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51 Comments:
Brussel sprouts...I know they're good for me...I just can't get past the nasty taste. :-(
mepolo at 4:54PM on 06/08/07
I hated raw tomatoes until very recently but now they're acceptable to me if they're involved in a sandwich or burger of some kind. Covered in cheese, preferably.
I disliked brussel sprouts until I had them at Ssam Bar, fried with fish sauce, garlic and mint.
I'm still working on mushrooms. Rubbery, weird, fungus, gross!
kathryn at 5:01PM on 06/08/07
Fried Chicken...I really wish I liked it...it sounds so good...but every time I eat it it doesn't taste like I wish it would
KateRuby at 5:05PM on 06/08/07
Fried Chicken...I really wish I liked it...it sounds so good...but every time I eat it it doesn't taste like I wish it would
KateRuby at 5:05PM on 06/08/07
Olives
ceforrester at 5:41PM on 06/08/07
I've never liked lobster. To me, it's just an expensive way to eat butter. I'll have just about any other seafood though, including oysters at their natural temperature.
LunaPierCook at 5:49PM on 06/08/07
If...if I say foie gras am I going to get strung up? I've only had a slice of torchon, and it was even at a reputable place, but yeah...nope. No dice.
I can understand the appeal (I think), but not really my thing.
corycm at 6:08PM on 06/08/07
Beets. Still looking forward to the day when I eat one I like.
Alaina Browne at 6:13PM on 06/08/07
Grapefruit.
GregWA at 6:19PM on 06/08/07
Pineapple
JEP at 6:23PM on 06/08/07
About the only food I won't eat is calves liver, but I'm not really very upset at all about it.
DaveFaris at 6:25PM on 06/08/07
condiments - it's very difficult going through life always having to tell your friends you don't eat mayo or ketchup or yellow mustard.
rbryants at 6:46PM on 06/08/07
Truffle oil, blue cheese, foie gras, crab, lobster, asparagus, sushi.
Erinay77 at 7:03PM on 06/08/07
For me, it is cilantro, vanilla and cinnamon. It's everywhere...
Aurore at 8:37PM on 06/08/07
I really really really wish I liked crab cakes...I always try a taste and always gag a little.
hammondcheese at 8:44PM on 06/08/07
okra!
ailleacht.firinne at 10:34PM on 06/08/07
Raw zucchini. The idea of Patricia Wells' zucchini carpaccio in Mark Bittman's column this week just made me gag. And yet zucchini is so prevalent as a summer vegetable.
emily20008 at 11:23PM on 06/08/07
Tomatoes! They are on everything and they are great for you. I am so sick of ordering everything with no tomato, but they make me gag. Luckily my boyfriend hates them just as much so it makes life a little easier.
newfoodie at 11:51PM on 06/08/07
Olives - I know so many people who are wild about them. I keep trying, and so far have only found one I like -- from Barbes on 36th -- a black oily ones that garnish everything.
Cilantro - my one true food foe -- I wish it didn't taste like soap to me.
Soy products -- I could use more of the low carb high quality non-meat protein in my diet. Just can't get the taste for it. Shiritake in particular I wish I could like.
FKC at 11:57PM on 06/08/07
Fish...I hate it. I try all kinds, so don't respond by telling me to try certain kinds. I want to like it for all the omega-3 goodness but alas I just cannot stomach anything that comes out of the water.
Lauren at 12:17AM on 06/09/07
caviar, asparagus, cooked fruit, cilantro, munster cheese, oregano on chicken (this makes me insane), soft boiled or over easy eggs (EEEK),
kielbasa(I am shaking) most sushi ( I will eat some of it most of it is just not my bag)
JerzeeTomato at 1:06AM on 06/09/07
Sushi.
K at 1:30AM on 06/09/07
Cilantro and sushi . . . can't stand them, but wish I could acquire a taste as they are so popular with some folks.
DocChuck at 7:26AM on 06/09/07
Green Cabbage! that stuff urks me! hate it so much and i LOVE almost every vegetable except that! EW!
btw I LOVE Brussel Sprouts!
Dreamzoxo at 9:11AM on 06/09/07
Paella. I should like this, since I love seafood, rice, and the rest of it, but I've always been disappointed. And I tried it in Spain, too. Still didn't care for it. Also lamb. Something about lamb makes me queasy, though I once had an excellent lamb steak at the River Cafe. And I can get eat lambchops, usually. I can admire a nice lamb roast from afar, but I don't enjoy it up close.
GorillaBob at 10:04AM on 06/09/07
This is great.....I like almost everything listed above! I learned at an early age that an acquired taste is a real bonus. For example, I wouldn't eat onions as a child, but now I can't imagine NOT liking them! One thing, though, that I've tried and tried, but still can't like are mangoes. I have a mango tree in my yard that gives me a couple hundred mangoes a season, but I just don't like them. On the other hand, my girlfriend adores them, but is allergic to them, so I have to slice and peel them for her. She'll eat some until she starts to break out, then quit for a few days, then go back for more. On the plus side, she makes fantastic mango chutney.
1stmakearoux at 11:29AM on 06/09/07
sardines. they are so healthy, plentiful and easy to come by. but I just don't like them. otherwise, I like most of the things that have already been listed.
caley at 2:52PM on 06/09/07
Pickles. And cole slaw.
erelmartin at 3:50PM on 06/09/07
That's easy -- oysters, clams, and mussels.
kathy in oakland at 5:12PM on 06/09/07
Goat cheese, just because it's so ubiquitous, and inevitably, any decent restaurant I go into, I'll find something on the menu that sounds terrific--if it didn't include goat cheese. Can't help it--to me it tastes like detergent smells.
msmla at 11:36PM on 06/09/07
Any type of seafood except for lobster. :( I try and try, but I just get too weirded out by the texture and the taste. And mushrooms. I so wish I liked them, because they're healthy and everywhere and people seem so pleased to eat them, but...oh well.
Christina at 12:35AM on 06/10/07
salmon: It's everywhere--and a nutritional power food! I. just. cant. eat. it.
à la mode at 9:39AM on 06/10/07
oysters, raw fish and scallops
hereandthe at 1:13PM on 06/10/07
Beets and fresh-water fish (unless smoked). Both taste like dirt/mud to me.
Barbara Hanson at 2:46PM on 06/10/07
caviar
cristi at 9:13AM on 06/11/07
beets. yuck.
carriebwc at 9:23AM on 06/11/07
Goat cheese. I want to like it so bad. There are so many recipes with goat cheese that look wonderful, but every time I try it, I gag!!
KItkat at 9:42AM on 06/11/07
newfoodie, I totally agree on tomatoes. My boyfriend and I are the same. I'll eat tomato products, like sauce and ketchup. Yet I can't eat a tomato on a sandwich or in a salad. Ugh!
HitchChic at 10:00AM on 06/11/07
How is it that I don't like blue cheese? Tried it again this weekend - I like the cheese part sans blue but when I get to the blue - yech!
Mischiefdish at 10:24AM on 06/11/07
Seafood and cooked fish (but I love sushi- go figure).
IronPlatypus at 10:30AM on 06/11/07
- Sushi with raw fish - I will only eat california rolls and vegetarian sushi, but i wish i could get past the raw fish gag every time i almost eat it
- Fried egg - The runny yolk really freaks me out for some reason. I have no idea why! I had my first fried egg on a really excellent sandwich with fresh ricotta and oven dried tomato on toasted ciabatta at a hip place called "Hot Chocolate" in Chicago, and I couldnt help feeling a little queasy the entire time I ate the (delicious) sandwich, just because of the runny yolk!
- caviar - I hate the texture, and the fact that its fish eggs doesn't help
- meat - other than fish, i havent eaten meat in 4 years, and while it sometimes is appealing, i'm way too scared to even try it again
ChristineB at 10:34AM on 06/11/07
Seafood. It's one of my last big food aversions, but no matter how hard I try I can't get over it, I just don't like seafood, even if it might save my heart one day. The furtherest I've gotten on this one is fried calamari, but I'm not sure that even counts.
josh! at 10:48AM on 06/11/07
Beans. I know they're good for you, but they taste like sand to me.
July at 11:01AM on 06/11/07
And I'm another one.... Can't do seafood or fish (or seaweed, kelp -- anything that even remotely tastes of the sea...yuk). I try and try and try.....
I must have been a vegetarian water-dweller in a past life or something...
sheldel at 11:23AM on 06/11/07
Olives. I love Mediterranean food and olive oil, but olives themselves are just not palatable to me. I'm working on it, though.
maasikas at 11:25AM on 06/11/07
Fresh tomatoes- I'm with HitchChick and newfoodie. I can eat them in sauce form, ketchup form and even sun-dried but not fresh. The smell....oh God. And don't get me started on the texture. This is one food I truly wish I could eat but I can't.
Bleu cheese- GAG GAG GAG. I've tried. I really have but I just can't do it. It is pungent and bitter and gross.
Mussels- perhaps I've never had them prepared correctly? Can't bring myself to find out based on past experience. Rubbery. Gritty. NASTY.
AuntJone at 11:52AM on 06/11/07
bloody marys. I love the idea of them, but I have never had one I could stomach :(
wickedlady at 12:59PM on 06/11/07
I have the brussel sprout problem as well. If fact is it the only thing I cannot eat. It actually makes me really sad that i cannot like them. I buy them every so often to try again and everytime I don't like them. I've read about taking the individual leaves off and sauting them and they are supposed to be good...so I'll have to try it that way next time.
malenky at 1:15PM on 06/11/07
Olives, definitely. Minced up and in a sauce is OK, and olive oil is great. But popping an olive in my mouth? Ugh.
Cumin. I can taste it three rooms away, and it ruins anything it comes near.
I used to despise tomatoes, but learned to like them as an adult. Now I can't have a sandwich without 'em. Still won't eat them just by themselves, however.
Now, how about a list of the things I wish my son would like? Oh, sorry, not enough bandwidth.
Dee at 1:37PM on 06/11/07
Cilantro and zucchini.
Also, (and dont kill me!) bahn mi sandwiches. Something about the texture of the meat...I can do the chicken version, but then still, the pate they use has a wierd texture.
Annmarie at 2:17PM on 06/11/07
I really, really wish I could tolerate even slightly fatty or gristlly or chewy meat textures. There are so many Asian foods that I can't even look at. And now with the in status of pork bellies, another apparentle wonderful dining choice is excluded.
I love all meats, but they must be carefully trimmed of all fat and gristle.
It is sad.
CapeCodBob at 7:31AM on 08/04/07