Fun Foods You Won't Eat!

chainsaw_metal1

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I always get a terrible pain in my throat when I eat American "chocolate".
Have you had Palmer's chocolate? It's terrible. It makes Nestle and Hershey's look like gourmet candy. It mostly gets sold at the holidays, especially their Easter bunnies. The candy itself is sort of like chocolate-flavored wax. I have to really be jonesing for chocolate to eat much of it.
 

TheSowIsMine

What an excellent day for an exorcism
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Have you had Palmer's chocolate? It's terrible. It makes Nestle and Hershey's look like gourmet candy. It mostly gets sold at the holidays, especially their Easter bunnies. The candy itself is sort of like chocolate-flavored wax. I have to really be jonesing for chocolate to eat much of it.
I don't know what it was. One of my sisters brought it back with her after she visited the US.
 

streak1981

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There are some decent artisan chocolates that are made in the the States that are worth the buy. I have a friend who lives in Georgia who makes them in his own shop. Let me know if you want the link.
 

The Seeker

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Alas, I won't be getting any English chocolate. Last year, our government passed a bill - pushed forward by Hershey's - to ban the import of it. See, apparently, Hershey's was angry because the sale of the imported chocolate was causing them a loss in sales, so instead of, oh, I don't know, making a better product, they took legal action. So no more Aeros, Cadbury's (except for the American made stuff, by, you guessed it, Hershey's) and the like.
I didn't know that! I always thought when I was buying Cadbury I was getting real Cadbury chocolate! I buy it at World Market for Heaven's sake! I feel so deprived and disillusioned. :emoji_disappointed:
 

divemaster13

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There's a few foods I don't particularly like, but only two that I hate so much I just can't eat at all. The first is liver. Nasty stuff. The second, and by far the worst, is tomatoes. Raw tomatoes. I can eat (and very much enjoy) some tomato-based items, such as spaghetti, as long as they are spicy AND don't have chunks of raw or stewed tomatoes. So, a thin, meaty, garlicky spaghetti sauce, doused with Tabasco? Yes. Mild sauce with big hunks of tomato? NO. BBQ sauce? Yes. Ketchup? Not really, but a little is okay in a pinch. Nachos with thin hot salsa? Yes. Mild, "garden-style" salsa or pico de gallo? Hell no.

It's not genetic. My dad loved tomatoes, and I think they are one of my sister's favorite foods.... True story: one day when I was about 12 or so, my dad challenged me to try one of his home-grown garden tomatoes. He said that a ripe delicious garden tomato was completely different from the pale plasticky thing you buy from a grocery store. I was skeptical, but decided to give it a shot. One bite...and I was over the toilet retching my guts out.

This has stuck with me my entire life. Unlike, say, lima beans, which I hated hated hated as a kid but really like now.
 

Carol

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@divemaster13
Sympathy about the tomatoes - your taste buds have done you a very bad turn there.
As for liver - stick in in pate, stick it in a haggis and I'm happy. But slabs of grey, scuzzy liver with huge bits of tube were one of the horrors of school dinners, and I could never ever face it in that state again.
Food likes, dislikes and horrors are all very personal - but I'm still trying to get my head round the fact that my cousin told me only this Christmas, that she has a phobia of meringues.
But then my best friend also announced he didn't know you could cook celery.
 

Hux

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I adore eggs but there are times when I crack one open and see a little mucus-like membrane thingy and that's it... I'm off eggs for a month.

I always go back though.
 

Carol

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I hate it when the whites of my egg are snotty
I don't even understand why some people aren't grossed out by that

:emoji_confounded:

I'm also very cautious when I'm offered a poached egg in case it tuns out to be one of those just dropped into boiling water and swished around, leaving it with soggy, straggly bits.
 

Carol

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My reaction exactly - not just: would never eat, but would walk straight out of any bakery she went into that had visible meringues for sale and would have to leave a cafe if a nearby customer ordered one... this is not just a shrug and a "go figure" deal for me - we share significant DNA here!
 

streak1981

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That's just weird... Hell, I'm Cuban; it would be pretty fucked up if I said I hated meringues. My dad is the only one I've ever met who has admitted to hating them. He eats Tres Leches (a popular dessert where I live... every Latin restaurant in South Florida has it listed in their menu)(tres leches translates into three milks, by the way. It's basically a cake soaked in three different kinds of milk, & iced w/ meringue. Beyond delicious), & never complains that there's meringue on the top of it. He also hates whipped cream, & always makes it a point of pushing it off any dessert he's about to eat if at all possible.

If you think I'm picky over food, he's ten times worst!!!
 

chainsaw_metal1

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@streak1981 I've heard about Tres Leches, but have never had the opportunity to try it. We have a big Hispanic community here in town, so there are five different Mexican restaurants (which is funny since I live in a town of only about 4-5000 people, but I digress), but no Cuban restaurants. Now I really want to try this dessert.
 

High Plains Drifter

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Sushi! tried it, and still not a fan of it. Never again.
Spinach from a can. I can it on pizza, subs, hot pockets, or & lasagna.
Liver!
Lamb, tried a real gyro and wasn't a fan of the meat.
 

Amyghost

Member: Rank 3
We all have them. Those foods that you absolutely will not eat. Like, you've been stranded on a desert island for weeks, with nothing to eat, and you're rescued by a boat where they only have one thing to eat, and as hungry as you are, you won't even touch it, and spend the next week on your way back to civilization ignoring your growling stomach as everyone around you eats that food you can't stand.

Personally, I grew up in a household where I was encouraged to eat all types of foods, and got the usual response of "you'll eat it or go hungry", so there's little I won't eat if hungry. My exceptions are lima beans, peas (I like pea pods, and I'll choke down most of the peas in Chinese food, but to sit and eat peas as a side dish just won't happen), raw onion, and bologna. I don't know if there's some kind of gourmet bologna out there in the world, but here in the States, it's basically like a big hot dog, but ten times as nasty. It smells horrible, and tastes worse. At least hot dogs I can cover in chili, cheese and saurkraut and make them edible.
Brussels sprouts and beets. The smell of sprouts makes me nauseous, and the taste and consistency of beets likewise. Though I did eat a raw sprout recently and liked it, so it must be the odor released in the cooking process that's the turnoff.

Bologna, at least the US variety, is nasty, although fried bologna has a big following in the South. By and large though, there are few foods I absolutely won't eat or at least try.
 

chainsaw_metal1

Member: Rank 8
I don't know that I've ever eaten beets as a dish, but my grandma used to make the absolute best pickled beets. I could sit and eat a jar of those in one sitting. One of those things I've missed since she's passed.
 
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