The One Food Item You Just Can't Eat

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I am pretty adventurous when it comes to food. But there are a few items that in most any form, I just can’t do. I was reminded of this as I watched a Top Chef episode where someone made eggplant ravioli (don’t spoil the show for me! Haven’t got past this episode yet!). That’s my no-can-do food - eggplant. I can eat it in eggplant parm - probably because it’s smothered in a breading, sauce, cheese, etc. Otherwise, it just is tasteless to me. Raw, cooked, pureed - yuck! babaganoush - blech!

Do you have one food that you just can’t warm up to???

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I would have to say it is animal brains. That is definitely off the menu here.

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Wow, JustOneDad, you went big right off the bat!!! Puts my eggplant to shame!!! :slight_smile:

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Any kind of organ meat. Just the thought of it . . .

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I’ve had brains, but I’d never order them. I always make dh order all the adventurous stuff so I can taste it without having to actually have a full serving.

Things I won’t eat:
Big hunks of liver (I’m fine with pate.)
Beets (except in borscht which I love)
Raw hamburger, raw lamb
eye balls

I’ll eat natto, but only with my eyes closed.

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^^^^^What she said, though I don’t know what natto is.

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Any organ meat and sushi. Just can’t do it. I had a bad experience with raw fish years ago ( didn’t know if for a week or two later that I was pregnant ) It put me off fish for a long time and permanently on sushi. My daughters are always challenging me to try it, but I refuse

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YUCK to everything above and…brussels sprouts…yuck!

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Squid.

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The smell of liver induces a gag reflex in me. I remember eating natto when I studied in Japan. It is a bean that has a sticky/slimy consistency. It is supposedly very nutritious.

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I can’t stand the smell of artichokes - won’t go near them

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Animals without legs: snakes, worms, you get the idea.
Put some legs on them and it’ll be a meal to me.

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I love eating fish but will not eat eels… Look too much like snakes …

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Mayonnaise. Even the sound of it being scooped out of the jar makes me cringe.

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I guess mine would be stuff like milk, sour cream, mayonnaise, yoghurt. But I don’t like any of the things here mentioned except for artichokes and squid. Though I’ve never eaten snakes, worms, or cow/sheep brain (though I’ve had the brain in stuff like crawfish or prawns which I’m fine with).

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Bananas. I’m pretty adventurous too in what I will eat. It’s the texture, ugh! I can eat banana bread but the fruit, no!

My H won’t eat cooked tomatoes. He’s fine with ketchup or tomato sauce but hunks of cooked tomato, no can do.

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organ meats . . . in fact, that whole category is so off limits it didn’t even occur to me to list until someone else did

Other than that octopus. Bad texture, bad taste and when alive they are such majestic creatures that it seems like such a waste to kill and eat them. I can’t imagine killing an octopus. I can eat eel all day (even though they creep me out irl) and squid is OK, though not my favorite.

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Deb922, one of my D’s cannot do bananas - same thing, texture.

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Cat. Dog. The old saying is “young dog, old cat” but I don’t think I’ll eat Chester, though he is driving me crazy hitting my hand with his nose as I type.

I have given up trying to like brussel sprouts. I’m not a fan of tongue, though even my wife liked it when she ate meat.

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I was just going to say beets, but most of the gross things you’ve mentioned, organ meats etc. had me gagging too! Love the brussell sprout though