Things that you have never eaten and why ?

I have tried anything and everything that has been put in front of me and the only two things I will not try again are Jaffa Cakes and water.

Veal, because of the horrendous conditions, the calf is put though to produce such meat. Never have I eaten it and I never will!

Oysters any seafood
Tripe
Can't stand Branston pickle
Salad cream
Pigs trotters
Rare steak

P.S. I firmly believe that if an animal is to be eaten, then every part of it should have a purpose and not be wasted.

Quite a long list but topped by tripe! We used to have it delivered from the abbatoir to feed our dogs and kept it frozen in a designated freezer in the garage.
It was a mixture of grey, white and black - looked and smelled absolutely disgusting as it was from the final stage of digestion!
We had to stop buying it as it rocketed in price and we were told Eastern Europeans enjoyed it and would pay more for it.

Even the sight of dressed white tripe makes me feel queasy!

We did cook pig's trotters once on the pork butcher's recommendation. Never again they were gluey and rather unpleasant.

It all depends on what you are brought up on . My Victorian granny ate every part of the meat available with relish. We didn't have to .
The Muslim children in my class were hysterical at the thought of pigs and pork. Everyone to their own.

oysters...I`m sorry but they just look like slimy snot balls.....apologies if my wording out you off your afternoon cuppa and biccy!

Fowl ,all fowl ,I cant remember ever eating it,I do cook it for the family though .Pork ...cant stand the smell of pork cooking it makes me boak .I did go vegetarian in my 20's but after advice from a consultant when I had health issuesstarted eating very small amounts of meat again in my 40's.I 'll give most other things a fair chance .My theory is I'm scared of birds and I was worried if I ate them they'd come back to haunt me ,thats why birds are always well fed in my garden

Milk, custard, all types of milk puddings like rice and tapioca.
Not a fan of jelly either.

Love prawns, white and black pudding.

I will try anything once whereas an aunt would not touch anything "foreign".

Anything with more than four legs and most things with none! (Actual fish are OK)
Anything from inside....?

I can't get past the look or the smell of most shellfish.

I don't like the flavour or the texture of liver or kidneys (we had to try them as children) and other forms of organ meat (tripe for instance) look very off-putting to me. My mother loved everything like that but she was brought up on it. My dad wasn't keen so most offal was off, thankfully!

Jellied eels, pie with liquor or pickled eggs.
I love tripe, raw and cooked, snails, oysters, frog’s legs, all seafood and really want to try goose barnacles (which look a bit like hippo toes).
I’m not fond of whitebait though. I spent a long time ‘filleting’ my first plate of these, as I didn’t want to eat the bones.

I'm really not fussy & would try just about anything although I'd find eating an eyeball a bit difficult but I suppose if I didn't know what it was...I suppose a lot of dislikes aren't about taste but preconceptions which put people off trying something which they might find delicious. As children, we were brought up to eat everything & it's been a very useful thing as I've not had to leave food on my plate at parties or notify hostesses about my likes & dislikes beforehand. I'ts obvious different for those with food allergies. I was quite shocked when, many years ago when our children were small, my friend told her two that they wouldn't like a particular food item, I don't remember what it was. I thought that was really odd - how can you tell without trying?

I think I have tried almost every type of food, but sometimes just once. Cockles, Mussels and whelks are my pet hate. Just like eating elastic bands. I detest snails and raw fish for a similar reason. OK with all types of offal - eels and frogs legs are both tasty, but I dont go searching for them. I cant bear oysters either - slimey and slithery - yuk.

Liver. Always remember it sitting in the butcher's window when I was a child all red and slimy. This is the one though, totally amazes my friends, peas! Can't cope with them even on my plate. Its another childhood thing, mum hid them in mash to try to get me to eat them and now I can't stand the little blitters.

Milk.
Laver bread
Black pudding
Egg white - except when it is turned into a meringue
Sourdough bread

I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years but I always refused to eat tripe, black pudding, sardines or prawns.

lemon My DH loves piccalilli. When he wants to eat it, he has to dish it up himself!

Can't eat tomatoes! Think it's because my mother hated them mainly. Had cream of tomato soup at a wedding when I was about 12, had to rush out to be violently sick! Never touched them since which is very inconvenient, as they are in so many things - pizzas are out, so many slimming things, vegetarian dishes.

I've never eaten tripe as Mum never cooked it - she said it reminded her an old vest. Not very appealing.

I hate spicy food and have never eaten curry as it smells foul to me. I don't like the thought of pulses like lentils so don't have them in the house.

Tripe and pigs trotters, just can't get over the look of them, also blue cheese as the only time I was persuaded to try it I got a sick migraine. Kind of off-putting!

During the war we had to eat all sorts or go without. Whale meat, horse meat. etc. I have eaten frogs legs, snails, heart, tripe, sweetbreads but have never had a kebab, or burger.
Don’t like Chinese, Japanese or Thai food.

I'm also phobic about white food, I can't eat a plate of white food, it has to have some colour to break it up. Not for me a plate of steamed fish with potato and cauliflower.
When we first arrived in France I was presented with such a meal in a little auberge, very difficult trying to explain to the patron in my limited French. All his concerns about the English were proved right.

Kate1949

Prawns
Squid
Octopus ?
Eel
Oysters
Runny eggs of any description
Piccalilli
Belly pork. Actually I did try this once. Yuk. I managed to discreetly (I hope) remove it from my mouth into my napkin.

Kate, your list is also mine..
With the exception of piccalilli which I adore.

Tripe it looks so slimy.

cornergran

Jellied eels, tripe, whelks (although happy to tuck into cockles and muscles), black pudding and steak. Happily eat roast or casseroled beef, but steak? Nope. I know, there’s no logic.

Best not to eat in The Argy Bargy Bar then.....we love all that there?