What food don't you eat for reasons unrelated to taste or allergy?

[Scarim Coral]

To this day I refuse to eat chicken or duck feet. Pretty much most of time I go to a Chinese resturant with my parent they order that but I just find the thought of eating the feet repulsive.

 

[Soviet Steve]

I don't eat organic food because it is harmful to the environment and to humanity.

 

[jakjawagon]

I don't eat duck. Not sure why.

 

[Queen Michael]

I don't eat organic food because it is harmful to the environment and to humanity.

What do you define as organic?

 

[maninahat]

Right now? Anything solid..... Had 5 teeth pulled.

Holy hell, what for?


Oh, I don't bother with icecream. I like it and all, I just...can't be bothered with it.

 

[natster43]

I don't eat fruit, I hate the texture of them.

 

[Soviet Steve]

What do you define as organic?

In this context it refers to the food intentionally produced without the use of refined or artificial fertilizers. This is a bad thing due to the lower output of food (leading to greater food instability) and the larger amounts of waste materials led out into nature.

I am well aware that the term 'Organic food' doesn't make any sense if you view it as something other than a marketing label covering food produced with traditionalist agricultural practices.

 

[Legendsmith]

Anything with corn syrup in it (which is quite a lot of lollies and American soft drinks). It's so bad for you that many countries have banned it. Yet it's not banned everywhere.

 

[binvjoh]

Kiwi, until recently.

I don't know why, it just makes me really uncomfortable.

 

[retterkl]

Kiwi, until recently.

I don't know why, it just makes me really uncomfortable.

Is that trying it with and without skin on? Because if you're eating it with the skin on I can understand uncomfortableness (although I still eat the whole thing )

 

[binvjoh]

Kiwi, until recently.

I don't know why, it just makes me really uncomfortable.

Is that trying it with and without skin on? Because if you're eating it with the skin on I can understand uncomfortableness (although I still eat the whole thing )

Without. It just makes my skin crawl for some reason.
I can even remember the first time I ate kiwi back in kindergarten, same feeling.

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

I'm with you on that. I will never choose to eat Mayonnaise for the very same reason, I mean raw eggs? People get salmonella from that you know! Urgh...

Hah, Sweden FTW. Swedish eggs are naturally salmonella free. *puts some raw eggyolk on Biff Rydberg* Softly boiled eggs with the yolk still running, yum.

Enough taunting though, lets go on topic.

I really don't avoid things out of principle or ethics. I eat almost everything. Although most of the meat I eat is not part of the meat industry. My father is a hunter you see. Moose meat FTW.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I just dont like pork, it tastes ok but i just dont want it, its just the cheapest and most inferior class of meat there is and its just blant boring in all of its features.

 

[Charli]

Mushrooms. What wandering cracked nomad thought those would look good to eat and just HAPPENED to find the one fungi that wouldn't strike him down dead.

And Whyyyyyy.

 

[Wutaiflea]

There isn't really anything I'm like that with. All the things I don't eat are about flavour or allergy, rather than any other reason.

That said, I saw an episode of Come Dine With Me the other day where someone served snails, and I just thought "fuck it, even to be polite, even though I don't know what they taste like, I just plain could not bring myself to eat a fucking snail".

This is largely to do with the fact that it just sounds gross. Nothing anyone could say would convince me otherwise.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I don't eat butter.

I just hate the stuff.

 

[Doctor Insanovic]

Panda ribs are delicious, but I don't eat them anymore because they are too expensive and a big legal risk to get hold of.

 

[saruman31]

I'm a vegetarian because of the Peter Singer arguements myself. Basically:

1) Ethically animals are treated poorly and are themselves sentient. They evolved alongside us and feel pain just like humans.

2) Human's don't need to eat meat to have a healthy diet. In fact many people have far too much meat in their diets and have health problems because of it.

3) Farming meat is completely inefficient. Beef is one of the most inefficient sources of protein to produce over time. We feed the animals on grain and other things which humans can eat ourselves and so theres a boatload of nutrition lost in the production process.

4) Carrying on from 3, if we produced everything arably then we could actually feed most of the worlds population. Considering the world is growing and is set to peak at 9 billion by around 2050 we need effecieny and sustainability in food production.


It is for this reason too that I reject free market capitalism. Not that i'm socialist or anything, just that if people produce what is demanded then when there is more and more demand for meat it means that there will be less and less food in the world. Those who can't afford food are left to starve while those who can will eat everything.

1.Bullshit
2.Maybe but it tastes divine and its quite cheap
3.We will never completely stop from eating meat. It. Will. Never. Happen.
4. refer to 3
Actually we can`t afford to be vegetarian. And NOTHING can replace the taste of meat.