What do you refuse to eat?

Maybe you've done this before, but I thought it might be fun.

One of the first things that popped into my mind was Miracle Whip. I can still remember close to 50 years ago when I first visited DH's parents house. His mom fixed everyone a sandwich (ham and cheese) and we were all seated around the kitchen table. Took a big bite and just froze. WTF! I knew if I swallowed it that bad things would likely happen. I ended up spitting it into my napkin and then had to explain why I couldn't eat that sandwich. You can't even scrape that stuff off anything to my satisfaction.

Second thing comes to mind...runny eggs. I can eat hard boiled or scrambled hard, but anything that's still moving, forget it.

Speaking of my dearly departed MIL, hers was pumpkin pie. When she was young,some drunk guy hurled it down the front of her shirt at a party. She didn't want a piece of that stuff near her for the rest of her life.

 

Anchovy. Husband always has them on his pizza

 

Liver! No thanks....

PS: I prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise

 

Brussels Sprouts - brings back bad memories of childhood.

Close behind - liver

 

I vote liver again..

 

Yeah, liver bad. So are anchovies.

I don't actually eat plain mayo on anything either. Good stuff for mixing things up, like potato salad, spinach dip, etc., but I'll go with thousand island on a burger or cream cheese on a sandwich given the choice.

 

Most mushrooms. I tend to react very badly some hours lately.

The thing is, they are sometimes well hidden in sauces and such, and I won't know until it's waaaaaay too late.

 

Bean soup. Years ago when I’d get up in morning for school and I’d see the beans soaking I knew dinner the next night would be horrible. Haven’t touched the stuff ever since I left the house.

 

My short list is very short. Liver, Lima beans, coconut, and olives. I just can't stomach any of those and just pretty much will spit them out if I accidently take a bite. I can eat pretty much anything else. Some things I don't really care for, but if no other choice, I'll eat it.

 

Miracle Whip. That's it. I'm morally opposed to it.

I'll try anything and eat anything. I'm not a fan of Uni, but I think I just need to try it again. I won't go out of my way to eat raisins, but I'll eat them if they're presented to me.

 

Mayonnaise for sure. Never touched any of my food. If it somehow comes on an item at a restaurant and it was not disclosed as being on that item, it gets sent back. Worst particular episode was when I ordered a Pastrami sandwich at a deli. It comes with mayonnaise on a Pastrami sandwich. Menu does not state that it comes with Mayonnaise. I send the sandwich back, and the waitress declares " If you did not want Mayo on the sandwich, you should have said so". Who in the hell puts Mayo on a Pastrami sandwich in a deli? They usually ask which type of mustard do you want " Yellow or Brown", but definitely no Mayo!!

Other items include:

sour cream
Broccoli
Peas
Olives
Liver ( of course)

 

Circus peanuts, the candy, are a hard no!

I’m also not too sure about this “ pork belly” business but everyone seems to love it, so I’ll probably try it eventually.

 

Refuse to eat? Greens of course.
will never eat? Mountain oysters, any brains or feet. Ghost peppers, raw oysters, or crawdads. Otherwise I’m good!

 

That's funny. We have pinquitos left over from last weekend's chili so I'm making bean soup tonight. There's a cream base and some pig involved, too; you might like it.

 

I eat all sorts of things made from liver but when my mom would whip that semi-gelatinous purple-ish blob into a pan, ain't NO amount of onions or alcohol to help get it down.

 

Liver & Tripe, Hominy, "Chitlin's" (neither hand slung nor hosed) and a heapin' helpin' of fried livermush. Mmmm...mmmm...NOT good!

There's a lot of Andrew Zimmerman bizarro foods on this planet. A lot of our likes and dislikes come from our formative years, mine from the rural route down south. First time I ever saw Brussels Sprouts (one of my favorites) was in the chow line at Goodfellow Air Force Base...remember asking the server "Hey...what are them little cabbages?". I never ate Asian cuisine until I landed in Korea. Exposure being the driving force. But most importantly, I could tell you what day of the week it was by the particular beans we were having for dinner. Mom and Granny were great cooks, just not a very expansive repertoire.

One more thang...down south it's Duke's Mayonnaise or face ridicule. Me? I don't even use mayonnaise for cooking, I use yogurt. Underscoring why my dirt road relations consider me a subversive hippy bent on destroyin' 'merica from the kitchen table.

 

1. Any of those "imitation" meats, like Beyond Meat or the Impossible Burger. Nope. Nada. Bye, Felisha.

2. Cauliflower. The only exceptions are if it's pickled or deep fried. But even then, it's the flavour from the pickling/deep frying that I think make it passable, not the cauliflower itself. In all other circumstances, I won't eat cauliflower.

3. American/streaky bacon. It just completely lacks texture... and I've always found it to be much too salty.

4. Caesar salad. Between romaine lettuce getting recalled rather frequently, and caesar dressing just being a bit too heavy for my liking, I'll always choose a different type of salad.

 

Buffets.

 

WTF, Dean, no hominy?!? Come on out for some of my posole.

 

It's spelled 'buffet patron' but it's pronounced 'patient zero'.