Can We Guess Your Age by the Foods You Hate?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
Can We Guess Your Age by the Foods You Hate?
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About This Quiz

It is said that people grow up loving the foods we had as children and being suspicious of all other types of cuisine. People who grow up in cultures without peanut butter tend to detest the spread as adults. Marmite is either loved or hated by those forced to consume it as children, and hated by anyone who first tries it as an adult. Similarly, our society moves from food to food with time.

In the 1980s, baby vegetables were all the rage. If you were born after 1996, you likely never saw the commercial for the Tootsie Pop with the owl. If you are under 18, it is extremely unlikely that, even if you grew up in New England, a school cafeteria ever fed you a fluffer-nutter sandwich. The foods we eat don't just say things about our personal tastes. They say things about where we are from and how old we are.

We have devised a series of questions through which we believe we can determine your precise age. These questions are entirely about food preferences, specifically the negative ones. If you tell us which foods you truly despise, we can accurately guess your age to the year. Care to give it a try?

What is your least favorite cereal?
Lucky Charms
Grape Nuts
Fiber One
Corn Flakes

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How do you not like your eggs?
Runny.
Sunny side down.
Scrambled.
As a quiche.

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How do you not like your pancakes?
Plain.
With fruit of any kind.
With butter.
With syrup.

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What do you not like to have to drink with breakfast?
A protein shake.
Milk.
Smoothies.
Alcohol.

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What odd breakfast food do you not like the sound of?
Grits.
Blood pudding.
Waakye; basically cooked rice and beans, from Ghana.
Vegemite.

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Which fish sandwich do you like least?
Tuna.
Shrimp.
Salmon.
Anchovy.

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Which cured meat sandwich do you like least?
Turkey.
Chicken.
Pork.
Jerky.

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Which cooked meat sandwich do you like least?
Head cheese.
Pulled pork.
Hot dogs.
Brisket.

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Which vegan sandwich do you like least?
Iceberg lettuce.
Spinach.
Watercress.
Peanut butter and jelly.

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Which bread do you like least for sandwiches?
White bread.
Pumpernickel.
Rye.
Whole wheat.

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Which bread do you like least for toast?
Rye.
Brioche.
Pumpernickel.
Bagels.

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Which bread goes the worst with soup?
White bread.
Bagels.
Whole wheat.
Pita.

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Which soup is your least favorite?
Split pea soup.
New England clam chowder.
New York clam chowder.
Wonton soup.

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What sports-arena food is your poison?
Bacon wrapped hot dogs.
Sorbet.
Crackerjacks.
Cheese fries.

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What kind of sports arena drink do you avoid at all costs?
Shakes.
Anything alcoholic.
Hard liquor.
Beer.

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What street food makes you sick?
None, really.
Roasted peanuts.
Hot dogs.
Shawarma.

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What fast food chain do you hate?
Arby's.
Shake Shack.
Wendy's.
KFC.

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How wouldn't you take your steak?
Burnt.
Medium.
Rare.
At all.

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What cut of steak do you hate?
Ribeye.
Porterhouse.
Minute steaks.
All.

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What fish do you hate the most?
Cod.
Salmon.
Tuna.
Swordfish.

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Which fowl is foul?
Quail.
Duck.
Pheasant.
Turkey.

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Which potato preparation makes you retch?
German Potato Salad.
Potatoes Dauphinoise.
Potato Latkes.
Potato Herb Tart.

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What salad item makes you push the plate away?
Goat cheese.
Kale.
Collard greens.
Nuts.

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What salad dressing can make you vomit from just the smell?
Russian dressing.
Carrot Ginger dressing.
Caesar dressing.
Thousand Island dressing.

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What game is too gamy for you?
Emu.
Deer.
Goat.
Any and all.

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What dinner pairing is too awful to stomach?
Two-buck chuck.
Port.
Whiskey.
Fruit-flavored beer.

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What cheese course makes you turn green?
Goat cheese.
Roquefort.
Valençay.
Sakura cheese.

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What fruit just grosses you out?
Cherimoya.
Tomatoes.
Rambutan.
Maracuja.

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What cake isn't your cup of tea?
Muffins.
Fruitcake.
Date and walnut loaf.
Battenberg cake.

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Which pie isn't on your team?
Cherry.
Pineapple.
Blueberry.
Pecan.

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