I don’t consider myself to be a very picky eater, so I’m going to have to sit and ponder this question for a minute.
Let’s see.
As a kid, I really hated a Norwegian dish called kumla.
Same for German potato pancakes.
(Maybe I just didn’t like the recipe my family used, because these ones from The Spruce look pretty delicious.)
I hate okra too; the slimy insides have always just seemed like snot to me.
Eggplant has never been my thing, although I’d say hate is slightly too strong of a word. I tolerate eggplant.
Oh! I hate American cheese. I think it ruins pretty much anything, including grilled cheese sandwiches. I don’t like the flavor or the texture.
Canned green beans…those definitely qualify as a hate for me. The color is terrible, the flavor is awful, and the texture is a tragedy. I like my green beans to be crisp tender and bright green.
(Boy, I am making a pretty extensive list here for someone who is not a very picky eater. Maybe I am more picky than I think I am!)
Hmm, what else? I don’t like mussels or oysters.
And I wish it wasn’t true, but I hate olives. I have tried really hard to like them because I know how healthy they are, but I just cannot get on board the olive train. Even those fancy marinated ones taste terrible to me.
And that’s all I can come up with right now. I’m sure more items will occur to me later (and maybe some of your hates will remind me of mine!)
Liver and blue cheese.
I don’t really enjoy liver, but I can eat it without too much disgust.
Blue cheese is not high on my list of favorite cheese, but I can handle it in dressings. I just don’t ever crave it.
Stinky cheese, like blue cheese, or goat cheeses.
Anything with fake sweetener, or fake tastes of any sort created by chemicals.
Fishy tasting sea foods.
And honestly, quite a bit of the elk I’ve been eating for the past six months. It was the strongest and worst-tasting game meat I have ever had to deal with. Don’t tell my son. 🙂
Yes to fake sweeteners. They give me an instant headache!
Even the natural stevia. . . I just can’t handle that taste.
Me neither. It has this weird, bitter aftertaste to me.
Beets taste like dirt to me. Blood sausage is something I hope to never eat again. I wish I liked olives too.
I don’t love beets either, particularly raw beets. That’s when they taste the most like dirt.
I’ve never had blood sausage but I’ve never wanted to!
American cheese, cottage cheese, blue cheese.
Capers and tarragon I don’t enjoy.
Fake flavors are another.
Green peppers do not like me, and I return the sentiment wholeheartedly.
I definitely prefer red, yellow, or orange peppers. Green ones taste more bitter.
Any sort of squash-it’s always so slimy, no matter how it’s prepared. I also loathe cauliflower, which is most unfortunate because I try to adhere to a low-carb diet. Don’t like rosemary either. Beets–or anything pickled–no thanks! Gratefully, I am perfectly content to eat the same things every day, so that makes it fairly easy to feed me. I don’t need variety, and I’m definitely NOT a foodie. LOL!
I claim to be not a picky eater, though my husband disagrees. It’s a matter of perspective (I like rice and noodles and biscuits and bread, and he eats basically potatoes, so.).
Garlic makes me sick. I don’t like venison at all, at all — nor sausage of any kind. Tongue is all wrong on every level. Slimy foods are a nope. Shrimp and avocado join the previously mentioned oysters, clams, eggplant, okra. Bamboo is no good. Beets don’t taste like soil, but cilantro and mushrooms do.
Around four bites of watermelon will hold me for a year or so, and if I’m offered steak or lobster/crab, I’ll take the steak every time.
This puts me at odds with practically all the people on the WIS,WWA posts, but especially both Kristen and Kristin. lol.
I don’t love bamboo either. I don’t know if it’s the smell or the flavor, but something about it reminds me of the Elmer’s paste we used in kindergarten.
No-Sauerkraut, kale, oysters, catfish, corned beef and cabbage, blue cheese. So-so-mushrooms.Didn’t like clams til I moved to Maine. After having lived in Mid-East and Turkey for 10 years developed a real strong liking for eggplant dishes which I never ate growing up or into mid-thirties.
Olives seem to be a polarizing food. I love them. What I don’t like are mushrooms, oysters, mayo, raw onions, and milk. I’ll eat something like ranch dressing but plain mayo is a no go. Milk is an odd one but I’ve never liked it, even as a kid.
I do not like milk at all on its own. I love lots of other dairy products, and I like milk IN things, like pudding or baked goods. But I never, ever, ever drink a glass of milk. I’d have a hard time doing that and not gagging.
How could I forget- I never ever drink a glass of milk also. I’ll eat in it things though. I agree with you!
Sadly there are so many foods I do not like -squash, zucchini, kidney beans (too grainy), mustard (although honey mustard is OK), raw onions, fish with bones, beets, almost any canned vegetable, cooked carrots (but raw, crunchy carrot sticks are a favorite), fennel, gelatin or anything with a similar texture like Jello, slimy food, food that makes me sweat (although a little spice is fine)…I’m sure there are more that I have forgotten. The taste of sourdough is so-so for me.
LOVE milk. Hate beans and lentils of any kind, no matter how you cook them. I don’t even like to smell them on someone else’s plate. Hate all organ meats and loathe head cheese, which my family ate almost every day—like others eat salad; that quivering mass is the stuff of nightmares. Hate anything canned, even my beloved corn. Also calamari and oysters.
Most liver and all stinky cheeses like blue cheese. Coffee! It tastes so bitter and bad to me in any application, but smells oh, so good. Brussels sprouts. Foamy foods, like meringue, marshmallows and souffles all make my gag reflex kick in, even though the flavors might be quite good. Cilantro tastes like soap to me, so it’s a no. Fritos original — they always smelled like sweaty socks to me and I can’t get them down at all. Horseradish. I really don’t like the flavor of turnips, rutabagas or raw radishes, although I can eat roasted radishes.
Olives, soft cheeses (Feta blue, etc.), raisins, mustard. There are probably more but those are ones I absolutely avoid. Raisins being the most repulsive – if one gets in my mouth by accident it has to go!!! Quickly! Cannot swallow it!
There are other foods that I don’t particularly like but I can eat them without a problem. I love and enjoy many of the foods that are listed above as hated foods. Lol
I couldn’t pick a particular food I dislike, but flavor….ginger! No thanks.
Mushrooms, all seafood except crab cakes, olives.