which food can you SIMPLY NOT ABIDE?

Almost anything out of a can, anything called "fast food."

Raw coriander and celery. 🤢 Cooked, they are fine.😋

Okra and canned peas.

Lemon Meringue Pie. When I was 11 or 12 was in a Pie Eating Contest. You know the kind where they tie your hands behind your back. I won but think I threw up for a couple of hours afterward. Of course all of the Pies were were Lemon Meringue.

Avocado... it is a vile substance. Tastes of soap.

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Avocado... it is a vile substance. Tastes of soap.

Wow, lol, alright mon ami., what about tripes à la mode de Caen ... done it, totally not convinced.

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Wow, lol, alright mon ami., what about tripes à la mode de Caen ... done it, totally not convinced.

🤣🤣🤣

Ma cherie, I do hope you are okay. This dish is notorious (and they had to outlaw the original recipe), and you possess a bravery I do not. I know I am on thin ice seeing as the French will eat snails and frogs with abandon.

However, I did eat Surstromming (Swedish fermented pickled herring) once for a dare. The smell is truly horrific (we opened the tin outside). It did not taste too bad, well... better than it smelled.

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Avocado... it is a vile substance. Tastes of soap.

I have mixed feelings about avocado. I won't eat it just plain like Mrs. Seeker is prone to doing, but done right (e.g. the avocado salad that I am about to have for lunch), it can be pretty good actually.

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I know I am on thin ice seeing as the French will eat snails and frogs with abandon.

Funnily enough, I only had the former when I was in France but have had Chinese versions of both (Shanghai red-cooked snails are to die for). And if you want to see a culture that will eat literally anything ... yeah, my wife's homeland has France beat I think.

But food that I find vile?

I wouldn't touch the whale meat that was on offer in Reykjavik restaurants on my recent trip to Iceland but that's more about ethics than taste (they are apparently still allowed to hunt minke whale there).

"Stinky tofu" as I call it, forget the Chinese name, is not great and I won't generally seek it out but the smell is worse than the taste and, in any case, no worse than some cheeses in Europe. So not really vile, just not my thing.

But generally, I am up to try anything once, it seems. Even had some kind of small songbird in China at one of the banquets thrown by my aunts-in-law first time I visited the family. Similar to small birds we eat here like Cornish hens.

Papaya. Just the smell of it makes my mouth fill with saliva like it does when you throw up.

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Papaya. Just the smell of it makes my mouth fill with saliva like it does when you throw up.

With you. Kind of forgot about it. And I dislike the consistency of mango, though I like the taste.

Okra cooked any way and canned pes…both texturally disgusting.

Italian food. It doesn't look appetizing. Noodles and sauce. That's all it is.

Sushi. I love seafood but no to sushi. I do love crudo, but again, no to sushi.

Chicken wings. No.