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gristle makes me want to throw up! The texture - UGH!

I haven't eaten takoyaki in over 20 years and will need a few more years to recover. This dislike has spilled over into some preparations of okonomiyaki because the same sauce is sometimes used (tonkatsu sauce with mayonnaise). The thought of the sauce is making me queasy as I eat my lunch!

On one of my trips to visit with family in Okinawa, my cousin drove us around to sightsee and have a picnic at one of the beaches. En route to the beach, I ate an entire family sized box of takoyaki, generously dipping each takoyaki in sauce. I remember my cousin's 3-year-old son watching me. Before we got to the beach, I was beyond full and became nauseous.

It was probably a combination of motion sickness, pigging out, bachi (loosley interpreted as karma) for not sharing any, and the onset of some illness -- I had a bout of diarrhea and couldn't drink or eat anything for 2 weeks straight w/o everything squirting out 10-15 minutes later.

got sick, and I do mean sick in the most revolting sense of the word-after eating a big mac 2 yrs back and haven't been able to eat there since. Also, eggs rancheros in Mexico years ago. Even thinking about them now literally causes me to start gagging.

When I was 6 my mom made some type of cookie/bar with grape jelly. I think I ate the whole pan and was sicker than a dog. To this day I cannot stomach grape jelly. A couple of years ago, a co-worker (a horrid, Horrid, HORRID cook) brought in these same cookie bars and insisted that I have one. I almost threw up on her when she opened the box.... Yuck!

The word hurl makes my tummy a little queasy. I can't think of a food that has the same effect.

I was about 9, and my whole family was staying at the home of some friends of ours for the weekend. She made a wonderful roast beef dinner and that night all of us ended up with either food poisoning or the flu...either way, there were 8 of us literally throwing up uncontrollably all over the house into pots or buckets (if we could make it -- they only had one bathroom)!!! It was 15 years before I could eat roast beef again. Of course, now I'm a total carnivore, so I got over that eventually.
Now, the only thing that makes me toss my cookies no matter what is tuna noodle casserole. BLECH!

Threw up after eating white chocolate when I was about 3-ish couldn't eat it again until I was in my 20's.

Jack Daniels... kicked my butt when I was about 19 here I am 20 years later and I can't even smell it to this day withought dry heaving.

oh Pavlov reminded me of alcohol - I can't smell or see a bottle of Seagram's 7 without my stomach churning.

CILANTRO - Even the smallest amount ruins a meal. It tastes like soap!

Some South American herb, very much like cilantro, that I had in a dish in Quito, Equador. Stupid me, shrimp and rice. Was sick for four days, even the air smelled bad, like rancid oil. When I smell it (which is extremely rare, thankfully), that's it, I run as fast as I can.

Fortunately, I still love cilantro - the world without salsa would be a sad place indeed.

@dhorst - yep, I never eat a fruit salad unless I made it myself, because so often they seem to consist of different kinds of melons. And I would rather starve to death than let a piece of beetroot cross my lips. I absolutely mean it.

To me, beets (together with roller coasters) are in that category of things I would do or eat only if somebody were threatening to kill my loved ones and the only way to save them would be for me to eat beets or take a roller coaster ride. I seriously hope that such a twisted sadistic mind simply does not exist.

Hmmm. I'm a nurse, and one of our old lines is that you need to be able to clean up a delivery room with one hand and eat a candy bar with the other. So there's not much, if anthng, that bothers me, thanks. But I'm curious: Why is it fun to talk about things that make you nauseated?

I suppose I've seen the serious kind of nausea and vomiting enough that it just puzzles me that folks who come to a site that focuses on delicious food (as opposed to the other kind) so frequently focus on the opposite. Any answers?

@lemons: Everybody loves a good horror story. :P

I came down with the flu (lasted a week) on the same day I had top ramen as an after-school snack and for dinner when I was about 9 years old. I loved the stuff then but couldn't stand the smell of that spice packet until about five years ago. Still don't care for it.

@ChelleyD that Egg story is priceless.
I had a 4th of July filled with SoCo and Lime shots where I proceeded to have a Pastrami sandwich, and then hurl off a balcony showering my friends. Needless to say, I am not a regular at Katz's.
Last year my friend got a round of shots and without thinking I drank it without asking what it was first. The Second the soco and lime hit my lips I spit it out all over my brother and downed the first drink I could grab.

cottage cheese....thinking about it makes me throw up in my mouth alittle bit....and egg whites...i try and try every time i eat an egg over easy ('cause i love the yoke) but something about the white doesnt do it for me...

Mint. Mint will not go all the way down my throat. I can chew mint gum and use mint toothpaste but not swallow anything mint.

My daughter had just tried red bell peppers and enjoyed them so much. Unfortunately, she did this on the day she got the flu, tossed her cookies, and never touched another red bell pepper again :(.

Green beans - cooked, sauteed, in other stuff, fresh, raw, growing on the vine - it doesn't matter. I can't even handle the way they smell.

One time, my friends and I were at a baby shower, and we played that game where you guess the baby food flavor. Everyone got the green bean one right, because I nearly vomited when I tried it. Ugh. BEANS.

@towl ~ Too funny!

about the only total aversion i have is undercooked egg whites, I rarely eat breakfast out, but if i do and i order eggs i always ask for over medium, but somehow the "cooks" dont seem to understand if you cook on too hot a surface the outside of the egg white is cooked but under that thin layer, well lets just say there be dragons. I cant stand scrambled unless i cook them. I've sent back more plates of eggs then you would ever believe, but if i'm paying for it i want it dont correctly!

@huneybumper--you have explained just why the true test of a really great cook is cooking eggs. My guess as far as the scrambled eggs is what a couple of friends have said "scambled tight," meaning not brown and totally dry, but not creamy (leukey is the way they put it). I like my eggs over medium too, and although I usually do all the cooking in our house--my husband was a grill cook at a very busy breakfast all the time diner and always makes eggs over to what ever temp. better than I do. It's humiliating! Now if he would (key word-would not could) learn how to cook something else that well...I'd lose the respect of family and friends.

Cube steak, Spam, canned potatoes, meat fat. The texture of meat fat makes me shudder, although I can eat marlbled meat. But fat on the sides is gross.

Fruitcake is gross to me as well. As are pierogies - at least the store-bought kind.

@chiff - I think mint should go into mojitos and mouthwash, and maybe a salad. Can't stand it with lamb, especially in the form of mint jelly. VILE.

i have a few i could name off...

lemon head candies- i went on a mountain biking trip to Utah and brought those along for the ride thinking that they'd be good....not so good

pork (any and all)- the first incident was when i was a younger and I went to Red Robin with my friend and her family and had a corn dog. They next day we were going to go snowboarding, so excited! but immediately when I got home from Red Robin I was throwing up that corn dog all night. The second incident happened 2 Christmas' ago. My family always has honey baked ham on Christmas Eve, and usually only Christmas Eve. However, we had it on Christmas Eve, and the next two nights at the parties we went to, what do you know...Honey baked ham. Not only did I overdose my honey baked ham but I was also having digestive problems at the time, making me feel extremely sick. And so since then havent touched one.

Mayo- I hate the way it looks. feels. the sound it makes. ew.

Pizza- Everyday of my freshmen, sophmore, and alot of my junior year of high school I ate lunch at the pizza joint across the street. On top of that, my brother and his best friend (who i was head over heals for at the time) worked for Papa Johns, and hoping to see him I ordered pizza almost every weekend, and also my brother would force me to order pizza so my parents would tip him.

Almond butter- I use to love it. and I think i just OD on it and now can't stand the stuff. whenever i have it I want to throw up.

i think i'll stop there :)

Oh so sadly, scallops.

I use to love them as a kid, but for some reason I can even smell them cooking now and off I go ...

Every once in awhile I'll try a couple and sure enough - within the hour the toilet and I are the best of buddies for the rest of the day.

Miracle Whip - what the hell is that crap anyways?

Liverwurst, used to have it around as a kid got sicker then a dog when i was about 6 yrs old, never again. Chicken flautus is another thing.

@gourmetgal
I have the same problem. I love sushi and about a year ago I started getting really sick afterwards. And I've also tried ordering rolls with things like cooked scallops or tempura shrimp and I still get sick. I have no idea what happened, but everyone else is always fine.

Oh if we are talking booze too Southern Comfort, if I am in the liquor store just looking at the bottle makes me gag.

The BF says when a teeny bopper he fell in love w/the neighborhood bakery, and their fresh, homemade choc eclairs. Had the misadventure one day, of eating an entire box of 16. Should have had insulin around, as he slipped into a near diabetic coma. FELT HORRIBLE!!!!! Lost childhood taste for sweets at that point. Could not look at Choc. eclair for years later. Any similar memories out there/

Yup, Segram's 7 for me, too. High school BF got his hands on a bottle, and we drank it in the woods with a few friends. The only "chaser" we had was sucrets throat lozenges. Still makes my skin crawl.

8th grade- Teriyaki chicken stir-fry. That was a looong night.
9th grade- "Tofu Surprise." Indeed.
No more teriyaki anything. Ever.

Also had a bad expeience with bologna and cream cheese as a child. But fortunately that combination has not come across my path since.