the quotes are the actual comments from the polled readers:
#20 - blueberries (only in muffins for me!)
"blueberries taste a little like aluminum to me." -- sharon
#19 - maple syrup
"just a whiff of maple syrup and i get nauseous. i am from maine! problem: i ate a 2lb box of maple sugar candies when i was 6. i was violently ill for 3 days. the experience has ruined dining out for breakfast for me ever since as most places abound with the aroma of maple syrup!" -- daryl
#18 - cilantro (who woulda thunkit?)
"i will eat anything and everything under the sun, as long as there is no cilantro involved." - lemmiwinks
#17 - onions (i can see where these might be a problem.)
"raw onions, yuck, yuck, yuck. i can't even help clean up that stuff, i don't want it to accidentally touch me." -- samara
#16 - cooked carrots (toldja, shan!)
"cooked carrots/steamed carrots. raw is fine, but cooked should be illegal." -- louisianaborn
#15 - raisins (no cooked raisins for me!)
"raisins cooked into a dish remind me of roaches from my old apartment. aaack!" -- amber
#14 - peas (i'll eat peas if they're seasoned right.)
"canned peas are awful! they smell like somebody who hasn't had a bath for a week." -- steven
#13 - oysters (pass the lemon juice, hot sauce and pepto!)
"tThe oyster on the half shell is like swallowing a fresh phleghmball." -- david mcdaniel
#12 - pea soup (nevah had it.)
"my dad used to make it in this huge lobster pot and you could smell it all the way down our street! the worst part? he and my mom would freeze containers of it and pull it out whenever 'they just didn't feel like cooking!!!' oh god.....my skin is crawling!!!!!!!!!!" -- beth (LOL!)
#11 - sour cream (no way! what's a baked potato without it?)
"sour cream makes me want to cry. it's like expired chunky milk. i have to hold my nose and look away." -- jenn
#10 - gelatin
"The gelatin you eat in Jell-O comes from the collagen in cow or pig bones, hooves, and connective tissues. To make gelatin, manufacturers grind up these various parts and pre-treat them with either a strong acid or a strong base to break down cellular structures and release proteins like collagen. After pre-treatment, the resulting mixture is boiled. During this process, the large collagen protein ends up being partially broken down, and the resulting product is called gelatin. The gelatin is easily extracted because it forms a layer on the surface of the boiling mixture." --Wendy (insert blank stare here.)
#9 - tuna (pffft. i LUV tuna!)
"i recently made tuna noodle casserole for my family (there being no other food in the house) - i started gagging when I pulled it out of the oven." -- kim (someone needs to teach kim how to make a gag free tuna casserole.)
#8 - brussels sprouts (i just started eating these as as adult. my 7yr old loves them!)
"my mom would make us eat them, even though we hated them. if i hid them in my napkin, mom would fish them out of the trash and force feed them. (<---that would turn anyone off.) nasty tasting things, but when you eat them cold after having been overcooked, they're even worse." -- margie forrest
#7 - beets (pass the bleu cheese dressing!)
"beets are nasty and a giant tease! they look like they'd be good but the taste is just vile! " -- mo
#6 - okra (say it ain't so! i luv okra, slime and all! fried okra is the best!)
"i grew up in the south, so i love gumbo more than just about anything, but straight boiled okra is the most disgusting stuff on earth!" -- steve dishongh
#5 - eggs (i could eggs anytime! especially deviled!)
"i just can't get a hard boiled egg white down. the yolk is no problem but the consistency of the white part makes me turn green." -- debbie
#4 - mushrooms (i luv mushrooms although i can't get over NOT washing them first. brush them? no way! i tried to eat them that way but all i tasted was dirt. it's probably a mental thing.)
"mushrooms. come on, people, it's FUNGUS! if i want to eat fungus, i'll just lick the shower wall. gag!" -- carla (it sounds like carla needs to worry less about eating 'shrooms and worry more about cleaning her bathroom.
#3 - mayonnaise (yuck! it gets my vote!)
"mayo is the most disgusting substance on the face of this earth. it reeks. it's bad for your health. and the sight of it isn't too pretty either. i even hate the sound of the word 'mayonnaise'." --brittany
#2 - lima beans (i havent met a lima that i didnt like.)
"it's their texture. it makes me feel like i'm being forced to eat rotten dessert or something. and i get a strange sensation from my mouth down to in between my toes. nothing ruins a good vegetable soup like a bite full of dry, nasty lima bean." -- kacie comly (kacie isn't getting her limas from the right places.)
and the #1 yuckiest food? you guessed it!
#1 - liver (im only able to eat liver if it's seasoned and cooked just right. i refuse to cook it though.)
"it's like a blood clot with fried onions." -- louisianaBorn
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Quote of the week! LOFL!
Meat is very very very very gross. If I was a caveman I'd need it, for sure. But I'm not a caveman.
Fish meat is still dead fish stuff - none of that for me either.
Every time Peter shouts that meat is disgusting, I go out and have a burger in his name.
But I do see that my top two made the top ten. I hate brussel sprouts and lima beans.
I'm not a fan of oysters.
I don't think that I've ever had brussel sprouts, but I'd probably be okay with them.
The rest of the list? Some of my favorites are on there. I love good, fresh blueberries. Real maple syrup is delicious (especially over veggie sausages). I love peas; however, canned is a bit iffy.
Okra? How can anyone not like okra? Well, maybe if you've had it prepared by someone who can't cook...
would you consider yourself a vegetarian?
Much of the time, I follow a vegetarian diet. However, if there's something such as sushi involved... Well, definitely not a vegetarian then.
I will not go near oytsters or liver. my dad, when I was a kid, used ot make me cry because he would alwaystell us that he was going to make liver and onions for food. (breakfast, lunch, or dinner) once he even pulled up to the drive through McDonalds window and asked for two "burger boxes" (happy meals) and tried ordering them full of liver and onions. it made the fast food worker very confused. I thought it was real and bawled my eyes out