Buerk

[bobleponge]

We all have foods and drinks that we dont eat, brussel sprouts for example, for they are wrong, but do you have any foods/drinks that you used to enjoy but had an incident that put you off for life?

Years ago, as a young man, I ran the Harlow marathon when it was sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board. It was a very hot day, and I finished in tatters, crossed the line, was given my gong and a bottle of milk.
I was so thirsty I opened it, and drank about 2/3 of it before I realised it had gone off in the heat and was just sloppy disgusting cheesy buerkkkkk. (I am almost heaving just thinking about it). Needless to say I got rid of it as quickly as I drank it.
Since that day, I just cant "do" milk. I cant sniff a bottle in a fridge to see if its ok, I used to have to get the kids to do it.

This morning I went to check an empty room in one of the buildings that I am responsible for, and there was a carton of milk in the fridge. The fridge had been off for some time and the aircon hadnt been on, thus you can imagine. It took me back, and I had to ask someone else to throw it away, as the smell made me sprint outside for air.

[coreopsis]

Eeek!Not a nice experience...
Mine one is-carrot soup.I know it sounds strange but my mother cooked that when I was about 6 or 7.After 1st spoonful I said"I won't eat it".It wasn't just kid's whim,it tasted awful.She was determined to get me to eat it,she got me to eat iteventually after a few hours at the table.I ate it but 2 seconds lates she had to scrub the floor ...
Till this day I don't go anywhere near carrot soup...

[Two_Sheds]

Not normal fare, but I can't stand those Nutriment type food-in-a-can Build-You-Up things.
When I was in hospital I had to be fed them through my nose, through tubes. For 2 weeks. They put so much of the stuff in me that I puked it out every day, and still they told me I had to eat more as I was losing weight.

they have the texture and smell of cat sick. I can't even have a thickshake now.

[bubblewrap]

Carling Black label revolting stuff. I like real ale & some real lagers but Black label??? UGH!

[julesapple]

OH will eat anything, as a trained (ex) chef. Anything but parsnips. He was forced to eat them as a child and they made him puke.

Oppositely, I was always forced to 'eat my greens' and hated them. I got 'into' broccoli when #1 son was a baby and I decided he should try things even if I don't like them. Needless to say I enjoyed the broccoli more than he did!

I loathed cabbage, a grey watery tasteless mush, served up every Sunday with a roast and, far too often, in between days too. It was just revolting. I went to great lengths not to eat it, including wrapping it in my hankie and rushing out after dinner to feed it to the sheep at the end of the road.

When pregnant with#2 son, I saw Gary Rhodes cooking green cabbage with bacon bits & chesnuts and I HAD to have it....I have days when I crave cabbage now. If someone had said to me, as a small girl, that I would crave greens in my thirties I'd have laughed in their face!

Jules

[Seahorse]

Urgh, Bob, what a revolting thread

Mine is milk too but not because I've ever drunk some that was off. I grew up on a dairy farm and our milk was always very, very fresh. So fresh, in fact, that it was still warm from the cow, with a frothy head and a rather strong smell. I hated it and, apart from in coffee and hot chocolate, have never drunk milk since leaving home and never will again.

Buerk indeed!

[zazen999]

I couldn't have dairy for 10 years during the best years of my life [20s]...and still can't touch milk as such - love milky coffee but can't go near milkshakes or anything else too milky.

Eugh

[di]

Urgh, Bob, what a revolting thread

Mine is milk too but not because I've ever drunk some that was off. I grew up on a dairy farm and our milk was always very, very fresh. So fresh, in fact, that it was still warm from the cow, with a frothy head and a rather strong smell. I hated it and, apart from in coffee and hot chocolate, have never drunk milk since leaving home and never will again.

Buerk indeed!

My Great Uncle used to have a dairy farm & I can still remember the occasional special treat of a jug of fresh fresh milk...thankfully it was only an occasional treat!

For me it's anything orange flavoured.When my mum got her first blender I decided to invent my own drink,it consisted of a tin of mandarins & far too much icing sugar...because it was my own concoction I was far too proud to admit to not liking it,so drank the lot.
I love fresh oranges & OJ,but anything tinned,sweetened or artificial still makes me gag.

[zazen999]

Bleugh indeed - years of weak orange squash bought from the corner shop in my auntie's village - put me off orange squash for life. EGUGHHHHHHH

[Pumpkin Becki]

Mine would be milk too, being forced to drink it at nursery and infant school from those stupid little bottles...bleurgh indeed!

Oh and tinned leek and potato soup. I once had an abscess and couldn't eat much, had eaten all the other soft stuff in the house and thought to myself 'I like leeks, I like potatoes...' eurgh! never again!!!

[OverWyreGrower]

Sprouts... they are the only vegetable I don't like, and at (nearly) 30, my mum still thinks if she hides it in my mashed potato I won't notice!

Milk - neat. Don't mind milk on cereals, in tea, milkshakes etc, but could never drink milk on its own.... makes me gag thinking about it

[MaureenHall]

Desecrated coconut!!! Bleughhhhhhhhhhh. I have to look at the ingredients on packets of biscuits to see if there's any in, I can taste the tiniest bit and I hate it!!! Strangely enough though, it's ok in a curry



ok, I know it should be dessicated, but to me, desecrated sounds better

[Jardiniere]

i used to be able to eat snails but the last two times i was violently sick so have given up - appears to be a new allergy and i dont believe in being allergic ha ha.....

[SarzWix]

Oh lord, far too many to list here!!
I have a really strong sense of smell, and correspondingly very sensitive taste buds. I can't eat anything that's very strongly flavoured, and just the smell of some stuff is enough to make my throat close and the gag reflex starts
My dad was a great believer in kids having to eat everything in front of them, so mealtimes were a long nightmare any time they included cheese, 'greens', anything spicy...
I still have to eat green veg disguised in soups and casseroles, and can only eat cheese cooked on pizza etc, the raw stuff makes me want to barf...

[TEB]

Dyed Pink Salt, don't know how why the salt is pink but it is and it didnt taste very nice on the tomato, OH is on holiday but I bet she responsible, its usually my clothes she dyes pink, she's crazy as a loon.