I’ve got a pretty severe sensitivity to – of all things – sugar. (I know, “sugar” isn’t very precise, but I’m pretty sure it’s either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I’ve eaten that way for like 20 years now. I’m practically blind to half the produce department (any “sweet” fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
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.
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
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.
Meat, 18 years.
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 😄
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.
Vegans incoming…
Soda, or anything with fizz
Your mother 🤤
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 understand baby food. If your diet is relatively healthy you can just give them your normal food.
Depends on what the food is and how many teeth they have.
you can always mash it or cut it into teeny tony pieces
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.
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.
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.
Meat, nobody tastes good anymore.
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.
