I am the same way. I see dishes at some restaurants that cover dishes with cilantro and I don't get it. If I taste even a hint of cilantro in my food, I gag
I've gotten a bit used to it ever since I started eating at Chipotle a lot (the put cilantro in their rice). I have always despised cilantro, but their barbacoa is just too good and I have to have rice on my burrito... but anyway, I've begun to notice it less. Still, whenever I get a leaf on my tongue, it's pretty awful. I used to be hypersensitive like you, though it wasn't a gag reflex, just a "oh man, this tastes awful" reflex. As a kid, my mom could make a giant pot of soup and if she put 1 or 2 leaves (which are tiny) of cilantro in it, I could taste it and wouldn't eat the soup. Salsa Verde Doritos? Yep, I'm the only person I know that could taste the cilantro in 'em. It's only a hint (like, one of the last ingredients in the list), but I can taste it. While I am more tolerant of it these days (I still hate the taste, but I can deal with it if the rest of the food is good), I still cannot understand why anyone would enjoy eating it. Well, if the PTC tasting mechanism is true, I suppose I can understand why people could enjoy it -- THEY CAN'T TASTE IT.
Now that I think about it, I do have to stomach it at Chipotle :grin: As much as I hate cilantro, I love the cilantro salad dressing at El Meson in rice village. IDK why
I don't eat cilantro-based sauces. A lot of Mexican restaurants will have a green salsa that has a heavy dose of cilantro and I just can't eat it. Pico de Gallo is one thing I wish I could eat because I love tomatoes and onions, but 99% of places have finely chopped cilantro all over it so I don't eat it (same with Chipotle's pico). I think that's enough posts out of me about cilantro though.
I have a problem with a few foods I have gotten sick on. For a long time I could not even think about eating red beans and rice. A little over a year ago I got bad food poisoning from some mayo. I don't have an issue with mayo but I had eaten a bowl of french onion soup and threw that up. I cannot even be around it without feeling nauseous.
Mozzarella is the only cheese I will eat and I will only eat it on a few pizzas from a select few restaurants or frozen varieties. I can stomach a slice or two but after I get queasy. I don't eat mozzarella on anything else though like cheese sticks, sandwiches, etc. The pizza crust, sauce, and toppings usually make pizza chain cheese obsolete and without a flavor. I don't eat pizza from real Italian/pizza eateries because I know they use a lot of different cheeses and not just mozzarella.
Get yourself one and just say "sin queso". You'll like it, sir. It's the way it ends up... like whenever I don't like RAW onions in my Whataburger, but I like Onion Rings. I mean, what is the deal with that? :grin:
I hate mushrooms. Mostly the cooked ones. I can eat the raw crunchy ones that they put in subs at places like quiznos though.
i like ciltrano and they don't bother me...i guess i can't taste it?? I LOVE mushrooms. At first I didn't like them but hubby got me eating them. I hated shrimp at first because of the smell but now I love them. Haha, corn+mayo+parmensan cheese + lime combo is delicious!
Just the sight of alfalfa sprouts makes me nauseous. Also, anything that looks like overgrown, mutant insects (shrimp, crab, lobster).
I don't think there is any food I hate. There is no food I will not try, but anything involving an insect pushes my limits. For example, Fried Spider. Spoiler I think I would try it, but the idea makes me cringe. And there is no way I am eating the abdomen. Weirdest thing I have eaten: Live Octopus. That was...odd.
