Oh my...
I actually enjoy trying new things if they sound appetizing. But there have been times where I was sorry I did.
I personally have never been able to stomach any type of sea food. The salty fishiness of it, blach! It probably goes back to when I had my first tuna fish sandwich when I was 6, and it made me so sick I, well, brought it back up. I can eat salmon if it's cooked a special way, and sometimes fish sticks with LOTS of tarter sauce, but otherwise, no. No sea food for me.
I hate brussel sprouts and cabbage. I can tolerate coleslaw, but that's only for the mayonnaise and other fats added to it, lol.
I like tofu ok, but I prefer it when it's not pretending to be something else (meat, eggs, cheese, yogurt, etc.). I grew up vegetarian, and my parents still are. My mom is vegan-vegetarian, meaning no dairy products, and even tries to stay away from refined sugar and processed foods. Not for me, but to each her own. I actually like most vegge-meats, especially poultry and frank type ones. But I've always liked it much better if it's made out of some other type of vegge protein other than tofu. I prefer chunks of tofu only in my Thai dish, thanks.
I've never cared for lentils. They're just brown and bland and slimy. Ick. It doesn't help when they're served over rice, either. Add some tomatoes and herbs and maybe some other vegetables or something. The crock pot is never fun to clean after cooking them, either. Yuck.
And I must mention some mystery dish my dad made once when I was a kid, at maybe 9 or 10 years old. I don't know what it was suppose to be, but I'll always remember it. It was some type of stroganoff because it had egg noodles in it. And some type of beef-wannabe vegge meat. The noodles and the meat were fine. It was the amount of onions and salt and oil and mayonnaise he added to it. Globs of fat were literally floating on the surface of the dish when it came out of the oven. We could pick the globs up with a spoon, and watch it go *gloop* back into the dish. And it didn't taste good either. It was too salty, and the texture was too slimy. And all that fat was too heavy on the stomach. I ended up seeing my dinner in reverse after that meal, too. Blech.
