childhood traumas or

[cakewalk]

Liver. Liver liver liver. Anything that squiggles.

[Huevos del Toro]

Lima beans – I don’t like the “chalky” texture.

Brussels sprouts – if they’re overcooked.

Liver – My father would cook liver and onions until the liver was so overdone it tasted like textured dust. Now that I know how to cook it I enjoy both calves and chicken livers.

Canned vegetables, especially spinach. I much prefer fresh baby spinach.

Canned sauerkraut

Cauliflower – maybe I haven’t had it prepared properly. Actually, I have a problem with most cruciferous vegetables if not prepared properly.

Limburger cheese. I like strong cheeses but that’s just a little too over the top for me. I opened one package and the stench was so strong I carried it, like a hand-grenade, to the dumpster!

Espresso from *$’s – That ain’t espresso!

[stellabella]

i hated green beans and eggplant growing up. fortunately i've learned to love them again, since i've learned to cook them better than anyone else ever did. oh, the abuses eggplant suffered in the hands of my protestant farming family...

[Steebles]

Cherry Pie.

When I was 11 or so, I went to stay with my grandparents for a whole month in Lubbuck. Grandma asked me there was anything special that I liked and I mentioned Cherry Pie ... 'cause at the time I loved Cherry Pie.

By the end of the month it was all I could do to choke down yet another piece ...

All my other childhood food phobias I've gotten over ... liver, spinach, lima beans ... but just the smell of cherry pie makes me queasy still.

The Warrant song didn't help.

[gknl]

Any kind of shellfish.  It just seemed like eating insects...

Well, crustaceans, shrimp, crab, crayfish, and lobster are in the same class as insects, arthropoda, so you're not too far off. And aren't crayfish called mudbugs and some lobsters called bugs?

[gknl]

oh, the abuses eggplant suffered in the hands of my protestant farming family...

Oh, please do share! I want to hear the horror stories.

[Shermar]

Aggressive vegetables: broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus, lima beans.

1950's style succotash, peas and carrots, green or string beans

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! GAAAAAAG ME!!!!

Egg Nog...just the smell of it makes me nauseated. When I was four I got sick after eating egg nog flavored ice cream. It was probably unrelated but I've never been able to get past it.

[Stephanie]

Believe it or not, PB&J sandwiches. There was a time where I was eating them every day for lunch and I think I just got so sick of them that I never wanted another one.

[ngatti]

Tuna salad (canned BB type) in all its forms.

The thought of tuna melt makes me retch.

Nick

[malarkey]

cooked carrots. there's something so wrong about hot mushy carrots. I can eat them now, but they were so vile when I was young.

school lunches. very traumitizing. I came up with all kinds of creative ways to NOT eat school lunches, including sticking the more 'sticky' food up under the lunch tables. (back then, teachers tried to make you eat all your food). There was nothing they gave us that was good. As I got older my mother realized I needed a packed lunch.

Chicken & Noodles, that classic midwest staple. Came down with the flu same night I ate a plate of that. Stayed away from it for years. (I can eat it now).

[KarenS]

Beef tongue (I can still remember the horror of seeing it on the platter). Tripe, I could smell the menudo coming! The sponge like texture made me cry (same with whole clams in cioppino- I love them now though). Here is a crime, abalone- I grew up in N. CA and both my dad and brother were frequent divers. My cousins and I would throw it in the bushes- we wanted hot dogs. Now I don't eat hot dogs and I beg my brother for abalone!

[Jinmyo]

The thought of tuna melt makes me retch.

Nick, it is wrong. It is terribly terribly wrong. Ask St. Mario about fish and cheese and what's the word from on high?

St. M: "Fish and cheese? Dude! That's so wrong!"

See?

Melted orange cheese on tinned tuna? Nada nihil obstat there.

[ngatti]

Nick, it is wrong. It is terribly terribly wrong. Ask St. Mario about fish and cheese and what's the word from on high?

St. M: "Fish and cheese? Dude! That's so wrong!"

See?

Melted orange cheese on tinned tuna? Nada nihil obstat there.

Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

Thank you Jaysusss

Nick

[pinkygirl]

calamari, the kind with the tentacles. my grandmother always made this and once i saw it in the sink, it grossed me out. now i love to eat it and gross out my friends by eating the tentacle pieces.

[SobaAddict70]

You haven't lived in food hell until you've had PB&J sandwiches made from Goober's.

They were big in the late 70's and 80's.

SA

[gknl]

You haven't lived in food hell until you've had PB&J sandwiches made from Goober's.

They were big in the late 70's and 80's.

SA

They were around before then too. I think my mother thought they were a great time saver or something. But my sister and I could have wanted it too, I don't remember. Can't blame everything on poor old mom.

[Tim D]

Tuna noodle cassarole.

Don't get me started on tuna melts . . .

My mom had combinations she always employed for some reason (like grilled cheese and tomato soup) and her worst one was hot dogs, baked beans and canned peas. Served with cottage cheese on the side with pineapple and mayo (?).

The thought of those things together makes me queezy. Just typing it makes me . . . urp . . .

[oraklet]

but do you realy think that ANY fish-ANY cheese is wrong, wrong, wrong?

[wawairis]

Any kind of shellfish.  It just seemed like eating insects...

Well, crustaceans, shrimp, crab, crayfish, and lobster are in the same class as insects, arthropoda, so you're not too far off. And aren't crayfish called mudbugs and some lobsters called bugs?

BLEAGH!!! GAGE ME!!

An ex-boyfriend once made me a lovely dinner of lobster tails, baked potatoes and corn on the cob. But I coouldn't eat it! I kept picking at the lobster tail thinking how much it looked like a segmented insect.

[Stephanie]

but do you realy think that ANY fish-ANY cheese is wrong, wrong, wrong?

I don't. We used to have cheese/cheesy side dishes with fish all the time in my house. Perhaps it's a kosher thing; fish are pareve (dietarily neutral) but they're often considered "dairy," allowing them to be served with cream cheese, etc.

[gknl]

Any kind of shellfish.  It just seemed like eating insects...

Well, crustaceans, shrimp, crab, crayfish, and lobster are in the same class as insects, arthropoda, so you're not too far off. And aren't crayfish called mudbugs and some lobsters called bugs?

BLEAGH!!! GAGE ME!!

An ex-boyfriend once made me a lovely dinner of lobster tails, baked potatoes and corn on the cob. But I coouldn't eat it! I kept picking at the lobster tail thinking how much it looked like a segmented insect.

I saw this Discovery channel-type show about a particular group of people who lived in the remote Amazon rainforest. One of their delicacies were these HUGE tarantulas they threw on a fire and sucked the meat out of the legs. I seem to remember the narrator saying something about it tasting similar to some shellfish.

Yeah, yeah, spiders aren't insects, but close enough.

When I was in grad school, I did some work at the SF Insect Zoo. One night they had a special program about edible insects and had mostly baked goods with meal worms and crickets in them. Sad to say but I passed on them. They told me they were "not that bad."

[torakris]

The only food I can remember detesting as I was growing up was scalloped potatoes. I have never liked potatoes unless they are very highly seasoned because they are so bland. On the nights my mom would make her scallopd ham and potatoes I would usually eat just the salad.

Thinking back now I think I was a very hard child for my mom food wise, I hated most of the foods kids loved. I didn't then and still don't like peanut butter (especially in cookies!), bologna, jello, and Kraft Mac and Cheese.

For luches I would insist on turkey breast with provolone, "good" lettuce (not iceberg) and Hellman's mayo on pumpernickel, and I was only in 1st grade!

My poor mom, I was one of eight kids!!

[heyjude]

Pits and Bones. Say, isn't that the secret society that Dubya belonged to at Yale? I actually still cut all stone fruit off the pit, eat only fish that has been well filleted and stay clear of olives that I know I'd love if I weren't such a wuss. Watermelons were a nightmare and even apples needed to be cored. I probably choked on my formula.

[nightscotsman]

Pits and Bones. Say, isn't that the secret society that Dubya belonged to at Yale? I actually still cut all stone fruit off the pit,  eat only fish that has been well filleted and stay clear of olives that I know I'd love if I weren't such a wuss. Watermelons were a nightmare and even apples needed to be cored. I probably choked on my formula.

You mean I'm not the only one? I always core and slice apples and pears before eating, and remove pits from peaches and nectarines. I have a hard time with fresh cherries because of the pits - they just give me the creeps. And I'm not going to touch non-seedless grapes.

[heyjude]

Yes. Grapes with seeds suspended in fruit mucous reminds me that the other night on Nova, the subject was caves. We learned that there is a kind of drippy slime that hangs from cave ceilings before hardening. It has been named "snottite".