America's Most Hated Foods

6-29-2008 @6:14PM Brigadier Victor said... Americas Most hated foods. Holy Cow what a bunch of pansies. What do these people eat? Everything on that list of 20 makes me hungry. Well I can take or leave Okra and sour cream, but the others are great. America, you and I would not get in each others way in a grocery store. Eighteen of those twenty "Most hated" foods are down right delicious when properly prepared. Maybe its the cook and not the food.
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6-24-2008 @7:00PM Discoladie said... check out Discoladie# comments....tell me you don't agree?
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6-30-2008 @12:50AM bigdofla said... I love oysters, lima beans, brussels sprouts, okra, and mushrooms. Most peas are nasty but I can eat the little LeSueur brand ones.

My bottom four are on your list:

#4 - Mayonnaise.
#3 - Egg whites - never been able to stomach them.
#2 - Liver, at least beef liver. I can eat chicken liver.
#1 - Undoubtedly BEETS! I won't allow them in my house!

My wife spent some time in Russia and loves borscht.
Sorry dear :-)
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6-24-2008 @7:04PM Lori said... One word: EGGPLANT. Anything in the squash family for that matter. Purple outside, green inside and slimy to boot. The taste, texture and smell of it cooking are enough to keep me gagging for a week.
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6-24-2008 @7:21PM Brigadier Victor said... What a bunch of pansies. I love 18 of those "most hated" foods. The other two, Okra and sour cream are ok when combined with other foods.What do these people eat? Candy bars, ice cream, hot dogs and hamburgers would explain why Americas is overweight. It appears that many people have a terrible lack of good taste; and I do mean, Good Taste.
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6-24-2008 @7:23PM LarryG said... Wow! Most of the foods listed are really nutritious(for you liberal children, that means good for you).
A lot of the comments sound like they're coming from some child who managed to turn on a parent's computer. Foods you hate? Gee folks, grow up and get a life.
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6-24-2008 @7:29PM JD said... There's only one food on the entire list that I hate, and even that one has a specific caveat. Beets. YUCK!, but they must be the pickled beets variety sold in cans, etc. Fresh beets are delicious. These people are all food-o-phobes. I suspect that they have long been the victims of really poor cooking experiences and a total and complete lack of four and five star restaurants... not to mention worldiness, closed-mindedness and a total and complete lack of adventure. How about goat stew, raw octopuss, caviar or tempura fried sweet shrimp heads. These are all things I've enjoyed (among hundreds of others) and only the goat stew was difficult to "swallow". They're lame just like most Americans.
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6-24-2008 @7:40PM Erica said... There is nothing -- NOTHING -- more revolting to me than cottage cheese. I can't even be in the same room with it. I can't stand the sight of it, the sound of the spoon shlurping into it. If I ever swallowed poison, I wouldn't need an emetic -- just force me to eat some cottage cheese. Oatmeal comes in at a close second.
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6-24-2008 @8:45PM Ruth said... These foods are my favorites. The only one that I don't LOVE is sour cream!
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6-24-2008 @7:43PM Tigerlily said... That headline is so stupid. Those people hate the foods cause of bad experiences. "America's Most Hated Foods".....give me a break. Kat Kinsman should find something better to do than to write insipid blogs. Another AOL waste of time.
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6-24-2008 @7:44PM sylharlow said... Wow! No wonder so many of us are overweight.
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6-24-2008 @7:56PM jiggsjackson said... Oh really? I adore blueberries, and cook like most things would be enhanced with the addition of mushrooms. Oysters delight me, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, and what's a sandwich without mayo or a baked potato without sour cream?

Obviously, folks, no one made you sit in front of a cold bowl of OATMEAL 'til you ate it . . . or served PARSNIPS or RUTABEGA. You didn't have a mom who liked SEA SCALLOPS or (horror of horrors) EGGPLANT. You didn't marry into a family that liked thick gloppy MILK GRAVY - over (gaaak) biscuits. Next to those things, most of the list sounds like individual little "food snits". Bon apetit!
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6-24-2008 @7:55PM Mark said... Man, I'd sit down with a bowl full of most of that stuff and be a happy guy. Surprised Anchovies didn't make the list even though I like them too.

My addition to the list is Sauerkraut. Stuff should be illegal.
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6-24-2008 @7:52PM Jen said... I'm glad that mayonaise made the list. It's my number one gross food! I don't see how anyone can eat that eggy, vinegar-laden paste! I also despise seafood, most leafy green veggies, and tomatoes. Yes, I'm a picky eater, but aren't we all picky about something? I've read about "super tasters" and I think I'm one of them. My palette is growing to accomodate more tastes than before but I don't see how I'll ever learn to like mayonaise. Those people who are putting down picky eaters by telling them to "grow up" should stop being so judgmental. I'm sure they have their own preferences and should keep their noses out of the air!
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6-24-2008 @8:07PM Carole said... Cilantro DOES taste like soap to me! Thank you for telling me "why!" I agree with liver but brussel sprouts would be on my HATED list-bitter and nasty. I'd also throw in creamed spinach! As for those oysters, pass them over here, please.
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6-24-2008 @8:01PM alli vaught said... once i forgot my lunch at school and my friend said that she would share her lunch with me if i ate jello (shudder). I hate the way jello feels on my toungue. it makes me want to barf.
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6-24-2008 @8:08PM shammy said... I grew up in the south and I had the misfortune of being at someone's house while they were cooking chitterlings (pig intestines), they are so funky I don't know how anyone can eat them, and I don't believe any amount of washing can clean, well you know.
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6-24-2008 @8:03PM Skip said... The Majority of text shows association with childhood experiences. The foods listed are not responsible. And, the bad press to the foods is unjust. Put the blame on the relatives and their Nazi tactics. I savor all the mentioned items. But, the adverse psychology is NOT present to cloud my judgement.
The whole article is biased against good foods. I have aversions to some foods also. But, I can acknowledge the truth. We were poor. Dirt poor southern Textile folks. So, I don't eat the things that we ate a lot. because it was all we had. But, I don't blame the "green beans and little white taters". Or, the "polk salad" and "turnip greens" that we picked from the edge of the road after church on Sunday. When was the last time you shopped for groceries on the shoulder of a road? Ever had a baked "possum" that your grandfather ran over with the car. Be Thankful for what you have.
Yes!!! I'm pissed about the whole article. One of these days you may be hungry. As are three million homeless in this "AMERICA the LAND of PLENTY" One of every one hundred people in America have no place to sleep tonight.
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6-24-2008 @8:04PM Jrepairguy said... Whenever I am asked, "Oh, do you like thus-and-such," my answer is always the same: "Ask me which foods I DON'T like-that list is much shorter." The only veggie I don't like is Okra, although I'll eat it breaded and fried; most of the time, I don't eat eggs, although I do sometimes crave them and will eat them; Mayo is nasty and reminds me of pus( and when combined with ketchup on a burger, looks like a horrible infection), but it's the actual smell and taste that's the nastiest for me; I HATE liver because my Joan Crawford-like mother forced us to eat that nasty filth; I eat pretty much everything else. I LOVE ALL seafood, red meats, (except organ meats-YUK!)and poultry. Everything in moderation, and that is why I am a thin 146 lbs at 5'9". I will never understand people who refuse to eat veggies and berries; this is why America is a nation full of fat, diseased people. Eat you fruits and vegetables!
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