I’ve stayed away from raw sushi ever since talking to a pathologist about the worms he was finding in the intestines of sushi eaters. Yuck.
I wouldn’t eat wild mushrooms. One mistake and you need a liver transplant.
But so many of you don’t like beets! Beets are delicious.
I am with VeryHappy- no water food! I can’t cook it either. Or lima beans or liver. I think Brussels sprouts is one of those foods that you can genetically be predisposition to dislike; same with cilantro.
Yea, I can’t eat American or Velveeta cheese. It seems more like plastic or paste than real cheese. Ditto for “cheese spreads.”
There is a food product that’s called “cheese food.” I always thought that’s what you serve to cheese when it’s hungry. 
I loved cheese in a can when I was younger 
I don’t think American cheese is actually made like cheese. It is more like " American kinda like cheese food".
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/sep/16-the-secret-of-velveeta-how-cheese-food-is-made
You’ve probably read about how British and American chocolate is different?
Hershey’s and a few other American candy makers, use butyric acid, so that they can use lower quality milk, this gives American chocolate bars the distinctive taste. Butyric acid is also found in Parmesan cheese and vomit.
Wow, go away all day and you guys had a field day here! Glad to hear for the most part things got back to “normal” foods you don’t like!
Hey, I just had the pickled beets many of you don’t like for dinner!!!
Count me on hating cooked carrots especially when they are fully cooked - that’s a leftover major hate from childhood.
And I"m with Bunsen on the canned frosting. LOVE frosting but won’t even bother if it’s canned.
I also can’t tolerate runny eggs of any kind–sunny side up, soft boiled or scrambled–bad childhood memories.
I’m with you HImom on not liking runny eggs.
I do like beets and even got DH to eat them. He just remembered the ones in a can he had as a child which he disliked but now will eat roasted fresh ones.
mmmmmmm . . . runny fried egg on toast . . . mmmmmmmmmmm
Organ meats. Black olives. Blue cheese.
I love my mother dearly , but she wasn’t much of a cook. She wasn’t terrible, but when it came to certain foods ( and maybe this was the time period that I grew up in ) She made me think I hated vegetables. She boiled the hell out of zucchini , fed us canned peas and don’t get me started on salads.
Now there are very few veggies I dislike because I learned how to prepare them in ways that are far mor palatable than the way she presented them to us.
Sorry Mom
I feel like with so man resources available to us today , via internet and also the numerous food shows on TV, our generation has a different view of foods that may have at one time seemed inedible.
Also, I think many of us grew up with the " clean your plate " rule and that meant being forced to eat things we just didn’t like as children.
I found that over the years I really do like foods I didn’t think I did if I make them myself.
My youngest is the only picky eater in the household. Sometimes , she will only eat foods if I make them.
Coconut. Brussells Sprouts. Lima beans.
I like to watch “Bizarre Foods” on TV, but I have no desire to try 99% of the stuff that guy eats. I don’t know how he gets some of that stuff down without puking.
Squid.
So how are people fixing (or not fixing) their sprouts to make them so bad? Quarter them, toss them with a bit of crisped bacon bits and diced pecans, drizzle with olive oil, spread on a baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes or so. They are delish!
Brussels sprouts in our home is like candy. I roast them with olive oil, shallots , lemon juice and pancetta for Thanksgiving, but everyday eating they are sliced and sautéed in OO, salt and pepper. Yum
Doesn’t matter how you make them. They taste like rancid cabbage.
I get that…I feel the same way about certain foods too
“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!”
Same.
Ketchup (or catsup, if you prefer that spelling).
When I was a child, it was my job to scrape and wash the dishes. I found scraping ketchup off the plates so disgusting that I have never been able to face eating the stuff.
This is a nuisance sometimes at fast food restaurants. Sometimes I want a small hamburger, but I don’t want to wait (or make the rest of my party wait) for them to prepare one without ketchup.