Food that everyone else likes but you just can't / myLot

Mandaluyong City, Philippines

September 25, 2023 1:18am CST

Lemme start, I really can't take the taste of offal/innards. Here in the Philippines, we have a lot of food that makes use of cow and pig innards and I feel like I'm not really "Filipino" because I don't really like eating them. Dishes like "dinuguan" which is a stew made from pork innards and pig's blood and "kaleskes" which is a soup made from buffalo innards. It's really the texture and the aftertaste for me. Also, the thought that I'm eating innards, really gets to me. I guess it's just an acquired taste? To be fair, I love liver pate and that's technically innards as well, but that's the farthest I can go... How about you guys? What food did you try liking but you just can't muster the will to eat and enjoy them?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471740)

• Switzerland

25 Sep 23

There is a long list of things that I do not like to eat. I do not like liver and I would not eat innards. There is something you like in your country that I find disgusting (also very cruel) it is balut.

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inkyuboz

@inkyuboz (1392)

• Mandaluyong City, Philippines

26 Sep 23

Yes, I don't like balut too. And I agree, it's pretty cruel.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471740)

• Switzerland

26 Sep 23

@inkyuboz Killing a baby duck boiling it alive is cruel.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471740)

• Switzerland

27 Sep 23

@inkyuboz I fully agree with you, all those cruel practices should be banned in a civilized world.

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Kandase

@Kandae11 (55056)

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25 Sep 23

Black pudding or blood pudding is popular in some Caribbean countries ( it originates from Britain and Ireland ). I had it once years ago before l knew what it was made of. It is made of seasoned rice or oatmeal with onions and pig or cow blood all stuffed into animal intestine skin. It is then cooked and sliced.....

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Amber

@AmbiePam (93298)

• United States

25 Sep 23

I don’t think I could eat the innards of an animal or anything with blood in it unless I were starving. Maybe if it were introduced to me as a child I would be able to think of it as commonplace, but since that isn’t the case, I would have to pass. Maybe I would say green beans? A heck of a lot of people like them, but not me. I also cannot stand hominy. Oh man, hominy is disgusting to me.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (139870)

• Roseburg, Oregon

25 Sep 23

I would never eat any type of food that actually stinks when it is being cooked. I do not like liver or kidneys of any animals.

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Gill

@Gilljane (2902)

• Sutton, England

25 Sep 23

I would not eat offal, yuck

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