Foods You Hate

[mr_lebowski]

115. Of the relatively common things ...

1) Most frozen vegetables (corn is one of very few exceptions), and pretty much all canned vegetables. Though I love practically all fresh vegetables, even when cooked, as long as they're not turned to mush. Stir-Fry and Grilled veggies in particular I'm a big fan of.
2) Olives. I literally don't like any kind of Olive. Yuck.
3) Fish, or other seafood, that has even the slightest 'fishy' taste. Cannot STAND 'fishy', though I like really fresh non-fishy-tasting seafood okay, esp. lobster & crab with lots of butter. Never could warm up to oysters, mussels, or scallops though.
4) Organs. Can't do it. None of 'em.
5) Eggs, unless mostly or all Whites, and a small % of the overall content. Don't mind 'egg drop' in asian soups, and I'll do an omelette with one whole egg or 2 egg whites, and a whole bunch of other delicious stuff, but I don't dig plain eggs at all. I've literally never eaten a 'deviled egg'. No interest in trying one. In fact I'll pluck any pieces of hard-boiled egg out of a dish I wasn't expecting them in, all but the smallest pieces. Really don't like the texture of 'em.
6) Bologna ... never could stand that stuff. Don't mind most other meats of that type, love me a Pepperoni pizza for example, but ... HATE bologna.
7) Anything 'gamy' ... i.e. wild animal meat in general ... Wild Duck and Rabbit are the ones I know of, doubt I'd much like Bison or Venison though I've not had them.
8) Canned Tuna ... yuck ...

Surprised there's not more cucumber and cilantro on this list ... both have fairly widespread genes associated with them that make them taste WILDLY different (and not in a good way) to certain people vs. how they taste to others. Cucumbers are horribly bitter to some, and for others Cilantro tastes like a mouthful of soap. I LOVE both, in fact, especially together ... a nice cold cucumber/cilantro/tomato salad with a well-balanced sweet/sour vinaigrette ... is one of my fave things.

Growing up though, things I disliked or even hated were (everything above and):
1) Mayonnaise
2) Mushrooms
3) Pickles or Relish (dill or sweet)
4) Spinach, Brussel Sprouts, Lima Beans, Broccoli, Asparagus
5) Raw Tomatoes
6) Cheese (unless melted like on Pizza).

I've outgrown all those aversions except sweet pickles/relish ... never could warm up much to either ... but I love a good fresh cold crunchy Dill Pickle now ... gotta be crunchy though ... the ones they keep at room temp at the supermarket though I still think kinda suck. Though, oddly, I don't mind that sort of 'canned' pickle on a McDonalds burger (well, when I have one, which is about every 3 years or so).

Funniest thing to me about my change in taste is w/Mushrooms ... I mean I HAAAAAAATED them growing up. Now I can scarely imagine a Steak w/o sauteed mushrooms on top ... They're like mandatory. Still not a big fan of them on pizza though, and not a big raw mushroom guy.