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It can be a food you hate for any reason.
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#1
Liquorice/aniseed flavour. Anything tainted by aniseed is horrible.
Final score:
10points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
A friend once brought a bottle of ouzo back from Greece and left it open in the kitchen. It made me gag at the other end of the house!
CascadedFalls 2 years ago
I sort of agree with the liquorice, but only black liquorice. All the other liquorices taste absolutely amazing to me.
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#2
Oysters, can’t think of anything worse that looks like someone coughed up into a shell
Final score:
10points
CascadedFalls 2 years ago
Haha, I totally agree! I have this vivid memory of trying oysters when I was younger. It happened at a family gathering. I cautiously took my first bite, and I remember that instant gag reflex triggered by both the taste and the texture. Wanting to avoid causing a scene, I forced myself to suppress the urge to spit it out. So there I was, reluctantly eating a few more bites, all the while pretending to savor the experience. But, as you can imagine, there's a limit to the acting. Eventually, I reached the point where I just couldn't tolerate the taste any longer. Swiftly, I excused myself to the bathroom, I discreetly disposed of the remaining oyster I had concealed in my mouth. Once I returned, I used the classic excuse of "not being hungry anymore" to escape any further consumption of oysters. Luckily, I never encountered those slimy creatures again.
◦•●◉ 𝒮𝒽𝓎 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃 (𝓈𝒽𝑒/𝒽𝑒𝓇) ◉● 2 years ago
Once when I was around 10 me and my friend and my mum went to the beach and me and my friend found an oyster in the sand and we opened it. Something orange called an oyster crab I think.
#3
I absolutely HATE tofu. I don’t mind the taste, but the texture is terrible.
Final score:
9points
Hales M 2 years ago (edited)
So... you can actually fix tofu texture. If you press most of the moisture out then freeze it, it becomes alot more similar to chicken (you can trust me, I'm a meat eater lol). You can also use it to supplement existing meat in dishes, like if you are making tacos, crmbling tofu and mixing it in with ground beef (provides you pressed the tofu first) honestly does make it pretty indiscernable.
#4
Pickles...can't even stand the smell of them🤢
Final score:
9points
adnap derob (Submission author) 2 years ago
My little sister did this and would blow her stinky breath in my face because she knew I hated it. Yuck!
Load More Replies... Hales M 2 years ago
See i always hate this... there are so many types, flavours and styles of pickle. You gotta be specific mate!
#5
I cannot eat corn. It's not a taste or texture issue. It's a bad history. For a few years, I was in an abusive household, and in my last few months there, all I was allowed to eat was corn and plain bread. I can still handle bread, but Corn was something that I had hated before, and it was made infinitely worse.
Final score:
7points
ThatBlackNightingale 2 years ago
I can't stand bread lol, only certain types with certain things, same with cheese. I'm a very picky cheese and bread gal. I love corn it just doesn't sit well with my stomach. And I'm so sorry for your troubles and I hope you're okay now ❤️
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
Corn is probably my most hated food, the weird juice makes it taste terrible
#6
I have a lot lol. Zucchini, mushroom, pumpkin, papaya, cheese, cheesecake, burgers, pizza,
Final score:
7points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
The quality and/or taste of pizza can depend on where you live, sauce prep style is often regional. Some kids may only have access to frozen pizza also. A lot of us are sure we don't like something because we have only experienced a lousy version of it. Ever had Zucchini Bread? Ever had Naan Pizza or Fruit Pizza or White Pizza with bacon? I hope you soon have more options!
Pink Princess (Submission author) 2 years ago
I've had pizza from expensive italian places and pizza from chain stores and I find all of it gross
Load More Replies... ThatBlackNightingale 2 years ago
Well it's a bit unbelievable you don't like pizza but that means you don't like pineapple on pizza so you're forgiven 😂
Pink Princess (Submission author) 2 years ago
I have bad news for you. If I absolutely had to eat pizza I would get hawaiian pizza lol
Load More Replies... #7
Turnip. No matter which way it is done, mixed, cooked, seasoned.
Final score:
6points
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
The first few times i ate turnips in soup, i kept wondering “What is wrong with these awful potatoes?”
#8
This is going to be controversial. Pasta I can't stand it. I always feel like someone has been sucking it before me and made it go soggy. 🤮
Final score:
6points
Julie S (Submission author) 2 years ago
Thank god I thought I was the only one.
Load More Replies... CascadedFalls 2 years ago
As a pasta enthusiast, I can respect that. Yeah I can see why you wouldn't enjoy eating pasta.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Is it possible that whoever's cooking isn't very good at it? While it's perfectly reasonable to not like it, if overcooked pasta is all I ever had I would hate it too.
ThatBlackNightingale 2 years ago
As someone who is like 5% pasta because I love it I can actually understand this. Unbuttered pasta isn't that soggy tho.
#9
Ketchup. Hear me out. I hate the texture of it, and the temperature difference of cold ketchup on hot foods. I also hate how gooey and sugary it is.
Final score:
6points
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
I was going to contribute ketchup, which is baby food. The tomato acid burns me up, and i think there might be sugar in it
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I only like Heinz ketchup, and only warm, it does mess up my other hot foods to use it cold.
#10
peanut butter or really any of those sort of things (almond butter, cocoa butter). the texture is horrible and the taste has literally made me puke before (i have a sensitive stomach. if i absolutely hate a food, it may make me gag and then puking happens. however this only happens with the worst of the worst foods). there is one exception. at my local store they have a smoothie corner that makes this açaí and almond butter smoothie and i love it so much.
Final score:
6points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Except for the smoothie, all the nut butters have a TON of oil in them. Likely cause of the gag response. I could not stand Peanut Butter until I was an adult. I had cream cheese or plain butter with jelly on my sandwich for lunch.
#11
Grapefruit- it's just not exactly my favorite food in the world. I've tried it once with my grandfather, and almost instantly I removed the piece of grapefruit out of my mouth. I've tried it again around 2 years ago, and my opinion hasn't changed.
Final score:
5points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Regular grapefruit, yuck! Ruby Red, sometimes. Ever try a pomelo/pummelo? Another grapefruit cousin with many varieties in different countries.
CascadedFalls (Submission author) 2 years ago
I haven't tried, pomelo/pummelo before. I've only ate the regular grapefruit. Does it taste similar?
Load More Replies... #12
Peach, even the smell is horrible
Final score:
5points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Hate peaches, love nectarines! It's the fuzzy skin that sets my teeth on edge, like fingernails on a chalkboard.
#13
Lamb. I actually just told my Mom this yesterday. She didn't raise us to be picky eaters, and we raise sheep so we eat it fairly often, but I cannot stand the taste.
Final score:
5points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I hated the taste and texture of it before I stopped eating red meat. Lamb was easy to give up, pork and beef were more difficult.
Rose the Cook 2 years ago
As an Australian I miss lamb it is so expensive and hard to get in China.
#14
Pistachios and Stuffing. Both make me queasy
Final score:
4points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Snacking pistachios are way too salty, love the ice cream flavor though! Stuffing is another food item that has hundreds of recipe options! Wild rice and cranberries, cornbread and jalapenos, Basmati, saffron, and currants, etc...Perhaps it's the recipe that is your family tradition that you don't like, or one of the herbs included, like sage.
#15
I just can’t get myself to eat an apple
Final score:
3points
#16
Seafood and mushrooms. Also, okra.
Final score:
3points
Rose the Cook 2 years ago
Okra is rarely prepared properly making it soggy and slimy. If you don't soak it but rinse it quickly to remove any dirt and dry it throughly before cooking you might change your mind.
Tiramisu (Submission author) 2 years ago
No but that’s exactly the way my mom makes it. We’re South Asian lol, no vegetable makes it into the table without being scrubbed very well and having any last bit of life left in it cooked away.
Load More Replies... Hales M 2 years ago
Okra very much is dependent on its preparation. I once made dinner and I had friends over, I didn't know that none of them liked okra. I made gumbo-- they ate all of it and one wanted the recipe, I gave her the ingredient list and she was super surprised it had okra-- no one had ever had okra done the way that I had done it and they all really liked it.
#17
Bread, especially just plain bread. I can't stand bread and maybe if it ha something I'll eat like half of it. Also cheese, that's just disgusting. Unless it's melted on my pasta and mixed really well so it's medium cheesy I'll eat it-im just very very picky with bread and cheese
Final score:
3points
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
If you have a sensitive nose, yeast or mold may trigger a gag impulse. Hence an aversion to most breads and cheeses, also beers!
ThatBlackNightingale (Submission author) 2 years ago
It just taste weird lol, especially cheese that just makes me wanna gag.
Load More Replies... #18
This was interesting and I thank you for the post!
Final score:
1point
Jane No Dough (Submission author) 2 years ago
This was meant as a comment on the post, not a list edition. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to delete it.
#19
Mary Kitchen corned beef hash. I had a room mate that fried it up once and the cats wouldn't leave her alone. The apt. smelled like it for hours. It's disgusting looking too.
Final score:
1point
#20
Okay so, bear with me here… water. It just tastes so bad to me and I don’t know why. I still drink it because I need it to live but every time I am left with this awful taste. I just don’t understand how people find it refreshing. :(
Final score:
1point
I iz panda 2 years ago
Personally, the main and basically only way I drink water is ice cold. Chilled enough to give anyone who touches it frostbite.
#21
Chicken. Rice also sucks but chicken especially. It's so dry and bland and genuinely horrible to eat I hate it so much
Final score:
1point
Hales M 2 years ago
Chicken really doesn't have to be dry. I think you've just had it poorly prepared. My husband's family murders meat. I'm always like 'it was already dead, you don't need to kill it again'. It instantly made sense why he hated beef and chicken. The trick to chicken is that it takes the flavour of anything around it so you need to season it. Breading keeps moisture in, keeping skin on adds flavour. Adding herbed butter or curry butter or lemon butter between the skin and the meat makes the skin crispy, keeps it super moist and adds a tonne of flavour.
cartoon ghosts (Submission author) 2 years ago
That makes sense, my parents only ever cook chicken with rice and the skin removed. They're also very very against breading anything. I do really like chicken in some foods but when it's by itself I can't eat it
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#23
Durian. The smell, the taste, the texture 🤮
Final score:
1point
#24
Beets. My sister once when he were little had a shitton of them for lunch and proceeded to puke all over the bathroom... The memory makes me instantly gag. Ketchup. The sweetness does not go well with salty food to me. Seafood, just tastes like seawater to me. Avocado. Can't get past the texture and the blandness of it. I'm not a oicky eater but these are deal-breakers for me
Final score:
1point
OneHappyPuppy (Submission author) 2 years ago
Almost forgot - mastiha. Another one that makes me instantly gag
#25
I am not a traditionally picky eater but. . . (Crunchy) onions🧅 Bananas🍌 Stuffing🍞🥔🧅? Mushrooms mushroom 🍄 Jalapeños (Not the spiciness, the smell and taste.) 🌶️ Whole garlic cloves in food 🧄 Cake (ok, hear me out, if the frosting or cake is too sweet or there is too much frosting, big no. Thats why I prefer cream cheese icing instead)🍰 Brussels sprouts. Idc what my mom used to say, they are still gross.
Final score:
1point
I iz panda (Submission author) 2 years ago
I would rather have pie or cobbler on my birthday than cake is all 🤷🏼
#26
Onions. They're vile and there's a reason they are in the ground!
Final score:
0points
#27
This is going to sound fake but it’s true, he worst thing i ever tasted is Starfish. Not Starkist Tuna, but actual starfish from the ocean, grilled like hamburger patty in SE Asia. I have the photos. I think they used a knife to cut the sharp, crusty legs open, and the “meat” inside was gooey and horrific, like baby food but tasting like seafood waste byproducts. If you see starfish on a grill, just take a selfie with them - plz do not taste one
Final score:
0points
Hales M 2 years ago
That's like sea urchin to me. I grew up on 'strange seafood' because my family is from the west indies (flying fish, shark, swordfish, starfish, conch). For them sea urchin is nostalgic... yeah hard pass.
Mr Old School Cool (Submission author) 2 years ago
I enjoyed eating sponge in some West Chinese hotpot, wish i had taken a photo
Load More Replies... #28
Its the textures of stuff for me. Pate!! You shouldn't be able to spread meat!!! Also is if it doesn't look like food it shouldn't be eaten!! mussels, oyster etc
Final score:
0points
I iz panda 2 years ago
YES! I could love the flavor but i will gag if the texture is weird. For instance, random, crunchy, slimy onions baked into pizza. Toppings are fine but i will be mentally inspecting every bite after if i find an un asked for onion bit
#29
I really don't like truffle. It was trendy to add it to different foods, but it made me feel sick, even the smell puts me off.
Final score:
0points
#30
Avocado- Don't like the taste or texture
Final score:
0points
#31
I hate Louki or as I think it’s called in English, gourd. I dislike it because my mom makes it so often that I can’t stand the taste and the gravy anymore. There’s another food I can’t stand but I don’t know what it’s called in English. In Marathi we call it “Shira” and I can’t stand it because my mom makes it every Thursday and it’s too sweet
Final score:
0points
#32
Squash, mainly grilled. It's not that I don't like the flavor, it's just the texture. Sort of rubbery on the outside and then gooey on the inside. Makes me cringe just thinking about it
Final score:
0points
#33
The list is ridiculously long but among the top: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Grits (anything with a "beady" texture really), Most vegetables if they are cooked (raw is ok though), Red sauce (tomato, pizza, marinara, spaghetti)
Final score:
0points
#34
Yogurt. I don't care it is healthy, or people like it. I hate it! Every few months I try it again and every time regret my life choices
Final score:
0points
#35
Turnips. Mush when cooked. Difficult to prepare. No amount of salt, pepper or butter will make it taste any better. No culture hold it in any regard. I might consider it after an apocalypse, if the poisonous stuff doesn't kill me first.
Final score:
0points
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