food and drinks that most people love that you think are disgusting or taste like total shit.

[Alistair]

I dislike milk. I can't stand the taste. Won't drink it, won't put it on cereal.

I hate and won't eat beets, rutabaga, turnips or any other root vegetable.

I loathe coconut. The smell alone makes me want to throw up.

 

[rareboy]

i wasnt crazy about how pussy tasted

You've never licked one of these.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

It does seem somewhat ungrateful to complain about the taste of delicacies considering this fact.

Unless you give to the hungry, be quiet.

I can't stand mayonnaise and all the salads that it ruins(egg, potato, tuna), seafood(with the exception of fried calamari for whatever reason), deviled eggs, and i'd rather vomit than try turnips again.

 

[G-Lexington]

I like white chocolate. Of course, I don't think it's "chocolate", which probably helps. It'd be like if they called beef jerky "happy bacon" - I'm sure fewer people would eat it, because "it's nothing like bacon!"

I've tried Red Bull a couple times, and it always tastes metallic to me. Like it leeched the aluminum right out of the can.

Lex

 

[Georgiadude]

I hate the taste of coffee. I love the smell but can't stand the taste. I've tried all the different flavors and loaded it up with sugar or cream. Nothing changes it for me. My roommates love it and make it all the time. I wake up to the aroma every day and really like it but wont drink a drop.

I can't stand avocados, tomatoes, water chestnuts, most fish or anything sour.

Steven

 

[zoltanspawn]

My good friend, this statement is not based on fact. About 25% of us have a gene that makes us "supertasters".

http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/43024?id=43024&c_val=1

My understanding is that 25% of people have lots of taste receptors (papillae), 50% have a medium amount and 25% have a low number.

The genes identified with heightened perception of bitterness, on the other hand, don't fully explain the oversensitivity. Moreover, multiple gene forms govern these perceptions, so it's a bit of a myth that a single gene makes people supertasters.

The biology of taste is a good point to consider, and a real contradiction of my opinion.

I suspect biology doesn't account for a significant percentage of what passes for "taste" though. For many people, there is no sense of educating their palate. You have tried a zillion times to enjoy broccoli; I admire that, and don't think it's typical.

 

[quasar]

Of the foods I've tasted and don't like:

• Avocados
• Honey
• Anchovies
• Olives
• Spinach
• Kidney
• Watercress
• Goat's Cheese
• Mackerel
• Kippers... in fact I'm not a great fan of fish and seafood at all. Cod and Tuna is about my limit!

 

[quasar]

....Goats Cheese does have a "barnyard" taste, doesn't it?

LOL. Yeah, I find it quite peppery too - but not in your green, yellow, red and orange salad peppers kind of way, but in the condiment pepper kind of way.

 

[mxpxl199]

BTW, Lex - Brussels Sprouts only suck if you boil the living shit out of them. Instead, do this:

Cook six strips of bacon in a cast iron skillet until crisp. Take out the bacon, ad set it aside. Dice a small onion and cook in the bacon grease until translucent. Crush two cloves of garlic and add to the pan. Trim the stems off the sprouts and slice them in half, then put them with the onions. Cook on medium high heat until the sprouts brown slightly. Crumble the bacon and mix it in. Enjoy!.

I'm sure it's delicious. You could substitute just about any nasty food for broccoli in the recipe above and it would be great. Kale gross. Kale with bacon YUM! Baked beans? Yuck. Baked beans with bacon YUM! Bacon makes everything better.

 

[bw92116]

Cilantro (leaves of the coriander plant) is yummy... popular in both Mexican and Vietnamese cooking. I have a bundle of cilantro in my fridge and I'm chewing on leaves right now. I never understood why people say it tastes like soap. What soap smells like that?

In the same way, I never got why they say swiss cheese has a "nutlike" flavor. What nut smells like that?

I like arugula too, but in small amounts. Julia Child was an idiot to eschew cilantro and arugula. Who cares what that monster liked and didn't like? She ate snails and fois gras and all kinds of other horrible stuff. So what did she know anyway?

 

[Seto187]

I hate ketchup. I will not put it on anything.

 

[Nishin]

Cilantro (leaves of the coriander plant) is yummy... popular in both Mexican and Vietnamese cooking. I have a bundle of cilantro in my fridge and I'm chewing on leaves right now. I never understood why people say it tastes like soap. What soap smells like that?

AMEN !

Yet ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html

I like arugula too, but in small amounts. Julia Child was an idiot to eschew cilantro and arugula. Who cares what that monster liked and didn't like? She ate snails and fois gras and all kinds of other horrible stuff. So what did she know anyway?

You're right about arugula, which adds a tones a nice flavour up when used with parsimony (ie on a pizza), but sorry, foie gras is the dope.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Black licorice. Ugh...

 

[zoltanspawn]

They believe that distaste for cilantro is genetic.

That isn't completely clear.

Eriksson and his team calculate that less than 10% of coriander preference is due to common genetic variants. “It is possible that the heritability of cilantro preference is just rather low,” they say.

Harold McGee writes more as Nishin linked above about cilantrophobia and re-wiring our dislikes:

“I didn’t like cilantro to begin with,” he said. “But I love food, and I ate all kinds of things, and I kept encountering it. My brain must have developed new patterns for cilantro flavor from those experiences, which included pleasure from the other flavors and the sharing with friends and family. That’s how people in cilantro-eating countries experience it every day.”

 

[guyfromNY]

I wouldn't call it a food, but I've always thought Candy Corn is the most vile thing ever created.. That and milk duds...

 

[frankfrank]

Most cheese.

 

[Native Son]

There's still this belief - stated or hinted at - that dislikes or aversions to food are...defects? Weaknesses? Problem areas? Something in there.

Well, fair enough. But you know, if the shoe fits, GlexBaby.

What can one say?

I'm not particularly fond of creamed corn, for example, but I will eat it...

It's not going to kill me.

Sheesh.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

Cilantro (leaves of the coriander plant) is yummy... popular in both Mexican and Vietnamese cooking. I have a bundle of cilantro in my fridge and I'm chewing on leaves right now. I never understood why people say it tastes like soap. What soap smells like that?

In the same way, I never got why they say swiss cheese has a "nutlike" flavor. What nut smells like that?

I like arugula too, but in small amounts. Julia Child was an idiot to eschew cilantro and arugula. Who cares what that monster liked and didn't like? She ate snails and fois gras and all kinds of other horrible stuff. So what did she know anyway?

Some people have a genetic "quirk" that makes cilantro taste like soap. Luckily, I'm not one of those people. As for Julia's dislike of arugula, I have no idea what's behind that. I love arugula...I even love saying the word.

A - RU - GU - LA!

 

[Native Son]

Coleslaw & Potato salad......I HATE Mayonnaise and the smell of it makes me sick...if there's a recipe for Potato salad without the mayo i'd try it...

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/French-Potato-Salad-101986

(I hope you like Dijon mustard.)

 

[birddog7]

I can't stand onions or garlic, or anything that remotely smell/tastes like them.