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

A really good expensive Brie de Meaux is delicious - needs to be ripe enough though and if a bit smelly is better too. I find the most expensive on the deli counter is usually the best bet.
Cannot stand snails - like garlic flavoured rubber - calamari are not good either and not keen on on offal.r
Love fruit and most veg - so agree about home grown broad beans absolutely love runner beans.
Like rice as a savoury but not rice pudding and cannot stand macaroni cheese.

This is interesting certain foods seem to keep being mentioned in these lists.
I don't eat meat or fish anyway now I was never a fan of the flavour of fish. I don't like the texture of anything slimy or gristly. I tried bits of squid in a paella once yuk! I couldn't face the texture of a steak now never mind the taste .

I think I thrive on strong savoury tastes. Garlic, Olives, Strong cheeses, Marmite. A good curry but not too hot.

In fact I don't like anything much that is bland or very sweet. I can't stand the cloying sweetness of creme eggs and suchlike. I don't see the point of kiwi fruit or some of those odd shaped exotic tropical fruits that seem to look pretty but to me have no real flavour at all.

I don't understand why people like Brie, its not unpleasant, its just not anything else either. I see it as waste of my fat ration and calories which would be better used on a tasty Stilton or a tangy cheddar.

I have always liked milk! Either cold or hot but not in between.

I would not be surprised if there is a genetic influence on these likes and dislikes of different flavours.

I will try most things but really hate the taste of sultanas.
Deep fried fatty food YUK.

Tamarillos - had them in NZ and the taste is evil.

lavender. with an e.

Lavendar! I can't stand lavendar as a taste. Somehow sickening.

Yuk: offal and other non-flesh items from animals, shellfish, oily fish like pilchards, strong blue cheese and Chinese take away!

Yum: beetroot, peppers, spiced foods, broad beans, etc etc etc etc etc which is why I have a bit of a problem with weight!

OH refuses cheese in any guise!

Feetle.

Nonu Good for high B.P? Believe me I got it without the help of beetroot...

All together now! (sing) If you like beetroot, I'll be true to you-ou-ou-ou...

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!

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 don't like beetroot either!

Nor milk, yoghurt or cream.

Oh, and avocado.

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]

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

I quite the earthy taste of it.

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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?