Food that could taste nice but you won’t try

StrawbsM · 31-01-2023 02:01PM #1

There’s a few everyday food items that I have never tasted before and I just can’t make myself try them. They could be really tasty for all I know but in my head, they’re gonna make me vomit if I put them anywhere near my mouth.

Bourbon biscuits - Don’t ask me why as I don’t know why. I love chocolate but I look at a bourbon and it doesn’t give me those “ooooh choccy” feelings.

Pot Noodles - If I’m at the kettle making a cuppa and you put a pot noodle on the counter and ask me to fill it with water, I’d flat out refuse. I ain’t going near one of those things. Mad thing is I will order noodles for my Chinese takeaway.

McDonalds hamburgers - I swear I have a genuine phobia of these. I’ll eat a McChicken sandwich and I’ll eat a hamburger from other places but if a McDonalds one was put up to my face, I’d faint. Totally irrational I know but this feeling is out of my control.

Am I a lonesome weirdo or does anyone else dislike a food item that they’ve not even tried before?

fatherted1969 · 31-01-2023 02:07PM

Prawns, not a hope

GLaDOS · 31-01-2023 02:09PM

I've never tried shellfish and I never will. Too icky.

StrawbsM · 31-01-2023 02:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182438#Comment_120182438

I hate peeling the feckers

StrawbsM · 31-01-2023 02:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182452#Comment_120182452

I do eat shellfish but I sometimes wonder do I actually like it or the flavours it’s cooked in. Texture of mussels is bleurgh

31-01-2023 02:16PM

Coddle. Disgusting Jackeen reprobates.

HeidiHeidi · 31-01-2023 02:24PM

Another shellfish-phobe here.

I finally gave in and tried lobster last year, and it was absolutely disgusting! I'd love to love scallops, everyone is always raving on about them - but fear the same, and after the lobster experience I'm now even more afraid to try them.

31-01-2023 02:25PM

Crab is the shellfish that people who are wary should give a try. If they don’t like that then they probably won’t like anything else either.

Fighting Tao · 31-01-2023 02:26PM

Jellied eel. It’s more to do with what I think the texture would be.

StrawbsM · 31-01-2023 02:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182564#Comment_120182564

I’m with you on that one. Real London dish.

Dial Hard · 31-01-2023 02:47PM

I love valve shellfish (mussels, clams, scallops etc.) but I'm not mad about crustaceans, so generally avoid crab, lobster etc. I like the taste of prawns but not the mouthfeel.

I'll try pretty much anything "normal" once as the "I know I won't like it" thing is just so infantile, but I'm not sure I could get past the gag reflex on escargot.

And obviously that's not getting into the whole global esoterica thing. Wichity grub and whatnot. The whole competitive gross-out thing is of zero interest to me.

kabakuyu · 31-01-2023 02:55PM

Pate, could not stomach it, also liver.🤮which i did try years ago.

Dslatt · 31-01-2023 02:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182702#Comment_120182702

Liver is great, fried with a heap of ions, gravy, mash and greenbeans, godly food. Cheap as chips too

kabakuyu · 31-01-2023 02:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182712#Comment_120182712

Is that lambs as opposed to pigs?

Apiarist · 31-01-2023 03:02PM

Mussels and other valve shellfish. Not going to try them unless I am in a Bear Grills type situation and have absolutely nothing else to eat for weeks.

Jafin · 31-01-2023 03:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182502#Comment_120182502

100% this. When I was 10 or 11 the woman who used to mind me after school made this a few times and I had to force it down. Something about boiled sausages, or boiled meat in general, makes me want to puke my guts up.

ohnonotgmail · 31-01-2023 03:06PM

Peanut butter. the thought of it alone is enough to make me retch.

Dslatt · 31-01-2023 03:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182714#Comment_120182714

Yeah twould be lamb, its not too disimilar to a mince burger in texture

Dslatt · 31-01-2023 03:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182502#Comment_120182502

Thats the stew with sausages as the meat right?

Trotters · 31-01-2023 03:10PM

Bubble tea.

They told me it is made with tapioca. What we used to call Frogspawn.

They also tell me it is delicious, but...

31-01-2023 03:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182755#Comment_120182755

Yes, boiled sausages with a sickly white colour that often burst open like a sore.

Dslatt · 31-01-2023 03:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182768#Comment_120182768

Disgusting jackeen reprobrates indeed

StrawbsM · 31-01-2023 03:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182768#Comment_120182768

I never knew what coddle was till now. Someone pass me the bucket 🤮

HeidiHeidi · 31-01-2023 03:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182748#Comment_120182748

OMG I'd sit down with a spoon and finish a jar in one sitting if I let myself!

Gregor Samsa · 31-01-2023 03:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182768#Comment_120182768

Mickey stew is delicious, but I can see how culchies would be put off by the look.

There's lots of thigs I won't eat at all, but it turns out now that I think about it, that I have tasted them first.

I've never tasted Guinness, and I won't. No matter that I know for certain that it's a cold liquid, it just looks like it would taste of warm sludge. And the strange thing is, I have tasted warm sludge (magic mushrooms in honey and whiskey), and it was fine.

ohnonotgmail · 31-01-2023 03:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182787#Comment_120182787

I'll swop you a jar for some lobster.

31-01-2023 03:21PM

Scallops. Always seem to be a starter on posh menus, but look of them puts me off.

Steak tartare

raclle · 31-01-2023 03:43PM

I'm the same with a McDs burger but my reason is I don't consider it proper beef. I'm kinda fussy with food in general though.

Badly Drunk Boy · 31-01-2023 03:44PM

Burgers, steak, pasta, eggs.

Well, I've eaten a few shop-bought, home-prepared chicken burgers out of politeness, but that's all.

No to beef burgers and steak, yet I grew up on corned beef sandwiches. (I hear they're slightly related. 😉)

I'll eat noodles but not pasta. Maybe it's more to do with the sauces that come with them.

I won't eat whole eggs, no matter how they're cooked but don't mind if they're an ingredient in stuff.

Salad cream ✔️ Mayonnaise ❌

Cheese too. 🤮

I'm sure most of these things are probably okay, since so many people seem to love them, but I can't bring myself to partake. I'm a philistine.

Thelonious Monk · 31-01-2023 03:46PM

Dubliner here who never encountered that sausage stew in his life by the way. I've always found it odd how many Irish people wont eat seafood given we're an island, wonder why that is? I enjoy the ceremony of eating oysters and mussels are lovely when done nice.

John_Rambo · 31-01-2023 04:08PM

I'd try any food that's not mind altering. Must be my Dublin reprobate upbringing.

Also, don't get the whole "won't try/eat seafood" thing.

Food that could taste nice but you won’t try

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