Food that you can't understand why people would eat....

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There are quite a few..

Octopus ...intelligent, beautiful and also all those rubbery suckers...boak!
Tripe, chicken feer
Please add!

Avocado
Onions
Pasta
Pork
Chilli
Anchovies
Smoked Fish
Calamari
EGGS not been able to eat one since I had one which was 'off' as a child - can eat them cooked in dishes though
Cold soup
Anything with rapeseed oil in it (and so many things contain it!)

Tripe
Oysters
Chilies
Red Onions, spring onions, pickled onions, in fact any onions.
(Chillies and onions make me really ill)

Oh yes, rapeseed oil has a nasty taste.

Avocados feature a lot here. I really like them. On their own they are bland, but they are lush with balsamic vinegar and EV olive oil drizzled over plus some freshly ground salt.

Most sweet foods. I don't dislike them and very occasionally eat them in small quantities, but I don't understand why other people are so attracted to them.

They aren't satisfying like savouries, or physically beneficial like say many veg that I eat for the nutritional content rather than hunger/ enjoyment. And I honestly don't think they taste that great either. I might like at Xmas just fancy the odd chocolate for a change, but it's a bit beyond me why anyone fancies eg a cake mid afternoon when toast is so much nicer and if you're hungry does the job.

Probably should point out that it's also alien to me to eat when not actually hungry which partly explains it.

Otherwise I don't understand how people can eat things that either look wrong or have abhorrent textures. So eg runny eggs, wrong on so many levels, cheap or low fat rubber cheese, mussels etc.

@Sleightofmind people aren’t saying they won’t eat them. People would just choose not to eat them.
I eat foods that quite frankly make me want to vomit to be polite...I’d rather not eat them though

My mother always said oysters have the taste and have the texture as “a man’s truest expression of excitement” will never touch them now. 🤢🤮

Liver, Mushrooms, melon, black pudding, tofu, raw tomatoes and anything mint flavoured

Soft cheese & blue cheese
Liver, heart, kidneys (but i love faggots)
Sultanas (but I like raisins)
Egg white (but I like yolk)
Avocado
Aubergine
Broad beans (cardboard anyone?)
Quorn & tofu (thank goodness I'm not veggie)
Mayonnaise (unless it's garlic-laced)
Cooked tomato skin. Don't mind cooked tomatoes, hate the skin.

Well I loved everything on this list until it got to oysters. Octopus is divine if you eat it thinly slice, blue cheese, goats cheese? Any cheese! Milk, mayonnaise, seafood? Bring it on!

There is very little I won't eat, I don't like oysters but I have had the odd good one. The only thing I detest but have tried is kidney. And I'm not keen on piggy pork, mum says its male pigs I don't know how true that is but some pork just tastes...well piggy.

Other than that, I am game for most stuff, including game!

What's wrong with rape seed oil? Just curious as I just bought some.

Baked beans and milk

Duck, just the smell makes me gag... Shame because my hubby loves it.

Re the rapeseed oil - there is something about it that tastes weird and upsets my stomach!

Marcipex I want to like rapeseed oil, but it has a nasty taste to me. I much prefer olive oil.

Caviar - fishy ball bearings.

But it's expensive so it must be good.......

Microwave burgers

Fish, always tastes like a mouthful of sea or pond water

Love octopus since my first Greek island visit. Deep fried in batter with freshly squeezed lemon.
Love avocado,swede is delish, love blue cheeses, goats cheese and all seafood apart from oysters(made me vvv ill and tasted like salty snot)

Cannot stand the smell or taste of lamb and butter/marg/spread.

There are a handful of things I don't like (coriander, offal) and I get ill if I eat peppers, but I'm struggling to think of anything that I can't understand other people enjoying. I find coriander repulsive, but I understand that other people will like it, and it's not a ridiculously unlikely food.

Kebabs from dubious places of origin!

Figs, I'm actually kind of scared of them. Tripe,, Brussels sprouts, liver but will happily eat kidneys and heart.

Sliced bread. Horrible and pappy

Anything from Greggs - just minging and full of fat

Pre prepared sandwiches - never had one that wasn't horrible

Big Mac - nasty grey burger with a special vomit sauce

@SleightofMind
*I’d eat anything if,

A. I was hungry enough.
B. Someone had served it to me.

I can’t imagine being st someone’s house for dinner or something and refusing to eat their food.

What do you lot do if you’re abroad or eating with people of other cultures?*

I think I'm like that. And I have to say, I was a ridiculously fussy eater as a child and early teenager. I remember going on a dance course and sharing a flat with other teenagers for a couple of weeks at the age of 14, and being too embarrassed to admit I ate potato waffles and fish fingers for every meal, so I joined in with their pizzas and chinese takeaways and sausages and so on, and discovered that I could manage and that actually, most of it was nice. My mum was a bit surprised when I got home!

Nowadays, I think I'd try anything at least twice. Even if I hate it the first time I'd try it again in case it was different. My thinking is that if someone eats it, the worst that can happen is I won't enjoy it - it's not going to kill me.

@bonnieF I work for a sausage manufacturer and I can assure you that we NEVER use mechanically recovered meat. Whole cuts bought in for everything. The only difference is the % of meat. The balance is made up of rusk and water. We make from the best 98% meat content to value range

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