Food You Find Disgusting and Why

Lamb.

"They were screaming".

Mushrooms. I am not a picky eater and generally don’t have issues with food texture. However the texture of mushrooms is like eating my own tongue and the smell of them being sautéed in butter makes me want to hurl.

Vegan cheese. They've gone too far.

Lychee fruit, for its texture and taste.

Parsnips. Fried or roasted they're okay, but boiled or simmered they're like a campfire put out with a jug of stale urine.

Cilantro tastes like soap or some metallic salt to me. People inherit aversions to cilantro.

Tofu and scallops. Spongy and tasteless.

R6 The first time I tasted cilantro was the same as you. Now I love it. I on't know what happened.

Tofu. Slimy, tasteless, revolting🤮

R9 Not deep fried!

OP oysters are a very nutritious food, in that they are full of extra amounts of needed vitamins/minerals such as zinc, copper and iron. Many Americans are zinc-deficient and they're a great way to obtain that naturally.

Spam. The smell was disgusting but I cooked it anyway as wanted to know what all the fuss was about. First bite gave me dry heaves. Threw it away. Never again.

Pancakes Barbara

Escargo

Also escargot.

All organ meats. Tripe.

Persimmon, guava, sweet potato, papaya.

Tastes like sweet puke.

This thread has turned into a list of my favorite foods.

Pepperoncini and banana peppers. I like almost all other peppers, fruits, vegetables, but I can’t stand those things. I hate when I get a salad with them in it.

For some reason, I always assumed "Pancakes Barbara" was something from "As the World Turns" (Barbara Ryan). And I've even seen "The Women"! I'm embarrassed.

For this thread, put me down for mushrooms, for the reasons R2 gave, sour cream (too creamy and sour), and other foods that are mostly commonly cited as disgusting (such as liver). I was recently surprised to discover that I also find most raw fish disgusting. I love fish and most seafood, but it had been a very long time since I had raw-fish sushi (I was vegetarian for a REALLY long time). I thought I was going to enjoy it, but I found the texture to be revolting.

Bleu cheese makes my gorge rise.

R19 Do you find all peppers disgusting?

I refuse to google Pancakes Barbara.

No, r22, just those.

Eggplant, food is not supposed to taste like that.

I can eat beans and peas in a soup or chili, but eating most of them by themselves—like a serving of lima beans or black eyed peas…blech.

I do like green beans and English peas, though.

Snails, eel , cow ( tounge, stomach or brains), insects, fermented Asian food, Mayonnaise, Vegemite, chicken livers, plain yogurt, pumpernickel bread.

When I was a kid at the dinner table I would slip the brussels sprouts or cauliflower into my pocket and bury them in the back yard.

Cumin, coriander and related spices like it. They have a strange earthy taste that I cannot get out of my mouth.

Cheese. It's fucking disgusting. I hate the taste, the texture. I hate a lot of dairy.

People think I am absolurely bonkers that I don't like cheese.

R30 I get it. I can't eat it anymore. Dairy IS gross.

Beer. And its even more revolting sibling, ale.

I have a distaste for dishes that use “dessert” spices in savory dishes. Specifically, cinnamon on chicken. Mt boss prepares her chicken with cinnamon based on some regional cuisine she admired. That combination of flavor and texture tasted awful to me.

One exception might be nutmeg in some versions of macaroni & cheese or a cheese soufflé, but I can’t seem to taste it in savory dishes, so I don’t mind it.

The texture of some sushi feels vaguely gynecological to my palate, though I know most people love a sushi meal.

Most of the foods listed above are acquired tastes. Like rimming.

R26 Lima beans are pretty mealy in texture and generally awful.

Sushi-never had it but the thought-yuck. I may suck dick but I don’t eat it!

I do-Jeffery D.

Grocery store bread. I can smell the mold.

Lima beans were the one thing I'd pick out of Campbell's vegetable soup as a kid.

I can't stand most things seasoned with vinegar—apparently I'm a supertaster for that and the sourness puts me off.

Pepperoni smells and tastes disgusting to me, though it no longer makes me physically ill as it did when I was younger.

I've tried octopus a couple of times and it was like rubber that tasted faintly of ammonia. For some reason I hate it but like squid, at least in squid salad and sushi.

I like all beef except for the curtains.

Capers

Liver

Tripe

Cilantro

New Jersey’s

Probably my biggest pet peeve is sauteed onions...I love raw onions, grilled onions, caramelized onions, onion ribgs but the texture of nasty as sauteed onions resemble that of worms. Ugh.

Tea. Hot or cold, black or green, any really. Don't like the taste and cannot stand the smell.

R33 I made goulash last year with cinnamon and it was the best goulash I ever had in my life.

R23, you must be new here!

Vodka. No flavor whatsoever.

If it has no flavor, why would you find it disgusting?

I realize the vast majority of the world live to put cheese in every dish they eat. Soft gloppy cheeses make me gag. Most cheese is revolting to me.

R48 You're right, disgusting is too strong. I strongly disapprove of it.

As a vegetarian I find all meats and seafood pretty disgusting. But for the purposes of this thread I'll throw in okra (slimy) and most tropical fruits -just too sweet for me.

Everybody hates something...

Peas. I can't with the texture and rabbit turd shape. The taste is inconsequential.

Broccoli! Don't understand how anyone could eat it. The idea of it being on the plate is bad enough, even if it's separated and I don't have to come in contact with it.

Papaya does taste like puke, but I eat sweet potato.

R20, I eat sushi, but not slabs of sushimi, ugh!

Celery and green bell pepper taste very bitter to me - no thanks!

I really like cottage cheese and pineapple is my very favorite fruit. Just don’t combine the two and expect me to eat it. One bite and I’d hurl.

Beets are the most foul fucking thing I've ever encountered in my life.

Sweetbreads. I won’t eat glands.

Escargot. I think it's insane to eat snails. Not because eating undercooked snails can cause brain damage, but because it's snails.

Chick peas - it feels like they clog my sinuses with a clay residue. I’m also allergic to them as well as split peas.

Chicken skin. And not because “ it’s unhealthy.”

It’s because it is the skin of a chicken . I t reminds me of Hannibal Lecter.

And when someone says oh I just love it, I cringe

Lamb - that revolting smell and taste

Goat

Sweetbreads, offal, tongue, stomach, organ meats (exceptions: liver is vile but paté I generally like, and intestinal sausage casings are inescapable)

Beets

Cottage cheese

Korean food (an aversion stemming entirely from a couple of weeks in an apartment above a Korean restaurant with pungent smells of fermentation and burned meat.)

Ethiopian food - I had too much of it living in Washington DC when I was a young man.

Very stinky cheeses

Meat on the bone or with lots of fatty bits. A giant steak is many peoples ideal menu, but not me. I like some leaner meats in small portions but eat a lot of dishes where meat is a smaller component or absent.

Chicken skin - I don't mind at all if it was cooked in its skin, but I'm not eating it

Avocado - my one allergy, but I dislike the texture and the cooing over a food that's a mushy texture with a too subtle flavor

Rose and rosewater flavoring - I like a lot of Turkish, Middle Eastern, and North African foods, but rosewater and rose flavoring disgusts me: the smell id not flowers but old ladies' undergarments

Other than the above, I like a very wide range of foods, flavors, seasonings, and cuisines and I can usually find things I will try and like on any menu.) Knowing what you don't like doesn't equate to baby tastes; it means I've tried a lot of things and don't like a few.

lentils taste like dirt.

I love you, r60. But I'll never invite you to any of my dinners.

Sardines

Cheers, R60. You like your meats, I gather? That's the principal area where I get picky. Most anything from the sea, vegetable dishes, pastas, rices, grains, and desserts I will enjoy.

I'm a polite guest and and I'll try a lot of things at my host's dinner table that I would never order from a menu. And I never make a fuss about things I can't eat or won't eat, and would never put a host to trying to find something special to please me. Dinners are for good company more than they are for good food, and the invitation to spend time with the hosts and their guests is more important than the menu.

Ribs of any kind.

Marshmallows...just disgusting.

Mayo

Anything with a shell or fins. I can't explain why other than I was born being grossed out by it. And it smells so bad.

Also mushrooms. Several good explanations above.

Pork rinds

R69 yes, pork rinds are pretty awful. Once, when following a ketogenic diet, I used ground pork rinds as a low carbohydrate coating for chicken tenders. In the oven, the liquid in the poultry seeped out and dampened the pork rind coating, and the result had a horrible texture, sort of forensic taste and smell.

Even the “artisanal” pork rinds are fundamentally nasty.

Bananas. Hate the smell, hate the texture, hate the taste.

And yet I can tolerate a few circus peanuts marshmallow candies.

Mushroom.

Not animal. Not plant. Not eating it.

Crustaceans.

Bottom dwellers.

Veal kidneys.

Traumatic childhood experience.

The big toe completely disgusts me which is weird because I adore thumbs 🤷🏻‍♂️

Eggs, but that's because I have an intolerance to them. If I didn't they'd be a useful protein staple.

Rabbit makes me gag. The tiny ribs, ugh. Gtfoh.

Gluten-free products that have no structure and fall apart when you bite into them.

Hard boiled eggs are a gag thing for me right now. Last time I had hard boiled eggs I got major food poisoning. Not even sure I got it from those eggs. But since then I cannot even think about hard boiled eggs anymore. Scrambled or sunny-side up is fine for some odd reason.

Squash

Eggs, esp. egg salad.

Lima beans--any other bean, but not limas

Tarragon--licorice-like in a bad way

Organ meat.

Today agree with oysters and mushrooms and a few others. Organ is disgusting. Eggplant? Keep that shit away from me.

[quote] Veal kidneys. Traumatic childhood experience.

Yours or the cow's?

Most calves sent to veal pens are slaughtered around 16–18 weeks old, but for some types of veal the process can be even more cruel.

[quote]Hard boiled eggs are a gag thing for me right now

Hard boiled eggs have always been a gag thing for me - along with the aforementioned oysters. I'd also add to that liver - I remember my mom cooking that as a kid and the smell was nauseating.

R11 they can also kill you. Take a zinc supplement.

Any shellfish. Especially shrimp. They have a gross texture and shape.

No arthropods!!

When I tried Brie cheese I thought it tasted like vomit.

Canned asparagus is revolving

Can't handle raw tomato texture.

Don't like taste of strawberry.

Raisinettes.

For reasons that are well know to them.

Some of the best cheeses literally smell like dirty feet, but they are oh so good; it's funny how with some foods, the smell is a dealbreaker, but if you can get past that, the taste is delicious

I don’t know what you’re talking about

Tapioca.

Looks like a bowlful of vomit.

Rice pudding. My mom used to make it as kids, always hated it. Tastes like sweetened vomit.

Anything involving hardboiled eggs. Someone mentioned egg salad earlier in this thread and that is basically my kryptonite. The thought of it makes me gag. I cannot stand the smell of hardboiled eggs. My partner buys pre-cooked hardboiled eggs in a bag from the grocery store and I have to leave the room if they are going to be opened in my presence.

Wow! I love egg salad sandwiches, especially with plenty of curry and chutney (or even marmelade) thrown in.

Raw shellfish is nasty, but oyster stew is pretty good.

I don't like seafood. My Mom craved pickled herring while I was in her womb. She ate a lot of it. Allegedly, the baby can taste the food the mother is eating. I have rebelled ever since.

As a child, we thought it was special when mom cooked “ Cornish game hen.” I ate it in innocence for a while.

Then I went to some Beverly’ hills restaurant with friends as a young adult . They raved about “ pigeon something.”

I was peer pressured and pretended to like it. Now it holds a place in my heart reserved for the most disgusting things , like my first glance at my moms droopy boobs hanging out of her girdle onesie.

You seem to imagine Cornish game hen is pigeon? It’s just a type of chicken.

Frogs' legs.

Those little feet bones turn my stomach.

I loathe “any why” tacked onto thread subjects

And who could blame you?

[quote] I loathe “any why” tacked onto thread subjects

Oh, dear.

R2 and they feast on rot

Suck my twat!

Not many foods disgusts but I could never tolerate the texture of okra.

And iffal is something I will not eat.

Chitlins, tripe, tongue.

I don't even eat red meat anymore.

Posters you find tedious and why? Op - same old shit day after day. Must be a psychopath.

OFFAL IS AWFUL

Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies leave an oily film in my mouth.

Black Licorice Jelly Beans - I don't want candy that tastes like NyQuil. And NyQuil is easier to swallow.

[quote]Suck my twat!

That a'int food, its just unpleasant.

R100 No. My post was unclear. I know Cornish game hen and pigeon are different .

They are both disgusting to me. As a child, I dutifully ate the hen, but as I look back, how disgusting .

The pigeons were actually in a taco , and there was some non pigeon name for them on the menu. They tasted good. But when I realized I had actually eaten pigeon. Eccch

My ex husband then boyfriend cooked fish one night. I ate it and liked it. Then he told me it was shark. That alone should have told me the marriage wouldn’t last. Sigh. I’m meant to be alone

Mussels. Fukdatshit

Beets. Taste like dirt

Brussels sprouts. Tastes like dirty feet (don't ask how I know)

Scotch Where is the damn gin? I want gin. Good gin.

Papaya. Tastes and smells like vomit. NOfankyew

Squab? Partridge? Quail?

Why do people keep shoving weird animals down your throat? Do you cry out loud?

I believe the most disgusting food I've ever tried was [italic]andouillette[/italic], French tripe sausage. Runner-up: Japanese [italic]natto[/italic] bean paste.

I don't see how people can like blue cheese? I can just barely tolerate "crumbles" in a larger dish, but as a cheese with crackers (biscuits), or a salad dressing? NO!

^ha ha

prisspots, prisspots, PRISSPOTS!!!!

How are Cornish hens and quail weird? There basically chickens.

R70 use coconut flour. More cohesive.

[Quote] Pancakes Barbara

Oh shut up, George, I love them.

My mother, who did not need to be at all, was always on some sort of diet.

Her breakfast was usually a blenderfull of something called Alba Fit n' Frosty and three pieces of melba toast with cottage cheese put under a broiler.

It stank to high hell. If there's anything worse than cottage cheese, it's hot cottage cheese.

Peanut butter. The texture doesn’t feel like something a person would eat, and the flavor is bland. Partnered with jelly, and spread on a piece of bread, it just never seemed right to me. But, hey, I guess it’s as American as hot dogs and apple pie, and I’m supposed to like it— but I can’t stand it.

Bacon. BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bacon is oversold.

Hens and quail are not chickens !!! Those of us who had to learn a taste for chicken ….. if I could be a fat whore and eat nuts for protein …. But I can’t !!!

So I’ve gotten used to chicken . If you lump in quail and what not, why not lump in birds

Once my daughter said the chicken tasted like bird but I try to forget it

Yogurt, except frozen like ice cream.

Just the thought of those Filipino egg thingies should shut you guys up. Answers the chicken/egg question too.

R126, I don't understand what you're saying. You had to develop a taste for chicken? Are you newly arrived on earth? Quails and chickens are birds so I don't understand your second paragraph. Your daughter said what?

Is this your attempt at humor?

hens are chickens. what a retarded thing to say.

Chitterlings and tripe.

Cole slaw. Nasty horrible food. Gross texture along with that sweet mayonnaise whatever the fuck they put in it.

And no, raw cabbage is just plain disgusting. Cooking it smells awful but I much prefer the taste cooked. I ate coleslaw for 20 years and just plain decided it was nasty, and was I complacent with eating it?

Another thread for people with children's tastes.

Dear R123 and R124

My mother sometimes served peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Not a joke.

Cole slaw varies wildly.

Lutefisk. Makes me prejudiced against Norwegian people.

Jane Fonda talked about peanut butter and bacon sandwiches in her workout book. Yes I have read it. My mom had it. She (Jane) almost made it sound like they caused her early eating disorder so I had to try it. It wasn't worth the effort of frying the bacon, and I love bacon and I am a peanut butter snob. Both wonderful, keep them separate.

I got over my hatred of the awful smell of peanut butter.

Perhaps try a different “butter”? Sunflower butter isn’t bad, or perhaps cashew butter. I admit sometimes they do taste better slightly sweetened.

R129

Sadly, it is a lame attempt at humour, but it’s all true. I have PTSD from early experiences at the San Diego zoo, where chickens mingled with everyone .

Just trying to keep my few brain cells alive. I’ll show more restraint .

Has anyone eaten a choco? They are the most disgusting thing in this whole thread. Nothing is worse.

Even our resident Darfur orphan would refuse to eat a choco.

Vagina

Vagina.

Eggplant, Tofu, anchovies, and raw oysters. I've put a lot of thing in my mouth, but those were the worst.

I have a health condition for which all red meat and processed meat is contraindicated. That leaves seafood, fish, chicken and turkey. Love chicken liver pate but all other offal is taboo. Will eat clams and oysters, but never raw oysters or octopus. All veggies and beans are fine but i dislike limas. All nuts, dairy and soy products are okay. Love rice and all grains. Not a fussy eater.

^ What about eating me, the other white meat?

tick!

Pork is considered red meat, It's a shame.

Cucumber...it's my nemesis and curse because people put it on EVERYTHING, especially in the States. So many sushi rolls have ended in the garbage because most restaurants WILL NOT EVEN FUCKING TELL YOU THAT THEY ARE IN THEM. And its not even that you can just take them out and continue eating because that ass tasting foulness impregnates it's ass taste on everything it touches.

R148: I pick the cucumber out of sushi, although I try to avoid rolls that include it. Trendy cucumber-infused water is my nemesis.

I could have written the exact post above but substitute bell peppers for cucumbers.

R149 I dont even bother because their taste is so strobg for me I can still taste it after I pick it out. Must be a genetic thing like hating Cilantro (which I also dislike though not nearly as much)

R147 - Perhaps. But I can pass for white.

Wentworth, the doctor said no even if you're the other white meat.

I doubt many here who have tried this, but there's this renounced cold Russian salad that looks kinda like a colorful cake. And it is by far the fishiest fish flavored thing I'd ever eaten, far more fishy than any fish itself could possibly be. It's called, in English, "Herring Under a Fur Coat" (or Shuba salad).

I am a Russophile except for this salad.

How's about just asking: are there any cucumbers in this California-Texas Combo Dynamite roll?

Oops. It's renowned - but I renounce it

Autocorrect being so clever

Posts like these always make me question myself, and not necessarily in a good way.

Are there foods I don't care for?

Sure.

Are there foods I like/love?

Again, sure.

There is no food that I've ever had however, that I was disgusted by. I've eaten raw oysters, Rocky Mountain "oysters", rattlesnake, alligator, crab, lobster, shrimp, prawns, deer, elk, pheasant, virtually every fish available (haven't had the poisonous fish from the Simpsons but only because it so rare in the US), etc.

I'd try squirrel if it was served to me (and cooked well done).

Some of you are just pussies.

why do gays want to eat "the fishiest fish flavored thing"?

Since you mentioned it, R157, have you tried pussy too?

Nutraloaf.

R155 because people tend to order through apps now and dobt get to speak or ask questions?

The cucumber thing must be genetic. I don’t get that one at all. There’s not really anything much to hate.

R162: I dislike pineapple, along with cucumbers; celery is also unpleasant, despite being told in conversation once. "But, celery is all about the texture, there is no taste!"

Cottage cheese=eating vomit.

Lamb

Oysters

Salmon because of childhood trama of Creamed Salmon on Toast

Sardines

Prime Rib

Corned Beef

The "and why" troll loves them clicks!

Crap.

I'm disgusted and that's WHY I can't get enough of it.

I’m vegetarian but I don’t usually get grossed out by animal food…but I have this one friend who brings CATFISH DIP to parties and the thought of it makes me want to hurl.

I like pineapple, but I can see why others don't. It's acidic and blows out your palate. After you eat pineapple, it affects your taste buds for about half an hour, IME. Also, it is a bit slimy. It's also a bit of a pain to skin, core, etc. Lots of refuse.

That said, I love the texture and I enjoy eating it. Good with a bit of salt!

I love pineapple, used to eat it all the time. I can’t eat it anymore. I’ve somehow developed an allergy to it in my older age. It makes my lips break out. The first time it was mild and I wrote it off as something else..the second time, it felt like my lips were falling off. They were raw and peeling for a couple of weeks.

I’d rather eat pussy than a hot dog

It has an enzyme in it that breaks down protein fibers, R170.

[quote]but I have this one friend who brings CATFISH DIP to parties

Without doubt the most 'country ass' thing I e read in a very long time.

Mangoes/Mangos are disgusting. Can't stand them at all.

Wow. There are different kinds of mangoes. If you find a good variety, I would consider that one of the best foods out there.

A mango lassi is are delicious.

I agree with R174. The texture of mangoes is mealy and nasty, and the flavor has a slightly rancid perfumy-sweet taste that I don't like. Most non-citrus tropical fruit is like that - tastes like it's been sitting in the fruit bowl just a bit too long.

^^^ not so much rancid as fermented. Like it's starting to go off.

Okra.

Brussels sprouts.

Buy better mangoes

Sausages. Finger nails and assholes.

Cottage cheese. I associate it with old, sickly people for some reason and always have. I bought some recently because of its high protein content (doing keto). I opened it and couldn't bring myself to eat it. The curds looked disgusting.

R183, I like cottage cheese as long as it's full-fat (4%) but can see why others don't like it.

If for some reason you really want to eat cottage cheese, try adding minced onion, plenty of S&P and a spice you like. (I like cumin.) Cottage cheese so bland it really takes on the taste of anything you add to it ... but you can't do much about the texture, so if that's the problem, no c.c. for you!

okra is fine breaded and baked/fried.

or cooked to death in some indian/other food.

pickled is not too bad either with the tiny ones.

Organ meats, tongue, brain, testicles, eyeballs, tripe

ALL live animals - I'm eating it if it's still moving when served. Whole animals served on a platter.

Most meats that are not traditionally served in western countries - squirrel, raccoon, monkey, cat, dog, pangolin, reptiles (snake, alligator, lizards, iguana), most so-called "bush meat"

I'd say horse, but based on recent reports, horse meat has infiltrated the meat supply in the US, so we've all been eating it.

I'm fine with kangaroo and antelope - it's like venison.

I realize this looks like a long list and makes me look like I'm a picky eater. Most people if they really thought about it would likely agree with a majority of my list.

[quote]Organ meats, tongue, brain, testicles, eyeballs, tripe

I won´t miss the seemingly waning trend in expensive restaurants for. the "eyeballs to assholes" approach of paying a celebrity chef like Chris Cosentino to serve up all manner of girsly, chewy, gamey bits and pieces that should have been sent off the the fertilizer factory. That poor people have been eating the stuff for millenia doesn´t improve it, no more than we should all shit in a bucket because indoor plumbing goes against the traditional grain.

[quote]ALL live animals - I'm eating it if it's still moving when served.

This should say:

ALL live animals - I'm NOT eating it if it's still moving when served.

R177 and others that hate mangoes, R181 is correct. Buy better mangoes. Specifically NOT from Mexico and Central America. They are not very good. Living in Hawaii has spoiled me though. We have a variety named Hayden mangoes and they are the best of the best. I also think you could be eating over-ripened mangoes which tend to become mushy. Squeeze fresh lime on your mango, it's great that way.

You also want to make sure your mango is properly ripened.

I'm getting the impression that mangos aren't worth the trouble.