Yes, I am picky....I agree with so many of the above posts that it would take a long time to list them all!

If I liked anchovies, I could order a pizza with anchovies and not have to share it. I tried 'em once -- yuck, I'd rather have to fight for that last slice.

Summer squash except for zucchini. A side note on the not liking fish and shellfish from the ocean. A couple of my friends just could not stand the taste or smell. Turned out both were allergic to iodine but did not know it. They found out when they had to take medical tests using contrast which many times is iodine based. Now that you see what is sold as fresh water shrimp raised in places like Tennessee I have wondered if those also have a high iodine level.

I wish I would like cilantro. It's so popular now - but to me tastes just awful. (genetic thing I've read).

i don't necessarily want to LIKE them (as in YUM-MO) but have tried liver and oysters (separately, of course) a few times in hopes i'll find a way to enjoy them.

my dad like sardines in mustard when i was growing up. i liked the smell but couldn't get past the super fishy taste. many years later, noticed them on supermarket shelf. inexpensive & one of those "good" fish to eat (I think). thought maybe taste buds had matured over the years. still WAY too fishy!!

I like food too much!! I like most food and don’t have that problem unfortunately my waistline proves it.

I wish I liked celery. I can eat tiny slices in potato salad, or cooked in soup, but I wish I liked it enough to eat whole ribs several times a day.

Also yogurt, buttermilk, and kefir, for their pro-biotic benefits. I've tried, but I can't make myself enjoy them--or even tolerate them.

Fish of any kind. I want to like it, it smells so good cooking Bourbon Salmon and Swordfish I make for my family and I adore the smell of fried fish like fish and chips. I get it into my mouth and I can not chew it. I just sit there trying and the more I try the worse it gets and I have to politely find away to spit it out. It's a texture thing for me. I love shrimp and scallops if the scallops are broiled.

Bacon, I can't stand the smell of it cooking and I don't like it on it's own but can do it on a hamburger or in bits.

Someone mentioned food allergies and not liking a food. I have hated eggs all my life. People would try to make me eat them and I just couldn't again stomach them. Come to find out I am allergic to eggs, which is awful because they are in a lot of foods. If they are in baked goods I am ok but custard, mayonnaise things of that nature I eat them and I am deathly ill. Even certain salad dressings that I would have never thought had egg in them I found out quickly do when I had a salad and with in minutes I was ill. Couldn't figure out what I had ate that made me so ill until I checked the bottle and found out it had egg in it.

Mushrooms.

amylou3213 , I am exactly the same as you regarding fish and seafood. I never eat it. I don't wish that I would like it, but it would add more variety to my menus.

I am like sabbath7. I wish I didn't like food so much. I hear some people say that they don't like sweets and they never eat them, and I just don't get it.

And like sonni1, I can't stand cilantro. To me it smells like cat pee.

I also can't stand hummus. I bought some to try it, opened it and got the smell of the bean paste, and it went directly into the garbage.

Dislike brussel sprouts and kale, but don't feel that I'm missing anything! I love to try local foods when on a trip.......yes, even haggis in Scotland!!

I have to say that there are no foods I hate but wish I didn't.

I don't really get the appeal of raw seafood. And, I don't think much of it can be guaranteed safe these days. I've shucked, shelled, cleaned my share of oysters, crab, clams, fish and just have no interest in eating it raw. I have no problems cooking and eating it.

There aren't too many things that are daily fare I really dislike. I don't like those yummy looking appetizers that are chicken livers wrapped in bacon and always feel a little betrayed when I realize that is a bird liver wrapped in that crunchy bacon outer. I've never been served okra I appreciated, or succotash. My FIL used to make a clam sauce for pasta (tomato based, red) that I'd just as soon skip but I like a white pasta sauce with clams in it just fine. I could not and would not eat his blood sausage, and feel much the same about tripe and kidney which he would also serve.

There are combinations of food I don't care for that I happily eat separately....please don't offer me fruit and meat dishes. Pineapple and ham. Pineapple on pizza. Plums and beef (a holiday Croatian dish). Cherry sauce on duck.

Celery. Takes too long for me to chew.

Chisue, yes, all bell peppers. Green ones are the worst but I don't like the yellow/orange/red either.

I'll take the olives and cilantro that others don't like! Yum.

I wish there were a LOT more foods that I hate. I do wish I liked salads better - I get so bored eating them.

Some very interesting replies here! I don't think there is anything that I don't like that I wish I did. I wish cilantro wasn't used these days in so many dishes. To me it tastes just like a barnyard smells. I have no desire at all to like it.

But I do wish there were more things that I would dislike! Unfortunately, that would be a very short list, I like most of everything! Especially lots of things that are off limits for me because of health issues.

Rusty

Mushrooms, Given the love that everyone seems to have for them, and the fact that people love to put them into everything, I so wish I liked them. I just don't. Actually the thought of wishing that I liked them makes me go yecch!

There are some foods that I don't like but will eat - cilantro being one of them.

There are quite a few foods I don't like but I don't wish I liked any of them. I eat what I like and what I am hungry for at the time. I am much more picky about how food is prepared. I don't like eating some foods out...seafood, for example. My husband has been in the seafood business for 57 years and all of his family for generations before that. I am extremely picky about seafood. I prefer beef very rare. I would rather fix it myself than eat out. In fact, I would rather cook for myself than eat out most of the time.

Liver of any kind, but I am not deficient in iron so no desire to try it again. I don't care for steak nor can I bear for my beef to be pink at all. I don't eat fish but do enjoy shrimp, lobster and crab. I'm on the fence about squid and oysters, I've had some that I liked. My aversions are more toward meats.

I love vegetables and rice and like Oprah, I love bread :-)

Scott, that's the main reason I want to like celery. Don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that one burns more calories consuming celery than the celery actually provides.

You never know if you might suddenly tolerate, like or even love a food as you age and change.

I hated-loathed-salmon. Never had it as a kid but as an adult, I tried it and hated it with a passion. But recently, I've given it another try because I really want to have lean protein choices with health benefits, and salmon is a powerhouse of nutrition.

What do you know? I like it, actually enjoy it and now make it at home twice a week and order it in restaurants.

So, don't give up and try different things every once in awhile.

I think the only food I will not eat is Liver. I find the texture disgusting. I would choose beans and rice any day over Liver. I also don’t eat pork or shellfish. I eat meat once or twice a year.

Goat cheese. I wish I liked it because it's used quite a bit where I live. I can tolerate the odd piece in a salad, but avoid dishes where it's featured. It's the gamey taste.

I don't understand the aversion to olives. Are you talking about the kind that comes in a can? They are kinda blah, but I find them inoffensive. I couldn't live without kalamata olives.

I am a bit surprised by the picky eaters. I wonder if it's a regional thing. I live on the West Coast and we have so much fresh fish, fruit and vegetables that most kids grow up eating. When my daughter started eating solid foods she ate a lot of fish and veggies, something that has remained with her, despite a Velveeta phase in middle school.

Anglo, I usually make myself a salad for lunch year-round. I can also get bored with them if I don't add new ingredients, esp. with a lot of crunch. I can go through an English cucumber in a few days.

I wish I could eat avocado. It's ok as guacamole, but not as a whole fruit. I don't know why. It's the same texture as a banana. I love bananas. But bananas are so not keto friendly. I love seafood. Olives? EW! I've tried. And tried again. I just cannot eat an olive. I don't understand how people can eat them. They're awful. But I'll cook with olive oil. Cold popcorn, or already popped popcorn in a bag. I don't get it. Or cheese dips. Really? Cheese in a jar that isn't in a cooler? Nope. No way. Never happening. Won't even consider trying it. Nope and you can't make me. Most cheeses. If it's Gouda cheese, no problem. I grew up on it and it's the ONLY cheese I'll cut a chunk off and eat straight up. Any other cheese has to be melted. I might grate some cheddar and sprinkle it on a tossed salad, but not very often. I don't get everyone's obsession with cheese. It constipates. And those who over eat it can't understand why they can't poop............ ;)

No, if I don't like it I have no desire to like it I guess. I do not like fresh salmon but like the canned. I do not like any kind of sea food but fish, that includes freshwater fish too I like. Most organ meats I don't like, I do like liver though. I do not like olive oil or cilantro, or avocados. Never ever like coffee. I have not found a vegetable I do not like.

Sue

" I don't get everyone's obsession with cheese. It constipates. And those who over eat it can't understand why they can't poop............ ;)"

This is pretty much a myth :-) If you have adequate fiber in your diet, cheese poses no more of a issue wrt constipation as does any other food. And studies have proven this to be true.

I eat a lot of cheese and have never had issues. I consider cheeses of any sort a primary food group :-)) But I also eat a lot of fiber with fresh fruits and vegetables and that evens things out.

And I will repeat my previous comment.......sure seems to be a lot of picky eaters out there :-))

" I don't get everyone's obsession with cheese. It constipates. "

This is a silly comment and obviously wrong. It makes me wonder, is having a like or preference for particular foods okay if it's you but an obsession if it's someone else?

Mimi, good for you finally developing a taste for salmon. Not happening here. Love most fish/seafood except clams and salmon.

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I am a bit surprised by the picky eaters. I wonder if it's a regional thing.

I think it's more how you're raised. I grew up in the midwest and had no choice but to eat whatever my mom served. About the only thing I didn't care for was liver, but I can eat it if I absolutely have to.

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Debby, I don't get bagged popcorn either.

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I have not found a vegetable I do not like. Except avocados? ;)

Mmmmmmm...cheeeeeeeeeeese. My precious.

Avocado is actually a fruit :-) It is a large berry with a single seed.

CindyMac, I tend to agree with you, although I was raised at an open-minded table with lots of variety. I have a dear friend who was raised in Chicago in the 50s but has lived in the Bay Area for most of her adult life. She hates olives and has no use for salads. I can't imagine life without either.

My mother and grandmothers were great cooks. Nobody was forced to eat anything they didn't like, but we were always required to taste it first. Generally the rule was, if you turned up your nose at the main course, you weren't eligible for dessert, although if you were nice the rest of the evening, mom would relent.

Avocado is actually a fruit :-

As is a tomato, but no one considers them as such. Do you?

Linelle, my mom was a great cook too, but wasn't as lenient as yours. We were forced to eat whatever. I hated the smell of liver and onions knowing it was going to be a miserable time at the dinner table. Oh, and poached eggs was the worst way to start a day. Fortunately, neither happened very often.

When it's made into ice cream, I definitely consider avocado a fruitI And sometimes tomatoes as well - Sungold cherry tomatoes are like eating candy they're so sweet!!

not much i don't like. cilantro is one, i did hear that people love it or hate it. tilapia another.

i can eat almost every veggie, depending on how its cooked or not. love seafood except tilapia, eww. we have a fish dinner at least once a week.

do not eat lamb, veal, foie gras, b/c of ethical reasons. always try to buy meats humanely raised. along with eggs, chickens that can roam. i try my best, but sometimes not possible.

limit pork to tenderloin and ribs... no chops or roasts.

I don't think it is very regional. My Mother hated, fish, greens, cheese. I love them all. My Dad loved oysters, sardines and they both loved coffee. I don't like any of those things. I have eaten things as a youngster that I would never eat now.

Sue

I can't think of anything that I wish I liked. I'm definitely in the anti-olive camp. Blech. DH's family loves them. I won't spit them out, but I will pick them out if I have the chance. It's definitely a taste thing.

I think it's good to re-try things that you always thought you hated. DH swore he hated cooked cabbage and Brussels sprouts. It turns out, his mom cooked them until they were mushy. When I cook them just a little, he eats them up. I hated salmon and cream cheese, until one day when I didn't. Both are on my A list, now.

Nope, still don't like olives. :)

Sun Golds are my favorite! We eat them daily during the harvest. Need to start seeds next week.

Questions for the olive haters: Canned? Kalamata? Stuffed? All of them?

Sprtphntc, I think maybe I’ve only had tilapia in fish tacos. It’s ranged from very good to a little soft (not good). What don’t you like about it?

" Avocado is actually a fruit :-
As is a tomato, but no one considers them as such. Do you?"

Avocados grow on big trees the same as other fruits. I'm not sure why you'd think of calling them anything else. When I was a kid, the neighbor next door had an avocado tree that was as high as the roof of their two story house. It kept us and their other neighbors supplied with avocados for weeks/month. They were sooo good.

While avocados, beans, pea pods, corn, cukes, nuts, olives, squash, eggplant, peppers, okra, and tomatoes are technically fruit, I still refer to them as veggies or nuts or seeds; I'm guessing the majority of people do.

But Elmer, if you like to refer to them as fruit have at it.

Tomatoes are, botanically speaking, a berry. But who cares? The words fruit and vegetable are used as generic culinary terms....unless in the midst of a discussion on the finer aspects of botany.

It's interesting, but not particularly relevant in everyday usage. Unless you're in my botany class, lol.

I've never heard of anyone referring to an avocado as a vegetable. It has a high oil content too, as do many other fruits (tree nuts, olives, etc).

I hate cilantro but it's in Mexican food which I love, so I have to ask not to add it. I wish I liked it.

I won't eat clams or oysters because I know what's inside them (they are bottom feeders. I used to be a National Park ranger at the beach). But I don't wish I liked them.

No, clams and oysters are filter feeders, they get their nutrients by straining them out of the water they're in. If they're in poluted water, then yes, they get contaminated too. Most oysters and clams are farmed these days in clean water areas. Even wild ones are regularly tested to insure they're free of harmful substances. It's not unusual in my coastal area for bans on seafood types - mussels, crabs, etc - when it's found through the normal screening that they're dangerous. In such cases it can be toxins they develop from certain kinds of algae blooms. The bans aren't lifted until the danger clears.

Catfish are bottom feeders.

Elmer I know what they eat and how they eat. I watched them where I worked at the beach. They filter the crud on the bottom of the ocean and bay. Crush one and inspect the contents. I don't trust any water around this country for clams and oysters.

There are so many olives that to say you do not like them probably means you have probably only had a few and then probably only the brined ones. Here very very occasionally I will find a big green olive that tastes like butter. There is also a big black one that has a very mild taste but nothing like the big green one. I have no idea what it is called.

I am not a picky eater at all BUT there are spices that I don't like, mostly the spices that they put in all foods Italian such as Italian sausages. GAG! I don't even really know what it is, maybe fennel? I also hate anise put in those Italian cookies. To me, it tastes like eating a moth ball. OH and I forgot, I'm not too fond of turkey either but I will eat it...I wish that I liked it better.

The only foods I don't like and have no desire to like are brains, sea slugs aka sea cucumbers, and durian. Tried them several times, don't care for them; enjoy everything else.

For me it's mostly about the concept/execution of a dish. I don't like a lot of sugar or a lot of salt in my food.