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

Hello Grannyeggs
I also hate beetroot with an OH who loves it.
However here follows a recipe for beetroot salad which even I can eat.

Beetroot , ready cooked packet from supermarket
Cheese
Mayo
Walnuts
Garlic.

Grate beetroot, grate cheese, chop walnuts small.
Mix mayo with crushed garlic.
Pile in bowl and mix all together.
If garlic not wanted, chop some spring onions or snip some chives.

Not bad at all.
All ingredients according to taste.

Thanks johanna I will try it.[ hmm]

Not doing it for me either Grannyeggs. I hate beetroot, tongue and tripe!

nothing spicy
nothing with chocolate ( yes honestly)
Olives
Anchovies
have never eaten veal on principal but may try now the rules are changed

I can be squeamish about eggs, I have a friend who is the same about bananas, but I love them, hence the name. I think they are the most perfect fast food, but they do have an optimum time when best eaten before they become less desirable, but at that stage they can be shoved in a cake.

Anything with a rubbery,slithery,gloopy texture e.g.tripe,oysters

Beetroot is increasingly being used in cakes they way carrots crept into recipes a few years ago and similarly it seems to produce a quite moist cake. I like beetroot but it does stain everything it comes into contact with.

Milk, my primary education was made hell by the fear of school milk and being made to drink it, Not keen on eggs, on their own and runny yolks nauseate me.

I'm with Maniac, but as I don't eat eat or fish, my horrors are: stuffed peppers (except in Italy where they're not stuffed with yesterday's rice!); marrow; overlooked broccoli; Chinese mushrooms; aubergines badly cooked (nothing slimier!)

I fully appreciate that people respond to texture as well as flavour in
their likes and dislikes about food but it is sad to see a shivering response simply because of the bit of animal a kind of food comes from. Why is eating a calf's brains so much more distressing than eating its bum or legs or shoulders, for example? If you didn't know about the ingredients on some of these things – black pudding, for example – you might approach them without preconceptions and really love them. Frogs' legs anyone?

FlicketyB - Ditto! I wish Margaret Thatcher had been the Milk Snatcher when I was at school, I would have loved to have had my milk snatched away. My mother wrote a letter to my school pleading my case but that didn't work the milk was compulsory, lumps of ice in the winter and horribly warm in the summer. I also had a fear of rice pudding, large lumps, I used to try and calculate when it would be on the menu and pull a sickie, but didn't get away with that very often. I agree totally it was the horror of being forced to consume certain things that ruined by early years at school.

Frogs legs taste of chicken to me absent. No winner there.

Veal sweetbreads are delicious. Well, I think so.

So there you have it. It is all subjective, don't you think?

celery, runny eggs, nuts,innards,squid,milk and cream,dessicated coconut,and that awful vegetable that tastes of aniseed! Not much really.

lujaha Fennel? That tastes of aniseed. I love it with chicken and leeks cooked in cider.

Fennel I love it, it's so unusual. I love nearly all vegetables except something called okra, served in Indian restaurants, it's sometimes also known as ladies fingers. Slimy! Having said that love they way Indian Restaurants cook all other veg and manage to make very bland cauliflower interesting.

The problem with frogs legs is not the taste, but the fact that they pull the legs off while the frogs are still alive and leave them to die.

I don't do anything slimy from shell fish, to junket and NO tentacles. I have hated milk since I was 18 months old. School was a nightmare, why didn't it ever occur to my mother to tell the school I never drank milk? And I spent endless lunchtimes sitting looking at plates of rice pudding or tapioca.

I eat anything - just as well as I eat out often in France, but I don't really like the taste of aniseed. I didn't like the sheep's head brawn my dad used to make when I was a child.

The same thing happened to me! Have avoided them ever since.

Am I the only person in the world who cannot stand chiilies of any type? The mere hint in food is enough to put me off the entire meal. Have tried, but no success so have given up and avoid them like the plague.

How wonderful to be among people who dislike beetroot! Usually people tell me I'm barmy, and it's wonderful. Sorry - me no like.

My only other real horror is chicken feet - they were served to me once as part of a dim-sum lunch. There's nothing on them to eat anyway, and they tasted unpleasant.

That's about it for dislikes. Bring it on!

Feetlebaum , the thing of it is though , it is supposed to be good for high B.P.

I quite the earthy taste of it.

I haven't eaten meat for a number of years and always say I'm easy to feed. I'll eat any amount of vegetables, rice, pasta and pulses. However, there are two foods which actually make me want to throw up and unfortunately they both featured in a meal cooked for me by a friend recently. Couscous and butter beans, the work of the devil!! [yuk emoticon]

I don't like beetroot either!

Nor milk, yoghurt or cream.

Oh, and avocado.

Coconut,I can sniff this out at 100 yds! I hate the taste,smell, in fact everything about coconut, squid reminds me of elastic bands, but.... I love beetroot. In fact having given this some thought, I like most foods, but I don't like anything with fat or gristle ugh!!

I hate offal, and pasta in any shape or form. Also like my food unadorned, none of your fancy sauces and dips. And I know chefs hate me when we eat out, cos I always ask for my meat cremating, can`t stand any bit of it not cooked through!