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I cannot stand yogurts that are not straight out of the fridge cold. Same with milk, unless I have personally got it out of the fridge so I know it is super-cold it makes me feel nauseous. I could never eat cereal at other people's houses if the milk was already on the table.

Also, cold baked beans. I can't even watch other people eating them. If I have beans on toast, I can't eat those beans that have been on the edge of the pile are aren't piping hit.

Not so weird, but I can't stand cold pizza either. All that greasy, gelatinous cheese and slimy cooked veg.

So it would seem it's a temperature thing with me then...

I always hated cooked vegetables, because in the South people don't so much "cook" them as "vanquish" them until they are smushy and kind of brown or gray. Then I moved north and had some cooked veggies that were kind of crispy and flavorful and I fell in love. So basically I had a reason for not wanting to eat my vegetables when I was growing up, which is that I wanted them to actually look like a fucking vegetable and not a wilted mass of mush.

But on the other hand, I like my meat cooked to death. My dad baked me a ham in preparation for being stuck at home for a big snow storm, and I only like ham if it's really tough and salty. He made fun of me, and then when he tried the tough, over-cooked ham, he was converted, so, I win. There's probably more weird stuff about my eating habits, but that's all I've got for now.

I second the raisins, except that I hate them all the time. I also can't tolerate tomatoes on my sandwiches though they are fine on salads. And cooked blueberries make me gag. It looks like a blue ink pen bled all over a muffin, and the smell is equally repulsive.

I LOVE Spam. In all shapes and forms (yes, even TREET). Fry it and I'm in heaven.

For some reason I have a real problem with textures, and for this reason I cannot tolerate tomatoes, potatoes or tofu in anything but their most disguised form.

I'm a good southern girl, though, so I'll bite whatever doesn't bite me back.

Sweet potatoes. They used to be on my absolutely will not eat/touch/look at list of foods. I'm coming around to where I can enjoy sweet potato fries if they are thin and crispy (or drenched in blue cheese), and I can even handle them chopped in small pieces as part of a veggie dish. But the quickest way to get my gag on is to get a whiff of the way my sweet Southern mom prepares them: in a baby-food consistency mush with cinnamon, raisins, and mini marshmallows on top. GAH I can't even type that without heaving. I can hardly sit next to someone eating them at our family holiday gatherings.

Cindy, I was thinking that you were my food soulmate, until the whole pizza thing came up. That shit ain't right! Gooey pizza cheese is DE-licious.

Anyway, I share you contempt for rasins in anything and cooked celery, and will raise you cooked carrots. That should never happen. Cold and crunchy carrots are a delight to dip and crunch on. Cooked carrots are a mushy abomination that should be stricken from the food lexicon. I shudder at the though of cooked carrots; they are wholly awful.

I also can't bear for any of my food to touch each other. In fact, I often will shove a spoon under one side of the plate so that the gravy won't run into my veggies or steak, etc. If they made adult versions of those sectioned plates that kids use, I would totally buy that shit and love it. And although my grandmother would get totally pissed at me if I complained when somthing, god forbid, touched somthing else on the plate (saying in an exasperated tone, it all goes down red lane, dear), I can't stand the thought of it. It's so, so, ucky. No miscegenation of food for me!

I just realized that I could go on and on. I might need therapy.

High five, Robert. I need to refresh more often.

I cannot abide cooked fruit. Unless it's pineapple on a pizza. Warm, sticky fruit. Blech.

I will ditto the cold pizza. That is so disgusting. And pizza for breakfast, even if it's been warmed up? Just wrong. It goes against my moral code. Or something.

I can't think of too many weird food things for myself. One that confuses even me: I hate tomatoes. I love ketchup, tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato and basil flavored things, and so on. But tomatoes themselves? Just can't do. I try one every so often just to see if I was wrong and/or have changed my mind, but it always serves to reinforce my belief that tomatoes themselves are gross.

I can't handle the smell of canned tuna. I find it totally nauseating.

I was an extremely picky child, and have only in the past decade or so begun eating things like mayonnaise, fish, rice, eggs, and several other things that most people have been eating their whole lives. I'll only eat my eggs fried or over easy--I don't like them scrambled, nor do I want quiche or anything that tastes too "eggy".

My friends find it amusing that I will happily eat pate, sweetbreads, escargot, okra, any kind of mushrooms, or squid, but run screaming from the room when faced with tuna noodle cassarole.

@Gabs -- my mother is the same way about tomatoes, and it turned out her issue is the tomato snot. Once my father started seeding any raw tomato that came in the house immediately, she started tolerating tomatoes better.

Cindy, I suggest not chopping the celery at all, but throwing it in whole and fishing it out when soup is done cooking. That way you don't have to eat it, but you get the distinct flavor that celery imparts to soup.

Um, I don't like mayo. I don't like it on things, I don't like things mixed with it, and I only recently became able to eat things like remoulade and aioli that are really just mayo in disguise (but don't tell me it's mayo. And that's hereditary; my mom is the same way with yogurt. She'll eat tzatziki sauce, as long as you don't insist it's got yogurt).

My fun food freakiness: I like to drink milk through strawberry Twizzler straws. Only strawberry Twizzlers. And for some reason, the individually wrapped Twizzlers have a better texture than the mass-packaged ones. But they both get cold and extra chewy after you've sucked milk through them.

dr. pisaster - no ma'am I don't have any problems eating food with a spoon, it's just specific to cereal milk. Like you, I don't like sweet milk and to see things floating around in milk, like when you're eating a sugar cereal and you can see the sugary grit in it, GAG!

Green Peppers are evil and must die! DIE I tell you! They are Bully Food! Anything you eat that has Green Peppers in it just tastes like Green Fucking Peppers for the next three days. They are not a substitute for flavour. Any Bell Peppers are evil, actually. But Green Peppers are the worst! They are unripe and not even meant to be eaten. Ever. Save yourself! NEVER EAT THEM!!!
Yes, I know I used bold for this. That's because this is important!!
GREEN PEPPERS MUST DIE!!!

Oh man, I have finally found the Pajiba thread where I feel I truly belong.

I ALSO hate for my food to touch--buffets are always such an issue, what with people piling their food on the plate in layers...bleeargh. I actually used to have one of those special adult divider plates back when I used to get dragged to a lot of church potluck things.

Oh, and I don't eat leftovers. One or two very specific things I will eat left over, but pretty much everything else, once it goes in the fridge I'm done. Even if it's (for example) leftovers from dinner at my favorite restaurant, once it hits the fridge, I do not want to even look at it again. Luckily, Mr. Siege loves this trait because it means double the leftovers for him.

I hate celery. I think it tastes like grass, and the stringiness just completely skeeves me out.

Also hate raisins in everything except trailmix, because they add a nice sweetness. Other than that, I despise dried fruit in any shape or form. Blech.

I hate green peppers and most other chilies. Bell peppers make me gag - I find the smell unbearable.

The only other weirdness that I can think of now is with onions. I love onions. Raw in salads, but cooked only when they're tiny tiny or completely invisible. I hate giant chunks of cooked, slimy onions, the texture just grosses me out. Onion rings are right the hell out.

Same with tomatoes, actually. I hate chunky tomato sauces or soups. Give it to me in paste form or raw in salads, but never cooked chunks.

Imma join Odnon in the Green Pepper Must Die Campaign.

Not so much a food dislike as a weird food habit picked up from my father (and he from his father): French toast is too sweet with just maple syrup on it. You must put a thin layer of dijon mustard THEN the syrup. I can't even get anyone to TRY it, but I tell you that the tangy and the sweet is a great combo!

Oh, and I hate sushi. All slimy and cold and fucking disgusting.

I ignore the 5-second rule

I now have one more reason to love figgy.

@noodlestein: I'm with you on the food not touching other food thing. I hate it. Even when it's two foods I'm planning on mixing eventually, I can't stand it when they touch. ESPECIALLY when it's something wet touching something dry. Ew. I always have sauce on the side (only exceptions are pasta dishes). The worst is pancakes/waffles/french toast because they get so soggy. The syrup absolutely cannot touch them until I'm ready, and then I dunk pieces of them in.

I also hate cooked carrots with a passion. Not sure why, I've just always hated them. And I can't stand creamy soups. I don't mind broths, but thick soups just make me gag. Especially split pea soup, although that might have to do with a childhood incident in which my mother force-fed it to me. Haven't touched it since.

My other "thing" is condiments. I hate mayonnaise and ketchup especially, but I also don't eat mustard or relish or sauerkraut or anything like that. I was a really picky eater as a child and I think that's a holdover from then.

Food WILL NOT touch. That's just nasty.

I love sweet potatoes and garbanzo beans, which I guess it kind of weird? Also, leftovers freak me out. One day, folks. That's all you get.

Oh, I HATE the smell of cabbage cooking. And Corned Beef? What the hell IS that? Sick, that's what it is.

And picked eggs. My husband loves them. I find them revolting. Of course, he'll eat chili, Chef Boyardee, veggies, what have you, straight out of the can. no heat. It's not wonder I have issues.

I love food and I will and have eaten everything put in front of me, but Belgian hand grenades (brussel sprouts) used to made me retch. Now that I am in the UK for a bit and being forced to use public transport, I am throwing as many as I can down me neck every night for the mornings journey. I don't like them, but they ferment nicely with a good curry and extra garlic. On a another note, I will have condensed milk with ANYTHING.

Ham. Particularly because of the texture and the way that it can seem like it's turkey but then a sinew/weird muscle fiber thingy gets stuck in between two teeth. GAG.

Can't stand movie theater popcorn. Unless...well, unless one (and only one) M&M is nestled among the popcorn kernel's craters. They must both be eaten exactly at the same time to achieve that sweet/buttery/salty nirvana. I've been xiong this since my first movie and still do it at 40.

And raw tuna = tasty while canned tuna = day-old cat food.

I have a very distinct memory of eating a fried egg, looking up at my mother, and throwing it back up on the plate. I was probably 2 years old, and I have never been able to eat eggs in any form since. It really hampers having breakfast out of the house. I try to be a grown up about it, try it every few years, but no success. Also, I love pickles but abhor olives, which blows my husband away. Olives are gross.

Also, I love my food mixed up. You all are crazy!

I go through phases where I can't look at something, like a jar of pickles, without gagging and then I'll eat pickles on everything for a week or two before going back to the hate.

Texture is an issue for me in some instances. Yogurt used to be fine by me but now I can't stand it because of the texture.

If I have a salad, I will continually mix it after every bite and carefully choose what I want on the fork before eating. I do the same with soups. It drives my husband crazy.

Any kind of meat on a bone (TWSS).

Seriously watching people chew on chicking wings with the ligaments snapping back into their face is just too much.

@Pinky McLadybits, at the risk of making you gag, we have a goat milk yogurt here that is a bit gloppy. I'm not a fan of the texture, but it tastes sooooo good, that I have to eat it. Yum.

The only problem is, I never seem to remember which brand it is and I end up with the less gloppy but also less tasty one. *sadface*

Foods. What a good topic. I think im very odd.

Love Baked Potato, cant stand MASHED. Or anything really that has that creamy semi solid texture. Yes its a texture thing. I figure I will have to eat mush at some point in the future so i refure to do so now.

Onions are wonderful when in Chinese food, but I can not stand them in anything else. Back to texture. slightly cooked but still crunchy versus slimey and soft. I tend to be that way about any cooked veggie.

Hamburgers, make mine plain please I hate slimey veggies messing up the wonderful flavor of good beef.

And Mayo is not even contemplated.

I LOVE goat cheese. SO MUCH.

My husband is very ridiculous about food. I once got him to eat goat cheese on a cracker. He said he really liked it. Then I told him it was goat cheese and he proceeded to spit it all out and wipe his tongue. This from a man that once dipped a corndog into Spaghetti-o's. He used to say that he hated onions. We were on a date and he ordered a pasta FULL of onion. I waited until he finished the entire plate and asked him how he liked it. He said it was very good. Then I said, "The onions must have really made it tasty!", at which point he realized he's a lying liar who lies about what he likes to eat.

Todd, Are we the same person? I hate pickles and "normal" tomatoes as well! Though, I am learning to tolerate chunks of tomato on a pizza.

There's nothing freaky about me.

I have issues with most dairy products and meat. My issues for the most part deal with texture. If I encounter even the tiniest bit of gristle in meat, I'm done. I usually will not eat chicken out, unless it's shredded. Cubes of chicken? Shudder! I only like beef if it's braised. The flavor is gross otherwise. I don't eat pork at all. (I love pigs, and just can't bring myself to do it.) I will, however, eat pretty much any seafood.

I really can't do yogurt, due to its weird lumpiness. Cottage cheese makes me nauseous to look at. I love some cheeses, like fresh Parm and sharp cheddar, but only cold. I can't handle most cheeses, like Brie or goat cheese due to their textures.

Don't even get me started on tofu... Ugh,

admin, I would totally allow you to cook me a feast in a effort to school my misguided taste buds.

I hate sprouts. They ruin the texture of every sandwich or salad they're placed on. I don't know how anyone could abide them.

I also don't understand breakfast cereal. I love hot, thick oatmeal, but cold cereal is the grossest thing anyone ever imagined, IMHO. And the really sugary ones both look and smell NASTY. I completely feel where staceygarrett said in regards to the milk, especially. Ew. Ew. Ew.

There are certain unpopular or "acquired taste" things that I love completely. The first time I ever tried soymilk I wondered "So why is anyone still drinking milk out of a cow?"

Also, one of my bigger obstacles in going vegan has been oysters. Delicious, slippery, raw oysters with Tabasco. Sigh.

I can't eat raw vegetables without gagging. I can't stand the way they crunch. It's like biting into bones.

Also, cutting into a raw tomato makes my skin crawl. It's what I imagine cutting into human flesh feels like. Ugh.

Cold beans, cooked celery: I'm with you on those. Ick! Though...I think you'll be missing something with no celery in the soup
Spinach: Raw - Yay! Cooked - Limp and gross!
Eggs: Like a lot of you I struggled with the texture for years...now I'm a believer but it took some force-feeding to get here. Except hard boiled eggs...stinky and effin sickening
Freaky: Put the peanut butter on the bread, and dip that into your bowl of chili. Even better is the chili is spicy. So good! Enjoy!

I should have known Pajiba would be full of people with weird food phobias and food fetishes. Some of you people remind me of Sally (the one Harry met).
Anyway, the only picky food habit I have is I always slice apples before I eat them. Eating a whole apple = fingernails on a blackboard.

Oh, mine are easy. Liver and Beets.

I also do not care for lumps hiding in creamy subtsances. Yogurt needs to be smooth and all one color. Oddly I can sprinkle oats on top- I KNOW WHAT THAT IS. But tapioca? Bubble Tea? Yogurt with stuff embedded in it? Wretched.

I pick the gritty fruit out of trail mix and avoid pears. And because my sister found a worm inside a canned greenbean when we were kids I only but French Cut Green Beans.

Yes, milk has to be cold (it's kept in the fridge for a reason), but cold pizza is a foul beast, and pineapple has no place whatsoever on any pizza. That's just disgusting.

I think my only weird food thing is a brand issue: My childhood leftover is liverwurst. Spread on wheat bread with a bit of mustard - I know most people find it gross, but every once in a while I have to have it BUT it has to be Oscar Meyer - I refuse to try any other brand.

Beyond that, yeah...no. I can't think of anything that makes me gag on site or shudder in revulsion.

@Angeleno Ewok

I have a food aversion soulmate! The only food that I absolutely, positively, under no circumstances can abide is alfalfa sprouts. I don't know exactly why, other than that they taste like (what I imagine) grass to taste like. I seriously gag if I am even in the vicinity of alfalfa sprouts.

And they're really a bitch to avoid sometimes, because if you order something and say, "No alfalfa sprouts," sometimes the dish shows up and you know the kitchen just "picked them off" at the last minute, except that you can never fully pick all the sprouts off, because there's always a few hiding around the edges or stuck to something.

UGH UGH UGH UGH

Sometimes I can't even think about alfalfa sprouts without feeling discomfited.

Also, on a more general "you're weird" thing: I don't like orange juice. I don't absolutely, positively hate it, and I drink it on very rare occasion when it seems like the right thing to do, but I don't like it. I do not want it with my breakfast. This puts me at odds with like at least 75% of the rest of the population.

I also will eat the same thing like three times a day for a few weeks until I'm done with it. Like sweet potato fries, stir-fried veggies, whatever.

I had a boyfriend once who wouldn't eat anything white. No mayo, yogurt, milk, sour cream, cream cheese, alfredo sauce. It was annoying.

I have a couple simple rules about food:

1. I eat nothing with a growing season that cannot be milled into flour
2. Chocolate chips belong in Tollhouse cookies - keep them the hell out of my oatmeal, peanut butter cookies, and granola
3. A tomato's only function in life is to hold cheese on pizza or lasagna
4. Grilled peanut butter, brown sugar, and raisin sandwiches are much better than you'd think
5. Grape Nuts are brilliant soggy with honey or mixed up in ice cream
6. The only good mint is a thin mint
7. Beef in slabs is served rare, beef in patties is well-done

Oh goodness, I'm so glad to hear that someone else from the south hates sweet potatoes. God - they're awful. And lima beans, really any bean that can be dried in general, except for black or garbanzo. Also, the quaker oatmeal with the dried apples in it. Just thinking about it makes me dry-heave. So it's a dried-out-and-reconstituted thing with me, I guess. Gross.

BWeaves: it doesn't matter what the hell it is, that shit is disgusting.

There's nothing freaky about me.

Jay, you lying scamp.

There is a continuum of pork. Prosciutto is food of the gods. Other dry cured & smoked pig parts are food of the demi-gods. Wet cured hams are OK. "Pulled pork" and pork ribs are a bit off. Any kind of "fresh" pork like a roasted pork loin gives me a queasy stomach & a sort of low-grade allergic reaction.

It makes no sense at all.

There's only one thing that I wouldn't have again - warm, raw shrimp heads. I learned to love the off-menu stuff at a Japanese sushi place where I was a regular. Herring roe. Squid semen. (Yes, really.) Pine mushroom soup.

Ama ebi is sushi made with raw, fresh prawns. The back half of the shrimp goes on the rice, just like with cooked shrimp. The first piece had this amazing, alive flavor and juice that made me understand the non-sparkley vampires obsession with "the blood is the life." The second piece twitched when I bit into it. Startling, but I was OK with that.

Traditionally, you eat the heads too, just on a plate. Often they're (barely) cooked in a light tempura. More old-school, they're steamed in the same sense that a dry martini contains vermouth. (Back in the kitchen they softly whisper "steam" over the prawn heads, three times.)

Now, I've had blood-temperature foods. That marvelous Ethiopian tartare, so rich with butter and herbs that you can barely eat a bite, for example. Yet, somehow the barely warmed collection of spines, eyes & unidentified slime that is an uncooked prawn head just didn't do it for me.

My dad is the head chef in our family...and he spent 8 years in Displaced Persons camps during/after WWII. It didn't matter if we didn't like a food's look, flavor, or texture. He cooked it and , by God, you ate it. And woe be unto the child who questioned what the hell was on the table, because "this is not a restaurant and what's for dinner is what's for dinner!". Yessir, thank you, may I have some more. By golly, if it was remotely edible, it was fair game.

His Beef Stroganoff is EPIC...nothing pink there...he puts enough red wine in it to make it kinda purplish-gray, but holy shit is it good!

Therefore, we grew up eating weird shit like beef tongue, pig brains with scrambled eggs, pickled herring, and fish chowder to die for! When he was away on business, our good Southern mom would spoil us with fried chicken and mashed potatoes. So best of both worlds! My mother-in-law loves that I can and will eat (or at least try) damn near anything she puts in front of me.

Be adventurous in your food choices!

Corn is nasty. Cant be in the same room if it was cooked and that foul stench is wafting through the kitchen. Any form is pretty much shite. Besides corn tortillas.

I can't eat chicken on the bone.

Because it's grody.

Oh! Oh! Also, this one time, a girl I used to work with made this meatloaf that was AMAZING and had golden raisins in it. SO GOOD.

Well I'm feeling better about Smith Jr. tonight.

A list of foods he will eat:
cheese pizza, but only certain kinds
chicken nuggets from Chik-fil-a only
vanilla or strawberry yogurt (but not with any fruit "bits")
peanut butter and jelly or nutella sandwiches on whole wheat bread
grilled cheese on white bread
bananas
oranges
grapefruit
fruit roll-ups
Toast-chee crackers (only Lance brand)
chocolate milk
orange juice
Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies
Nutter Butter cookies

That's pretty much it, and none of it can touch or even look at other foods. He will move to another table, in a restaurant if any of us order something too "smelly" and he often sits in a different room at dinner time.

I guess he might grow up to be more "normal" and eat more things, but at least from these comments I'm hopeful that if he doesn't it won't matter too much.

Sad Rockstar I'm sorry to tell you but you most likely eat corn all the time. It's in EVERYTHING with added sugar (HFCS) or any sort of processing. Unless you eat a raw food diet.

Chicken on the bone? But that's the best part!

I hate most vegetables but I love brussels sprouts. It's a mystery.

Fish also skeeves me terribly. I will only eat tuna salad on a sandwich.

Mayo + ketchup on fries is the only way to eat them besides poutine, which I WILL have one glorious day. My burgers always have cheese, raw onions, and pickles, and I will not hear of them another way!

Cold pizza is a huge no... really anything that's meant to be served hot should be hot. Leftovers have to be heated through and through.

Rare meat bothers me, so I tend to overcook my meat, but I like it that way. My mother calls it leather, I call it dinner.

I'm... sort of hungry now? Talking about food always makes me hungry, but talking about food I hate... the mindfuck!

I despise hot dogs. They make my esophagus want to shrivel up and die. Same goes for mustard, which makes my mouth feel all prickly. So the concept of mustard on a hot dog makes my skin crawl.

I dislike most vegetables, but I'm working on it. I'm not a fruit person either. I'll eat blueberries or something occasionally but for the most part it just makes me gag.

I also feel that tomatoes in their natural form are vile but I love ketchup, salsa, etc. Pickles are pure evil. Nothing makes me sadder than a delicious grilled cheese sandwich that has been besmirched and violated by the presence of pickles.

I like goat cheese on pizza. I've only ever had it in addition to the mozzarella already on there, which I'm sure sounds freakish and wrong to some of you but it's fucking delicious. I also agree that pineapple has no place on a pizza.

Odnon and Figgy, I am right there with you with the green pepper hate. I don't love any of the bell peppers, but the green ones are the WORST.
I am also one of those folks that gets the soapy/air freshener flavor of cilantro. It tastes like an airport bathroom to me.
I also abhor avocados, but I can't pinpoint why. It isn't a texture thing, I love all kinds of food textures, there's just something very cloying and WRONG about the way they taste.

I'm pretty much all or nothing on my food likes and dislikes. This whole liking something one way but not the other doesn't sit well with me. *furrows brow*

That being said I too will join the anti-green peppers group. I only found out recently that they are unripened, other colored bell peppers, which are perfectly fine. Why would you eat an unripened piece of produce?

This is definitely a weird thing with me but I can't stand vinegar and taste/smell it out in whatever it's in. The smell alone makes me gag. A lot. I also hate mustard. Because of these two dislikes one of my pet peeves is when people bring a salad to a dinner or party and pre-dress it. Please let us add our own salad dressings, or like me, none at all. Is it so damn hard to do this?!

Mushrooms are devil food, keep far away. I'm also not down with eggplant. My mother-in-law makes a caponata at most of our dinner gatherings and I know she knows I can't stand it. Maybe she thinks she'll break me down? It's a battle of wills.

I think the "weirdest" food habit with me is I don't enjoy eating whole fruit, especially if I have to bite into it (apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, etc.) If I can fit the whole thing in my mouth at once, fine, but otherwise I need to slice it. Or make it into a smoothie, which has been my most recent solution to this personal food tick.

Raw chicken is that scene in Aliens when they have the larval version from John Hurt's face and it's on its back and dead and they are probing it and the wet sound and the visual..

No raw chicken. Evah.

Mayonnaise is fucked up totally.

I love homemade chicken soup but any kind of chicken soup from a can smells like cat food to me. It turns my stomach. I don't know why my gf keeps buying it.

Fuck if Im reading the comments. But here we go, into the ether!

Bananas. I love bananas (insert gay joke here) and eat like 2 a day. But I can't fucking stand banana flavoring. Banana candy, banana syrup (old starbucks thing) etc etc etc. I can't handle it.

Sweets. I have no sweet tooth at all. I have a hard time eating even basic things like chocolate or peppermints. I dont like cake. or pie. WHAT KIND OF A LIFE IS THAT?

I don't eat blue food. To me, if food has something blue on it it's because it's been sitting too long.
Bananas gross me out. Smell and texture of them is just...icky.
I am also in the anti-cilantro group. It does taste terribly soapy plus, I think I'm allergic to it. Whenever I eat something that has it in it my throat feels like it's swelling closed. So, I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing.
I do have a rule about food though. If I've never tried it, I have to. How will I know if I like it if I've never had it? And yes, I've tried some pretty weird things!

@Mrs. Smith, I'm sorry to inform you that your husband lives a double life, because that is Mr. Badkitty exactly. We're obviously married to the same man.

One thing I really like to eat is a bowl of cornflakes with three scoops of rainbow sherbert and a splash of milk. I mix the ingredients up real good and eat the cold paste that sticks to my spoon. It's surprisingly good.

Another odd thing about me is I love to put hot sauce on just about anything I ingest. I put green jalapeno sauce on pastas, fish, chicken, rice, beans and vegetables. Red chili sauce goes on beef, pork, mashed potatoes, french fries, hamburgers, soups and salads. For the salad I usually mix a bit in with the dressing. Just about the only thing I wont put hot sauce on is sweet food.

Bacon.
Having lived in the States, I expect my bacon to be crispy if not charred. Europeeans don't quite get that. They remove said bacon from the pan/grill while still soggy and then proceed to pour a slithery mess of pink with glistening fatty stripes on your plate. Blech.
Oh, and Brussel sprouts. Refuse to touch them in any way, shape or disguise.

Raw nuts are fine but I can't stand them when they are cooked in anything other than pastries (cookies, brownies, etc). Especially peanuts. Cooked peanuts are gross. I also hate it when restaurants put fruit and/or nuts in chicken salad, tuna salad, etc.

Also, bananas are the devil.

If we're talking weird food indulgences, I have a favorite. I take a tablespoon, swirl it around in peanut butter then swirl it around in a box of Rice Krispies. We didn't have junk food in my house as a kid so this is the closest I could come to eating something terrible. I still do it even though junk food is readily available now.

Oh God too many to list! I have a weird ritual for how I eat cereal, in that I take a spoon and flip over each spoonful in a circle two times so that everything is equally covered in milk and then wait 30 seconds so it's chewy, not crunchy but not soggy. No to the milk at the bottom.

Every time I hear something semi-solid come out of a can, I want to throw up. That gloop gloop gloop sound. Uggggggh. Can't even think about it.

Cottage cheese is vile.

I get very freaked out when I see veins in chicken legs. Again, makes me feel ill. Also, having to put my hand inside a turkey/goose/chicken to pull out the bag of stuff makes me gag.

As for weird food, I really like McDonald's french fries with honey, with a little cayenne pepper in it. I actually like the honey cayenne on a lot of things, including potatoes of any kind, and red meat. Weird, I know.

Have to chime in here. I hate white foods.

Mrs. Lantern has said they're "cultured" foods, but anything like mayo, sour cream, yogurt, ranch dressing...BLEH! Hell even the smell of ranch dressing alone turns my stomach.

Which is tough, 'cause Mrs. Lantern LOVES ranch. On many things. Oh, the things we do for spousal support...

Mostly Off-topic, but I really hate it when people only 1/2 eat the food on their spoons. Like when they put a heaping spoonful of yogurt into their mouths, and then retract the spoon half-full of nearly digested food. It's not sexy - it's disgusting. Eat the damn thing & get on with it!

Another peeve is people who chow down with their pieholes smacking open like snorting mouth breathers. The sound alone is enough to make me want to scream, but the visual of (again) mostly digested food slopping around & being spit out? Ugh. Hate that.

Ugh, I'm stuck at work for longer than usual so here is my list of outrageous food hates/secrets;

- I cant stand meat, specifically chicken. I can not TOUCH chicken in any way shape or form, even covered in delicious crispy...mcnugget making stuff.

I can't see chicken(or duck) bones, I can't even help cooking if I know chicken is going to be added to what ever I'm touching. And forget letting someone who has touched chicken touch ME without a serious hand wash.

-I hate milk.
I have hated milk since I was a child and remember my mum sitting and making me drink bottles of it at night because I wouldn't drink school milk. I eat cereal dry and the one occasion my Gramma forced em to have milk on my cereal, I was pretty dramamtically ill. It was rice crispies. I haven't been able to enjoy them since.
I used to be able to handle milk in tea but even that isn't possible now and I dont have any dairy at all. I'm not allergic, I just cant STAND milk.

-I have a sweet tooth but I only like very specific sweets.

-I hate food with oil in. I can only handle a half a cap of oil over ONLY stir fry and even that is after 2 years of coaxing by the boyfriend.

-When I go to chinese restaurants I only eat prawn dumplings and boiled rice. ONLY. That's since I was a kid though.

-I dont eat meat at all but I'm not a 'moral' vegetarian, I just cant abide the the texture and feel of meat. I'm all for bacon. Just not in my tummy.

- I completely love having ketchup on Salad. Ketchup on carrots or celery is delicious. I'll have ketchup up on ANYTHING.

-I was once on a school trip and their food was so bad I lived on ketchup packets for a week. And cans of diet coke.

-I make the BEST scrambled eggs.

Also Nadine, my scrambled eggs are so, so much better.

I'm one of those freaky-deaky folks who really doesn't have food aversions. I have things I like better than others, but I don't have anything that automatically triggers gagging. Except maybe shrimp dumplings in rice-wrappers (dim sum style) - those squick me out a bit.

But I do, strongly, believe that if you are grossed out by meat in its natural state (raw, on the bone, what have you), then maybe you should consider vegetarianism. I'm an omnivore but then, I don't mind cooking whole chickens and breaking every bit down for stock/whathaveyou, and I think that the more fat/bone/skin/dark meat is present, the more delicious it is.

If I was grossed out by the reality of what meat is (it is a former living creature, after all) or things that reminded me of that fact, I'd seriously consider not eating meat at all.

So those of you who find meat gross in various forms, I really am curious: why do you keep eating it?

I have sleep eating syndrome which means I have woken up on occasion to find myself with a mouthful of uncooked rice or coffee grounds. For the most part though I usually eat sweets of just about any kind while asleep or semi-conscious.

When awake I don't like seafood or fish of any kind. I wish I did. I can't stand ranch dressing, brussell sprouts, raw onions and overcooked veggies. Also, I can eat the exact same thing for days in a row if it's something I really enjoy like pasta.

Because it is available in non-gross, off-the-bone, prettied up versions of itself that allow people to enjoy it for its taste and nutritional value and not have to think about the veins and fat and nasty parts.

I hate the sewer and find it repulsive. Perhaps I should stop using the toilet!

Lots of issues with food I see... I guess I need to join the bandwagon...

-I love chocolate like a regular candy bar or box of chocolates or even brownies... HATE chocolate ice cream, cake, or any other chocolate flavored candy like tootsie rolls...probably stints from childhood memories and Halloween but that was the candy you had the most of, and was ALWAYS leftover in my goodies bag.

-Marshmallows...Just thinking of them makes me feel a tad pukey...but melted on top of some candied yams or a jar marshmallow cream...I adore.

-Brussels Sprouts, use to love 'em as a kid and now I can't stand the smell of them, it something with the change in flavor as I got older. At one time, they tasted like cabbage but as I got older, they seem to turn more bitter... can't stomach them now.

When I was a kid, in fact all the way through high school, I was the pickiest eater alive. I think I got it from the old man, who still won't eat anything that has more than 3 ingredients and isn't ground beef based. And my mother, God bless her, prepared our meals accordingly. I specifically detested eggs or lettuce. I would become nauseated when comfronted with either.

I losened up on many of my food restrictions after highschool when I lived with a family friend's family. At some point around 19 or 20 I decided "I wanna be an athlete and lettuce is good fer ya.". I would literally force myself to eat salads until I liked the lettuce. I love eggs and all their eggy glory nowadays (except hard boiled because thats just a little too similar to an aborted chick). Hell, I'll even order a fried egg on my burger...mmm.

Though I don't like everything these days, I'll give most things a chance. But I do still hate grapefruit. That will never change. I will dangle from the tallest building and scream into a sound system of my disapproval or this revolting, tumor sized, abomination of a fruit.

Fuck grapefruit!