Anyone else suddenly put off a food after an unpleasant association?

I love curry but whilst in India I had what I think was covid. Between that and the emotional sadness I felt for some of the animals, I just stopped eating whilst I was out there. I can barely touch curry now. Something that would be a 'go to' choice and I just can't.

I had a burger during my first chemotherapy session. Now the idea of one makes me feel sick.

Took a bite out of a fresh tomato from the greenhouse as a child and it was warm and slimy inside - made me retch, haven't eaten a fresh tomato since (which is a shame as they look nice, but I've tried and just can't do it)

Crab meat, I used to bloody love it, but then got food poisoning from a crab salad 30 years ago and haven’t been able to touch it since.

I can’t face drinking milk just the thought makes me want to heave! I often wonder if something happened as a child with milk but I can’t remember anything and mum has no idea either!

Scallops lomg time ago I brought a bag of scallops up home from devon thought better prepare them and freeze them nearly through the sack (10Kgs)opened one it was very off sorry the whole lot had to go in the bin still don't like them or even looking at them

Smells can have such violent associations.

The smell of the hand soap in all nhs clinics makes me feel shaky and weird as it takes me back to the days when my eldest was on NICU and I had to wash my hands with it multiple times a day. I had post natal pre eclampsia and was trying to pump my milk in and was in a very bad place physically, and the sensation of feeling weak, shaky and scared comes right back. So odd.

This does pass. I couldn’t eat cucumbers after getting sick on too many Hendricks gins one summer in my early twenties. The stomach ‘memory’ lasted about a decade. I’m fine with cucumbers now.

I was defrosting a pork joint when I noticed the liquid coming from it was bright green. I threw it in the bin and googled it as the pork looked and smelled fresh. Apparently its a chemical reaction caused by freezing and is totally safe, but I haven't been able to eat pork since.

Years ago, I ate a salad then made myself sick by drinking too much vodka.

For a while afterwards, I had an aversion to vodka … and salad. If I looked at either in the supermarket, a wave of nausea would pass over me. I find it strange that despite knowing it was the vodka which made me sick, part of my brain clearly believed that both were dodgy and should be avoided.

I lost 17lbs and 1/3 of my hair. NEVER AGAIN

I am okay with runny egg yolk but the white must be completely done. Any transparent white and the whole thing is rejected. Also hate jelly type puddings, milky jelly being the worst. But I quite like panna cotta. Couldn't eat fish and chips for years after a vomiting bug, the chips came back almost fully intact.

Cider and black- got very very drunk on this as a 19 year old at uni and redecorated my friend's bathroom with pink vomit.

Melted cheese, especially on pizzas. A Morrisons cheese meltdown gave me an attack of gallstones that I didn't even know I had. The same gallstone attack tried very hard to kill me- sepsis, critical care, emergency surgery and far too long in hospital. The only pizzas I will eat now are 2 from M&S. The details and red olive pizza and their chicken flatbread pizza thing which doesn't have much if at all any cheese on.

Jesus. You poor thing. That’s fucking horrendous.

My daughter vomited directly after eating a pulled pork bap. Neither she nor I can even look at pulled pork now.

A few years ago, I had an e-coli infection and could no longer eat the last thing I had eaten before I started felling ill, even though it was definitely not the source of my illness.

I went to Aldi for one of their surprise bags which turned out to be 4 kilos of mushooms. I didn't feel partcularly well but spent the day chopping them up and making mushroom soup to freeze. Later that night I became more unwell and by the following afternoon i was in hopsital with sepsis. I can't even look at mushrooms now

I couldn't eat lasagne for 2 or 3 years because I caught Campylobacter from eating lasagne in a pub that had poor kitchen hygiene!

After a few years, I just fancied lasagne one day, so made one and it was absolutely fine, so I'm ok with it now.

Another one here who can’t eat the Lindt lindor truffles. Couple of years ago I was happily working my way through a box and my friend said it was like eating lard. Instantly that mouth feel hit a nerve and I’ve not been able to touch one since.

Thanks for that!

Got drunk on rum and black 62 years ago still can’t stand the smell

Oh wow - that sounds like much more than gastric flu. It sounds like what I had (Hep A), or campylobacter??

I'm assuming the bakery name rhymes with 'begs'? Or am I being unfair?

It could have been re-heated inadequately, but I'm sure that would only cause the usual food poisoning...what you describe sounds like (sorry) faecal contamination from handling after cooking.

I had a craze for meusli in the late 70s when I was a young teenager. My mum rolled her eyes at the numerous bowls I got through during each day.

Then I got Hepatitis A and the last meal I ate for some weeks was meusli. It's taken 40 + years for me to be able to enjoy it again! Also, I remember we had Pears soap during my illness (and before). It also took a long time before I could used that without feeling bilous.

I won't touch a certain bakery Cornish pasty after eating one and being sick for 6 weeks after. I was off work all that time with a fever and vomiting. I couldn't keep much down at all. The NHS settled on gastric flu being the cause- not an eating disorder which was frustratingly suggested by more than one doctor. God forbid being young, skinny and ill.

I lost about 2 stone I couldn't afford to lose. Then put it all back on again slowly when I got better.

Not food but I can’t drink disaronno anymore. Went to gay pride years ago, drank probably half a bottle, had to leave early to puke and it was just that stuff so it was all I could taste and smell. Haven’t touched it since.