What kind of foods do you absolutely refuse to eat?

[Amy10223]

Here go mine. I know I am picky with some things, but it's because of just the thought of it. I probably would like the taste if I tried them. 1) any kind of organ meat, such as brains. No way. I used to eat liver but not anymore for health reasons. 2) frog legs or snake meat 3) shark 4) very greasy, fried foods -they don't agree with my stomach. 5) chicken feet. 6) any type of crunchy insect, like locusts or ants.

All else I will give a try What about you?

[jamesgoldman]

Feet/tongues/heart

Liver, I like pate so know it's a texture thing

Mussels, worked with them in the restaurant and they smell like a blocked drain

Raw tomato

Avocado

Cavier

Tinned tuna

Baked beans

Snails, did try them but too chewy... garlic butter gum about sums it up

[Amy10223]

For some reason, your answers made me laugh. The mussels and snails, haha. Mussels can smell bad if they're old (any food does but those can turn bad easily if not stored properly or eaten right away). Why is a=vocado showing up so often? I think it's delicious.

[jamesgoldman]

These were live, filtering, guess even twice a day wasn't enough changes to the bucket, avocado is texture related kinda waxy if I recall

[Amy10223]

I've eaten avocado since I was small. To me it has a smooth texture, almost like a creamy cheese. I tried pate in Spain once (goose) and I couldn't swallow it. That was almost spongy to me.

[mstbooblover]

Although some of the foods I will mention may sometimes be healthy, I still refuse for varying reasons to eat brains, incects, Brussel's sprouts, little grey shrimps, pig's or chicken's feet and frog's legs.

[Amy10223]

I used to eat pigs feet as a kid. My mother made them in a tomato stew with chickpeas and potatoes. They were actually good but had little ham on them. Do you eat pinkish shrimp? What's wrong with Brussel sprouts?

[mstbooblover]

Pig's feet are far to fat, difficult to eat, with nearly no meat. Shrimps get pink once cooked. Maybe I didn't use the right word. I really mean little shrimps ("grey" or "rose"), because I like very much all other variants of more or less big shrimps like gambas, crab, lobster, etc. Brussel's sprouts... I eat nearly every kind of cabbage, but I can't stand the smell of Brussel's sprouts. Can't help it. Mind I would probably survive eating them ;0)

[Amy10223]

I see! Yes pigs feet have lots of this glutinous stuff and hardly any meat. But they made a great broth with the chick peas and seasonings my mom used to use.

[mstbooblover]

Not a bad idea to make the basis of a good soup with pigs feet, because of the fat.

[Amy10223]

Right! Any fat is good a broth base, even the left over gelatin from roasting a chicken or turkey.

[DizzyDesii]

Pickles, lettuce/salad, milk, mayo, chiterlins, peanut butter, green beans, broccoli, tuna, pig/chicken tongue/feet, snake, guacamole, snails, cavier, avocado, mangos, dark chocolate, nuts, cantaloupe, salt/vinegar chips, etc

[Amy10223]

That's quite a list! I have all on that list but chiterlins (chitlins?) the pig /chicken tongue/feet and snake.

[DizzyDesii]

Lol i thought it was chitlins but someone said its chiterlins so i started spelling it that way 🤣 I just started eating pork chops about 2 years ago and already quit those too

[Amy10223]

I thought so (chitlins)! I used to have prok chops as a kid, my mother made them so tasty in a tomato like sauce with potatoes and peas. But these days I avoid that meat because it has been giving me a stomachache.

[DizzyDesii]

Yea pork gives me a headache so i try to avoid it

[purplepoppy]

Squid. I know people praise it but all I see is fishing bait.

[Amy10223]

I like this as in fried calamari. It’s not fishy tasting at all. I used to make it long ago.

[MarquisdeSade]

Dog. To me eating a dog is next to cannibalism. Some bizarre foods that I've eaten: 1) a fish eyeball (Hana Zushi in Richmond); lamb's brain (The Depot Restaurant in Warrenton) but I spat it out & Ali laughed at me as he scooped out more brains from the lamb's head he had boiled all day, smearing it on pita & eating it; frogs' legs & shad row (The Depot) & nato (Hana Zushi). Nato is sometimes called "sticky beans" but some call it "stinky beans". Its odor is redolent of garbage juice; it's an acquired taste.

Fushimi-san, my boss at Hana Zushi, baked some smelts for us all wrapped in tin foil. This old Japanese woman sat next to me as I tried to separate the meat from the intestines with a chopstick. I looked at her plate & all I see is a head, spine & a tail with a pile of small bones. I asked her, "What did you do with a the fish guts"? She replied, "Oh! I ate them"?

[Amy10223]

I’ve never known dog was eaten in some countries.
You have a French name and work in a Japanese restaurant?

[Amy10223]

Also, smelts are so small! How do you remove intestines from them?

[Echosoul]

'Meat' is so gross 🤢

[Amy10223]

PS--I have been wanting to try natto. Nijonjin desu ka?

[MarquisdeSade]

Watashi wa Nihongo o benkyoo shimasuu. I use to study Japanese. Hagimemeshita. The name Marquis de Sade is the famous sadist in which the words "sadistic, sadist & BD/SM" come from & is just a joke. I don't enjoy inflicting pain on others. I get no pleasure from that but used it because I'm more of a Libertine

[Amy10223]

Watashi wa Amy desu. Watashi wa ima nihongo o benkyō shite imasu. Hajimimashite. Douzo yorushko. I'm sure the last word is mispelled.

[NamerOfStars]

"Absolutely refuse" is a much firmer line than you seem to think- morals, if you have them, will hold even in the face of starvation; simple physical disgust will not.

When you wake up to find a cockroach chomping on your hand, and your response is to snarf it down and devour it before it can escape, well, your life feels like it's pretty much reached its nadir, but calories are calories.

[Amy10223]

If you say so. Thankfully I’ve not reached that point in my life, and pray I never do.

[NamerOfStars]

As do I. Believe me, it's not in any way an insult to tell someone they've never known desperate poverty. I fully intend to never go back.

[Echosoul]

Pretty sure do this or die scenarios are pretty uncommon.

[NamerOfStars]

@Echosoul In the immediate term? Yes. But when you're broke, and have no income or prospect of getting any, they have a way of creeping up on you. "Do this or die" doesn't always mean "do this or die RIGHT NOW".

[Amy10223]

@NamerOfStars, I diidnt take it as an insult or though you intended to insult anyone else. But I'm sure it does/has happened to many people we don't know.

[Echosoul]

vegetarian food can be very cheap

[Amy10223]

@Echosoul I find it to be more expensive. Look at the Beyond meat prices, and veggie mayo, butter, etc. Some like tofu, is cheaper.

[Catarine]

Quite a lot of foods, many of which were written already. Anything exotic (not talking about chinese or mexican food, but any organ meats (like tongues, hearts, ...), feet, caviar, calamari tenticles (i eat the circle parts tho), ...), some vegetables like brussel sprouts or eggplants (I refuse to eat raw vegetables, they need to be cooked), also raw cheese (it needs to be heated or at least melted at least once before), I will never try salads (the vinegar stinks and it gave a hatred of salads, wouldn't even try it with lemon instead, I don't even wanna eat fruit salads if they are called that instead of fruit bowls or sth similar)

[LiamJHayden]

Any non-free range meats. It is worth the extra money to me.

Seafood. I know, odd for someone who lives at the Pacific, but I have also seen the contaminants in the water. Fresh water if I catch it myself is fine.

Mangos. Brussel sprouts. Just hate the taste.

[Amy10223]

I didn’t like the smell of cooking shrimp as a child. Mangos…so sweet?

[melanieeeB]

I don't like eggs, I can't eat them or I will puke... but I got used to their smell so others can eat it infront of me but not me lol
I don't mind eggs in like baked stuff but like scrambled egg, or cooked or whatever else nopee

[Amy10223]

You're aboht the 3rd person who says eggs smell. I dont think they have a particular smell to them excpet when cooked. I had fried eggs for dinner the other night!

[melanieeeB]

Haha I guess if someone likes eggs, they don't really smell it lol

[CateM]

Raw tomatoes, halibut, and cod. In general I love seafood and can't get enough of it, but in general, I don't love most flavorless white fish except for tilapia, catfish, grouper, or snapper. I prefer salmon, tuna, or mahi mahi

[Amy10223]

Of the fish you mentioned, I like cod but the dried kind, that you rehydrate and remove the salt it's been preserved in, and that I cook until tender and add olive oil, onions, and root vegetables. You separate the cod into pieces. I alos like cod as in fish and chips. I don't like catfish or mahi mahi but will have the rest you mentioned.

[CateM]

I prefer fish with more flavor with some exceptions

[Amy10223]

It’s broiled salmon or grouper for me. I like trout too but that’s from freshwater.

[CateM]

Tilapia and catfish are freshwater too

[Amy10223]

I like tilapia, but not catfish.

[weysally]

depending where I am, if in the Orient, I will not eat meat, from say a cheaper café, otherwise, I try most things,

[Amy10223]

Smart thing to do!

[Amy10223]

Sally, where in the "Orient" have you been? You mean Asia or Euro-Asia?

[weysally]

places like Singapore, Malaysia Indonesia

[Amy10223]

Wow, those are on my bucket list, especially the first two. My niece was in Indonesia, Borneo, and one more country for her honeymoon.

[weysally]

Singapore is a lovely place, but here is the but, you can get pestered by taxi drivers, the word no doesn't seem to mean no

[SnowedIn]

All of yours, although I haven't had shark.

Not a refuse, but I really dislike it is fish. Unless, of course, it is battered and deepfried.

[Amy10223]

I’ve seen it and a guy I knew had some, I could not.

[SnowedIn]

I would struggle to eat from an animal that beautiful.

[Amy10223]

Agreed.

[CrimsonAngel09]

1. Beets.

2. Cooked red, green, and yellow peppers, yellow squash, zuccini.

3. Blutwurst.

4. Pig's feet.

[Amy10223]

What is blutwurst? Someone else mentjoned that on here.

[CrimsonAngel09]

That was me, you replied to me before :). Blood sausage from Germany. What throws me off about it are the white parts. I've tried black pudding, I like that though lol.

[Amy10223]

the white parts are the fat, I think. I guess" blut" means blood in German. In Spain and in Puerto they have the same but it's called "morcilla" (mor cee yah).

[FreyaRed]

Fried herrings. I like herrings in shape of rollmops or pickled fillets but once I smell herrings being fried I could vomit.

[Amy10223]

Never tried herring. In Amstersam they have the raw herring you eat on sticks. I wasn't brave enough to try that.

[LavLavLuv]

Aaaccckkkk!

🐛🐛🦗🦗

[Amy10223]

Are those worms? Yuk!

[LavLavLuv]

Yes, and crickets!

[Amy10223]

Aggghhh…

[exitseven]

Moosh food. Food that is buried in some weird sauce that is probably there so you can't taste what it is you are really eating. I call it moosh food.

[alcorriher]

apples, bananas & oranges. feel free to hate, block & squish me, but the textures r off for , e

[Amy10223]

That’s interesting! I’d never block a person for their tastes in food!

[alcorriher]

😊 if been blocked for some of my comments 😂

[alcorriher]

also, some textures bother my teeth (as in leaves a sticky film on top of them)

[Amy10223]

I know that bananas do that with me.

[Echosoul]

I'm vegetarian so meat, fish, products like gelatine. When I discover I've slipped up on this I feel repulsed.

[Amy10223]

What made you vegetarian? My daughter won't have geletin either or marshmallows, which they contain.

[Echosoul]

I was brought up vegetarian but my main reason is ethical.

[Amy10223]

That's how my youngest feels. The other just can't resist sushi.

[BJP21]

For me its the texture of a tomato or an avocado. I can't bring myself to eat it even if its guacamole. Yet I can eat chunky salsa like pico de Gallo and spaghetti sauce on pasta.

[Kingofkings1992]

Tofu. I will not touch it for any amount of money 🤮

[Amy10223]

I make that all the time. 😄

[AviatorTom]

I'm not picky at all... I will eat just about anything, and I have. The only thing I won't eat is a fish that's looking at me.

[Amy10223]

You're brave, Tom. I have made fish head soup, learned it from my Mom.

[cheetocandle]

Lima beans, cottage cheese, grits and tuna. Pizza rolls and pop are my go to food.