I’ve got a pretty severe sensitivity to – of all things – sugar. (I know, “sugar” isn’t very precise, but I’m pretty sure it’s either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I’ve eaten that way for like 20 years now. I’m practically blind to half the produce department (any “sweet” fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
Meat clearly isn’t gonna be a unique answer here, but it does have a weird effect on what it feels like to travel to different countries when your diet doesn’t revolve around animals.
Where other people see tons of street food and opportunities for interacting with a culture, some places mostly just feel empty.
Not meaning it in a judging way, but there are tons of places where I don’t really feel welcome.
Also how is your butthole doing, bro?
My country would be one of those places unfortunately. It’s extremely animal protein centric. And although I’m not a vegetarian myself, I really wish we had more options around here.
alcohol of any form I will not consume… I’m not against getting fucked up, I smoke weed but alcohol itself is just absolutely nasty to me. hate how it tastes, hate how it feels
I also avoid ketchup or ketchup based products like BBQ sauce… I just think it tastes bad… I like mustard… I have been like this since a very young age
Same here. I even use certain hallucinogens like psychedelics and salvia on occasion, but I absolutely abhor alcohol or any downer with every fiber of my being.
How do you consume your salvia out of curiosity? I want to try it but I’m hesitant because smoking it feels risky and I hear sublingual tastes awful
Usually just do sublingual, I’ve smoked it a couple of times but have found the onset to be waaaay too fast for me personally. I believe you can make a tea with it too but it’d probably be a lot milder of an effect kind of like mushroom tea.
Understandable, I’ll have to give it a shot
Beer. Since I stopped drinking it I have lost so much weight and feel so much healthier.
He long had it been? Did you check it alcohol altogether?
It’s been about 10 years since I stopped and I’ll still have the occasional drink of champagne for family events but the wheat in beer added so much extra to my diet.
Chef boyardee. I served some to my kid and took a bite cause I hadn’t had it in decades. That shit is vile. Was it always that bad and we didn’t notice as kids, or did they change it up and it’s awful now?
Little of column A, little of column B
Your mother 🤤
McDonald’s
I don’t know if the recipe/ingredients changed, or I just started eating healthier, but I can’t even have a cheeseburger from there without my body rejecting it.
Whataburger is still good though, love me a chicken bbq sammach with bacon, pickles and toast bun.
I can eat a lot of weird foods, but McDonald’s food just falls into the uncanny valley for me. It’s like something an AI would synthesize from raw chemicals.
I distinctly remember McDonald’s being more than a rough approximation of food at one point. I don’t know when that changed.
I do too. It was never my favorite fast food, but it used to be ok.
I know they strive for uniformity, so I don’t know if they just cranked up the food science too hard or what.
Things are supposed to taste a little different, which is why people love different foods. Columbian coffee, San Marzano tomatoes, single malt Scotch, different grapes in wine, etc. It’s what makes eating an experience instead of some kind of chore.
Came here wondering if anyone said mcds. Everything about that place has gotten worse over the last 5 years or so. It wasn’t that great to begin with. The only redeeming factor was that it was cheaper than many places, but now it’s garbage and expensive.
I haven’t considered mcds since the covid shut down, and even then I’d been off it for years.
White bread, white rice, white pasta. Makes me bloated as fuck.
Iceberg lettuce has this effect on me as do all these things you mention. I don’t know how it works but I avoid these foods like the plague.
MC Donalds and similiar. Crispy oven pommes and self-made burger beats greasy pommes and spongy burger tasting like old socks.
Meat, nobody tastes good anymore.
You might want to look into fodmaps. They are sugar alcohols that people can have intolerance too (lactose is common) frustose in excess of glucose can be a problem. There are lots of others. Monash University does studies on how much is in what fruits and vegetables so you can exclude all of them, then test by reintroduction. Once you know which you are sensitive to, there are lists of which foods have which and safe portions.
I’ve gotten much more omnivorous as I get older, but have not eaten a fast food burger since I was a little kid. Don’t remember being bothered by them back then (unless they involved ketchup) but it’s been at least 40 years and they seem like inedible items to me now, I’d much rather have nothing.
Popeyes chicken I can still eat, and the American Chinese fast food. Oh and fries from about anywhere, though I don’t consider them nutrition, I like 'em.
Goulash, pot roast, chili, and all the other shit I ate regularly while growing up in the Midwest.
Mushrooms. Ever since I learned more about mushrooms than I ever wanted to know in school like 30 years ago I haven’t been able to even touch them.
I have literally eaten entire plates of only mushroom. I fucking love the texture and the nuttiness is just so fuck good
They just make me shit my pants. Wish I could eat them tho, they’re in lots of good food.
is there anything specific that made u not want to eat them or just the general in-depth knowledge? I find often the more I know about a food the less appealing it seems
How they replicate with spores, the string like structure of their root equivalent and their internal structure are the most disgusting parts for me.
fair enough they are pretty alien
Most cheese, really. I mean, I can eat it, but it rarely adds anything good to a meal for me. It wasn’t until I spent a good chunk of time in Erope ad came that I realized how much cheese we put on everything and how it just makes everything taste like, well, cheese.
So, I no longer add cheese as a topping to most things.
Crisps (potato chips). I looked at the nutritional breakdown and the ingredients and just didn’t see the point. It feels like eating flavoured cardboard and it’s like sludge going through my system. That’s kinda off-putting 😄
