Food Loathing

[gully_foyle]

Apart from the obvious ones (tripe, brains, tofu burgers, etc) I really really really hate Brussels Sprouts. I can eat any vegetable but them.

Well, actually I have a hard time with Beetroot as well (very un Australian of me I know).

Reasons? Boiled Brussels Sprouts looks and smells like watery excrement.

And Beetroot is just too purple to be natural.

Anyone else have particular targets of ire or interesting food phobias?

[Ice fyre]

Funny my wife has a thing about Beetroot, she cant eat it as it turns her food purple!

Anyway whats wrong with brains?

I really cant eat cheese myself, just never liked it! That and creamy foods like certain pasta dishes and Korma curry.

[Wybren]

I have issues with eggs. I can eat egg if it is cooked through, and there is no hint of clear white, but if I see that clear white on an egg I am about to consume I retch, I also cant stand the sound of someone mixing eggs with a fork, the slopping noise revolts me for some reason.

[Lioness]

Weetbix. Ergh.

And porridge.

I think it's something to do with the texture, and the lack of decent taste.
Blergh

[Ice fyre]

Now that is strange! What has weetabix ever done to you, apart from the great Australian weeetabix massicare

[gully_foyle]

Weetbix? Really? What on earth did you eat as a kid? We go through a box a week (or thereabouts) in our household.

[Wybren]

I used to have a love/hate relationship with Weetbix only because it was often the only thing ever offered for breakfast and I used to wish just once we could have something exciting like ricebubbles. And I love porridge, though that "Tha's no how ye mak porrrridge" phrase is been done to death in my household.

[BookStop]

I hate, hate, hate sauerkraut. When i was 10 or so, my mom made me boiled potatoes, but she boiled them sauerkraut water - why, I can't even begin to fathom. I didn't eat for 3 days because we were having a battle of wills. She won, sort of. I ate the potatotes, and I yakked. Never eaten sauerkraut anything since.

My husband has a pickle fear, not just that he loathes them, but he will actaully run if you chase him down with one. It's really funny, but I don't do that to him, of course. it would be terribly mean.

[Wybren]

I can agree with you on that one BookStop. Any sort of thing with cabbage actually.

[Lioness]

Ice Fyre: I'm not sure, just one day when I was about two I decided I didn't like it anymore.

Gully: I ate Nutrigrain and Cornflakes for a few years, then dropped the cornflakes and discovered fruit loops. Nowdays I rarely eat cereal at all, and when I do it's nutrigrain or fruit loops. The mushiness when they are left to soak for too long revolts me though.

[Ice fyre]

Ahh its the mushiness lioness!

My wife is a little phobic about pickles mainly as if she eats one she's ill for hours afterward!

I just have an image here........

[Duchessprozac]

I hate, Porridge, and even worse, the grey slop called Readybrek.

They are gutinous slop, that not even a tin of syrup could ever make me put past my lips ever again.

I think it stems from my childhood, where I was forced to eat porridge for breakfast every day, when I left home I refused to ever touch the stuff again. Now when I've tried it, it just makes me gag.

[Ice fyre]

My wife feels the same about porridge, just will be sick if she eats it, luckily our Hamsters loved it!

She also cant eat Yougurt, its alive it seems!

Dosnt stop me!

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Now, despite the fact that you all will probably beat me over the head with carrots or something, I have to say the food I most abhor would be onions. *Shudder*

[HoopyFrood]

I'm not a huge fan of onions, either.

Can't stand marmite or peanut butter. And I really, really hate tomatoes (by themselves at least. In pasta sauces or something I don't mind them).