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Cooked okra-can't stand the slimy texture. I don't like radishes either. I like the first bite of brussels sprouts and then I can't finish it.

Read these two very good blogs. They have tons of very good ideas on cooking both for vegetarians and just really good food:
http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/
http://orangette.blogspot.com/

Both of these bloggers have just recently gotten married so there is writing about all of that-really sweet-but go back and look at some of there recipes. They are incredible.

Barbeque. I've learned the secret of marinading.

Not only is my husband French but he was raised on a farm so when an animal was butchered they ate everything. He was sent out, after a rain, to gather snails for a meal. He will order Tete de Veau, which is the meat sliced off the head of a veal, any kind of sausage, brain, any of that sort of thing, but he won't touch my tuna salad sandwich-"It's too wet". I didn't think I liked foie gras or blue cheese until I had it in France. I think we mostly like the same things as long as it doesn't involve "innards" as we say in the South.

My father always cooked steak until it had no color left so I never thought it was that great. A trip to a picnic where a man grilled a steak after it had marinated in olive oil and spices opened my eyes to how good it could be. I didn't have chinese food until college and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. An uncle taught me how to cook and to enjoy food while I was in college too. I now have many of his cookbooks given to me when he died. What a pleasure to look through them.

Icing with way too much sugar. I'm usually the one scraping icing off of cake at parties.
Banana bread or cooked bananas (plantains don't count). I love bananas though.
Most corporate baked goods; you can taste the lack of love and care in them, and I can't remember ever reaching for carrageenan or sodium benzoate when baking.
Sugar-free anything. Sugar substitutes taste nasty.
Most fruitcakes. I'm bored with them.
Adult-sized slices of chocolate cake. I usually find it too rich to eat in large quantities. I love chocolate, I just prefer it in small doses.
Most donuts, except for cake donuts.
Crunchy cookies. Just not a fan of the texture.

Desserts that make me go meh:
Red velvet cake? I mean, it usually tastes OK (vaguely reminiscent of malted milk, like Wendy's frosties), but I always feel odd eating so much food coloring.
Sock-it-to-me/7-up/insert soda here cake. Common in Southern cooking, and almost always too sweet.

Re: buttercream icing: unless you had it on a homemade cake or cake from a wedding party, it probably wasn't made with real butter. 'Buttercream' icing made from vegetable shortening is pretty disgusting.

I'm surprised so many people here don't like tiramisu, but I've had my share of bad tiramisu. I'll second the cannoli though. Highly overrated and just not that tasty.

I use whatever bread is on hand too....and I love either american cheese, muenster or provolone....all nice melty cheeses.
In the fall Wegmans had this wonderful apple cider raisin bread in their bakery....I spent the fall making grilled cheese sandwiches with that, Yancy's Fancy extra sharp cheddar, and local smoked slab bacon from Spar's European meats....they were the best grilled cheese sandwiches! In fact I do have a loaf of that bread in my freezer I was saving to make bread pudding...I think I might have to slice off a couple pieces for a grilled cheese first!

Can't get enough of your topics.

It's funny, recently my 26 year old brother and I rehashed his hatred for asparagus...he still won't touch it but I love the stuff.

I'm not sure if onions are vegetables...but I just hate onions (though I admit I'll eat them sometimes...my brother on the other hand will not go near asparagus).

Hillary
Chew on That

Beets taste like a mouthful of dirt. Awful stuff ... unless you like eating dirt. I believe I was only able to eat beets without gagging at WD-50. Just that one time.

In distant second (third, fourth ...) are kale, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. I'm still not entirely convinced that I will never like these vegetables, but all signs support that conclusion.

There are others that I tend to avoid, but have had if well prepared, including spinach and peas, which are generally lousy tasting vegetables.

asparagus. it does something odd to my system.