Bananas. Loooves them. His new favorite is those impossibly orange cheese and peanut butter crackers 
. In retrospect… he loves to eat. And if I were to expire in his presence … they might not find my body 
Growing up my first horse who lived to be 33 loved McDonald’s cheeseburgers.
I was groom for one Saddlehorse who loved Dr Pepper… during class line while everyone else was rattling cans and making fools of themselves all I need to do was to show her a can of Dr Pepper… EARS UP and follow the can
her stable name was Petunia, she was a three gaited champ… have no idea what her registered name was
My first horse( i boarded) was a fan of skittles and diet pepsi.
I am never eating when with my horses since having them at home so I never have anything to offer them.
Yup.
Yo ate a bite of a McDonald’s cheeseburger once
He also loved fries too
I’m assuming he liked the salt in those.
He also liked Tootsie rolls.
My pony is a licker, especially when my kids were little. He would lick them all over.
Food wise, our QH will eat most things and lives for a good beer and a peanut butter sandwich.
Pony isn’t adventurous but loves vanilla wafers.
My ASB is kinda picky but likes French fries and my husbands Kind bars.
My kids like to eat lunch outside the pasture and always share.
My mare loved the hot peppers out of my Subway sub. I thought the first one was a fluke, but she happily ate the second and third.
We had one old Standardbred that loved pop rocks. He was an odd horse, so we weren’t terribly surprised.
We had one old Standardbred that loved pop rocks.
reminds me of the saddleseat equation horse that if given a piece of fudge, he would suck on it for hours
My contrarian horses ignored the huge Rouge Vif d’Etempe (Cinderella) pumpkins I grew that sprawled into their pasture.
Stomp on them?
Sure.
Eat them?
Never!
At least the birds enjoyed them 
When my oldest mare and I still lived at home with my parents (in my teenage years…) my mare would break out of her paddock to get into the vegetable garden to eat corn stalks and mow down all of the raspberry bushes.
My lease mare loved peppermints though she preferred green spearmints- sometimes if she was expecting spearmint and got peppermint instead, she spit it out in protest. Pears, apples, and carrots were regular treats. She liked old fashioned glazed donuts (stealing it makes it sooo much tastier! And she insisted I needed to drop a pound or two so she actually was doing me a favor and not being a donut thief, she’s much too cute to do anything naughty like that). Her favorite was iced oatmeal cookies.
A few months ago I went out to meet the body worker and brought the end of a bag of sliced salami to snack on. I was holding the empty bag and my mare took an interest in it. We got a video of her breathing in and out so that the bag inflated and deflated. It had a strange calming effect on her. The bodyworker still jokes that I need to bring her (the horse) salami when she starts getting fidgety.
She liked old fashioned glazed donuts
my oldest son who rode his horse everywhere would ride through the drive in window of a local doughnut shop who always had an apple fritter for his horse
as for peppermints we had one horse who could hear the unwrapping of a peppermint from at least 150 feet
Mine is NOT adventurous! I joke that he’s a health food guy – his go to snacks are always apples and carrots. He’ll eat peppermints but prefers the puffier version.
He has been persuaded to try a few types of candy by the barn kids. He ALWAYS want to try things, but he almost always winds up disappointed. hah!
He does, however, really enjoy chewing on the bark of a tree near our riding ring. It’s odd, but I guess goes along with his crunchy, health-conscious personality.
I had a cute mustang mare who loved carrots and apples but wouldn’t eat a locally produced horse treat called “apple-asses.” She would take it in her mouth roll it around and then spit it out. One day she was watching me feed them to my gelding who loved them, I offered one to her and this time she bit into it. Her reaction was priceless! Her eyes got really big and her ears went up. She was so funny. Of course from then on these were her absolute favorite and woe to me if I didn’t have any on me. She wouldn’t mug me but acted all offended. 
My horse in my avatar, Odin, I call him the equine equivalent to a Labrador Retriever - totally food driven.
My younger horse stole a Peep from my friend one Easter. I buy a bag of marshmallows occasionally and dole them out at a rate of two per day. He loves them and I always get a laugh out of his careful chewing and blissful expression.
My older horse does NOT think marshmallows are at all edible and was highly offended the time I gave him one by accident. 
My TB eats the chunks of ice that we break out of the water trough in the wintertime. Brrr.
Weird things my horse does NOT eat: none of mine can figure out what to do with a LikIt.
I wish my mare was clueless—I could go broke buying her Likits. She can finish one in 12 hours. 
One of my horses will go after the cat food in a skinny minute, if I forget to put it out of his reach when he comes in the barn at night 
He knows he isn’t allowed to eat it, somehow he manages to get his lips over the entire bowl and almost suck it empty before I can get to him. Yelling “NO!” doesn’t work as he becomes deaf for that moment in time 
He has this very peculiar habit with his grain. I never soaked it. When we moved the new BO gave me a funny look. He likes it runny. He licks it out of the tub, slops it around in his mouth with his neck stretched out. Then he licks the stall walls or grill and leaves a coating. He likes to nibble the dry crusty stuff.
He used to snatch dog food occasionally. He likes to nibble snow. He doesn’t like carrot cake. No watemelon. He turned down Guiness Stout even after I told him it’s a good source of nutients. No bananas but banana flavored Rounders are fine.
Goldfish crackers. Little Debbie oatmeal cookies with the frosting inside. Dandelions. He likes all sorts of weeds with flat leaves.
Lesson horses at our last barn: one gelding loved iced tea and donuts. Had to share my french fries with a mare once. Another mare that stopped at the same corner of the outdoor one day when she heard the explosive sounds of someone unwrapping a pepperment.
I’ve seen a few who like Coke or Pepsi.
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