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I'm not a fussy eater, but I can't stand...

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shysal Mon 15-Apr-13 12:51:32

We often have threads about our favourite foods, so what are your dislikes?
Mine include very hot spicy food, sourdough bread, and peppers. Slightly different is the cherry flavouring in some foods and drinks which reminds me of the penicillin emulsion I used to take when I had pneumonia/measles as a child.

BAnanas Mon 15-Apr-13 13:01:12

Offal!

gillybob Mon 15-Apr-13 13:02:28

How strange shysal me and you must be polar opposites as I love spicy food and adore anything with a cherry flavour too. smile

Grannyeggs Mon 15-Apr-13 13:08:03

Kidneys and beet root. DH loves beet root so I am trying, but no success so far.

janeainsworth Mon 15-Apr-13 13:08:15

Agree with BAnanas, I enjoy anything except offal, and also now dislike the very sweet things like rum babas that I used to love!
Also don't eat shop-bought pies, with the exception of genuine Cornish pasties made by Warren's bakery in Penzance!

absent Mon 15-Apr-13 13:14:59

Kohlrabi – it has all the worst characteristics of turnip and cabbage and none of the good ones.

Grannyeggs I have a cousin who considers beetroot obscene. I once wrote him a poem (piece of doggrel really) about vegetables, ending with a verse about the obscenity of beetroot.

BAnanas Mon 15-Apr-13 13:22:53

The worst meal in my life, many years ago in France when I mistakenly ordered something called Andouilette thinking it was fish and it turned out to be innards, intestines and a lot worse in the guise of a sausage, so awful it still haunts me!

janeainsworth Mon 15-Apr-13 13:28:40

BAnanas we once in our ignorance ordered 'cervelle' in a small French restaurant far from the beaten track, which did not translate its menu.
Thought the texture was 'interesting, got back to the pension, (not that kind Frank grin), got out our trusty Collins school French dictionary and discovered we'd had brains for tea!
[Double yuk emoticon]!!

Gally Mon 15-Apr-13 13:38:03

Offal, belly of pork/pork chops,anything with fat or gristle in it, mango, papaya, oysters (allergic to), hot chilli peppers, cherries unless they are straight off the tree, piccalilli and marzipan; so I am not a fussy eater really grin

cathy Mon 15-Apr-13 13:46:13

Black pudding YUK!!

I have also gone off sausages since finding out that they are full of pigs ears and noses and so I now only buy the most expensive sausages.

j08 Mon 15-Apr-13 14:04:03

Prawns in fish pie.

I can eat them in a supermarket sandwich, with plenty of mayo. But not warm and squidgy in a pie. Spoils the whole thing for me.

noodles Mon 15-Apr-13 14:05:31

To my taste buds rocket has a disgusting almost meaty taste and I simply can't eat it.

glassortwo Mon 15-Apr-13 14:29:27

Tripe, black pudding.

Zengran Mon 15-Apr-13 14:39:43

Offal for me, too, and, for no fathomable reason, broad beans.

My OH loves that malt extract with cod liver oil that comes in a big jar. He eats it from the jar with a spoon! I cannot bear it, even the smell makes me nauseous!

sunseeker Mon 15-Apr-13 14:46:08

offal, belly of pork, red and green peppers (work of the devil!), beetroot, pickles. Add to that the fact that I am also allergic to tomatoes, fish and raw onions.

absent Mon 15-Apr-13 14:50:03

Zengran I was never a great fan of broad beans, although I could eat them, until a friend and keen gardener brought me a bag of them freshly picked about 30 minutes earlier. Boy was there a difference between those and the ones you get in supermarkets. I think a lot of the commercially available broad beans are too mature and they certainly won't be nice unless you individually pop them out of their skins.

Grannyeggs Mon 15-Apr-13 14:56:24

absent I so agree with your cousin about beetroot.

glammanana Mon 15-Apr-13 15:09:12

janeainsworth we had a similar experience in France one summer,we stopped at a small hotel for the night and ordered a meal with a "know it all aunt" of mr.glamma's I do unlike yourself like liver and she convinced me to order what she had translated as liver,when it arrived and inspected in great depth my moi I found out it was boiled tounge and the little grey bits where the teeth smiling at me urggh !! ended up with an omelette for peace of mind.grin

matson Mon 15-Apr-13 15:27:48

Garlic, mushrooms and tomatoes! x

janeainsworth Mon 15-Apr-13 15:29:42

Glamma shockgrin

Enviousamerican Mon 15-Apr-13 15:33:31

The only foods mentioned I WOULD eat are the peppers,not hot,onions and sourdough bread,sweet not sour pickles,tomatoes. Don't feed me sauerkraut or other pickled veggies.Sheep or liver.My childhood medicine was flavored with a strong vanilla flavoring.yukky smell.No fish with eyes showing please.No animal innards!

TracySmith Mon 15-Apr-13 16:10:31

Really spicy food, liver or squid.

I'm not a huge fan of pork either if it's not cooked properly (can very eaily get too dry) smile

bookdreamer Mon 15-Apr-13 16:24:21

Sunseeker I call green peppers work of the devil too! About the only thing I won't eat.

annodomini Mon 15-Apr-13 16:45:39

Dislike the texture of celery and loathe beetroot; anything with desiccated coconut in it; squid seems to me to have the texture of rubber bands and I cannot persuade myself to like shellfish.

LullyDully Mon 15-Apr-13 16:59:31

had steak tartar once didn't realise it was raw minced beef with a raw egg in the middle....naive......horrible.