The One Food Item You Just Can't Eat

Okra is one of those things people tend to love or hate. We mostly love it in our home, as well as its properly prepared. Don’t like when it isn’t perfectly fresh.

Sweet potato casserole.

Can’t stomach Miracle whip.
Not a fan of Nutella but I’ll eat it.

Yummmmmmm – Nutella! I didn’t know it existed until just a few years ago. I feel like I missed out on years of goodness!

Its heaven in a jar!

My husband introduced me to Nutella 20 years ago…he told me that was what they used in Sweden like we use peanut butter here. I put that in the category of foods I wished I liked

Red onions. (cooked or raw)

Think I’m the only person who hates them (except Scott Conat on Chopped). They completely overwhelm my palate and I can’t taste anything else for 18+ hours. If some get slipped in dinner, I wake up to the taste of onion and can’t get rid of it.

Rhubarb.

Can’t get it past my nose. If I hold my nose and eat it, it’s really not that bad, but who wants to do that?

And for a very long time, I couldn’t eat oatmeal or cream of wheat. Now I like oatmeal, but it has to have something mixed in (like raisins or nuts.) It’s a texture thing.

Have you tried any of the following:

  • cup of black coffee
  • cup of green tea
  • chew on some parsley
  • hot water with lemon juice or
  • some vodka!

And if rubbing hands with a tomato slice eliminates the smell on hands, perhaps it might work for the breath too!

I wash my hands with lemon juice when I get the onion or garlic smell on my hands. Works like a charm.

Can’t eat pawpaws/papayas–makes me physically ill. I HATE onions also.

For me it is raw oysters. I know people love them, but blech.

You can rub your hands on stainless steel, under running water, to eliminate the garlic smell. I haven’t tried it for onions but I bet it works too. I just use my sink.

I love peppers but I taste them for hours afterwards too!

It’s the onion taste that stays in my mouth and nothing I do will get rid of it. When I know A little has snuck into my food, I floss and brush and every brush my tongue, but I still wake up with the taste in my mouth. (Don’t think it impacts my breath, but H has no sense of smell, so he’s no help).

I once got that metallic mouth reaction from eating pine nuts from China. Took days to go away! The taste of everything was off except for minty gum which I chewed as much as I could.

ETA: I still love pine nuts but I’m more careful about where I get them.

I remember getting that metallic taste in my mouth when I was taking a certain sleep medication for awhile. I would eat nachos with jalepenos on them to battle that taste. After I gained several pounds, I decided it would be better to just get off the sleeping pill.

Biaxin (antibiotic) makes everything taste metallic to D & me. More importantly, it tends to elevate my liver enzymes, so my doc prefer to find a different antibiotic for me. I understand other people don’t have everything taste metallic when they take Biaxin.

I will happily eat anything mentioned so far in this thread, but I do have an odd aversion.

Christmas Eve 1987 I had six hot cinnamon buns for breakfast. Within three hours I was violently ill with the flu and have not eaten a cinnamon bun since. I don’t mind cinnamon, I like baked goods, I can tolerate that sticky white frosting, but the combination is out of the question. I still can’t walk past a Cinnabon without gagging.

@Magnetron, do you mean a stomach virus, or the flu? Just curious.

Weird, even though my oyster comment posted, the same text is still saved in my reply box. Is the only way to get rid of it is make a new post?