Food I can't stand and refuse to eat
ChastMastr
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Suggested by @RockyRoger over in the Heaven thread, "Tell us about a simple food item that you enjoy occasionally, and are always glad about it":
https://forums.shipoffools.com/discussion/5934/tell-us-about-a-simple-food-item-that-you-enjoy-occasionally-and-are-always-glad-about-it#latest
Raw sea urchin.
Natto, a kind of substance made with fermented soybeans.
Durian.
Octopus and squid.
https://forums.shipoffools.com/discussion/5934/tell-us-about-a-simple-food-item-that-you-enjoy-occasionally-and-are-always-glad-about-it#latest
Raw sea urchin.
Natto, a kind of substance made with fermented soybeans.
Durian.
Octopus and squid.
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Add to that calamari and sushi and olives.
And I think we had a thread not too long ago on foods we hate that almost everyone loves, wherein I mentioned that I’m that somewhat rare American who can’t stand pumpkin, and that very rare American Southerner who cannot stand peaches.
(Also Brussels Sprouts).
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Another one not high on my list is lutefisk. I have eaten it. Basically tasteless.
So, for example...
APPLES FRESH FROM THE ORCHARD! NO ADDED CHEMICALS!
Great, I'll take a few bags.
NUTRI-CHEESE! LACTOSE REDUCED FOR A LOW-FAT DIET!
I want to puke.
(For some reason, diet soda, even called by that name, doesn't have that effect on me.)
https://youtu.be/bWCI2yECENQ?si=B3-55HzxA2IVifNA
I wouldn't eat brawn, tripe, chicklings and anything fatty.
Can cope with eggs when they're properly cooked. Still wet scrambled eggs or omelettes make my stomach heave however. I enjoy the firm texture others avoid as "rubbery". I like my omelettes with a bit of colour developing. Apparently in the view of foodies this makes me worse than Hitler.
The food I cannot do in any way is fish. I can just about manage prawns but only inasmuch as they don't taste of much. I can't even eat *vegan* sushi because the nori just reeks of fish to me. People look at me like I'm mad when I say this but it really does.
Ultra processed foods of any kind.
Stuff with chilli in it - I had a bad bout of colitis that had me in hospital for a week a few years ago. Chilli peppers make it grumble again. Thats also why I'm wary of ultra processed stuff.
@Nick Tamen - can you identify what it is about curry? That is such a broad category across so many cuisines - Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, South African and probably others - that I can't think of a common factor. Spicy and aromatic certainly, but so many different iterations.
Conversely I like Brussels sprouts.
Fresh - and unadorned by any condiments - fine. In sauces - fine - not sure how else to make a ragù.
In between - tinned tomatoes as a thing in themselves - foul. Grilled, fried or roasted tomatoes - no. Horrid needles of rolled up skin in tomato mush. Ruined.
Worst of all - a perfectly fine fryup utterly destroyed by tinned tomatoes oozing their horrid demonic ichor over everything else so the whole thing just tastes of tomato.
There are a few common factors - heat, usually from chillies, and certain spices - cumin, coriander (seed and leaf), pepper - are fairly universal.
People try to tell me that different fish taste totally different but they don't to me. They all have that rotting trawler net smell.
Same here. All seafood has the exact same taste to me, and I hate it. The only one I can abide is octopus, which for some reason doesn't have that taste. Not a regular eater of it, though.
Eating the horrid slimy Abomination that is the Tomato, at least in its natural, raw, state, Is Also Outrage, though I'm fine with it in pureed form, or as flavouring...it's something to do with the textures of the skin and the flesh, I think.
I wouldn't eat them now because I feel sorry for them.
That doesn't stop me eating other forms of meat or fish though for some inconsistent reason.
I can honestly say though that there is hardly anything I don't like.
I will eat anything and everything. My mother said I was 'a pleasure to feed.'
There I things I prefer of course, and some things I wouldn't go out of my way to eat.
But I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.
There is very, very little I don't like.
@Telford - you are from The Black Country and you don't like tripe and offal? (Faints and swoons ...)
My maternal grandfather was from Birmingham (ok, not The Black Country) and he loved pork scratchings, chicken feet and that ghastly boiled sweet 'Birmingham Troach'. Is that still available? I would draw the line at those.
I've had tripe or tripe-like stuff in Spain and it's something of a delicacy there. I quite liked it. I wouldn't want it the old British way though.
Me too. OMG the shaming some people try to put you through for this...
Squid/octopus. Whelks.
Pasta "salad" - just no.
I'd prefer not to eat eyeballs but have managed to on occasion when refusal wasn't an option. 🤢🤮
You may not know how very lucky you are.
For people like me, we have things we prefer, things we wouldn't go out of our way to eat, and things that really disgust us, even make us gag or vomit.
People who are fortunate enough not to have that latter category can be very unsympathetic. They think we're just being fussy about things that aren't in our preferred category. They refuse to believe that there are things that I can no more eat than I can neck dog turds.
They are an absolute torment to us when we are children, and a constant thorn in the side in adulthood.
I'm not a huge fan of grapefruit. I did, however, once mistake a jug of grapefruit juice for pineapple, not realising my mistake until I'd downed most of a pint glass.
No, I probably can’t. And I’m bearing in mind that “curry” may have different meanings in different places. But for me it’s, a combination of the flavor profile(s) that tend to involve at least one or two spice families I don’t care for (though not the ones @KarlLB mentioned, which we regularly use), and the texture/consistency.
Perhaps in that connection I should mention I generally don’t like stews, and with a few exceptions—corn chowder, clam chowder, French onion or homemade tomato—I don’t like soups. The appeal of vegetable soup is completely lost on me. It’s just soggy vegetables. Ditto soggy meat in meat stews or soups.
Same here.
I don’t understand the affinity for horrid, nasty sprouts. 😉
Can’t stand cooked cabbage either.
Seriously, in my experience, at least in my part of the world, the people who dislike sprouts seem to far outnumber the people who like them.
And here I’ll really throw some people for a loop. Chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream. Why even bother?
The mother of Mrs BF the First was an absolutely wonderful maker of Chocolate Cake, with several layers of Butter Cream inserted therein - 2 layers? 3? I can't remember...but I do recall canal holidays which really began for me, when I was busily steering the narrowboat, and the M-in-L's hand would appear through the door to the galley, holding an enormous slice of fresh Chocolate Cake, captains for the sustenance of.
Agreed re Chocolate Ice Cream, though. Pointless. Gimme Lemon Sorbet instead, please.
Sprouts are like Marmite, I suppose, in that some people (such as @Telford) love them, which is good, of course, as no doubt they are nourishing, but others - myself included - are convinced that they are grown on the bitter fields of Mordor, to afflict the palates and digestion of the West...
Star anise/any aniseed family flavours are the other thing that can often be very marmite (as can fenugreek and curry leaf)
Have you tried freshly caught fish? A lot of people who don't like fish/seafood are very sensitive to taste profile changes that start once a fish is a dead a couple of hours.
My mother-in-law (whose father came from Yorkshire) loved it, and would always get a little carton of it whenever we went to Great Yarmouth market, while David and I were having particularly excellent chips.
Why is it that who, who have enjoyed Marmite since I were a lad, now needs to have B12 injections? (For the uninitiated, Marmite is full of the stuff!).
I'd have to seek it out and it would no doubt be an expensive process. I don't feel a need; I manage perfectly well just ignoring fish as a food item. Even if it turned out I liked fish that was only a few minutes dead that wouldn't help me in 99.9% of the situations where it's on offer so I don't think it'd gain me anything really.
Well, I was (I suppose) being rather hyperbolic...but I like @chrisstiles ' use of *marmite* as an adjective...
Shame about needing the B12, though. It does seem a bit odd, considering, as you say, the amount in Marmite. Or have They secretly and wickedly changed the formula, to reduce the amount? That would truly Be Outrage...
I don’t like boiled sprouts but sliced very thinly (Chiffonade) and quickly fried with lardons they are nice
More a question of trying it when it's available I suppose - depending where you travel, sometimes it's just how fish is sold if there's an active fishing industry in the same town. I feel that tasting sometime nice is its own reward, regardless of whether I am then able to make it a regular part of my diet.
I can’t eat melon as I’m allergic to it (anaphylactic allergic)
I love sprouts 😋
Apparently my body doesn't absorb it from food. Quite common, I understand.