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What Will You NEVER Eat Again?

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weinoo

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I'm interested in foods/dishes that will never cross your lips again. Now, don't take it so literally; of course, if you were on a desert island, and had nothing else to eat...

One of my choices is natto. Don't get offended if you happen to like natto...it's just that I don't. We have a whole topic about it over here, so you can talk about it all you want. Just - don't serve it to me, please.

What will you NEVER eat again?

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Goat Cheese...having worked many years in "gourmet" retail I have tried from the top to the bottom in price, quality, and age, and just not gonna do it again.

There are plenty of things that I have learned to like and even more that I am willing to keep trying but....

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I've eaten natto maybe four times and I hope it won't cross my lips ever again. I always ask my Japanese students who likes natto and it's always 50/50. I am lucky my wife doesn't eat natto.

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Uni, aka Sea Urchin. I've seen more than one TV chef just gushing over this stuff, how it tastes like almonds, or tastes like the sea. What a load of crap. For the uninitiated, sea urchin has the consistency and coloration of phlegm and doesn't taste much better. It is the most vile food substance I've ever eaten, but that doesn't stop me from trying it again and again. I'm hoping my palette will someday wake up and I'll suddenly see what the big deal is. But it hasn't happened yet.

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ScoopKW

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What will you NEVER eat again?

McDonald's. (Most fast food, in fact. I'll have an In-N-Out or a Fatburger occasionally. But that's it.)

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Mjx

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Bear gall; I didn't know what it was when I was drinking it the first time.

Was this in Thailand, by any chance? I've read that the Thai people really enjoy bitter things.

I really cannot eat instant mashed potatoes. Not because of their substandard texture, but because it vividly evokes my being young and stupid enough to live in conditions that included sleeping with a message in my pocket stating how I wanted my remains disposed of, should I be found frozen to death. When I first went off to uni. I lived for several months on instant mashed potatoes (made with hot water from the tap, because I couldn't afford to pay for electricity, so couldn't use the stove): they were the cheapest thing going. I'm not even that fond of proper mash any longer (oddly, I haven't gone off Victorian and Edwardian fiction, which is where I got that being 'poor but honest' business in the first place).

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ambra

ambra

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Chicken sashimi. Just couldn't wrap my mind around that one.

YUCK! Someone once tried to serve me Rare chicken. On purpose!

vloglady

vloglady

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Hot tomatoes. Not like in sauce or perhaps on a pizza. Some chinese places put stir-fried tomatoes into their food. I pick them out. And in Scotland, they sometimes served grilled tomatoes for breakfast. Yeech!

And lima beans.

Pam Brunning

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I agree on goats cheese,the trouble is the billy goat urinates over the nanny as part of his courting technique and its impossible to get rid of the stink from the udder and thus into the cheese.

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Dakki

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Another vote for natto. Smell, taste and texture all read "spoiled" to me. Funny thing is, I'd actually been looking forward to trying the stuff, since I usually enjoy fermented foods quite a bit.

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I agree on goats cheese,the trouble is the billy goat urinates over the nanny as part of his courting technique and its impossible to get rid of the stink from the udder and thus into the cheese.

Well, I had no problem with goat's cheese before reading this, but I'm going to take a second look at it now.

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Chris Amirault

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Chicken sashimi. Just couldn't wrap my mind around that one.

YUCK! Someone once tried to serve me Rare chicken. On purpose!

It wasn't yucky at all: very clean and smooth. But -- for I'm sure purely cultural reasons -- I just couldn't relax and treat it like tasty food. It was RAW CHICKEN.

I think this is how some of my customers feel when I offer them a cocktail with a raw egg in it.

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weinoo

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I agree on goats cheese,the trouble is the billy goat urinates over the nanny as part of his courting technique and its impossible to get rid of the stink from the udder and thus into the cheese.

Well, I had no problem with goat's cheese before reading this, but I'm going to take a second look at it now.

Doesn't the courting take place a while before the feeding of the young and therefore the production of the milk?

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Peter the eater

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I'm done trying to enjoy frozen pizzas from a grocery store box.

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Cod milt.

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Anna N

Anna N

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Hot dogs! Lived on them for months on end back in the late 60s due to money issues - the smell of them cooking brings on nausea.

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MollyB

MollyB

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I'd have to go with a candy specialty from Avila in Spain, yemas de Santa Teresa. They're pretty much candied egg yolks, and in taste and texture they are sort of like a raw egg yolk saturated with sugar. I was in Avila and felt I had to try one, and I regretted it. I couldn't even get one bite down. There's a picture here.

johnnyd

johnnyd

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Cod milt.

Didn't do it for me either, but in a chowder it adds an interesting tone.

Most processed food makes me gag - that frozen pizza is just not food.

@Big Mike: Uni has a short shelf life. Metropolitan sushi bars just don't have it fresh enough no matter what they claim. If you are ever up here in Maine, the season is October through February - try 'em then.

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chileheadmike

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Liver. Beef, pork, or chicken. I just can't. I keep trying hoping I'll develop a taste for it but no go.

Foie Gras is another story, I love that stuff on the rare occasions I eat it.

That's the thing about opposum inerds, they's just as tasty the next day.

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