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Sausage and/or onions on pizza. This is a bit weird, but I only like sausage and/or onions on pizza if they have a bunch of other toppings (like a supreme or a veggie lovers'). By themselves they're utterly disgusting.

Green apples. It's not that I don't like sour food or even sweet and sour food, it just rubs me the wrong way. Of course like the sausage and onions it depends on how it's prepared. I had a green apple cobbler once that was delicious, but for the most part...

Iceberg lettuce. I hate this crap so much. Unlike the above items where they can be made to be good if prepared in a certain way, I have never had any culinary experience enhanced by iceberg lettuce. Romaine or arugula lettuce or spinach is just fine, but iceberg lettuce, yuck.

I don't eat seafood. Like, at all.

-Username17

Okra. It feels like eating octopus tentacles filled with snot.

Tofu. Just... tofu.

Rare red meat. If I wanted to drink blood I'd become a fucking vampire. The fact that very few people seem capably of thoroughly cooking meat without transforming it into adamantium may have something to do with rare meat's popularity.

Ketchup on eggs. I never did understand this. For that matter, using ketchup as some kind of miracle condiment that goes with everything. That's called bacon.

Datawolf wrote:
Rare red meat. If I wanted to drink blood I'd become a fucking vampire. The fact that very few people seem capably of thoroughly cooking meat without transforming it into adamantium may have something to do with rare meat's popularity.

This. I have learned to slow-cook hamburgers just so I can get a blood-free burger that isn't a brick.

Pizza Hotdog or Pizza Currywurst . . BLECH! x.x

The shape of tomatoes inexplicably changes their flavor. Anything larger than a crude chop is unacceptable. Whole Cherry and plum are right out.

Potato chips are an obscenity.

Potato Chips? Wat.

I can't stand to eat Salmon. I hate the taste.

Or eggs. Loved them as a kid but now they make me feel ill, usually.

Raw tomatoes. They make me sick. Just a single seed is enough.

I'll eat anything that I'm not allergic to; assuming that it is cooked or prepared correctly. Mind you I haven't had yet the really bizzare things, but by definition if I haven't had them, I cannot say I don't like them.

My father was strict; he insisted that I had to taste everything, even if I only tasted it a month ago. "Your taste buds can change when you are young," he insisted. The result; I spontaneously ordered Frogs Legs from a memu when I was like about 8 or 9.

The smell and taste of both ketchup and mustard is enough to make me nauseous.

I will only eat raw seafood.

FrankTrollman wrote:I don't eat seafood. Like, at all.

-Username17

This.

With the exception of certain crustaceans which have little taste to begin with.

I hate celery unless it's been chopped up and has been simmering in a soup for hours.

I don't know if this one counts because I don't know if I'd like it otherwise but I currently can't stand even being around large amounts of alcohol because I have the most severe lack-of-alcohol-metabolizing-enzyme problem that any doctor I've seen or spoken with has ever heard of.

The less processed that onions are, the more likely I am to throw them back up.

Onion powder? I use it in red meat.

Onion Rings? If they're fried nice and soft, good eating!

Onions on pizza: Blech, I have to pick off something that's the same color as the cheese

Raw onions: I vomit a little just thinking about it.

There's also an issue with soy, rapeseed, and MSG that I have, but I don't think that counts...

I can't do sea food either. Any of it.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Sausage and/or onions on pizza. This is a bit weird, but I only like sausage and/or onions on pizza if they have a bunch of other toppings (like a supreme or a veggie lovers'). By themselves they're utterly disgusting.

That's kind of funny, actually, I just had a pizza last night with pepperoni, green onions, sausage and onions.


I don't understand the appeal of most of the soups we serve at Panera, especially broccoli cheddar. The smell alone of that is sickening, but that's true to me for any broccoli soup.

peanut butter and jelly.. freaking horridbad.
Root Beer, Dr Pepper, Mr Pibb, Birch Beer.

Onions: The more cooked they are, the more I want to vomit.

Potatoes: Mashed. I will eat them to be polite, but why bother? Hashbrowns are way better.

Beef/Lamb: Cooked. Rare, they're especially tasty in a salad with balsamic dressing. Guess that makes me an Italian vampire. Angst.

Mold: My sensitivity to bleu has increased as I've gotten older. I don't mind much; it's always tasted disgusting to me.

Scrambled eggs: I can handle them in something like a quiche or [cheater] soufflé, but other than that, over easy, please.

Overcooked vegetables: This, I believe, is the leading cause of people not liking veggies. I totally get it.

Apples: Most varieties of apple are solid water. If they're mushy, then it's solid water with a bad consistency.

Iceberg lettuce: Worthless vegetable. There is nothing redeeming about this stuff at all.

Milk chocolate: There are some very rare kinds that are OK, but most of the time, it tastes too much like sugar and not enough like chocolate.

Hazelnuts: If it's roasted and salted like you'd find in a pile of mixed nuts, totally cool. If it's anything else, get thee behind me, Satan!

Durian: All the allure of decaying meat combined with the texture of soggy bread pudding! Awesome!

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I'm pleased to report that my severe aversion to toasted sesame (it used to make me vomit) has been overcome, enhancing my Asian cuisine consuming abilities.

Although I love salsa, tomato sauces, and tomato soup, I cannot stand raw tomato. I think it's the juice.

I'm also not a fan of eggs unless they're scrambled, and even then I cover them in ketchup.

Datawolf wrote:Okra. It feels like eating octopus tentacles filled with snot.

Very few people like Okra. It's surprising.

I dislike prawns, mussels and oysters. For some reason the texture of prawns makes me think of biting into a dick, and I just cannot hack it.

Fuck knows why. Paging Dr. Freud?

cthulhu wrote:

Datawolf wrote:Okra. It feels like eating octopus tentacles filled with snot.

Very few people like Okra. It's surprising.

Depends on how it's done. I can have it in gumbo, and I've also had fried okra.

Better than you'd think.

I don't really get people's obsession with fried bullshit. I literally get a little nauseous walking into a KFC with their selection of fried goods and the way grease-stink gets caught in your clothes.

I love meat, but grease is just ghetto calories.

I hate mushrooms, even though most of my family loves them. My dad can trace my hatred for them back to when I was four and heard an older cousin complain about them. He says I used to love them.

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Maj wrote:Durian: All the allure of decaying meat combined with the texture of soggy bread pudding! Awesome!

From everything I've heard about this, people either love them or hate them, with no middle ground.

cthulhu wrote: I dislike prawns, mussels and oysters. For some reason the texture of prawns makes me think of biting into a dick, and I just cannot hack it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJSINPuOBU

My rule of thumb is nothing with more than four legs and if it's an organ it had better be a muscle (I'm actually okay with tongue, heart, etc. as long as it's prepared right). I'm fine with fish so long as it's COOKED but shell fish and shrimp are overpriced bugs and oysters have the consistency of snot.

I have a pretty bad allergy to mushrooms and fungus and days of intense vomiting post-mushroom consumption as a child turned me off of them for good.

While I like alcohol I've yet to find a beer that doesn't taste like rotten bread in my mouth.

Maj wrote: Overcooked vegetables: This, I believe, is the leading cause of people not liking veggies. I totally get it.

There's also some science behind it. Overcooking vegetables breaks the cellulose down to a point where the actual good tasting bits are evaporated and you're left with fibrous goop.