Not me. . .that I can recall. My parents both had a food quirk, however. My dad liked liver and my mother always had a secret stash of limburger cheese in the fridge. None of the rest of us would touch those things, and usually cleared out quickly when they emerged.

The Sound of Music. You should hear the groans when I suggest we watch it again. ;)

I used to be only one who likes avocados and asparagus, but younger DD has decided avocados are OK, and elder DD now likes sauteed asparagus.

Food-wise, that's what restaurants are for - to eat things others in the household don't like or that are too difficult to do at home.

Cassandra, I chuckled at your mention of your mother's "secret" stash of limburger cheese. We're cheese lovers and often have types that many would consider to be stinky (though not limburger). No matter how carefully they're wrapped, it would be hard to keep their presence in the fridge a secret.

I recall that when we kids opened the fridge door to stare in it--you know, hoping something good will reach out and grab--we quickly closed it again due to the limburger aroma. Now that I think about it--perhaps it was a mom ploy all along!

The liver was another matter. It was the one dish mom would not make for dad, and the entire family cleared out of the house when he made it.

I have never in my life tried those two things. Pure prejudice from the childhood memories.

Speaking of cheese...DH loves Blue and Stinky Cheese. I'm not partial to them. I always believed I did not have "food issues". Now that I don't cook, I have discovered that I AM the fussiest of the clan. I just never fixed things I didn't like and didn't really think about it....other than the stinky cheese and pigs feet. MY how some people can fool themselves. And, now, at my advanced age...I have food allergies making me more of a PIA. (No, DS, who cooks, does not think that...just finds it amusing!)

For us, it's mostly things someone likes a lot more than the other, so it balances out. My poor mother never gets to have Brussels sprouts, however, because she's the only one who likes them. Too much sulphur!! I tried making them for her once. They were small and really pretty. I about barfed after opening the oven, and had to chuck them. Straight into the compost. There was no way I was leaving them in my house! Of course, missing favorites is a lot easier than sitting down to the yuckies you hate. :)

Brussels sprouts that are fresh and then not overcooked have almost no odor.

Give them another try sometime when you can get fresh ones (they should be very firm when squeezed) and find a recipe that sounds interesting.

I think the only thing that I like that my husband doesn't particularly care for would be raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing....but he likes lots of things that I don't care for...like beef liver, eggs, pork and beans, spam, deviled ham, boiled peanuts, (Peanuts in general), prunes, caramel corn, coffee, carrots, and I could probably go on and on. I like horseradish too, Sue. I like it on rare roast beef or prime rib and I put it in cocktail sauce. We have been married for 50 years, come January, and we don't like very much of the same things at all. For example, he loves football. I have zero interest. He likes to fish. We live on a bayou....I haven't fished since I was 8 years old. I ride horses. He has been on a horse twice in all the years we've been married. He loves tv. I quit watching it when I was in jr. high and I watch almost no tv now. I will put the tv on PBS on Saturdays, if he isn't home, and the cooking shows run all day but I seldom look up at it.

In this household, raw tomatoes. DH doesn't like tomatoes unless cooked so I'll end up with sliced tomatoes that I love alongside a salad, none in it. He doesn't like raw red onion either, or diced raw celery - some very boring potato and macaroni salads have gone onto the table in the last 40 years.

I made a beautiful and expensive pasta salad with cooked chilled prawns for a pot luck lunch in Sept, called a friend to pick up the leftovers so it wouldn't be wasted - I'd included a bit of red onion, celery ; )

Plllog, if you wanted to please your mother with simple brussel sprouts, Safeway has them in their own store brand - the plain-no-sauce frozen vegetables in steamer bags that go straight into the microwave no prep for about 3 1/2 - 4 minutes. Baby petite brussel sprouts. Not the same as something like Ina Garten balsamic roasted brussel sprouts but good in their own way.

I eat sardines and crackers alone. No one else in the family will even try them!

Not everyone in the family likes all of the same things. I have at least one child who will eat whatever I eat even if the others don't.

I don't think of myself as a picky eater. I didn't grow up eating seafood. I find I avoid it when I can unless it is highly breaded and deep fried so I don't have to taste it.

I like fish and no other seafood, I like liver and onions, I don't like avocados, like Brussels Sprouts, I don't care for vinaigrette, so we all like a lot of different things and dislike a lot too :)

Sue

I like beef (not calves) liver, pink in the middle, and I like pickled beets. Neither for DH.

"Anchovies" is an inside joke here. On our first date my now-DH of 51 years took me to a Chicago steak house, Don Roth's. We were a very suave couple. The restaurant was famous for their 'Spinning Salad Bowl'. (Seriously. You have to remember the era here. The maitre d' made a big deal of concocting your salad, tableside.) When asked if we wanted anchovies in our salad, we both -- being suave as we were -- said, "Oh, yes, please." We were served with a flourish, then went about hiding those vile things under our lettuce.

This is only topped by my another early date when my DH poured 'cream' into his coffee from the salver of sour cream that had not been cleared from the table, where it was intended for the baked potatoes. Nervous? You think?

I don't know that we've *been* to a 'steak house' in years. Still exist?

me and chunky cranberry sauce or even jelly for that matter, lol...only one at thanksgiving...

Cranberry sauce - I'm the only one who eats it. But I won't eat cranberry jelly.

Me~

Spinach, liver, cranberries....I have some picky eaters!

Artificial Christmas trees...years ago we got one and my 2 grown brothers were horrified, they've changed their minds since then...Cats, they couldn't believe we got a cat back in the 90's...as for dogs, they like dogs but not pekingese....(I hope this is for more than just foods)

I love fried green tomatoes, grits and fried mush. My husband likes blue cheese dressing, rare steak and hot dogs.

fried chicken livers!

Yes, avocados, mangos and macaroni and cheese. Husband doesn't care for any of them. More for me!

Yes, actually there is quite a list of things that I alone enjoy. And I certainly don't wait to go to a restaurant to enjoy them. I love to cook and make things especially because I know someone enjoys them and that includes ME! My list includes brains, beef tongue, cilantro, oysters, hummus, pickled jalapenos, green papaya salad, broccoli salad, and the list goes on and on. Problem is, I like just about everything. I always say I'll eat anything that doesn't eat me first, LOL.

Move over mamatoad - I'll share those with you. I'll bring the dill pickles! (I've gotta say though, I have to take the tails off first - they give me the creeps)

I am the only one in the house that actually likes Brussels sprouts. DH & DS will eat them under protest. I also am the only one that likes blue cheese or roquefort or gorgonzola. I like it as a lunch with pears or apples. We have several citrus trees and I am the only one who eats the fruit. I use to grow horseradish but stopped. I gave it all away because, again, I was the only one who ate it. That goes for salad radishes too. I miss anchovy pizza, haven't had it in over 38 years.

The food that DH likes is prune juice, just looking at it makes me run to the bathroom. Brings back bad memories from childhood. And he loves sauerkraut, drinks the juice and makes omelettes with it for breakfast. Yuck. He is the only one who eats it.

Both of us hate liver, any kind. We grew up being forced to eat it and can't stand even the smell of it.

I love sweet potatoes he won't touch them. He likes horseradish not me. He loves sardines, ick. He likes cooked greens me not so much. We both like pretty much all veggies but not beets. I love boiled peanuts he will eat a few if I make him. I hate all liver, I don't know if he likes it because I have never allowed it around. My mom and dad loved it. I would eat some of the rice and gravy from it when mom would smother it with onions and tasso, that hid the taste. The liver will not pass my lips. Neither of us cares for organ meats. He loves fruitcake especially his mother's which I have tried to make once. It is easy, a no bake version, but it is nasty to me. We could both live on seafood. He's pretty easy to cook for, in all our years together I don't recall anything I cooked that he didn't eat. There were a few that I didn't eat lol.

Oh....sweet potatoes. I forgot about those. I hate them....he loves them. I don't know if he eats beets....I have never had any in the house. Ditto pumpkin....he likes pumpkin pie...not me. He thinks rice should be served at every meal.

I married a man who had been a fussy eater, and I introduced him to vegetables and cuisine such as Chinese food that he had never had. He was surprised he liked them too, most of them. But there were some things he definitely did not like. Sooooo, when I had our first child, I promised him that I would stay in the hospital several days when the new father down the street scared him with the account of his wife's hemorrhaging and emergency trip to the hospital from doing too much when she came home from the hospital early. In the recovery room, they gave me a menu to select my meals for the next few days. My selection prompted a call from the dietitian a few hours later. None of my meals made sense, but every time I saw something that DH did not like, I ordered it for me. I had to explain that I had ordered everything I like that I no longer cooked because of a fussy husband. I don't remember what those food were these 43 years later, but I know beets was one food.. I ate well in the hospital!

I'm not a picky eater at all but my husband won't try anything so it's a real PITA trying to cook. I've had to give up a lot of things that I used to eat because he won't eat them. I suppose I could just fix foods for myself but it would mean cooking two meals or extra dishes. I don't really enjoy cooking that much. HA!

I forgot about fruitcake. We both agree, it is nasty.

Oh I love dark fruit cake with the almond (marzipan) on top. But, I'm the only one. I do buy myself one loaf at Christmas because there isn't any point in making it just for me.

I have a few food likes that no one else in the house likes. These are: horseradish, mustard, black pepper on cottage cheese on baked potato, Louisiana Hot sauce in tomato juice or V8 tomato juice, and a dash of Tabasco sauce on vegetables dishes or Chow Mein. I do chew on fruit cake, too, but diet restrictions keeps me from having the amount I want.

Some people think Ii'm crazy, but I like liver. My Mom liked it, too, so she would cook it for the 2 of us and something else for the rest of the family. I

i do not like actually touching or cooking liver, it's so gross and slimy, but I'll occasionally order it in a restaurant. I'll eat liver and bacon but not liver and onions. (I dislike onions-give me gas).