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"Everyone has a food they just don't like. Yes, even &lt;em&gt;Bon App\u00E9tit&lt;/em&gt; editors sometimes can't look past their inexplicable hatred of some things, be they benign eggplant, a harmless (if not tacky) tropical fruit, or\u2014believe it or not\u2014burgers. Check out some of the foods and ingredients we can't stand, and make sure to tell us your edible pet peeves in the comments. \"I despise yogurt in its purest form: It tastes like sour, spoiled milk. However, I like when it's combined with savory flavors or used as a condiment.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Melissa Finkelstein, associate developer&lt;/em&gt; \"Milk, straight. Ew. Haven't had a glass ever, except for a couple of times when I was little and some cruel friend's mother made me drink one with dinner. Gag!\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Dawn Perry, senior food editor&lt;/em&gt; \"There are a few foods I don't like, but they are all for good reasons: green bell peppers, store-bought hummus, kidneys, and worst of all, kiwi.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Andrew Knowlton, restaurant and drinks editor&lt;/em&gt; \"I have an absolute visceral reaction to lamb and goat cheese. Every time. No matter what. It's as if 'barnyard' has metastasized into my taste buds.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Laura DePalma, research editor&lt;/em&gt; \"Burgers. With the exception of In-N-Out, I just don't like them. I know, I know. There's too much bun, ALWAYS, and tell me you feel good after you eat a burger. You don't. No one does. Every time I go to a restaurant, someone is like, 'They have a GREAT burger,' and I'm like, 'I don't like burgers.' 'No, but here they're really good.' IRRELEVANT.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Alison Roman, senior associate food editor&lt;/em&gt; \"My name is Matt, and I have mayonnaise issues. When I was in elementary school, I read the Judy Blume book &lt;em&gt;Superfudge&lt;/em&gt;, in which one character expresses his aversion to mayonnaise: 'It's too gooey,' he says. 'And besides, it can make you sick.' Already averse to gooey things, I was sold\u2014no mayo for me! For decades, I didn't touch the stuff, would throw away fast-food burgers that some mindless dolt had smeared with the gooey, sick-making slime. But then, somewhere along the way, I tasted it\u2026and liked it. Except, I still don't &lt;em&gt;officially&lt;/em&gt; like it. I will never consciously choose to put it on anything (except a BLT, of course), but if it's there, hm\u2026 this stuff is actually kind good! It's just too bad I Don't Like It\u2122.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Matt Gross, editor, bonappetit.com&lt;/em&gt; \"The spaghetti noodle. Maybe it was from years of pre al dente exposure or maybe it was a bad can of Chef Boyardee, but there's something about the precise width of that noodle that makes me gag. Give me linguini or capellini, please.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Cristina Martinez, production director&lt;/em&gt; \"I detest liver and lima beans.\u00A0 The former looks like the sad sole of a shoe and has a revolting smell and the latter has a disgusting texture and odor. I also hate banana bread for reasons too numerous to mention.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Chris Penberthy, research director&lt;/em&gt; \"I hate to admit it, but any roast chicken on the bone has been unappealing to me ever since I got pregnant with my first child 6 years ago.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Lauren Epstein, freelance photo editor&lt;/em&gt; \"Raw mushrooms. Even the fancy ones are tough for me. They squeak on the teeth like cheese curd (which I like, blame a dairy weakness) and the gills crumble like feathery dirt. No thank you.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Scott DeSimon, deputy editor&lt;/em&gt; \"Anything grape flavored, especially grape soda. It tastes like fluoride at the dentist.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Mike Ley, deputy art director&lt;/em&gt; \"I don't think it's inexplicable, but I hate capers. They're like little aggressively flavored surprises.\"&lt;em&gt; \u2014Meryl Rothstein, senior associate editor&lt;/em&gt; \"Chia seeds in drinks.. They swell up like little frog eggs and I'm not a fan of that texture in my mouth.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Brad Leone, test kitchen assistant&lt;/em&gt; \"Bananas. Smelly and mushy. The devil.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Adam Rapoport, editor in chief&lt;/em&gt; \"I have an aversion to the meaty, khaki flesh and bulbous shape of good ol' eggplant. I can't ever shake the notion that it looks like butchered whale meat. Yuck. (Daintier Japanese and Italian eggplant varieties do not have this effect on me.) So unless it's pur\u00E9ed into a fine baba ghanoush (not too smoky, please!) or disguised in a fiery bharta, I say no thanks.\" \u2014&lt;em&gt;Faye Chiu, assistant managing editor&lt;/em&gt; \"I pretty much hate sun-dried tomatoes. I will actually pick them out of a dish, which I never do. They're just so cloying.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Claire Saffitz, assistant food editor&lt;/em&gt; \"There are plenty of foods I don't really care for (brazil nuts, avocado, white chocolate), but the only thing I won't eat is eggplant. One terrible encounter when I was 10 years old has turned me off the spongy, bitter nightshade for life.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Joanna Sciarrino, assistant editor&lt;/em&gt; \"I find raw spinach to be completely unpalatable. Avoid at all costs. It has this horrible chalky, squeaky texture. Hate.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Amiel Stanek, assistant to the editor in chief&lt;/em&gt; \"Truffles. The smell of them makes me gag\u2014if I accidentally eat something with truffle, I can taste it for days. I'm a cheap date\u2026\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Allie Lewis Clapp, food editor&lt;/em&gt; \"SHRIMP. I hate, hate, hate, hate shrimp, but not for inexplicable reasons. It's the world's most grotesque texture\u2014like gnawing on somebody's dirty, wet gym sock. Shrimp = the WORST.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Ashlea Halpern, special projects editor&lt;/em&gt; \"Eggs, I hate them. I don't know why. I don't even really remember tasting one, but I cannot stand the smell of scrambled eggs. It makes me nauseous. And the texture of scrambled eggs is just awful.\" &lt;em&gt;\u2014Frederika Brookfield, executive director, public relations&lt;/em&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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