I am one of those "try everything once!" or at least "try to try things once!" kind of people. So someone who categorically refuses to try something which isn't guaranteed to harm them as long as they exercise caution would probably bother me. Like "I won't have sex because I'm afraid I'll get pregnant." Well, practice safe sex and use birth control and you mitigate those risks. Have one drink of alcohol, or two and wait until you drive, and you mitigate those risks. I don't enjoy people who allow their fears to run their lives. I historically attempt to confront mine - the ones that should be gotten over, at any rate. (How else do you overcome your fears? If you allow them to dictate your actions, you've lost. -If I seem opinionated, I have a friend who is very fear-run and it wears on me.)

There are probably some foods I'm pretty unwilling to try though. Testicles, I think. That Asian delicacy where the bird has developed inside of the egg and you spoon into it and eat the whole wet-feathery, soft-boned-and-beaked thing. No thanks on that one. Of course, if push came to shove, it's survival first, taste second.