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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What is one food you absolutely refuse to eat?
Talk about it….
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pumpkin pie
“C” YUCK !
Pineapple, allergic.
Pig’s feet. How disgusting.
Oysters. There are other foods I don’t like (Brussels sprouts) or think are awful (kale) but this is an absolute no.
Like eating snot! Unthinkable
Same. I don’t care who I offend. It’s a hard pass.
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To each their own!!
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I can easily down 30+ typically sized oysters. In CA they are relatively small.
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But the really good oysters are about the size of a D-cell battery… slightly salty, quite snotty, and chew like a filet mignon. I like mine with a couple drops of lemon and a drop of Tabasco.
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DELICIOUS.
Avocados. Ugh. I know, they’re healthy and most find them delicious, but aside from taking an occasional polite taste of guac, the ‘cado and I keep a wary distance. Have a good weekend, everyone!
Brussels sprouts. I will equally refuse to eat cauliflower.
There are all kinds of exotic foods I’d never eat, but as for common foods here in the USA…
I’d say Okra is at the top of my list of inedible foods. Slimy & yuk.
It’s a tie between Gelfilte fish or balut.
Pretty much any innards. Or testicles.
bbq corn snake
Liver
Tacos de sesos…cow brain tacos. My father gave me a sample when I was a young tike and after I devoured it he told me what I had just eaten and I vomited…never again will I eat that!
Brussels Sprouts
There is no right way to fix them that will make them acceptable!
Oh, but True Food Kitchen found a way. Roasted with balsamic and whatever else they put on it. DELICIOUS!!!!
Thank you for sharing that, but I suspect you weren’t paying attention.
If other ingredients need to be added in an attempt to improve on the taste of Brussels sprouts, then it implies that Brussels sprouts on their own, really do taste nasty. There is some truth in the old adage, “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
I don’t think that is true. Many recipes are enhanced by adding something to the mix. Vegetable are often enhanced when adding herbs and butter to them. Does not mean they are not good on their own. Cole slaw is good because of the dressing. I love potatoes, but they are even better when coated in butter and fresh parsley.
I am the opposite, as I will eat them prepared just about anyway (not the topic for this thread, but couldn’t resist chiming in).
I too liked brussel sprouts, didn’t as a child, but do now. Often have them with carrots, and tiny potatoes, steam them, then coat them with butter and either fresh dill or parsley, great with pork chops or salmon. I also like them raw cut up in my salad.
I was wondering how long it would take some know it all to chime in and declare that you’ve just not had them prepared in the correct way. I love Brussels sprouts, you don’t – so what?
I think this whole subject should not be taken to seriously. It’s just kind of fun, and of course there is no right answer. However, l like good food, l like to cook thus l love talking about food.
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Raisins are the ONLY food I refuse to eat.
Okra on it’s own is pretty disgusting….I have eaten it in gumbo, etc. and can tolerate it.
Asparagus I really don’t like at all.
Lima Beans are pretty bad.
Brussels Sprouts….not good.
Any insects that the World Economic Forum is pimping onto the public.
No Thanks…..I would starve before I eat that Garbage!!
I agree with you and they can get all the actors in the world to pretend they’re delicious—it won’t work. But the question was about food. Bugs are not food.
Well, just so you know, you eat insects ALL THE TIME. Per FDA, a certain percentage of our food is allowed to be bugs. But, yeah. will never knowingly and on purpose eat bugs. Rando bugs, or for an alternate food source.
I agree with Karen. Bugs are not food, for civilized (free) humans.
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Liver and other organs.
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Uncivilized!
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I have to bore you with my liver and onions story. Second week of basic training 1960 Ft Ord. In the mess hall line the guy in front of me got a piece of steak about the size of his tray. The server gave me a very small piece. I ask for more but he said move on. I said I will remember you. Well it turned out the steak was liver. I traded mine to the guy that got the huge piece of liver for his cupcake.
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GACK!!!!
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There are a few that won’t go pass my teeth.
But the killer I won’t touch, …highly allergic to Cashews, …. so disappointing.
I love cashews (salted); they are actually NOT NUTs …. They are LEGUMES (Beans)
Brussels sprouts and okra.
I don’t eat cheese. Long story but my Grandfather and my Father ate the smelliest cheese they could find when I was very young. It turned me off to any kind of cheese. The funny thing is my brother who was born four years later wouldn’t eat cheese because I wouldn’t eat it. He is also an old man and he orders Pizza without cheese. Neither of us have ever had a cheese burger or Mac and cheese. Or any gourmet cheese. As far as I go is cheez it crackers. My brother won’t even eat them.
In Denmark aged cheese is very popular. When growing up we had cheese at my parents house all the time, ranging from a mild Harvarti, to an aged Port Salut. It had a foul smell, thus would only be brought out at the end of the meal, my dad loved it, my mother did. I liked it even as a child. The cheese would be wrapped in moist cloth, then wrapped in wax paper, the sealed in a plastic bag. We had a pantry that faced north and and a small window, the cheese would be hung by a string outside the window.
Hanne the cheese my Grandfather and Dad ate would not only chase you out of the kitchen it would chase you out of the house. My dad had one so bad he had to store it in a mason jar on a fence post away from the house.
Ricardo, Ha, ha. I can imagine. By the way I meant to write my dad loved what we called “old” cheese, my mother did not. A typical sit down lunch in Denmark, start with pickled herring, served on rye bread, then different cold cuts, and then cheese at the end, it is not unusual to have 2-3 cheeses on the table even for an everyday lunch, one often would be blue cheese, which I also loved and still do, all eaten on European style rye bread.
BAT
Good thinking.
Green eggs and ham
Lima beans head my list
Raw onions. My parents loved to buy a bag of sweet onions and make raw onion sandwiches. But I don’t mind them cooked. OTOH, Brussels sprouts are one of my favorite vegetables.
I like raw red onions, on top of smoked salmon, served on bread or cracker, then cream cheese, the salmon topped with capers and raw red onions. I also sometimes add red onions to my salad.
Stuffed bell peppers! My parents made them all the time when I was younger. Anything really with bell peppers in it. 🤢
I won’t eat escargot, but I’ll sure dip my bread in the garlic and butter sauce.
Menudo, ugh!
I would have to say sweetbreads, any brain tissue, and any rocky mountain oyster type foods. I would rather not eat liver or Velveeta, but if they are is some kind of dish served by a host of a dinner/party, I can eat those two to be polite.
Brussel Sprouts, Okra, raw fish sushi
Cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and any organ meat
I must’ve misunderstood the question…. I thought it was name “one” food, not three.
So anyway… two other foods I absolutely refuse to eat, hmm…. tofu & egg foo young.
I like raw red onions, on top of smoked salmon, served on bread or cracker, then cream cheese, the salmon topped with capers and raw red onions. I also sometimes add red onions to my salad.
Anything that comes out of a drive thru window.
Sushi. Raw fish is disgusting.
As a child I was a very picky eater. Didn’t like cooked vegetables, only raw, which actually is healthier. I ate liver, and hearts, I think they were pig hearts, my mother would stuff them with parsley and the fry them, serived with brown gravy and potatoes Also calf liver, fried with onions. My parents were big on fish, but I got a fish bone stuck in my throat probably around the age 8-10 that soured my on fish that had bones in it, although I have overcome that fear. My grandmother’s gravy (nearly every meal in Denmark at that time was served with graVy) had lumps in it, and I hated gravy with lumps. Before we would visit, my mother would instruct me that I HAD to eat the gravy, because it would be impolite not to. I think I manage a few spoonfuls. It was my mother’s mother, somewho my mother learned ot make gravy without lumps. Grateful for that.
In Denmark aged cheese is very popular. When growing up we had cheese at my parents house all the time, ranging from a mild Harvarti, to an aged Port Salut. It had a foul smell, thus would only be brought out at the end of the meal, my dad loved it, my mother did. I liked it even as a child. The cheese would be wrapped in moist cloth, then wrapped in wax paper, the sealed in a plastic bag. We had a pantry that faced north and and a small window, the cheese would be hung by a string outside the window.
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