Seriously, guys and gals, don't you try to convert me into eating fish. Phooey. Yuck.
I know it's good for me they say. If you hate what you eat, I suppose it's also good weight management. I've tried fish more times than I wish. The smell alone gives me a literal headache. I used to cry when I was a kid and my grandparents would drag me to seafood restaurants.
Though, I'd eat a fish any day over watching someone eat a crawdad (crayfish). Makes me shiver just thinking about it. Just no, please...don't! hehe.
Oh wait - I know one: cheap tequila. Makes me gag. I think it's called "Mescal" or something.
Tequila is technically a mezcal, too, but with restrictions on how it can be made (i.e. only in Jalisco, and only from the Blue Agave). Mezcal can be made from any of the agave varieties and yeah, some varieties are better than others - that's for damned sure.
I was married for years to a woman born in East Asia. She loved these unhatched duck eggs called "balut." I found them repulsive immediately the very first time I saw someone attempt to eat one. A few years and some liquid bravery (alcohol) later, she convinced me to try one. It was a complete mistake.
Nightmares, I tell you.
eww
curry and liver
and seafood apart from fish. there are loads when I think about it.
Fish did the same to me growing up. I later found out that it was because my parents were buying bottom-shelf old crap. That shit stunk real bad.
I can now enjoy a tuna melt, or a cod fillet with lotsa butter. As you age, harsh smells and tastes mellow out. I now really enjoy a smoked salmon, or a lobster tail. Give it time.
I love 95% food, I used to hate Brussel sprouts, my mother used to boil the crap out of them when I was a kid. Until about a year ago and had the most amazing Brussel sprout dish, all chopped up with bacon and other deliciousness.
I have never had the pleasure of having crayfish or lobster
I guess oysters make me gag, I want to love them but I cant. I guess most offal disgust me, though I like liver if done right, and some other offal bits to which I have eaten in real Pho Vietnamese soup.
Soooo hmmmmm, the beatles and crickets I tried to eat in Bangkok were not so nice lol
The two foods I truly hated as a kid: dressing (mostly because of the sage, but partly from its sticky consistency) and mincemeat pie (shudder).
I enjoy all foods however, I have never heard my brother laugh so hard as he did when I recently enjoyed a spicy curry, one just hot enough to clear the sinuses, unfortunately possibly due to this I sneezed. An immediate sensation of fire in my throat followed by a sensation I can only describe as chili being rubbed into the back of your eyes, they were bloodshot and wanted to leave my face. The burning then spread to my inner ear and nose, it hurt to breath. I don't understand what happened however I have never experienced a spice sensation like it, a bucket of milk and water and two hours later I almost felt human.
@silvereyes tastes change as we get older, I've always tried something new or something unusual whenever I have the opportunity, sometimes it just takes a new recipe or a different chef to open you up to new flavours.
I feel for you, that sounded painful to the nth degree.
I'm not keen on snake.
@Kreig Nah - too fishy for me.
@Kreig I actually can't remember that clearly, as it was 40 years ago, but I think it was in India, and I remember them piercing the live snake's head with a hook about 2 metres of the ground and first draining the bile (which was reserved for the men - nature's viagra apparently), then the snake was cut up and bits were handed round for us to snack on. I think I remember it being fishy, but it could just as well have been like chicken. I think I was so traumatised that it could have tasted like polystyrene for all I know. Visual memories are fab aren;t they?
@Kreig OK now you've made me just a little bit sick in my mouth.
I was raised a vegetarian and that has lead to most of my "gross factor" issues. The big one is food that still looks like animals, such as lobsters, whole fish, crawfish, crabs and so on. Never touching edible insects. I have no need to devour organs like liver and tripe. It's rare, but sometimes a stray thought even ruins a plate of delicious buffalo wings. I do love lobster bisque and crab cakes, so it's purely a visual thing on most fronts.
I'm almost never picky. I love kalamari, fish, mexican, chinese, you name it. But my mom used to make this pineapple and sausage dinner and I would practically go hungry. Ruining great sausage with pineapple. Abominable.
So you wouldn't like a pineapple and spaghetti pizza then? lol
haha
Love pineapple with mahi mahi; love pineapple on my pizza; and love pineapple on a grilled chicken sandwich with bbq sauce. I would have liked your mom's dinner. And I love applesauce with pork chops or ham. Yum! LOL!
Indian food with curry on it. Whew! What a taste to remember. Anchovies is the next. I spent 20 dollars in a pizza and couldn't eat it. I said I'll have a supreme and I said put a little of everything on it. It looked fantastic but it smelt like a dirty restroom....ugh!
The first time I tried an olive (many years ago, as a child) I couldn't believe anyone could possibly eat something so foul. Funny this is, nowadays I wouldn't mind if everything tasted of olives.
I've always hated brussels sprouts. Why would anyone want to eat something that tastes how farts smell?
Cooked cabbage as well!
@Acharyasman55 Agreed, especially as you specify cooked - raw cabbage tastes perfectly acceptable!
I honestly could never get into fish either. And I tried it too. Multiple times. I like most other meat though.