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i hate tomato soup. but i eat tomatoes almost everyday. in my house the guys love fried bologna sandwiches. i don't get it. the smell alone is enough to gag me.

Turkey
Rice
Lima beans

Salmon. In all its icky guises.

Arugula. I'm fine with it in small doses mixed with a lot of other salad greens, but I couldn't stand to eat a whole salad of arugula. Mostly it's the smell that turns me off.

Risotto.

Arugula - It just tastes musty to me.

Figs - I feel like most 'foodies' like them, but I give them a shot every so often and am always sorry I did.

mayo

Peanut butter and chocolate combinations. Or pretty much any dessert that has peanut butter.

I love PB in other non-dessert roles, but I hate it with dessert and especially if it's fouling up some chocolate. Reese's can suck it. :(

@dbcurrie--I'm with you on arugula.

Reese's peanut butter cups.

Ricotta.

cucumbers and pickles

Mayo for me too, and prepared mustard.

Mayonnaise.

Cheese on my sandwiches/burgers/most pizzas.

HFCS - haha :P (Sorta a joke...but really not ._.)

Grapefruit : (

Also - bananas and melons (other than water melon). I strongly dislike even the smell of either one.

oh god! cantaloupe too! YUCK!

Turkey, esp. day old. It stinks. Creamed celery. Sushi.

Peas, and eggs as well. Never have, and I never will be able to eat them.

lobster

Oh my, so much hate. Hmm, I honestly can't think of A SINGLE THING that I hate. Other than dead flesh(meat) because I am vegetarian, I like all other food items that I have tried so far. And I'm a pretty adventurous eater, so I've eaten plenty of different things.

Eggs other than hard-boiled (I know, opposite of most people)
Olives
Apple pie (and almost all cooked fruit as I have mentioned repeatedly, hehehe, but I wouldn't say "everyone loves cooked fruit" in general)

raw tomatoes
lima beans
canned vegetables
jarred gravy
fat on any meat, gristle, chicken skin
dark poultry meat
watermelon
squash
fresh water fish

Salmon onion melon mayo salad sandwich, anyone?

Melon, any kind - watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew...ick. Same thing with mango, papaya.

@sailordave- thank you for defending my favorite condiment :)

I cant really think of anything I absolutle cannot stand to eat...maybe pickled beets.

@listener I used to have that issue, then I don't know what changed, but all of a sudden I love them in everything. Chili? Check! Black beans and rice? Yup! Red beans and rice? OOOH!

I really don't know why, but there you have it. Still not a huge fan of peas, lima beans, or hummus, but I can stomach them.

Cottage cheese ewwww
Asparagus
Kidney beans
Most sushi I tried it all over and it is not my thing
lima beans
cooked berries
fresh berries except strawberries
offal meats
Tuna raw or cooked
marjoram
filbert nuts
sesame seeds
raw carrots
diet soda
oregano on chicken
arugula
field peas
tangerines
white gravy on any part of my breakfast and SOS
whipped cream
scrapple
potted meat product
beef ravioli, tortellini (any pasta with meat filling)
Pina Colada (hate coconut and pineapple together)

Raw carrots
Celery sticks
Peanut butter
Celery sticks with peanut butter (ants on a log = barf)
Chocolate
Peanut butter and chocolate
Peanut butter and jelly

...And yet, I occasionally will eat and enjoy a homemade peanut butter cookie. Go figure.

Anything in a white sauce (including fettuccine alfredo, white pizza, and macaroni and cheese).

Pasta

Whipped potatoes (again, the dislike of plain, creamy, heavy white foods)

Fruit-flavored ice creams and sorbets

Whipped cream (there are many photos of me eating out spooning the stuff off of parfaits before I tucked in!)

Jell-O (although I have trouble understanding how any person can like this stuff!)

TURKEY--ick!

There are other things like fast food and sugary cereals, but growing up I used to love these with wild abandon, so I can remember what it was like to eat these things even though my palate and body reject them now. Ditto with meat--I did eat meat as a child, and liked some kinds. The above list--never liked.

turkey
lobster
mayo(except homemade aiole)
spaghettios
most "cream based" sauces
most breakfast style eggs(will eat one on Rare occasions)
commercial ketchup(homemade is tolerable)
mango anything
cilantro
raw onions (love them cooked)
wow I didnt realize I was that picky.

Oh, I forgot, Southern Comfort and Captain Morgan's. And no it was not do to an over indulgence poisoning. Just, as with beets and melons, happens to produce a shuddering, oh my, am I going to boot? response.

Goat cheese. I keep trying it, and everytime, I swear it tastes like a barn smells, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why people eat the stuff.

Any meat stuffed with meat - i.e. chicken cordon bleu
Cilantro
Sandwiches/subs with tons of different cold cuts
Revolting fresh tuna steaks that look raw on FNTV - it looks like someone chainsawed through a human thigh!

Feta, candied nuts of any kind. My sister has a salad with both that she makes for every holiday and everyone raves. I can't stand it.
Coffee. Love the smell, hate the taste. The worst joke anyone ever played on me was to give me a chocolate covered coffee bean saying it was a chocolate covered peanut. Without even thinking, I gagged and spit it on the floor in the middle of the restaurant we were working. Not pretty and it took forever to get the taste out of my mouth.

nutmeg
goat cheese
oysters

I guess I'm weird, because there really isn't anything I dislike. The things I won't eat are obvious and probably shared by most people
Linberger cheese
kidneys
brains
bugs
Things along those lines....
(I watch too much Andrew Zimmern)

Cooked fish, save the occasional salmon filet. I love sashimi and sushi, but just can't stand the texture and flavor of cooked fish (canned tuna especially).
Raw onions. I love cooked onions, but can't stomach raw ones.
Zucchini and summer squash - I tried them (again) this summer and couldn't get past the texture.

I would not make that many accommodations but would instead ask my selective eaters to bring a dish they could eat. Then I would sit and watch the fun as the celiacs and the vegans went at it. Throw down Christmas.

@Jerzee ~ LOL on that one!!

@sailordave ~ gee, I hope water isn't on the menu. I'm allergic to it. ;(
haha

Seriously though, she's talking about fruit and veggie dishes where so and so can pick out the raisins and another can pick out the grapes and beets, 'cause they just don't like them, but they're not allergic. I'm bringing roasted root vegs and making sure they are recognizable, so another so and so can remove what they don't like. I don't think there is one dish that everyone can and will eat. I don't have that kind of patience, except for people who have a genuine medical condition which precludes some foods. I cook what I cook and they eat it or not. My little bro insisted that his young son eat a piece of fruit from a fruit salad one time and my nephew was gagging and crying. Talk about making everyone uncomfortable. Must be someplace in the middle to please people you love and want to be with on holidays. Make them eat at home first might be a start.

Hmm...could have sworn I posted this a few hours ago, but apparently not.

• Ketchup. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a column in which ketchup, specifically Heinz, is praised as "a condiment that pushed all five of [the] primal buttons [bitter, sweet, sour, salty and umami]." But it's too damn sweet. Anything that sweet/salty/sour needs garlic! And lots of it! That's why I could eat spoonfuls of barbecue sauce all day long.
• Miracle Whip, for the same reason. Sugar is a terrible thing to do to mayonnaise. A while ago, I found a "mayo vs. Miracle Whip" thread at eGullet.org which included links to recipes for homemade Miracle Whip. Dry mustard, paprika, and garlic powder? Yes, please. Sugar? Leave it out!
• Mimosa cocktails. Fresh-squeezed orange juice? Yes! Champagne? Certainly! But not in the same glass!
• Lime – with sugar. Lime candy, limeade, maybe even Key Lime Pie – abominations all. But lime in savory dishes – no problem at all.
• Velveeta. Not even in mac-n-cheese. I've always made mine with a bechamel with about half a pound of sharp cheddar stirred into it.
• Oscar Meyer hot dogs. They taste raw no matter how long you cook them.
• And Saag's garlic sausage always tastes rancid even if it's right off the production line. But I love just about all other brands of garlic sausage.

Any sort of warmed tuna...like a tuna melt, or tuna noodle (barf) casserole, or even the fancy-pants "seared tuna on a bed of micro greens"....BLECH. Tuna, in my opinion, should be cold, mixed with pickles/onions/celery and, (hold onto your belts) Miracle Whip and put on bread..I also can tolerate it raw, as in sushi or sashimi.. it should NOT be warmed up. Too much like cat food then.

I don't know if *everyone* loves it, but in my Eastern European background it's very traditional: chicken liver. I can't be in the same room with it.

And I wouldn't go so far as to use the word "hate," but I don't much care for potatoes. I'll eat a baked potato maybe once a year, or a fry or two. But I don't care for potato chips, home fries, mashed potatoes, etc. Don't cook them, never order them out. You know that old ad for Lay's potato chips, "no one can eat just 1"? I can. (Sweet potatoes are a different story...!)

Ranch dressing.

Oh god, I got a little gaggy just typing that out.

tomatoes any and all types including ketchup, soup and pasta sauce
mustard-unless i'm preggers the smell alone makes me sick when i am preggers i like it! I can scare my hubby by asking for mustard(ha :))
any and all organ meats ohh full body shudder!!!

Hmmm Lets see

Sushi
Seafood in General
Mushrooms
Green Peas

Tomatoes other than as a sauce.

lo82070, I'm with you on the green bell peppers. Cripes, let 'em turn red, or even orange or yellow, before you pick 'em.

The other stuff on your list, why, I'll be glad to take it off your hands.

CORN, POTATOES, CARROTS & SOMETIMES CELERY!
Oh and I HATEEEEE Papaya and Mango!

I won't eat chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, most chocolate candy bars, chocolate chips in cookies/mint ice cream
I can eat milk chocolate Reese's are awesome but I have to eat drink milk to get rid of the aftertaste.
Olives (green and black)
licorice (Any flavor)
Steak, Turkey, Lamb Chops. Really any meat except seafood, chicken, ham and beef.
I actually hate pizza without ranch dressing.