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I actually have an aversion to chocolate, one that amounts to outright revulsion.

It is a cultivated one: as a small child (single-digit age), I was taken to an allergist. Apparently not a pediatric allergist. And even though I had no known food allergies (they were all either respiratory, skin-contact, or pharmaceutical), said allergist (presumably in a bid to get me to accept a painful but lucrative series of skin tests, to be followed by a painful, interminable, but even more lucrative series of shots, he declared (on shaky evidence at best) that chocolate was a likely aggravating factor in my allergies.

To coin a phrase, "He don't know me very well, do he?"

For me, the path of least resistance was to cultivate an extreme loathing for the stuff. Which wasn't terribly difficult: you could count on one hand the candy bars I found palatable; it hadn't been that much earlier that I'd gotten into some totally unsweetened cooking chocolate; and as it happens, Nestle had just come out with a strawberry version of their "Quik" flavored milk product (the early strawberry Quik was a tad gritty, but palatable).

And I've never had a reason to un-cultivate that loathing.

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A lot of people seem to dislike onion, it's strange that it's hasn't mentioned yet.

Should fruit cake be moved to Everyone Hates Fruit Cake? It seems kind of pointless to have these examples on two different pages.

Regarding organ meats: actually actually, according to Wikipedia, lambs' testicles can be served as sweetbreads, as can other glands, though the term usually only refers to the thymus gland and pancreas. See here.

These examples were recently removed, so I'd like to save them here for reference:

• Diet soft drinks, or anything else containing aspartame. A certain subsection of the population can't taste it, thus giving anything with it a flat taste.
  • Another subsection can taste it, giving anything with it a bad taste.
  • And another (thankfully very small) subsection may or may not be able to taste it, but will lose their mental capacity and eventually die if they eat too much of it. That's right. NutraSweet can kill some people.
  • And yet some people can't have anything but diet sodas or fruit punches. People who, such as this troper, were raised in a household where at least one of their parents was a diabetic will have been raised on diet sodas (my first was TaB, then it was Diet Coke) and as a result, regular sodas will taste very syrupy and leavy a nasty aftertaste. Similar with full-sugar fruit punches. This could also apply to children raised in very health-conscious households (particularly in the 1970s and '80s).
• Coffee cream chocolates.
  • Except on Discworld, where it's (another popular choice) nougat.
• Black jelly beans.
  • Popcorn jellybeans.
• Candy corn.
• Liquorice! Real liquorice, not that Twizzlers crap.

• Limburger traditionally trumps Gorgonzola. It literally smells like feet.

• Liver, which makes sense: It's the organ that makes cholesterol, people!
  • Not just the maker of cholesterol, it's also the body's fricken' waste sponge!
    • That would be the kidneys, but they too are popular in some cultures.
    • The liver actually stores the majority of the vitamins and glycogen (one form of food energy) in an animal's body. Most predators will eat the liver first, if they have the opportunity to.
  • And anything else that includes mammalian organs. Offal in general, really. At least when recognizable.
• Braaai - ahem, brains
  • Double-squicky to the health-conscious: brains are full of cholesterol, and then there's the Mad Cow Disease implications.
• Pork feet
• "I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them, Sam I Am!"
• Tripe.
  • A delicacy in Mexican cuisine is a tripe soup known as menudo. It may have other organs in the soup, but what's most important is the tripe. One may add pork bones or pigs' feet to the broth to give it its meaty flavor, and it usually includes lots of hominy (cooked field corn) and chili powder. The soup often has a slightly greasy taste to it (though if it's very greasy then one must've gotten a cheaper, unclean tripe), which can be resolved by stirring freshly squeezed lemon juice into the broth before serving.
• Eels.
• Shellfish, whether mollusks (looks like dead gray rubber) or crustaceans (too many legs). They'll never know what they're missing.
  • Or lobsters for those individuals who can't stop thinking of them as the cockroaches of the sea. (This will be why they were originally poor people's food.)
• Fish. That much more for me!
• Rocky Mountain Oysters. For those who don't live in the American midwest, it's bull testicles.

• Rhubarb Pie. Frequently used by Disney Comics, where it's depicted as a pie filled with gray-green sludge. In reality rhubarb may be an acquired taste, its tartness being comparable to that of a lemon, but its actual appearance is something like a celery stalk with a very pretty shade of red.
  • And you need to really, really overcook it to get the slime texture.
  • It should be noted that rhubarb leaves are poisonous. The part you're eating is the stem.
  • On the other hand...One little thing can revive a guy/And that is a piece of rhubarb pie/Serve it up/Nice and hot/Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought! Mama's little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb, bebop-a-rebop a-rhubarb pie!/Mama's little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb, bebop-a-rebop rhubarb pie! Bebop-a-rebop a-Rhubarb Pie!  ^*
    ^{For the uninitiated, go to about 4:50, though you really ought to listen to the story.}
• As far as modern television is concerned, "healthy" food is stock yuck for children these days-one commercial even has children eating dinner and saying they'd never eat anything healthy, as they dine on spaghetti that, unbeknownst to them, has been specially formulated to be extra healthy (I think). Maybe kids have changed since my day, but I never minded if it was healthy-what I minded was the fact that I was working with the (not entirely unsound) logic that if God had intended me to put it in my mouth, he would have made it pleasant to do so, and therefore these vegetables you're shoving down my throat cannot, in fact, be at all good for me, while the pizza I am demanding contains all the vital ingredients a child needs to grow up strong.
• Marmite markets itself on the fact that half the world hates it. The same is true of its rival from the Land Down Under, Vegemite, even in its homeland.
• Mustard.
  • In an Abbott and Costello sketch, Costello refuses to have mustard on his hot-dog, and Abbott says that he's doing the mustard industry and all the thousands of people it employs a great injustice.
• Green beans.
• Peas.
• Beets
  • Except in the Doug universe, where they're sort of an all-over Trademark Favorite Food. Including being the name of a band.

There are a lot of examples of "Character X hates food Y" (i.e. Trademark Least Favourite Food), but the description seems to be about stock foods most people dislike - should the examples of the former be cut?