Beef suet. So no Beef Wellington for me, I protest its taste/texture. Kidneys; No steak and kidney pie for me, please - I protest its odour. Pickled fish; ... I just don't like it.
Beef Wellington is just steak, prosciutto, shallots and mushrooms wrapped in pastry, there's no beef suet in it.
+1 Here's my favorite from okra lover, "Oh, but you've never had MY okra. I'll convince you." Um. No. I have the same issue with pumpkin. Everyone knows their cookies/pie/latte whatever will convince me.
Coriander (oft repeated, even in this thread), seafood other than deep sea fish, pork (of any kind), milk chocolate (tastes like sugar and dirt), weak tea, watery soups, salads as meals, dumb-dumb cheese, chicken breasts, and coriander.
Even in New Orleans gumbo? There's a genetic thing with the taste receptors. For some people, it tastes bitter and like soap.
You don't eat fugu for the taste. The slight numbing sensation it causes is considered part of the eating experience, like a "flavor".
I'm certain a few make it down the gullet, but at the end, there's lots of pieces of okra in the bowl after I'm done.
I can't eat gumbo. I have a very inconvenient allergy to pepper, black, white or red. It developed in my early 20s. My older sister would laugh at me about it, until the day when she developed the same allergy. Funny, she didn't like okra either.
Man that is inconvenient. That must rule out pretty much every savoury dish you haven't made yourself from scratch. Undressed salads and desserts must be about the only things you can safely eat out.
You learn which restaurants have something safe to eat, or who will change a dish. But yes, major inconvenience. For some reason, I can tolerate bottled ranch dressing, even though is has some pepper in it. Perhaps the buttermilk offsets it? And a lovely new medical issue removes chocolate, orange, lemon and pineapple. I believe I'm down to pine nuts and celery now... We eat at home and 'clean', home grown as much as we can, and share off with the neighbors for what they grow that we don't. Only thing missing is meat.
On the plus side the lack of processed foods must make your diet much healthier than most. The same way that those with serious gluten allergies avoid the pitfalls of too many carbohydrates in their diets.
Pasta is my personal deadly sin for carbs. We can and have made it from scratch, but don't seem to have the time to do so in recent years. I feel best when I avoid excess gluten, but with all my other dietary limitations these days, one does what one enjoys that doesn't immediately kill you.
Ouch. That's seriously inconvenient. You should have asked me; I would have recommended a more convenient allergy. I'm allergic to the outside, which is also pretty inconvenient. If I don't take at least two allergy pills a day, I can't breathe.
LOL, there is not such thing as a 'convenient allergy', Have you tried taking quercetin, which is a natural antihistamine? They say a daily dose of honey can have some wonderful results also. I've got my rounds of sneezes when the trees pollen, and react badly to mold or mildew, but that's about it. I enjoy the outdoors and would suffer just about any type of med to not lose that enjoyment.
I am outside as often as possible and have the windows open whenever it's an option. They are open right now. I tolerate it. I'll look into quercetin.
An apiarist friend has told me that if you eat local honey that it can help reduce hay fever. Have you heard anything about this?
Supposedly it has to do with the 'local' pollen the bees collect, sort of like a built up immunity? I haven't done much reading on it.
Unfortunately it appears to be an urban myth. Honey does have many health benefits though including helping with some of the symptoms of hay fever such as coughs and sore throats. https://www.healthline.com/health/allergies/honey-remedy
