No tea for me either. Water, Diet-Pepsi and hot chocolate are about all I drink (alcohol free drinks anyway)

I can't stand the taste of most salad dressings. I can tolerate an oil and vinegar Italian and I do like Fat Free Italian, but hate all the others. And so many places now, when you ask for Italian, offer something like raspberry vinaigrette instead. Ewwwwww, it's SWEET. Italian is SPICY. One is not a replacement for the other! Thankfully, due to the Crohn's, I can no longer eat salad of any type so people don't look at me weird when I ask for no dressing. Now I can say "No salad" and when whoever I'm with looks at me oddly, I can say "I can't eat that.. the Crohn's" and they nod with sympathy.. lol.

Add mayo to my list. I HATE IT! In fact, anything white and creamy is pretty much off my list, including: Ranch, Alfredo sauce, any white creamy sauce.. ick. Unless it's sweet, like whipped cream :)

-Mayo...just smells gross.

-Mustard

-Beans (I like green/yellow beans...but pinto, lima, kidney beans, etc...I don't like them)

-I too hate Seinfeld...not all that funny

-Radio stations...I have a CD player in my truck, and I always listen to that rather than the radio since you never know what is being played there

y'all are picky!! :p

KSUViolet, is there anything you actually like? :D

Foods I've tried and hated, but everyone else around me seems to love:

- Almost all legumes. It's the texture - I'll eat hummus dip, but not whole chickpeas.
- Nuts.
- Pizza with any form of pork topping. I no longer eat pork for religious reasons, but even when I was willing to eat pork, I had a thing about pepperoni or bacon on pizza - too much fat.
- Corned beef and cabbage. My parents forced me to eat this every St. Patrick's Day when I was growing up. It tasted like someone had taken a roll of Saran Wrap and boiled it in a pot of salty water. DH loves corned beef, but to this day I can't stand the stuff - too many negative memories.
- Pickles. Blecch.

Other things I've tried and hated:

- Country and jazz music.
- Cheesy romance novels and movies. Just because I'm female, I'm apparently supposed to like that drivel. Give me good sci-fi any day.
- Tequila, unless it's in a margarita.

Coffee is disgusting to me. No matter how hard I try and no matter how 'little you can taste the coffee,' it's still disgusting. Oh well.

Chipotle also doesn't live up to its name to me.

Haha, seriously.

I'll eat pretty much anything, and I'll try pretty much anything. I've found that some of the best meals can be found at dives, on the street, or in hole in the wall places. There's something to be said for 4-star restaurants, but there's also something to be said about the local places where people can flat out cook.

Wow - Dreamseeker and KSigkid are right - y'all are picky! It takes too much work to be that picky.

I'm thankful that my parents raised me to try something before claiming not to like it. I've met so many people who will say they don't like something when they've never even tried it. (Aside: This is something I refuse to let my kids get away with. If they haven't tried something, I won't let them tell me they don't like it. And they pretty much have to take one bite of everything on their plates. Mean Mommy, I know. But looking at this sampling of ultrapicky GCers, I'm reassured that I'm doing the right thing!)

Having said that, I don't much care for fish. I'll eat it if there aren't any other options, but I'll always eat something else if given the choice. Oh, and I don't like Horseradish.

Honestly, I am constantly trying new stuff -- but I genuinely don't like a lot of it! I still wouldn't classify myself as picky, but I think I'm very sensitive to food texture.

Reliably, there are three things I absolutely can't stand: coffee (or anything with coffee flavoring), any salad dressing besides one specific brand of caeser, and legumes.

I am amazed by the number of people that are down on beer. Wow!

My list of dislikes includes:
Turkey - I eat my required 2oz each Thanksgiving, but that's it.
Mayo - noting about oil and raw egg is appealing.
Bone-in meats - I get the creeps when having to eat around a bone.
Beans - Just don't care for them but I'll eat them if I can't pick them out of a dish.

My parents (and my family in general) was always good about getting me to try new foods when I was a little kid. I was never able to just refuse something; I'd have to at least try a small helping. As a result, I liked some foods (clams are one example) that most little kids don't enjoy.

I think that made me a lot more open-minded about food as a teenager and adult.

QFP :)

I really dont think we could be friends IRL. Im seriously wondering what you actually eat on a daily basis. I imagine youre an all-American type diet - burgers, fries, chicken fingers, nothing that rocks the boat too much (except your burger has no cheese or ketchup, and your chicken finger would have to be grilled?).

Can we start a thread called "Things KSUViolet Doesn't Find Yucky or Gross?" It has very low potential of train wreckage, i'm sure.