What type of foods still remain on the 'I will never try' list for you?
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Our tastes change as we get older, there are some foods we thought as children we would never eat but that pickiness changes as we grow up. We eventually eat them and maybe like them.
What foods for you remain on the picky list? And just will never attempt to try.
For me it is sultanas, raisins and currants. Actively avoid them. I will never try.
joyousjoy23@reddit
Kidney related foods steak and kidney pie. Kidney beans etc. reason? I’m missing a kidney and I’m petty.
UniqueTart6744@reddit
Tinned macaroni cheese. My husband eats it, but I think it looks and smells revolting. I like ordinary macaroni cheese just fine!
Also not keen on the idea of chicken feet, liver, or any kind of insect. Yuck.
Final_Blacksmith7447@reddit
No seafood or live anything. Won’t touch it.
YorkshireMary@reddit
Anything seafood fishy. Fish and chips from the chippy is fine. But sushi ... Just No.
audigex@reddit
Mushy peas
A seagull shit on my head at primary school when I was about 5-6, I put my hand up to see what had hit me and it looked like mushy peas. I've never gotten over that in 30 years and I could live for 1000 years and I'd still bork at the idea of mushy peas
As it happens I don't particularly like garden peas anyway, I'm aware mushy peas taste a bit different but I'm not too worried that I'm missing something I'd otherwise love
Sorchya@reddit
Snails and tarantulas. You genuinely couldn't pay me to try either.
SemiFunctionalHomo@reddit
Octopus/squid anything with tentacles, just the thought revolts me
Snails for the same reason
Gary_James_Official@reddit
There's a difference between eating octopus and eating live octopus, the latter being one of the most off-putting things imaginable. If it's cooked and someone has thrown some vegetables over it, maybe I could be convinced to try it. But eating one that's actively trying to not get eaten? Nope.
RealLongwayround@reddit
Snails are pretty tasty: I had them in France many years ago cooked in a gorgeous red wine sauce. If you like mussels, you’ll probably like snails. If you don’t like mussels, you probably won’t!
I’ve tried octopus and squid several times, each time thinking I might find somewhere that prepares them in a way that doesn’t make them like rubber in my mouth. I will never eat either again.
SemiFunctionalHomo@reddit
Just a mental thing tbh, I'm not squeamish but for whatever reason slugs and snails turn my stomach lol
Forgetful8nine@reddit
I'm the same. My family are forever taking the piss out of me for it.
I do like mussels, though.
Moist_gooch90@reddit
I had some sort of seafood with tentacles a few days ago for the first time at some sushi bar. That style of food isn't for me. I only had a small portion then went and got a KFC.
Boring_Storm4633@reddit
Snail tentacles??? Lol.
SemiFunctionalHomo@reddit
They haunt my nightmares
KillieGirl77@reddit
Tuna 🤢🤢🤢
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
Jellied eel
PrincessStephanieR@reddit
Anything that involves insects
ultimateberk@reddit
For me its seafood fish sticks, the thought of eating one repulses me. Never tried em, everyone else in the house eats them
Green_Guava9087@reddit
If you ever wish to reinforce your opinion, check out how they're made...ooft 🤮🤢🤮
yossanator@reddit
Everytime I look at one I think of the movie Solyent Green. No thanks
ultimateberk@reddit
Fish sticks are people!
FrostyRydia@reddit
Mushrooms.
I absolutely detest them.
The look of them cooked, the smell. They look like slugs
I had them twice in my life.
Once was when I was very young and I remember not liking them.
I then had them when I was about 13 when a family member cooked Garlic mushrooms. I thought they might taste different because of the garlic. Noooope.
I'm now 35 and still will never eat them again.
I would possibly try if they were done by a high end restaurant in a unique way
JurassicM4rc@reddit
I also hate mushrooms, but I've made the bizarre decision to grow them on my allotment. My logic is that there must be some types that I haven't tried yet that I'd actually like if I can control how they're cooked.
If not, I'll trade them with my neighbours.
-pixie-ninja-@reddit
What are you growing? We grew oysters (pink, golden, king) and lions mane at home.
-pixie-ninja-@reddit
I used to hate mushrooms and still not a big fan of standard white ones in shops but everyone thinks it's hilarious that I'm really into foraging, especially mushrooms, there's so much variety! I love most wild mushrooms. I've tried most things once but have never and will never have tripe.
TomfromLondon@reddit
So the thing you'd never try you've had twice?
FrostyRydia@reddit
Haha I misread the title.
I thought it said something you've tried but never again
Boring_Storm4633@reddit
The thing with mushrooms is not to overcook them. Sliced and a couple of minutes either side in a small amount of hot oil might change your mind. I love 'em!
skisagooner@reddit
I hate this thread. There's nothing I will never try. Maybe human flesh.
SnooLobsters8265@reddit
That Italian cheese with maggots in. I do like umami so I would definitely like it but I can’t get past the maggots.
bramley36@reddit
It is illegal to sell in the EU, so you'd have to find someone to just give you a taste.
iffyClyro@reddit
There isn’t anything.
I’m pretty sure if you refuse to even try food as an adult it’s probably some kind of neurodivergence or something, not a criticism.
Most grown adults without any issues will try most foods. Things like scorpions and stuff when you’re in China or that might be hard to get your head around.
bramley36@reddit
I''ll try most anything, except where there are thorny ethical issues.
Purple_Committee_216@reddit
Anchovies Tripe
bramley36@reddit
"Hamsi" is the Turkish word for anchovies, and the only Turkish word I still remember. Fresh, these little, affordable fish are tasty and mild- nothing at all like the pungent, salty, oily versions that are typically found in cans.
JonJo42@reddit
McDonalds, never had one in 56 years and I don’t think I ever will.
FeedFrequent1334@reddit
I'm with you. My kids love it so I reluctantly take them occasionally.
You couldn't pay me to eat there, I'd honestly rather starve.
Zorolord@reddit
These days you aint missing much, the quality has really gone down in my country (UK)
yossanator@reddit
Love the "gone down" bit. It's always been shit. I remember trying a Fillet O Fish in the early eighties - it was like someone had explained fish fingers to someone who hated the idea of fish fingers but never actually tried one and asked them to make them.
Zorolord@reddit
Well it gone from rank to more rank.
yossanator@reddit
Thank you for your reassessment!😄
Don_Alosi@reddit
errr, we are in r/askUK
Zorolord@reddit
Sorry didnt notice the sub lol
x_S4vAgE_x@reddit
McDonald's in Slovenia was way better.
Ordinary menu items just had more flavor and there was far more veggie and fish options and even more drinks and ice creams.
Blew what we get out of the water
The_Syndic@reddit
Eh it's not that bad but you're not really missing out and if you've gone that long then no point starting now. Got too expensive for what it is here.
Madog-Hellgeese@reddit
Oysters, I can't see it ever being a pleasant experience and Id be worried It would instantly come back up. I have no idea what it tastes like but my assumption would be a salt shot of salt water with a massive bogey in
bramley36@reddit
My mom always said "Just try a bite" and produced kids who turned into adventurous eaters.
BigDuncFerguson@reddit
Black pudding. Just no.
FeedFrequent1334@reddit
A fundamental part of any full-breakfast, or breakfast roll.
You're really missing out. It's literally just oats soaked pigs blood, whats the big deal?
the_topiary@reddit
I'd rather black pudding than white pudding.
Usual-Journalist-292@reddit
I love it, to me it's just a more sausage-y tasting sausage.
Ashamed_Housing7489@reddit
Fried crickets
bramley36@reddit
You tried them, but didn't like them?
YragNitram1956@reddit
Tripe.
MelodicAd2213@reddit
Same, my dad ate some when I was a kid it looked and smelt so vile.
Will happily eat seafood, enjoy mussels and love clams and scallops, but animals’ stomachs? No thanks 🤢
OkPea5819@reddit
If you can afford meat, why on earth you’d eat tripe I have no idea.
bramley36@reddit
A big chunk of great Italian cuisine is based on peasant/poverty foods. Watch Stanley Tucci show how to prepare stone soup, for example.
Lizbelizi@reddit
Because it's nice!
chartupdate@reddit
Prepared well and with the right sauce if is a delicacy. I had an amazing tripe dish in a restaurant in France once.
bramley36@reddit
I ate the classic tripe sandwich in Florence this fall. The taste was quite mild, and far from vile. I'd probably eat another..
_Hoping_For_Better_@reddit
What was the texture like?
bramley36@reddit
Kinda soft- I mean, there was one dude at the lampredotto booth whose whole job was chopping the tripe. The taste was vaguely reminiscent of seafood. I got the classic, basic street food version, but if I was eating it more often, I'd ask for some arugula, lettuce, tomato, etc. to be added at extra cost. The salsa verde did provide a little heat.
AarhusNative@reddit
If you've eaten decent sausages then you have already eaten animals stomach, the casing are intestine.
HistoryDisastrous493@reddit
Stomach and intestine is not the same thing
tmr89@reddit
Looks like the Ethiopian bread, injera
terryturbojr@reddit
Whilst the British tripe and onions looks disgusting there are loads of great tripe dishes.
My favourites are the steamed tripe with ginger you get in dim sum and then brisket, tripe and tendon noodle soup.
Objective-Papaya8194@reddit
I’ve had it in Asian food and in Pho. It’s pretty good with their style of cuisine.
SnooozeFezt@reddit
It's actually not that bad when cooked and prepared correctly.
heroics-delta8s@reddit
Came to say this, my father used to regularly eat pickled tripe.
kackers643259@reddit
i saw the post title and thought "huh, can't really think of anything" and then saw this as the top comment and realised i actively block this spongiform monstrosity out of my mind
There are many many things that I'll give a try, shit I actively want to try surströmming (prepared properly) one day, I do not want to even be within 20 feet of anyone eating this thing that looks like a thick slab of post-bathing foot skin and appears to have the texture of chewing on balloons
FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit
It used to be very popular. From a WW2 exhibition at the RAF Oulton museum at the Blickling Estate:
Upbeat_Map_348@reddit
When entire purpose of cooking and preparing a food is to entirely disguise the horrendous taste of it, I’ll probably pass.
Wise_Advertising_888@reddit
I tried it with vinegar. A big nope from me.
Clear_Caterpillar394@reddit
Had to Google this, it sounds as bad as it looks.
Vivid_Employment8635@reddit
Tuna, turkey, instant mashed potato and fried bread. No idea why I don’t like them and I’ll eat most other things, but those specific things I’ve just known since I was a kid I don’t like.
Oohoureli@reddit
I'll try anything once apart from incest and Morris dancing.
DDMMYY_@reddit
Jellied Eels and Tripe
StairliftForGlokta@reddit
Rice pudding and porridge. It's the texture and the smell, eugghhh
Striking_Code_8287@reddit
Prawns. Even looking at them has me feeling queasy. I can barely be in someone's company when they are being eaten. Utterly revolting things.
Lemongrass and mint. Yuck. Absolutely no.
Avocados, courgettes, mangoes and aubergines. All slimy looking. Arg. Not a hope.
Olives. Holy shit no.
BarbiePeonies@reddit
Baked beans.
Level_Confection_926@reddit
Spam.
KingKhram@reddit
I'll try as much as I can, but if it smells awful then I'm out. I remember being in China and walking past some stinky tofu was being cooked and the smell was in the air and it made me sick. The fermented duck egg is also a no
SnooozeFezt@reddit
Oysters
Lyrakish@reddit
Oysters. Slimy and served cold. No thanks.
Novaportia@reddit
Balut. No. Never. Nope. Not if you paid me.
Artistic-Fish1125@reddit
My husband loves Heinz beans. Every time I open the can I immediately gag and the smell makes me vomit. I don't think I could stomach them.
sf-keto@reddit
Whale.
profoundapathy@reddit
Pickled egg - always wonder about it when in the chippy, don't actually know anybody who's ever had one, my brain just tells me there are rank!
thelajestic@reddit
I'm not a fan of eggs anyway (I like them scrambled and can have them in things like egg fried rice etc, but I really dislike boiled, fried or poached eggs). So I will definitely never try a pickled one.
And I read a thing once about a chippie that will deep fry anything you want, and the writer tried a bunch of things and rated them. They got a pickled egg deep fried and said it was what they imagine biting into a warm vinegary eyeball to be like 🤢🤢🤢 and I always think about that when I see pickled eggs 😅
profoundapathy@reddit
Absolutely grim 🤣
theabominablewonder@reddit
Oysters. Just can’t see the appeal at all on how y ou eat them and they look disgusting.
lorelai_lq@reddit
I nearly tried one, but my friend went first and said it was like very salty snot; that was all I needed to know.
BennyHudson10@reddit
I was coming here to say this, the fact that they’re stone cold and served over ice as well… 🤢🤢🤢
thelajestic@reddit
You can have them hot! My stepdad once did them with a little garlic butter and a breadcrumb topping and baked them in the shells and it was tremendous.
Sheelz013@reddit
I passed an oyster stall outside the Saatchi gallery years ago. The guy offered me a free oyster to try. I took one look and 🤢
SnooSketches1641@reddit
Jellied eels.
KaijuicyWizard@reddit
Penis fish.
Saw it wriggling around in buckets at a lot of fish markets while living in South Korea. Apparently it’s often eaten raw. I’m definitely not adventurous enough to ever go near it.
imfinewithastraw@reddit
Dog
Expensive_Time_7367@reddit
Dog sounds quite tasty, like if I was starving…. My grandfather’s advice was always just never eat cat - apparently it’s truly revolting.
ceehred@reddit
Eyeballs
PingouinFluffy@reddit
Only whelks for me.
richyyoung@reddit
Baked beans - id rather go hungry
melanie110@reddit
Oysters. It’s a texture thing for me and that would make me gag.
Celery I cannot stand either
Boring_Storm4633@reddit
Celery: it's like eating a violin.
FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit
Endangered species, such as whale meat.
Effective-Stretch951@reddit
Snails
Jumpy-Scallion-9463@reddit
Liver and onions. I was forced to eat a plate at school dinner once and now, 50 years on, I still gag at the memory.
I'll eat anything else. Except smashed avocados. They look like someone coughed up part of their lung.
MoneyLoud1932@reddit
Ever get a nosebleed as a kid and then hock up a wet red blood clot after. Always reminds me of uncooked liver. No thank you.
Eyoopmiduck@reddit
Just had liver, bacon and onions for my tea. Scrummy.
Jumpy-Scallion-9463@reddit
You sick puppy
yabyum@reddit
Nice image. True though!
laser_spanner@reddit
Scallops and Oysters. Bleurgh.
Hookton@reddit
Heaps. Most seafood, most dairy, many meats.
WinnerEastern9192@reddit
Runny egg, oysters, silk worms or some other worms which other cultures are eating, brain
Majick_L@reddit
Stuff like surstromming fish, fermented shark and balut eggs etc. And insects like fried tarantulas
Wonderpants_uk@reddit
Balut.
That is all.
Relative-Tea3944@reddit
Brains
conduit_for_nonsense@reddit
I didn't think anyone could say something I wouldn't eat, but prions scare me.
_isolati0n@reddit
Steak tartare. I just can't fathom putting it past my lips
Weird_Plenty_2898@reddit
Mint Sauce/Jelly Baked Beans Ketchup
DarthScabies@reddit
Oysters. Even the thought of eating one makes me feel nauseous.
Commercial-Name-1853@reddit
Any sea food at all. As a kid I loved fish, all types. My dad would take me to the pet shop once a week. Because of it I wouldn’t eat fish and my dad never challenged it, as an adult I’ve still never eaten fish. I suppose I still love sea life but it’s been that long now I have no desire to try it.
Wise_Advertising_888@reddit
Fermented sharks head that I tried in Iceland is definitely something which I wish I had kept on the 'i will never try' list.
RealLongwayround@reddit
This is a great example of the strangeness of pickiness: I love sultanas, raisins and currants, and would happily eat them until I collapsed into a fructose-induced coma. Eggs though? Absolutely horrendous. I cannot bear to be in the same room as a cooked egg.
YchYFi@reddit (OP)
To me they are all the same thing and so they will never touch my lips lol. Such great disappointment when you get a curry from a chip shop and it has them.
OptionalQuality789@reddit
Who buys curries from chip shops?
YchYFi@reddit (OP)
Don't you ever get curry sauce and chips?
My chip shop does every kind of curry. I usually get Irish curry sauce.
OptionalQuality789@reddit
You specified it as “as curry” not curry sauce and chips. Bit different. Yes, we can get curry sauce but it’s normally 1 type and never has fruit in it.
HawkTenRose@reddit
Snails, scallops, mussels and sushi.
Dannypan@reddit
Sushi has so many options that you don't have to have fish or seafood sushi if that's what turns you off. There's loads of vegetarian, vegan and chicken options.
HawkTenRose@reddit
I find it genuinely amusing I’m downvoted for a preference (isn’t this question literally about preferences?)
It’s not fish that is a nope. It’s fish skin/raw fish/sushi rice. The fish skin is me being picky, but I have had sushi rice and it was hell on my blood sugar. I prefer to avoid stuff I don’t particularly like and that spikes my blood sugar up to like 22 mmol/l. (Typical range for nondiabetic people is 4-7 mmol/l, to put that in perspective.)
Raw fish is just .. I have had food poisoning from uncooked chicken. And I spent six days in hospital because of it, I don’t think I could handle raw fish even if I knew it has been decontaminated.
Sea-Still5427@reddit
Cheese, except a bit of mild cheddar or red Leicester in cauliflower cheese.
Butter and full fat milk. Used to but can't bear the smell now. Fine with cream, yogurt and skimmed, weirdly.
Most seafood. It looks wriggly.
ozyri@reddit
Fugu. Literally, there's zero reason to eat that.
Sybriarla@reddit
Liver, although I do like the smell of liver and onions been cooked, oven baked, but I think that's more a childhood memory coxinfection.
Pork, I cannot deal with the smell of pork chops cooking so can't eat it.
Anything "on the bone" chicken wings, etc, just can't it creeps me out.
EldritchCleavage@reddit
The thing with liver is to eat the gravy and leave the liver.
InfaSyn@reddit
I really hate the concept of seafood. Ill stretch to maybe salmon bagels or cod and chips like once a year at most, but things like shrimps, oysters etc really put me off.
Mushrooms also.
gofancyninjaworld@reddit
Never try? Probably something like balut -- partially-incubated duck eggs. Almost everything else I'll give a go.
lionmoose@reddit
Balut is remarkably bland.
gofancyninjaworld@reddit
I'll take your word for it.
Smokweid@reddit
Oysters. As soon as I heard them being described as like licking phlegm off a tortoise I knew I’d never find out if it was true.
tobotic@reddit
Frog, snail, oyster, mussels.
PopperDilly@reddit
Oysters...never appealed to me and im not a big fan of seafood anyway
Beabettame@reddit
Me either looks like snot and snail mixed together.
Dannypan@reddit
Century eggs, balut, whole organs, live seafood, jellied eels. No thank you.
smoulderstoat@reddit
Cooked spinach. Slimy iron filings.
I've also never been tempted to try andouillettes, a French sausage that basically tastes of shit and stale urine.
Sheelz013@reddit
Not my experience but my son, who is known for trying/eating anything really was repulsed by sea urchin when he was in Japan
Quinn_XXVII@reddit
Do you like wine?
Grapes?
That’s all sultanas, raisins and grapes are, just grapes, dried out differently
Zorolord@reddit
I never realised that until last year.
YchYFi@reddit (OP)
It's a texture thing and none of those have the same texture.
Sheelz013@reddit
Mushrooms. Hate the smell of them cooking and the look of them on the plate
Ned-Nedley@reddit
Anything that lives underwater. You’ve chose your evolutionary branch, I’ve chosen mine. Get off my plate.
TomfromLondon@reddit
This list of things people would never try is more like things I had and didn't like
decentlyfair@reddit
Meat although I did use to eat it, I know I will never eat it again, same with dairy and eggs.
Amongst things I could never have tried before I gave up meat etc are oysters or mussels or snails, caviar, tarmasalata, or heart/brains.
Upstairs_Yogurt_5208@reddit
Pineapple on pizza.
calmeilles@reddit
Really? 🤣
Clear_Caterpillar394@reddit
It's actually quite nice I used to think the same
OkPea5819@reddit
It’s elite - sweetness of pineapple against the saltiness of the dough/ham. It’s such a generic opinion to be against it.
New_Cap3283@reddit
Sweetcorn 🤢 revolting
sneakylithops@reddit
I’ve never managed to try broccoli. I hate the smell and can’t even imagine how the texture would feel in my mouth?
combabulated@reddit
Pretty articulate for a six year old
TSC-99@reddit
Seafood ❌
ThrowawayParsnip5@reddit
I try to be open-minded about trying different foods even if it looks/seems like something I wouldn't like. But I don't think I can overcome the mental barrier for oysters.
melanie110@reddit
Same!
NovoCastria70@reddit
Runny egg, olives and shellfish
a-liquid-sky@reddit
Ortolan.
And tbh anything that you are supposed to eat with the bones in.
YchYFi@reddit (OP)
You made me think of surströmming. Never will try it both of these things.
Ill-Situation73@reddit
Avocado, shrimp/prawns, crab,, black pudding, haggis.
JagoHazzard@reddit
Those eggs that are marinated in boys’ urine. Frankly I’m amazed anyone does try them.
Zorolord@reddit
Snails/oyster that kind of stuff.
BG3restart@reddit
Tripe. Tried it once but as soon as it got close to my nose I couldn't get it close to my mouth, so I didn't actually taste it.
SnooCakes1636@reddit
Cockles, and any other shellfish really (I’ve eaten mussels and definitely don’t and won’t like them)
qqqqtip@reddit
oysters. just the thought of them makes me grimace
Advanced_Volume_4500@reddit
Oysters.
Electricbell20@reddit
Oysters
Amanensia@reddit
There's nothing I would refuse to try as long as it's not something that I already know from long experience that I can't stand (which isn't very much.) Funnily enough dried fruits are in that category though.
Geedubya0@reddit
Was never keen on tomato juice (on its own or drinks with it) or rare meat - I love them both now I’m older. I love all sorts of seafood but can never see myself trying oysters. Even though I’ve tried snails and they were alright, oysters, no ta.
crgoodw@reddit
I'll eat anything usually, I'm not picky, including things like offal. But after an Eastern European friend made us lambs brain pasta, I had one bite and vowed never, ever, ever again.
That and Heinz tinned ravioli. Disgusting!
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