what food can you never eat?

Honalo · Nov 27, 2007

I'm just sitting here eating my lightly salted rice cake (it almost tastes like popcorn guys - really) and I was thinking about foods that I can never eat again. Well I could but I'd pay terribly. I'm hypoglycemic - annoying blood sugar problems. And I'm discounting the sugar free stuff - I'm not a big fan of sugar free chemicals.

So I can never eat:

a jelly-filled donut
a cinnamon bun
apple strudel
a chocolate cake
candy of any kind
chocolate candy bar

and for some reason: tuna fish

But I CAN have ice cream!!! (in moderate amounts, of course)

CaroGirl · Nov 27, 2007

I have oral allergy syndrome related to birch pollinosis (tree allergy), so I can't eat most fresh fruit, for example: apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, bananas; and some fresh vegetables like carrots and celery. I also can't eat most tree nuts (almonds and walnuts are the worst).

Sucks to be me.

Here's some info in case people think I'm off my rocker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome

maxmordon · Nov 27, 2007

Onions... I just can't stand them

threedogpeople · Nov 27, 2007

Two foods and one spice...

Liver - smells great when it`s cooked with onions but it won`t go down.

Allspice - tastes like dirt smells, also reminds me of whatever was left at the bottom of the barrel (scrapings - yuck).

Also, I can`t stand VegAll, the potatoes are disgusting (powdery).

I can`t eat sourdough bread (gives me terrible heartburn and the next day I feel like I`m getting the flu) because I`m sensitive to molds.

Siddow · Nov 27, 2007

Watermelon. It gives me stomach pains. But I can handle other melons. It's weird, because I can't even chew watermelon-flavored gum without getting a tummy ache.

joyce · Nov 27, 2007

I'm deadly allergic to shellfish. I wish I could eat crabs just one more time in my life.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Nov 27, 2007

Mangoes... they're related somehow to poison ivy/oak/sumak, and they make my lips and tongue swell up and itch.

Priene · Nov 27, 2007

Potato. I get sick even from eating biscuits with potato starch in them. Yes, manufacturers do that.

Perhaps we should all meet up and have a Christmas glass of water together?

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 27, 2007

Jello.

My father and his brother, both assholes, decided when I was a young child that it would be fun to give me some (can't remember the name, some German dish that is basically gelatinized meat, Sultze?) and tell me it was Jello.

I have to this day, some 45 years later, yet to ever eat jello.

It was hell when I had a stay in the hospital and that's all they wanted to give me.

Other than that, I am starch intolerant and lactose intolerant but I love both items and refuse to give them up. Stomach distress and I are very close companions these days.

JLCwrites · Nov 27, 2007

Beef
Pork
Lima (butter) beans
Bugs and grubs
and weird animal parts like brains, hoofs, and guts. Bleh!

My father will eat a tongue sandwich... I wonder if it tastes him back. :Huh:

nessam · Nov 27, 2007

Onions and peppers- I get hives

Aspartame- I get serious blinding migraines
So no diet soda or nutrisweet light yogurts etc etc

It is amazing though I can pick out a food with aspartame in it a mile away.

ETA: Anything green and squishy including green jello eewww

Voyager · Nov 27, 2007

Avocado. A Mexican who can't eat guacamole...nothing sadder.

joyce · Nov 27, 2007

Priene said:
Potato. I get sick even from eating biscuits with potato starch in them. Yes, manufacturers do that.

Perhaps we should all meet up and have a Christmas glass of water together?

Sounds like a plan to me.

jennifer75 · Nov 27, 2007

threedogpeople said:
Also, I can`t stand VegAll, the potatoes are disgusting (powdery).

Ohh I'm with you on this one. Horrifying. Other than that, I'll pretty much put anything in my mouth, once.

Oysters kinda creep me out. Something about not chewing something seems wrong. So I chew them.

shakeysix · Nov 27, 2007

high blood pressure

wish i could just have one more mad salt flinging spree. had to empty the shakers and put them out to pasture this fall--s6

sunna · Nov 27, 2007

After 19 years as a vegetarian, I can't eat red meat. Well, fish & poultry will make me puke too, but that's just psychological, I guess. Red meat I apparently don't have the enzymes to digest anymore.

I'll second the jello. It's just something about the texture. I can't even watch other people eating it. Bleagh.

I learned last summer that tarragon makes me violently ill. I dunno why. But even a small amount in a potato salad will make me wish I was dead.

Quiche. A texture thing again. Icky.

Dark chocolate - the only one I'm sad about. I can't have more than a tiny square or I get a spectacular migraine.

WendyNYC · Nov 27, 2007

Shellfish makes me break out in pimples. (Sadly, because I love it.)

I HATE celery. Yick.

thethinker42 · Nov 27, 2007

Walnuts and pecans. Bad things happen.

Potatoes :-( I *can* eat them, but I get wickedly congested. What kind of self-respecting Irishwoman can't eat POTATOES? (Ah well, I've already disgraced my ancestors by having almost no tolerance for alcohol and gagging when I tried to drink Guiness...)

thethinker42 · Nov 27, 2007

joyce said:
I'm deadly allergic to shellfish. I wish I could eat crabs just one more time in my life.

Well, technically, you probably could just ONE more time in your life...

Jaycinth · Nov 27, 2007

Onion. Red/raw is the worst.

Makes me break out.

Problem is I love to cook.

And some foods must have onion in them.

So I use either dried flakes and cook them to death...or I'll use fresh and remove them before the cooking is complete.

But just this past week, I ate something I KNEW had onions in it, because it tasted good. Then, I ate two things that I assumed had no onions..but did. Lots.

The rash is gone but I'm going to have 'scars' on my neck and arms for months.

I never learn.

joyce · Nov 27, 2007

thethinker42 said:
Well, technically, you probably could just ONE more time in your life...

You've got a point there.

san_remo_ave · Nov 27, 2007

Eggs and fish. Just can't choke 'em down.

Eggs in cakes, no prob. If I have to taste it, forgettabout it.

Honalo · Nov 27, 2007

Here's what I won't eat, as opposed to what my system won't let me eat:

1. brussel sprouts. I'm from a generation where I was forced to stay at the dinner table until everything was eaten, including the BRUSSEL SPROUTS. I had cobwebs on me by the time my mother let me get up and the brussel sprouts, at that point, were ice cold.
2. same thing with asparagus - ew, ew ew, ew. It makes me gag.
3. lima beans - big fat EW.
4. certain types of spinach. I eat baby spinach in salads all the time but there's another type of goopy spinach that I can't touch.
5. really, any kind of gross looking goopy vegetable

nerds · Nov 27, 2007

Nothing that has soy involved in it in any way. Which is kind of a joke since soy stuff is the option for peoples who are sensitive to other stuff. Makes me ferriggin' ill.

Other than that, I eat everything. Except tripe and haggis.

melaniehoo · Nov 27, 2007

EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW tripe. Yuck. I had to smell that being cooked once a week for three months while we lived with my husband's family. It was the only pan I refused to wash.

I tried a beet this week & still don't like them. Or brussel sprouts. Love asparagus.

Big NO to octopus but I like calamari as long as it's not the little squiggly ones. And I have the same problem with oysters someone else mentioned - have you every chewed an oyster? It's not pretty.

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