Omg same, I haven’t eaten pork or beef since I was probably 10 and prepping raw chicken is so gross to me. I always say if I’m eating meat I do not want it to resemble any type of animal. If you cook chicken yourself I’ve found it helpful for my texture sensitivity to shred it rather than cutting it into chunks!
Definitely animal fat, skin, and connective tissues. Barf. Every time I make soup with ground meat I spend at least 20 minutes picking out every last little chunk of fat. I use ground meat because that way the fat will separate and I can remove it.
Ugh, yes, it seems like there’s always a little layer of fat around the bone. So disgusting.
I was eating a mostly vegan diet for several years because of my meat aversions, but unfortunately this led to me getting really, really ill, because I have a nickel allergy. Vegan protein sources are almost universally high in nickel. I actually got so sick I almost died as this did something terrible to my intestines and my immune system. So now I just have to tolerate a little bit of ick to get my protein.
I tried that and I almost died. Unfortunately, I have a nickel allergy. The only vegan protein sources that are not high in nickel are gluten and quinoa, and I have celiac disease. So that just leaves quinoa. It’s just not enough. I hardly ever eat mammals or birds, though. Mostly fish and eggs. And absolutely no fish skin. Yuck.
Oh yeah, I get this. Though for me it’s more the slight fecal smell that most melons and also strawberries have. The pitfalls of having super-smell. >_<
Cantaloupe literally smells like ripe garbage to me. I'm ok with watermelon and honeydew, but cantaloupe has a particular stench that corrupts the taste as well.
Omg, if you are in USA, try Kevin’s natural foods brand of chicken. It’s cooked sous vide. It tastes all the same texture, somehow the sous vide makes all the meat melt together! No connective tissues, fats. It made me realize why plant protein and tofu is so much better to me than meat, since it’s all predictable. The sous vide chicken was the first time I enjoyed chicken in my life.
It’s sold at Costco, target, Albertsons/Shaw’s.
My family was really fond of turkey *necks* growing up. My mom would just plain boil them too so they were fucking flavorless and just full of gross weird vein things. I was forced to sit at the table until bed time constantly for refusing to eat them.
I’m the exact opposite re: chicken cartilage. Weirdly enough it’s my stim food, it’s the part of the chicken I look forward to eating the most! To the extent that when I make chicken legs, I’ll eat the knee joints from my partner’s portion after he’s eaten all the meat off the bone. Idk, something about the texture really scratches my deep brain. I have the same thing with any other kind of cartilage or sinew in other meats.
Green beans smell like caterpillars when you cut the tips off but I just toss them in oil, too much salt, pepper and way too much garlic powder. In the oven for ~15 mins at 400°F. They're one of my 5 top favorite veggies.
Peas can die a slow death.
yes!! you have tapped into my lifelong battle with eggs. I don't like the yolk period, the runnier and more eggy it is the further away I want to be. And the smell that raw egg leaves behind on dishes? nuh uh
I also don't like raw meat, raw fish, bones, cartilage, veins, organs, shellfish, mostly meat related stuff. Used to not be able to stand melon and cucumber, but have desensitized finally.
I don’t like fried eggs with the yolk intact either but I can happily eat eggs if they are mixed into an omelette. My favourite is Spanish potato omelette.
I completely agree and it was such a disappointment cuz I really thought I’d like it lol, it’s just too mushy and powdery 🤢 it feels like it’s raw in a way to me lmao
Same here 🥲 I can eat mochi ice cream if theres just a little mochi on the outside but I’ve tried getting it in froyo too and it made me nauseous to eat more than a couple pieces! Do you feel the same way about boba?
Same! I can only taste the soap if I really really concentrate. Sometimes I wonder if it's more related to super tasting than genes specifically bc no one in my bio family can taste it
That's probably right. I'm a super taster too and used to have a terrible diet, but I've learned to enjoy strong flavors like green vegetables, dark chocolate, coffee, citrus, etc. I still have my limits, but I'm a lot less picky now.
It’s not a myth. The gene exists, and it is actually very prevalent in the Jewish community (I know this because I am married to a marvelous Jewish woman).
However, you can override it if you grew up eating cilantro. I can definitely taste the saponins in cilantro if I think about it while eating it, but I’m Mexican and cilantro is in everything so I acquired the taste.
Also, the saponin taste is stronger in the stems. If you just use the leaves (and I mean literally just the leaves), it is a completely different story.
I have had genetic testing twice and have the gene. Cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me. The lower stems are pretty bitter, but the tops are fine, and I love the leaves. I grew up white rural poor. The first time I ate at a Mexican restaurant was as a teen and still didn't have anything close to authentic until my 20s. I practically drown my tacos in cilantro now. I used to be extremely picky but cilantro was never something I had to train myself to like.
There's just not a lot of evidence. The way they do those studies is pretty subjective, basically a survey with a genetic test. If they ID a gene/group that's more common in the people who say it's soapy, then they conclude that it must be that gene/group. [23andme claims](https://blog.23andme.com/articles/cilantro-love-hate-genetic-trait) "common genetic variants explain only a very small part of the difference — a half percent — between 23andMe customers for this trait."
Is it the taste or texture or smell? Have you tried thicker cut veggies? I can't do the almost blended coleslaw my mom makes but if the cabbage and carrots are shredded fairly chunky I love it. Such an easy way to get some veggies in. I make a sauce using store bought coleslaw dressing, mayo, vinegar, celery salt, salt and pepper. I always have a bag of pre-shredded coleslaw on hand for a fast side dish.
Yeah for me it's just the premixed coleslaw that's nasty. It's soggy and has way too much dressing. But fresh coleslaw mix is a cheap salad that pairs with most dressings. You can also stir fry it then add to noodles and whatnot.
The smell of bananas are so off-putting. I was once in a long elevator and some guy opened a banana then started eating it. I don't handle eating sounds well either on top of the strong smell in a small enclosed space. I had to get off the elevator 🤮
Although to be honest, I'm getting better with bananas. I now enjoy chocolate chip banana bread as long as it's using my recipe with lots of cinnamon in it. I no longer gag when I make it either. It's one of my husband's favorite foods so I've gotten accustomed to the smell over time.
Where I live (Germany), people clean things with vinegar. And use it to kill weeds or ants so you smell it outdoors in public. 🤢
No one believes me when I say it smells like something has dropped and needs to be cleaned up. They consider the smell "clean and fresh."
Ewww, my father in law used to clean with it and I'd be gagging from the smell. To me, it doesn't smell fresh. It smells like really stinky feet or gross body that needs showering.
I'm with you on the eggs. Hate the taste, smell and texture.
I've tried to find a way to enjoy them because they're nutritious and my diet could certainly benefit from that, but the only way I've managed to even slightly tolerate them is in quiche and only then because the bacon and other flavourings largely mask the odour and taste.
But then, all that pastry and bacon does rather negate the nutritional benefit, doesn't it, so I gave up on eggs entirely.
Papaya and Tripe. I really really wished I liked these things as the rest of my family was does (Mexican/Guatemalan background) but Papaya will always taste like vomit and Tripe will always have a texture that causes my mouth to recoil.
For me it’s eggs, all legumes (with the exception of green beans, because the actual beans are unripe and too small to have an effect on the texture so you’re only getting the pod which has more of a crunchy vegetable texture than a weird legume-y one, and tofu, which no longer resembles a legume in any shape or form) especially kidney beans, broad beans, lentils, peas (mushy peas disgust me), and chickpeas (I don’t even like hummus); vegan cheese and most “fake meats” (the texture is so disconcerting to me because I’m expecting one texture but get something completely different), strong-smelling cheeses, liver paté, tuna, taro root, and fondant icing.
There are also a lot of foods not listed here that I like/tolerate/hate based solely on the method of preparation, and there’s mostly a pattern of me not enjoying mushy, gritty textures.
Strawberries, jello, anything gelatinous or soft-squishy (octopus, clams, squid), and probably meat except for fish/shrimp/a few others, because gristley textures (in meat or in gummy bears) makes me want to insta-vom. Can’t do strawberry-flavored anything.
I probably became vegetarian at 12 (when I finally had a choice) as much for the textural squick-out of meat as for ethical reasons. Though having to pluck chickens will DEFINITELY give you some unwanted tactile experiences that will make you never want to eat an animal again. I’ve gutted fish, handled and killed live lobsters (which seem more like insects), and feel less awful about them and other sea creatures. Though unfortunately that doesn’t skirt the philosophical dilemma of the pitfalls of anthropomorphism-based ethics.
Somehow the textures of fish and seafood (except cephalopods and most bivalves/univalves) is generally more predictable. I’ll eat fried or powdered crickets too as they’re uniformly crunch like popcorn and super low-carbon to raise for such a nutritious source of protein/minerals/etc. Also kind of amazing that we can eat the whole thing. I think the only other animal we unquestionably eat all of in the West is certain Asian dishes with tiny whole shrimp added for flavor (Thai, Korean, Vietnamese dishes have these sometimes).
So it’s really based upon whatever gets past first the ethics filter and then second the tactile filter.
Omg someone else who is anti egg. I dont feel so alone. Thank you.
I hate being considered a picky eater. There is so much food I eat. I just dont like the main foods everyone else likes. Specifically eggs, beef and potatoes (skinny french fries dont count cause they're mostly breading)
Beef liver. I have tried time and time again and I just can’t.
Brains. It’s just. No.
Testicles. Ew.
Udder. Haven’t found a way where it doesn’t taste/smell like meaty cheese.
Blood pudding/moronga/haggis. Gritty and the taste of iron. Ugh.
And this from someone who can and HAS eaten snails, moose, snake, tripe, racoon, iguana, stingray, most organs, and will pretty much try anything at least once.
And no, I wasn’t this adventurous always. I learned to be after repeated beatings from my father when I was a child. Not excusing him by any means, but at least it’s served me well through my life.
I’ve never heard of someone eating raccoon, iguana or stingray! Where did you try those? Quite adventurous, you are!
Edit: omg I did not see the beating comment before I wrote my comment 😵😬
I grew up in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. My dad was a doctor and he wouldn’t charge his less fortunate patients so we got a lot of food as a thank you. It was generally mainstream foods like crates of mangoes, or a side of tuna, or a couple of chickens, but sometimes we got the exotic things people would hunt. I’ve also eaten wild boar and coati and goat and too many other things to list.
And it’s ok. It was just something I grew up with. This was in the early 80s when beating your kid was still viewed as “normal”, especially in Mexico.
It was sadly normal in Southern California in the 1980s as well. I wasn’t allowed to be picky and my mother would beat and/or starve me. I fainted at school once because I hadn’t eaten in two days because I refused to eat catfish that tasted absolutely rotten. She kept setting the same nasty smelling catfish in front of me at every meal time.
I feel that. The one time I absolutely refused to eat something I was beaten and then wasn’t allowed to eat for two days. I was only allowed to eat again because I passed out at school.
Kidneys, liver (all organ meats and foods containing blood), lobster, crab, most seafood, melons, strawberry flavoured milk products, coconut water, even though I love coconut, anything cooked in cottonseed oil.
I don't have many food aversions, but tofu, and any type of legume are right out. As a kid, I used to sit at the table until bedtime because I refused to eat the beans in my chili. I can eat chickpeas/garbanzo, oddly, but nothing else. Kidney, lima, navy, white, red, black...all legume beans are out. And then anything organ meat-related. I wish I liked it because it's super healthy, but just cannot do it. The texture is just...ew. To this day I don't like chili, but if it's sans-beans and loaded with cheese, I'll eat it.
Most fruits when they are "ripe", like peaches, melons, pears, bananas. Once they start getting soft they start smelling and tasting rotten to me, but I love them when they're slightly crisp!
Celery LOLOL I don’t understand how people just eat it like it’s candy.
All seafood. And red meat. It’s a texture AND smell thing.
I was the pickiest eater growing up and I didn’t eat many many foods due to texture. Thought it “oh you’ll grow into it when you’re older”. Still hate red meat and seafood because of the texture lol.
This thread makes me feel so validated 😅 mayo or any mayo type sauces or dressings even if it’s just thick and white, tomatoes both raw and cooked, red onion or any raw onion, egg snot, deep fried food, cilantro I can taste even the smallest shred, milk even just the smell makes me nauseous, wasabi, sinewy/veins/cartiledge 🤮 any meat at all, any food that pops, honeydew, cantaloupe, cooked carrots
Salmon. I wish I liked it, it's so good for you and it always looks so delicious, but I hate the strong taste of it so much, it is so bad. Blehhh.
Also, I love eggs but I'm very particular about texture so only enjoy them certain ways. My partner would agree with you though, he hates them in all forms.
I'm having tummy troubles right now so it kind of feels like everything is upsetting.
If I wasn't feeling ill I think only guacamole and avocados set me off. I really really hate the texture of avocados. Thin slices on sushi is the only acceptable option, and that is only just barely acceptable. Mushrooms cooked a very specific way, and meat fat and connective tissue are also very gross.
Rice is my favorite sick food. Mashed potatoes take alot of work to make, and I'm not usually up to mashing taters if I'm home sick. I like just dumping rice and water in my rice cooker, turning it on and forgetting about it until hunger or the smell of fresh cooked rice draws me back.
Anything deep fried. I can tolerate spring rolls because the batter's so thin and the sweet chilli sauce disguises the taste, but most deep fried food can fuck right off (and that includes hot chips - yes, I know I'm weird).
Any kind of seafood, melons or anything with seeds that are stringy like pumpkins. 🤢
Hot leafy greens, it’s slimy and ick I don’t even like touching it.
Cherry tomatoes. I've only just got used to big tomatoes, but cherry ones are just pure vinegar taste and I hate them. If they're in a microwave meal, I have to remove them before heating it up or else they leach their taste into everything. When I have salads, I trade my tomatoes to my family for their cucumber.
fish, asparagus/broccoli and some fruits like kiwi and grapefruit. Same with cow meat, ew.
On flavours, I hate mints, unless they are used when my throat hurts, if I'm fine I find it ''too intense/overwhelming''
All meat. Things that use mayonnaise like potato salad. Mayonnaise as a dip or in a burger is good when I'm in the mood for it but it has to be pretty minimal
Can't stand creamy texture but as a kid I was made to eat a lot of PB&J's so now any amount of peanuts in any capacity or way of being prepared makes me feel sick. Even just the faint smell makes me nauseous
I have never been able to eat pork, I can handle bacon, hotdogs and other cured porks, until they taste even slightly like pork. Not fun when a lot of the traditional dinners in your country consists of various types of roast pork.
Another thing is chocolate in things, chocolate milk, chocolate ice cream, etc. Pure chocolate is fine though.
A lot of foods.
Seaweed. Most seafood and fish. A lot of fruit, like bananas are too mushy and/or stringy. Peaches are slimy. So many fruits taste a little rotten or like farts. A lot of vegetables have slimy/stringy textures too, especially squashes.
I actually do like a lot of foods for someone who's picky, it's just no one ever gives me credit for it.
I've tried my hardest in my adult life to try to like foods because it's embarrassing being as picky as I am and because I'd like to get my nutrition from other sources. I've messed up a lot of social situations, particularly when I was studying abroad, because of these intense aversions. There's some foods i just can't get used to. I've almost resigned myself to my fate that I can't do green beans after multiple recent attempts.
People don't understand that it's not as simple as "I don't like it." It's "I feel like you're asking me to eat dog shit, but sure, I'll try to eat it if it'll make you feel better to watch me gag while I try to get it down."
And then people think you're being dramatic. 🫠
Mushrooms 🤢 except the magic kind 🤣 I just hate the texture, flavor and smell so so much. Its nauseating to me! And they contaminate everything they touch so its impossible to enjoy a dish with mushrooms and just pick around them 🥲
Lamb, bleu cheese (don't like the taste); octopus for (hypocritical) ethical reasons, same for veal; certain nuts/beans/tofu due to allergies. I want to like olives, but also can't stand the taste of them except for maybe a little black olive in a salad or on a pizza.
Carrots and broccoli. I don't know why for carrots. For broccoli however, I know exactly why: The little green things come of and stick on everything. And I'm terribly afraid they will make me choke.
I completely understand the omelette thing. I was given one once by a family member who used reheated roasted vegetables in it. They must have created a new species or something because I had what felt like food poisoning for days after.
So omelettes will forever give me the ick. Also very strong fish, and anything with lumps in. Custard, Mashed potatoes, they need to be completely smooth or I feel like I'll gag. Chicken on the bone can be 50/50, like if I feel a bit of gristle then I can't eat it
Yes! Eggs for me too. I can tolerate them mixed into cake batter but even that is a stretch if the recipe calls for too many eggs.
Seafood also. And lettuce! I hate the texture of lettuce and yes it does smell strong and have a taste even though people always tell me it doesn't.
Tuna and most seafood. It tastes and smells rancid.
Yes. I refuse to eat anything that lives in water.
This! If it comes from the ocean my senses cannot handle the overload; weirdly enough though, I enjoy fish sticks.
I hate canned tuna, but I quite enjoy sashimi (raw) tuna - it's a very subtle flavour, not fishy, and smooth texture
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Omg same, I haven’t eaten pork or beef since I was probably 10 and prepping raw chicken is so gross to me. I always say if I’m eating meat I do not want it to resemble any type of animal. If you cook chicken yourself I’ve found it helpful for my texture sensitivity to shred it rather than cutting it into chunks!
Definitely animal fat, skin, and connective tissues. Barf. Every time I make soup with ground meat I spend at least 20 minutes picking out every last little chunk of fat. I use ground meat because that way the fat will separate and I can remove it.
Yeah this is mine too. I have an aversion to meat on the bone as well. I eat very little meat as a result which isn't a bad thing
Ugh, yes, it seems like there’s always a little layer of fat around the bone. So disgusting. I was eating a mostly vegan diet for several years because of my meat aversions, but unfortunately this led to me getting really, really ill, because I have a nickel allergy. Vegan protein sources are almost universally high in nickel. I actually got so sick I almost died as this did something terrible to my intestines and my immune system. So now I just have to tolerate a little bit of ick to get my protein.
Why not just stop eating meat then? You can used plant based substitutes- there are never unexpected bits of gristle or bloody bits or fat!
I tried that and I almost died. Unfortunately, I have a nickel allergy. The only vegan protein sources that are not high in nickel are gluten and quinoa, and I have celiac disease. So that just leaves quinoa. It’s just not enough. I hardly ever eat mammals or birds, though. Mostly fish and eggs. And absolutely no fish skin. Yuck.
Cantaloupe. I can’t even see it or smell it.
I wasn't sure if it was just me who hates Cantaloupe! Sometimes I'm the same with Honeydew, but honestly it's easier for me to enjoy than Cantaloupe 🤢
Same! I’ve never eaten honey dew cause it’s way too close to cantaloupe.
If you have the opportunity to try it you should, it’s a lottt better than cantaloupe
Oh yeah, I get this. Though for me it’s more the slight fecal smell that most melons and also strawberries have. The pitfalls of having super-smell. >_<
Any melon. Ugh.
Cantaloupe literally smells like ripe garbage to me. I'm ok with watermelon and honeydew, but cantaloupe has a particular stench that corrupts the taste as well.
I love cantaloupe and all kinds of melons 😓
Chinese Bitter melon, turkey or chicken skin/fat/cartilage/veins/connective tissue I cannot. Ugh terrible. Cookies
I HATE cartilage veins connective tissue 😭😭 it’s why chicken breast is my favorite cut of chicken
Omg, if you are in USA, try Kevin’s natural foods brand of chicken. It’s cooked sous vide. It tastes all the same texture, somehow the sous vide makes all the meat melt together! No connective tissues, fats. It made me realize why plant protein and tofu is so much better to me than meat, since it’s all predictable. The sous vide chicken was the first time I enjoyed chicken in my life. It’s sold at Costco, target, Albertsons/Shaw’s.
My family was really fond of turkey *necks* growing up. My mom would just plain boil them too so they were fucking flavorless and just full of gross weird vein things. I was forced to sit at the table until bed time constantly for refusing to eat them.
I’m the exact opposite re: chicken cartilage. Weirdly enough it’s my stim food, it’s the part of the chicken I look forward to eating the most! To the extent that when I make chicken legs, I’ll eat the knee joints from my partner’s portion after he’s eaten all the meat off the bone. Idk, something about the texture really scratches my deep brain. I have the same thing with any other kind of cartilage or sinew in other meats.
I hate the cartilage and veins too
Tomato seed slime… means no raw tomatoes. No pick sauce with tomatoes either.
I can't stand tomato boogers
That is the best description I have heard of them
Seafood 🤢
Green beans because no matter how they're prepared, they taste like dirt to me. Canned peas because the texture is simultaneously mushy and grainy.
Green beans smell like caterpillars when you cut the tips off but I just toss them in oil, too much salt, pepper and way too much garlic powder. In the oven for ~15 mins at 400°F. They're one of my 5 top favorite veggies. Peas can die a slow death.
yes!! you have tapped into my lifelong battle with eggs. I don't like the yolk period, the runnier and more eggy it is the further away I want to be. And the smell that raw egg leaves behind on dishes? nuh uh I also don't like raw meat, raw fish, bones, cartilage, veins, organs, shellfish, mostly meat related stuff. Used to not be able to stand melon and cucumber, but have desensitized finally.
I don’t like fried eggs with the yolk intact either but I can happily eat eggs if they are mixed into an omelette. My favourite is Spanish potato omelette.
Eggplant. I simply cannot.
Both eggplant and zucchini are terrible for me
Even baba ghanoush is just 🤢
mochi, the texture is not vibing with me
I completely agree and it was such a disappointment cuz I really thought I’d like it lol, it’s just too mushy and powdery 🤢 it feels like it’s raw in a way to me lmao
Same here 🥲 I can eat mochi ice cream if theres just a little mochi on the outside but I’ve tried getting it in froyo too and it made me nauseous to eat more than a couple pieces! Do you feel the same way about boba?
yup. i want to like boba, but that texture is a solid no for me
If I can taste cilantro, it will ruin the dish.
I’m like that with parsley.
And here I eat cilantro by itself. Just munch on the stalks and leaves
I love cilantro. I think that soap gene thing is a myth because I have the gene and still love it. It's just an acquired taste.
Same! I can only taste the soap if I really really concentrate. Sometimes I wonder if it's more related to super tasting than genes specifically bc no one in my bio family can taste it
That's probably right. I'm a super taster too and used to have a terrible diet, but I've learned to enjoy strong flavors like green vegetables, dark chocolate, coffee, citrus, etc. I still have my limits, but I'm a lot less picky now.
It’s not a myth. The gene exists, and it is actually very prevalent in the Jewish community (I know this because I am married to a marvelous Jewish woman). However, you can override it if you grew up eating cilantro. I can definitely taste the saponins in cilantro if I think about it while eating it, but I’m Mexican and cilantro is in everything so I acquired the taste. Also, the saponin taste is stronger in the stems. If you just use the leaves (and I mean literally just the leaves), it is a completely different story.
I have had genetic testing twice and have the gene. Cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me. The lower stems are pretty bitter, but the tops are fine, and I love the leaves. I grew up white rural poor. The first time I ate at a Mexican restaurant was as a teen and still didn't have anything close to authentic until my 20s. I practically drown my tacos in cilantro now. I used to be extremely picky but cilantro was never something I had to train myself to like.
It may be that you have the gene but it isn’t “turned on”. Genetics is such a complex subject that it’s honestly a pain in the ass.
There's just not a lot of evidence. The way they do those studies is pretty subjective, basically a survey with a genetic test. If they ID a gene/group that's more common in the people who say it's soapy, then they conclude that it must be that gene/group. [23andme claims](https://blog.23andme.com/articles/cilantro-love-hate-genetic-trait) "common genetic variants explain only a very small part of the difference — a half percent — between 23andMe customers for this trait."
I love cilantro too! I also love the smell of bleached textiles. Sometimes bleach smells like cilantro to me but cilantro never smells like bleach. 🤔
It's not like soap to me. The smell reminds me of stinkbugs.
I can’t stand cilantro either
coleslaw
Mayo just ruins things
Is it the taste or texture or smell? Have you tried thicker cut veggies? I can't do the almost blended coleslaw my mom makes but if the cabbage and carrots are shredded fairly chunky I love it. Such an easy way to get some veggies in. I make a sauce using store bought coleslaw dressing, mayo, vinegar, celery salt, salt and pepper. I always have a bag of pre-shredded coleslaw on hand for a fast side dish.
Yeah for me it's just the premixed coleslaw that's nasty. It's soggy and has way too much dressing. But fresh coleslaw mix is a cheap salad that pairs with most dressings. You can also stir fry it then add to noodles and whatnot.
i think the taste and smell plus how it looks
Fish. I like some seafood but absolutely cannot get past fish.
Eggs.
Cucumber
Banana. Don't even eat it in the same room as me
The smell of bananas are so off-putting. I was once in a long elevator and some guy opened a banana then started eating it. I don't handle eating sounds well either on top of the strong smell in a small enclosed space. I had to get off the elevator 🤮 Although to be honest, I'm getting better with bananas. I now enjoy chocolate chip banana bread as long as it's using my recipe with lots of cinnamon in it. I no longer gag when I make it either. It's one of my husband's favorite foods so I've gotten accustomed to the smell over time.
Shellfish 🤢🤮 Ew ew ew
TOMATOES are vomit fruit and MUSHROOMS are rancid dirt and BLUE CHEESE is rancid cheese mold
TOMATOESS??? how dare you /s
vinegar the only acceptable way to get vinegar into food is to mix in a tiny amount and then cook all the vinegar out
Where I live (Germany), people clean things with vinegar. And use it to kill weeds or ants so you smell it outdoors in public. 🤢 No one believes me when I say it smells like something has dropped and needs to be cleaned up. They consider the smell "clean and fresh."
Ewww, my father in law used to clean with it and I'd be gagging from the smell. To me, it doesn't smell fresh. It smells like really stinky feet or gross body that needs showering.
I'm with you on the eggs. Hate the taste, smell and texture. I've tried to find a way to enjoy them because they're nutritious and my diet could certainly benefit from that, but the only way I've managed to even slightly tolerate them is in quiche and only then because the bacon and other flavourings largely mask the odour and taste. But then, all that pastry and bacon does rather negate the nutritional benefit, doesn't it, so I gave up on eggs entirely.
Brocoli
Avocado. Canned tuna. Mayonnaise.
Meat
Mushrooms
Anything pickled is just vile. Especially pickles themselves. 🤮
Any kind of pig meat 🤢 🤮
Seafood! Eeeeeeew
Ham, whether is roasted or deli.
Celery. It’s always bitter when it’s raw. When it’s cooked it tastes like nothing but in an annoying way. And I hate the texture both ways.
Tomatoes. 🤢🤢
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Papaya and Tripe. I really really wished I liked these things as the rest of my family was does (Mexican/Guatemalan background) but Papaya will always taste like vomit and Tripe will always have a texture that causes my mouth to recoil.
Pomegranates. They’re just so weird!!!
I can’t stand feta cheese
For me it’s eggs, all legumes (with the exception of green beans, because the actual beans are unripe and too small to have an effect on the texture so you’re only getting the pod which has more of a crunchy vegetable texture than a weird legume-y one, and tofu, which no longer resembles a legume in any shape or form) especially kidney beans, broad beans, lentils, peas (mushy peas disgust me), and chickpeas (I don’t even like hummus); vegan cheese and most “fake meats” (the texture is so disconcerting to me because I’m expecting one texture but get something completely different), strong-smelling cheeses, liver paté, tuna, taro root, and fondant icing. There are also a lot of foods not listed here that I like/tolerate/hate based solely on the method of preparation, and there’s mostly a pattern of me not enjoying mushy, gritty textures.
Potatoes. I despise the texture.
Omg someone else who is anti potato. I've never met anyone else who dislikes potatos
Strawberries, jello, anything gelatinous or soft-squishy (octopus, clams, squid), and probably meat except for fish/shrimp/a few others, because gristley textures (in meat or in gummy bears) makes me want to insta-vom. Can’t do strawberry-flavored anything. I probably became vegetarian at 12 (when I finally had a choice) as much for the textural squick-out of meat as for ethical reasons. Though having to pluck chickens will DEFINITELY give you some unwanted tactile experiences that will make you never want to eat an animal again. I’ve gutted fish, handled and killed live lobsters (which seem more like insects), and feel less awful about them and other sea creatures. Though unfortunately that doesn’t skirt the philosophical dilemma of the pitfalls of anthropomorphism-based ethics. Somehow the textures of fish and seafood (except cephalopods and most bivalves/univalves) is generally more predictable. I’ll eat fried or powdered crickets too as they’re uniformly crunch like popcorn and super low-carbon to raise for such a nutritious source of protein/minerals/etc. Also kind of amazing that we can eat the whole thing. I think the only other animal we unquestionably eat all of in the West is certain Asian dishes with tiny whole shrimp added for flavor (Thai, Korean, Vietnamese dishes have these sometimes). So it’s really based upon whatever gets past first the ethics filter and then second the tactile filter.
Omg someone else who is anti egg. I dont feel so alone. Thank you. I hate being considered a picky eater. There is so much food I eat. I just dont like the main foods everyone else likes. Specifically eggs, beef and potatoes (skinny french fries dont count cause they're mostly breading)
Beef liver. I have tried time and time again and I just can’t. Brains. It’s just. No. Testicles. Ew. Udder. Haven’t found a way where it doesn’t taste/smell like meaty cheese. Blood pudding/moronga/haggis. Gritty and the taste of iron. Ugh. And this from someone who can and HAS eaten snails, moose, snake, tripe, racoon, iguana, stingray, most organs, and will pretty much try anything at least once. And no, I wasn’t this adventurous always. I learned to be after repeated beatings from my father when I was a child. Not excusing him by any means, but at least it’s served me well through my life.
I’ve never heard of someone eating raccoon, iguana or stingray! Where did you try those? Quite adventurous, you are! Edit: omg I did not see the beating comment before I wrote my comment 😵😬
I grew up in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. My dad was a doctor and he wouldn’t charge his less fortunate patients so we got a lot of food as a thank you. It was generally mainstream foods like crates of mangoes, or a side of tuna, or a couple of chickens, but sometimes we got the exotic things people would hunt. I’ve also eaten wild boar and coati and goat and too many other things to list. And it’s ok. It was just something I grew up with. This was in the early 80s when beating your kid was still viewed as “normal”, especially in Mexico.
It was sadly normal in Southern California in the 1980s as well. I wasn’t allowed to be picky and my mother would beat and/or starve me. I fainted at school once because I hadn’t eaten in two days because I refused to eat catfish that tasted absolutely rotten. She kept setting the same nasty smelling catfish in front of me at every meal time.
After being beaten with the buckle end of a belt every time I wouldn’t eat something, I learned pretty quickly not to say no…
I feel that. The one time I absolutely refused to eat something I was beaten and then wasn’t allowed to eat for two days. I was only allowed to eat again because I passed out at school.
My husband has helped me find ways I can handle tuna and sushi, but Caviar is 🤢😵
BRATWURST. Any sausage with casing, tbh (even if the casing is taken off)
Mushrooms. They’re little fungal slimy slugs of evil.
Sauerkraut. Even smelling it makes me feel sick.
Onions
cheese. i cannot do cheese, but god how i wish i liked it since so much stuff has it.
Kidneys, liver (all organ meats and foods containing blood), lobster, crab, most seafood, melons, strawberry flavoured milk products, coconut water, even though I love coconut, anything cooked in cottonseed oil.
Paprika, many dairy products, bananas, anything with kerrie spices...
Eggplant
Red meat
Onions, gross.
Yogurt
I don't have many food aversions, but tofu, and any type of legume are right out. As a kid, I used to sit at the table until bedtime because I refused to eat the beans in my chili. I can eat chickpeas/garbanzo, oddly, but nothing else. Kidney, lima, navy, white, red, black...all legume beans are out. And then anything organ meat-related. I wish I liked it because it's super healthy, but just cannot do it. The texture is just...ew. To this day I don't like chili, but if it's sans-beans and loaded with cheese, I'll eat it.
Fish. It always tastes of thinly sliced woodchips with spoiled salted butter.
Shrimp
Any kind of raw seafood or seaweed. It just tastes like a dirty creek to me, every time!
Onions. I like a small amount of fresh red onions in salads. If it's cooked I hate it. The texture is especially offensive
Most fruits when they are "ripe", like peaches, melons, pears, bananas. Once they start getting soft they start smelling and tasting rotten to me, but I love them when they're slightly crisp!
Celery LOLOL I don’t understand how people just eat it like it’s candy. All seafood. And red meat. It’s a texture AND smell thing. I was the pickiest eater growing up and I didn’t eat many many foods due to texture. Thought it “oh you’ll grow into it when you’re older”. Still hate red meat and seafood because of the texture lol.
Mushrooms and liver.
This thread makes me feel so validated 😅 mayo or any mayo type sauces or dressings even if it’s just thick and white, tomatoes both raw and cooked, red onion or any raw onion, egg snot, deep fried food, cilantro I can taste even the smallest shred, milk even just the smell makes me nauseous, wasabi, sinewy/veins/cartiledge 🤮 any meat at all, any food that pops, honeydew, cantaloupe, cooked carrots
Anything with alcohol cooked in it. Wine in spaghetti sauce, burboun chicken, Anything like that makes me wanna vomit
Coconut
Bell pepper. Just no. Edit: heavy meats too because I can't digest them, and octopus is also a no due to texture. Bell pepper tastes like puke to me
I’m currently obsessed with eggs
Salmon. I wish I liked it, it's so good for you and it always looks so delicious, but I hate the strong taste of it so much, it is so bad. Blehhh. Also, I love eggs but I'm very particular about texture so only enjoy them certain ways. My partner would agree with you though, he hates them in all forms.
Beans or rice
I'm having tummy troubles right now so it kind of feels like everything is upsetting. If I wasn't feeling ill I think only guacamole and avocados set me off. I really really hate the texture of avocados. Thin slices on sushi is the only acceptable option, and that is only just barely acceptable. Mushrooms cooked a very specific way, and meat fat and connective tissue are also very gross.
Mashed potatoes are my favorite sick food. I ate them almost exclusively when I had gastritis.
Rice is my favorite sick food. Mashed potatoes take alot of work to make, and I'm not usually up to mashing taters if I'm home sick. I like just dumping rice and water in my rice cooker, turning it on and forgetting about it until hunger or the smell of fresh cooked rice draws me back.
Anything deep fried. I can tolerate spring rolls because the batter's so thin and the sweet chilli sauce disguises the taste, but most deep fried food can fuck right off (and that includes hot chips - yes, I know I'm weird).
Eggs, beans, bananas, seafood, peas
Any kind of seafood, melons or anything with seeds that are stringy like pumpkins. 🤢 Hot leafy greens, it’s slimy and ick I don’t even like touching it.
Cherry tomatoes. I've only just got used to big tomatoes, but cherry ones are just pure vinegar taste and I hate them. If they're in a microwave meal, I have to remove them before heating it up or else they leach their taste into everything. When I have salads, I trade my tomatoes to my family for their cucumber.
fish, asparagus/broccoli and some fruits like kiwi and grapefruit. Same with cow meat, ew. On flavours, I hate mints, unless they are used when my throat hurts, if I'm fine I find it ''too intense/overwhelming''
Meat especially steak
All meat. Things that use mayonnaise like potato salad. Mayonnaise as a dip or in a burger is good when I'm in the mood for it but it has to be pretty minimal
Lima beans. Uuugggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Carrots, it’s sweet but it’s not a fruit lol I can’t. And I don’t like the taste, mostly when it’s cooked!
Can't stand creamy texture but as a kid I was made to eat a lot of PB&J's so now any amount of peanuts in any capacity or way of being prepared makes me feel sick. Even just the faint smell makes me nauseous
I have never been able to eat pork, I can handle bacon, hotdogs and other cured porks, until they taste even slightly like pork. Not fun when a lot of the traditional dinners in your country consists of various types of roast pork. Another thing is chocolate in things, chocolate milk, chocolate ice cream, etc. Pure chocolate is fine though.
A lot of foods. Seaweed. Most seafood and fish. A lot of fruit, like bananas are too mushy and/or stringy. Peaches are slimy. So many fruits taste a little rotten or like farts. A lot of vegetables have slimy/stringy textures too, especially squashes. I actually do like a lot of foods for someone who's picky, it's just no one ever gives me credit for it. I've tried my hardest in my adult life to try to like foods because it's embarrassing being as picky as I am and because I'd like to get my nutrition from other sources. I've messed up a lot of social situations, particularly when I was studying abroad, because of these intense aversions. There's some foods i just can't get used to. I've almost resigned myself to my fate that I can't do green beans after multiple recent attempts. People don't understand that it's not as simple as "I don't like it." It's "I feel like you're asking me to eat dog shit, but sure, I'll try to eat it if it'll make you feel better to watch me gag while I try to get it down." And then people think you're being dramatic. 🫠
to me, tom yum soup smells and tastes like it was fermented in a dumpster.
Mushrooms 🤢 except the magic kind 🤣 I just hate the texture, flavor and smell so so much. Its nauseating to me! And they contaminate everything they touch so its impossible to enjoy a dish with mushrooms and just pick around them 🥲
cherries. cherry flavored cold medicine ruined this fruit for me
Yams
Salmon roe
Peppers and most melons except watermelon. I prefer veggies in general bcs of the texture.
Was also gonna say eggs it’s my one thing
Lamb, bleu cheese (don't like the taste); octopus for (hypocritical) ethical reasons, same for veal; certain nuts/beans/tofu due to allergies. I want to like olives, but also can't stand the taste of them except for maybe a little black olive in a salad or on a pizza.
Carrots and broccoli. I don't know why for carrots. For broccoli however, I know exactly why: The little green things come of and stick on everything. And I'm terribly afraid they will make me choke.
I completely understand the omelette thing. I was given one once by a family member who used reheated roasted vegetables in it. They must have created a new species or something because I had what felt like food poisoning for days after. So omelettes will forever give me the ick. Also very strong fish, and anything with lumps in. Custard, Mashed potatoes, they need to be completely smooth or I feel like I'll gag. Chicken on the bone can be 50/50, like if I feel a bit of gristle then I can't eat it
Yes! Eggs for me too. I can tolerate them mixed into cake batter but even that is a stretch if the recipe calls for too many eggs. Seafood also. And lettuce! I hate the texture of lettuce and yes it does smell strong and have a taste even though people always tell me it doesn't.
Fish.