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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Meat, 18 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.
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
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 didn't eat meat for 25 years. When people around me would be eating a meat centered meal I would feel like they must still be hungry when they were done because only like 25% of their plate was food? I couldn't imagine how meat could be filling, since it wasn't food.
didn't eat meat for 25 years
not my business at all, can I ask what changed?
I have a connective tissue disorder that makes my muscles, tendons and ligaments prone to tearing. Eating extra protein won't help, per se, since it's just a bad genetic code for making those structures, but being protein deprived wasn't doing me any favors. Of course it's possible to get enough plant protein, but it's a lot of work and you have to eat about twice the volume of food to get enough. I had major depression and eating at all was difficult, so a big bulky vegan meal was just not happening.
Since eating meat my joints no longer pull apart like taffy at the slightest strain. And I have enough iron to donate blood regularly! The depression is better too, but I've had a lot of therapy and done a lot of work as well, so I can't say if it's related.
I am lucky to live in an area where it's very easy to get all animal products from nice small farms where animals are well cared for and just have "one bad day." It was still very hard at first, I would weep while preparing a chicken for the oven. But I've gotten used to it.
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 😄
Soda, or anything with fizz
Baby food.
Agreed, unless you get kidney stones, then it's pretty much the only thing you can ingest, other than water...
I don't know that I've ever thought of something as inedible. But, I will say that, when I stop eating sugar for awhile, it is crazy tasting going back to it.
Going through these phases has helped me to understand what people mean when they say American food is too sweet, especially things like sandwich bread which I never thought of as sweet before.
It also makes sense about desserts that are "sickeningly sweet" - I've always had a sweet tooth (have one now) so I never thought of it that way. But whenever I go back to these desserts it becomes pretty obvious what people mean.
Any kind of fish or seafood. I had severe food poisoning from fish in the student cafeteria so I cannot stand fish or seafood anymore. The smell makes me turn and run.
Your mother 🤤
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.
I have kinda recently developed a distaste for junk food also mayonnaise i hate that shit with all my heart.
Meat, nobody tastes good anymore.
MC Donalds and similiar. Crispy oven pommes and self-made burger beats greasy pommes and spongy burger tasting like old socks.
Goulash, pot roast, chili, and all the other shit I ate regularly while growing up in the Midwest.
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.
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.
I was like you for some time (low fodmap) and vegan. Then I eat that stuff again and I had a hard time to digest these food and felt some pain
My wife was vegan for several years and went back to vegetarianism. She was always tolerant of my omnivorous diet, so long as I was mindful of cross-comtamination. I got used to eating her choice of proteins as well, and now I eat nearly as much vegetarian substitutes as I do meat. But holy fuck, does red meat tear me up now with the most painful and absurdly disgusting smelling farts, with a volume and frequency so great that it could blow down a brick townhouse.
Baby formula
Bologna
Breakfast cereal
I haven't had either, in any way, shape or form, in decades.
There's another one but this I'd like to try again - root beer with two scoops of vanilla ice cream. I've had the ice cream, but not the root beer.
Natto. Literally the worst, IMO. Even a good number of Japanese folks don't like it.
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