Why do you dislike the foods you wont eat?

[Caligula1]

First, I'd say taste..
Texture secondly..

I do like the overall taste of eggplant, I cant stand the mushy texture..
There are others, eggplant just comes to mind..

[Creature of the Wheel]

If it looks and smells funny, it's not going anywhere near my mouth.

[GeoffD]

I have a short list of foods I won't eat or prefer not to eat but they're for different reasons:

Oysters in any form: Food poisoning on a New Zealand trip. Nope.

Raw shellfish in general. A food safety issue. Parasites. Hepatitis risk. Raw scallops in a spicy scallop roll is about it.

Boiled/steamed okra. Nope. Green slime. I use okra in gumbo all the time and I'll eat fried okra if someone hands me a plate of it.

Raw green pepper. Cooked is fine. Ripe red/yellow/orange is fine.

Raw onion in salad or on a burger. Green onion/scallion is fine.

Other than mild things like liverwurst, pate foie gras, and chicken liver in hors d'oeuvres, I don't do organ meat and I don't care for gamey meats.

I usually don't like oily fish. I hate when a sushi combo has mackerel in it. I have a bluefish recipe that makes bluefish edible but that uses meat tenderizer and lemon juice to kill off the oily part. I also smoke bluefish and mix it with cream cheese as a spread. Again, that kills off the oily fish thing.

Everything else is more food snob than anything. I tend to prefer the more flavorful expensive version of things. It's native tomato season. I avoid rock-hard nitrogen-ripened grocery store tomatoes. I don't think I've ever purchased iceberg lettuce as an adult. Ditto margarine. I don't drink American mass market lager/pilsner or California mass market wine. I'll eat it but I don't buy Hershey chocolate.