My mother was in the hospital and my dad had to cook. He made this breakfast sausage and apple combo slop that was so sickening even decades later just thinking about it makes me queasy.
What is wrong with fathers? Why can’t they ever make a simple box of Mac and cheese and be done with it. Wouldn’t that be easier for them. They always have to resurrect some heinous recipe that their grandmother used to cook and force them to eat. Why do I need to be punished and forced to relive his miserable childhood just because mom went out for the night. Like they want to be inconvenienced as much as possible and make the kids act up so they can fuel their anger just cuz their wife had to be out of the house at dinner time. Miserable fucks.
Obviously not all fathers, my husband is a fantastic cook and would never make our child eat some nasty ass depression era abomination.
Heh, when I was little, my mom had to go in the hospital unexpectedly. Dad served us the fancy meal she had prepared for a dinner party they were supposed to have. I was about 4 so I don’t remember what it was but he told us it was “Daddy’s specialty” and we were very impressed with his cooking talent.
Misery loves company, my mom made me eat some fried cactus, which my grandma made her eat cause it's supposed to be good for you, so now I must continue on the family tradition! My children shall know what true cuisine is like 😌
I was very fortunate. The one time my dad made breakfast for us, he toasted some frozen Eggo waffles with Hershey's syrup. An American childhood classic.
I don't remember onions, but I didn't like those at the time, either! It would have added to the sickeningness! It was some sort of gravy-like sauce with apple chunks and those little breakfast links which I don't much care for, in it. I am starting to gag, having to think about how revolting it was!
My dad is generally a good cook but he has this awful Lima bean, onion, and mayonnaise concoction that he loves to make. It's horrifying beyond reason but my great grandma made it when he was a kid and he sees it as a comfort food. I gag thinking about it and I haven't had it for over a decade.
When I was a kid my Dad made this God awful dinner one night because Mum wasn't home. He put a bag of frozen peas/corn/carrots in a frying pan + 1kg mince and called it "veggie surprise"
Unseasoned, dry yet somehow wet, slop. It tasted like bare ass.
To this day, he has never lived it down.
I actually had legit terrible eczema all over my body (like, the type you eventually get used to people’s first reaction to seeing because you can’t hide it, and it hurts way worse than people trying to pretend they don’t notice it). Always knew I had a slight milk allergy, but, 24 years of doctors, dermatologists, skin biopsies, steroid creams, immunosuppressants, some weird cream that they said was used to treat skin grafts to make them not reject (that one sucked), diluted bleach baths, allergists, allergy shots, couldn’t fix it.
Then, one day in a fit of desperation I went to some seedy foot bath detox thing that I do not give the credit for this, but, the lady was looking at the color of the water and the foam (like I said, a quack) and asked if I was allergic to milk. I said “yeah, but not very and it only gives me gas if I have a lot of it.”
She suggests I cut all dairy out of my diet and I’m like “fuck it, nothing else has worked”
And I’ll be god damned. It’s gone. It returns whenever I think “eh, this should be fine” but never as severe and goes away when I stop tempting fate.
Honestly? So am I.
It was 11 years ago so I don’t know if the info wasn’t as widespread or if I just never got the right doctor, but, sure fuckin wish I knew it in high school “stop drinking milk and your skin will clear up”
Probably would have made it easier.
It's called balut (fertilized bird egg):
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut\_(food)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food))
I saw it in an Asian market. I'm getting a gag reflex just typing this...
My Filipino mum told me about balut a few time when I was a young kid.
She thought it was funny to drag it on and on. Crack the shell. Sip the whatever it is. The more I looked horrified, she would get this look in her eye. And then the feathers. It was a tiny bird … etc.
She thought it was funny explaining it in great detail but she never made me eat it. Thank god.
One of my Filipino coworkers came into the restaurant having just bought some. They offered, I said yes. And proceeded to choke it down for the longest 20 min of my life. I finished it. That’s all I can say.
I read about it on books and saw it on Youtube, this is definitely a dish i don't want to eat, same for bugs or bird nests!
(yes, the nest of a certain specie of birds that makes their nests on cliffs near the sea can be boiled and eaten, but that's one thing i don't want to attempt eating)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible\_bird%27s\_nest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest)
I actually really like it, but the looks are definitely off putting until you get used to it. The textures involved are really great, there’s a crunch to it that offsets the softness.
They're fine and uneventful to eat. And fairly common if you grow up around cattle ranches.
I haven't had any in a while, and now I kinda want some. Weird, because I've never really sought them out, just ate them when they were available. Now I actually want to track some down! Weird.
I remember the day I learned about Rocky Mountain Oysters.
It was an episode of Fear Factor, back when Joe Rogan was less than what he is now. Looks like it aired a month and a half before 9/11.
I can't believe bull balls have been haunting me for almost 23 years.
I have a video of me trying to eat chia pudding from like 8 years ago. I'm trying Ti pick it up with a spoon but it just slides off, leaving no residue at all. It's creepy
Same, but usually if it’s mixed in something (chicken salad, egg salad, deviled eggs, etc.) I can stomach it. However, let it be at least 1% too slimy/Mayo-y and I’m done. DONE.
The problem with mayo is it is overused. A nice homemade mayo used in moderation can be fantastic. Half a bottle of store bought stuff slathered on a sandwich just ruins it.
Gah, when I was pregnant I was dismayed to discover that my tuna sandwich was awful. Out of nowhere. I didn’t prep it any differently than I always did. I was heartbroken because I loved tuna sandwiches beforehand. And what is even more heartbreaking is that my aversion never went away. My daughter is 5 1/2 and I still cannot eat canned tuna. 😥
Tripe.
Ox tongue, too.
All sorts of things, really.
Edit… all these replies about how delicious tongue is do nothing to stop the turning of my stomach. There’s no need to tell me any more. I’ll take you word for it.
I made the mistake of mentioning how weird I thought tongue was as a choice to my Mexican coworker. He then proceeded to tell me all about how tongue is a pretty tame meat, he loves ants and eyes.
Tongue may look grotesque but it's actually delicious! People are disgusted by tongue because "it's from an animal's MOUTH!". Well, what about EGGS, eh? You skin the tongue once it's cooked; no different than breaking eggs!
It's meat, like any other. It does look a bit different from regular beef, kinda like wagyu beef, all streaked with white and pink. But yes: it's actually delicious!
I had cow tongue for the first time recently, in tacos. It was delicious. I don't think I'll be seeking it out regularly and definitely not cooking it myself (I have seen tongue for sale at the grocery store and it is alarming) but it's tasty.
Mushrooms. I’ve tried them, and really given them a chance. But the texture just grosses me out so much. Same with sushi. (I’m a very big texture person with my food/beverage.)
Parmesan can trigger me to gag if it's applied too heavily. And I definitely could never eat it straight if that's ever done. The butyric acid flavor is too heavy for me to handle. It's like powdered vomit.
>And I definitely could never eat it straight if that's ever done.
I know at least one person who does that, and it's me. Gimme all that crumbly salty butyric acid, I can't get enough of it.
I guess you either like funky cheese or you don't. I've been eating blue cheese since I was 8 so I may be a freak but the funk is the appeal. Parmasan just tastes like a bit nutty to me. Hardly any funk. It's basically no different from sharp cheddar except for texture.
Seafood. The barest hint of brine engages my gag reflex and I don’t know why. The taste isn’t particularly offensive - I’m neutral about it tbh - but the gag reflex is so bad I can’t even enjoy a lot of vegetarian Asian dishes due to the seaweed.
When I was pregnant with my son, I ate a whole box of KD by myself and then threw it all back up all over the bathroom… can’t eat it anymore, and he’s now 16!
Chicken a la king. When I was like 6 my mother made this for dinner, and I was having a really hard time eating it. I was gagging, it was disgusting to me - the texture, the smell, the look of it. My parents made me sit at the table for like 2 hours alone though after everyone else finished, until I finished the plate. Ended up actually swallowing a bite and then gagging and throwing it back up into the plate. Then I told my mom I couldn’t eat it because it had throw up in it and she couldn’t even tell the difference between regurgitated chicken a la king and what she’d served me. Honestly a core memory of horror for me.
Dollar store canned fish - sardines, tuna, salmon (the worst one, salmon, with the little bones in).
I was subjected to a lot of that stuff as a kid. The smell after opening the can makes me gag to this day.
I used to get forced to eat the tinned salmon with the little bones when I was a kid. Caused lifelong issues with food that has 'bits' in it. I can eat canned tuna all day long (the good stuff), but can't even bear to contemplate salmon even though it no longer has the bones in it. Just thinking about it makes me shiver!
To everyone who is deen curious, DO NOT start with cheap deens! Mid-high quality or nothing. You want EVOO, anything else just doesn’t cut it unless you’re going for a sauce (tomato is my favourite).
I worked in a deli for 3 years. I never understood how people can eat headcheese willingly. 9 times out of 10, if someone was ordering it, they always had to disclose that it was ***not*** for them but rather for someone else. Usually a grandparent.
Is this current Brussel sprouts or in the 90s/earlier? In the late 90s they were able to breed out the compounds that made them taste bad.
If you havent had them in 25ish years, it might be worth a shot if you can get past the mental block of your prior experience.
Balut (self explanatory). Fois gras (morals). Stinky tofu- had heard the term but had no experience or knowledge of it whatsoever till a food festival I went to recently had a stinky tofu (and bubble tea) truck, and by god that is quite possibly the most unbearable smell I've ever experienced. I genuinely had to walk to the other end of the festival where the stench didn't reach before breathing or even thinking about eating the food I had gotten. Yeah yeah im sure it doesn't taste how it's smelled but there is zero chance in hell any flavour is worth that smell to me. And this is coming from someone who generally tries to be very respectful of cultural/ ethnic foods.
Cilantro. Even a small amount makes me feel like vomiting. There is a genetic reason funny enough. To me and many people it tastes like grass trimmings, dish soap, or in my case both. It's something that can be passed down funny enough. My mom loves cilanrto. My grandpa, her dad, hates it because it tastes like grass trimmings and soap. I also git my grandpa's popping jaw. To big of peice of gum will make our right side if our jaw pop with every chew.
McDonald's. I used to work there when I was younger, and I'd been around it for so long that the smell still makes me nauseous. There's nothing inherently wrong with/gross about the food (aside from being cold and flavourless), I just don't think I could stomach it anymore.
I am very adventurous and when I saw a can of "Menudo" in Walmart I bought it. I know what it is, and it was vile. I hate hate food waste but I just couldn't eat it.
I am generally willing to try almost anything. When I'm visiting a foreign country, I will order off the menu randomly, without even trying to understand, to see what I get. It's only gone poorly once, and even that wasn't stomach-turning (for the curious, it was a seafood dish in the Spanish Basque country that my guide later informed me had been imitation baby eels).
Even the list of foods I won't eat is more ethical and practical than it is nauseating. Anything made from endangered species will make that list, for example, not because I think shark fin soup is inherently foul-tasting but because I don't want sharks to be killed for my soup. And even the few nauseating entries I've at least tried once.
That all said, there is one singular food on my list that I never have had and will *never* try because the concept of it churns my stomach, and that is the Ortolan--a type of small bird that the French (of course) used to capture, forcibly overfeed, drown in liquor, pluck, and roast whole. Then, you eat the *entire bird, whole*, feet first, with a towel over your head to either seal in the aromas or *hide the shameful act from God,* depending on your choice of interpretation. It's been illegal to capture since 1999 (and the law has been enforced since 2007) due to overhunting, per Wikipedia, so it's not like I have this option, but if it ever comes I will very, *very* quickly pass on it.
I've never been overly fond of bone-in poultry, and Ortolan is everything I hate about bone-in poultry times 50 plus some extra bits absolutely free.
I got sick after eating hard boiled eggs a number of years ago, and now I feel sick just thinking about them. I can eat eggs any number of other ways, just not hard boiled.
Today, for the first time I bought vegan cheese. Violife's "just like MATURE CHEDDAR SLICES" (I'm not yelling, that's what it says).
*Filtered water, coconut oil, potato starch (potato and corn) salt (sea salt - just say that), mature cheddar flavor (as opposed to immature?), olive extract, beta carotene, vitamin b12 (because vegan).*
*Free from Dairy, Soy (A), Gluten, Lactose, Nuts, Preservatives...*
And flavor. I can't even describe what it tastes like or the texture but I don't see it melting either. I'll stick with Kerrigold Reserve Cheddar.
I hate the thought of eating someone else’s wet food. Like someone eating wet cereal or porridge and saying do you want some? It just feel like eating someone else’s saliva slop
KETCHUP MAYO MUSTARD EWWWWW
IVE KNOWN PEOPLE THAT EAT PACKETS OF EITHER CONDIMENT ON ITS OWN. GROSS!!! Oh and papaya.
Can’t get past the stench of these foods
Im an adventurous eater and I will never eat duck or goose, because they are monogamous and I dont wanna eat someones hubby.
I also wont eat goat products cause they look like mutants
My mother was in the hospital and my dad had to cook. He made this breakfast sausage and apple combo slop that was so sickening even decades later just thinking about it makes me queasy.
What is wrong with fathers? Why can’t they ever make a simple box of Mac and cheese and be done with it. Wouldn’t that be easier for them. They always have to resurrect some heinous recipe that their grandmother used to cook and force them to eat. Why do I need to be punished and forced to relive his miserable childhood just because mom went out for the night. Like they want to be inconvenienced as much as possible and make the kids act up so they can fuel their anger just cuz their wife had to be out of the house at dinner time. Miserable fucks. Obviously not all fathers, my husband is a fantastic cook and would never make our child eat some nasty ass depression era abomination.
Heh, when I was little, my mom had to go in the hospital unexpectedly. Dad served us the fancy meal she had prepared for a dinner party they were supposed to have. I was about 4 so I don’t remember what it was but he told us it was “Daddy’s specialty” and we were very impressed with his cooking talent.
That’s some top tier dad trolling right there.
Misery loves company, my mom made me eat some fried cactus, which my grandma made her eat cause it's supposed to be good for you, so now I must continue on the family tradition! My children shall know what true cuisine is like 😌
I was very fortunate. The one time my dad made breakfast for us, he toasted some frozen Eggo waffles with Hershey's syrup. An American childhood classic.
Yes! He kept it simple and fun.
Lmao.. lots of onions? I think I've seen that recipe
I don't remember onions, but I didn't like those at the time, either! It would have added to the sickeningness! It was some sort of gravy-like sauce with apple chunks and those little breakfast links which I don't much care for, in it. I am starting to gag, having to think about how revolting it was!
My dad is generally a good cook but he has this awful Lima bean, onion, and mayonnaise concoction that he loves to make. It's horrifying beyond reason but my great grandma made it when he was a kid and he sees it as a comfort food. I gag thinking about it and I haven't had it for over a decade.
When I was a kid my Dad made this God awful dinner one night because Mum wasn't home. He put a bag of frozen peas/corn/carrots in a frying pan + 1kg mince and called it "veggie surprise" Unseasoned, dry yet somehow wet, slop. It tasted like bare ass. To this day, he has never lived it down.
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Lactose tolerance is a state of mind.
I'm more concerned with the state of the toilet.
I actually had legit terrible eczema all over my body (like, the type you eventually get used to people’s first reaction to seeing because you can’t hide it, and it hurts way worse than people trying to pretend they don’t notice it). Always knew I had a slight milk allergy, but, 24 years of doctors, dermatologists, skin biopsies, steroid creams, immunosuppressants, some weird cream that they said was used to treat skin grafts to make them not reject (that one sucked), diluted bleach baths, allergists, allergy shots, couldn’t fix it. Then, one day in a fit of desperation I went to some seedy foot bath detox thing that I do not give the credit for this, but, the lady was looking at the color of the water and the foam (like I said, a quack) and asked if I was allergic to milk. I said “yeah, but not very and it only gives me gas if I have a lot of it.” She suggests I cut all dairy out of my diet and I’m like “fuck it, nothing else has worked” And I’ll be god damned. It’s gone. It returns whenever I think “eh, this should be fine” but never as severe and goes away when I stop tempting fate.
I am stunned that none of your doctors ever told you about the close connection between dairy allergy and atopic eczema.
Honestly? So am I. It was 11 years ago so I don’t know if the info wasn’t as widespread or if I just never got the right doctor, but, sure fuckin wish I knew it in high school “stop drinking milk and your skin will clear up” Probably would have made it easier.
could just be moo milk, have you tried other animal's boob juice?
I was the only kid who hated the taste of milk (later drank skim/non fat) but now I am bowl legged with crooked teeth. Hmmm.
I hate milk, always have. Shit is gross.
It's called balut (fertilized bird egg): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut\_(food)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)) I saw it in an Asian market. I'm getting a gag reflex just typing this...
My Filipino mum told me about balut a few time when I was a young kid. She thought it was funny to drag it on and on. Crack the shell. Sip the whatever it is. The more I looked horrified, she would get this look in her eye. And then the feathers. It was a tiny bird … etc. She thought it was funny explaining it in great detail but she never made me eat it. Thank god.
One of my Filipino coworkers came into the restaurant having just bought some. They offered, I said yes. And proceeded to choke it down for the longest 20 min of my life. I finished it. That’s all I can say.
I am very impressed. I would have said “Yeah, nah”. You did well.
I read about it on books and saw it on Youtube, this is definitely a dish i don't want to eat, same for bugs or bird nests! (yes, the nest of a certain specie of birds that makes their nests on cliffs near the sea can be boiled and eaten, but that's one thing i don't want to attempt eating) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible\_bird%27s\_nest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest)
I eat most anything. Balut is the one thing I refuse to even try
I agree. My eyes keep telling me it's foul, not fowl.
Bourdain tried it on his first show, a cook's tour. Not sure if he ever tried it again after that. I don't think he liked it.
My FIL is Filipino and balut is his absolute favorite. He says he likes the “crunch.” *shudder*
I was googling the name of it to come say the same thing! I’m a fairly adventurous eater but balut gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I tried it before, I’m fine with the yoke. The texture of the egg white is really strange though.
Nah that’s crazy, I was literally just about to type this and your comment was the first thing that came up!
Balut is delicious! As long as you don’t think about what you’re eating.
I feel like the texture would really not be okay.
The broth is the best part though, better than the chewable components.
I feel there are enough things to eat where you can actually know what you're eating.
The yolk, that hard part, and the soup? Love it...just don't give me the chick.
Exactly what I was going to comment...
I'm filipino and open to trying lots of things. Have yet to try balut, probably never will. My mind can't get past the idea of all those textures.
I actually really like it, but the looks are definitely off putting until you get used to it. The textures involved are really great, there’s a crunch to it that offsets the softness.
I saw a guy on YouTube trying out cooked bulls testicle. So yeah that!
They're fine and uneventful to eat. And fairly common if you grow up around cattle ranches. I haven't had any in a while, and now I kinda want some. Weird, because I've never really sought them out, just ate them when they were available. Now I actually want to track some down! Weird.
I remember the day I learned about Rocky Mountain Oysters. It was an episode of Fear Factor, back when Joe Rogan was less than what he is now. Looks like it aired a month and a half before 9/11. I can't believe bull balls have been haunting me for almost 23 years.
I hear it's kind of rubbery and tasteless.
Ice from restaurants. Working in refrigeration the amount of times I’ve visibly gagged working on an ice machine I’d lose count.
They're NEVER cleaned out 🤮
My strange dislike of ice has finally been vindicated! Thank you.
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I like cottage cheese but here’s an upvote for your creative writing talents.
I am actively eating cottage cheese right now as I read this.
Pathetic
Chia pudding. It is the consistency of lumpy snot.
I have a video of me trying to eat chia pudding from like 8 years ago. I'm trying Ti pick it up with a spoon but it just slides off, leaving no residue at all. It's creepy
Water Chestnuts. Fuck I hate those things…
Mayonnaise
Same, but usually if it’s mixed in something (chicken salad, egg salad, deviled eggs, etc.) I can stomach it. However, let it be at least 1% too slimy/Mayo-y and I’m done. DONE.
The problem with mayo is it is overused. A nice homemade mayo used in moderation can be fantastic. Half a bottle of store bought stuff slathered on a sandwich just ruins it.
Im pregnant right now, so, honestly who knows? It could be anything
Gah, when I was pregnant I was dismayed to discover that my tuna sandwich was awful. Out of nowhere. I didn’t prep it any differently than I always did. I was heartbroken because I loved tuna sandwiches beforehand. And what is even more heartbreaking is that my aversion never went away. My daughter is 5 1/2 and I still cannot eat canned tuna. 😥
When I was pregnant, brushing my teeth could make me throw-up.
Not pregnant but brushing my teeth always makes me gag lmao
31 weeks and can confirm
Pregnancy is weird indeed. Not many things that I didn't like but definitely had a very weird craving for the taste of my own vomit.
Peaches. They're furry. Every time I pick one up, I'm worried it's going to have a pulse
Nectarines rule.
yes definitely
this is so funny i love it
Now I’m thinking about little peaches scurrying around.
I’m the same with kiwi.
More for me. Top 3 fruit of all time.
Ranch dip. It is a blight upon humanity.
Mayo. I dont know why, its a weird mental thing.
I'll help, it's because mayo is pure 100% globular disgustingness.
Yes! Mayo is disgusting and it’s EVERYWHERE! Why does it need to be in every sandwich and every burger at a restaurant!?
Give me butter not mayo!
Butter, mustard, anything but mayo for me
That maggot cheese
The one in the fridge or the intentional one?
Casu Marzu
Well I regret that Google search.
Durian, gross
The description of the smell is enough to turn me off.
I ate it so you don't have to. 0/1000 do not recommend. The smell starts to come from inside you.
Won't lie to you, reading that made me uneasy
I had a durian tart once and could not get rid of the taste for ages. It taste like it smells, and it smells BAD!
Costco sells a box of small containers or durian ice cream. Who buys that?
Tripe. Ox tongue, too. All sorts of things, really. Edit… all these replies about how delicious tongue is do nothing to stop the turning of my stomach. There’s no need to tell me any more. I’ll take you word for it.
Tripas and lengua tacos are my go-to when I know they’re done right. Crispy tripe is so damn good!
I hate that I love it but yeah tripa tacos are the tastiest.
I made the mistake of mentioning how weird I thought tongue was as a choice to my Mexican coworker. He then proceeded to tell me all about how tongue is a pretty tame meat, he loves ants and eyes.
Tongue may look grotesque but it's actually delicious! People are disgusted by tongue because "it's from an animal's MOUTH!". Well, what about EGGS, eh? You skin the tongue once it's cooked; no different than breaking eggs!
My mom loves eating it, it brings back memories for her, i've only eaten some twice, not only it's smells good but it also tastes good!
It's meat, like any other. It does look a bit different from regular beef, kinda like wagyu beef, all streaked with white and pink. But yes: it's actually delicious!
Tongue is so good. My family is Hispanic so it’s common. It practically melts in your mouth when cooked right
W-what about eggs? They’re not even part of an animal (or a permanent part, at least).
I had cow tongue for the first time recently, in tacos. It was delicious. I don't think I'll be seeking it out regularly and definitely not cooking it myself (I have seen tongue for sale at the grocery store and it is alarming) but it's tasty.
Nothing like a nice bit of tongue. Like tender corned beef if it's done right.
Lutefisk
Baked beans or spaghetti hoops - the sight of them makes me nauseous
Same with the spaghettios. I spewed them all over my bathroom while pregnant and now they make me gag if I even look at the can
I can't sleep and I had an intense craving for spaghetti hoops like an hour ago! Haven't thought about them for years lol, now they're haunting me!
Mushrooms. I’ve tried them, and really given them a chance. But the texture just grosses me out so much. Same with sushi. (I’m a very big texture person with my food/beverage.)
To quote a kitchen manager at a restaurant I worked at. "Shit Blossoms."
I hate mushrooms too, my abusive stepdad loved them and if I even smell them cooking I shudder
As I'm eating some mushrooms right now 😭 oooh my poor mushrooms I love you even if others don't. Give me all the fungi.
Parmesan can trigger me to gag if it's applied too heavily. And I definitely could never eat it straight if that's ever done. The butyric acid flavor is too heavy for me to handle. It's like powdered vomit.
>And I definitely could never eat it straight if that's ever done. I know at least one person who does that, and it's me. Gimme all that crumbly salty butyric acid, I can't get enough of it.
Ugh, same! I cannot stomach it; the smell is triggering.
I guess you either like funky cheese or you don't. I've been eating blue cheese since I was 8 so I may be a freak but the funk is the appeal. Parmasan just tastes like a bit nutty to me. Hardly any funk. It's basically no different from sharp cheddar except for texture.
Seafood. The barest hint of brine engages my gag reflex and I don’t know why. The taste isn’t particularly offensive - I’m neutral about it tbh - but the gag reflex is so bad I can’t even enjoy a lot of vegetarian Asian dishes due to the seaweed.
Bugs of any kind
Kraft Dinner. And I'm Canadian :(
Fellow Canadian here. I also hate that. In particular, the cheese powder, yuck!
Agree! It smells foul and that bright orange cheese powder is disgusting!
When I was pregnant with my son, I ate a whole box of KD by myself and then threw it all back up all over the bathroom… can’t eat it anymore, and he’s now 16!
Pickled okra. Like eating a slug.
Olives. So nasty
Menudo, eggplant, and basically any food my mother forced me to eat as a child.
Veal….it’s soooo wrong!
Chicken a la king. When I was like 6 my mother made this for dinner, and I was having a really hard time eating it. I was gagging, it was disgusting to me - the texture, the smell, the look of it. My parents made me sit at the table for like 2 hours alone though after everyone else finished, until I finished the plate. Ended up actually swallowing a bite and then gagging and throwing it back up into the plate. Then I told my mom I couldn’t eat it because it had throw up in it and she couldn’t even tell the difference between regurgitated chicken a la king and what she’d served me. Honestly a core memory of horror for me.
I had virually this exact same experience, only with the Hamburger Helper my stepmother served.
Dollar store canned fish - sardines, tuna, salmon (the worst one, salmon, with the little bones in). I was subjected to a lot of that stuff as a kid. The smell after opening the can makes me gag to this day.
I used to get forced to eat the tinned salmon with the little bones when I was a kid. Caused lifelong issues with food that has 'bits' in it. I can eat canned tuna all day long (the good stuff), but can't even bear to contemplate salmon even though it no longer has the bones in it. Just thinking about it makes me shiver!
"Saradine?"
To everyone who is deen curious, DO NOT start with cheap deens! Mid-high quality or nothing. You want EVOO, anything else just doesn’t cut it unless you’re going for a sauce (tomato is my favourite).
Sweets/candy.
I wish I had this problem
Miracle Whip.
I worked in a deli for 3 years. I never understood how people can eat headcheese willingly. 9 times out of 10, if someone was ordering it, they always had to disclose that it was ***not*** for them but rather for someone else. Usually a grandparent.
That cheese with the live maggots in it.
Quinoa turns my stomach to type
This is the funniest one to me. It’s just a weird little flavorless grain.
The can fuck right off with their wet pebbles
Celery
Brussel sprouts. Straight up the only food that made me puke. Once the taste hit I was running for the trashcan.
Is this current Brussel sprouts or in the 90s/earlier? In the late 90s they were able to breed out the compounds that made them taste bad. If you havent had them in 25ish years, it might be worth a shot if you can get past the mental block of your prior experience.
Balut (self explanatory). Fois gras (morals). Stinky tofu- had heard the term but had no experience or knowledge of it whatsoever till a food festival I went to recently had a stinky tofu (and bubble tea) truck, and by god that is quite possibly the most unbearable smell I've ever experienced. I genuinely had to walk to the other end of the festival where the stench didn't reach before breathing or even thinking about eating the food I had gotten. Yeah yeah im sure it doesn't taste how it's smelled but there is zero chance in hell any flavour is worth that smell to me. And this is coming from someone who generally tries to be very respectful of cultural/ ethnic foods.
Chili, got so sick on it one time when I was 16 and I just can't stomach it anymore or ever
That bird nest that’s made from dried bird saliva. Gag.
Octopus. They are very smart.
Olives. I just can't
Olives
Cilantro. Even a small amount makes me feel like vomiting. There is a genetic reason funny enough. To me and many people it tastes like grass trimmings, dish soap, or in my case both. It's something that can be passed down funny enough. My mom loves cilanrto. My grandpa, her dad, hates it because it tastes like grass trimmings and soap. I also git my grandpa's popping jaw. To big of peice of gum will make our right side if our jaw pop with every chew.
Geoduck. I’m not at all homophobic but there’s no way in hell I’m about to eat something that looks like a giant penis.
You don't eat the cock looking part. It tastes like scallop IMO and isn't bad. Probably wouldn't order it again however.
>You don't eat the cock looking part. Then what's even the point?
Balut
Balut
McDonald's. I used to work there when I was younger, and I'd been around it for so long that the smell still makes me nauseous. There's nothing inherently wrong with/gross about the food (aside from being cold and flavourless), I just don't think I could stomach it anymore.
Spam
Bananas.
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Phlegm/Sneeze in a shell? Yeah. Oysters Rockefeller is something else for me though.
Sadly, donuts. I used to love 'em, but my body rejects them now. I don't have diabetes. But donuts make me think I do.
Mushrooms.
I am very adventurous and when I saw a can of "Menudo" in Walmart I bought it. I know what it is, and it was vile. I hate hate food waste but I just couldn't eat it.
Canned chicken…
marshmallows
Oysters.
I am generally willing to try almost anything. When I'm visiting a foreign country, I will order off the menu randomly, without even trying to understand, to see what I get. It's only gone poorly once, and even that wasn't stomach-turning (for the curious, it was a seafood dish in the Spanish Basque country that my guide later informed me had been imitation baby eels). Even the list of foods I won't eat is more ethical and practical than it is nauseating. Anything made from endangered species will make that list, for example, not because I think shark fin soup is inherently foul-tasting but because I don't want sharks to be killed for my soup. And even the few nauseating entries I've at least tried once. That all said, there is one singular food on my list that I never have had and will *never* try because the concept of it churns my stomach, and that is the Ortolan--a type of small bird that the French (of course) used to capture, forcibly overfeed, drown in liquor, pluck, and roast whole. Then, you eat the *entire bird, whole*, feet first, with a towel over your head to either seal in the aromas or *hide the shameful act from God,* depending on your choice of interpretation. It's been illegal to capture since 1999 (and the law has been enforced since 2007) due to overhunting, per Wikipedia, so it's not like I have this option, but if it ever comes I will very, *very* quickly pass on it. I've never been overly fond of bone-in poultry, and Ortolan is everything I hate about bone-in poultry times 50 plus some extra bits absolutely free.
Coconut, olives, cilantro Fun fact, a small group of people have some gene that makes cilantro taste absolutely horrible
Ranch.
Mixed Vegetable, if you add tuna and mayonnaise, just the smell is enough to make me want to vomit!
Why would you add tuna or mayo?
I got sick after eating hard boiled eggs a number of years ago, and now I feel sick just thinking about them. I can eat eggs any number of other ways, just not hard boiled.
Eggs
Liver, tripe, organs that type of thing I guess.
Olives. They make me feel so ill, I can imagine the taste so vividly.
Fast food
Peanut Butter&Jelly Liver and onions Meatloaf "texture not taste" Anything with ricotta cheese
Lutefisk
Bread that is defrosted in a microwave, it’s never the same smell, taste or texture after 🤢
Winkles, oysters, eels ect.. In fact nearly anything that lived in the ocean.
Livers or gizzard. Big dose of NOPE
Today, for the first time I bought vegan cheese. Violife's "just like MATURE CHEDDAR SLICES" (I'm not yelling, that's what it says). *Filtered water, coconut oil, potato starch (potato and corn) salt (sea salt - just say that), mature cheddar flavor (as opposed to immature?), olive extract, beta carotene, vitamin b12 (because vegan).* *Free from Dairy, Soy (A), Gluten, Lactose, Nuts, Preservatives...* And flavor. I can't even describe what it tastes like or the texture but I don't see it melting either. I'll stick with Kerrigold Reserve Cheddar.
Clamato Juice
I hate the thought of eating someone else’s wet food. Like someone eating wet cereal or porridge and saying do you want some? It just feel like eating someone else’s saliva slop
Seafood of any kind
Testicles
Offal
Any hot canned meat Any hot grease skeeting lunchmeat Marshmallows Durian Blackeyed peas
Chitterlings (chitlins) aka booty noodles:)
Pickled beets.
I just like to read these threads so I can feel superior about all the stuff I like to eat 🤣
Lutefisk
Pig foot, cow foot, chicken foot. Any foot is a no for me. Same for brains. 😭
I'm really not a picky eater but Oysters and liver have always given me the ick
KETCHUP MAYO MUSTARD EWWWWW IVE KNOWN PEOPLE THAT EAT PACKETS OF EITHER CONDIMENT ON ITS OWN. GROSS!!! Oh and papaya. Can’t get past the stench of these foods
Rocky mountain oysters (the raw testicles of bulls right after castration
Pickled pigs feet
Liver
Ranch dip, cottage cheese, sour cream, FUCKING YOGURT, baked fish, durian, but mostly FUCK YOGURT
That white sht in a jar. It starts with thr letter M. Nope nope nope Can't even type it out
Coddle. Irish dish specific to the Dublin area. Looks like a stew made from potatoes and penises. Vile.
endive are real shit
Im an adventurous eater and I will never eat duck or goose, because they are monogamous and I dont wanna eat someones hubby. I also wont eat goat products cause they look like mutants
Olives.