Anyone else have strange food aversions?

When I was growing up my friend made me eat Smash in the powder form. Afetr that I didnt eat mash potatoe until I moved in with my husband about 15 years later! Every time I smelt it I would gag! I love it now though which just goes to show you can learn eat it again!

My hubby will not eat mushrooms because he swears they "squeek"???? lol
I cannot do: watermelon (well any melon) or strawberries (taste) and peaches due to the texture and smell. Everyone finds that so weird. It does make eating fruit salad etc. a pain in the behind.
Best of luck to you, I adore cottage cheese but I know how most people (that I know) seem to find it gross.

I am glad there is someone else out there that doesn't like strawberries! Everyone I know thinks it is the strangest thing that I can't stand them! I hate the taste, the texture, the smell... everything about them!!

Tonight , for the first time, I am going to eat cottage cheese (so I can try to up my protein from yesterday) . So while my famdam is eating pork chops, corn on the cob, and roasted potatoes I'll be struggling to get down 3oz of this white...creamy...... Oh god I don't know if I can do it!

IMHO, There's nothing unhealthy in eating pork chops, corn, or potatoes...just be reasonable with the portions. Why are you forcing yourself to eat food you will probably throw up? This doesn't sound like a sustainable life change...although, my own small victory recently has been giving up Miracle Whip (because of HFCS), which was replaced w/ mayo......and I've given that up for mustard, which I used to only like on hotdogs.

My real aversions are liquid egg whites..resemblance to certain body fluid...black beans, ate them 2 times a day for 2 years while in Peace Corps. Not a single black bean has passed my lips since 1993!

I don't really have any aversions anymore. I used to stay away from snacking on cheese because when I was little I remember snacking on monterey jack and then I got this weird swelled area on my gums. I still have no idea if they were related but I'm past it now, lol. I also used to gag anytime I tried to eat strawberries. It was the skin! Something about the texture of the seeds on the outside horrified me, though I could eat the middle fine. Got over that one too.

I can't stand cottage cheese. The taste and the texture are both revolting to me.
Certain cooked veggies will make me gag, like mushrooms and zucchini.
And like someone else, I love bananas but I cannot stand artifical banana flavored stuff. Someone else always got my banana Runts.

Tuna salad made with mayo. Actually just mayo in general. It's something of the consistency and smell of the stuff that I absolutely hate. Smells like dirty socks or something.

I forgot to put Tuna on my list too. Simply cannot tolerate even the smell. It looks and smells JUST like cat food...eww..ewwwww....EW!

oh! and also capers. what is going on with those things? they taste like the potpourri of vegetables gross

anything that's still moving - like that one sea creature they serve at some sushi places that kind of looks like a shrimp but has these little feelers all moving about. Everytime I've seen it its made me want to get the check immediately.

Hard-boiled eggs. EWWW so gross! I can't stand the smell, look, taste, texture. Just thinking about it is actually creeping me out right now.

my boyfriend is australian but not from the coast ..so seafood was a relatively new thing for him ..and though he loves most seafood ..he cant stand eating things with tentacles ..the lil suction cups on octopus freak him out.

me? i cant eat aperitif (spelling?) its an italian drink like soda ..delicious im told ..to me it literally tastes like dishsoap ewww someone told me it has to do with some recessive gene for that particular taste PCT i think ..most people dont taste it (70%) but to the people that can ..ewwww taste so bitter its awful

OHH -edit- i forgot to add

warm tomato ..i hate those ..horrible things, cooked or roasted or in soup is fine but warm?? like what happens when they add tomato to a warm burger ? that makes me gag - same for lettuce specially iceberg - raw and crispy is fine but warm ..its disgusting .

Mushrooms are just plain revolting. I hate the way they taste, feel, and even look like. Even the thought makes me gag and think of mold.

Also I got fed up with yogurt when I was little so, even thou I don't really dislike it, I very rarely eat it.

Oh boy, food aversions - My husband says mine are strange, but maybe I'm not alone in the world!

Meat on the bone. Can't eat meat on the bone. As an adult now, I can take a chicken breast and tear the meat off, throw away the bones, and eat the meat - but as a kid - no way.

I don't like my food to touch - when I was a kid, I was extreme about it, would only eat one thing at a time, and then turn my plate clockwise to eat the next thing - and always save the best-tasting thing for last.

Nothing with coconut - someone else said that it's the texture, that's gotta be it. I have had fresh coconut just cut from the tree and really liked it - but the dried flaky stuff, UGH!

When I was a kid, I remember not being allowed to leave the table because I refused to try a spoonful of acorn squash - I remember falling asleep at the table and waking up in my bed the next morning. Guess I won that battle, LOL! Silly, because I love squash now, yum!