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Food & Drink Items You Utterly Loath.

Derbyshire Boy

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Diabetic considerations or associations aside, which items of food or drink do you loath and even shudder at the thought of?

I actually have very few, but the main one for me is Brussel Sprouts. When I was a nipper, my mum said "eat your Brussels up, you'll love 'em when you're a big boy...". Well, I'm now 61 and weigh... too much. I can't get much bigger. I still hate the things. The devil's bogies, that's what they are.

Other things I hate? Marmite, avocados, most seafood (particularly prawns and kippers) and fruit cake/Christmas cake.

You?
 
Derbyshire Boy said:
I love 'em, especially those sweet red ones. My wife is a veggie and hates them too, so when she's eating a veg pizza, she always picks off the big slices of pepper and gives them to me. Result!
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My husband always eats the raw peppers from my salads when eating out. That's fine when the peppers are in large slices but very fiddly when they are chopped up small and mixed in with the rest of the meal.
 
Sloppy soft boiled eggs (plus other "slippery foods" - I just hate the feel ) , bullet peas (remembered from ancient times school dinners) , bones in fish, low fat yogurt (tasted like watery chalk when it frst came out)...
 
Robbity said:
Sloppy soft boiled eggs (plus other "slippery foods" - I just hate the feel ) , bullet peas (remembered from ancient times school dinners) , bones in fish, low fat yogurt (tasted like watery chalk when it frst came out)...
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It was the bones (and skin) in fish that put me off fish generally.

I'm from a generation that was pre-cafeteria for school dinners and usually had eight kids at a table, with a teacher per table
The food was bought round and the teacher dished it out and also made sure every last bit was eaten. I have nightmarish memories of being made to eat a portion of particularly rank & bony fish by a sadistic teacher, but then rushing out straight afterwards to throw up.

Fortunately, in my second year at secondary school, we did change to a cafeteria system. Bye bye bony fish...
 
Ooh. Chocolate Orange! I used to love those. Do you remember the advert.-- "Tap It and Unwrap it?" Happy memories.
 
dogslife said:
My husband always eats the raw peppers from my salads when eating out. That's fine when the peppers are in large slices but very fiddly when they are chopped up small and mixed in with the rest of the meal.
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Weirdly, having said she won't eat peppers, on reflection, she will, if they are chopped up into very, very VERY small pieces in a dish. I think when they're like that, her brain & taste buds don't actually register them as peppers...
 
It's amazing how much a childhood experience can put us off eating certain foods. My grandfather was a fishmonger and my grandma used to pour a tablespoon of gloopy Scott's Emulsion down my throat. For the rest of my childhood I hated even the smell of oily fish. Now I love eating fish but still dislike the smell when preparing it from raw.
 
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It can have a big effect, yes.These days, I can manage cod and tuna steaks, but I'm ever wary about bones, especially with the cod.
I'm ok with fish fingers though. In fact, my now wife and I had fish fingers sarnies on our first New Years Eve together, in 2011.
 
Derbyshire Boy said:
The Dawn French ones too: "It's not Terry's, it's MINE!"
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Well, Derbyshire Boy! I hope you realise that you are responsilble for me now having to seek out a portion of my 70% dark chocolate. LOL Not quite the same as a Chocolate Orange but the nearest I am likely to get. It's interesting how your tastes change when they have to. I used to hate dark chocolate but now consider it a real treat.
 
We are fortunate to buy our fish from a local fishmonger who skins and fillets it for us.
 
Derbyshire Boy said:
Weirdly, having said she won't eat peppers, on reflection, she will, if they are chopped up into very, very VERY small pieces in a dish. I think when they're like that, her brain & taste buds don't actually register them as peppers...
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Unfortunately, my digestive system will not be fooled. If I accidentally eat even a small piece I can taste it for hours!
 
Whoops, sorry! Not my intention to put temptation into your mind. I'm a bad Phil.

I'll go stand in the corner and keep schtuum for the rest of the day...

 
Derbyshire Boy said:
Whoops, sorry! Not my intention to put temptation into your mind. I'm a bad Phil.

I'll go stand in the corner and keep schtuum for the rest of the day...

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No apology necessary, Derbyshire Boy. I enjoyed every bite and it cheered me up no end, thank you. So, feel free to come out of your corner and treat yourself to something equally yummy ( Not fish!) Best wishes.
 
That sounds like a horrible experience. No wonder you don't enjoy fresh fish.
 
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