I discovered at the age of about 28 that I liked mushrooms. Had never tried them always refused them then one night drunk I ate mushroom pakora. Have them all the time now in fryups, pasta, even stuffed mushrooms 😂
Can understand why you might pretend in some scenarios, especially if you're socially anxious and don't want too much attention, but to intentionally lie about it to your wife and kid is fucking bizarre.
When the only way to get someone to shut up about you not wanting to eat something at that time is to just say “I’ve tried it and I don’t like it” because they will not stop going on about it and that’s the easiest way out, then you just have to commit because they are a “I told you so” person.
I’m not at all picky with food but I have family members who are (ranging from quite picky to a full blown eating disorder), but it is incredibly tiresome for them to have to answer the stupidest questions if they ever mention an aversion to anything. Much easier to say “i tried it and don’t like it” than to have get badgered by people with no boundaries who can’t envisage someone thinking in any way different to them.
Because the concept is unpleasant? I've never tried eating life octopus which is a delicacy in some places because I think it sounds like an experience I don't need. I'm a vegetarian anyway, but before I was strict I used to try things and would try very unusual things and usually enjoyed them, but I don't need to eat a live octopus.
I thought this about pistachio nits for years even though I'd never tried them. Turns out I'm just very allergic. Sometimes your brain knows something you don't.
This was my thoughts…why not just try it and then actually confirm you don’t like it; or better yet find something you like! Marmite is lovely on buttered toast
I tried oysters. Had them at Rick Stein’s restaurant, so if they’re any good, those ones would be. I didn’t like them. It was like eating sandy sea water.
My son eats chicken nuggets. With a side of chicken nuggets. Practically the only other thing he will eat is mussels. Which boggles my mind. I like mussels but if you're grossed out by food then surely mussels is up there?
Big bowl of mussels in white wine and garlic sauce, with a nice sliced bloomer to soak up the sauce. I've ruined many main courses by filling up on this as a starter.
I dislike pretty much all seafood: it tastes of ammonia to me (yes, all of it, except cod roe and fishfingers), but the added slime would likely make me gag if I tried.
Mussels are actually quite yummy if they’re cooked well in the right sauce. Be brave one day you might enjoy them! I’m with you on oysters tho, I hate them. And cavier, absolutely disgusting 🤢
I hated it for the longest time, then I finally tried it because family members wanted to order some for a takeaway, now it’s my favourite cuisine! (Although I’m vegan now, so I’ve never had it with actual fish.)
For the life of me I cannot understand how a single soul likes olives. I’ve tried green and black and it’s like they’re both competing to see which one can be the worst tasting food in the world. I’m stunned that they are so popular.
My friend was the same then she had some and decided they were good, then said 'if someone had just explained they're salty grapes, I'd have tried them sooner'
I agree, but there are definitely limits to this - I have no desire to try and of the fermented/preserved foods that are generally known as being disgusting.
Rhubarb. My mum used to turn it into this pink-ish goo and it looked absolutely disgusting. I downright refused to eat it, even if that meant being sent to my room.
Mmm, a summertime staple where I’m from is a tomato sandwich. Beefsteak(personal preference) tomatoes with salt and fresh cracked black pepper, & homemade mayo on sourdough. Perfection.
Rhubarb has to be cooked correctly. It’s naturally tough and bitter, so has to be cooked to within an inch of its life and sweetened, then it is beautiful. Tangy against the sugar!
A lot of kids don't like tomatoes and there is a simple reason why. If you have any kind of grass allergy, the same allergen is in raw tomatoes. Eating a tomato will cause a mild allergic reaction that can be uncomfortable. But kids don't know how to say it's uncomfortable to eat so they just say they don't like them.
Guinness is hit and miss. Guiness has a really short shelf life and you can get a genuinely horrible pint, so it doesnt travel well. If the supply chain is too long it can be quite nasty.
I have tried Guinness and I still don't like it. I wish I did though because it's just a beautiful looking drink. I poured my own pint at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and was so disappointed that I didn't like it.
It is indeed a very strong flavour, and three years ago I'd have been hard pushed to get through half a pint of it. But as I've started drinking more beers over the past couple of years, I've found Guinness to actually be an incredibly smooth drink - providing you get it from a decent pub of course
I can't stand peanuts but I love peanut butter! We probably go through a jar every week or so, it gets used for so much. A spoonful in the baby's breakfast yoghurt (good for preventing allergies), I have some on my toast, ooh and I often make beef satay and use it in the marinade and the sauce and it's to die for! But if you'd asked me about a year ago I'd have boaked at the thought of peanut butter. Reese's cups changed my mind.
Same here. Once I read Anthony Bourdain’s description that, “your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother” I crossed that right off my list of foods to try.
Smell put me off. But after much exposure in Asia I succumbed. Tried Durian ice cream. Durian chocolate. Durian custard (made me feel sick). And Fresh Durian.
I'm weird about food textures and if something looks like it might have a texture which I am known not to enjoy I'll tend to avoid it, mostly due to not wanting to make a scene. I reckon it's more polite to avoid the thing than potentially retch at the dinner table.
My mum force-fed me a bit of liver when I was five and I was completely right in my prejudice against it, it tasted horrendous. Still won’t eat any sort of internal organs, including liver paté, and I only grudgingly eat haggis sometimes because my Scottish partner thinks it’s the ambrosia of the gods. Objectively haggis tastes fine, but the ick factor makes me nauseous and it still kind of has that organ meat taste that I’ve always hated.
When I was a kid, I thought I hated kidney beans so whenever my mum made chilli con carne I would take all the beans out before eating. And yet I loved baked beans; haricot and kidney beans are very similar in taste and texture so it made little sense that I wouldn't eat the latter in a chilli. I can't even remember why I thought I hated kidney beans in the first place but I would not eat them.
Public enemy number one is what you've made yourself into. I can't say I drink tea regularly but to say you dislike tea is a capital offence, in this country, as you probably well know.
I’m exactly the same. The smell of it makes me feel physically sick. I think I was given it when I was 2 or 3 by my grandma ‘to make you feel better’ when I was ill, and then immediately vomited. I’m sure I was sick because of the illness not the tea, but to this day I still can’t go near tea - I’m 50 now!
I'm the opposite of this. I will try virtually anything because if people eat it it can't be that bad. I also periodically go back to things I don't like just incase it was the product, the chef or both.
I’m exactly the same. I love trying new foods. There’s a few things I don’t like but only one that I won’t try a second time and that’s natto. The stringy sticky texture was proper gag inducing. Glad I tried it though
Cause some people are incapable of understanding that some have no interest or desire to try certain foods so its easier to just lie and say "I dont like it" instead of some back and forth with someone who seems to know better about what food I'll like than I do myself
Krispy Creme donuts. I used to work in an office where people would bring boxes of the things in every morning (there was shop near by). I always said they looked too sickly sweet, so never tried one.
They are sickly sweet. I worked in one of the large supermarket chains and during the lockdowns noone bought the Krispy Kremes. They all got dumped in the canteen for us to eat so that there would be less to go in the bin. I grew sick of them
Olives. They just look like they have a nasty texture. That combined with the colour of them (both black and green) just don’t to anything to entice me. So yeah I hate olives. No I’ve never tried one 😅
Haha I had the same thing, I liked it when my BF’s mum made one. Turns out a lot of stuff I hated as a kid was my parents not being great cooks or using really terrible quality meat
Never had frogs legs but snails taste like mushrooms to me. They have that texture and if you eat them cooked in a sauce and not crispy or on top of pizza like I did one, you're all good.
Tried it. The smell is massively overstated. Opening the can, sure it doesn't smell like something you'd normally eat, but I've smelt way worse walking down the street without coming anywhere near gagging. The fish itself tastes nothing like that smell at all. If anything it was a little smokey.
It's a weird one. To my mind they are effectively sea insects, but I grew up having them and enjoy them. By contrast I haven't enjoyed the few insects I've intentionally eaten (namely crickets) and don't feel especially drawn to trying other insects.
Nothing really springs to mind other than when I was in Turkey and a small cafe type place had sheep brain soup on the menu. I'll try most things once but couldn't get past the brain.
Other things with similar levels of flavour: plain rice, pasta, or potatoes. But just like those it can be a great comfort food on it's own or a vehicle for sauces / cheese.
As someone who was made to eat plain boiled cauliflower on roast dinners I can confirm its wank if that's all you do with it, but if you make it as if it's buffalo chicken wings or cauliflower cheese then it's lovely
Honestly, I hate that mindset. It's so childish. Be daring, you might find your new favourite food. At worst, you won't like it and you'll spit it out.
Most seafood. I have a mental reaction to salt - I start coughing at the thought of salt - from when I grabbed a handful of what I thought was sugar as a kid.
Sushi. Any type. For years I thought I wouldn't like it, no idea why because I can eat every aspect of it separately. Tried it a year ago as my bf loves it and there is no reason I shouldn't like it. Made me gag, I think the years of thinking I won't like it has convinced my body I can't eat it. Kinda frustrating
I used to feel that way about marmite, you should try just a little bit on a heavily buttered crumpet, the way it melds with the melted butter and seeps into the little holes is beautiful
Why would you not try it though? I love trying new food, I'll eat anything. Honestly it pisses me off. It's not hard to just shove it in your mouth and least try it. I hate picky eaters.
Crisps - I've had hula hoops and pom bears but that's it. I smelt some walkers when I was younger, didn't like them and have avoided them since. When I tell people now they don't believe me. I think if I tried them I'd probably like them, but I see no point in adding to me list of "junk food I like" - it's better to just leave them to their business so that I don't suddenly gorge on something unhealthy.
A reminder to posters and commenters of some of
That weird French thing where you cook a bird alive in brandy and eat it with a tea towel over your head so that you don't make god sad.
What the fuck?
Tom and Greg did this on Succession
That’s fucking awful (I haven’t eaten it, but it’s barbaric). Same thing with foie gras.
I think I remember Jeremy Clarkson eating something like this a while ago. It really weirded me out at the time
I thought that was just a joke on American Dad!
That's such a specialist food, when have you pretended to eat it?
100% this. Also snails. No thanks lol.
I think either the exam for GCSE or A-Level English had an extract about the Ortolan that you had to write about. Anyone else remember it?
Some French cooking isn’t fancy, it’s just barbaric.
I’m French and I never heard of that lmao I’m gonna google it
I thought this was just summat Roger made up in American Dad 😂
Yea I definitely don’t like that
This used to be me and mushrooms.
It's not the taste, it's the slimy texture.
The devil's bellend 🤣
I maintain that nothing about the look of any mushroom says “yeah I’m nice to eat”.
I discovered at the age of about 28 that I liked mushrooms. Had never tried them always refused them then one night drunk I ate mushroom pakora. Have them all the time now in fryups, pasta, even stuffed mushrooms 😂
I had the same, but in my case, I liked them after I had COVID and my taste changed permanently
Why on earth would you pretend not to like something you’ve never tried?
Maybe you assume you don't like it.
Can understand why you might pretend in some scenarios, especially if you're socially anxious and don't want too much attention, but to intentionally lie about it to your wife and kid is fucking bizarre.
When the only way to get someone to shut up about you not wanting to eat something at that time is to just say “I’ve tried it and I don’t like it” because they will not stop going on about it and that’s the easiest way out, then you just have to commit because they are a “I told you so” person.
I’m not at all picky with food but I have family members who are (ranging from quite picky to a full blown eating disorder), but it is incredibly tiresome for them to have to answer the stupidest questions if they ever mention an aversion to anything. Much easier to say “i tried it and don’t like it” than to have get badgered by people with no boundaries who can’t envisage someone thinking in any way different to them.
So many children in here!
Because the concept is unpleasant? I've never tried eating life octopus which is a delicacy in some places because I think it sounds like an experience I don't need. I'm a vegetarian anyway, but before I was strict I used to try things and would try very unusual things and usually enjoyed them, but I don't need to eat a live octopus.
I thought this about pistachio nits for years even though I'd never tried them. Turns out I'm just very allergic. Sometimes your brain knows something you don't.
Smell, for example. Plenty of things I don't want to get anywhere near my face.
Aversions exist
This was my thoughts…why not just try it and then actually confirm you don’t like it; or better yet find something you like! Marmite is lovely on buttered toast
In front of your kid and wife too. Don’t get it. What a fool.
Oysters and mussels. They look slimy and gross. People claim they're delicious, I'm just not brave enough to find out.
I tried oysters. Had them at Rick Stein’s restaurant, so if they’re any good, those ones would be. I didn’t like them. It was like eating sandy sea water.
I tried oysters for you. They’re shit.
My son eats chicken nuggets. With a side of chicken nuggets. Practically the only other thing he will eat is mussels. Which boggles my mind. I like mussels but if you're grossed out by food then surely mussels is up there?
Big bowl of mussels in white wine and garlic sauce, with a nice sliced bloomer to soak up the sauce. I've ruined many main courses by filling up on this as a starter.
I dislike pretty much all seafood: it tastes of ammonia to me (yes, all of it, except cod roe and fishfingers), but the added slime would likely make me gag if I tried.
This has saved me before. Everyone I was with the evening before waking up being sick and I was ok.
I had food poisoning from mussels once. Never again. I didn’t even enjoy them that much.
This is me. Gross salty slug like nonsense. I genuinely don’t believe I’d like it.
Mussels in white wine or garlic sauce is superb, oysters look disgusting with a slimy texture and I can't bring myself to try them.
Mussels are actually quite yummy if they’re cooked well in the right sauce. Be brave one day you might enjoy them! I’m with you on oysters tho, I hate them. And cavier, absolutely disgusting 🤢
Sushi, never had it, don’t want it.
I can understand the aversion to fish sushi, I'd give vegetable sushi a try though (except the one with cucumbers in, I avoid that).
I first tried sushi on TV and was sick into a bin. Lucky it was only a channel 5 show so nobody saw it.
It's so good though!
Yea you're missing out
I lost 35 years to this mindset 😪
Do you mean the rice dish or the raw fish? You can get sushi without raw fish and it's delicious!
I hated it for the longest time, then I finally tried it because family members wanted to order some for a takeaway, now it’s my favourite cuisine! (Although I’m vegan now, so I’ve never had it with actual fish.)
Fish. I don’t get it no one ever said…..yum smell that it smells like fish. Yet people eat it.
Fresh fish shouldn’t actually smell fishy! The fishier the fish smells, the older it is.
Hershey's chocolate does smell like shit and vomit but the Americans love it.
For me, fish is the smell wafting from the door of the gents loo in a pub that hasn’t been cleaned for a week.
Sometimes bad BO smells like meat and potato pies. It doesn't smell nice even though pies smell and taste lovely. Context changes everything.
Your brain precesses things differently. Smelling popcorn at the movies, great! Smelling popcorn in your car, not so great.
For 26 years it was olives. Then I tried one and I was absolutely right.
For the life of me I cannot understand how a single soul likes olives. I’ve tried green and black and it’s like they’re both competing to see which one can be the worst tasting food in the world. I’m stunned that they are so popular.
There's a huge variety taste though.. black olives can often taste really and I mean really bland.
My friend was the same then she had some and decided they were good, then said 'if someone had just explained they're salty grapes, I'd have tried them sooner'
The only redeeming feature of olives is the oil.
Nothing. I will always give something a try first before saying I don't like it.
I’m almost the same. But with the smell caveat.
I agree, but there are definitely limits to this - I have no desire to try and of the fermented/preserved foods that are generally known as being disgusting.
This, but I fully acknowledge I should give more things a second chance after enough time has passed.
Rhubarb. My mum used to turn it into this pink-ish goo and it looked absolutely disgusting. I downright refused to eat it, even if that meant being sent to my room.
Mmm, a summertime staple where I’m from is a tomato sandwich. Beefsteak(personal preference) tomatoes with salt and fresh cracked black pepper, & homemade mayo on sourdough. Perfection.
Rhubarb has to be cooked correctly. It’s naturally tough and bitter, so has to be cooked to within an inch of its life and sweetened, then it is beautiful. Tangy against the sugar!
A lot of kids don't like tomatoes and there is a simple reason why. If you have any kind of grass allergy, the same allergen is in raw tomatoes. Eating a tomato will cause a mild allergic reaction that can be uncomfortable. But kids don't know how to say it's uncomfortable to eat so they just say they don't like them.
I’m sort of the same with rhubarb, I just can’t eat cooked fruit - especially if it’s in a pie or crumble. But raw rhubarb, love it.
Not food, but I've never tried Guinness but I'm 100% sure I won't like it.
I actually tried this last week accidentally after the same idea, it's actually really nice.
Guinness is hit and miss. Guiness has a really short shelf life and you can get a genuinely horrible pint, so it doesnt travel well. If the supply chain is too long it can be quite nasty.
This was actually thier advertising slogan for a while
Liquid caramel me and my mates call it.
I have tried Guinness and I still don't like it. I wish I did though because it's just a beautiful looking drink. I poured my own pint at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and was so disappointed that I didn't like it.
First one's horrible. But after a while, you really start to like it
It does not taste how you expect - I am almost certain.
It is indeed a very strong flavour, and three years ago I'd have been hard pushed to get through half a pint of it. But as I've started drinking more beers over the past couple of years, I've found Guinness to actually be an incredibly smooth drink - providing you get it from a decent pub of course
Black pudding
I came here to say this. I eat meat so it probably makes me a hypocrite, but I don’t fancy eating fried scabs.
Absolutely thought I hated black pudding until I actually tried it now a love it
I grew up in Bury ( home of the black pudding) and never ate it until I went to Liverpool to uni- it’s delicious.
Stornoway Black Pudding has entered the chat! Fucking delicious
Knew a guy who called it an Elastoplast as its mostly blood. He was vegan so I think he was trying to put me off eating meat.
When it’s cooked properly it’s a little crispy on the outside but soft and velvety on the inside, 11/10 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
My excuse is “I know what it smells like, so I know what it tastes like” so far I’ve been right.
Same. I've never smelt something disgusting and had it turn out to taste delicious.
Any sort of mouldy, fluffy cheese. Fuck that shit
Veins - good. Fluff - gone off!
I think even on good moudly cheese like those with penicillium if you start seeing fluffiness you should not eat that.
Peanut butter. I dislike peanuts, so I’m not trying them blitzed up into mush. No thanks!
I can't stand peanuts but I love peanut butter! We probably go through a jar every week or so, it gets used for so much. A spoonful in the baby's breakfast yoghurt (good for preventing allergies), I have some on my toast, ooh and I often make beef satay and use it in the marinade and the sauce and it's to die for! But if you'd asked me about a year ago I'd have boaked at the thought of peanut butter. Reese's cups changed my mind.
I like peanuts. Peanut butter just ruins them though.
Same, hate actual nuts so not bothering trying with the butters.
See, I love peanuts, but only on their own/salted. Peanut butter is nasty, any nut in chocolate is also nasty.
Durian fruit.
The taste is irrelevant if you cant stand the smell of the stuff beforehand - and I can affirm first hand that it smells vile.
Same here. Once I read Anthony Bourdain’s description that, “your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother” I crossed that right off my list of foods to try.
Smell put me off. But after much exposure in Asia I succumbed. Tried Durian ice cream. Durian chocolate. Durian custard (made me feel sick). And Fresh Durian.
Nothing, why would you do that?
Aversions: the thought makes you feel sick.
I'm weird about food textures and if something looks like it might have a texture which I am known not to enjoy I'll tend to avoid it, mostly due to not wanting to make a scene. I reckon it's more polite to avoid the thing than potentially retch at the dinner table.
Internal organs. Liver, kidney, heart, testes, etc.
Testes are on the outside in a sac
Not even pate? Duck liver pate with a bit of brandy and tarragon - lovely.
My mum force-fed me a bit of liver when I was five and I was completely right in my prejudice against it, it tasted horrendous. Still won’t eat any sort of internal organs, including liver paté, and I only grudgingly eat haggis sometimes because my Scottish partner thinks it’s the ambrosia of the gods. Objectively haggis tastes fine, but the ick factor makes me nauseous and it still kind of has that organ meat taste that I’ve always hated.
When I was a kid, I thought I hated kidney beans so whenever my mum made chilli con carne I would take all the beans out before eating. And yet I loved baked beans; haricot and kidney beans are very similar in taste and texture so it made little sense that I wouldn't eat the latter in a chilli. I can't even remember why I thought I hated kidney beans in the first place but I would not eat them.
Tea (as in a cup of)! Never tried it but the smell makes me feel sick
Get out…..
I'm calling the police
Public enemy number one is what you've made yourself into. I can't say I drink tea regularly but to say you dislike tea is a capital offence, in this country, as you probably well know.
Now.. you are not allowed to say that here
You know we have to send you away now right?
I’m exactly the same. The smell of it makes me feel physically sick. I think I was given it when I was 2 or 3 by my grandma ‘to make you feel better’ when I was ill, and then immediately vomited. I’m sure I was sick because of the illness not the tea, but to this day I still can’t go near tea - I’m 50 now!
Is this with or without milk?, I find super milky tea sickly. I love tea made normally though so pitchforks down please.
Same. But I also hate milk!
Somehow it tastes dry. Horrible stuff.
Loads of black teas to try amongst other types and also I often have without milk which completely changes it. Surely find one out there
Prawns and all other seafood with the exception of tuna and the main white fish types! Won’t go near it no way nuh uh
Tuna is the worst of the lot! Sea bass is utterly delightful
I also refuse to eat prawns. The concept of eating an entire creature in one bite including its BRAIN and EYES just freaks me out.
I'm the opposite of this. I will try virtually anything because if people eat it it can't be that bad. I also periodically go back to things I don't like just incase it was the product, the chef or both.
I'm the same.
I’m exactly the same. I love trying new foods. There’s a few things I don’t like but only one that I won’t try a second time and that’s natto. The stringy sticky texture was proper gag inducing. Glad I tried it though
Twiglets until about a month ago. They're actually pretty good.
Nope, I buy them every few years or so. Each time they're just as rank as I remember them being. I clearly just enjoy punishing my taste buds.
Why would you do that? That makes no sense..
Cause some people are incapable of understanding that some have no interest or desire to try certain foods so its easier to just lie and say "I dont like it" instead of some back and forth with someone who seems to know better about what food I'll like than I do myself
Because people are different
Krispy Creme donuts. I used to work in an office where people would bring boxes of the things in every morning (there was shop near by). I always said they looked too sickly sweet, so never tried one.
They are sickly sweet. I worked in one of the large supermarket chains and during the lockdowns noone bought the Krispy Kremes. They all got dumped in the canteen for us to eat so that there would be less to go in the bin. I grew sick of them
This is the most reasonable explanation on here.
Olives. They just look like they have a nasty texture. That combined with the colour of them (both black and green) just don’t to anything to entice me. So yeah I hate olives. No I’ve never tried one 😅
That used to be one of mine as well. Then I tried one and it was vile. So that confirmed my opinion. Never again.
Cottage pie.
Haha I had the same thing, I liked it when my BF’s mum made one. Turns out a lot of stuff I hated as a kid was my parents not being great cooks or using really terrible quality meat
Snails and frogs legs I guess.
Never had frogs legs but snails taste like mushrooms to me. They have that texture and if you eat them cooked in a sauce and not crispy or on top of pizza like I did one, you're all good.
Frog legs are worth a try. Absolutely delicious if cooked properly.
Shellfish.
Prawn cocktail crisps taste as much like prawn as chicken crisps taste like chicken; not at all.
Gherkins.
Best part of the burger
I have tried them once and once only, will never put them in my mouth again.
Black Pudding. I’m not eating fried blood like a Ainsley Harriott Vampire.
No...a full English isn't complete without a slab of black pudding
Surströmming. I haven’t tried it, but I know I wouldn’t enjoy the experience. Having to get past the smell doesn’t make for an enjoyable meal.
Tried it. The smell is massively overstated. Opening the can, sure it doesn't smell like something you'd normally eat, but I've smelt way worse walking down the street without coming anywhere near gagging. The fish itself tastes nothing like that smell at all. If anything it was a little smokey.
Tripe. Just no.
Prawns, don’t know why I just refuse to try them.
You not missing out. They're just fishy chewy styrofoam
It's a weird one. To my mind they are effectively sea insects, but I grew up having them and enjoy them. By contrast I haven't enjoyed the few insects I've intentionally eaten (namely crickets) and don't feel especially drawn to trying other insects.
Nothing really springs to mind other than when I was in Turkey and a small cafe type place had sheep brain soup on the menu. I'll try most things once but couldn't get past the brain.
Until about 5 years ago, blue cheese. To me it always looked like it should be thrown out.
Crumbled Stilton on anything.
I finally got over my fear and assumed dislike of oysters, and gave them a try.
Nothing, I'll try anything atleast once.
Olives.
Not a good, but I’ve never had a cup of coffee and have never tried it even.
Cauliflower. For some reason it makes me think it's going to be bland and tasteless so why would I want it.
Other things with similar levels of flavour: plain rice, pasta, or potatoes. But just like those it can be a great comfort food on it's own or a vehicle for sauces / cheese.
As someone who was made to eat plain boiled cauliflower on roast dinners I can confirm its wank if that's all you do with it, but if you make it as if it's buffalo chicken wings or cauliflower cheese then it's lovely
Salmon. Never had it, just feel like I'd hate it based on how it smells.
Honestly, I hate that mindset. It's so childish. Be daring, you might find your new favourite food. At worst, you won't like it and you'll spit it out.
No.
Cucumbers?! Are you mad?!
balut 🤮🤮 an unborn bird still in the egg! nope nope nope
Most seafood. I have a mental reaction to salt - I start coughing at the thought of salt - from when I grabbed a handful of what I thought was sugar as a kid.
Seafood and fish mostly aren’t salty…
Just because it lives in the sea doesn't mean it is salty. Oysters are a bit but virtually all fish aren't salty at all.
My grandma would sometimes mix up salt and sugar and serve us kids salted hot chocolate. She wouldn't believe us when we told her it was salty
badanimalanatomy
Oysters. I will never ever even attempt to try one.
That Scandinavian fish that they ferment and bury outside cause it honks to high heaven. I like fish but that ones a no from me.
Jellied Eels. But I'm pretty confident they're going to be shit.
Sushi. Any type. For years I thought I wouldn't like it, no idea why because I can eat every aspect of it separately. Tried it a year ago as my bf loves it and there is no reason I shouldn't like it. Made me gag, I think the years of thinking I won't like it has convinced my body I can't eat it. Kinda frustrating
Sushi. Doesn’t appeal to me at all, I don’t need to taste it.
Octopus! I feel like they would be slimey and rubbery so I don't like it and I'm not eating it!
Dog meat and other similar strange meat that my western mind cant even imagine trying.
I used to feel that way about marmite, you should try just a little bit on a heavily buttered crumpet, the way it melds with the melted butter and seeps into the little holes is beautiful
When people try it, a lot of the time, they treat it like chocolate spread.
Why don't you just... try it? You have it in your house, just try it when your wife's not around lol
Used to be like that with haggis just because I knew what it was made from. Tried it the other month and now can't get enough
Why would you not try it though? I love trying new food, I'll eat anything. Honestly it pisses me off. It's not hard to just shove it in your mouth and least try it. I hate picky eaters.
Cheese, cucumber, Marmite with optional crisps is a quality sandwich
Sea food - specifically prawns. Just the thought of the eyes and all the long wiggly bits. If I have to crack its exoskeleton, no thanks!!!
Lobster. Sounds gross.
Any seafood other than a few certain types of fish. Game. Snails. Chia seeds.
Sushi
Crisps - I've had hula hoops and pom bears but that's it. I smelt some walkers when I was younger, didn't like them and have avoided them since. When I tell people now they don't believe me. I think if I tried them I'd probably like them, but I see no point in adding to me list of "junk food I like" - it's better to just leave them to their business so that I don't suddenly gorge on something unhealthy.
I’m old enough not to say I don’t like anything but recognise where I am put off by something.
How the hell have you never had cucumbers?
Vegan cheese. I don't like cheese that much and the consensus seems to be that the vegan imitation is much worse.
I used to have a lot but slowly made sure, as an adult, to try most of them.
Pork.
I periodically force myself to try the foods I traditionally dislike. Managed to get over my dislike of mussels, somewhat.
not a thing adults do
That fruit that smells like death and those pickled duck eggs w fetus