I won't eat........?

[kyril]

I'm really really really not a picky eater.
I'm not overly fond of everything I eat, but I've always had limited funds and I was raised with the rule of "this is for dinner, eat it or it'll be for breakfast too!"
So, I've learned to eat "everything".

All the non-picky eaters tell some variant of this story. What you don't seem to realize is that most of us who were picky grew up very much the same way (it's a normal parental thing, trying to encourage kids to be 'good eaters', especially when resources were limited) and it just didn't work on us.

I can no more learn to like mushrooms than I can learn to think of myself as a girl. Actually, the latter might be easier - at least I can fake it. Trying to fake being able to eat mushrooms lasted for approximately 10 seconds before there was a mess on my mother's dining room floor.

[Janet_Girl]

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Anyone who likes eating tripe should be examined for a mental problem

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Cindy

If you ever have a hangover, and someone offers you Menudo, refuses it.  It taste good, but you would not want to know what is in it. 

[some ftm guy]

Menudo is a drink and not just a bad boy band from 30 years ago? heh 

eating an onion like an apple....*shudders. too bad you can't see the way my face is stuck now* i no longer want to eat anything for the rest of the day kthanks.

[V M]

*Waiter at a restaurant*

"So, that will be pickled pig's feet with sauerkraut and a bowl of menudo soup and a whole raw onion on the side...
And for dessert?" 

[Janet_Girl]

A ton of breath mints

[Donnie B.]

It has to be canned beans- I can barely stand washing/throwing away things that have even touched them.

[Cindy]

Years ago I was in the far north of Australia and caught up with a couple. We sat down to have lunch. We had cheese sandwiches. Julie the woman in the other couple said to her partner. I got these before we left and gave him a baked bean sandwich.
His face was priceless and not ecstatic.

Cindy

[Hikari]

Things I won't eat ever:
Any genital parts (i.e. bull testicles)
pig tails, pig hooves
chitterlings
fatback
grubs and spiders, scorpions or any other poisonous insect.
liver, brains, eyes or any other organs aside from maybe intestine parts (aren't those in sausage?)

Things I don't like but if I do eat if I am really hungry:
tomatoes
onions or leeks
insects that are not poisonous (i.e. chocolate covered ants)
papa johns and cici's pizza (I hate the sauce).
spam
sardines or anchovies in brine or oil (the ones water are okay).

That is a pretty big list but, I don't think that makes me a picky eater, I even think of myself as somewhat of an adventurous eater, what do you all think, am I a picky eater in your opinion?

[Maddie Secutura]

I remember not liking beets.  I'm also not the biggest fan of olives but I'll eat them on pizza.  Everything else is pretty much good to go.


Oh I've also been known to eat cold beans out of the can. 

[Taka]

i won't eat eggs because of allergy. and not too much shellfish, crab, shrimps, and such, this also because of allergy. a bit annoying since it tastes so good

otherwise i'll eat just about anything, except on bad days. i can't make myself eat any animal fat unless i'm above my personal average in happiness, it'll make me throw up

[silverarrow]

lol I have a lot of food I hate, I'm picky.

Pasta, chicken nuggets, sloppy joe, most sammywichs, tomatoes, cherries, fish, coca cola (most sodas that aren't mtn dew acttually), and nuts

I just won't eat any of it, whichs annoys my mom ^-^ll

[some ftm guy]

i forgot banana peppers...they're just weird.

[justmeinoz]

If anyone has a problem with Blue Vein Chees, you should try it on a slice of green (unripe) pear. It takes the  away, and you will be surprised how good the cheese tastes.

Afraid I haven't come across anything for tripe though! Oh. I forgot to add, anything that seems to be looking at me!

Karen.

[Taka]

blue vein cheese is supposed to be eaten with chocolate. my brother learned to prepare those at a french restaurant

[justmeinoz]

Sounds like a fair thing. Chocolate seems to be the answer to most things!
I have a long term research project to find a beer that will go with chocolate mud cake.  Haven't found one yet, so will have to keep drinking.
Karen.

[AmySmiles]

Weird parts - pigs feet, brains, eyes, genitals, anything like that.
Liver - although liver sausage can be alright
Pickles, except on cuban sandwiches
Weird seafood - squid, octopus, etc
Usually peppers - sauces made from peppers are ok, but I don't like the texture of peppers themselves
Brussell sprouts - haven't tried them, never will
Beets - probably the same as brussell sprouts
Eggplant - I almost threw up after eating badly prepared eggplant once
Don't like eating oranges that I have to peel, but sometimes have been known to do so.  Love orange juice though.

Probably several others I'm forgetting.  I like most things, but not the stereotyped "bad" veggies.

Trying to fake being able to eat mushrooms lasted for approximately 10 seconds before there was a mess on my mother's dining room floor.

This made me laugh so hard, probably because my sister is exactly the same way.  I thought she'd just need it cooked right so I had her try a sauteed mushroom off my burger once and the look on her face told me never to do that again.

Edit: Actually, I need to stop reading back in this thread period.  These metaphors are making me laugh so hard I'm crying 

[Taka]

Weird parts - pigs feet, brains, eyes, genitals, anything like that.

then i guess wether balls and raw sliced pig testicles are delicacies that you won't ever taste..

[Ryno]

Olives. Pretty much the only food on this planet I can't even be within ten feet of. The smell makes me nautious.

I've had those weird brown marinated eggs from an Asian grocery store, I've had cow tongue, liver, raw octopus, jellyfish, plenty of other raw seafood, plenty of other cooked seafood, canned snail (not even escargot done up all fancy and French-like, just straight from a can like sardines) hot peppers of many kinds, pretty much every veggie and exotic fruit out there, and I am more than willing to try anything else thrown at me. When it comes to food, nothing will hold me back. Except olives.

I'd even give delicacies like brain and balls a try. Why not?

[Joelene9]

  Ryan, we have Rocky Mountain Oysters out here. It it not a seafood, ask any steer (bullock).  Mooooooo!

  Cilantro (coriander).  To me it has a rotting vegetable aftertaste.  My sister says it tastes like soap. 
  Joelene

[Ryno]

Joelene: I heard about those on a TV show. These guys had an eating contest where they had to eat bull balls xD As long as they don't smell and taste like olives, I'll probably try em someday. Maybe after a whiskey or two x)