Foods You Hate

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79. Pickles, and raw tomato

Pickles as an ingredient or condiment in any fashion are a complete dealbreaker. I tell restaurants to please not even put the pickle on the side because the juice (shudder) will run into the other food. I will eat brussels sprouts or cabbage in a spring roll, but I am very put off by the smell of cooked cabbage and sauerkraut (sauerkraut is slimy and pickled.) Oddly, I'm okay with apple cider and balsamic vinegar in certain applications, just not pickled. I do like pickled ginger with sushi, but that is very sweet and nothing like the pickle smell. I even don't mind dill as a seasoning, it's the leaving a vegetable to rot in acid that skeeves me.

I do not like the texture of uncooked tomato and will avoid or pick off whole tomato chunks in a dish or a salad and will shake them off a chip if eating salsa. I do not eat ketchup, but am fine with smooth tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce or BBQ sauce.

I think my major malfunction is any food that is slimy with a skin and/or seeds. Fresh sauteed asparagus=good, Slimy canned asparagus=bad. I used to be very opposed to bell peppers until I tried them raw and liked them much better. If they are cooked to a slimy-soft consistency (as in stuffed peppers), I don't like them. I prefer them raw or just lightly stir-fried so they are still crunchy. I also prefer red or orange or yellow bell peppers as they are less bitter than green ones. I can now even eat sweet red and yellow baby bell peppers whole like a strawberry.