Food Phobias

bad mexican food

 

I am the same way. I see dishes at some restaurants that cover dishes with cilantro and I don't get it. If I taste even a hint of cilantro in my food, I gag

 

I've gotten a bit used to it ever since I started eating at Chipotle a lot (the put cilantro in their rice). I have always despised cilantro, but their barbacoa is just too good and I have to have rice on my burrito... but anyway, I've begun to notice it less. Still, whenever I get a leaf on my tongue, it's pretty awful.

I used to be hypersensitive like you, though it wasn't a gag reflex, just a "oh man, this tastes awful" reflex. As a kid, my mom could make a giant pot of soup and if she put 1 or 2 leaves (which are tiny) of cilantro in it, I could taste it and wouldn't eat the soup.

Salsa Verde Doritos? Yep, I'm the only person I know that could taste the cilantro in 'em. It's only a hint (like, one of the last ingredients in the list), but I can taste it.

While I am more tolerant of it these days (I still hate the taste, but I can deal with it if the rest of the food is good), I still cannot understand why anyone would enjoy eating it. Well, if the PTC tasting mechanism is true, I suppose I can understand why people could enjoy it -- THEY CAN'T TASTE IT.

 

Now that I think about it, I do have to stomach it at Chipotle :grin:

As much as I hate cilantro, I love the cilantro salad dressing at El Meson in rice village. IDK why

 

I don't eat cilantro-based sauces. A lot of Mexican restaurants will have a green salsa that has a heavy dose of cilantro and I just can't eat it. Pico de Gallo is one thing I wish I could eat because I love tomatoes and onions, but 99% of places have finely chopped cilantro all over it so I don't eat it (same with Chipotle's pico).

I think that's enough posts out of me about cilantro though.

 

The one on Airline?

 

yeah that little number...it smells like a combination of toe nails, gym socks and nalgas

 

Yeah...Is there another one besides that one?

 

onions and anything GMO

 

Mozzarella is the only cheese I will eat and I will only eat it on a few pizzas from a select few restaurants or frozen varieties. I can stomach a slice or two but after I get queasy. I don't eat mozzarella on anything else though like cheese sticks, sandwiches, etc. The pizza crust, sauce, and toppings usually make pizza chain cheese obsolete and without a flavor. I don't eat pizza from real Italian/pizza eateries because I know they use a lot of different cheeses and not just mozzarella.

 

Damn that sucks. Cilantro makes salsa and guacamole that much better among other foods.

 

I thought they opened another location.

Are you from the neighborhood?

 

Get yourself one and just say "sin queso". You'll like it, sir.

It's the way it ends up... like whenever I don't like RAW onions in my Whataburger, but I like Onion Rings. I mean, what is the deal with that? :grin:

 

I hate mushrooms. Mostly the cooked ones.
I can eat the raw crunchy ones that they put in subs at places like quiznos though.

 

I will never eat sushi.

 

Just the sight of alfalfa sprouts makes me nauseous.



Also, anything that looks like overgrown, mutant insects (shrimp, crab, lobster).

 

I don't think there is any food I hate. There is no food I will not try, but anything involving an insect pushes my limits.

For example, Fried Spider.

Spoiler

I think I would try it, but the idea makes me cringe. And there is no way I am eating the abdomen.

Weirdest thing I have eaten: Live Octopus. That was...odd.