PeppA, my other half, claims to hate cloves, nutmeg, and coffee. I believe her about the coffee bit, as I like to tease her when I get my morning cup, and blow on it to cool it off, and she's always on the receiving end
As to the cloves, I think she's been subjected to a few to many whole cloves studded into a ham for the holidays. I like the flavor and smell, but she doesn't. According to her, nutmeg smells the same as clove, and she avoids that one as well.
She also tries to tell me that she doesn't like wine in her food. But, she loves my Chicken Tortilla soup (gets Chablis), Coq au Vin (gets Burgundy), and I've started adding splash (about 2 T) of Chablis when I'm sauteing a bunch of veggies with chicken
Once her mother moves back in with us (in a couple days), I probably WILL NOT be able to eat PeppA's spaghetti. I prefer one variety of one sauce, as it's got a little wine or sugar in it, to make it sweet, and no green bell peppers (I don't really care for bell peppers in spaghetti sauce). Unfortunately, PeppA's mother is diabetic, and starts griping and complaining anytime we try to serve a slightly sweet spaghetti sauce. I can understand about that, but why doesn't she start griping and complaining when she starts downing regular chocolate milk, regular pop, regular ice cream, etc., that's all got regular sugar in it?