Foods You Hate

[SeattleVet]

59. Broccoli rabe

Couldn't stand the bitter taste as a kid, so whenever my mother made it we kids had to sit at the table until we finished it...sometimes for well over an hour or more, until it was at room temperature and even more foul to us. Thinking about the taste can still make me gag a little, almost 60 years later. Unfortunately, my mother and father really loved it, so it was a semi-regular item on the dinner menu. (Parents - PLEASE don't do this to your kids! I really think that I would have avoided a lifelong gag-reflex aversion to this item had it not been forced on me so often as a child.)

I'll happily eat pretty much all of the rest of the things mentioned in this thread, and many more. I love all types of seafood...including squid, sea urchin, sea cucumber, clams, oysters, snails, limpets, conch. Lamb, liver, kidneys, calves brains (can't get those anymore!), Rocky Mountain 'oysters' (testicles), heart, pancreas...all OK by me. Chitterlings - had 'em, not a huge fan, but wouldn't turn them down if offered again. Just really not to my taste. All sorts of Asian 'specialties'. Pretty much any type of wild game. Have enjoyed snake, alligator, frog (have a pack of frog's legs in the freezer right now), rabbit, squirrel, deer, buffalo, elk, ostrich, kangaroo, emu, and even lion one year when I lived in NY (a local restaurant had an 'exotic game' week once a year). All types of fruits and vegetables (minus the one exception, above). Durian. Jackfruit. 'Hundred-year' eggs. Chicken feet. Sheep's head (Capozelle). Goat.

(I will admit that there is one food item I might have a problem with...I don't know if I can actually eat balut. The opportunity has not really presented itself, but there is just something about it that puts me off a bit.)