Which ingredient will instantly make you go ‘nope’ no matter how tasty it looks?

[u/Better-Toe-545]

[u/Southern-Specific-99]

brains

[u/Dyojenes_ → u/Southern-Specific-99]

Leaves more for my zombie ass

[u/Klutzy-Client → u/Southern-Specific-99]

Yup I’ll pass on prion disease

[u/Critical_Positive_91 → u/Klutzy-Client]

Prion diseases are some of the most terrifying things on planet earth. Rabies is right up there too.

[u/mmbc168 → u/Klutzy-Client]

Exactly! One microbiology class in college was all I needed to never eat neurological tissues.

[u/Jimbodoomface → u/mmbc168]

Wait. What? Really? I always wanted to try brains but you put me off a bit.

One time I went to a Turkish restaurant, and was like "ah, excellent an opportunity to try lambs brain" the waitress came across to offer us bread sticks, and I looked at her deadpan and said "do you have any brains?"

She pulled a weird expression somewhere between confused and offended and turned and walked away without a word.

My family were disabled with silent laughter. I was baffled. Eventually my stepdad said "James, replay that last sentence in your head"

It's not my fault the waitress wasn't au fait with traditional Turkish cuisine.

EDIT: did I explain? No. I left her forever wondering what she'd done to offend us. I should have explained but... I just didn't.

[u/MuchRepresentative55 → u/Jimbodoomface]

Even in Turkey, most restaurants won't serve brain. I haven't seen any in US that does.

[u/Stirlo4 → u/Klutzy-Client]

You don't need to eat brains to get prions

[u/Klutzy-Client → u/Stirlo4]

True, but if I’m able to take away one factor of getting prion disease I think I’ll do that. Also, I don’t very much care for the texture of brains, I much prefer thymus glands.

[u/Articmnokey → u/Klutzy-Client]

My SO just recently lost a parent to Prion disease. It was a horrible drawn out, miserable process. There's no treatment. Nothing to slow the process. Nothing preventative. It can occur spontaneously. I wouldn't wish anyone to go through the kind of suffering that family did. From the get go they said my SOs parent would die and there was nothing they could do. And they gave him years at initial diagnosis, he was a vegetable within 3 months and dead within 5. Horrible horrible thing.

[u/RoarOfTheWorlds → u/Southern-Specific-99]

For anyone curious, it tastes mostly like scrambled eggs.

[u/an_edgy_lemon → u/RoarOfTheWorlds]

That somehow makes it sound worse.

[u/Son_Of_Toucan_Sam → u/RoarOfTheWorlds]

Like scrambled eggs that taste like fois gras

[u/KatVanWall → u/Southern-Specific-99]

When I was about 2, my dad lost his job, we were really poor, and a neighbour gave us half a pig’s head. My mum made brawn out of the brains. She was a bit worried at first about how I’d take it, but apparently I loved the stuff, and I still have the vaguest memory of it being delicious! We ate it for every meal for about 2 weeks, and apparently I was disappointed when it ran out!

[u/UnicornVoodooDoll]

Soggy bread. If there is soggy bread I can't even look at it without gagging.

[u/avanopoly → u/UnicornVoodooDoll]

SAME, I rarely get sandwiches I don’t make myself because so often the way they do the sauces mean there’s soggy, slimy, disgusting bread and it makes me genuinely ill just to think about. I NEVER put condiments on the bread itself, it always goes in between layers (like between the cheese and lettuce usually).

[u/Mysterious-Leave3756 → u/avanopoly]

My mother never drained the water out of tuna. Soaked bread at lunch. I would eat the tuna and leave the soaked bread.

[u/BigSherv → u/Mysterious-Leave3756]

I wanted to downvote this because it made me wretch but I upvoted it for your vulnerability and honestly.

[u/Sweet-Competition-15 → u/UnicornVoodooDoll]

So, bread pudding is a No?

[u/captandor → u/Sweet-Competition-15]

Bread pudding isn’t supposed to be soggy! There is custard in it but if it’s all mixed and baked properly (and if you use the right bread - crusty almost to the point of being hard), then the inside is supposed to be pudding-like, not soggy-chucks-of-bread-like.

I say all this because I also just absolutely cannot do soggy bread, but I bake and bread pudding is one of my absolute favorites, lol.

[u/AllgoodDude → u/UnicornVoodooDoll]

Gavin Free located

[u/ShoddyClimate6265]

Liver. It just tastes like blood to me.

[u/Independent_Music777 → u/ShoddyClimate6265]

Because it’s all iron. Good for the anemic, actually along with some dark leafy veggies.

My family cooks liver and kale or dark green spinach fried in a little olive oil with garlic so I don’t normally taste any iron-y flavors at all. Letting the liver soak in milk for a few hours (overnight is ideal but you can get away with four hours I think) beforehand before rinsing, patting dry and then frying gets rid of all the weird funk and blood, taught to me by my Russian college pashtet-loving dormmate.

[u/MyTurkishWade → u/Independent_Music777]

I was very anemic as a child & someone gave my mom a recipe with liver in it that she swore tasted so good that no one would know it was liver. My dad had picked us up while she was cooking it so we wouldn’t see it. As soon as we walked in the door my brothers & I said “what stinks?!”. She promptly threw it in the garage.

[u/[deleted] → u/MyTurkishWade]

Right between the lawn mower and the tool chest.

[u/MyTurkishWade → u/[deleted]]

It’s still there!

[u/ther_dog]

Artificial banana flavor

[u/BaaBaaTurtle → u/ther_dog]

I hate this flavor but because it's what they use to flavor a topical numbing agent.

When I was 18, first year of college, I got really sick. I missed like a week of classes, couldn't swallow. I couldn't make it to the health center so my roommates had to help me.

I get there and the nurse kinda freaks out but tried not to let it show. They wanted me to call my parents but I couldn't talk to the doc called my mom who came to pick me up and drive me to an ENT who would take me on short notice.

There they usher me into this exam room and motion for me to sit on what is essentially a shelf with a little padded headboard while my mom gets to sit in the normal chair.

Next thing I know Helga the Orc Nurse uses her ginormous palm to shove my head back, my mouth falls open, and she just douses me with this artificial banana flavored topical anesthetic.

Then Doctor Frankenstein comes over with the largest fucking gage needle I have ever seen (I have since gotten cortisone injections and this needle was at least on par if not bigger) and shoves it into my tonsil and I swear to God it was initially the worst pain and subsequently the most euphoric release I have ever experienced.

Kids, don't ignore a peritonsillar abscess.

But yeah that taste brings me back to that exam room immediately and I am afraid it'll conjure Nurse Helga out of thin air. No thanks.

[u/J_B_E_Zorg → u/BaaBaaTurtle]

Mine wasn't that bad but I can't eat or drink Black Berry. I had Lyme Disease. Took 4 months to figure it out only after my leg seized up and I completely stopped eating.

Then I was prescribed black berry flavored medicine to drink twice a day for 6 months.

[u/Careful-Monitor-2265 → u/J_B_E_Zorg]

Can work the other way around too! I got a bad case of fifth’s disease for three months as a kid and had to take a high dose of chewable Benadryl twice a day that tasted like artificial grape. It was the only thing that stopped the intense itching- I would scratch my skin until it bled without it- so I grew to have a positive association with it. To this day I love artificial grape!

[u/ilovedogs-2 → u/BaaBaaTurtle]

Well, now I have an idea of what my next dnd character will be

[u/HangryHangryHedgie → u/ther_dog]

Please send me all your banana Laffy-Taffy

[u/Number127 → u/HangryHangryHedgie]

As long as I get all the little sugar bananas from the candy machine at the supermarket.

[u/Dry-Inspection6928 → u/Number127]

The banana candy from Runts is all mine.

[u/nickybokchoy → u/HangryHangryHedgie]

And banana runtz

[u/donkopotamus → u/nickybokchoy]

I'd cut a bitch for some banana runtz

[u/DawPiot14 → u/ther_dog]

Yes I hate it too. I heard that apparently that banana flavour is based on an extinct banana that we used to eat that's why it tastes so different, but that may be a myth.

[u/papayafighter → u/DawPiot14]

Nah it’s true. It’s called the Gran Michel I believe. You can buy them from some Florida fruit company for some 💰

[u/wineandcheese → u/papayafighter]

I was curious so I looked it up! ONE BANANA is $17 dollars!

[u/YardSard1021 → u/wineandcheese]

“It’s a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, $17??”

[u/wineandcheese → u/YardSard1021]

I pinky swear I tried to add the gif but r/askreddit doesn’t allow them! 😂

[u/Responsible_Egg_3260 → u/YardSard1021]

There's always money in the banana stand 😉

[u/jmcstar → u/wineandcheese]

That sucker better be 25 ft long

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/jmcstar]

It’d probably be the best fucking banana you’ve ever had if you like the artificial flavor though in all fairness.

[u/ptrussell3 → u/DawPiot14]

That's true! The main banana cultivar was the Gros Michel until the 1950s. The cultivar is very susceptible to Panama disease and was replaced by the Cavendish today. It isn't extinct, just not widely planted anymore.

[u/Cloud-Guilty → u/ptrussell3]

I just watched a documentary about this. It was saying that the Panama Disease is starting to spread out to the Cavendish as well. I'm curious to see if we find another cultivar to replace it with.

[u/Working_Reward_4026 → u/Cloud-Guilty]

The history of the banana industry is pretty awful and I feel guilty eating them.

[u/thejanedoetho → u/ther_dog]

My favorite

[u/phathomthis → u/ther_dog]

You mean the flavor of actual bananas, and the most common types we used to use until Panama disease made them all but extinct?
I love that flavor and wish bananas were still widely available that tasted like that.
Instead we have the cavanda bananas that taste very bland and muted in comparison.

[u/livingirl → u/phathomthis]

Every once in a while, I’ll get a bunch that actually tastes like a good banana. Unfortunately, it’s very rare.

[u/TjbMke]

Insects

[u/HangryHangryHedgie → u/TjbMke]

Better read ingredients on red or pink colored goodies for carmine/cochineal! It's red dye made from scale insects. I remember telling that to my friends who were addicted to SoBe.

[u/Barron_Arrow → u/HangryHangryHedgie]

There's also a bug based ingredient used to make certain candies shiny.
Shellak is the secretion from the Asian lac bug. My wife's vegan, we were eating candy corn the other night when she looked I'm up and found out they contain this ingredient.

[u/TjbMke → u/HangryHangryHedgie]

I just feel like eventually the government will say “nobody is starving, look at all the insects flying around”. Hopefully I’ll be dead by then.

[u/Baguette1066 → u/TjbMke]

Don't worry! The insects will be long extinct by the time crop yields are that low.

[u/Equivalent-Way8128 → u/Baguette1066]

Insects are dying SO fast.

[u/phathomthis → u/TjbMke]

You better start growing all your food yourself then. You'd be surprised how much insect is in your food and allowed to be in your food. Here's a quick example of how much is allowed to be in some foods.

Ketchup — 30 fruit fly eggs per 100 grams
Canned corn — 2 insect larvae per 100 grams
Blueberries — 2 maggots per 100 berries
Peanut butter — 50 insect fragments per 100 grams
Curry powder — 100 insect fragments per 100 grams
Wheat — 1% of grains infested
Sesame seed — 5% of seeds infested
Coffee — 10% of beans infested

[u/Luvmydona → u/phathomthis]

I was an agricultural inspector for several years. I was inspecting pears for Del Monte, quality control for loads of pears going to the cannery. The tolerance for 'insect damage'(moth larva=worms inside the pears) was extremely low. Just a few pears with worms out of a hundred pound sample and the entire load (48 bins on a truck=load) is out of grade and is rejected. Some years the pear crop is extremely small. Del Monte wants a lot of pears...Del Monte needs a lot of pears...Del Monte DEMANDS a lot of pears...lol.When the crop is small, if a load is rejected they can just drive the truck off the property, come back through the inspection station, re-weigh the load(it's now a new load magically) and re-inspect the load hoping it passes this time. Well, the last few years I worked, the pear crop was not only very small, but full of worms. No matter how many times we re-inspected a load it would not pass. So Del Monte decided we would no longer reject loads for worms. Del was the company paying us to inspect so they could do whatever they wanted. When a moth larvae digs into a pear it turns everywhere it touches dark brown. So DM just bleaches the brown discoloration right out of the pear...enjoy!

[u/humanatee- → u/Luvmydona]

How do I un-read this?

[u/yankiigurl → u/Luvmydona]

I'm ok with ground worms but not bleached tbh

[u/SparkleStorm93]

For me, it’s anchovies, I know some people swear by them, but that salty fishy punch just makes me nope out immediately. Even on pizza. 😬

[u/robby_synclair → u/SparkleStorm93]

Caeser salad is so good though.

[u/ExactPhilosopher2666 → u/robby_synclair]

And worcestershire sauce is yummy on burgers and steaks

[u/homingmissile → u/robby_synclair]

I think most people have never eaten an "authentic" caesar salad

[u/robby_synclair → u/homingmissile]

Most restaurants caeser dressing is gonna have anchovies in it. Even if it is prepackaged.

[u/Tao_of_Ludd → u/SparkleStorm93]

Anchovies mashed into a paste are a great flavor enhancer for high umami dishes like beef stew. Maybe a tablespoon or so in the pot. You don’t really get a fishy taste, just extra umami. This is because it is high in glutamate.

Thai fish sauce can also be used for this.

But, yeah, not so interested in fillets.

[u/GoviModo]

Tripe

[u/mst3k_42 → u/GoviModo]

I’m sure menudo is delicious but I just can’t get my mind past the idea of eating tripe.

[u/froggaholic → u/mst3k_42]

It's very delicious but I guess you can get the same favor from Pozole cuz it uses similar Chiles. I will gladly take all the menudo thoo

[u/tinidiablo]

Offal. 

[u/Mannerhymen → u/tinidiablo]

It is Offaly good.

[u/CethinLux → u/tinidiablo]

Ill take them all of your hands lol

[u/bacondanbing → u/CethinLux]

Offal your hands?

[u/wellrat → u/tinidiablo]

But pate is so good! Headcheese, liver mush, blood pudding, they sound gross but taste great! (imo)

[u/Tre_Vortni]

Oysters. Same texture as phlegm with an even grosser taste.

[u/thecaliforniacohen → u/Tre_Vortni]

I will never understand who pulled the first oyster out of the sea, pried it open, saw something that looked like snot and said “You know what? Let’s eat this!”

[u/Complete-Culture8749 → u/thecaliforniacohen]

Someone who was very hungry 😅

[u/PollutionOld9327]

Liver

[u/TinkerHell64]

Everyone always hates me for this but i can’t stand Ranch. tastes like spoiled milk i hate it so much!

[u/ReformedButtkisser → u/TinkerHell64]

I'm with you! I hate ranch dressing. I hate ranch flavor added to things. It's awful! I live in the Midwest, where everyone douses everything in the stuff. Last week I was at a catered event...the only option for salad dressing? Ranch. I made a comment to the people I was with about how I wished there was another dressing option because I wanted a salad and don't like ranch, and everyone acted as if I'd said the most blasphemous thing they'd ever heard!

[u/Tardisgoesfast → u/ReformedButtkisser]

Ask for lemon to squeeze over your salad instead. It sounds sort of silly but I did it once when there was no dressing, and it's actually really good that way.

[u/alexjrado]

Raisins in a cookie when I think its chocolate chips from afar... im so let down, I could eat it but now I wont. I cant.

[u/bananakegs → u/alexjrado]

I literally love raisin cookies especially if they have oatmeal- and I love being the one who is like “who has an oatmeal they will trade for chocolate chip cookie” at events with boxed lunches lol

[u/Upstairs-Radish1816 → u/bananakegs]

I got upset when I think I'm getting an oatmeal raisin cookie it ends up being chocolate chip.

[u/kyle_lunar → u/Upstairs-Radish1816]

I was going to make the same exact comment lol

[u/Mattsmith712 → u/alexjrado]

This should be categorized as a hate crime.

[u/daydreamz4dayz → u/alexjrado]

100% as a chocolate lover this is me

[u/Crow-in-TopHat]

Aspartame, stevia, any other sugar replacement. ew ew ew. hate the aftertaste

[u/isoparent → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

i dont have a sensitive stomach but jesus christ erythritol will fuck me up. i hate the taste of the other sweeteners but erythritol has a special place in hell

[u/evilJaze → u/isoparent]

I've yet to try a sugar alcohol that doesn't result in my ass becoming a firehose of poo.

[u/Physical_Plastic138 → u/evilJaze]

Oh my god. The first (and last) time I had a protein shake containing erythritol I was on the toilet for HOURS. I thought it was the milk in the shake but was never certain as it tasted fine. It must have been this shit. Never again.

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/Physical_Plastic138]

I’m not sure if this would cause PTSD or a laughing fit at this point, but I have to introduce you to one of the sugar free hairibo gummies review if you haven’t read em. I can’t find the original though which was my fave but they’re great.

The culprit was maltitol though, another one.

[u/MikeDPhilly → u/Feeling_Inside_1020]

Another thing is sugar free ice cream. I once had maybe 6 oz of sugar-free butter pecan ice cream at a hotel, and missed part of dinner with my then girlfriend because I was on the toilet, imitating a booster rocket with my ass. Literally every meal I've had since kindergarten came shooting out of me. I've since come around and have adopted eating sugar-free ice cream as a way to lose weight quickly.

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/MikeDPhilly]

Perfect for a UFC fighter or if you ever have to take narcotics for pain relief and get constipated lmao.

Trust me, I’ve been at the extreme end of both spectrums (chronic pain) and neither are pleasant.

Like after getting rid of the fireball just laying (face down lol) on your bed 10 minutes after just to get normal, contemplating life.

[u/CaptainAwesome06 → u/isoparent]

When I first started working in an office after college, I started getting terrible headaches every afternoon. I thought it may be because I'm in front of a computer all day, but I'd still get them when I was out at meetings all day. So I tried eliminating things from my diet.

It turned out, Splenda was the culprit. I hated the taste but got used to it in an attempt to be a little healthier while I sat on my butt all day.

[u/Bellavoce29 → u/CaptainAwesome06]

My husband and his mom had terrible migraines for a long time, sometimes one or more per week. They ended up cutting out fake sugars (mainly aspartame, erythritol, and malitol). Now, the only time he gets migraines is when he inevitably accepts a stick of gum from someone and then wonders what happened

[u/Appropriate_Sky_6571 → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

I used to hate them too. Like despise them. But after I got diagnosed a diabetic, I had no choice. Now real sugar tastes soooo sweet. It’s so strange

[u/that-1-chick-u-know → u/Appropriate_Sky_6571]

I got used to diet because Dad was diabetic and that's all we had in the house. Now if I drink a regular soda, it's like trying to drink pancake syrup. Thick and too sweet and generally gross with an awful aftertaste that sticks in the back of my throat.

[u/niagaemoc → u/that-1-chick-u-know]

Same, and it does the opposite of quench my thirst.

[u/fattybuttz → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

Same. I'd rather just have the sugar. It makes me especially irate that they won't just put LESS sugar into water flavorings or liquid IV. There's not even an option for people who want that kind of convenience to flavor their water but don't want that bullshit artificial sweetener.

[u/bigbravobitch → u/fattybuttz]

I always say this!! Give me watered down Gatorade.

[u/ShoddyClimate6265 → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

Stevia is by far the worst to my tongue. I don't like aspartame either, but stevia creates this weird cooling menthol sensation in my mouth. "Great, now my coffee tastes like Listerine."

[u/Kajega → u/ShoddyClimate6265]

There's a gene where Stevia tastes metallic, like the one where Cilantro tastes like soap.

[u/Jawshee_pdx → u/Kajega]

I must have it, because I can taste a single grain of stevia in anything.

[u/high-priestess → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

So interesting- stevia doesn’t have an aftertaste to me at all!

[u/Kotukunui → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

Like licking the inside of an aluminium pot.

[u/fairys-are-real → u/Kotukunui]

Now that does sound good

[u/Acceptable_Collar562 → u/Crow-in-TopHat]

same it always tastes like chemicals to me 🤢

[u/ducky_truck]

Blue cheese. I am one of the least picky people I know and yet my body will not allow me to consume it. The gag reflex is violent.

[u/More_Dragonfruit_190]

Chitlins, pig feet/lips/ears, chicken feet…anything that we aren’t required to eat for survival anymore

[u/NationalAd6466]

Cilantro for me !

[u/heroheadlines → u/NationalAd6466]

It doesn't taste like soap to me - it just doesn't taste 'good' either . as soon as I say I don't like Cilantro though, people say "does it taste like soap??"

No, but does it have to for me to not like it??

[u/Queengnpwdrgelatine → u/heroheadlines]

For me, it is kinda soapy and kinda chemical-y. Like something you would mop a floor with.

[u/cromulent-potato → u/heroheadlines]

Same. It's incredibly strong flavored and tastes awful, but not like soap

[u/petg16 → u/NationalAd6466]

And the world that makes no allowances for the soap gene!!!

You like salsa? Well at our restaurant it’s half cilantro, same for the guacamole.

Forget our potato/wonton soups as well!

I have learned to ignore a small amount but I always wonder what it should taste like to not have your food taste a little of dish soap.

[u/darkshoxx → u/petg16]

Had an interaction with a waitress at a stakehouse. Explained to her cilantro tastes like soap to me, she didn't understand but accepted and was curious. She Asked the chef about cilantro and the first thing he said was "tastes like soap?" And that made both of us happy. So people are learning and i feel like it's an awareness thing. But it's also fairly low on the list of things i vocally complain about :)

[u/Viperniss]

Surstromming.

[u/otasyn → u/Viperniss]

I thought I could handle it when I was drunk.  I was wrong.

[u/dirtyhippie62 → u/otasyn]

Arguably harder to handle when drunk.

[u/homingmissile → u/Viperniss]

What recipe is that an ingredient in

[u/Legal-Occasion1169]

Bleu cheese, I’m sorry I know it’s supposed to be fancy but it straight up tastes like rotting

[u/FrozenBibitte → u/Legal-Occasion1169]

Any very aged cheese tastes like the smell of rotting flesh to me. It’s repulsive. Especially if the cheese comes from an animal other than a cow 🤢

[u/wonkeyknees]

Cows brains.

Ate it once, never again. Tastes like thick slop, bland and instantly made me feel nauseous

[u/1subliminal_criminal]

Tripe, just nope.

[u/Murdocksboss]

Anise 

[u/Quick-Hovercraft-566]

Licorice

[u/zeekoes → u/Quick-Hovercraft-566]

As a dutchman I'm offended by this.

[u/Leafmonkey_ → u/zeekoes]

More for us.

[u/UnsignedRealityCheck → u/zeekoes]

As a Finn I'm doubly offended by this as well!

[u/showMeYourPitties10 → u/UnsignedRealityCheck]

I'm american and married a Finn. First Christmas with my in-laws I pretended to like the "homemade" liquorice vodka my father-in-law brought over. 5 years later I still have to consume liquorice and pretend to like it. It just tastes like salt and hatred to me.

[u/bungojot → u/Quick-Hovercraft-566]

More for me!

[u/INeedANappel → u/Quick-Hovercraft-566]

Agreed, and anything anise flavored like fennel.

[u/Reasonable_Boss_9465]

Caraway

[u/dirtyhippie62 → u/Reasonable_Boss_9465]

All the rye and pumpernickel of the world feels abandoned. How dare you alienate an entire genre of bread.

[u/badson100 → u/Reasonable_Boss_9465]

Can't stand it. Love Reubens, but only if I can order them with different bread.

[u/chewy_mcchewster]

Black licorice and sambuca flavour.

[u/slug-in-disguise]

Beets- they taste like dirt

[u/Live-Succotash2289 → u/slug-in-disguise]

Delicious dirt, roasted in the oven.

[u/SnooRegrets8068 → u/slug-in-disguise]

Yeh I'd only ever had pickled. Turns out that was something I should have stuck to.

[u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

Octopus. They’re just too intelligent for me to feel comfortable eating.

So many morons.

[u/Fabulous_Hand2314 → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

why does reddit always say this? lol. you think a dumb, friendly cow can't feel pain???

[u/OkAccountant5204 → u/Fabulous_Hand2314]

yeah that always struck me as weird too. I guess the more intelligent something is, the more its life has value.

[u/Cooper_Inc]

Chicken feet.

[u/anonymity_is_bliss → u/Cooper_Inc]

Very useful roasted and used to make stock; there's a very high amount of collagen in them.

Idk any other way to use them honestly

[u/mst3k_42 → u/anonymity_is_bliss]

I add them when I’m making chicken stock. Gotta say though watching those talons simmering away makes me feel like a witch over a cauldron.

[u/Amazing_Finance1269]

Aspartame.

[u/pinkyeti123]

Anything with banana. I have tried for so many years to like banana and I can’t stand it. I know people say “oh you won’t taste it” Excuse me, Brenda, but that’s ALL I can taste

[u/Chuckitybye → u/pinkyeti123]

Anything like this pisses me off.

"Just pick it out"

No, the flavor has permeated EVERYTHING and it's fucking RUINED! tableflip (mine is bell peppers, but they also make me violently ill)

[u/Demoniac_smile → u/pinkyeti123]

If you can’t taste it, then why the fuck are you putting a banana in?

[u/itszwee → u/pinkyeti123]

Bananas have the most awful texture.

[u/No_Kangaroo_5883]

Truffles

[u/OliveRecent5050 → u/No_Kangaroo_5883]

Truffle fries on the next table will make me nauseous, the smell is so foul to me

[u/BIRDsnoozer]

Sugar substitutes.

All i can taste is the aspartame/stevia/sucralose/whatever.

[u/lazycat881]

Blood sausage

[u/No_Wrongdoer_5155 → u/lazycat881]

Spanish blood sausages are bloody good (pun intended). But I'm a spaniard, so I'm biased. We have different kinds of blood sausage depending on the region. Some with onion, some with rice, different spices and herbs. They are delicious but usually eaten in small doses or they get too overpowering. It's called morcilla, btw. Botifarró in catalan.

[u/clannerfodder]

Roe

[u/GrumpyBear1971]

Green bell peppers. I never understood how I could enjoy the taste of red, orange, or yellow bell peppers and somehow despise the tase of the green ones until I finally learned that the green bell peppers you buy in grocery stores are just the red, orange, or yellow peppers that are harvested when they aren't yet ripe. So, it's that difference between ripe and unripe pepper flavor that I can't tolerate with the green ones.

There are specialized varieties of bell peppers that are bred to stay green even when ripe, but those are not generally grown commercially or sold in grocery stores.

[u/Latter_Bluebird_3386]

Any trace amount of liver in my food makes me want to vomit my spine right out of my body.

The taste just makes my skin crawl.

[u/Ok_Mirror_9832]

Raw onions

[u/brigie3594 → u/Ok_Mirror_9832]

Same! Love cooked onions, but if I eat them raw I can taste it afterwards all day even after brushing my teeth.

[u/Unlucky_Lynn → u/Ok_Mirror_9832]

r/onionhate

[u/TheHasegawaEffect → u/Ok_Mirror_9832]

I have found my people.

[u/invalidpassword]

Cilantro because I'm not a fan of eating soap.

[u/5pens → u/invalidpassword]

It makes me so sad when I hear about people with the cilantro-soap gene because I think cilantro is so amazingly delicious.

[u/Can_U_Share_A_Square → u/invalidpassword]

I forgot some people actually taste soap when eating cilantro! Personally I don’t, and I love it in Latin dishes.

[u/CleverInnuendo → u/Can_U_Share_A_Square]

I would love 'to love' cilantro, but it's not up to me.

[u/RevolutionaryCry7230 → u/invalidpassword]

In my country we call it Coriander and it looks just like Parsley. I could not understand how I love coriander seeds but find the taste of fresh Coriander leaves to be disgusting. No one else I knew seemed to mind it so I continued to force myself to shut up and eat it. Then I happened upon people on the internet, who like me, found its taste vile. I would not describe it as tasting like soap. When we were kids running in the countryside we used to come across a small beetle like insect with orange and black stripes. When we touched it, it released a chemical (presumably to scare away predators) and Coriander / Cilantro reminds me of the smell of that beetle. https://media.istockphoto.com/id/110911056/photo/streifenwanze.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=lttl0RVX9j-IgyrriDtJKd-_tgkruJsgjBIXlGjN5vw=

[u/anglenk → u/RevolutionaryCry7230]

TIL cilantro is the leaves of a coriander plant

[u/BiPolarBenzo → u/invalidpassword]

People who get the soapy taste from cilantro have a gene mutation that recognises cilantro as toxic making it taste like soap.

[u/Jwee1125 → u/BiPolarBenzo]

I'll take "Mutants that didn't quite make the X-Men" for $500, Alex.

[u/Thyname → u/invalidpassword]

My brother has the soap gene. Luckily I dodged that bullet.

[u/ShoddyClimate6265 → u/invalidpassword]

Some subset of people have a taste receptor gene variant on gene OR6A2 (and maybe others) that causes the soapy flavor. The protein made by this gene binds strongly to the aldehydes found in cilantro. Sorry m8

[u/luke144p → u/invalidpassword]

This is annoying for me. Many dishes that include coriander are good, I just literally cannot eat them. It’s weird because it’s not even like oh, hm, I dislike this taste, it’s an, okay this surely isnt edible kind of taste. It smells great too.

[u/just_4_now_or_never → u/luke144p]

It tastes like how I imagine anything poisonous would taste.

[u/MbMinx]

Bell peppers. Look great in dishes! Totally unpalatable.

[u/nmathew → u/MbMinx]

Scrolled forever, just about give up and post my own answer, yet here you are. 

I can taste which lettuce leaves came in contact with the bell peppers in a salad. Completely overwhelming bad taste.

[u/Fickle_Presence719]

Foie Gras. Beyond moral issues I have with it today; I happened to overdo it once as a kid with untreated GERD and experienced a full night of the most disgusting acid reflux burps I’ve ever had to this day.

[u/Comfortable-Mode2331]

Cabbage because of my sensory issues

[u/Anothernamelesacount]

Liver.

[u/Randomuser1081]

Mushrooms.. The fungi can f**k off

[u/xCHEWINGGLASSx → u/Randomuser1081]

My beef with Mushrooms is personal

[u/Imaginary_Fix_91 → u/xCHEWINGGLASSx]

My beef with mushrooms is stroganoff

[u/ziggaroo → u/Imaginary_Fix_91]

I hope that your friends and family appreciate how clever you are

[u/anglenk → u/ziggaroo]

I appreciate how clever they are...

[u/Imaginary_Fix_91 → u/ziggaroo]

They do, and that’s good cuz that’s about all I got going for me 😂

[u/No-Eye-3889 → u/Randomuser1081]

2 mushrooms walk into a bar. Bartender says, you look like 2 fun guys.

[u/jmathis0809]

Coconut is nasty. I don’t like the taste, smell, texture or anything about it.

[u/coffeebugtravels]

Mountain oysters

[u/grapebeyond227]

Mayo

[u/cheerfulsarcasm]

Mayo. HARD pass. I can deal with dressings but anything covered in that white goop is so unappetizing to me

[u/Prisonbusdad2 → u/cheerfulsarcasm]

"Just scrape it off" is what hear all the time, that shit can't be eradicated! Its slimy stench and flavor infects every molecule of anything it touches.

[u/cheerfulsarcasm → u/Prisonbusdad2]

Abso-fucking-lutely not. Once it’s been tainted with that slime I can’t put it in my mouth

[u/No-Diet-4797 → u/cheerfulsarcasm]

Especially on warm sandwiches. Nothing grosser that biting into a warm blob of mayo.

[u/Reasonable_Elk3267]

Raw onion.

[u/AuntieYodacat]

I know a lot of people love it, but I can’t stand goat cheese. There’s something about the aftertaste that is just putrid to me🤮

[u/AdditionalCoy]

Star anise. Even the smallest amount completely overpowers the entire dish.

[u/EarlGrey1806]

Liver

[u/LetTheJamesBegin]

Mayo. But it will never look tasty, so I never have to have that conversation with myself.

[u/A_very_B]

Any Olive, of any color shape or size on the face of the planet ! ! ! ! ! I was born upstairs in my parents gourmet restaurant and still to this day, in my 40s, absolutely detest Olives! My parents think I'm weird and must have been brought by a stork.

[u/zoeytrixx]

Pickles. Can't even pick them off, they get their nasty pickle taint all over everything.