Ugh: Food You Just Can't Stomach

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Maybe it's the taste. Or the texture. Maybe it's just a mental thing. But we all have that one food that, no matter how hungry we are, or how polite we're being while having dinner at someone else's house, that we cannot and will not eat. What's yours?

Cranberry sauce. Especially canned.

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I don’t even know where to begin. Should I start with its creepy, gelatinous texture? The fact that the can’s ridges are clearly evident? Or with its disagreeable taste? Gross, strange, and yuck.

Room-temperature cheese

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This one grosses out my husband. Whereas I happily run — not walk! — towards cheese plates, he is skeeved out by the floppy slices and wants no part of it.

Plums

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First of all, let me just tell you that I hate plums so much, that even typing this little blurb under the above photo meant that I had to scroll the page down a bit in order to NOT see it. I can’t even look at them. They make my teeth hurt. (Don’t ask. I have no idea why.)

Salmon

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I know how great salmon is for you. I know people get all sophisticated with their panko-crusted salmon and their bagels and lox and their sake nigiri. But I hate, hate the taste of salmon.

We all cuss for couscous

The concept sounds good, but the texture of couscous is awful, and always sticks in my throat. Israeli couscous, which is much larger, is edible.

added by Andrea D 11/13/2008

Cotton Candy

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I don’t know if it’s the texture or the high sugar content, but I think cotton candy is pretty gross. Why would eat something that has the same texture as a q-tip?

added by Elijay 11/13/2008
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added by brianp 11/13/2008

Green Beans (from a can)

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As a kid I was forced to eat them WAY too many times Holding my nose, chasing with whatever I was drinking and taking the tiniest bites possible didn’t help. I still can’t eat them!

added by ethwiny 12/15/2008
 

Cantaloupe

I HATE it. And I’m a little self-conscious about this. It seems like one should like ALL fruits because of the sweetness factor, but cantaloupes make me want to gag. I actually physically cannot eat them, as many times as I’ve tried.

added by aliciak 11/01/2008

Circus Peanuts

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It’s shaped like a peanut, the color of sherbet, has the flavor of a banana, and the texture of Styrofoam. I think they just induce sensory overload or something. Remember those jerks who actually used to give these out for Trick-Or-Treating?

added by Elissa 11/01/2008

Cilantro

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How can anyone eat this stuff? It’s tastes like I’m chewing on tin foil.

added by JayFerris 11/01/2008

STEAK

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Just looking at it makes me gag. The texture, the smell, the JUICES the entire experience of eating a steak, watching someone eat a steak, LOOKING at steak is enough to make me throw up in my mouth. Or outside my mouth, which is even worse.

added by Chelsea 11/12/2008

You'd have to be bananas

Ripe bananas are nasty. Sickly sweet, disgustingly mealy, and with that repulsive rotting smell. Hell, I don’t even like them when they are mildly ripe. Green bananas – now there is a concept I can get behind.

added by Andrea D 11/13/2008

Lima Beans

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The gritty texture is disgusting and the taste is even worse! As I think about them, I’m making my yuck gross face.

added by Shawna 11/13/2008

Pickled Herring

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It may be the only food that I can’t even get close enough to try. The smell is horrendous.

added by Dead C 11/24/2008
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