What Foods Disgust You?
 

What foods disgust you? There are relatively few that really bother me, but I feel like talking about them.

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I know a lot of people love cantalope. I don't. I keep hearing about how sweet it is, but really, whenever I've had any, it's simply turned out to taste kind of like a stale, wet piece of nothing.

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I'm sorry, but I can't really take onions, at least uncooked. I can sometimes stand them when they're cooked, but really only when their in such small doses and you can't really tell their there (which is actually, oddly enough, the case with most foods). Sadly, I've never really found joy in onion rings. :(

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Same as it is with onions, somewhat. I love condiments made from them, but I've never loved the initial, progenitors that make those condiments. To me, tomatoes just seem kind of like eating a bizarre tasting, decomposing....thing.

Yes, my vocabulary is amazing in how articulate it is. :bloosmirk:

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No, those aren't mashed potatoes. Thats mashed cauliflower. I had it basically because I'm on a diet and need to eat healthier (I've lost about 40 pounds just to let folks know). My mom made them for me, and, well....I have to admit, I didn't care for it, which is a shame since I love cauliflower au natural. It's like a bizarre, somewhat sweet version of mash potatoes. Ultimately, my pallet just didn't agree with it.

:o I love onions and tomatoes... although the latter, yeah, I'm not too keen on them raw except in sandwiches in small amounts.

Asparagus is not a favorite. I don't mind the flavor but most of the time when I've had it fresh what I ended up eating was a fibrous mass reminicient of wood. Fresh is healthier, but I prefer asparagus in a can.

Raw shellfish I won't even try. Never mind the fact that bacteria are building small cities on it; it looks like slime and probably has a slimey texture. No thanks, I want my clams breaded and fried.

Peppers are another least favorite. When raw I can tolerate them in small doses but I really don't much care for the flavor. Cooked peppers are worse; the flavor is unpleasant, the texture is like that of the previously mentioned raw shellfish but softer and slimier, and invariably the skin of the damn vegetable pastes itself to either my gums or the roof of my mouth and nothing short of a fork will dislodge it. I don't want them on my pizza, I don't want them in my soup, I don't want them in my house.

I don't like most fruits, either. Again, this is largely a texture issue for me. I'll happily tear through a grapefruit like Eduardo goes through potatoes and I'll drink most types of fruit juice but that's about it. Some of the flavors turn me off as well, peaches and bananas in particular. Grapes I'll eat as raisins but fresh off the vine? Forget it.

Organ meats I won't even look at, except for liver, which again brings up the Eduardo/potatoes referrence.

Tapioca, sweet potatoes, tofu, watermelon, eggplant, plantains, etc., don't like 'em, won't eat 'em. By the way, I like celery, but who the hell came up with the idea of using it as a flavor for soda??

Okay, I'm done for now, and I really feel like getting a pizza. Without peppers. :cheesegrin:

I love tofu and onions. And sweet potatoes and eggplants (or as we call 'em, aubergines). And I love mushrooms, even though both of my housemates quite vocally don't. ;D

As for food I don't like, well I do have some pretty strict dietary requirements - meat and alcohol are both excluded out of personal choice (though I don't really care for either anyway), and I try to avoid cow's milk if I can, since too much of the stuff makes me sick. I'm not too fond of the taste of most cheeses. While I like tomato sauces, I have a problem with tomato skins, particularly if they come off and get all coiled up in the sauce, forming these rather unappetising-looking sticks, so I'm rather adament that all tomatoes be completely skinned in advance, and preferably pulverised as much as possible too.

Also, while I do like toast, I generally can't eat most kinds of sliced breads raw - exceptions being French bread and Irish soda bread.

Cassini - Asparagus is a very difficult vegetable to prepare correctly, and most people doon't take the time necessary. Also, it's best if you choose the small stalks fresh, as they're still crisp.

Good, fresh, young asparagus = crisp.

Every other version of asparacus = stringy and fibrous.

It's like Brussel Sprouts. Prep them right, and they're crisp and delicious. Fail, and they taste like sulfur.


With that said, I really don't like quiche.

Oh my...

I actually enjoy trying new things if they sound appetizing. But there have been times where I was sorry I did.

I personally have never been able to stomach any type of sea food. The salty fishiness of it, blach! It probably goes back to when I had my first tuna fish sandwich when I was 6, and it made me so sick I, well, brought it back up. I can eat salmon if it's cooked a special way, and sometimes fish sticks with LOTS of tarter sauce, but otherwise, no. No sea food for me.

I hate brussel sprouts and cabbage. I can tolerate coleslaw, but that's only for the mayonnaise and other fats added to it, lol.

I like tofu ok, but I prefer it when it's not pretending to be something else (meat, eggs, cheese, yogurt, etc.). I grew up vegetarian, and my parents still are. My mom is vegan-vegetarian, meaning no dairy products, and even tries to stay away from refined sugar and processed foods. Not for me, but to each her own. I actually like most vegge-meats, especially poultry and frank type ones. But I've always liked it much better if it's made out of some other type of vegge protein other than tofu. I prefer chunks of tofu only in my Thai dish, thanks.

I've never cared for lentils. They're just brown and bland and slimy. Ick. It doesn't help when they're served over rice, either. Add some tomatoes and herbs and maybe some other vegetables or something. The crock pot is never fun to clean after cooking them, either. Yuck.

And I must mention some mystery dish my dad made once when I was a kid, at maybe 9 or 10 years old. I don't know what it was suppose to be, but I'll always remember it. It was some type of stroganoff because it had egg noodles in it. And some type of beef-wannabe vegge meat. The noodles and the meat were fine. It was the amount of onions and salt and oil and mayonnaise he added to it. Globs of fat were literally floating on the surface of the dish when it came out of the oven. We could pick the globs up with a spoon, and watch it go *gloop* back into the dish. And it didn't taste good either. It was too salty, and the texture was too slimy. And all that fat was too heavy on the stomach. I ended up seeing my dinner in reverse after that meal, too. Blech. :P

I have never been able to eat raisins without feeling grossed out. Craisins I tried recently and liked, but both black and white raisins I find revolting. Same with olives, which garners me odd looks considering I'm Italian. I mean, olive oil is awesome, but that's it. I've never liked cow's milk (even before I became allergic to it), but I do love cow's cheese (fortunately the allergy passed after about a decade). Overcooked vegetables make me gag, as do some canned and frozen (spinach and green beans come to mind) which I would otherwise enjoy if they were made from fresh. Yams...I never liked yams/sweet potatoes all that much, although on occasion I've enjoyed a homemade dish. Beef stroganoff used to make me sick as a kid, I didn't even need to eat it. The smell alone would repel me from the house. There are some things, like brains and kidneys, that I have only had after preparing myself and didn't care for, but would try again if I knew it was prepared by someone who knew what they were doing. All the other really "exotic" things I've tried (there's unfortunately not been many) I have liked. There's an Asian grocery store near me that carries some stuff I'd love to try (namely seafood) but I'm afraid to because the two separate times I have purchased frozen prepackaged seafood from them I got food poisoning. I still want to try durian though.

Oh, and divinity. My dad once dreamed of going into the candy business so he would make a recipe over and over trying to get it perfect. I never got tired of the fudge, but if I so much as see divinity nowadays I have to suppress a gag reflex. :P

This topic didn't really need to go into the Spam section, not as long as everyone actually discusses things and doesn't just submit lists.

I'm not against moving it to Way Off Topic if everyone wishes. :)

Olives I'm split on. The green Spanish olives stuffed with pimiento I'll eat right out of the jar upon occasion but usually they get diced and added to a salad. Black olives I don't care for; neither the flavor or texture appeals to me.

Stroganoff is another story entirely. I haven't had it in ages but when my mother used to make it, well, there weren't any leftovers if I had anything to say about it. 8D Same with Swiss steak and tuna casserole. Maybe this is why I had to start dieting. :P

Funny you should mention an Asian grocery store; there a good one within walking distance of my place, and by coincidence I was there this afternoon. My main objective was to renew my supply of kim chee, which I tried for the first time last year and developed an instant liking for. I picked up a few other gems as well but there's also a number of things in there that give me the willies, mostly in the meat department. All they have is pork, and every last part of the pig is wrapped and for sale. Sorry, but the idea of eating either the large or small intestine of the animal doesn't appeal to me at all, nor do the lungs or the tripe. Same with the package of chicken feet. I don't know what to make of the jars of fermented fish but I'm thinking about fish-flavored beer and it's not a happy thought. Some of the products I can't even begin to guess what they are. I've been pretty lucky so far when I take a chance on things like that, but I worry that someday I may buy what looks like an olive or an egg, only to discover that it might once have been watching me. :eek:

I dislike prunes and raisins...ick! The same goes with mushrooms on a pizza. I tried the latter only a few years ago, and ick....nasty stuff IMO.

Ever since I was a little boy, I have never ever...EVER been able to eat cereal with milk. Dry cereal is just fine and dandy but once you pour the milk into the bowl then my gag reflex goes to work.


And just to save everyone some time, I'll get the obligatory "you-know-who" reference out of the way...

:cheese: "I Like Cereal!"

Thank you and good night.

Dude, you are not alone! :eek: Though it doesn't bother me as much as before, I've been known to have trouble trying to eat a bowl of cereal with milk. It is hard! Ick!!

Well despite my general dislike of milk as a kid I was okay putting it on cereal but I didn't like to have a lot in there. Nowadays I like vanilla soymilk on my cereal.

Lol, Kiwi likes it that way too:

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Haha, he eats better than I do. 8D

I guess I'm the opposite of y'all, as I can't eat cereal of any type without milk. I love the stuff, too, but I avoid it because when I do have it I'm inclined to go through nearly the entire box in one sitting. Stupid, yeah, but fun. :cheesegrin:

borscht- poor excuse for a soup made with a poor excuse for a vegetable.

cheese ravioli- i dont know why, but this stuff always tastes like death.

Shrimp. I don't like the texture nor flavor of shrimp. You can bread them, fry them, put them in cocktails, put them in mayo, whatever. I like Tempura shrimp, but that's an anomaly. Likewise, scallops have to be very good for me to enjoy them.

I just don't like quiche.

Mayonnaise is another one - I can't stomach it for some odd reason.

I can deal with the mayonnaise, if it's blended into the tuna (of course, I don't want too much of it). However, if you add it to anything else, fuhgetaboutit!

There aren't too many things I won't eat, being a Southerner. I have to draw the line at organ meats, though, in spite of the fact that things like fried hog brains, tripe(stomach), liver, chicken gizzards and the gonads of male pigs(known as "Mountain Oysters")are popular traditional dishes here. We have a saying when it comes to hogs down here in the South-"Everything but the oink", meaning that's about the only part of a hog that can't, or won't, be eaten by SOMEBODY! My own personal favorite part of the hog is the skin, deep-fried to a crisp, with a light dusting of salt.

A can't tolerate tofu, though. Anything that looks and smells like one of my dogs just puked it up, uh-uh. I also can't force myself to eat boiled okra or raw or boiled oysters(the real ones, from the tidal creeks). If it looks and feels like a bowl-full of snot, no thank you. Oddly enough, I feel the same way about the dark meat of a chicken or turkey, or duck in any form.

The only fruit I just can't stand is bananas. I can't help but to associate the smell and color with a horrible asthma medicine I was forced to take as a child, called "Quibron Syrup", an awful pale yellow sticky glop that contained, among other things, a mild narcotic. My mother would give it to me whether I had asthma or not, insisting it tasted "just like bananas", mainly to knock me out so she wouldn't have to deal with me. It's a wonder I didn't become a hard-core junkie, but the stuff was so nasty I would literally wash my OWN mouth out with soap on more than one occasion just to rid myself of that taste! When the government banned the use of that narcotic, my mother stopped buying that and I started using an inhaler like most asthmatics.

pitbulllady

8D That made my day. 8D

They're at the bottom of my list as well. Never could stand the taste, texture, or smell of the dang things. If I want tropical fruit, I'll go for a pineapple without hesitation.

jeez! Well from what i hear you should count yourself lucky not to have been born in the 1890's, when every childs medecine was dosed heavily with opium :P

Anyway, although i enjoy bananas i agree with you, they can taste bland and sort of chalky after a while. Not the best of fruits.

I've had them once at a sushi place. Trust me, you aren't missing much. :(

I'm really, really torn on peppers. I hate it on pizza, raw, or cooked, in most forms. However, I love stuffed jalapeno's and the like on occasion, and my aunt makes a fantastic oyster stew on Christmas Eve that has them. That oyster stew she makes is one of the rare occasions where I'll dig in to onions and peppers, if just because they're necessary evils for that stew.

I personally like sweet potatoes and watermelon, and especially sweet potato tempura, and I can tolerate tapioca and tofu, and I like a kind of eggplant dish my mom makes. But....celery flavored soda? Are you messing with me? :o

I personally love fish and, for that matter, most sea food (with a few exceptions I'll mention later). I adore salmon, partially because of the kind of salmon casserole my grandmother would make. That stuff was fantastic. Other than that, another I'm incredibly partial to, being a southern boy, is catfish. Yes, I know they're bottom feeders, and yes, I know they're unappealing looking, but if you find a good cook, you broil them upright, and you maybe stuff them, and you can't tear me away from them for the world.

I feel pretty much the same way about raisins and craisins, though I occasionally like white raisins. I'm the exact opposite concerning olives, however. I love olives on their own, but I've never really cared all that much for olive oil.

I wasn't certain how it would go, really, so I thought putting it in Spam would be the safest route. That, and I know I've been skating thin ice lately, so I'd decided it was better to be safe than sorry. Feel free to move it, though. I don't have a problem with that. :)

Oh, and you're Kiwi bird is awesome, and trust me, that's not a word I commonly attribute to any form of fowl.

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Scallops I can kind of agree with....but shrimp? I'm sorry, but I really have to disagree. I adore, I mean ADORE, shrimp, in any way, shape or form. Tempura shrimp is good, yes, but again, I'll eat shrimp in any way I can, and I 'll eat them like candy. Them buggers is tasty.

Right there with you. Right there with you. Though, have to admit....never had had Mountain Oysters. Are they any good?

Anyhow, to other foods I despise....

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My disdain for lobsters isn't the taste, per se (as, honestly, I kind of find the meat bland), as much as it is their very appearance. They look like minor grunt warriors who serve the Great Old Ones, small, armored and weaponized monsters who were apparently poorly thought out so they couldn't really harm us THAT bad. At least, not at first look. You could say that, by eating a lobster, I'm afraid his brethren will hunt me down and flense the flesh from my very bones with their claws.

Not only that, but I want to know who the first person was that looked at those things and said, "You know what? I'm going to eat that." They look like giant, armored insects. I really can't think of why you would look at the thing and decide you want to eat it if you didn't already know what it tasted like.

I dislike crab, too, and pretty much for all the same reasons.

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I like strawberry flavoring, but I dislike the fruit proper. They just taste bland to me, by themselves, unless you dip them in something like chocolate.

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I really can't bring myself to eat avacados, or any of the bi-products they're used to create.

yeah i dislike lobster because they eat everything on the sea floor. Like giant cockroaches. King Crab, however, is wonderful. The less i know about their dietary habits the better 8D eating lobster to me is like eating coyote or buzzard. Lobsters are scavengers that eat all the dead and rotting junk... nasty

ETA: as for shrimp, i have to peel and vein them at work. By the box. When i eat shrimp its like revenge for having to peel 100 shrimp a day 8D

I decided to be the one who moves this thread into the Way Off Topic Forum, as it's an interesting and very lively discussion and smarter then your average Spam.

Oh yeah, I don't like avocados either. I do however like guacamole, whether as a chip dip or a topping for burritos or haystacks. Although that's only because of the yummy spices added to it. Sometimes I swear my mother actually manipulates herself into liking some foods just because they're healthy. She eats avocados whole and raw, and loves them in salads and sandwiches. I doubt she likes them for their taste or texture though. It's just because they're "healthy". I can't handle them. The taste is just way to bland and they're way to slimy and, let's face it, they remind many of us of something that is far from appetizing. :(

Another I should mention is brewers yeast. This is a fetish of my dad's. He likes it sprinkled on everything from popcorn to pancakes. No kidding. Again, he likes it because it's healthy, but he's not manipulating himself into liking it as I know he also likes the taste. But that stuff smells and tastes like fermentation. Yuck. ::)

Yeast as a topping? Bleh. As far as I'm concerned, yeast has two uses; beer and bread. That's it.

I once read about a case where a form of yeast set up housekeeping in a man's digestive system, much as many forms of bacteria do. Unfortunately, yeast converts everything into alcohol, so no matter what he ate, he got drunk from it. It took the doctors a long time to figure out what was going on; by the time they did, I don't imagine the guy had much of a liver left.

No joke:

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I had a different brand. It's tolerable stuff, but not by much. While hunting for this pic I also found another odd soda flavor:

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I must admit that I'm strangely intrigued by this idea. :bloocross:

Oh, look, I can rant in this thread and make a legitimate post now. Good! I don't dislike many foods, but there are some I try to avoid.

Onions bug me. I'm not particularly fond of the taste and their texture is really off-putting.

Okra tastes and feels incredibly disgusting to me whenever I try to eat it. The exterior is rubbery, the interior is slimy and filled with seeds and it doesn't have much flavor. Bleah. :P


Also, Nathander, when I read your post containing the mention of celery-flavored soda, I immediately thought of A Series of Unfortunate Events, where a similar soda (parsley-flavored) was a popular beverage. Unfortunately, it left much to be desired, as Cassini noted.

I've had Mountain Oysters at the fair once. They weren't bad, a bit chewy, a bit meaty, but somewhat bland. Each to their own, I suppose.

EDIT: Because it wasn't celery soda in ASOUE, it was actually parsley soda. Changed it to be more accurate.

A reason I refuse to eat lobster is because, I feel bad for them. They're people too, y'know? At my local Red Lobster, the first thing you see is a small tank with lobsters in it. They always look like they want OUT, because the lucky lobster who's grabbed is gonne be the one to NOT gain freedom, but face death in the most horrid way possible: Pain from Hell.

So anyways, I go over and say hello to the poor things, they look at me like they're saying "Get us OUT OF HERE!". And just when you get to know one of them, the one who became your friend...oops, someone just ate 'im. Tragic, to say the least.

I guess that's what I get for being an animal lover. :D

I can't eat lobster, shrimp, fish... basically anything that came out of the ocean. I can only eat fish if it is in a fishstick form and I can only have tuna if it is on a sandwich.

It's not because I'm some kind of hard core animal lover... I mean I do like animals, but that's not why I don't eat the sea creatures. I just find them completely revolting. I mean... shrimp are basically cockroaches of the sea... and lobsters? They're like big bugs. Bugs that you have to crack open to eat. I don't like to be reminded that the thing I'm eating was alive not too long ago. Seeing its legs and face kind of ruins that.

Actually, now that I think about it, I don't like chicken that much either... because of the bones... Biting into a bone will pretty much ruin my whole meal. I just find it disgusting to be knawing on bones. I guess I do feel bad for eating the animals... but some of them or so yummy, I can't not eat them.

Funny a lot of people saying they dislike Bananas. Years ago Bananas had a unique sweet taste that's been lost somehow in most commercial 'nanas as they're too rindy and tasteles. It might be linked to the fact the 'Cavendish' strain of the Musa accuminata, Banana plant is failing after effectively being cloned for decades. Chances are the fruit is leaving the plant too early so it doesn't rot in transit and isn't getting all the sugars it needs for that really yummy taste that was more like the flavour 'Banana' you get in milkshakes. The search is on for replacement, we're trying the Chinese Banana but we're not too hopeful.

I dislike noodles (pity, I like the name) and detest Custard. Foul yellow muck!

You know, all the things I'm hearing about lobsters and their unpleasant dining habits... has anyone looked at the stuff we feed to cattle, fowl, and swine? And let us not forget that fish swim through and breathe their own pee. 8D

I love lobster and crab; I will happily eat either regardless of how it's prepared. My favorite way is the simplest; you boil it, grab a bib and a big honkin' mallet, and get to work. And work it can be, especially with the larger ones. There's a seafood restaurant called the Chowder Pot not too far from me where one can ask for the King of the tank; soon thereafter, you have the largest lobster in the place sitting in front of you. The one time I ordered it, oh boy did I get more than I bargained for! From the tips of it's outstretched claws to the feathery tufts at the end of it's tail, this animal was nearly three feet long. I don't recall what it weighed but I do recall the shell quite clearly. Medieval knights did not have armor anywhere near as tough as this lobster's protective gear. Excellent meat in every way, and no doubt a good meal for dieting, because I'm sure getting through the shell burned off more calories than the meat contained. Cost a heck of a lot, too, but it was well worth it. :)

The thing with lobster is that you can't really kill them before the cooking process, as uncooked lobster meat goes bad quickly. you can make their death nearly instantaneous and LIKELY painless (as far as we can tell), by inserting them into boiling water headfirst, or striking them in the brain right before tossing them in the pot.

Oh, barf. I know eating pigs, cows etc might seem gross, but I find them too yummy.

I absolutely cannot stand apples. The taste, the look, the smell... Someone eating an apple is usually enough to make me clear a room. I'm not too fond of most fruit but apples are the bane of my existence. Pineapples are tasty though.

It's not food-related but that reminds me of how when I was in high school there was this apple-scented hairspray that was very popular, and as it was about 1990 big hair was in. As it turned out I was allergic to the apple hairspray and I almost passed out one time in the dressing room of the drama department when every single girl in there but me whipped out the apple spray at once. I couldn't breathe for about a minute, and I had to be dragged out of there. :P Anyways I'm surprised that I still liked apples after that...

Yikes, that's crazy Sparky! And it sucks that the big hair was in and you know everyone and their dog had it lol...

The food that I can't understand why anyone, ANYONE eats is pickled pigs feet.

They're ANIMAL FEET in a JAR OF LIQUID and they look like a science experiment!

Wow, that wouldn't happen to have been Salon Selectives brand, would it? Red bottle? Haha, yes, we remember that stuff well, don't we? 8D I used it too *blush*. I didn't so much have big hair though as just big bangs. I feathered them all out. And then put gel in my permed hair to keep the curly-cues in check. Ah, good times, good times. :P

Eh hem, back on topic-

I KNOW! I've never understood that either. How do people eat those things?

And oh, another food I don't like much is onion soup. The only cooked onions I really like are on pizza. I prefer onions raw, whether chopped in my burrito or sliced on a sandwich or in a salad. Onion soup tastes way too "oniony" to me. And thanks to the lingering taste, I fear the whole world can smell the stuff by just being near me. That's not a happy feeling.

I've never been a big fan of beef gravy, either. Especially if there's mushrooms in it. I like beef, and I like mushrooms. But I prefer my gravy to be chicken flavored or white (country gravy, mmmmm!), and I prefer my mushrooms not cooked in a brown salty liquid.

I thought of something else... Cow tongue. Apparently it's supposed to be good... but that just freaks me out. I remember being really young and watching my dad eat it. I was really grossed out and he told me that the reason cow tongue tasted so good was because the cows licked each others butts.... I've never been able to try cow tongue after that.

I had cow tongue once, and loved it. Reminded me of corned beef with how it was prepared.

Chicken feet aren't anything to write home about. There's amost no meat - it just looks funny on your plate.

Jellyfish is kind of tasteless and rubbery.

Oh wait, here's a big one - airline food.

Seriously, does anybody actually like those little packets of rubbery fruit they serve out alongside your meal? I blame one such encounter with those dodgy dinners for single-handedly putting me off melons for life. :P

No offense, but i like airline food. They taste good on a long flight.

Fair enough. You'll have to tell me which airline you're using, so I can consider them next time I have to travel during feeding hours. I always seem to pick the ones that serve that gosh-darn-inedible fruit.

When I went to the Con last year I flew with Delta, and they served us this:

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Ah, the legendary Delta "Snack Pack". Comes with a choice of beverages, most of which were carbonated. Not bad, actually, but not fat-free, either. In the first-class section they got something called a "Meal Pack" but I have no idea what it contained. This year I'm flying with Northwest so I'll be enjoying an entirely new and different culinary experience. Yay me. 8D