What Food can you not stand which most people seem to enjoy ?

If eating boiled okra is barbarism, I'm guilty as charged. When we have an abundant harvest of okra, I mix it with other garden veggies to make quiches. Eat it breakfast, lunch or dinner.
 
hellomimi said:
If eating boiled okra is barbarism, I'm guilty as charged. When we have an abundant harvest of okra, I mix it with other garden veggies to make quiches. Eat it breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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I commend you for your fortitude. Can we not talk about it anymore?😓
 

Had to look up a few of these. (Onglet is a cut of beef and piccalilli is pickled veggies for the likewise uninformed.)

@Lethe200 mentioned moochi. I'm also not a fan. Don't find it offensive, but don't like it either. I also can't understand the appeal of Dim Sum dumplings. To me they taste like big puffs of raw-ish dough with a tiny bit of something worth eating in the center. Not worth all that dough to get to it.

Since I don't eat meat anymore I didn't mention that bacon and breakfast sausages never did much for me. Same with orange and fruit juices. I swear husband fell in love with me at least partly because I'd always give him my bacon and OJ when we went out for breakfast.

Never developed a taste for pastrami or corned beef, but loved Italian salami, liverwurst (weird, right?) ham, and roast beef.

I only drink juice if it's very watered down. Preferably with vodka.
 
I don't know if Most people enjoy beef liver but I can't stand it. When I was a kid and my mom made it I use to cover it with Catsup. I know I am not the only one who did.
 
StarSong said:
Had to look up a few of these. (Onglet is a cut of beef and piccalilli is pickled veggies for the likewise uninformed.)
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Not just pickled veggies, but pickled chopped veggies gherkins & cauliflower which I hate, in slime... :sick:

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hellomimi said:
OTOH. lots of people I know won't eat cauliflower, durian and garbanzo which I really like.
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I love cauliflower and garbanzo beans as well. The only time I've had durian was in a durian ice cream and it resulted in an epic family story.

We were up in San Francisco at one of our favorite ice cream stores, Pollyanna which featured unusual flavors. The kids were probably 8 and 9 at the time so this was probably about 1993 or 1994. Everyone else was busy picking their flavors and I looked at the flavor board and asked what durian was and if I could have a taste. At this point in time durian was not that well known in non Asian communities. The woman working the counter looked at me skeptically and said "We keep it in a tub in the back." She walked to the back of the shop, got the tub out and opened it up to get a tasting spoon full. Almost immediately after she opened the tub I was hit by a strong, pungent and somewhat unpleasant odor. A few seconds later my wife and sons who were near the front of the shop turned to see where the source of the odor was.

That should have been my fair warning, but instead I thought, well if it smells so bad it must be really delicious for them to make it into ice cream. I popped the chunk on the tasting spoon into my mouth and was treated to a flavor best described as a creamy sewer. The pungency of the aroma was matched by a similar flavor. I realized I would need to eat something else to get the taste out of my mouth and ordered a favorite, Black Knight which was dark chocolate and whisky. When eating the ice cream the durian flavor would come back as I finished a bite of the dark knight and swallowed it.

We walked a few doors down to a convenience store and I bought a pack of Big Red Gum and started chewing about five sticks of the gum. We then got in the car and started to drive home which was about 40 minutes away. There were complaints from everyone else in the car because the fragrance of the durian was still coming out in my breath. We opened all of the windows of the car even though it was one of those overcast days in San Francisco and a bit chilly. It was better but not quite good enough. We stopped at a Safeway about 3 miles from the ice cream store and picked up a loaf of french bread. I ate about a quarter of the loaf and that reduced a bit of the smell, but only a bit. We ended up driving home with the windows cracked and I was relegated to the patio when we got home. I finally got to come in at dinner time but people still said the could smell hints of durian.

I would like to try actual durian someday but I'll want to make sure I have alternative accommodations in case I'm durian exiled again.
 
I know fresh durian fruit wasn't allowed in local flights in the Philippines. I don't know how people "smuggle" them to Manila. I guess liking durian is an acquired taste. I started eating it during summer vacations in the southern home of my uncle where he had durian and jackfruit plantation.

Among 4 siblings, I was the easiest one to feed. Anyone remember the original cod liver oil Scott's emulsion? Yup! I was the only one who took it w/o fussing. I wasn't sickly then, up to now.
 
Damaged Goods said:
Caviar.

Hollywood made it seem like it was the mother of all delicacies. So I bought a container of sturgeon caviar to impress my fiancee. She hated it ... I hated it.

Her cat liked it though.
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I hate it too, in fact the only person I know who likes it is my husband..
 

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