Food that could taste nice but you won’t try

Black pudding. I just can not bring myself to taste it. It looks so horrible.

But white pudding I love!

Mayonaisse. People douse it on stuff but I honestly come close to wretching when I smell it

You can count me in too

I drank tea as a child, but I haven’t touched it since then. Don’t even like the smell (someone once tried to tell me tea had no smell !!). I’ll try most things to be honest. Would probably draw the line at snails. Most disgusting thing I’ve ever tried was Octopuss. The texture was vile, couldn’t swallow it. In general I really love seafood though, prawns are one of my favourite foods, just delicious. Other things I don’t like are celery, Brussels sprouts, and beef.

I'm not keen on the plant based meats because of how processed they are. Mushrooms aren't supposed to taste like chicken

Had lamb cutlets in the air fryer today. I forgot why I never buy them. Smelly, soaked in fat and ridiculous price

Lamb cutlets have to be the worst value for money out there. Pricey enough for what you get out of it.

Dont think they'd be ideal for an air fryer

Thing is, I've encountered lots of Dubs who consider coddle to be akin to prison swill and the ones that do like it tend to make a big thing about it and them being from Dublin.

As for me, there isn't really any Irish food I wouldn't try but I've no desire to eat snails even though they're a delicacy in France, same with crickets and spiders that are popular in other parts of the world.

I can completely get it if the smell of something puts you off. Smell is a huge part of enjoying food. Not really what I was talking about above. Similarly snails and insects I understand the revulsion (although I have tried snails). But I'm talking about mentally writing off a food (with no smell or taste issues) due to some mental thing they made up. "What's that mommy, it looks weird" - as I said, seems kinda childish.

Eg imagine a nice cold beer is served warm and smelly. Huh?

I think it's also the colour white that puts people off

A lot of people on this thread aren't getting the difference between "don't like" and "refuse to even try for some arbitrary reason".

Yet they are probably fine with white port chops, roast pork, etc.

Not to mention chicken breast, potato, bread, pasta, milk, ice-cream, yogurt. And all the white food we eat daily. I think you’re proving exactly why it’s arbitrary and weird.

We used to get liver now and again when very young, I remember actually gagging at the texture, smell and taste of it. In the end we all just refused to eat it, including my Dad, so my Mam gave up making it. So I will never ever eat it again, but that's something I have tried and hated.

A few things I have never tried, but cannot bring myself to are kidneys, tripe, hearts, tongue, and most offal really. It's a psychological thing I think, just can't stomach eating the innards of an animal.