I know we’ve covered this topic before, but today I heard something that took me aback: Our blogmaster will not eat macaroni and cheese. He despises it with a fervor I reserved for canned green peas or other people do for say, liver and onions. And it gets better: He will only eat two kinds of noodles: Spaghetti (in a pinch he’ll go with angel hair, but vermicelli is preferred and anything heavier verboten) and ravioli.
Allow me to continue. Lord knows I understand the cooked fruit phobia, but Bryan won’t eat cooked vegetables! He loves them raw, just like I love raw fruit, but doesn’t want them cooked. There are exceptions, of course: French fries and sometimes roasted veggies. It just depends on the texture.
I love it that someone here understands the nuances of food texture–but I don’t get the noodle deal. Still, it’s quirky and that makes it funny to me.
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Responses to “More strange food aversions”
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I don’t understand it either, but witness it often. The wife will eat angel hair, lingunini, any pasta but regular spaghetti. Says it’s a texture/shape thing. (I wonder if her sister fed her worms as a kid.) She also picks onions out of everything but loves the onion flavor - again a texture thing, so I pulverize onions before cooking with them. (I can’t guess what her sister might have fed her for this one.)
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
My husband is English and he never encountered mac and cheese until he came here. Hates it! He’s almost offended that we list it as a vegetable on menus.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I’m that way about avocados and guacamole. I think they are disgusting. It is probably the only fattening thing on the planet that I don’t like - maybe because it is something called a healthy fat.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Raw tomatoes are off limits to me! If they are chopped very small and mixed in a sauce, I might be able to handle it. I don’t order them on hamburgers or salads, if I can help it. I ate them as a child, but one event changed that. My first tooth was loose, but I was afraid to pull it. We had sliced tomatoes for dinner, and when I bit into one, my tooth fell out, and I almost choked on it! I thought it was the tomato’s fault, so I quit eating them!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I’m with you Tammy. I cannot stand raw tomatoes. Cooked ones are fine. Add to the raw tomatoes a some cucumber and any type of melon and you’ve got my “meal from hell” trifecta!
October 24th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I’m with Kristin.
Tomatos, cucumber, melons. All kind of cold and squishy. Blech.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Well, since we are approaching Halloween, I guess I can post this ghoulish thought about elbow macaroni. My ex doesn’t like it because he said he can’t shake the thought of biting into a blood vessel….ewwwww! I have only run across one person in my life who doesn’t like cheese, but try taking HER out to eat! And my sister has an aversion to eggs bordering on nausea. Seems we came down with chicken pox on Easter weekend as kids & she had just OD’d on Easter eggs. She can hardly stand to cook them for other people, much less eat anything with visible/noticeable egg pieces or flavor. So it came about somewhat the same way as Tammy’s aversion to tomatoes. Tammy, you are not alone in associating a bad experience with a distate for certain foods. We won’t revisit Frederic’s offal article or blog, but I think a lot of food dislikes are definitely related to texture & origin. It’s like the old joke about who first said, “I think I’ll eat the next thing that comes out of a chicken’s rear end.” Must have been somebody braver than I am!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I developed one of those conditioned food aversions as a kid when a bad case of stomach flu coincided with me eating a huge slab of chocolate fudge cake. Couldn’t stand the flavor of fudge for years afterwards, and I still don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
Texture-wise, I hate dumplings, undercooked chicken or beef, and flan (while loving grainier creme brulée). But the grand champion awful texture has to be octopus.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I’m generally averse to mac & cheese (probably a bad experience with the boxed stuff as a kid), but I’ve discovered that the mac & cheese at At The Bistro on Brooks is absolutely decadent. My wife was intrigued and impressed.
(Note: Everything else there was also excellent, but I’ve stuck to ordering within my comfort zone–outside of the aforementioned mac & cheese)
October 26th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I have to go along w/Matt’s aversion to octopus - yuck! I enjoy fried calamari, but I was once served a marinated type at a cocktail buffet & it was like trying to chew a rubber band. I have an aversion to gristle in meat as well. If I’m eating a steak or chicken & bite into one of those little gristly parts, I’m done. If I’m eating at home, the dog gets it.
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