No, I won't eat it; it's got "bitter" right in the name

One way that I'm a good girl is that I do eat my vegetables with gusto. I was looking at my friend Jeremy Petersen's facebook post about yet another tomato incident he's had, and that got me to thinking about vegetable preferences. Jeremy was, and apparently is, tomato-phobic. I have other friends who have what I consider strange aversions to innocuous (or even delicious) vegetables. Z doesn't like celery, for example, and Pin will pick peppers out of anything with the precision of a surgeon, piling them neatly next to whatever food contained them. D doesn't like the bland but blameless cauliflower, but I've never figured out whether that's a taste thing or just because they're heavy. You'll have to ask him about his past with cauliflower to get the full story on that one. An ex tried to tell me once that he had eaten several vegetables that day, well tomatoes, and they were present in catsup and pizza sauce. In my opinion, that doesn't count.

As I said, I love my veggies, raw, cooked by wok, grilled or steamed. I can't understand people who don't eat vegetables, and have been know to be intolerant of them, but there is one vegetable I will not eat. It's said to be medicinal and have excellent anti-oxidant properties. But still I can't get past the way it smells (in my opinion, skunk) and how it makes my stomach hurt after eating it. So I say no thanks, no way to this vegetable. In case you don't know what it is, I put a hint in this blog title. Can you guess?

Are there any vegetables you won't eat? Don't worry, I won't think less of you. And I'll know what not to serve if you come for dinner.