I can’t chew nori, the seaweed that is used to wrap sushi rolls. A few bites and I’m gagging (and I’ve only tried cucumber rolls).
Curry and other spices in Indian cooking. Just don’t like the odor.
I share several of these - peas, Mayo, liver, cottage cheese, …all of which I was forced to eat as a child more than once. I think that’s what started it.
Both! I’ve spent too much of my life avoiding tofu; and the smell of stinky tofu frying in the street? Aaargh! I’m heaving just thinking about it - shudder! I can eat almost anything, including some things that might send people here, running to worship at the alter of the porcelain God!
Watermelon
Tires
Asphalt
Burned popcorn
Can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke, and my father was a heavy smoker until I was 13yo. Really almost any chemical smell makes me nauseous.
Not a fan of liver or hot dogs.
Eggs, potato salad, bleu cheese* (any strong cheese), beets, mayonnaise, yogurt, brussel sprouts, eggplant, rice, bagels, dumplings, kimchi, fish sauce, plum sauce, tapioca and bread puddings, beer, black (or any strong) coffee, refried beans, zucchini, pumpkin (and most other squashes), marshmallow, chick peas in a salad (but I will eat heavily spiced hummus), split pea soup, diapers, and the list goes on.
*My reaction to bleu cheese is so strong I once barely made it to the restroom after taking a bite of an entree that did not have it listed in the menu description. I’ve thrown it up more than once.
cantaloupe
New cars must be annoying until the smell goes away…
Creamed spinach and corn.
Rare meats.
Mustard.
I don’t care for tomato sauce but it doesn’t make me gag just to see or smell it…until I see my husband eat a whole heaping spoonful of it.
I’m very picky eater and don’t care for lots of foods, but those are the gag worthy ones.
Even eating some foods that I love would make me gag if I had to eat them cold. I like my food very hot.
I also find washing dishes very distasteful.
I cannot eat eggs or seafood. I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat something that smells like that.
Not so much the taste, but texture of these things are off-putting to me: squash, eggplant, mushrooms, boiled okra (but I love it fried!)
Tequila, goes back about 40 years??
That’s how I feel about ironing! The very smell of fresh ironing, makes me want to throw up!
@ucbalumnus - I said almost any chemical smell. New car smell I can tolerate, but I wouldn’t take a long trip in a new car.
I am an adventurous eater but I have an issue with the texture of things. I hate beans, the legumes not green or wax, because they feel mealy and pasty. Shrimp feels like gristle and I can’t deal with it. As far as smell goes, kimchi. I can eat it in foods but D20 loves it and we had a jar in the fridge at the start of the spring and every time she opened it, I had to leave the room.
Everything about cottage cheese is gag inducing to me.
I agree with cottage cheese. Just looking at it makes me wonder why people consider it food, and the smell is worse. Equally bad is cream cheese. The horrible smell permeates everything in the fridge.
Broccoli and licorice. DH used to eat broccoli a lot when I was pregnant. I never liked it, but I’m pretty sure the nausea from pregnancy made me especially nauseated by it. The pregnancy didn’t last forever, but the nausea from broccoli did. Since I ate so many fruit flavored TUMS during that pregnancy, I’m now nauseated by them too.
I will run away from cigarette smoke. I can smell it from far away. My parents were heavy smokers. I’m allergic to it now.
Baked beans. Omg yuck.
Tater Tots. Seems the whole world loves them and even the smell just makes me nauseous. Must’ve been leftover trauma of a grade school lunch. I really don’t know. I love potatoes in nearly every form. Maybe I should try making some of my own.
Hate the smell of curry cooking although I’ve had some really good tasting curry dishes. I always declare I can’t stand it up until it’s on a plate in front of me.
@helpingmom40 – If shrimp is like gristle it’s way overcooked (which most people tend to do unfortunately).