What one food or beverage . . .

[Not Heidi]

What one food or beverage can you just not stand - and what would you rather have in its place?

For me, it's IPA. I'd rather drink hot water with seasoned salt mixed in.

What's yours?

[claudette]

1. Mine is

Brussel sprouts. Hate them with a passion. Would rather eat spinach which I love ❤️!!

[Not Heidi]

2. I'll have your Brussels sprouts . . .

. . . and you can have my IPA. 👋

[AllaN01Bear]

20. onions and garlic.

[Lunabell]

3. Uni.

It looks like something coughed up after a bad respiratory infection. And tastes disgusting.

[3catwoman3]

32. The one time I had this, not only did it taste awful...

…it felt furry/fuzzy. Never again.

[Lunabell]

34. I tried it at a sushi restaurant once with my girlfriend.

A man at the sushi bar ordered a plate full of uni sushi and said it's his favorite sushi. Well, I just had to try it. I ordered one and the chef asked me, "Are you sure?" Lol I should have known.

I popped it in my mouth and it took every ounce of my resolve to not puke. And, being the devilish person that I am, I chewed it up and swallowed it. I told my girlfriend it was the best sushi I'd ever had and she just had to try it!

Lmfao, she did and she was so pissed off at me!! She spit it out in a napkin and proceeded to chug down her beer. Hell, I wasn't going to be the only one who tried it!! Aahh, good times.🤣 🤣 🤣

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I'm still looking for an elusive elixir which I cannot drink

Ouzo comes close, along with any other anise-flavored liqueur. Given enough time and alcohol, however, I could toss back a shot without batting an eyelash.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Okra 🤢

[lark]

6. Okra is so nasty!

I don't like it anyway you can make it, even fried isn't good! Sauerkraut is the only thing as nasty as okra.

[CTyankee]

9. I used to eat okra plain, just boiled, with a bit of salt. and the slimy stuff, that's good!

[lark]

10. I'm glad some people like it, as for my family - we hate the slimy stuff!

More power to you for being able to handle it!

[CTyankee]

12. It was how we ate it, growing up in Texas. I was surprised when I moved East that not everybody ate it that way.

And, in fact, hated the slimy stuff.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. I would not touch it until I tried it fried. Now I love it.

I also use it in stir fry which I season with Cajun spices and Worcestershire sauce. So Good Slice it really thin and toss it in the hot pan for a few minutes.

[Laffy Kat]

31. Love it fried to an inch of its life

You have to cook it in a skillet with the oil so hot the fire department is going to show up!

[soldierant]

24. For me it really depends on how it is prepared.

I don't like the slimy stuff, so fried and gumbo are the only ways I can eat it.

But if you do like the slimy stuff, try ir boiled with a little sour cream. that really brings oout the slime.

[CTyankee]

37. My husband cannot stand it. Even if I tried to cook it without the slime he wouldn't eat it.

He never had the okra experience. He grew up in Wisconsin which apparently was never on their menus the way it the way it was in mine, growing up in Texas.

[soldierant]

39. I gre up in California

but being in the Marines and statined various places vastly expanded my culinary vocabulary. Okra is one of the foods I learned from North Carolina, along with pulled pork collard greens, and rabbit. Also the clam chowder which is neither "New England" (cream) not "Manhattan" (tomato). Not that I can make any of those any more. I can get the ingredients for pulled pork, and now that it's been brought to the front of my memory , I might - but the others I can't get the right ingredients.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. I love kraut! 😋

[soldierant]

25. Me too.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. 🤗

[Kali]

7. I am a picky eater so too many to list

but to go with your beer theme, I am not super fond of IPAs but can drink them, my block is almost always wheat beers. yuck.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. Dr Pepper and all its imitations. I much prefer iced tea.

I have not consumed soft drinks in years. The closest I get is a very cold Topo Chico.

Foodwise, crabmeat and oysters. I would rather have fresh caught crappie or blue gill; shrimp or lobster.

[Different Drummer]

13. Second your dislike of Dr. Pepper.

I would much rather have water.

[electric_blue68]

19. Dr Pepper 😩😄 Tried it at my cousin's in NJ...

I am a former picky eater.

Because as I became a late teen ('70) my palate expanded dramatically over the next several years, and continued. Especially Chinese, Indian cooking in terms of quite different tastes than various American, European meals.

You've reminded me that one of these days if I see a vending machine w Dr Pepper; since I learned to eat so many different herbs & spices- I wonder how I'd react to it now 60 yrs later.
Would I like it? Or, at least would I not find it as awful as I did back then.

I drank Coke, Pepsi, maybe, too sweet back then.

Later for Ginger Ale; which I didn't like either till after I'd eaten, and cooked a lot of Chinese food in my later 20's where I often used ginger as one flavoring.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Sushi

I love seafood, but it's gotta be cooked!

[Phentex]

23. Same! It tastes like nothing unless you dip it in sauce

I don't see the point and I love seafood and rice!

[Utley]

15. V-8 or whatever they call that Bloody Mary mixer. Yuk!!! n/t

[WestMichRad]

16. Parsnips

Ewwwww!

[ProfessorGAC]

17. ;ooo!

I make an awesome parsnip puree! The trick is cinnamon & cardamom.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Sweet Relish

If I want something pickled I want it sour, not sweet.
It's the only thing I hold off a Chicago dog.

[Aristus]

22. Mushrooms.

In their place: truffles. Truffles are the sublime fungus. Mushrooms are the revolting fungus.

[wryter2000]

26. Milk

I'm not intolerant, I simply cannot abide the flavor. I'd rather have ice water. Love it.

[Diamond_Dog]

27. Vinegar and anything with vinegar in it.

Also, ketchup. And mustard. Gross. Bleccch

[SARose]

28. Tomatoes

I have hated those wretched things since I was a toddler. All that jelly with seeds ewwww! 🤣

[NotASurfer]

29. Soft, "aromatic" cheese

One of humanity's assets is how we use cleverness to help in our survival. Cheese is basically milk that's spoiled, but in a way that can aid in long-term preservation in an edible form.

However...some cheeses are too close to the taste and smell and mouth feel of the 2% you just took a swig of before you realize it's spoiled, and spoiled to the point where you don't want to watch as you pour it down the drain because you're pretty sure it's gonna be chunky.

I'd rather eat undressed, plain, cold tofu out of the package. It's not evil, it just needs help to up the edibility level acceptably

[XanaDUer2]

35. I bought the most interestg cheese

Its like a cross between brie and bleu

[3catwoman3]

33. Liver.

[pansypoo53219]

36. eggs, cheese, beer, gin, tequela, squash, seafood.....mushrooms.....

potatoes, gravy.

[AnnaLee]

38. seafood

The more it smells (like seaweed), the sicker it makes me. It is the smell, and my sense of the smell seems better than other people. I don't mind some white fish, if fresh, but fried and dipped in tartar sauce.

[petronius]

40. Beverage: sour beers, and I'll take an IPA instead. Food: bananas, and I'd prefer literally anything

else that I can fit in my mouth. If those disgusting devil-fruits really do go extinct it will be the happiest day of my life...

[mucifer]

41. Dead animals and animal products. In their place vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains.

Ok that's not one