Canned green beans. yech. Especially when put into that awful green bean casserole.

I know that's probably not what you were looking for, but I hate those.

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Hi Monika, I am one of those girls who eats just about everything. I grew up eating tripe, snails, sweetbreads just to name a few. My family has always had very adventurous palates and the only rule that they gave me is that I could not say I didn't like something until I at least tried it once. I usually ended up liking everything except kidneys (could not handle the urine smell). I do draw the line at putting things in my mouth that are still alive which seems to be quite trendy in China and japan.
http://noshtalgia.blogspot.com/2006/12/offal-truth.html

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I'll try anything once, but there are some things a person just doesn't jive with. It's personal. I don't want to aquire a taste for things (as an adult). Lutefisk, for example. It's awful. I don't need to reach a state where my body doesn't reject it on smell. There's plenty of other food that goes down without gagging.

For the record, I think menudo isn't half bad.

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- Sea urchin
- Sweetbreads
- Never tried "brain", but I can't imagine I would ever would.

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You can eat just about anything as long as there is a proper balance. And at the end of the day, the amount of food eaten does matter. The more healthy foods you cosume vs the bad foods, then you should maintain good health and weight... http://palonek-edward.ca/

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Bugs. Anything with insects. There are a ton of other things I won't eat, either; like internal organs and such but I could never eat something with a bug in it. Ugggh. I have a hard enough time with crayfish.

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I would really have to think hard before eating things that are currently alive, or actively harmful.
Aside from that, I'm willing to at least try almost anything. I was raised to have at least a bite of everything served, and it's stuck... and I have found as an adult that there are things I don't mind at all that I could barely stomach as a child.
Generally, I figure what's the harm in at least tasting something?

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Well i used to try anything abroad. For just eating bisteck and fried potatos i may stay at home. But i must confess that sometimes there are things i wont try anymore (like frog legs). Sometimes its hard, like i order raw mussels in belgium, or liber brochetes on a greek restaurant at holland, but this way you may discover wondefull new tastes (like grilled octopus on greece).

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I draw the line at durian. It always tastes of rotting garbage to me, which I suspect is a biochemical problem. I lack whichever enzyme allows other people to taste the sweetness that lurks under durian's famously hideous odor.

I also can't stomach sweetbreads. I really don't want to eat anything's pancreas.

That should be "hear, hear", not "here, here", by the way.

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I can't eat eggplant without gagging. I know it's because years ago, my mom put the same dish in front of me for three days and I still wouldn't eat it. To this day, I hate hate hate eggplant. The only time I can manage it is if it's buried in a sauce or something--partly because it's not bad if I don't know it's there.

Oh, and yeah--eyeballs, tripe, liver, all the internal organs? Off-limits. No way no how.

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Thanks, Kiwi. What an embarrassing typo!

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There's a difference between not eating something and not ORDERING it. I'd eat a lot of things that I would never order, especially if I were the one paying the bill. Sometimes when you get the chance to eat something you don't have much of a choice in the selection. The NCAA Final Four party I went to that had Cheez Whiz on crackers as its only snack selection for example. I ate the hell out of that because I was starving. But I'd never ORDER it if I had other options. Let's see, do I go with the rib eye or the cheez whiz on crackers? hmmm....

Ain't semantics fun? :)

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I cannot bring myself to eat or even taste biscuits and gravy. I will typically try any food once, but this will be on my never-ever list (right next to liver). I am not sure why I have such a disdain for this dish - I guess I just have to go with it was just the way my taste buds were made.

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Hate canned vegetables. Really hate liver of any kind, duck calf beef chicken foie gras whatever. Will eat most other organ meats, brain heart tongue etc. Won't eat lutefisk again even if I am drunk and my Russian friends encourage me. Will never try insects but love snails seafood barnacles octopus cuttlefish periwinkles. Love durian. I have also eaten peyote magic mushrooms morning glory seeds (yuck) and choked down half a can of nutmeg (double yuck, and did't eat nutmeg again for 20 years even on eggnog. Have eaten snake horse sea turtle and sea turtle eggs while it was still unendangered alligator.

I work with Chinese Traditional Medicine. Gecko cordyceps caterpillar fungus sex organs of many animals and other organs of many animals (crude organic steroids). I drank earthworm tea. That was very bad. Don't believe those stories about fast food restaurants serving ground earthworms instead of ground beef. Everyone would immediately notice. bitterbitterbitter. Crocodile gall bladder. Snow frog ovaries. Bird nest soup. Bitter melon. Tree ears. Lion head mushroom. Dried jellyfish salad. Giant puffball.

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Liver and Onions is off my plate because with the enzymes I have (some of us have them, some of us don't) it just tastes incredibly bitter and sharp and, further, I just can't get behind eating a waste filtering organ. I'm also not going to try brains or sweetbreads. Or testicles.

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CILANTRO --- Nature's soapdish.

IT tastes like soap.

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I've eaten everything from frog's legs (meh) to sea urchin (a grey jelly that tasted of low tide), and I make a point of trying things twice, just in case. I've tried natto twice, and it was nasty both times!

But I can't do eyeballs, and my stomach turns at eating insects, though I hear they can be very tasty.

@DaVid, I'm convinced that cilantro is one of those food items that tastes completely different depending on whether you have the enzyme/gene to eat it. For me, it's a delicious, clean, bright flavor that I love, and tastes nothing like soap at all.

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May I recommend reading the introduction to "The Man Who Ate Everything" by Jeffrey Steingarten. He writes a fascinating explanation of all the food phobias he used to have, how he overcame them, and the ridiculousness of food phobias taken to the extreme. I haven't been the same since reading it. I didn't think of myself overly picky before hand, but now I am determined to be more open.

At the moment, I just can't stand tumeric, which makes curries very tricky. Thai curries without it is as close as I can get. Not to mention ginger in anything other than a simple ginger ale or gingerbread cookie.

And along the same lines of previous entries, most internal organs are frightening, though Haggis is lovely (when done right). My Ukrainian family always loves Headcheese but I can't bring myself to eat it. And for some reason most tomato sauces, especially marinara or cabbage roll sauce. Though now I am determined to try them again, maybe it's all in the prepartion?

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I have a thing about spongy, slimy texture, so I rarely eat eggplant (except as baba ganouj), tofu, or gelatin. And it's not only the texture of liver that's disgusting--it's also the smell. Occasionally I cook it for my cats, but only if the weather's nice enough to open all the windows and turn on the fan.

And I don't quite get why people would force themselves to eat things that disgust them. If you're a very picky eater and you're trying to expand your horizons, sure, but the rest of us? For example, the idea of eating brains is disgusting to me (and possibly dangerous--see mad cow disease and related neurological illnesses) and there are so many wonderful things to eat in the world, so why would I force myself to try to choke it down?

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I cannot eat bone marrow.
either right out of the bone or jellitan.
I didn't eat my first jelly bean until this easter because a friend found some made with pectin for me.

Can't eat it because of a H.P. Lovecraft story called "the bone eaters".

I love menudo it is my favorite soup that I still cannpt do myself.
I don't think I could eat bugs or eyeballs.
Allergic to aspartame so anything with that is right out.

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