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Some foods are regional or cultural & unfamiliar to the majority. I'm currently staying near Philly & my mum just ate some scrapple & eggs today. I've never had it... it doesn't look or smell good to me, but it may taste great. Since it's canned (see above post), I'll never know, but millions love it.
Additionally, she's eastern EU, so there are many foods I grew up having that make others cringe just in describing ingredients. I'll save everyone the gore... but, I love her ethnic food. My dad's too... someone mentioned liver pudding way upstream... I grew up with IR blood pudding, black & white. Love it. But, I'd never serve it to friends for fear they'd run from the bldg like lunatics. It's okay, there's plenty of other food on the planet, so I'm never offended if others don't care for my food options.
Too bad we can't have a "cheese-off" I have a whole French Époisses de Bourgogne, a Haxaire Petit Munster, and a wedge of Mahon cheese, made with milk from cows grazing on the island of Menorca, in my fridge. We have a local cheese shop that has different high-end cheeses on sale every week, so I get to try an incredible variety of cheeses at an affordable price. I tend to go for the "washed-rind" cheeses, so I have to store them in the garage fridge.
Last year I ordered a wedge of Stinking Bishop (named for the variety of pear). That was some good, creamy, stinky cheese, but the aroma can peel paint.
The only cheese I've encountered, so far, that I cannot eat - Limburger. That's one foul beast.
Yodder Farms, I believe the can said... it's now in the bin. She normally buys the loaf from the cold case... Habbersett, but found some cans on her travels to Lancaster.
TV dinners - Single dish stuff like microwavable pasta is OK. I'm talking about the kind where there's a bunch of different things in little tray compartments. Just like the nasty school lunches I had to eat when I was a kid. It never resembles the picture on the package and everything looks like it was mixed up into one vat and fired at the tray using a high-pressure hose.
Durian - World's worst smelling fruit, and yes I've smelled it. Stinks like rotting compost. I've heard it tastes OK if you hold your nose, but I sure wasn't going to try any after it made someone in my group throw up.
Any kind of raw shellfish - They all look like loogies on the half shell.
Any kind animal cooked whole with the head still on - Especially those bald roasted ducks you see in Asian markets hanging by their necks. I don't want my food looking back at me, thanks.
Too bad we can't have a "cheese-off" I have a whole French Époisses de Bourgogne, a Haxaire Petit Munster, and a wedge of Mahon cheese, made with milk from cows grazing on the island of Menorca, in my fridge. We have a local cheese shop that has different high-end cheeses on sale every week, so I get to try an incredible variety of cheeses at an affordable price. I tend to go for the "washed-rind" cheeses, so I have to store them in the garage fridge.
Last year I ordered a wedge of Stinking Bishop (named for the variety of pear). That was some good, creamy, stinky cheese, but the aroma can peel paint.
The only cheese I've encountered, so far, that I cannot eat - Limburger. That's one foul beast.
I want to come to your house. Oh darn. I don't have any really good cheese in the fridge right now - just a piece of mediocre cheddar and some Brie which I picked up at the supermarket. It can't be made from milk--maybe some sort of polymer--because it has no taste. The buttermilk blue I just finished was pretty tasty.
I've never eaten Stinking Bishop, but I can't believe you'd eat that and not Limburger. I like a fully ripe but young Limburger. It really does stink when it's very ripe.
Be kind to your ripening cheese and turn it every day.
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My dad's too... someone mentioned liver pudding way upstream... I grew up with IR blood pudding, black & white. Love it. But, I'd never serve it to friends for fear they'd run from the bldg like lunatics. It's okay, there's plenty of other food on the planet, so I'm never offended if others don't care for my food options. 
I have a whole French Époisses de Bourgogne, a Haxaire Petit Munster, and a wedge of Mahon cheese, made with milk from cows grazing on the island of Menorca, in my fridge. We have a local cheese shop that has different high-end cheeses on sale every week, so I get to try an incredible variety of cheeses at an affordable price. 
