I don't know what it is, actually.  I like all other cabbages and calciferous veggies - I actually can't think of one that I don't like -  but the BSs just disgust me.  They taste...tanic to me...like iced tea that's too strong and old.  There's a bitter undertone that has never been masked, no matter how they've been cooked.

I also can't stand sauerkraut - the smell even nauseates me - yet I love all kim chee and other fermented veggies.

I find it amazing that anyone hates brussels sprouts.   I love them.  I cut them in half, drizzle with
evoo and sea salt and roast slowly in the oven.  They come out sweet and yummy.  But I really
don't like broccoli.  Cauliflower is okay, but broccoli, ugh!  Don't like rutabagas or turnips.  Too
bitter.  Just can't stand anything bitter.  Sometimes walnuts have a bitter taste to me. I think it's
in the skin of the nut.

Genetic differences in taste

http://nutrition.about.com/od/nutritionforchildren/a/bitterstudy.htm
http://hecooksshecooks.net/2009/05/bitter-foods-science-of-taste/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene

The responses to this post give me a chuckle because thank goodness we have the freedom on this forum to express our preferences.  It's true I am a little "gobsmacked" (it's a British term that is so befitting in certain circumstances).  Isn't that one reason why we drifted toward Dr. D'Adamo's individual style of eating for bloodtype?  I know I did.

Chloe, I love brussel sprouts also (just rediscovered them about a year ago) and the way you cook them.  Have you ever thought to add chopped figs (black mission or those other bigger figs (can't remember the name but your hfs would carry them.  They are a nice compliment to the cabbagey
taste of the brussel sprouts.  At one time I would have added crispy pieces of chopped up bacon.
Yum.

Remember I said "at one time" about bacon.  Still, with the figs they are a nice side dish.

Joy

P.S.  I also love all the other veggies you mentioned - broccoli, turnips (cooked and mashed with some butter), cauliflower (previously thought it was totally tasteless and still so hard even when cooked you could break a tooth)  It's amazing some of the assumptions I can create in my mind!

Joy

Hated egg salad until I was pregnant with the second kid. That kid loves egg salad. Older kid can't stand eggs of any type.

I hate poultry. Especially turkey. And organ meats.

Love stinky cheese and several other avoids!

Quoted from prunella

I hate poultry. Especially turkey. And organ meats.

I really don't care for chicken, either.  The only good part of a chicken, for me, is the skin.  I'll eat chicken thighs and wings, but my only use for a chicken breast (especially skinless....eewwwww) is dog food (raw, of course).

However, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE turkey.  It is one of my very best foods.  Not a huge fan of the breast, but I love the rest.

Not a huge fan of organ meats.  I grew up with them, but they're just not my thing.

I live with a "super taster" and THAT is a nightmare.  She hates far more foods than she'll tolerate eating.

I hate potato. It gives me an unenergised feeling.

Well I would eat most veggies  

but organ meat and most fatty fish( herrings, anchovies, sardines and mackerel) makes me really nauseaus - really fatty lam is not great as well.

I love several of my avoids( olives, pork,prawns, tomatoes) so not much help there
Certain things I really don´t care for- but hate them nay

Hey, wasn't tomato briefly a neutral for you, in one your incantations of SWAMI?

Quoted from ruthiegirl

Hey, wasn't tomato briefly a neutral for you, in one your incantations of SWAMI?

Yes when I came out as Gatherer it was actually superfood ( one of the reasons I don´t avoid it 100 %  

I don't like (and won't eat) greasy meats, like duck . Fortunately, most are avoids.  Some of the foods I've had an aversion to, but are not avoids, that I've built up the nerve to try, have turned out to be foods I actually like! Okra comes to mind.

I love almost all veggies, except potatoes, and that's only because of the reaction I get in my joints. Plus, they are a toxin. I love bitter, sweet, sour, spicy, salty.

Green peppers    Even if they are pureed in a recipe, I can taste them.  They are about the only food I detest.  I would also add liver to that - but I do like pate'.

KIDNEYS because they STINK like urine FOREVER!!!!!
I dare anyone here to tell me they found a storebought kidney they were able to clean-clean.
If you do, I'll buy you a year's worth to fill your freezer.  

Oh, and I just realized, after reading the "green tea" thread, that I hate green tea.

I've tried dozens of brands, both cheap and pricy (including Dr. Ds) and tried as many ways of preparing it, but I just don't like it.

That being said, I love black iced tea, but since it's a black dot avoid for me, I make myself drink green iced tea....which I hate.   Go figure.

Quoted from EquiPro

Oh, and I just realized, after reading the "green tea" thread, that I hate green tea.

I've tried dozens of brands, both cheap and pricy (including Dr. Ds) and tried as many ways of preparing it, but I just don't like it.

That being said, I love black iced tea, but since it's a black dot avoid for me, I make myself drink green iced tea....which I hate.   Go figure.

Encapsulation plus drinking other hebal tea may relieve the hate-stress  
Green tea compliant ice cream is a delicious alternative  

Quoted from san j

Hey! Yaeli knows about the street food  .

       Hey! What that's suppose to mean? Sounds misfit, to say the least.

Quoted from san j

No, darlin', we're talking about the tinned variety. Oily, smelly, etc.

An alternative title to this thread: "Oily, smelly etc. canned food you Love?"

perhaps should we merely give a try to overcome the word *hate* ...to a more moderate-one like *disliking*...

Quoted from Amazone I.

perhaps should we merely give a try to overcome the word *hate* ...to a more moderate-one like *disliking*...

Where does hate exactly lead you anyway? And where does eating oily, smelly etc. food out of a tin approximately lead you? Where?

Pineapple.

Tried some dried yesterday & it reminded me of this thread.

It is a diamond / beneficial for me too, but it gives me that weird stomach /nauseates every-time I try it whether fresh cut, fresh juice (the worst) even dried or in bromelain caps.

Is there a connection between Ayurvedic dosha and extreme food preferences? It's a system based on tastes: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Pungent, Astringent. Bitter and astringent are the least evident in the American diet, and they are great for Kapha, as is Pungent ( ). But these tastes are very aggravating to Vata.

I thought of this when EquiPro was complaining of a tannic (read: Astringent) edge to Brussels Sprouts. She said it's like overly strong iced tea -- another Vata no-no.
Just wondering if the dislike of one of the taste groups can be a kind of marker for dosha and thus a key to refining one's D'Adamo program.

Vata, which does poorly with Astringency, is the only dosha that does well with salt, and the only one that Ayurveda recommends eat seafood/sea-fishes. I have met Vata-types who really like fish skin, which for me is another "blech"  .
Wondering if there's a connection.

Just an aside. I really thrived, back in 2008-9 when I did a combined Ayurvedic/D'Adamo program.

I truly believe Dr D has factored all into swami, including Ayurveda.

Chicken feet (dim sum style), sardines, goat cheese, jello, pudding, milk are all on my hate list, the gag reflex works really well on jello...

Yaeli shatzala, exactamundo its *leaden*    and won't fit to anyone   oops sorry couldn't resist *jeu de mots*  

Quoted from EquiPro

Oh, and I just realized, after reading the "green tea" thread, that I hate green tea.

I've tried dozens of brands, both cheap and pricy (including Dr. Ds) and tried as many ways of preparing it, but I just don't like it.

That being said, I love black iced tea, but since it's a black dot avoid for me, I make myself drink green iced tea....which I hate.   Go figure.

Try Jasmine green. Perfumed - you don't taste the green.
Add sweetener, too.

Love Sardines.. make sardine patties using 2 tines of sardines, (without the heads - but they don't come with heads in the cans i get), 2 tbl rice flour, 2 eggs, cayenne powder.

Spread mixture out in a frying pan with a spatula and cook until done and flip and cook on the other.  Cut into 4 pieces.  Sprinkle with lemon.  DELICIOUS.  Like a tune patty.

So you should give sardines a chance... like me.. when I used to not eat dates because they reminded me cockroaches.. another thing i wont' eat! HA!!!  then I tried one and went crazy!  Love them!

Hate brussel sprouts - I'm supertaster so stuff like that or over cooked broccli make me gag.  Completely dislike Blue Cheese or any cheese that smells like feet!  HAAA...

Can't get near liver of any type.  Snails.. Yuck.  

i'm sure there is a whole list of other stuff.. but can't think of it right now.  

Besides hating fish, which I mentioned already, I hate meatloaf and organ meats.