Name one food that you would never eat or drink. Mine is calamari. Have no desire to try it.

[debm55]

[Mad_Dem_X]

1. Liver.

Never had it, probably never will.

[barbaraann]

8. Baby boomer here---My mom fed us liver and onions and all five kids ate it.

Now I know the liver filters out the toxins and I could never eat it again.

[debm55]

10. I hid mine under the mashed potatoes.

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[barbaraann]

14. LOL. I ate mine but I hated milk and threw it out the window when no one was looking.

[Deuxcents]

35. Me, too! I cut it real small pieces and loaded the mashed potatoes and swallowed it whole

To this day, I can’t even...nope.

[ChazII]

71. That is what I did and

I haven't had it since middle school.

[Big Blue Marble]

16. Loved liver and onions.

No more as now I eat no mammals.

[barbaraann]

21. I have TRIED to give up meat, but I just can't.

If I go one day without meat, I can't even sleep.

[Mr.Bill]

63. I like meat also,

but I will say the older I get the less attracted to it I am. It now seems unpleasant to take a cooked animal like a chicken apart. I doubt I will ever quit eating meat, though. I do have a meal without it now and then.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

92. I didn't like it for the "off" taste of it

It was like getting promised a steak, and instead having some cheap knock off instead. Everything about it was simply...off--flavor, texture, look--everything.

When I reached the difficult years, Mum made her usual liver and onions, and I decided nope. Will not eat this swill anymore. I refused to eat it, no matter how much she threatened me, or with what. Much drama, and I ended up sent to my room without dinner. Fine with me. Better to do without than eat that rubbish. She tried making me eat it for breakfast--same thing. "I'd rather starve, thanks." And off to school I went. I could last until lunch there.

Next time she served it, the brother just younger had reached his own rebellion years. When I refused to eat it, so did he. The baby brother joined in because he didn't want to be left out. We weren't rude or loud about it. We simply said no, then got up and left the room. She again tried the "liver for breakfast" trick, and it didn't work. We held firm.

When she tried yet again to serve it to us, thinking we'd cave, we didn't say a word. All three of us left the table and went to our rooms.

She never made it again while we lived with her.

[debm55]

98. I also hated the smell, texture, and taste. I got the this is good for your blood sermon. I didn't

have the courage to live the table,for various reasons.One time, I put my paper napkin over the liver and gathered it up and threw it away. But most times, I hide it under the mashed potatoes or put it in my hand and fed to the dog. I haven't had liver since I left that house nearly 50 years ago. It is amusing when I go to restaurants and see liver and onions on the menu. I wonder to myself, who in the hell would go out to eat and order that.

[cos dem]

62. Had it, it's nasty, you're not missing anything.

[TexasBushwhacker]

87. I don't like the TEXTURE of liver

I read that if you soak it in vinegar or lemon juice it improves the taste.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

93. With you on the texture

I was trying to explain what I hated about it once, but a cousin chipped in with with the crude, but accurate, description of the mouth feel as, "an unholy marriage of steak and shite."

Yeah, he's that guy, and still is, even though he'll be 60 this summer.

[PJMcK]

2. Pity

Properly prepared, calamari can be fantastic.

For me, it’s organ meats. I’ve tried them time and again but they repulse me!

[debm55]

7. They look like rubber bands to me. If my eyes don't like the looks of something, I won't eat.

[House of Roberts]

3. Insects

I think I could consider eating squid. Well cooked squid, that is.

[SomedayKindaLove]

4. Cow tongue

No desire to eat anything that can taste me back.

Haggis.

Pork brains in milk gravy (about 1000% of daily allowance for cholesterol)

[electric_blue68]

45. omg back in the '60s you had to go to a Greek deli if you wanted certain things...

Like feta cheese.

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Oh, yeah No oysters, muscles, clams etc

[debm55]

48. I remember seeing one at the butcher. I couldn't figure out what was. so i asked the person working

I almost sick right there. The also had brain.Yuk

[electric_blue68]

58. I understand! I might have seen brains there. Luckily they didn't get any.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

91. It can't taste you back

Never mind the dead part. That outer layer with the taste buds will peel right off after cooking and expose the pure muscle underneath. It's that muscle underneath that people eat, not the part with the taste buds.

Cow tongue is a super lean cut of meat made for use in sopas, tacos and all kinds of braised dishes.

[Ocelot II]

5. I like calamari. I will not eat Brussels sprouts or kale.

I won't eat fish served with the heads on, oysters, or anything involving entrails (liver, kidney, brains). There are some foreign exotic dishes I've heard of but have no intention of trying: balut, durian fruit, surströmming, casu martzu or kæstur hákarl.

[TheBlackAdder]

76. They look weird on the stalk, but cruciferous vegetables are one of the most important types to eat

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I started eating them when I went onto a ketogenic 16g carb 18/6 intermittent fast diet.

I eat a variation daily. They are reported to have cancer-fighting and liver aiding properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables

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[Ocelot II]

79. The cruciferous vegetables all taste terrible to me - unbearably bitter.

Broccoli is tolerable but the rest of them are awful. And I don't care how they're cooked; I've tried to make them edible but no cooking method seems to get rid of that bitter taste.

[TheBlackAdder]

80. How about pan fried with garlic, butter, salt and pepper?

[Ocelot II]

81. I also hate garlic, so no. That would just make it worse.

People are always recommending these recipes - "Oh, you have to try this way, you'll love them!" - and I try it and I still hate them. There is that underlying bitter taste that nothing can get rid of or disguise.

[electric_blue68]

106. Sorry about the recepie I posted it Before I read about the Genetic Marker. That makes sense.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

95. It doesn't matter how they're made

We'll never like them. They have a vile taste that we pick up on that you don't. It's not us being picky, either. Scientists have found a genetic marker that points to loathing cruciferous vegetables, probably an evolutionary adaptation to avoid poisoning, since many cruciferous vegetables are bitter, and even taste like sulfur, a chemical known to be dangerous to humans when consumed.

When I got a DNA genealogy done because my mum insisted, there was the marker in my DNA, but not hers, so I got it from my worthless da. I bet if Ocelot got the test done, that same marker would show up.

There is no way to prepare brussels sprouts to make them palatable to people with that marker. Same thing with turnips, cauliflower, broccoli and kale. I'd rather get shot in the head than eat any of them.

[electric_blue68]

104. Oh! Well That makes sense, then! Do you know about Cilantro?...

If you have a certain gene - it tastes like Soap!

I get the faintest hint of soap, but it's tanginess, and greenness are tasty to me, and win out way more over than that hint.

[Ocelot II]

115. Thank you! I was aware of this, never been tested for it,

but I'm pretty sure that's the situation. I can handle broccoli (well-cooked and preferably with cheese sauce), since it's the mildest of the bunch, but the rest of them, ick!

[electric_blue68]

103. I like them but a method a chef tried was cut off the base...

separate the leaves, sautee with olive oil, and a little salt, and pepper for just a few mins - it's supposed to bring out there sweetness. Idk, becer tried it.

I often gotten them ready made from Whole Foods

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

94. Durian is fantastic IF

And I emphasize IF for a reason--

You can get it prepared right. It has this curious taste something like guava mixed with strawberry and pineapple. Quite tasty in bakes.

The problem is that it's notoriously difficult to prepare properly. One small mistake, and it tastes utterly vile. I think the best way to describe it is the smell of road kill in fruit form.

It's that vile.

I like Oysters Rockefeller, but that's because the oyster part is so small compared to the yummy rest of it. If you served me the shells with the spinach and etc, I'd be happy as well, a clam. And speaking of clams...

Other than Oysters R, can't stand oysters, clams, mussels or other shelled bottom feeders like that. I've tried and tried them, but can't get past either that briny rotten fish taste or the quite vile texture of them. Also don't care for catfish--same reason. In fact, I think that's the only fish I won't eat.

[debm55]

99. I love raw clams, mussels and lobster--all bottom feeders. Catfish is also a bottom feeder, but I

see, then taste. I have never tasted catfish, but my eyes tell me no.

[electric_blue68]

105. I don't like too many fish. Only white albacore tuna, white fish, tilapia

I hate strong tasting fish.
have no interest in clams, oysters, mussles the texture looks awful (and I'm not too fussy about texture).

And from the way you just described them 😄😄😄
I'm going to stay even further away!!!

[electric_blue68]

107. Omg! The Durian! Got a story+ ...

So I was in the library back in the mid '70s looking at, and National Geographies.

Among them was a front cover of a durian. What ever the title said it intrigued me so I read up on it.

Well! It was said that it was like eating one of the most heavenly desserts in the middle of a garbage dump!😩😄
A man got busted in a hotel for sneaking one in and eaiting it bc the smell went into the air circulating ducts.
There were/?are Durians sniffing dogs on Japan Airlines heading back from ? Malaysia, Indonesia. Someone got busted after having multi wrapped their durian in newspapers, saran wrap, etc

A couple of years later I was doing Graphic Design, paste up & mechanicals the old fashioned way including for a small independent record company person.

I was heading to his apt when I sprained my ankle 1 1/2 blokes away. I managed to get there and he helped hobble me up the three, or four flights. After we finished our business with ice wrapped ankle off & on I spent another 2-3 hours talking with his then wife. She and I had briefly met several times at club shows of bands we both liked. So we talked, and talked, and found a lot of common interests!

I found out her dad was in the foreign service, and they lived overseas in Malaysia, maybe elsewhere as kids. At one point I remembered, and asked her, "have you ever had a Durian?".
Well... She got this dreamy look in her eyes.saying, *Ah,the durian!* (who knew!) Told me the embassy chef hated cooking it, but would.

Besides the amount of common interests we had, and just talking we were pretty comfortable with each other - I think the fact that I knew about the durian, knew about were it was found, made the connection with her past, and asked about it kind of cemented an interest to become friends. I was someone who looked beyond the usual things, maybe, a sense of curiosity about the bigger world.

Though we had a nearly 20 communications break due to extenuating circumstances not a conflict in our relationship she found a letter in her dad's stuff (helping her folks), and sent me a note in early-ish 2020 if I wanted to be in touch again. (!!!) We've been in the phone, and texting ever since. One of the best Birthday presents (it wasn't that far off) I ever had!

[BOSSHOG]

6. I'm not fond of beets

I eat damn near anything, but I can do without beets.

[Polly Hennessey]

11. Good. I'll eat your share.

[debm55]

19. I like baby beets in my salads. Large sized beets nope.

[BOSSHOG]

20. You are welcome to them My Friend

I’ll take your kale and spinach and onions.

[electric_blue68]

49. My beet salad - beets, feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, walnuts, olive oil, a bit of vinegar, garlic...

powder. Maybe very thin red onions.

[Diamond_Dog]

117. I agree. Those

reddish purple gelatinous looking discs that restaurants put on top of a salad that stains your lettuce. NO!

[barbaraann]

9. Steak tartare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

[Freddie]

12. Agree - a little pink in a burger makes my stomach turn

[debm55]

13. I have eaten steak tartare. It was very hard to chew. Didn't like. It had a rubbery texture.

[nocoincidences]

53. i've had it once,

and it was fantastic.

I suspect it has to do with the restaurant serving it, but this one was very high end, it was actually mixed at the table.

The older I get, the pinker I want my beef to be. I have absolutely no idea why.

[Freddie]

15. Sushi

I think it’s a generation thing, both my kids (Millennials) love it, even my 8 yo grandson likes it. 🤮

[barbaraann]

18. I'm old but love it.

However, the first two times I saw it I just about retched. After moving to coastal California, I learned to love some of it.

[debm55]

24. I'll eat the California avocado, but nothing with raw fish.

[murielm99]

68. Same here.

[Scottie Mom]

17. Tongue!

[debm55]

22. Would never eat tongue. My grandparents ate pickled pig knuckles. I couldn't watch them and left

the room.

[TexasDem69]

31. I've had tongue tacos a couple of times

Tasted ok but the thought of eating tongue was a bit off-putting

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Rocky Mountain Oysters

[debm55]

28. Didn't know what they were. Just did a search. yuk

[barbaraann]

25. Oh, also seaweed by itself (not in sushi).

I cannot for the life of me figure out how my grandchildren gobble it up! I can't even stand to smell it.

[Tetrachloride]

33. There is a certain Okinawa seaweed which is in a class by itself

rare.

[barbaraann]

38. Is that the one in the Trader Joe's Japanese Fried Rice?

I love that TJ item!

[Tetrachloride]

46. No idea. i tried to find the name, but it slips me

[barbaraann]

50. Hijiki? n/t

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

97. Hijiki is quite common

It looks much like black or deep purple-brown bean sprouts, not green like the seaweed most Americans see.

A popular diet food in Japan, it now has warnings to avoid eating too much of it, too often, because it can contain high levels of arsenic. Maybe it didn't always, but the oceans are not what they once were.

[electric_blue68]

108. Oh, woah! I had it off & on in the '80's. Maybe nori flakes, too.

[barbaraann]

116. Oh, wow, I didn't know about the arsenic! n/t

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

96. Don't know about the rare part

But the Okinawan seaweed I'm most familiar with is mozuku. Hard to get/find outside of Japan.

[betsuni]

111. I love Korean roasted seasoned seaweed snacks!

Get them at Costco, Kirkland brand. Crunchy, sea salty, addictive. Don't really care for other seaweeds, except for a red type that's kind of spicy and not slimy.

[Tetrachloride]

26. I gave it up.

[GP6971]

27. Octopus. n/t

[barbaraann]

42. When my son was a toddler he would eat ANY sushi, including octopus, and still will.

Strange, eh?

[TexasDem69]

29. No organ meat

And no insects.

[mucifer]

30. i'm vegan so all the animal stuff

[The Unmitigated Gall]

32. Many octopuses are highly intelligent, with aspects of their brain's genetics

Thought to be shared with humans. Enough for me to never again eat one.

But, not a fan of liver either. Or yams *gack*...texture thing.

[debm55]

34. I like sweet potatoes and yams. Never tried and never will eat octopus.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

40. I can do sweet potatoes now, actually like them.

Yams...need to work on it. Hated them when I was a kid and was forced to eat them by my authoritarian baptist aunt. I can laugh now.

[electric_blue68]

55. How do they taste different if you can explain. Eaten sweet potatoes, not sure on the yams.

[debm55]

57. I always thought they were the same until I was corrected by the manager of the produce department

I will look up tomorrow/

[electric_blue68]

52. I'd never had them (octopus), before I decided I won't have them

[electric_blue68]

36. Any organ I haven't had yet. Never again on the heart & kidney I ate bc...

it was one of my very loved older cousins who was cooking Greek Easter Dinner for us first time in her new apartment. It includes margristsa a Special Easter soup w those (maybe others) in it. *whimper*
I wasn't going to insult her.

[sheshe2]

37. Liver.

It looks like an overcooked shoe sole and smells disgusting. Mom made us it it when I was a kid.

I love everything else.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

41. Yep. Thank god I was allowed tons of ketchup and extra onions.

[sheshe2]

61. I didn't get any ketchup.

[debm55]

78. Not to worry. I tried ketchup and it still had the smell and taste of liver to me.

[Diamond_Dog]

119. *an overcooked shoe sole*

That is a BRILLIANT description!

[sheshe2]

120. It's true.

[rsdsharp]

39. Well, I once passed on water buffalo penis in China.

Fortunately, the opportunity has not presented itself again.

[debm55]

51. Yuk

[boston bean]

43. I won't eat suction cups either.

[debm55]

54. Same here

[RockRaven]

44. Foie gras, shark fin soup (or any shark), octopus.

I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about them, but I wasn't curious or desirous in the first place so when I heard the reasons to avoid them I just went "yeah, okay, no big deal" and haven't given it much of a second thought since.

[emulatorloo]

56. Calamari is the best thing ever. Can't stand liver or any organ meats.

Mom fed us liver growing up, I really dislike it.

[Mr.Bill]

59. I won't eat mushrooms or any organ meat.

I also won't eat Sushi. My wife talked me into trying a bite of a California roll one time. I ran to the bathroom and spit it out into the toilet. I don't like clams or oysters, but I will eat clam chowder. The weirdest seafood I eat is crab. I probably wouldn't eat that if I had not been born in Maryland and started eating it at a very young age. No octopus or calamari. No catfish either.

[Ferrets are Cool]

60. I will not eat calamari because most squid are smarter than your average repug.

But then, most animals are.

[usonian]

64. Anything that Andrew Zimmern ate.

Durian, Balut, pretty much any animal reproductive organ.

One thing I actually saw in a grocery as a kid and would never go near — brains.

I’m actually fussy because I live alone 12 miles from the nearest E.R. And I don’t trust the cook.

[GenThePerservering]

65. I'll try anything once

before I decide if I like it or not. Don't like really sweet things.

[fierywoman]

66. I gag on the texture of liver -- even when it's in the form of liverwurst. I have no use for oysters

or mussels -- but in Italy I learned how wonderful calamari and octopus can be!

[grumpyduck]

67. I like chicken wings now and then

but this one time they were served as the whole wing, all attached, all three parts. Yikes. Never again in that restaurant.

Other than that, I didn't care for soft-shell crabs or those little Guinea hens. Or lobsters, knowing how they were prepared.

[electric_blue68]

109. At the Chinese buffet place I go to eat in (not since Covid), or take out they have had...

little soft shelled crabs.

I eat shrimp, lobster, crab legs, those little round things 😄 (ETA scallops!) but I couldn't bring myself to eat those!

[Scrivener7]

69. Tripe.

[hlthe2b]

70. Organ meats (liver, kidneys, brains, "chittlins," haggis... and a single bean, LIMA BEANS

I've certainly had some of the former and the latter. Never again.

[thatcrowwoman]

83. Oh, limas!

Beurk!
Right there with you on any other bean, but no limas.
No thank you.

[littlewolf]

72. balut

fertilized duck eggs buried in the sand for 17
days ... no thanks ...
never ate them ... the smell was enough...

[GoneOffShore]

73. This is just about the only thing on the responses that I wouldn't eat.

[electric_blue68]

110. TY. I've been Forewarned! 😄😩 yikes!

[TheBlackAdder]

74. A horse's willy

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[debm55]

75. Yuk

[Paladin]

77. Calamari is very effective, very economical salt water fishing bait.

I'll even eat some, once in a great while---but it really excels as fish bait.

[thatcrowwoman]

82. No sweet potatoes, no tuna.

No thank you.
You can tune a piano, but I can’t tuna fish.

Kale? I’ll have a courtesy bite, but have yet to find one I enjoyed in any preparation.
Broccoli is my favorite green vegetable.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

84. I lived in Mexico for a while

And realized that their culture is anything goes when it comes to parts of animals to eat. Now I can be on the adventurous side when it comes to food, which is why I gave lengua (tongue--yum!) and chicken feet (makes the most divine stock) a go. Didn't come away scarred from those experiences at all.

But some of that other stuff--the seso (brains), mollejas (sweetbreads), tripas (intestines), higado (liver), actual eyeballs (ojo de animal), NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

I won't eat those here or there or anywhere, Sam I Am.

Others I will never try:

Haggis. My nan died heartbroken that I wouldn't even try hers--and I ate (and loved) everything else she put in front of me. Bloody f'n disgusting to look at, and the smell is no better. That was enough to put me off it forever.

Lutefisk. The very thought is revolting.

Bugs or their larvae. I'm not eating anything I would blitz with pesticide in normal life.

Worms. Bloody f'n hell. Why--WHY?--would anyone eat something so utterly disgusting? Keep them in the ground where they're needed to do whatever it is they do there, and away from my plate.

Reptiles and amphibians. I tried a bit of frog legs twice, different posh restaurants, but it had this vaguely brackish undertone that had me giving that a no forever after. The thought of eating lizards is barely one step up from worms. I saw alligator at a restaurant once. Reminded me of the sight of Mexican seso, and that made it a hard no for me. I can't say that I've any interest in the rest, either.

Pig's feet. One of the most disgusting things I've ever seen while traversing the US South is their fondness for putting jars of pickled pig's feet on counters near the till at corner shops. I once asked the clerk if the use wasn't food but a theft deterrent. Thief gets to the counter, but can't stand stand looking at those pig's feet long enough to nick anything. To her credit, the woman behind the counter laughed, but then sobered to add, "If you think it's gross looking at them, try having to fish them out for the weirdos who like them. Turns my stomach the rest of the day." The thought of it did the same for me.

For the record, I adore calamari. When our favorite sushi takeouts have a decent deal, we always pick up theirs. I like the fried, too, but I'm quite picky about that one, because too many people overcook it--which makes it rubbery and devoid of flavor. On the other hand, done right, it's all yum for me. I also have quite a few Asian dishes that make it as a standard entree ingredient. Yum.

[debm55]

85. Wow, Ex, you have lead a unique culinary life. My grandparents would eat pickled pig's feet from a

large jar. They offered me some. I ran out the room. I thought I was going to vomit. At our food store they do sell chocolate covered crickets in a small can. Thank you for sharing. It was very interesting. One other thing in the deli section of the store, they have a lunchmeat in a type of jell. Inside of the jell you can see the tongue, snout and other parts of the pig. totally grosses me out.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

89. I've seen a great many things eaten

And I've eaten some weird things

But never the things up there that I listed as a no, because ewww. I merely report what I've known various people to eat, mostly in their travels to the less-traveled areas of the world.

[debm55]

86. Blood soup or pudding made from chicken or duck. Grandmother would make that too.

[ProfessorGAC]

88. There Aren't Many

I will, & have, tried anything put before me.
Ants, crickets, sea urchin in a chilled soup that were still moving, several types of snake...
If others eat it, I will.
I draw the line at dog & cat though.

[debm55]

90. Oh, I know for certain about the cat or dog. I guess we each have our own tastes. I don't know if I

could do it.

[ProfessorGAC]

113. Yeah, No Food That Could Be Pals

Our dog & cats are our friends. I could never get past that.

[Different Drummer]

100. Each to their own taste, I suppose.

Personally, I love calamari. To me, at least, it tastes just like fried shrimp.

[debm55]

102. To me it looks like a rubber band. I more familiar with them being cut in a circular shaped and

fried. I do like shrimp.

[debm55]

101. Canned ham---hated it also. Had to use a key type thing to open the can along the sides. It had all

this jell like crap on it. I hated it couldn't eat it.. And snotty eggs. I tell the waitress that I want sunny side eggs. If they are snotty, I will send them back to give more cooking time. Usually, I will now order scrambled.

[betsuni]

112. I find the usual fried calamari boring, but I'm obsessed with Japanese dried squid snacks.

Soft smokey shredded chunks of squid, addition of cod roe is a favorite, then there's the mystery of why fonduey processed cheese filling for dried squid/fish products is so delicious. Mineral, salt, umami chew toys.

[lastlib]

114. TOFU

Feed that shit to the worms.

[Diamond_Dog]

118. Soft boiled eggs.

One of the few foods that makes me leave the room. My parents would eat eggs like that that for breakfast and dip toast in it. It made both my sister and me almost barf! The smell, the appearance … just gross.

Also liver, tongue, organs, like many people above mentioned.

[debm55]

121. Sunny side eggs where the whites are not thoughly cooked AKA snotty.

[Diamond_Dog]

122. Yes

Egg snot.