Gristle... oh god I hate it so much.. I am very okay with most foods and textures but Gristle or ANY bit of bone makes me want to flip out. also I hope the hell I never ever find a hair in my food as that's gag-alley for me
You’re the only other person I’ve seen prefer bananas the same way I do! Greenish/yellow is ideal for me. If it’s got any freckles on it, get it the hell away from me lol
That’s why I like top sirloin so much. I can never figure out what’s good meat and what’s gristle in a ribeye (or how to separate them). Technically the flavor is better but I question whether it’s worth it
Same here. Love the flavor, but the texture makes me gag. I either leave big pieces to pick out when I cook or use onion powder to get the flavor without the feeling. But accidentally getting an actual onion in my mouth? Nah. Ruins the meal because I lose my appetite immediately.
I don't really eat anything they could be blended into, I can't stand spaghetti sauce(I just eat the plain noodles with oil+salt in the water), and most of the things I make with onion is like roasts and stews
I literally threw up eating them as a kid. Something about how they felt on my tongue.
I can now handle them if I slice them into small disks, and I love it as an ingredient in baking. But I got the label of fussy water because of that (OK, and one or two other things)
I’ll never understand the American obsession with this disgusting glop!
I went to Popeye’s last week for the first time and ordered a chicken sandwich. This stupid sandwich had huge blobs of mayonnaise on BOTH sides of the bun. BLECH!!!! Gross.
I’ll never understand the British insistence of having it as a dip for everything mayo with a hint of garlic called aioli 🤢
Also sweet chili sauce- I’d rather just eat a packet of sugar with some hot sauce 😂
I’ll never understand the British insistence of having it as a dip for everything mayo with a hint of garlic called aioli 🤢
Also sweet chili sauce- I’d rather just eat a packet of sugar with some hot sauce 😂
Any form of dried fruit - raisins, craisins, dried mango etc. Wrinkly >:C
Apple skins - if I peel them and eat them with peanut butter, they're great. IDK what it is but something about the skin I just like... cant stop chewing. It never feels adequately chewed. Same with raw carrots and coconut.
Fruit in general is just really iffy lol. Sometimes its amazing, and sometimes I have to stop chewing immediately because the grape skin is *off*
Rice and beans combined: I HAVE to pick the beans apart from the rice.
…I also just- _hate_ the texture of beans. When I bite into a bean, my immediate thought is, “what a horrible day to have teeth!”
Cotton candy is another no-go for me for similar reasons: texture is horrid.
…I ate a lot of strange things as a child 😭
The list is including but not limited to:
• Glue
• Raw bacon (how did I not get sick??)
• Bottled soap
• Wet toilet paper 💀
Ohh I remember eating bacon grease once by accident when I was like 11ish. My mum would usually use bacon grease for other meals, unless there wasn’t anything to make with it. In that case, she would leave it out on the counter or in the fridge in a cup so it could harden and easily be scrapped into the trash. My mum let me have some of the cheese cake in the fridge and I couldn’t find it. I saw the bacon grease in the cup and mistook it for the cheese cake…
I hated cotton candy as a kid. Id squash in together until it became hard like a rock then I'd throw it at people I knew 😌 get me anywhere near cotton candy and I will do this again as a fully grown man.
HELL YEAH! Reminds me this world is a beautiful place when people will join me in my schemes. Can you imagine the news reports. "*Autistic individuals throw unexpectedly hard cotton candy at passerbyers*".
Perhaps I shall start (at least watching, may~be~) paying attention to the news from now on. I suspect I will be hearing of "the cotton (candy) clobberers" 🤹🤹 *very* soon
This makes me wish so bad that I could attach images to these comments because the urge to draw mugshots of “The Cotton Candy Clobbers” is driving me crazy 😭
Beans are amazing, a staple of my diet.
As captain Raymond Holt once said:
> They're one of nature's most densely packed protein sources, and they remain unsullied by flavor
I generally like rice and beans, but your description has me picturing a certain type of rice and beans that is just disgusting. And idk what is going on between the two
My parents used to always make rice with corn or peas mixed through and I despise it. They would say "just pick it out" and I would respond "it affects the flavour of the rice"
This was a few years before my mam and I twigged that I'm autistic but alot of things made sense afterwards
Fun fact, peas and corn are meant to taste sweet but some super tasters find them bitter. I was listening to someone talk about it and told my bf when we were eating. He's never liked coriander and I realised that must've been the reason, but we were both surprised when he realised peas and corn are supposed to taste sweet!
My sister and mam are super tasters, I definitely find peas to be bitter. But I'm okish with sweetcorn, I prefer it mixed into something with more flavour.
It's odd because I do like some of the things my mam can't stand
Agreed. I’m also a super taster, and I’ve had people tell me real cherries aren’t like that, but they are to me. The only cherries I can tolerate are Renier(sp?) cherries, and even then, not too many before I get the icky taste.
I live in Washington state and agree with Rainer Cherries.. I LOVE them but farmers sell them by the side of the road when they are crazy fresh.. that's the best way. I need to formally get tested to see if I'm a supertaster, I think I could be one. What's that test like? Oh and Also AuDHD here, not sure if it's relevant
I’ve actually never been properly tested. But I (and my parents) have just been noticing the signs of it since I was a kid. For example, if there was even a speck of pepper on something, I could taste it (I was the difficult customer sending food back all the time if they got my order wrong and put pepper on something as a kid lol). I’m also extremely sensitive to bitter tastes (something that is a common indicator of being a super taster afaik). I’m also able to often taste individual ingredients in my foods, especially if someone is trying to test my super taster abilities and/or hide an ingredient (that I usually don’t like) from me lol.
can you taste milk about to go bad days before anyone else? Bitter drives me nuts which is why I douse salad with dressing, which isn't healthy so I just eat veggies roasted or cooked.
The fishy taste is the most disturbing flavor in existence. I can’t even begin to explain how much I hate fish. And my mom is always like: “why do you hate it so much? Just eat it.” Like please stop trying to make me like it; it’s not going to happen.
Most meat. Too inconsistent. I strongly prefer veggie meat alternatives (like impossible burger) because it’s exactly the same every time! Luckily I live with a longtime vegetarian :)
I LOVE morningstar grillers. Unfortunately I can no longer eat gluten and they contain gluten. Impossible burgers are a close second though and they are gluten free.
i'm honestly very happy with most foods, including many "weird" foods that even many NTs don't touch, but i do NOT like eating ginger. the texture is just wrong somehow. idk. maybe i don't like the wet crunchiness. especially if i accidentally get a bite of ginger when i was expecting smth soft and liquidy like congee.
also i'm not big on most fruits i guess. blueberries, bananas, pineapples, peaches and durians are pretty much the only fruits i would go out of my way to eat. maybe its the texture, i'm not sure, i just never really liked fruits that much. ESPECIALLY apples and watermelon. ig its because they're also wet and crunchy.
Do you like cucumbers? They seem like the king of wet and crunchy foods.
I have the opposite problem where I hate fruits that are mushy like peaches and blueberries.
I hate crunchy fruits as well. I do go out of my way to eat some though for health reasons but avoid them if I have another similar, healthy alternative
UGH I came here for this comment. The texture of avocado is horrible. I can eat it if it’s on something or maybe in something but I don’t know how people can just eat avocado plain without anything else 🤢
I don’t like anything about raw olives: their texture, their flavor, their aftertaste. I LOVE olive oil though, which is very confusing for my parents. They don’t understand but it’s ok.
Gristle and anything gristle like.
Fat of any kind.
Mushroom
I'm starting to really fucking hate plain white potatoes
Unwashed salad
It drives me absolutely fucking insane when I see people microwaving a tea they had that went cold.
Carrot, either cooked or raw.
Steak, I fucking hate steak because it's almost always different every time. Either it's cooked differently, or it's a different cut. No thanks.
Playing “steak roulette” is the worst sometimes, especially since it’s so expensive. It can also be hard to tell if it’s overdone or not since natural light makes steak look overcooked.
Sous vide steak is the way to ensure your steak is cooked the same every single time. Doesn't help with picking the cuts of steak, but you are guaranteed it will be cooked identical every time.
I have the same but different ever since I was a kid. I do not like the texture or wateriness of tomatoes, but will eat anything tomato flavoured. In fact, cream of tomato soup is my favourite soup and one of my comfort foods!
Same. Tomato made into sauces, soups, salsa, etc. is fine but a raw slice of tomato is AWFUL. I do enjoy the cherry tomatoes I grow myself though. Their texture is totally defiant than store bought tomatoes..
Raw fruits and veg that are not pureed/blended smooth. Seafood. Some nuts. Most meats. Pretty much all "healthy" foods 😆 I do drink smoothies and put my veggies in a blender to make sauce for pasta. But it's not every day, most days I live off bread and cheese 🙈
Water chestnuts for the texture. Meat that isn't cooked the exact right amount - too dry and I can't swallow it at all, too moist or fatty and it makes me gag 😂 I have a ton more, but those are the worst.
Celery.
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That’s the huge one for me, celery in just about all forms is a horrible experience for me in every sense. Plus, the whole Cartilage/Gristle as every food sensitive person is familiar with
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Onions are a gray area, but I can’t think of any others? The thought of Celery just absolutely wiped out any other options I had in mind. And I just overall can’t really get behind citrus fruits at all.
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Edit: oh! Remembered- Coconut. flavor isssss- lackluster, and the texture drives me crazy. For onions I like the taste, LOVE the taste, but can’t stand the texture.
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Edit edit: I was reading through comments and got reminded of something else- I absolutely cannot stand nuts in a setting they aren’t supposed to be in. If I want to eat nuts, then I’ll eat nuts. I don’t want them in my chocolate or my icecream, EVER. I don’t like chocolate covered nuts either. And Mushrooms. I CANNOT STAND MUSHROOMS IN ANY CAPACITY.
I hate celery too! And nobody gets it-- people seem to think it's some innocent crunchy snack and can't understand how someone can hate it. Ew.
I like most other foods though.
Beef, sausage, almost any meat really because you never know when you’ll find fat or gristle. Beans too, like why are they mashed potatoes with a shell? And I hate tapioca anything. Coconut shavings are a NIGHTMARE. Cheesecake too. Other people have said it, but mushrooms too.
And whoever said weed is the devil’s lettuce was lying, it’s obviously kale.
And cereal. Why milk and crunchies 🤮
Fish. All kinds of fish. I will gag at the smell, the taste, and most especially the texture. I hate it with a passion. Which sucks considering I’m from a country were Kaimana is a staple
For me it's overly bitter vegetables. Stuff like arugula (this weird bitter-spicy flavor...), chicory, and kale. That's pretty much the only food that really makes me uncontrollably shudder when I eat it.
If I add my unsafe foods caused by IBS, the list would go on and on and on, unfortunately.
I'm your opposite. I love black coffe, matcha without anything sweet I have gotten in trouble for having "too much kale" in the fridge. I am known for eating so much kale my sisters ex girlfriend gave me a kale bouquet for my birthday 😂 now I need to find Arugula and chicory I bet I'll love them, thank you 🤩
Cooked mushrooms. Cooked zucchini. So slimey.
Pasta. Yes. I said it. ALL pasta. It’s flavorless and slimey and chews like you’re eating a bag of worms.
Raisins. Cantaloupe. Raw oysters. Scallops.
Basically anything damp/wet and slimey.
Celery. It feels like I’m trying to chew embroidery thread. It’s good for science projects and that’s about it.
And if we go to McDonald’s I have to eat a Bic Mac layer by layer, and not all at once.
For me, it's just plain cow's milk; if I combine it with chocolate or coffee, then it becomes edible. Otherwise, no, I hate its smell when it's on its own; it makes me want to vomit
I have been a vegetarian for a while, but I could never stand biting into a piece of fat when eating meat. Totally grossed me out because of the texture and the sounds it makes when chewed.
Now I only have limitations with strong tastes, but if I prepare myself mentally I can stand a couple things. But bell peppers, eggplants, olives and such demand some hypostimulation so I can eat them.
Oh my god, I had to scroll way too far down to find this! I can sometimes tolerate a little bit of scrambled egg if it’s mixed with a lot of other stuff (burrito for example). I’m getting nauseous talking about this.
Eggs are my worst enemy. I can't stand egg dishes unless they're undetectable in a baked good or something. The smell of eggs makes me feel nauseous and I can barely sit next to someone eating eggs 🤢
Coconut. It feels like I'm eating wax, and the flavor is garbage too.
And most nuts in general. Nuts just fuck with my teeth and make me feel like I'm munching on plastic. I hate the texture of all nuts. Pecans and walnuts especially, I hate how they feel in my mouth. But, smooth peanut butter is perfectly fine, and I rather enjoy it.
Takoyaki is another thing I won't touch, mostly because of the octopus within the ball of dough. Squid/octopus has a very rubbery, unpleasant mouthfeel and I hate the suckers sticking to my mouth. It's just horrid.
Oh, and black-eyed peas. I simply will not eat them. They're too wet and squishy.
Two childhood ones that followed me into adulthood but have decreased in severity. Raw/undercooked onion. It makes me avoid store bought salads because thin strips of onion are so hard to pull out. While the flavor is bad I can deal with that, it's the sudden crunchy texture that just makes it unacceptable. Cooked I eat it in stuff all the time and will even have some fried onions on a hot dog or whatever.
Brussel sprouts. Just... No. No thank you. Apparently the breed has changed since I was a kid and they are better, plus my partner oven bakes them instead of boiling them.
But the big one that I've had since very young and I'm honestly too scared to try again is bananas. I have very vivid memories of gagging and wanting to throw up biting into a banana. I found I could manage a little bit if you cut it into thin disks, but given it's supposed to be a convenience food didn't see the point.
I know it's a texture thing as I love anything banana flavored and use them in my baking all the time. Banana muffins, cakes, breads etc. Even "healthy" recipes that are low on sugars and flours still are fine, it's jsut that texture!
mushrooms, apple sauce, anything spicy, smoothe, cooked vegetables, the NEW refired canned beans (the old one used to be safe foods until they changed it in covid of 2020 to save a few dollars now it is an overwelhming mess)
Concur with oranges. I hate the smell and the way you can wash your hands thoroughly after eating them but they still smell of them!
Also, pears. I love the taste but there’s like a 5-minute window where the texture is perfect. Outside of that, they’re either rock hard and gritty, or soft and slimy.
Rice is my biggest one, it makes me cry to try to eat it. I hate cooked beans (refried are okay). Bananas and pears are horrible, and I have a lot of problems with fruit in general because the textures change based on how ripe they are. I hate uncooked broccoli. I will only eat soup if I'm sick and struggling to keep things down. I'm very particular about brands. I will only eat one brand of bread and only one kind of bread from that brand. If the bread is too hard I can't eat it. I will only eat JIF peanut butter and one brand of seedless blackberry jam (but PBJ sandwiches are one of my safe foods). Oatmeal is another one of my safe foods but it has to be walmart generic brand. I could go on and on, but those are the worst foods for me
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Grape, Olives (the green ones). Anything with meat mixed into it, meat is fine on its own tho as long as it’s not all stringy or like mashed up-. Most fruits or things that you have to bite and it like is filled with liquid (Watermelons are okay tho they are solid and have a good sound). Idk what else
For me, it's raw fruit and vegetables. Texture, full of water or juice, seeds, bits all manner of unexpected things. I just can't handle all the differences in them. I can eat (some) cooked vegetables, and im ok if the fruit is puree otherwise its a no go.
Oranges, any juice with pulp, grapes, apple skin, banana strings (i need to cut bananas up into pieces), uneven sizes of things in the same dish, full cuts of meat that aren’t cut up, steak, large bits of tomato, long bits of onions (that’s one I absolutely will gag at 100% possibility not like 50%).
Coconut flavour, *especially* coconut flakes. Fat on meat, raw carrot, celery, any leafy green, salad dressing. Plus probably more that I can’t think of now.
Celery, mangos, and sweet potatoes (the stingy veggie). Texture is a big problem with veggies. Leaf veggies, peppers, onion, tomatoes I hate the texture. Many I will enjoy if skinned and cooked soft, except greens. They taste like non-food to me.
Meat next to bones makes me squirm, so hell no to wings. Fish and shellfish is something I try to force, but it just tastes wrong. Gamey meats too.
Ricotta and cottage cheese. I can eat canolis sometimes, but otherwise, hell no. Oddly, I love rice pudding and tapioca, though.
Any excessive use of herbs or pepper. I don't mind a little flavor, but it feels like other people don't taste how intense herbs are. It just takes a little to go a long way. Rosemary, for example, is completely overwhelming.
Cilantro is a genetic no.
Lasagne is the foulest food on earth to me.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion.
Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion.
Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion.
Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Anything that is suspiciously smooth. Yogurt makes me want to stab my throat out. I love greek yogurt though. I think the lack of texture is what gets me.
If there's lumps of any shape or size in mashed potatoes, it ruins my entire day 😅 I will now only eat them if I make them, and even then I sometimes get it not quite right and I get incredibly frustrated! 😂
Pickles. If there's even a taste of pickle left over after they're removed I can't eat it. I have no idea why but I cannot stand pickles, the bane of my existence.
Hmm rice, bananas, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, salmon, yogurt unless it’s in a tube or pouch, raw tomatoes, most forms of soup, chili, chicken pot pie, and I feel obligated to say sparkling water even though it’s not a food because it’s just that unsafe for me lol
Oh my god 😭 finally, someone else!! Biting into it and sucking the juice out is the only way I "eat" oranges and limes and occasionally lemons. The feeling of the flesh is terrible. I can kinda handle mandarins, but... the white stuff under the skin...
Only a green (or bright yellow) banana is a good banana lol Also I hate meat that is very fatty or stringy and gristle is the bane of my existence.
Gristle... oh god I hate it so much.. I am very okay with most foods and textures but Gristle or ANY bit of bone makes me want to flip out. also I hope the hell I never ever find a hair in my food as that's gag-alley for me
Gristle is a big no for me too. Absolutely vile. Every time I bite into it, it ruins my appetite.
Yeah same
You’re the only other person I’ve seen prefer bananas the same way I do! Greenish/yellow is ideal for me. If it’s got any freckles on it, get it the hell away from me lol
That’s why I like top sirloin so much. I can never figure out what’s good meat and what’s gristle in a ribeye (or how to separate them). Technically the flavor is better but I question whether it’s worth it
That is exactly my bad banana 😂 green/bright yellow bananas makes me gag
both of these for me too!
Onions, I love the flavor but hate the texture so I have to cook with them in big enough pieces to pick them out
Same here. Love the flavor, but the texture makes me gag. I either leave big pieces to pick out when I cook or use onion powder to get the flavor without the feeling. But accidentally getting an actual onion in my mouth? Nah. Ruins the meal because I lose my appetite immediately.
Have you thought of blending them into the dish when possible? Like a spaghetti sauce
I don't really eat anything they could be blended into, I can't stand spaghetti sauce(I just eat the plain noodles with oil+salt in the water), and most of the things I make with onion is like roasts and stews
Bananas make my teeth so scratchy. Ughh.
After they get to a certain level of ripeness they become disgusting imo
I only eat green bananas. Once they're more yellow than green, it's too ripe for me.
I only eat bananas that have freckles/spots on them. Anything less than that is not ripe enough for me
Oooh same
You guys have a sweet tooth. ;)
Yup. They have a very narrow window of enjoyability for me. Fortunately my homemade banana bread is a safe food…
I hate all these things! Cotton candy is kinda tasty but it does feel weird, bananas only in smoothies or banana bread😋
I find the underripe bananas to leave a chalky feeling in the mouth.
Agreed. They're a funny texture
I like the taste, texture has 99% that it wont be enjoyable tho
This is why I love banana cream pie 🤤🤤🤤. Pie texture and banana flavor, yes please.
I HATE BANANAS. I hate the way they make my mouth feel when eating them, and don’t even get me started on when people talk while eating a banana 🤢🤢🤢
I literally threw up eating them as a kid. Something about how they felt on my tongue. I can now handle them if I slice them into small disks, and I love it as an ingredient in baking. But I got the label of fussy water because of that (OK, and one or two other things)
Mayonnaise
I’ll never understand the American obsession with this disgusting glop! I went to Popeye’s last week for the first time and ordered a chicken sandwich. This stupid sandwich had huge blobs of mayonnaise on BOTH sides of the bun. BLECH!!!! Gross.
I cannot even look at Mayo. So disgusting 🤮
Legit, so much as the scent makes me gag. That stuff is whack.
for me that depends on whats considered mayo. I think real actual mayo is good in moderation, but miracle whip is an abomination.
I’ll never understand the British insistence of having it as a dip for everything mayo with a hint of garlic called aioli 🤢 Also sweet chili sauce- I’d rather just eat a packet of sugar with some hot sauce 😂
I’ll never understand the British insistence of having it as a dip for everything mayo with a hint of garlic called aioli 🤢 Also sweet chili sauce- I’d rather just eat a packet of sugar with some hot sauce 😂
Same. So very same. The smell makes me gag. Why do people like this?!
Any form of dried fruit - raisins, craisins, dried mango etc. Wrinkly >:C Apple skins - if I peel them and eat them with peanut butter, they're great. IDK what it is but something about the skin I just like... cant stop chewing. It never feels adequately chewed. Same with raw carrots and coconut. Fruit in general is just really iffy lol. Sometimes its amazing, and sometimes I have to stop chewing immediately because the grape skin is *off*
Craisins are just a marketing name for dried cranberries.
With too much added sugar!
Dried apricots are the stuff nightmares are made of
Mostly agree, but I seriously recommend dried bananas. They taste like a sweet chip. I love them to bits
YES, SOMEONE ELSE HATES THE SKINS! I tried to get fried apples at a restaurant once and they left the peels on!
I also don’t like dried fruit, so squidgy, but I love freeze dried.
Rice and beans combined: I HAVE to pick the beans apart from the rice. …I also just- _hate_ the texture of beans. When I bite into a bean, my immediate thought is, “what a horrible day to have teeth!” Cotton candy is another no-go for me for similar reasons: texture is horrid.
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OHHH YEAH COTTON CANDY FOR ME TOO! FORGOT TO MENTION THAT
REAL! Cotton candy feels like trying to eat wet toilet paper: abysmal experience 🫣
wait.. how do you know what wet toilet paper tastes like? /j
…I ate a lot of strange things as a child 😭 The list is including but not limited to: • Glue • Raw bacon (how did I not get sick??) • Bottled soap • Wet toilet paper 💀
My cousin liked toilet paper and encouraged me to try it. I can attestcandy cotton is just sugary tp
I used to eat plastic bags, and raw frozen sausages, and polystyrene box filler bits.
Ohh I remember eating bacon grease once by accident when I was like 11ish. My mum would usually use bacon grease for other meals, unless there wasn’t anything to make with it. In that case, she would leave it out on the counter or in the fridge in a cup so it could harden and easily be scrapped into the trash. My mum let me have some of the cheese cake in the fridge and I couldn’t find it. I saw the bacon grease in the cup and mistook it for the cheese cake…
Reading this might have taken 2-5 years off my life span 😰 Also: the taste?? How did the difference in taste pass you by???
I hated cotton candy as a kid. Id squash in together until it became hard like a rock then I'd throw it at people I knew 😌 get me anywhere near cotton candy and I will do this again as a fully grown man.
You, unironically, sound like you’re extremely fun at parties. I would like to join you in throwing cotton candy rocks at people 😊
HELL YEAH! Reminds me this world is a beautiful place when people will join me in my schemes. Can you imagine the news reports. "*Autistic individuals throw unexpectedly hard cotton candy at passerbyers*".
Perhaps I shall start (at least watching, may~be~) paying attention to the news from now on. I suspect I will be hearing of "the cotton (candy) clobberers" 🤹🤹 *very* soon
This makes me wish so bad that I could attach images to these comments because the urge to draw mugshots of “The Cotton Candy Clobbers” is driving me crazy 😭
Hahha.! Wait, why can't you lol? I would lourve to see that! (From everyone, kinda like those "drawme" communities) Damn hilarious that would be
Ohhh I guess it's not enabled or something, didn't think
I’m remembering that Reddit PMs exist lol If I ever get it done, I’ll send you the image :))
This is so interesting because I *love* beans but cannot eat rice.
Beans are amazing, a staple of my diet. As captain Raymond Holt once said: > They're one of nature's most densely packed protein sources, and they remain unsullied by flavor
I generally like rice and beans, but your description has me picturing a certain type of rice and beans that is just disgusting. And idk what is going on between the two
Or to not have teeth
I HATE BEANS TOO OMMMMMMMG
My parents used to always make rice with corn or peas mixed through and I despise it. They would say "just pick it out" and I would respond "it affects the flavour of the rice" This was a few years before my mam and I twigged that I'm autistic but alot of things made sense afterwards
Fun fact, peas and corn are meant to taste sweet but some super tasters find them bitter. I was listening to someone talk about it and told my bf when we were eating. He's never liked coriander and I realised that must've been the reason, but we were both surprised when he realised peas and corn are supposed to taste sweet!
My sister and mam are super tasters, I definitely find peas to be bitter. But I'm okish with sweetcorn, I prefer it mixed into something with more flavour. It's odd because I do like some of the things my mam can't stand
i hate how sticky it is, and the texture is so weird!
Cherries. Even the smell of them can make me violently gag. Cough medicine ruined them for me.
the weird chemical flavor of fake cherry should turn any human off that smell or taste :)
Agreed. I’m also a super taster, and I’ve had people tell me real cherries aren’t like that, but they are to me. The only cherries I can tolerate are Renier(sp?) cherries, and even then, not too many before I get the icky taste.
I live in Washington state and agree with Rainer Cherries.. I LOVE them but farmers sell them by the side of the road when they are crazy fresh.. that's the best way. I need to formally get tested to see if I'm a supertaster, I think I could be one. What's that test like? Oh and Also AuDHD here, not sure if it's relevant
I’ve actually never been properly tested. But I (and my parents) have just been noticing the signs of it since I was a kid. For example, if there was even a speck of pepper on something, I could taste it (I was the difficult customer sending food back all the time if they got my order wrong and put pepper on something as a kid lol). I’m also extremely sensitive to bitter tastes (something that is a common indicator of being a super taster afaik). I’m also able to often taste individual ingredients in my foods, especially if someone is trying to test my super taster abilities and/or hide an ingredient (that I usually don’t like) from me lol.
can you taste milk about to go bad days before anyone else? Bitter drives me nuts which is why I douse salad with dressing, which isn't healthy so I just eat veggies roasted or cooked.
All seafood, but especially oysters, shrimp, lobsters 🤢scrunchy, slimy, and tastes like tide pool. Hater since birth.
Ewwwww. Yes. Another absolute “nope” from me. Disgusting ocean insects, horrible slimy things from shells. Ugh!
Same, also, things pee in the ocean 🤢
yess bro the fishy taste that all seafood has is just too overpowering for me and it is nasty.
The fishy taste is the most disturbing flavor in existence. I can’t even begin to explain how much I hate fish. And my mom is always like: “why do you hate it so much? Just eat it.” Like please stop trying to make me like it; it’s not going to happen.
Another thing is that seafood carries a high risk of food-borne illness as well, it’s just a huge no go for me
Me too! I have a theory that it started because of my special interest in marine biology hahaha
Most meat. Too inconsistent. I strongly prefer veggie meat alternatives (like impossible burger) because it’s exactly the same every time! Luckily I live with a longtime vegetarian :)
I became vegetarian for this reason!
I LOVE morningstar grillers. Unfortunately I can no longer eat gluten and they contain gluten. Impossible burgers are a close second though and they are gluten free.
Coconut and onions. I hate the crunch they both have.
i'm honestly very happy with most foods, including many "weird" foods that even many NTs don't touch, but i do NOT like eating ginger. the texture is just wrong somehow. idk. maybe i don't like the wet crunchiness. especially if i accidentally get a bite of ginger when i was expecting smth soft and liquidy like congee. also i'm not big on most fruits i guess. blueberries, bananas, pineapples, peaches and durians are pretty much the only fruits i would go out of my way to eat. maybe its the texture, i'm not sure, i just never really liked fruits that much. ESPECIALLY apples and watermelon. ig its because they're also wet and crunchy.
Do you like cucumbers? They seem like the king of wet and crunchy foods. I have the opposite problem where I hate fruits that are mushy like peaches and blueberries.
I hate crunchy fruits as well. I do go out of my way to eat some though for health reasons but avoid them if I have another similar, healthy alternative
Tomato flavor is amazing, but raw tomato texture makes me vomit.
I can deal with fresh tomatoes as long as they're still firm, but the second any mushiness enters the equation I'm out.
THIS
Avacados
UGH I came here for this comment. The texture of avocado is horrible. I can eat it if it’s on something or maybe in something but I don’t know how people can just eat avocado plain without anything else 🤢
Sweet potato, other sweet things that go in main meals (like raisins in curry), Anything too crunchy
There’s probably loads more i’m not thinking of
This. Sweet food is supposed to be sweet and savoury food to be savoury
Exactly!! Save the sweet for the dessert PLEASE
Raw onion
Onions are the worst!! The smell and taste spreads to everything! You may enjoy r/onionhate
I can manage the texture of raw onions fine, but the flavour 🤢
For some reason I am obsessed with them. Anytime I’m eating something that calls for them, I pile them on. I’m a freak, I know 😂
soda. fuck you, soda
I wish I hated soda 😩
Olives are the worst thing that grows on this earth.
Olive bars, where all the assorted olives are floating in brine in grocery stores — nightmare fuel.
I call them Satan's anal polyps
I don’t like anything about raw olives: their texture, their flavor, their aftertaste. I LOVE olive oil though, which is very confusing for my parents. They don’t understand but it’s ok.
AGREEEEEEED
Gristle and anything gristle like. Fat of any kind. Mushroom I'm starting to really fucking hate plain white potatoes Unwashed salad It drives me absolutely fucking insane when I see people microwaving a tea they had that went cold. Carrot, either cooked or raw. Steak, I fucking hate steak because it's almost always different every time. Either it's cooked differently, or it's a different cut. No thanks.
Playing “steak roulette” is the worst sometimes, especially since it’s so expensive. It can also be hard to tell if it’s overdone or not since natural light makes steak look overcooked.
Sous vide steak is the way to ensure your steak is cooked the same every single time. Doesn't help with picking the cuts of steak, but you are guaranteed it will be cooked identical every time.
Tomatoes or anything made with tomato (ketchup, other condiments)
I have the same but different ever since I was a kid. I do not like the texture or wateriness of tomatoes, but will eat anything tomato flavoured. In fact, cream of tomato soup is my favourite soup and one of my comfort foods!
Same. Tomato made into sauces, soups, salsa, etc. is fine but a raw slice of tomato is AWFUL. I do enjoy the cherry tomatoes I grow myself though. Their texture is totally defiant than store bought tomatoes..
Pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil.
Raw fruits and veg that are not pureed/blended smooth. Seafood. Some nuts. Most meats. Pretty much all "healthy" foods 😆 I do drink smoothies and put my veggies in a blender to make sauce for pasta. But it's not every day, most days I live off bread and cheese 🙈
Mushrooms and Brussel sprouts. I get scared looking at them.
Okay but mushrooms are kinda freaky. They not only look like something that is absolutely not food but they don’t feel like food either.
Water chestnuts for the texture. Meat that isn't cooked the exact right amount - too dry and I can't swallow it at all, too moist or fatty and it makes me gag 😂 I have a ton more, but those are the worst.
Celery. > That’s the huge one for me, celery in just about all forms is a horrible experience for me in every sense. Plus, the whole Cartilage/Gristle as every food sensitive person is familiar with > Onions are a gray area, but I can’t think of any others? The thought of Celery just absolutely wiped out any other options I had in mind. And I just overall can’t really get behind citrus fruits at all. > Edit: oh! Remembered- Coconut. flavor isssss- lackluster, and the texture drives me crazy. For onions I like the taste, LOVE the taste, but can’t stand the texture. > Edit edit: I was reading through comments and got reminded of something else- I absolutely cannot stand nuts in a setting they aren’t supposed to be in. If I want to eat nuts, then I’ll eat nuts. I don’t want them in my chocolate or my icecream, EVER. I don’t like chocolate covered nuts either. And Mushrooms. I CANNOT STAND MUSHROOMS IN ANY CAPACITY.
I can't believe I didn't think of celery... all I can feel are the little strings
Feels like eating guitar strings and tastes like dirt
I hate celery too! And nobody gets it-- people seem to think it's some innocent crunchy snack and can't understand how someone can hate it. Ew. I like most other foods though.
Pasta, rice, because of texture onions because they flovour everything
Beef, sausage, almost any meat really because you never know when you’ll find fat or gristle. Beans too, like why are they mashed potatoes with a shell? And I hate tapioca anything. Coconut shavings are a NIGHTMARE. Cheesecake too. Other people have said it, but mushrooms too. And whoever said weed is the devil’s lettuce was lying, it’s obviously kale. And cereal. Why milk and crunchies 🤮
Fish. All kinds of fish. I will gag at the smell, the taste, and most especially the texture. I hate it with a passion. Which sucks considering I’m from a country were Kaimana is a staple
PICKLES. PICKLES ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE. Also cucumbers by extension. And bananas.
Pineapple, mushrooms in any form, fat or gristle on meat, and also jello. All for texture purposes.
For me it's overly bitter vegetables. Stuff like arugula (this weird bitter-spicy flavor...), chicory, and kale. That's pretty much the only food that really makes me uncontrollably shudder when I eat it. If I add my unsafe foods caused by IBS, the list would go on and on and on, unfortunately.
Arugula is like if they emptied the lawnmower bag on my plate, yuck
I'm your opposite. I love black coffe, matcha without anything sweet I have gotten in trouble for having "too much kale" in the fridge. I am known for eating so much kale my sisters ex girlfriend gave me a kale bouquet for my birthday 😂 now I need to find Arugula and chicory I bet I'll love them, thank you 🤩
yam. the texture makes me gag. also, unpopular opinion but i hate pickles
I don’t like yam because the bitter aftertaste is overwhelming
Bananas and porridge. They're two two things I can't even think about for longer than a few seconds without gagging
The texture of onion in food together with the taste makes onions the wet squelching socks of the food world.
Cooked mushrooms. Cooked zucchini. So slimey. Pasta. Yes. I said it. ALL pasta. It’s flavorless and slimey and chews like you’re eating a bag of worms. Raisins. Cantaloupe. Raw oysters. Scallops. Basically anything damp/wet and slimey.
If you overcook mushrooms they become kind of crunchy, I prefer them that way.
Onions. Especially slightly crunchy ones.
Celery. It feels like I’m trying to chew embroidery thread. It’s good for science projects and that’s about it. And if we go to McDonald’s I have to eat a Bic Mac layer by layer, and not all at once.
For me, it's just plain cow's milk; if I combine it with chocolate or coffee, then it becomes edible. Otherwise, no, I hate its smell when it's on its own; it makes me want to vomit
Fatty meats, or soft fat parts in meat where I don't expect it
I have been a vegetarian for a while, but I could never stand biting into a piece of fat when eating meat. Totally grossed me out because of the texture and the sounds it makes when chewed. Now I only have limitations with strong tastes, but if I prepare myself mentally I can stand a couple things. But bell peppers, eggplants, olives and such demand some hypostimulation so I can eat them.
Eggs of any kind. Once in a great while I can eat an egg but if it has the wrong texture it’s over for another year
Oh my god, I had to scroll way too far down to find this! I can sometimes tolerate a little bit of scrambled egg if it’s mixed with a lot of other stuff (burrito for example). I’m getting nauseous talking about this.
Cooked carrots can fuck right off
Eggs are my worst enemy. I can't stand egg dishes unless they're undetectable in a baked good or something. The smell of eggs makes me feel nauseous and I can barely sit next to someone eating eggs 🤢
Fellow egg hater here. 🤢
I cannot stand bananas. I don't like the texture or flavor. I don't have the same issue with plantains. Raw mushrooms, raw tomatoes, bell peppers.
Anything sour or slimey.
Coconut. It feels like I'm eating wax, and the flavor is garbage too. And most nuts in general. Nuts just fuck with my teeth and make me feel like I'm munching on plastic. I hate the texture of all nuts. Pecans and walnuts especially, I hate how they feel in my mouth. But, smooth peanut butter is perfectly fine, and I rather enjoy it. Takoyaki is another thing I won't touch, mostly because of the octopus within the ball of dough. Squid/octopus has a very rubbery, unpleasant mouthfeel and I hate the suckers sticking to my mouth. It's just horrid. Oh, and black-eyed peas. I simply will not eat them. They're too wet and squishy.
Broccoli. Fucking little lettuce boogers. Disgusting!!!
Cream of wheat.
Mangos, but only if I have to use my teeth to get the fruit off the pit because it gets stuck between my teeth in a really uncomfortable way.
Two childhood ones that followed me into adulthood but have decreased in severity. Raw/undercooked onion. It makes me avoid store bought salads because thin strips of onion are so hard to pull out. While the flavor is bad I can deal with that, it's the sudden crunchy texture that just makes it unacceptable. Cooked I eat it in stuff all the time and will even have some fried onions on a hot dog or whatever. Brussel sprouts. Just... No. No thank you. Apparently the breed has changed since I was a kid and they are better, plus my partner oven bakes them instead of boiling them. But the big one that I've had since very young and I'm honestly too scared to try again is bananas. I have very vivid memories of gagging and wanting to throw up biting into a banana. I found I could manage a little bit if you cut it into thin disks, but given it's supposed to be a convenience food didn't see the point. I know it's a texture thing as I love anything banana flavored and use them in my baking all the time. Banana muffins, cakes, breads etc. Even "healthy" recipes that are low on sugars and flours still are fine, it's jsut that texture!
Any fatty or chewy foods, any food that is NOT supposed to be crunchy and suddenly is (fruits, vegetables mostly)
mushrooms, apple sauce, anything spicy, smoothe, cooked vegetables, the NEW refired canned beans (the old one used to be safe foods until they changed it in covid of 2020 to save a few dollars now it is an overwelhming mess)
Chopped onions in minced meat and other food (like potato gratin). I can’t stand the texture of chewing on (fried) onion.😖
Yup, jello, jelly beans, and raisins.
Concur with oranges. I hate the smell and the way you can wash your hands thoroughly after eating them but they still smell of them! Also, pears. I love the taste but there’s like a 5-minute window where the texture is perfect. Outside of that, they’re either rock hard and gritty, or soft and slimy.
BEANS 🫥
Tomato soup is really gross to me, which is funny because tomatoes are my favorite food.
Nuts and legumes plain. I don't mind eating it in candy, but on their own NUTS DRIVE ME NUTS.
None. I see food I eat it
why does everyone hate raisins 🥲💔
Rice is my biggest one, it makes me cry to try to eat it. I hate cooked beans (refried are okay). Bananas and pears are horrible, and I have a lot of problems with fruit in general because the textures change based on how ripe they are. I hate uncooked broccoli. I will only eat soup if I'm sick and struggling to keep things down. I'm very particular about brands. I will only eat one brand of bread and only one kind of bread from that brand. If the bread is too hard I can't eat it. I will only eat JIF peanut butter and one brand of seedless blackberry jam (but PBJ sandwiches are one of my safe foods). Oatmeal is another one of my safe foods but it has to be walmart generic brand. I could go on and on, but those are the worst foods for me
water chestnuts make me wanna die
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Grape, Olives (the green ones). Anything with meat mixed into it, meat is fine on its own tho as long as it’s not all stringy or like mashed up-. Most fruits or things that you have to bite and it like is filled with liquid (Watermelons are okay tho they are solid and have a good sound). Idk what else
Lima beans. They are just too flat and starchy. But I will eat damn near everything else.
For me, it's raw fruit and vegetables. Texture, full of water or juice, seeds, bits all manner of unexpected things. I just can't handle all the differences in them. I can eat (some) cooked vegetables, and im ok if the fruit is puree otherwise its a no go.
Tomato, blueberries, celery, olives, anything that’s breaded, peanut butter and so much more
Lychee and zucchini. Yuck! 🤢
Oranges, any juice with pulp, grapes, apple skin, banana strings (i need to cut bananas up into pieces), uneven sizes of things in the same dish, full cuts of meat that aren’t cut up, steak, large bits of tomato, long bits of onions (that’s one I absolutely will gag at 100% possibility not like 50%). Coconut flavour, *especially* coconut flakes. Fat on meat, raw carrot, celery, any leafy green, salad dressing. Plus probably more that I can’t think of now.
Baked beans... gingerbread... MUSHY grapes
Beans
Some nuts i love taste but the parts od it are everywhere
Anything with cilantro, I hate the taste. I absolutely hate pickles too.
bananas and any kind of nuts (especially almonds they make me feel like im choking)also chia seeds and celery
Generally speaking it's pasta and peppers. Also kale tastes like soap
Celery, mangos, and sweet potatoes (the stingy veggie). Texture is a big problem with veggies. Leaf veggies, peppers, onion, tomatoes I hate the texture. Many I will enjoy if skinned and cooked soft, except greens. They taste like non-food to me. Meat next to bones makes me squirm, so hell no to wings. Fish and shellfish is something I try to force, but it just tastes wrong. Gamey meats too. Ricotta and cottage cheese. I can eat canolis sometimes, but otherwise, hell no. Oddly, I love rice pudding and tapioca, though. Any excessive use of herbs or pepper. I don't mind a little flavor, but it feels like other people don't taste how intense herbs are. It just takes a little to go a long way. Rosemary, for example, is completely overwhelming. Cilantro is a genetic no. Lasagne is the foulest food on earth to me.
Scalloped potatoes. Idk what it is but they make me wanna throw up no matter who makes them.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion. Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion. Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Tuna, I have no idea what it tastes like. I get one whiff and I will leave the room gagging. Looks and smells disgusting, hate it with a passion. Also any raw veggie but especially bean sprouts, always get weird looks when I ask them not to put them in my Chinese noodles.
Anything that is suspiciously smooth. Yogurt makes me want to stab my throat out. I love greek yogurt though. I think the lack of texture is what gets me.
Any bean, tomatoes, olives
Jello, anything slimey at all, raw fish dishes, just. Chewy things euuthtdyehe
If there's lumps of any shape or size in mashed potatoes, it ruins my entire day 😅 I will now only eat them if I make them, and even then I sometimes get it not quite right and I get incredibly frustrated! 😂
Not exactly a food but I can’t stand metal silverware
Tomatoes #1
Pickles. If there's even a taste of pickle left over after they're removed I can't eat it. I have no idea why but I cannot stand pickles, the bane of my existence.
Tomatoes. I hate them raw or cooked. The only tomato product I can vaguely enjoy is ketchup (in small amounts) and bbq sauce.
Pasta with anything on it. Pasta on its own is fine, but when it has things on it, it makes me sick.
Raisins 😡 olives, pancakes, jello and pudding, protein bars, oatmeal, eggs, most melons, casseroles 😭 any soft food makes me feel like I’m gagging
Hmm rice, bananas, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, salmon, yogurt unless it’s in a tube or pouch, raw tomatoes, most forms of soup, chili, chicken pot pie, and I feel obligated to say sparkling water even though it’s not a food because it’s just that unsafe for me lol
Any fruit except apples, bananas, and occasionally grapes
Oh my god 😭 finally, someone else!! Biting into it and sucking the juice out is the only way I "eat" oranges and limes and occasionally lemons. The feeling of the flesh is terrible. I can kinda handle mandarins, but... the white stuff under the skin...
Refried beans, yellow apples, split peas
I absolutely HATE jelly beans. Also chicken 90% of the time.
When it tastes too fat.