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Blue cheese.

Haggis

They're wrong, but I get it

Black licorice.

I really like olives, but I totally get how they're not for everyone. I also love capers and seaweed.

Liver and Onion, anchovies, chunchullo, whitebait, blood and tongue sausage... generally these fall in two categories:

• Food that has a particularly strong flavor that clashes with what people are used to, and
• Food that is made from the parts of an animal that is not "meat" and therefore has an unfamiliar texture.

They're wrong on all accounts - taste is acquired, and people should at least try food out of their comfort zone - but considering that it took 20 years for me to even consider trying shrimp (which still isn't my first choice, but I like it now) I can understand.

Pineapple on pizza.

Bleu cheese. It's got the funk, and is literally moldy; I can see how that could be off-putting for someone.

Cilantro. Because I know there's people who have a gene that makes it taste like soap to them.

tofu

Uni:

Durian. Apparently it's absolutely disgusting for some people.

Cauliflower soup. It tastes amazing to me, but it really does smell like farts

Grilled liver and onions and jarred Gefilte Fish. Both I grew up eating as an Ashkenazi jew with a working mom who didn't have time to make her own Gefilte Fish haha. I do understand that both are an acquired taste though.

Oatmeal. Yes, it's the texture and temperature of boogers, but I never ate my boogers growing up. What I ate growing up was a lot of oatmeal.

Sushi. Steak tartar.

I like my meat raw if I can eat it without dying.

Spaghetti with sugar.

Mustard

Goat cheese, lamb/mutton, truffle and any kind of mushroom, spicy foods

Once I had this dark chocolate with chile pepper and pop rocks in it, no one else wanted to try it but I really liked it

It’s not about the food but about the time of enjoying the taste of it

I like big dishes in the morning. Like really salty, savoury and messy

I routinely wake up, smell an imaginary scent of a whole dinner (hallucinations) and proceed to eat it as first thing in the morning

Sea Oysters! Back when I lived by the coast, I would tag along for a ride with my fishermen uncle; we would cut some oysters with a knife from the side of the port and snack on them through the day; Just opening them up with a knife, add chopped purple onions, avocado, tomatoes, lemon and hot sauce and slurp em' off the shell!

Espresso with tabasco.

Vegemite on toast

Boiled Peanuts. I love 'em, but they're salty and sodden and messy, and they can range from a disconcerting pop texture to a disconcerting slimy texture, all in the same batch.

Meat, cheese and dairy

Button Mushrooms / Cherry Tomatoes - my friend once commented that it felt like chewing eyeballs.

Waiting on the balut comment... 🤢🤮

Most of my lazy dishes are pretty terrible on paper but are really tasty imo.

For example I sometimes make a fried noodles and tofu that as a sauce has a fuckton of sriracha and nutritional yeast. It's basically a super spicy ans super umami dish, but you kind of need to let it grow on you.