recent Mumsnet threads I've felt brave enough to join in with. Food is such a fundamental indicator of human experience, in so many ways.

I buy them frozen and they go straight in the freezer. I’m not brave enough to get live ones!

We tried to catch our own once when we were camping in Scotland. Didn’t get any. We did manage to rock pool a decent haul of mussels and whelks. Fed 4 of us. Not sure how we didn’t die. Now I prefer to leave that bit to someone else.

Pretty sure I’ve also bought frozen razor clams in Morrisons in the last few years. Where I used to live was quite posh and they used to get a very different choice of food compared to where I am now.

The cost of most condiments have soared recently so I can imagine many homes don't have these around or maybe just one.

Aaah, I go to a local Lidl's. Once they had frozen baskets of raw langoustines. I bought one and grilled them with lemon and butter. Fabulous. Keep going back. Never seen them again. Cheats!

Plus I have to scan my Self-Serve receipt to even escape from the store. (Not that I mind - it's what it says about the other shoppers.) If only the nearby Waitrose had a bigger car park...

Corned beef, and have no wish to.
Mushy peas

Technically I HAVE eaten kiwi fruit, but I was very young and immediately showed signs of a familial allergy (apparently it was yanked out of my mouth and we were straight over to A&E), so I don't remember anything about it.

The first thing people tend to say, on hearing I'm allergic to kiwi fruit, is, "Oh, but it's lovely!".

I have no idea why.

Also allergic to latex but curiously okay with bananas, which is the normal trilogy of allergens.

Lidl got me hooked on their padron peppers and then stopped selling them at my local store. I’ve not forgiven that yet. Living in hope of them returning.

Because lambs brain is not a common British dish, or an ingredient in common British dishes.

It doesn't mean that, ethically, we shouldn't be eating lamb's brain

It just means that, on the whole, we're not.

Sure, but presumably you are now an adult and free to try cheap, easily obtainable food like Yorkshire puddings and Marmite.

I have it’s wretched. I put it in the same bracket as HP sauce.

rocky mountain oysters

I was once violently ill after eating a tempura oyster in an upscale establishment in Covent Garden. It's sort of put me off, but would never declare allergic .

Can't think of anything else. Would like to try tripe actually.

There are tastes I don't like ( coconut and anything aniseed based) bit that's about it.

The question is "anything you've yet to try", not "what food don't you like."

I have oral allergy syndrome with pineapple (developed later in life) which can be linked to kiwi, so I've not eaten it since in case!

i keep seeing the indiana jones movie with monkeybrains meal😝

Why? Because it's 'obscure'? What's the difference between us (British?) and other brain-eating cultures?

It's all part of a dead lamb. Is there something wrong with food that isn't 'common British'? (Can't believe I'm typing this.)

if its cooked right alligator is good so is rattlesnake

Hey Mumsnetters, I just thought of this now.
I'd never heard of this, maybe some of you have?
My DD travels for work in the US and has tried something known locally in the mid- to SW states as Rocky Mountain Oysters or Prairie Oysters.
Skinned, coated in flour, salt, and pepper and deep fried; Bull's testicles, yum?🐂
My DD said they were good.😂

Crabsticks.... they don't look remotely like crab

The question (on this British website) was "what foods have you not tried?"

A poster points out that some foods are not common in Britain, so it's not as strange in the UK to have not eaten lamb's brains as it is to have not eaten baked beans.

Nowhere, except in your head, has anyone claimed that lambs' brains are inferior or wrong, or that British food is superior. Just that they are not commonly part of a UK diet.

Travelling through America with my US based sister, we stopped off at a restaurant in South Carolina . DSis said, my sister is on vacation from Scotland and wants to know what gator steak is like. The waitress thought for a minute then said "You're from Scotland? I think you'll find gator steak tastes a lot like squirrel."

I've not tasted alligator or squirrel...despite being Scottish.

I'm scottish I've never eaten squirrel are we meant to is it a delicacy? I have eaten Alligator though it tastes like fishy pork fat ! I doubt squirrel tastes like that.

Last time I was at borough market people were eating sea urchins from small paper trays. I'm pretty definite that I'll never try that.