Oh gosh, add spicey-hot anything to my list. I don’t get the attraction of being in pain with your tongue on fire while you eat.
Normal foods I don’t eat: bananas, eggs (will use for baking), butter, mushrooms, white milk, most fried foods, most cheese, most breads, plus many of the bizarre foods mentioned on previous pages.
I do like lima beans, brussel sprouts, and any fish that is cooked.
If I were stranded on an island, I would have to be starving to eat a banana or an egg; I could probably get down the others I listed.
I hated mushrooms until I was 18 and then they became my favorite food. I really regret all the great mushrooms I didn’t eat in France. I also didn’t learn to like brussel sprouts until I was an adult - I agree that sauteeing or roasting them is so much better than the steamed or boiled I grew up with. I don’t eat cottage cheese either. Or canned frosting. If I get served a supermarket cake, I usually scrape most of the frosting off of it.
I can eat an oyster, since they go down so fast, but even though I like every other shellfish I think they are pointless. Since other people think they are a huge treat they are usually very happy when I pass on them.
I’m never going to try Balut!
I’m fine with blood pudding and haggis, so the big’s blood cake doesn’t seem too bad!
I’ll add supermarket cake to the list of foods I won’t eat.
I’ve been known to eat frosting right out of the can. 
I’m seconding the supermarket cake. Also, hot dogs. I don’t eat meat, but when I did, I’ve never been able to get hot dogs down, and now I can’t make myself eat veggie dogs.
Liver. Ewwww. Probably most organ meats but liver is the only one I’ve actually had.
Totally forgot about milk. Gag!
I also don’t eat clams, crab, lobster or oysters. Also don’t really care for shrimp or scallops but I will eat them depending on the preparation. No organ meats.
Love beets and love love cilantro.
I find that some curries taste like soap…so maybe it’s the cilantro in it?
Divinity and pralines. Yuck. And cucumbers. Never tried one. Never will. But I have no problem with oysters, sushi, liver, brussels sprouts, or most of the other items the rest of you won’t eat.
Wow, just curious, why won’t you try a cucumber? Seems pretty inoffensive as far as vegetables go.
Oysters… I will eat them, but the present value of enjoying them is so low, they are simply not worth the trouble. Lobster or crab - that’s a different story; one can spend an hour trying to get the meat out of those shells. 
I also wondered why Barfly wouldn’t try a cucumber. I can see not liking them but why not try one?
“Was this in the parenting manual back in the '60s? My mother did the same thing to me. I had to sit at the table until I ate my peas or bedtime.”
At my house it was milk. Then it would get so warm it was completely intolerable. I use to try to wait my mom out or pour it down the sink if she got distracted. I don’t drink any milk at all now.
My mom knew better than to make me or my sister clean our plates. For years she only made dinner for her and my dad and would put about a teaspoon of vegetable and a sliver of whatever the main course was on our plates. Growing up I liked only peanut butter on toast (minus the jelly which I hated) and my sister only liked saltines and tuna (the fishy smelling kind) out of the can.
VaBluebird, I forgot about licorice and root beer ! Yuck…
The moms of the 60’s…sigh.
Punishing because their kids wouldn’t eat a food they didn’t like. My former mother in law did this quite often to my ex-husband. She would leave him sitting at the table for hours after everyone else was done eating. Sometimes to the point of tears and a lump of food in his cheek that he has no intention to swallow.
I imagine she thought she was teaching him a lesson , but I always thought it was abusive and mean .
I forgot about olives. And while I like almonds, cannot stand almond paste or marzipan. Or black licorice. The anise is yukky. Red licorice is ok.
Can someone who enjoys the swallowing of oysters tell me more - I seriously don’t understand the value or enjoyment of something you simply swallow whole? I’m serious - how do you taste it or enjoy it if it’s just swallowed whole and quick???
I like oysters. They have a taste. It’s not like a shooter where you just open your throat and down it goes. Not sure that helps to explain it but the oyster with a little cocktail sauce on a saltine is good. And I guess I must bite it as I don’t eat the cracker whole. Hmmm.
To all the beet loving posters out there:
We all know how delicious roasted beets are. Try organic beets! They are 10 times more delicious roasted than regular beets. They taste like candy! I never knew there could be such a taste difference between regular & organic beets, but there really is! Enjoy!
@mom2collegekids it’s probably the cilantro that’s making those curries taste like soap, but cardomom is another possible culprit. I love cardomom, but when it’s used for cakes it always tastes a bit like soap to me.
@chocchipcookie I’ve had organic beets - we get tons of them from our CSA, they still taste like dirt.