Food dealbreakers

Have you ever been at a table where you have been repulsed by what the rest of your table has been eating? I can't say that I have, except that I just read a Facebook status where some of Spuuky's family reported eating Minke whale. I am from a very anti-whaling country, and have spent quite some time campaigning against whaling, including specifically against the whaling of the Minke whale. I can't really wrap my head around why someone would go out of their way to eat it in a tourist capacity. People generally have different taste levels and dietary requirements from each other, but this is stretching it a bit much for me, even as someone who has endured a decade of dead animal in your food/tofu is bad jokes from everyone. There isn't much topic here other than I'm just a bit shocked, and have you ever been really grossed out/morally opposed by those you were eating with/people who were telling you of their dining experiences?

Pineapple on pizza

I will never understand what people have against pineapple on pizza.

I've never had a problem with what other people are eating. But if someone sticks a tomato on what I'm eating that tomato is getting tossed out and I'm having a word with whoever prepared the food.

To actually answer the thread topic as long as they are sure to keep the animals in good supply I dont have any moral objections to eating any type of animal except maybe human.

I've never been at a table where someone was eating something that repulsed me, but I imagine I'd have a hard time with it if someone were eating an endangered species purely for no other reason than the "novelty" of eating it. I don't know what I would do. Depending on my mood I would either pretend it wasn't happening, or I'd engage them and tell them that they were a smurfing idiot.

Shark fin soup is also incredibly bothersome to me, as are other unnecessary cruel forms of preparing a meal (outside the norm of like, you know, slaughtering the animal for food).

Uh well I was coming in here to say "Anything with ketchup on it" but that seems super petty after reading the OP. :shobon:

Gluten, I guess, cause it does bad things to my intestines. Same with High Fructose Corn Syrup (RIP soda pop :( )

ugh. This stupid smurfing bitch of a teacher I worked with was way beyond grossed out by pickles. The ESL teachers and EAs got together for lunch one day in my sister's classroom and ordered food to be delievered. 2 of us had pickles with our meals, and she was sitting beside me... She moved all the way to the opposite side of the round table because "the smell grossed her out too much". I wanted to punch her so bad.

Nothing really grosses me out though or offends me. If I don't like something, I won't eat it or try it. Simple.


EDIT: Pike, if you want soda, hunt down Mexican Coke products that come in a glass bottle. They use real sugar instead of HFCS.

I think this thread is more about the moral qualms of certain dishes than personal preferences.

Not necessarily a qualm about eating certain types of food (you would have to be eating something very strange like bugs or something to get me squeamish) but when I was a server for a restaurant, I was always infuriated by customers that wasted food. I got annoyed when kids barely ate their food and their parents were okay with and let me throw it away. I disliked old guys who would order a steak dinner, barely touched the salad, ignored the potatoes and just ate the damn steak and here I am throwing away all of this food. It bothered a lot of the servers so please for the love of all that is good, get a take out box and don't waste food. :mad:

I can't deal if people start eating shark.

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Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine

ugh. This stupid smurfing bitch of a teacher I worked with was way beyond grossed out by pickles. The ESL teachers and EAs got together for lunch one day in my sister's classroom and ordered food to be delievered. 2 of us had pickles with our meals, and she was sitting beside me... She moved all the way to the opposite side of the round table because "the smell grossed her out too much". I wanted to punch her so bad.

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I dont know why you're so angry about this. It's not like she knocked the meal out of your hand or told you you were a filthy pickle eating bastard. She moved because the smell of pickles makes her sick. I have a similar problem with ginger, though Im not effected by the smell, if I eat a small amount, it makes me literally feel like throwing up and i mean literally in the literal sense, it's not even that I dont like the taste, it's just a phyiscal reaction i cant control. Would you rather she was polite, kept her mouth shut, and sat next to you and then proceeded to vomit everywhere?

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Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno

Not necessarily a qualm about eating certain types of food (you would have to be eating something very strange like bugs or something to get me squeamish) but when I was a server for a restaurant, I was always infuriated by customers that wasted food. I got annoyed when kids barely ate their food and their parents were okay with and let me throw it away. I disliked old guys who would order a steak dinner, barely touched the salad, ignored the potatoes and just ate the damn steak and here I am throwing away all of this food. It bothered a lot of the servers so please for the love of all that is good, get a take out box and don't waste food. :mad:

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Whenever I see someone hasnt finished their food I want to ask them if I can eat it but that seems like bad manners.

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Originally Posted by Pike

Same with High Fructose Corn Syrup (RIP soda pop :( )

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You know that it exists with real sugar also, right? And is far superior?

Putting mayonnaise on fries is a dealbreaker. Sorry, Canadians, but you're wrong.

Anything with dill repulses me, particularly pickles. I think that's the only thing other than the super gross stuff like live bugs or raw intestines or anything like that. I have pretty high food tolerances.

In terms of like, ordinary food, you can eat whatever you want. I eat most things an average person would eat; the few things I don't like are not common enough to be a problem.

In terms of Calliope's original post, I would definitely take issue with those sorts of morally dodgy things.

This is a difficult question really. I mean the whole "It's an endangered species" or "It's ethically wrong" but would you eat it debate. The reason being that as someone who went back to eating meat after being vegetarian for some time I did so because I came to the conclusion that:

Regardless of whether you eat it or not, the food industry is too big to be harmed much by the lack of demand. Lack of demand just means that regardless of how many animals are bred, slaughtered and simply thrown away after going bad the industry will continue at the same rate it ever did. Therefore is it not better to eat the meat and make sure that the creature did not die in vain? Is it not better to eat the meat because people out there in the world are starving to death right now and it's a terrible waste to sit here in our comfortable homes and secure lives letting such a huge amount of food, far more than enough to feed these starving people go to waste each week?

However, we're talking an ethically wrong food such as whale meat, shark fin soup etc things that whilst yes the industry is too big to stop and will continue regardless of demand are not ethically sourced, you do not see people setting up "Shark farms" where sharks are bred and then slaughtered for food like we do Chicken, Cow, Deer, Pig, Buffalo, Ostritch, even Alligator or Crocodiles. We're seeing something quite brutal and tragic because in the end it could well destroy our ecosystem and make entire species extinct.

This is a tough decision, refusing to eat this meat won't necessarily save future lives of sharks or whales and so forth. However, eating it means that people will interpret your actions as being complicit with the industry that makes it.

Personally I don't know.

As for have I ever been so disgusted that I left a dinner table because of what someone was eating? No, I haven't I doubt I ever would to be honest unless someone pulled out a hunk of roast human.

I am opposed to hunting endangered animals but support farming endangered animals. I would be quite unkind to someone if they ate stuff like that around me.

Guinea pigs because I like guinea pigs. :shobon: Though I wouldn't care a great deal if someone else did.

Lobster tomalley, off the top of my head. Not sure what it is about the stuff, but I had a friend that used to devour it whenever we had lobster, and I always found it noticeably nauseating. I can probably think of other things like Rocky Mountain Oysters that I'd probably find unappealing as well, but nothing like that is eaten commonly around here, so I haven't been exposed to it.

Regarding the consumption of endangered species, I'm largely indifferent to it, especially if it is normal cultural cuisine.

The smell of fish usually makes me sick. I don't think it's all fish, I'm fine with tuna, but the smell of most fish does make me feel sick. But I hate being rude so I'll just ignore it as best as I can and if people ask why I look a bit sick I just tell them I'm feeling a bit under the weather.

This isn't someone else, but I can't eat ribs. I mean, I like them but holding them feels too much like, well ribs, and I just lose my appetite. I'm very squeamish about stuff like that. But I don't mind other people eating them.

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Originally Posted by Quin

I am opposed to hunting endangered animals but support farming endangered animals. I would be quite unkind to someone if they ate stuff like that around me.

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I long for the day this happens so I can go into a Panda Express and get some actual Panda.

The irony is, if they actually established proper farms for the endangered species, it would also allow them to divert a small percentage of the animals bred off to conservation programs which would see their numbers grow in the wild too.

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Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno

Not necessarily a qualm about eating certain types of food (you would have to be eating something very strange like bugs or something to get me squeamish) but when I was a server for a restaurant, I was always infuriated by customers that wasted food. I got annoyed when kids barely ate their food and their parents were okay with and let me throw it away. I disliked old guys who would order a steak dinner, barely touched the salad, ignored the potatoes and just ate the damn steak and here I am throwing away all of this food. It bothered a lot of the servers so please for the love of all that is good, get a take out box and don't waste food. :mad:

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This. As a vegetarian, I have no problem with/do not judge any meat eaters. It tastes, smells, and looks great. My choice is my own, and I don't think anyone should be made to feel bad about their eating habits because of how I choose to eat.

BUT, as a vegetarian and former dishwasher, it is infuriating to be continuously scraping off plates full of well-cooked, quality meat. This animal died for your sustenance. The least you can do is eat the smurfing thing.

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Originally Posted by shion

This isn't someone else, but I can't eat ribs. I mean, I like them but holding them feels too much like, well ribs, and I just lose my appetite. I'm very squeamish about stuff like that. But I don't mind other people eating them.

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You could eat what are called "country style" ribs I bet! They often don't have any bone in them at all. Delicious rib meat, no scary bones.

I tend to try anything once. If it repulses me that one time, I shanst not try it again. Pox... and I LOVE pineapple on pizza. *chuffs* My ex and I would trade some of the toppings of the King Arthur. She'd give me the little sausages because normally she'd just pick them off and leave them lying there. I would give her my olives because she was crazy about olives. None of that has anything to do with this.

I don't like pastrami or seasoned roast beef as sandwich meat. I think sardines taste like tuna, but I've never tried anchovies, but I have eaten eel on sushi. The rubbery stringiness of octopus put me off eating it. Hmm... I'm not really good at this.

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This isn't someone else, but I can't eat ribs. I mean, I like them but holding them feels too much like, well ribs, and I just lose my appetite. I'm very squeamish about stuff like that. But I don't mind other people eating them.

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You could eat what are called "country style" ribs I bet! They often don't have any bone in them at all. Delicious rib meat, no scary bones.

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I like ribs, but I always find them not very filling because of the limited meat you get from them. That actually sounds delicious.

Shrimp for me used to be dealbreaker. It looks disgusting, with their eyes and pink veiny appearance. However, I eventually plucked up the courage to eat one and they actually tasted pretty nice. I still can't stand the look of them though.

Try to get them without their heads and tails. Makes them much easier to eat, and helps with the presentation if you're not a fan of their adorableness.

I don't have a problem with anything else a person is eating, unless they are willingly eating dog. I'd probably be pretty freaked out by that. Actually, okay I have problems with cheese, so it is difficult for me to watch someone eat a whole thing of lasagna knowing full well I want that in my belly and full well I cannot have it. DAMN YOU

I can't eat a lot of things without having stomach issues, but that doesn't mean it's a deal breaker for me (but it should be). I'd be averse to eating egg yolk, or yoke, whatever. I don't like scrambled eggs, sunnyside up, omelets, etc. I can only eat the white of the egg. If someone puts whip cream in my drink when I didn't ask for that to be whip cream, I will not drink it, not because I don't think it's delicious I just really don't want my stomach to hurt. Same thing goes with cheese, but I often specifically say no cheese as Americans love putting cheese on everything and sometimes even when I say no cheese they do it anyway.

I can't think of any instances where I was repulsed by what other people were eating, but I don't normally pay that much attention to what other people are eating. There aren't that many bizarre things over here that would be considered taboo to eat.

Snails, and also the norwegian dishes lutefisk and smalahovud. The smell of lutefisk alone makes me nauseous.

I've eaten some sort of whale meat sometime when I was a kid. It wasn't all that special. I forgot what kind it was.

As for what i think is "fine" to eat from a moral or ethical standpoint, whatever isn't an endangered species, isn't killed just to eat a very small portion for so to throw away the rest, and isn't killed in an unnecessarily slow or painful way.

I also can't stand broccoli. I can eat it if it's mixed into something else and the broccoli taste is overpowered by other tastes, but otherwise, that's being left on my plate no matter where I eat.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

I also can't stand broccoli. I can eat it if it's mixed into something else and the broccoli taste is overpowered by other tastes, but otherwise, that's being left on my plate no matter where I eat.

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I LOVE broccoli. Put some gravy on that, and place it as part of a classic roast dinner... my God.

Mayonnaise is a deal breaker, especially if it's on my food after requesting it without.I hate salad cream with a passion and it is banned from my house. I love all food unless it has the two aforementioned abominations in it.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

I also can't stand broccoli. I can eat it if it's mixed into something else and the broccoli taste is overpowered by other tastes, but otherwise, that's being left on my plate no matter where I eat.

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I LOVE broccoli. Put some gravy on that, and place it as part of a classic roast dinner... my God.

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how about i just eat the gravy without the broccoli instead

300 times better

When I eat broccoli I just think to myself "At least it's not cauliflower"

cauliflower is good u r wierd