Foods you can't BEAR to put in your mouth

[knottyhair]

I wondered what other people's idea of nightmare food was. What would trigger your gag reflex if you tried to eat it? Particularly everyday sort of stuff. I could not eat, if you offered me a thousand quid, egg white or cottage cheese. I can do meringue, and scrambled egg as long as you can't see the white, but if I have poached/boiled/fried egg, have to cut every bit of white off. Friends say I'm weird.

I will try most things. But not tripe. Can't even look at it.
Ditto any seafood which is chewy and rubbery.

Red peppers. Threw them up too often when I was pg last time.

oysters or any seafood actually.

Just all look like alien lifeforms to me

And any offal like kidney, liver, tripe etc

Offal
Root vegetables (too sweet)
anything mint/peppermint flavoured
marzipan
nuts/fruit with meat - esp cranberry sauce.
I don't even think I'm a particularly fussy eater

marmite
avocadoes
goat's cheese

Cucumber, even the smell makes me gag.

The froth off a cup of coffee, it's a texture thing, makes my teeth itch.

And of course Brussel sprouts.

baked beans or kidney beans
semolina
soft centred chocolates

Rice pudding

I can't even smell or look at it - a 'phobia' left over from school dinner days.

The skin that forms on hot milk.

Oh yes, forgot about marzipan, how grim!

Eurgh, and bounties are rough. Although I like dark choc and I like coconut but just definitrly not together.

Never had tripe, don't think I'll bother though, and lol at sausages made from thumbs

at milk skin

Cheese - unless it's melted. Hate the texture. It's spongy..
Bananas. Think that's the same thing.

Tripe. Revolting texture.

Seafood
Offal

Yes I'm fussy

Liver, squid / octopus, cottage cheese, mustard.

mine have mostly been mentioned (jelly , oysters )

but i really cannot bear to bite into a whole tomato and think salad cream is the work of the devil

and courgette is rank too, but i can eat that

Lamb except for teeny tiny lean cutlets. Anything else makes me want to barf.

Eggs. Including scrambled or omelettes, but I can eat eggy bread provided it's properly cooked. I also have no problem with cake :o

Normally bananas make me gag, but during pregnancy I've really enjoyed them. Still don't think I could eat a green-ish one though, they have to be ripe.

Squid or octopus, things with suckers. Yuck yuck yuck. Don't like scallops either.

I have some foods that I refused to try until a few years ago:
Parsnip
Sweet potato
Mushroom
Avocado

But I just decided to try and 'get over it' basically because I was weaning my first baby and thought it was unfair to purée all these different foods without eating them myself. Now I love them, especially sweet potato.

However the following things will not enter my mouth:

Celeriac - the smell is just horrible
Red wine (don't like White either but I would have champagne etc occasionally)
Coffee
Black pudding just because of what's in it euwwww!

Oh yeah, big prawns - don't mind the little ones mixed into stuff but can't stand the look of the bigguns with their beady eyes! Not too keen on any seafood tbh, I'll stick with fish thanks :)

So many listed here that I also detest.

Mushrooms- it's the texture. Biting into it reminds me of the squish when my ears were pierced for some reason

Most shellfish, although I can just about cope with prawns.

Any offal except liver.

Cod roe

And there's something about the metal of the cutlery that was around when we were kids- not the stainless steel stuff- it's like nails down a blackboard. Rather eat with my hands than use it.

Glad I'm not the only one with ishoos though