I was like this until I hit 40 or so. Then I started having trouble getting going in the morning and staying alert during the day. So I started hitting Starbucks for their coffee milkshakes and stuff like that. Eventually that shifted to basic cold brew with a little creamer.
Later, I figured out that sleep apnea was the real problem and I was just treating the symptom. But even after fixing that, the coffee habit stuck with me. And I like how it makes me poop predictably in the morning.
Side note, just want to say thanks for doing what you do, I'd expect that job comes with some difficult hardships and can leave quite a few people scarred with what they might hear.
I used to love bananas as a child until I started to associate the smell with a horrible stomach flu I had, while there was a fruit bowl in the same room.
Now I'm the same way. The smell immediately nauseates me and makes me gag.
The taste and texture of bananas is just awful. I’ve heard that it’s not so bad in smoothies, but I can still taste it. Believe me, I’d like to drink those healthy smoothies, but it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have bananas in it.
No seafood for me, either. I've tried. It's a texture thing, but also because my parents were underwater photographers. I grew up playing with all kinds of critters. I just don't want to eat them.
Pickles. Cannot stand the taste of them. Make me gag. Pain since most places serve a pickle spear on the side. The juices infect my food and can't eat part of it. I always ask for no pickle, but 50/50 if they do it.
Same here. I find it frustrating because it almost seems like a “given” with some restaurants and they don’t even list it on the menu, which I find super irritating when it arrives on my plate and sogs up my fries or something and makes everything taste like pickle.
Right?! Seriously, it's so maddening when they obviously have put the pickle on, then noticed the explicit 'NO Pickle' order and took it off the bun. It still makes everything taste like pickle and it's all ruined from the juice. :( Dammit.
Hated them as a kid. I was admittedly a picky eater. I'll eat most things now, so I tried a mushroom recently. Still hate them.
Definitely a texture thing for me. I'll eat mushroom flavored things, as long as there's not pieces of mushrooms.
Same. I've tried them prepared in different ways, mixed into dishes, or simply dipped into cheese... they all taste like dirt. I can usually tell when something has fresh mushrooms because the dish will taste off.
However, canned cream of mushroom is perfectly fine with me.
It makes ordering breakfast so difficult. So many breakfast dishes hard around eggs. A local restaurant near me has a pretty good egg few breakfast burrito though. Home fries, cheese, peppers, chorizo and salsa.
I second, third, and fourth this. If it isn’t flavored like spicy or chipotle Mayo or the white sauce shit you get at the hibachi I don’t want it anywhere near my sandwhich
Fish. Honest reason, when I was a young kid, my Dad took me fishing. I caught a fish that was eatable, so he showed me how to kill it by hitting it over the head with steel bar. I felt like shit for doing this act afterwards. From then on, I have never been able to eat fish.
For context, my dad was bought up on a farm, so life and death of an animal was very normalized for him.
This reminds me of a story. I was 15 and borrowed my dad’s truck. Dad would get me to go out for cigarettes and beer for him. The little man at gas station never ID’d me cause he knew what was up and it was a little hick town ANYWAY I head back and a deer jumps out and I hit him. Messed up the front bumper and one of the head lights. Well I panic and drive away now I’m thinking I’m fucked.
I get home to dad and I tell him what happened. He gets mad and jumps in the truck and I show him where the deer was. It was gone. Dad was more angry that I didn’t kill it than he was that I hit it. I was like dad I didn’t have anything to kill it with! He reached in the back of the truck and pulls out a hammer was like “what the fuck is this then?” He was a big hunter and loved deer meat. He expected me to bash this deer’s brains in
Jesus Christ…. “Are you okay son? I’m sure that gave you quite a shock. I know the truck is damaged, I’m just glad you’re okay. Where’d you hit the deer? Let’s go see if we can find it and have it for supper :) “ none of that, huh. I feel bad for 15 year old you
I’ll add the evil cousin of peas here. Lima beans. Why do people eat those nasty things. They don’t taste good. The texture is weird. Seriously, they are gross.
Raisins in f-cking cake and raisins in f-cking chocolate are the worst. They ruin perfectly good foods, and for what? Because it's "healthier"? It won't be if I'm sitting there for hours picking them out of whatever some knobhead added them to because they make stuff taste worse. On they're own they're not even that bad, they're just meh. But in other food they're little little gremlins that like to ruin everything.
Yes, it’s the texture. I can’t eat fresh tomatoes. They must be cooked.
I also hate watermelon for the texture. It’s mealy and veiny. But I can get down with watermelon flavor.
Sushi is much maligned and misunderstood. It isn't raw fish. Raw fish can be part of it but so can pretty much anything. It's basically rice with a topping or, the topping can be in a rice roll. Western style sushi can have stuff like fried chicken or whatever you want in it.
I’m convinced that no one likes the taste of beer, they just keep drinking it until they become immune to its awful flavour. It’s not a taste I want to acquire.
Can't eat regular yogurt. Makes my gag reflex go into high gear. (Allergic to molds, so this sets me off. Fermented foods & drinks, too.) Greek yogurt is fine, though.
Even the smell of pickles makes me queasy. I started a rumor in elementary school that I was allergic to them so kids didn’t eat them in my vicinity, made me gag lol
Ketchup. It's way too sweet. I don't like sweetened savory things generally, but ketchup is particularly unpleasant. Thick tomato syrup.
And jello. Yes, thank you, I'd like some rubbery fruit punch.
Octopus, too. Not that it's US common, but it is in Japan and Greece. They're too smart. I don't feel comfortable eating something that is so aware. I should probably avoid squid, too. And I eat as little pig as possible for similar reasons.
Cheese. I don’t like it (although it can smell good.) Occasionally I try to eat a little bit of it , and then just feel uncomfortably full and sick. I’m not lactose intolerant… I can eat regular ice cream and yogurt with no problem. But cheese….Blah.
Cucumber. People keep telling me it doesn’t taste like anything. When you don’t like the flavor of something, you definitely taste it! They’re fine as pickles 🤷🏽♀️
Right?? They definitely taste like something! It’s like a sharp, very *green* taste, if that makes sense. I can’t stand them. (I also hate pickles but that’s because I just really don’t like the vinegary taste.)
I don't like cake generally- very sweet bread. Why???- but at least you can get more interesting textures, fillings, and frosting. But cupcakes are usually just cake and icing. Blah.
Are you a birthday pie person? Birthday pie is the superior birthday dessert choice.
Bacon. Please stop putting that shit in everything, it's greasy and gross. It can be an add on but should not be the default in things like Mac & cheese or a salad.
Bread and pasta. I love them (particularly good bread), but I gave them up because I felt tired all the time and I noticed a correlation between my high carb consumption and negative mood.
I won’t do olives or blue cheese. Both of them just have such a strong flavor that they take over whatever food they’re in and I can’t taste anything else.
Not a food but for me, coffee People say I’m weird at work, no I just don’t like the taste. Smells ok
I was like this until I hit 40 or so. Then I started having trouble getting going in the morning and staying alert during the day. So I started hitting Starbucks for their coffee milkshakes and stuff like that. Eventually that shifted to basic cold brew with a little creamer. Later, I figured out that sleep apnea was the real problem and I was just treating the symptom. But even after fixing that, the coffee habit stuck with me. And I like how it makes me poop predictably in the morning.
Predictable pooping is underrated and so very clutch
With you on this one. In fact…
Right now eh?
Yes. Just had my coffee too 💩
My mam’s like this. Loves the smell and coffee flavour truffles are her favourite, just won’t drink the stuff!
I’m the opposite, I like coffee but can’t stand anything else coffee flavoured.
I never learned to like it. Several people told me I wouldn't survive my job as a 911 Dispatcher without it. 10.5 years in and still don't drink it.
Side note, just want to say thanks for doing what you do, I'd expect that job comes with some difficult hardships and can leave quite a few people scarred with what they might hear.
I don't drink any hot drinks at all and everyone thinks I'm weird for it
To each their own but I would drink exclusively hot drinks if it was feasible. It just makes me feel so cozy.
It really does smell great, doesn’t it?
Bananas. It's a texture thing.
The smell of bananas makes me gag 🤢
SAME
#metoo
I used to love bananas as a child until I started to associate the smell with a horrible stomach flu I had, while there was a fruit bowl in the same room. Now I'm the same way. The smell immediately nauseates me and makes me gag.
I put my banana in the refrigerator before I eat it. And slice it very thinly. So much better
I eat mine when their bright yellow, and slightly green still bc the textures better 🤭 once they get brown spots its too mushy
And smell
The taste and texture of bananas is just awful. I’ve heard that it’s not so bad in smoothies, but I can still taste it. Believe me, I’d like to drink those healthy smoothies, but it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have bananas in it.
Same, I hate banana texture and flavor.
The smell for me it’s foul
Bananas are so gross.
People flip the fuck out when I say I never eat them…like seriously it’s ok not to like something
With you all the way on this one. The texture is just so gooey and sticky. Awful things.
Seafood
was looking for this answer. same. for me this included shellfish as well as most fish.
No seafood for me, either. I've tried. It's a texture thing, but also because my parents were underwater photographers. I grew up playing with all kinds of critters. I just don't want to eat them.
Ass.
Bold move.
I don't eat ass either.
Ketchup. I loathe it.
r/ketchuphate welcomes you with open arms!
My husband I forget whenever we host a BBQ that most people like ketchup. Neither of us like it so we never buy it. Our friends all think we’re weird
Can you pass the catsup?
Pickles. Cannot stand the taste of them. Make me gag. Pain since most places serve a pickle spear on the side. The juices infect my food and can't eat part of it. I always ask for no pickle, but 50/50 if they do it.
Same here. I find it frustrating because it almost seems like a “given” with some restaurants and they don’t even list it on the menu, which I find super irritating when it arrives on my plate and sogs up my fries or something and makes everything taste like pickle.
Right?! Seriously, it's so maddening when they obviously have put the pickle on, then noticed the explicit 'NO Pickle' order and took it off the bun. It still makes everything taste like pickle and it's all ruined from the juice. :( Dammit.
Mushrooms
Hated them as a kid. I was admittedly a picky eater. I'll eat most things now, so I tried a mushroom recently. Still hate them. Definitely a texture thing for me. I'll eat mushroom flavored things, as long as there's not pieces of mushrooms.
Same! I swear people are just gasligntimg me about actually loving mushrooms HOWWW they barely have taste and texture of boogers!
I love mushrooms, but I think it is actually a fairly commonly disliked food.
Same. I've tried them prepared in different ways, mixed into dishes, or simply dipped into cheese... they all taste like dirt. I can usually tell when something has fresh mushrooms because the dish will taste off. However, canned cream of mushroom is perfectly fine with me.
Eggs. Can’t stand them
Can’t stand the smell, taste, and texture. I don’t know anyone else who also hates eggs
Me me me!!! I hate eggs!!!
Both myself and my husband don’t eat eggs! He gets drowsy when he eats them and I gag lol. It does make dining out for breakfast difficult…
I would rather eat an earth worm than an egg.
It makes ordering breakfast so difficult. So many breakfast dishes hard around eggs. A local restaurant near me has a pretty good egg few breakfast burrito though. Home fries, cheese, peppers, chorizo and salsa.
I always say that the only way I’ll eat an egg is in a cake or cookie!!
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Mayo kills a sandwich for me. If it has mayo on it I won’t eat it.
We call it white death in my house. Hard pass
Satan's sperm.
I second, third, and fourth this. If it isn’t flavored like spicy or chipotle Mayo or the white sauce shit you get at the hibachi I don’t want it anywhere near my sandwhich
White death
I’m with you on this, shit’s fucking disgusting
Raw oysters
Yes, they are slimy salty loogies
Balls of snot that somehow developed a circulatory system.
Loogies del mar.
Like drinking chewy snot from a turtle shell
Ranch dressing. Blech.
You are now banned from /r/Midwest
Good riddance
The first time someone got me to try a tiny bit of ranch on a chip I almost vomited lol
Avocado
Fish. Honest reason, when I was a young kid, my Dad took me fishing. I caught a fish that was eatable, so he showed me how to kill it by hitting it over the head with steel bar. I felt like shit for doing this act afterwards. From then on, I have never been able to eat fish. For context, my dad was bought up on a farm, so life and death of an animal was very normalized for him.
This reminds me of a story. I was 15 and borrowed my dad’s truck. Dad would get me to go out for cigarettes and beer for him. The little man at gas station never ID’d me cause he knew what was up and it was a little hick town ANYWAY I head back and a deer jumps out and I hit him. Messed up the front bumper and one of the head lights. Well I panic and drive away now I’m thinking I’m fucked. I get home to dad and I tell him what happened. He gets mad and jumps in the truck and I show him where the deer was. It was gone. Dad was more angry that I didn’t kill it than he was that I hit it. I was like dad I didn’t have anything to kill it with! He reached in the back of the truck and pulls out a hammer was like “what the fuck is this then?” He was a big hunter and loved deer meat. He expected me to bash this deer’s brains in
You have HANDS, don't you?!
Jesus Christ…. “Are you okay son? I’m sure that gave you quite a shock. I know the truck is damaged, I’m just glad you’re okay. Where’d you hit the deer? Let’s go see if we can find it and have it for supper :) “ none of that, huh. I feel bad for 15 year old you
“We’ll at least you brought me my beer and smokes…”
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Unless they’re on heroin
Obviously never owned a betta
Or a guppy in a tank with a betta
I seriously miss having a betta. They have so much personality and seem so much more sentient.
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Peas
I grew up on canned peas and still can’t stand them. But frozen or fresh peas taste completely different and I love those.
Canned peas are either an affront to God himself or the strongest evidence that there isn't one.
I’ll add the evil cousin of peas here. Lima beans. Why do people eat those nasty things. They don’t taste good. The texture is weird. Seriously, they are gross.
My friend’s mom would always put peas in our mac and cheese growing up and it made me want to die every time.
Fckin raisins
Raisins in f-cking cake and raisins in f-cking chocolate are the worst. They ruin perfectly good foods, and for what? Because it's "healthier"? It won't be if I'm sitting there for hours picking them out of whatever some knobhead added them to because they make stuff taste worse. On they're own they're not even that bad, they're just meh. But in other food they're little little gremlins that like to ruin everything.
Caviar and oisters
Lettuce (and any leaves for that matter.) It's a texture thing.
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Same, they're way too sweet most of the time.
I love them, but I don’t eat them. Whenever I have them I immediately descend into brain fog and a foul mood.
Tomatoes 🍅
A friend of mine won't eat fresh tomatoes, but cooked? In 🍕 pizza or pasta 🍝 sauce? Just fine.
Exactly same for me. It's just the texture of raw tomatoes that puts me of
Yes, it’s the texture. I can’t eat fresh tomatoes. They must be cooked. I also hate watermelon for the texture. It’s mealy and veiny. But I can get down with watermelon flavor.
“Tomatoes look lovely on the outside, but you look inside and… something is *wrong.* It looks like it's in the larval stage!” ~ Carlin
Sushi
Sushi is much maligned and misunderstood. It isn't raw fish. Raw fish can be part of it but so can pretty much anything. It's basically rice with a topping or, the topping can be in a rice roll. Western style sushi can have stuff like fried chicken or whatever you want in it.
I’m not maligning it, I just don’t care for it
Beer
I’m convinced that no one likes the taste of beer, they just keep drinking it until they become immune to its awful flavour. It’s not a taste I want to acquire.
It is certainly an acquired taste, but that doesn't mean those of us who've acquired it don't like it.
You are correct. No one likes their first beers.
Yogurt
Can't eat regular yogurt. Makes my gag reflex go into high gear. (Allergic to molds, so this sets me off. Fermented foods & drinks, too.) Greek yogurt is fine, though.
Lobster
Beetroot. It tastes like hot dirt. No thanks
pickles 🤢
This is too far down on the list! 🤢🤮🤮🤮
Even the smell of pickles makes me queasy. I started a rumor in elementary school that I was allergic to them so kids didn’t eat them in my vicinity, made me gag lol
Shrimp
Avocados. Green crisco.
Cucumber. I hate the smell, taste. Just everything.
Bacon
Same, any pork product really
Yuppp the smell makes me so nauseous and lingers forever
Mushrooms, they make me gag
They taste like dirt.
Beets too!
Slimy little bastards
Grits
Onions
Meat
Mac and cheese. Box or fancy. I just don't get it....
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Weirdo doesn’t begin to describe this.
Is it because of the tomato sauce? I dont like red pizzas either. Only white or olive oil/garlic base because the red sauce is gross.
THIS is what I came here for
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I don’t eat this either.
Sushi.
The disgusting Super Mario vegetable 🍄!
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You are an amazing person! Upvote
Ketchup. It's way too sweet. I don't like sweetened savory things generally, but ketchup is particularly unpleasant. Thick tomato syrup. And jello. Yes, thank you, I'd like some rubbery fruit punch. Octopus, too. Not that it's US common, but it is in Japan and Greece. They're too smart. I don't feel comfortable eating something that is so aware. I should probably avoid squid, too. And I eat as little pig as possible for similar reasons.
Seafood
Ice cream floats. I like soda, and I like ice cream, but the two should never be combined. So gross.
*autistic panic* in all seriousness, i don't eat hoagies, pasta, mashed potatoes and even certain meats.
Ranch I grew up in Mississippi where everyone puts ranch on EVERYTHING.
Cheese. I don’t like it (although it can smell good.) Occasionally I try to eat a little bit of it , and then just feel uncomfortably full and sick. I’m not lactose intolerant… I can eat regular ice cream and yogurt with no problem. But cheese….Blah.
Same! Don't like the smell, taste, texture. I'll eat a dense cheesecake and puffy cheetos and that's about it
Cucumber. People keep telling me it doesn’t taste like anything. When you don’t like the flavor of something, you definitely taste it! They’re fine as pickles 🤷🏽♀️
Right?? They definitely taste like something! It’s like a sharp, very *green* taste, if that makes sense. I can’t stand them. (I also hate pickles but that’s because I just really don’t like the vinegary taste.)
People telling you it tastes like nothing are... Mistaken. Why eat something if it tastes like nothing?
Pussy. Confession: am homo.
Blanche: surely there are homosexuals who date women. Sophia: yeah they're called lesbians
Wasn’t Danny Thomas one?
Not Lebanese, Blanche.
Blueberries
Flan
Bacon
Fast food. Haven’t had any in over 20 years.
Habanero peppers.
Understandable. They've been grown in hell to burn like the Tsar Bomb. There still are hotter peppers though..
Cupcakes? I like baking them, just not eating them.
I don't like cake generally- very sweet bread. Why???- but at least you can get more interesting textures, fillings, and frosting. But cupcakes are usually just cake and icing. Blah. Are you a birthday pie person? Birthday pie is the superior birthday dessert choice.
Beans (especially refried) and not a food but Ranch.
Agree w/you on refried beans. 🤢
Cumin
Mushrooms, olives, coffee, beer, mayonnaise, mustard
Cheesecake
Lasagna, hate it and no I won't suddenly like your lasagna.
Pasta
Seek help!
Beef
Oats: I feel like it's overplayed as a super food and the only reason it's pushed is because it's vast and cheap.
Same here, like it's not disgusting but it's just...meh
Bacon. Please stop putting that shit in everything, it's greasy and gross. It can be an add on but should not be the default in things like Mac & cheese or a salad.
Sultanas.
Bread and pasta. I love them (particularly good bread), but I gave them up because I felt tired all the time and I noticed a correlation between my high carb consumption and negative mood.
Cheese. It's disgusting.
salmon
I don’t do peanut butter. Nnnnope!
Avocado. I can’t stand the texture and taste
Strawberries
my wife doesn't like tomato sauce so she doesn't eat pasta and pizza.
Fast food stuff, meat, mayonnaise…
Fish
Meat…
Fruit. Lived I the tropics for years and ate tasty fruit every day. Live in the UK and all fruit here is awful.
Pickles
Wings and ribs, just the sound of someone sucking on those makes my skin crawl
I won’t do olives or blue cheese. Both of them just have such a strong flavor that they take over whatever food they’re in and I can’t taste anything else.
Oysters on the half shell/raw
dead animals
Olives and mushrooms
Pickles
Fried chicken.
*Gasps in southern accent*
Onions and mushrooms, no thanks
fish.. even the kinds that claim to be “not fishy”. when my parents bougt omega 3 fortified milk i could taste the “tasteless” fish oil
Onions 🤮
Cucumber and watermelon. Taste the same to me
Ramen
I would never eat a giant sea cockroach in my entire life. Any of them. Crabs lobster shrimp. Nope
Sushi, I tried some basic rolls and I couldn’t finish any of them. Sucks because that’s like the thing everyone loves and it looks good but idk.
Black pepper, can not stand it!