PrintWhat foods seriously put you off your feed?
I love tomatoes, I like tuna salad. If you put them both on the same sandwich I will probably throw up. Not figuratively - literally. Just thinking about it gets me a little queasy. There's something about the combination of the two that's just - gross.
Do you have any regular old foods that you just can't deal with? That you'll get up and leave the table if you see it? That given a choice between starving to death or eating, you will have to sit down and really consider your options?
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38 Comments:
Frog legs are very popular here in the south, I had to leave the only buffet resteraunt I will ever go to because they were on the line. Have recently developed a major aversion to mayo. the sight makes me queasy, and the smell litterally makes me sick. I have no idea why, no trauma involving mayo, and I used to love the stuff.
huney_bumper at 7:05AM on 02/07/08
The presence of ANYthing creamy in a savoury dish makes me very queasy... even a suspicious opacity to a soup can be enough to keep me from eating it. Creamy dressings and sandwich spreads are a nightmare for me, and nearly impossible to avoid in Denmark; here, creamy is big.
mongoose at 7:35AM on 02/07/08
At times, processed lunch meats (like ham or turkey or chicken) give me the absolute creeps. The texture gets me big time. I can sorta see that with highly processed ones like balogna or mortadella, but I am not sure why these less processed ones get me too..... About once a year I can handle a sub if it has dry salami on it......
Maureen at 9:34AM on 02/07/08
Mushrooms. My mother loves them, but the sight and smell of them makes me gag.
AlBee at 9:45AM on 02/07/08
I'm with huney_bumper and mongoose. I HATE any creamy sauce, including mayo. I think it started from my realization of how bad they were for me, but now I don't even think I could handle the tastes anymore. I won't eat creamy soups, alfredo, or any casserole made with those Campbell's "Cream of ______" condensed soups cans.
Also on my health spin, I hate eating foods---with the exception of desserts--that have a high addition of sugar to them. I grew up with a mom who put a ton of sugar in everything, particularly tomato-based sauces, and now I sadly cannot stand to go home and eat those foods because, while they taste good, I know they are so much worse for me. I know that a bit of sugar can enhance some flavors, but she just goes over the top! If I cannot physically see that there is something in my food, I don't need to eat it!
I guess I'm just kind of a health nut, but I think I answered the question all the same!
Oh, two more things. I refuse to eat meatloaf (I don't like the taste) and I gag at the thought of eating SPAM. Meat? In a can? I don't think so...
luswim06 at 11:03AM on 02/07/08
Oh, and tuna makes me gag as well. I used to eat it as a child, but then I learned that I was eating fish and decided I didn't like it anymore. Faulty logic, I know, but to this day I cannot bring myself to eat it.
luswim06 at 11:08AM on 02/07/08
Grated Parmesan Cheese on linguini with clam sauce. Independently of one another they are golden, but they do not belong together.
Sugar in Tomato sauce. Ewwww. Keep your sugar for dessert - keep it out of tomato sauce. If you feel a need to counterbalance less than wonderful tomatoes, up the onion content or add sauteed carrot dice to your sauce but don't go near the sugar bowl or someone's going to get hurt! (Or at the very least, I'll "pffffft" very loudly.)
chiff0nade at 11:36AM on 02/07/08
I literally can't be in the same room as chicken liver, in any form.
CookiePie at 11:43AM on 02/07/08
Really rich, thick creamy chunky soups tend to put me off a bit. My SO loves NE clam chowder and I can barely watch him eat it. I think I can actually visualize the white thick clumps of fat creamy sludge ending up in my gut and I feel a bloat attack coming on.
Even with the tremendous excitement about the "head to tail" dining and interest in the offal stuff, my grandmother's food preferences still haunt me. Having been widowed suddenly, she moved in with my family and lived there for 22 years. Memories of finding things in the fridge like souse, headcheese and pigs feet still make me wake up screaming. My Gram could suck a bone dry and it was nothing for her to work on a turkey neck for an hour. You would think I would have become desensitized to the many mystery meats in our household over the years but one look at the stuff and I become the "Quease Queen".
frederika at 11:47AM on 02/07/08
Any stinky and/or moldy cheese. Also, cilantro. That's about it.
grampart at 11:54AM on 02/07/08
Beets, Brussel Sprouts, Fishy tasting Fish, lots of mayo on my sandwiches, anything with gelatin in it, headcheese, Velveta cheese,
drsmoke at 12:09PM on 02/07/08
Everyone who knows me knows of my absolute disgust of most white dairy foods: mayo, sour cream, cream cheese, ranch dressing, whipped cream, yogurt, certain melty white cheeses, too much milk in cereal...ugh. In high school I worked at Mr. Goodcents (think Subway...but a million times better, in my opinion) and there were huge vats of mayo we had to glop out into containers to use on the line. Getting that all over my hands...it's a surprise I didn't puke in the back room.
emes1 at 12:22PM on 02/07/08
Not cooked fish fillets, especially tuna 'only seared' is not good for me. I have to have the fish fillets cooked, am not a sushi person. Thank you.
Tyloo at 12:43PM on 02/07/08
When I was a lad back in the mid 1970s we went on a family trip to Florida. Me, my sister, my mother, stepfather and stepbrother. I guess the ole stepfather ran out of money by the time we left. So, we needed to bring some kind of lunch onto the plane. I was accustomed to eating salami sandwiches, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken roll sandwiches etc... He went and bought cream cheese and jelly sandwiches on white bread. Who knows how long they were sitting unrefrigerated. The thought of it again makes me very nauseous.
Bosmer at 3:10PM on 02/07/08
Beets and most cooked fish. Also, almost any cooked and dried fruit make me gag. There are others, probably, but these are certainly the worst, and yes, I would seriously consider my options if given a choice between starving to death or eating them.
brooke29 at 3:11PM on 02/07/08
I have what we call "texture issues" - gross globby fruit in commercial yogurt (I can eat real fresh fruit with smooth yogurt on top no problem), oatmeal/other hot cereal (cereal should be crunchy; I only use a couple of tablespoons of milk on a bowl of cold cereal for this reason), cooked fruit, etc. These all get my gag reflex going.
And raw clams/oysters. I am OK to eat basically all other seafood, raw fish included, but they just look too much like mucus.
wellred at 3:12PM on 02/07/08
Mayo's the big one. Also lima beans. My German grandparents and father also like to eat ground beef (raw) mixed with onions (raw) put on one slice of bread. The smell alone's disgusting, the look and smell combined has cleared plenty a room . . . .
KarynMC at 3:32PM on 02/07/08
Beets, Mayo, Liver, organ meat, Fishy tasting Fish, all canned meat, runny eggs, to name a few.
drsmoke at 5:12PM on 02/07/08
Sorry for the double post
drsmoke at 5:14PM on 02/07/08
I can't stand tuna or its smell (makes me gag every time my coworker eats a tuna sandwich!). My brother used to looooove it and took advantage of that. When we argued, he said he'd put an empty tuna can in my room. Luckily he never followed through.
Chicken and dumplings makes me gag. I can't stand the dumplings. When my dad made it, I would just pick out the chicken to eat.
I also don't like sweet and sour or sweet stuff on meat in general (I'll make exceptions for good stuff. I made s&s meatballs once and couldn't believe the combo of ingredients, but they tasted good!). Baked ham with pineapple, for example -- blech!
misseditor at 6:04PM on 02/07/08
Canned peas.
I love fresh and even frozen, but to me canned peas both taste and smell like vomit.
tacroy80 at 6:37PM on 02/07/08
Cheap sausage with loads of fat and gristle, velveta, most processed foods, over ripe bananas, animal fat like the kind that borders steak and pork chops.
rockymountainmarta at 7:35PM on 02/07/08
Bananas. If I smell a banana, I have to leave the room. My mom had to stop buying them for my other family members when I was a kid because I would go absolutely bezerk if I saw one.
I also hate all banana-flavored things, except (inexplicably) banana bread and banana-flavored Runts candies.
selizara at 8:41PM on 02/07/08
Mayo, holandaise, eggs (omelets, scrambled, fried, etc), offal (of any type). In all these cases, it's the smell and texture that's a deal-breaker.
beth1 at 8:51PM on 02/07/08
chitterlings. i went to a friend's parents' house one christmas and they were cooking on the stove. oh, the smell! i could barely breathe. i rarely do this, but i played the jewish card in order to get out of eating some.
rosemary. for some reason it makes me gag if i bite into something and there is a strong scent of it. i was very relieved when i read elizabeth david's comments on rosemary -- she didn't care for it either.
cybercita at 9:29PM on 02/07/08
I hate the smell of two things - tuna and oranges. When I was younger I couldn't even be in a room when someone was peeling an orange. I would physically gag. I no longer gag, but the smell is incredibly overpowering and I usually turn away if possible. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who is turned off by the smell of oranges, though. Most people love them!
woodenspoon at 9:54PM on 02/07/08
mayo (in or on anything), holandaise, offal (of any type--furred or feathered animal), oysters, eggs (omelets, scrambled, fried, boiled, etc).
beth1 at 10:06PM on 02/07/08
their is a fillipino dish called Dinuguan which is a spicy pigs blood stew that really skives me out (even if the one time i actually mustered up the strength to taste it it wasn't bad i just can't get over the pigs blood in the dish)
Harlock_jds at 9:06AM on 02/08/08
you know, not a whole lot, i have to be honest. pretty much:
offal, cauliflower in almost any form, lima beans, grapefruit.
of those, grapefruit is by far the worst. people are forever doing the "come on, it's ruby red/tangerine/apple/lots of sugar" or whatever the heck. doesn't matter, i can still taste it and i still hate it.
mickeymets at 9:08AM on 02/08/08
This sounds really weird, but pesto in a sandwich.
I know, crazy right? It looks delicious and smells absoluuuutely heavenly, but for some reason I can't seem to stomach it very well. Not that I don't try...I've made my own at home and am trying to wean myself on it, but for some reason a nice pesto and tomato sandwich leaves me feeling sick afterwards. It's another one of those 'smells better than it tastes' foods.
that and mayo. That stuff is the most disgusting thing you could ever smear on a sandwich.
jazzinx at 9:24AM on 02/08/08
With the exception of frog legs, I enjoy everything that has been mentioned here.
cmballa at 10:42AM on 02/08/08
lobster. it's not for me.
j at 12:25PM on 02/08/08
oh wait, i forgot one that's far worse - pickled herring.
j at 12:25PM on 02/08/08
Nothing yet. Guess that's why so many friends invite me over for dinner. Not being picky has its perks.
PerkyMac at 12:34PM on 02/08/08
Haggis? The tripe in menudo? The smell of chittlins cooking? Head cheese? Tongue (it's a texture thing).
HHHhhhmmm... do I see a trend here? I do like certain offal -- pate or liverwurst is fine, and I absolutely adore sweetbreads. I've even had deep-fried rocky mountain oysters, which were actually just fine (though I'd never seek them out). I guess I'm extremely selective about it.
Also...
Mayo anywhere in proximity to avocado. Love mayo, but the combo is a major gagger for me.
There's a whole slew of foods that I find revolting with ketchup. Hot dogs and fish immediately come to mind. Although I make an exception for cocktail sauce with shrimp. It's not that I despise ketchup. It's just that the list of foods that aren't inedible with it is very, very short.
But that's pretty much it. In truth, I'll eat most anything if hungry. Very few things are downright stomach-turning.
LoCo at 1:01PM on 02/08/08
Apologies to MFK Fisher et al, but I literally can't stomach raw oysters!
srhcb at 1:34PM on 02/08/08
I'd rather starve than eat raw garlic; onions that aren't thoroughly cooked to the point of disintegration; any form of cilantro and parsley. I'm sure there's more stuff I don't tolerate well.
Dishes are sent back to the kitchen when I'm at a restaurant, if I even detect a scent. I've immediately vomited at restaurants when I've bitten into a hidden raw onion in a sandwich/wrap, it's so embarassing. The, uhh, outburst happens too quickly that I can't stop myself...which is why I always repeat myself and have them repeat my requested omissions, so they remember why the dish is being sent back.
Cassaendra at 11:16AM on 02/09/08
Burnt coffee- the smell kills me. I feel like its in my clothes and pores and sinuses. And there is burnt coffee in the kitchen at my office EVERY DAY. I always pour it down the sink, but the smell lingers.
Kerosena at 1:49PM on 02/09/08