Gotta know.

I usually try to eat a mix of fresh steamed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and chopped kale with a lot of meals.

The difference is barely discernable

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Ugh

like something gross.

"You're eating that tripe again?"

It was around 1978 at a funky waterfront bar in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. The experience haunts me to this day.

Everyone eats it, but me....

Menudo: A traditional Mexican soup made with cow's stomach (tripe), hominy, and red chili broth

I use pea protein for my protein shakes. Add enough choco syrup & anything tastes good!

Hi Deb!

And it's obvious what they are when you see them. I tasted one on a dare, but even if I hadn't known what it was I'd have hated it. There wasn't much flavor but texture was really nasty, kind of like overcooked liver held together with wood glue.

Also called Mountain Oysters, without the 'Rocky' part

Loved it back when I lived with someone back in the 80s who knew how to make it. We’d buy blocks of frozen squid at our local grocery store in Ohio and clean them, saving the ink sacs. Not something I can buy anymore.

And my mother was a wonderful cook. I was very lucky to have them, and am always grateful for the experiences they worked hard to give me and my 6 siblings.

very lucky.Easterncedar.

I like most cheeses but this one is extremely odiferous.

is the worst for me

Once hadn't eaten for 4 days and payday was still a day away so when a friend came by with liverwurst I was grateful and thought I'd enjoy it. Nope. Was fine waiting until payday.

I’ve never been offered this dish, but I would not eat it on general principle alone. I don’t know if it’s even a real thing or just the title to a psychedelic rock album. Another thing I wouldn’t eat: ortolan. Not even gonna describe it here.

I looked it up, and all Google told me was that it was the name of some obscure 1973 song by some band called King Crimson.

Edit: Nevermind, I found it - yikes!

(and maybe a bit later if I recall my history correctly). It was the tounges of larks in jelly (think of those weird jello dishes from the 1950's). It was basically a conspicuous consumption type of dish, showing off how wealthy you were. Sort of like the different birds inside each other (turducken ain't a new idea, lol). As far as I know, it had fallen out of favor by the end of the Victorian era.

Fascinating! I had to look up "turducken" too, and that one actually looks delicious! I've never seen it here in NYC though.

Apparently, Roman's & later European monarchy did eat various dishes using larks' tongues.
Was considered a delicacy.
I'm not a fan of gelatinous food, so what is in the aspic barely matters. Panna cotta is one of the only foods that use gelatin I'll eat.
The lark dishes were considered a sign of decadence by the idle rich in Europe.

I love a little bacon along with it, too.

with the burnt onions was terrible. to me

Creamed corn....

My dad used to mix it in scrambled eggs.

I knew I had to eat to build myself back up but some of the things my body would
immediately refuse to accept or go out the back door in an hour or so.

The oatmeal was fine and the milk was OK but they used to serve a 3” egg product
square with some velvety type of cheese on it along with sweet canned fruit in jello.

I would drink the milk, ate some of the toast, and drank the juice. And I love coffee but
theirs was decaf and tasted liked it was brewed with a dirty sock. Door dash, my
son, and my debit card got me through.

Btw getting an Apple tablet and getting back on DU was life saver.

It's so good to have you back.

Maybe their taste buds have been deep fried?

The escargot was in France, no less. Couldn't even finish the first bite.
Tofu is to me a monument to bland crossed with yuch.
Never actually ate oysters. Can't get past the look of them.

My one and ONLY experience with escargot was in a 5-star restaurant in Las Vegas back in 1997. My wife and I went to Vegas on an anniversary trip and went to dinner at one of the fancy places off the strip. I spit it out into my napkin and downed my drink, my water and a second drink afterward! Disgusting is underselling the experience for me!

Tofu is just bland and texture-lacking to me...the spongy-ness of it is sort of off putting...

I do like bacon-wrapped smoked oysters though...just won't see me sucking them off the half-shell though! Slimy and nasty!

love oysters. Prepared any way. In Boston I would get fried oyster sandwiches.

Lima beans are mealy and gross. Raw fish is a texture thing. I ordered it once and my gag reflex kicked in so intensely that it was all I could do to remain composed at the table in the restaurant. Yikes, lol.

eaten sushi.

40 years later I still feel like gagging! (Pizza had NOT been ordered with that topping, and the restaurant was so dark inside I didn't notice it.)

bite and had this crappy salty thing on it.---an anchovy. When to the bathroom and spit it out. I would also have to add sardines to the foods I can't stand also.

and ate lunch in my classroom instead of the faculty room

and raw oysters. Years ago, I worked in a restaurant that began adding different menu items every couple of months or so.
They would have meetings so we could taste the new items and could better describe them to the clientele. I liked every single thing except the raw oysters. I had one and never again.

I also don't like peas but if they're in a soup or pot pie or stew, they don't bother me. I do like snap peas though. Go figure.

Is that true? I seem to recall we also had to try Oysters Casino and I liked that. Maybe it was the bacon!

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they put a warning on them , to not eat raw. But they still sold them . The taste is like eating a raw egg with a salty taste.

And add a teaspoon of sugar to the water you’re boiling them in. Also remove from the heat as soon as they are soft all the way through.

I hated them and my mom used to make them a lot. They smell and taste like sewer.

I swore I’d be part of breaking the cycle with my daughter but every damned foodie restaurant here has their take on it and she likes them.

The honest truth is that every recipe has one goal - make them not taste like brussel sprouts. You could do what some recipes do to a shoe in an effort to make them edible.

I never heard that before! "The honest truth is that every recipe has one goal - make them not taste like Brussel sprouts." Hilarious! Thank you, underpants, for the good laugh! I'll remember this one for sure!

If hate for brussel sprouts were people, I’d be China!

I have absolutely no intention of finding out. Someone once told me to brush them with olive oil and salt and roast them in the oven. Like hell I will. No Brussel sprouts in my house ever!!! I don't even like seeing them in the store.

My idea of the worst meal ever served would be liver and Brussel sprouts.

They wrap bacon around water chestnuts and chicken liver and call it Rumaki. I don't care what they call it - it's still liver and it's still nasty.

Some restaurants' only flavor profile seems to be from bell peppers or chilis. I can't touch them. Hate the smell.
Means I can't eat anything Mexican, or Indian.
Sadly at this age there's a lot of other things I can't eat either, but those are the absolute worst.

…no competition.

I’ll take your mixed vegetables!

Snails that pop when you bite. Did it once, never again.

Sorry, Scotland.

And its close cousin faggots and pease pudding.
And all these liver haters just have never had it cooked correctly. When dried out it is indeed horrible, but when lightly braised and moist, wonderful IMHO.

Chicken livers pan grilled with some butter and garlic and grilled onions

Yum Yum Yum!

Add some red wine too

I wish I could eat once a month,
But just enjoy maybe THREE times a year

Get organic fresh chicken livers

How any one can eat that stuff is beyond me!

Can’t touch even apricot glazed pastry.
Took me a long time to figure that out.

Sometimes it's not taste but texture.

Edith was preparing Archie’s lunch for work, asking if a tongue sandwich would be OK, to which Archie replied that he wouldn’t eat anything that’d been in a cow’s mouth. Edith then suggested a couple of hard-boiled eggs instead.

But, I hate menudo. I can't stomach that tripe!

I never touch the stuff!

Served in various sauces. Italian Xmas Eve specialty, awful.

And it is funny as I have had conch fritters, and they are good, a Caribbean specialty.

They have beautiful shells.