Squash, oysters or mushrooms.
Squash tastes horrible to me.
Oysters are too damn runny and look like snot.
And mushrooms have a strange texture, crunchy but soft.
No.
The list of things I don't eat is small.
The list of things I
shouldn't eat, on the other hand...
Oysters and mushrooms are definite "NO"s for me too. I now don't eat either under any circumstances.
I actually don't really like any seafood other than fish. I can tolerate things like squid and octopus if they've been cooked well and it would be rude of me not to eat them (i.e. I've been served them at someone's house or something) but I would never order them of my own volition.
Crab, lobster, prawn, eel and all of the other slimy denizens of the deep are all completely banned from my plate though.
The one and only time I reluctantly broke my rules was about 10 years ago for the aforementioned oysters. I was on a date in NYC and my date thought it would be romantic if we ordered some. I didn't want to look uninterested so I had a couple. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SICKER IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! I was like a non-stop exploding fire hydrant for an entire week. haha But really, it took so much out of me I thought I would have to go to hospital. I survived though and I took two words away from the experience. "Never again."
I always feel a bit queasy after eating mushroom too so that's why that one's banned. That and I also find the taste of it disgusting.
I'm actually a bit of a fussy eater though so there are a number of other foods that I also don't like and would never buy/order. Some I would eat if forced to by social politeness but these ones are my total "NO GO"s:
- Cucumber
- Celery
- Watermelon
- Rockmelon
- Tripe
- Offal
- Licorice
- Dark chocolate
(and a few more I'm probably forgetting).
The list of things I don't eat is small.
The list of things I
shouldn't eat, on the other hand...
I am very much like cleome. Blaze is too, so we rarely have trouble when sharing meals.
My mom and my uncle and my cousin and my aunt are all incredibly fussy eaters, but it's rarely been a problem because we all love the things they do eat too. and if we order something they don't eat, they simply don't get any.
Allergic to: Cucumbers and Melons, citrus raw peel (ok with the actual fruit) and coconut
Hate: Brussels sprouts, radishes, mushrooms (texture issue), cilantro (tastes extremely nasty), cabbage (like Brussels, ew!), liver, hot dogs and baloney *seen them made (trust me), tripe, dill, okra (snotty texture)
I'm not a picky eater but...
A few things I don't care for or I'm allergic to: coconut, blood sausage, okra, dragon fruit, starfruit, durian
It might be easier for me to list what I will eat.
I love most things that other people hate. Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli are some of my favorite veggies. (Still haven't found a way to make green beans good. Even cooked with bacon, it's just a waste of good bacon.) Cabbage is dull by itself, but there's an Indian dish called cabbage pooriyal that's insanely good.
Love mushrooms, loved escargot (snail) the one time I had it, loved frog legs the one time I had them, etc. I'm so obviously French.
Did not like; alligator (tasted like mud), shark (too oily, made me nauseous afterwards), raw egg (yuk), blood sausage (When I have a nosebleed, blood tastes fine. Sausage tastes fine. Blood sausage, gross, gritty and nasty tasting.), brie (flavorless mush, although I love stanky cheeses like bleu and Roquefort and gorgonzola).
And like Myg - Andy S, I do not like the taste of durlan. Not that I've ever had durlan. What's the statute of limitations on eating other sentients, again? Asking for a friend...
I hate olives, both green and black. The green ones remind me of eyeballs thanks to FrightFest's choice of decorations, and the black ones taste like salt. I prefer shellfish to fish in bone due to a horrible experience at a fish boil as a child, and as an adult I basically just tolerate fish. I don't mind octopus or squid at all, and I think a part of it is because I like to think I am eating Cthulhu. The major exception to this is sea urchin, which I think tastes rubbery and it's orange color is a turn-off.
Probably the most unusual thing I knowingly ate in China was dumplings with donkey and onions, which tasted like a hamburger.
I hate raw onion but love it cooked. I love mushrooms, not only because of their taste, but because they are linked to long life.
I don’t eat chocolate anymore. Chocolate is the Red Kryptonite of diabetics: it has weird, unpredictable effects on blood sugar levels.
I have tried dinuguan, balut, and paniki. Once was enough. (That last was OK, but leaves an ammonia-like aftertaste that just lingers.)
There is a single allele in the human genome which causes cilantro to taste like soap. Fortunately, I do not have it. To me, cilantro is crunchy and tasty.
I like all kinds of seafood. (clams, oysters, crab, lobster, calamari, octopus, tuna, salmon, trout, tilapia, catfish, shark) Except mackerel, oddly enough. I don’t like mackerel.
I have tried dinuguan, balut, and paniki. Once was enough. (That last was OK, but leaves an ammonia-like aftertaste that just lingers.)
I find that dinuguan is not that bad. I've never tasted paniki, so you are one up on me!
Curry. I've tried it. It doesn't do it for me.
There is a single allele in the human genome which causes cilantro to taste like soap. Fortunately, I do not have it. To me, cilantro is crunchy and tasty.
Then you can have mine. That stuff is horrid. Tastes like Ivory! Nasty stuff.
Tuna casserole. No. Ain't gonna happen. Mom made it once for the family and as much as we love her, threatened to burn the house down if she ever made it again.
Rocks. Glass. Nails. Laser Guns.
...at any fast food joint where they repeatedly screw up my order.
Putting mayo on my cheeseburger should be a Federal offense, as far as I'm concerned. Mayo's primary purpose is to hold together a tuna or chicken salad. It does not even belong in the same county as any sandwich containing beef. The End.
For the most part, I refuse to eat tuna or chicken salads unless I make them myself. No one but me seems to know when to stop with the mayo. What's even the point of eating a sandwich that tastes like nothing but bread and mayo? Bleah!
Tuna casserole. No. Ain't gonna happen. Mom made it once for the family and as much as we love her, threatened to burn the house down if she ever made it again.
Found an approximation of our Mom's old-time recipe a few months back and fixed as healthy a version as I could, with low-sodium soup and so on. It wasn't terrible, just incredibly dull. Ennui set in after about six bites. I guess in my childhood salt carried the day in a lot of old favorites. You really can't go home again. (Ssshhh... don't tell my Mom.)
I like microwave dinners but am avoiding them. too fattening.
Microwaves for dinner either. Dentist's advice.
You better be practicing your Bismollian abilities more though
Well, not all Bismollian abilities are the same. For example Calorie Queen converts the energy she consumes into Super Strength. I have the super ability of inhaling air in normal quantities but can exhale huge amounts of hot air filled with words blathering on about a range of inane topics until my victim lapses into a coma!
This is the most lucid coma I've ever been in. I can even feel the super-thin layer of grit on the laptop keys from when I gardened in my comatose state and then got online again without scrubbing under my nails first.
Blacula, I had never actually heard the name "rockmelon" before. I just looked it up and it's cantaloupe. That's a new one on me. Cool.
Brussels sprouts.
But I still like Brussels.
Ham
But I still like Hamsters.
Yes, I hear hamsters are quite tasty. And they don't have all the fat that ham has.
...anyone's dust. I just shoot'em in the leg and pass them as the bear gets close.
... ava CRAP o's. Don't like 'em!
... Nutella. I like it, but it's so unhealthy