What smell/taste/texture do you hate the most?

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12 Aug 2007, 3:01 pm

*Standing in dog mess with no shoes on

* Baked beans

* Beetroots

*tomato ketchup

* Really, rough wooly jumpers

* Plastic raincoats

* The strange sensation I get while wearing high heels



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12 Aug 2007, 8:47 pm

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Well, I am the first, then. The only way I can eat vegetables is if they still look, feel and taste like vegetables. Once I ate at a restaurant called Cracker Barrel, and the greenbeans that were a side to my catfish were dark-greyish-green, mushy and tasted horrible. The thought of “vegetables” from a can make me barph. As for potatoes, to me, they seem like bland, starchy filler, so really, I won't even eat them flavored or even unmashed.

Yup, I'm the same way. All canned veggies are pure rot. Probably the worst vegetable for me is cauliflower. I find it has no taste at all and if it’s overcooked I will gag on it. It’s like eating mushy water. I also agree with you on potatoes. They do taste kind of bland to me. I often order fish and chips because I like the fish, but I leave most of the fries. I only eat the fries for the stuff to dip them in, and even that I tire of quite quickly. I guess I don’t mind throwing out the fries since they aren’t a healthy food anyways. I would feel too weird asking for just fish when I order.
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I share all the same reactions to those particular things that you do in your first post, Marshall, with exception to brussel sprouts and cranberries. The key to good brussel sprouts is to cook them to a precise consistancy - Steam them in a colander until they’re just soft enough to poke a sharp fork into. Then cut each one in half so that you can put a thin sheet of butter between each one. Cranberries, well, I love “tarty” fruit like them. Apricots by themselves are bad, but if you ever get a chance to try them in dark chocolate, you should - I think they are quite good that way.

Actually I’m not sure if I would hate brussels sprouts and cranberries now. I hated them as a kid, but I also hated asparagus back then (I thought it smelled like urine). Now I find asparagus to be one of the tastier vegetables and it only smells bad to me if it’s overcooked or sits out too long. The apricot is another one of those foods where the smell is more disagreeable than the taste. I’m pretty sure walnuts will always taste bad though.



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12 Aug 2007, 9:12 pm

MANGOS ugh, slimy and stringy.



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12 Aug 2007, 10:23 pm

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Taste: anything spicy. I get teased all of the time because I'm extremely sensitive to spicy foods. I'm also not crazy about nuts unless they're baked in something,
Smells-too many to mention.
Textures-Wool, polyester and pottery type things.
Sounds-high pitched whistles, rock and rap music.

BTW, I never used to be crazy about mashed potatoes, either. Now they're tolerable if they have sour cream in them and gravy on them!


I hate spicy foods too and am constantly teased, especially when on travel in Tucson, where everybody wants to go to eat Mexican food...bleh!


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13 Aug 2007, 2:25 am

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Textures: Paper grocery bags against my bare arms, or pretty much any kind of non-glossy paper across my fingertips.

Sounds: Brooms sweeping across concrete. Cardboard against cardboard (e.g. the sound of the flaps of a cardboard box being folded inward).


You sound just like me. Paper on paper or paper on me, can't deal with it.


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13 Aug 2007, 2:26 am

Styrofoam and Rap.


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14 Aug 2007, 4:34 pm

I can't think of any tastes that I dislike, or smells (apart from the ones everyone on this planet finds repulsive), but a texture I absolutely hate is sponge, normally bath sponges, feels horrible

sounds, well not known any to bother me to be honest


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14 Aug 2007, 5:41 pm

Taste(s): Anything burnt, citrus based fruit, and anything too salty.

Smell(s): Rotting flesh, the "old people smell" (don't know of a better way to describe it), fried vegetables, and the smell of burnt bread.

Sound(s): TAPPING (I HATE THIS SOUND MORE THAN ANYTHING!!), shrill whistling sounds, bad singing, shouting, and music I don't like (most particularly rap).

Texture(s): Powdery textures and also sharp textures.


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14 Aug 2007, 5:47 pm

i think 'old people smell' can often be the smell of disease. diseased people smell.

baby smell is pretty bad too, like extreme fleshy smell.



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15 Aug 2007, 2:44 am

The smell of people's breath who have been drinking coffee with milk and sugar in it. The feel of drinking glasses fresh out of the dishwasher ( The texture sets my teeth on edge) The smell of Fish cooking. High pitched beeping noises. A poorly tended litter box. Perfumes and colognes, because people tend to use too much.


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15 Aug 2007, 3:23 am

I hate the smell of strong perfume too. There's a particular one that I've smelled on a few women as I've walked past them (who seem to have drenched themselves in it 8O) that's a kind of sour/musty/heavy scent. 'Headachey' kind of smell I call it.

Anyone seen that comedy sketch where Mr Bean goes into a department store and walks past the perfume counters with assistants squirting perfume around, and he ends up crawling on the floor, gasping for air, lol? I always dash past them whilst trying not to inhale.

Also freesias. The smell of them makes me feel sick.

Textures and sounds - polystyrene, the feel of it and also the sound it makes when it scrapes against something.



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05 Sep 2007, 4:42 pm

twosheds wrote:
Textures: Paper grocery bags against my bare arms, or pretty much any kind of non-glossy paper across my fingertips.

Sounds: Brooms sweeping across concrete. Cardboard against cardboard (e.g. the sound of the flaps of a cardboard box being folded inward).

Really? :o that is my pet hate, sweeping on concrete or most surfaces.

Baroque organ music, clicking pipes, ticking, beeping, ringing are sound I don't like.

I am particularly sensitive to sounds in the morning.



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05 Sep 2007, 7:57 pm

Sounds: I hate intermittent sounds like the beeping of a computer, but I don't mind the sound of construction work going on for the new library.

Tastes: I can handle oatmeal to a certain point, but not a heaping bowl of it.

Smells: Body odor and when my cats go outside the box. I love my kitties, though.



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13 Oct 2007, 3:47 pm

smell: sweat/body odor, skunk, dead animals, raw vegetables

taste/texture: mushrooms

sound: High pitched noises like the ones from computers or t.v.'s