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

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CrowsInMyGarden · 17/05/2026 20:14

A few years ago my friend had this weird thing where she saw a dead thing (mouse? bird?) in her garden covered in maggots and ever since then she can't bring herself to eat rice or orzo as it reminds her of the maggots. I thought this was a bit weird but a few weeks ago I was eating a curry that I had made and whilst eating a chewy mushroom my brain just screamed "snail!" I spat it out but could not eat any further mushrooms. I've not been able to eat one since. Has anyone else got the ick (can I use that expression here as it is about food and not a man?) with food they usually like? If so, have you managed to get over it and eat that food again?

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Ihopeithinkiknow · 19/05/2026 03:57

My daughters hamster died when she was about ten and before she buried him in the garden she said he looked like a chicken Kiev and it put me off them for life haha

Oxo01 · 19/05/2026 02:26

Years ago i used to buy chicken thighs but one day I was preparing them and one had the exact shape of a small baby turtle.
Once cooked I couldnt eat them and haver done so since.

Latenightreader · 18/05/2026 22:39

I ate a banana when in labour. It reappeared a little later. Haven't been able to touch one since. Weirdly I didn't have the same reaction to the fruit tea I'd drunk just before the first contraction made me sick.

CrushingOnRubies · 18/05/2026 22:35

Chicken drumsticks since I got food poisoning from one 15 years ago.

almondflake · 18/05/2026 21:48

I felt sick after eating prawn cocktail skips while I was pregnant , that was 38 years ago and I’ve not eaten them since . The thought of them is enough to make me feel queasy even now .

Rhaenys · 18/05/2026 21:35

I wasn’t able to eat falafel for years after I was ill after eating it. I don’t think it was even the falafel that made me ill either, it was a bug.

x2boys · 18/05/2026 21:22

Oh and i havent bern able to drink milk since primary school in the late 70,s early 80,s when we were made to drink those horrible little bottles that had been left in a warm classroom all morning 🤑
Would it have killed them to either have given them first thing or kept them in a fridge?

Crikeyalmighty · 18/05/2026 21:20

Shinyhappyapple · 18/05/2026 19:41

Oh - you’ve reminded me of when I was that age and was sick after drinking Malibu and pineapple juice - I couldn’t even use my Hawaiian Tropic sun cream! I can use the coconut body cream again now, and I love the taste in a curry, but I won’t drink that drink again. That’s forty years ago.

Ha ha- just even seeing bottles of anything rum related and it reminds me - I was staying at my grans villa in Spain and was sick all up her walls

Yellowsubmarine55 · 18/05/2026 20:17

I had a twix 40 years ago just before sickness bug. I've not eaten one since although they probably weren't related.

CatCaretaker · 18/05/2026 20:16

TheOnlyMooncat · 17/05/2026 21:44

I haven't eaten tomato soup for about 40 years after I had it for lunch and then we went on a long car journey. I was very car sick as a child, it wasn't pretty 😂
Also, I refused to eat cheese for about 5 years because someone snuck a bit of cucumber in my cheese sandwich. I do not like cucumber. I do eat cheese now though.

Agreed, cucumber taints anything it touches.

CatCaretaker · 18/05/2026 19:59

Yep, vomited during pregnancy after eating gnocchi with sundried tomatoes. Can't eat either since. I only vomited twice during pregnancy, but that dish was the unlucky one. Can't face a sundried tomato especially since.

Aintgointogoa · 18/05/2026 19:50

Argh a runny egg 🤢 I used to happily eat shakshuka (which is delicious) but then the runny yolk started making me queasy....and I cannot go back. I enjoy eggs otherwise (not too often) but even scrambled has to be well cooked. The albumen strands make me feel bokey too. Anything on Masterchef or similar where they are singing the praises for a perfectly runny yolk (eg ravioli) and I just feel nauseous...also for YEARS after primary school and being forced to eat cold lumpy grey mash before I could leave the dining room, meant I couldn't eat mash at all. Now it's one of my favourite things thank goodness (made my way !)

Dogdaycommeth · 18/05/2026 19:42

Kit kat chunky... I had one from a tuck shop at school and it tasted awful so ive never eaten one since

Shinyhappyapple · 18/05/2026 19:41

Crikeyalmighty · 18/05/2026 18:10

I once was very ill for 2 days after one too many Bacardi and cokes on holiday when I was19 - I’m now64 and still can’t bear the smell of anything rum related

Oh - you’ve reminded me of when I was that age and was sick after drinking Malibu and pineapple juice - I couldn’t even use my Hawaiian Tropic sun cream! I can use the coconut body cream again now, and I love the taste in a curry, but I won’t drink that drink again. That’s forty years ago.

Shinyhappyapple · 18/05/2026 19:37

Yes. I had an egg mayo sandwich where there was a big lump of rubbery egg
white. Made me gag and haven’t touched eggs since, unless the white is firmly whipped in with the yolk, eg scrambled,
omelette. This was more than 30 years ago and it used to be my favourite sandwich but there’s no way back now.

yummytummy · 18/05/2026 19:22

i can't eat prawns after being violently sick when pregnant with my eldest and had ordered and eaten a prawn chow mein. he is now 18! every time i see a prawn i feel queasy

CherryRipe1 · 18/05/2026 19:09

I can't eat packs of premade mixed rice with vegetables after I found a curled up millipede in mine.

thisistheworstpossibletiming · 18/05/2026 19:03

It took me a LONG, long time to be able to eat chocolate mousse again after a vicious bout of norovirus!!

Crikeyalmighty · 18/05/2026 18:10

I once was very ill for 2 days after one too many Bacardi and cokes on holiday when I was19 - I’m now64 and still can’t bear the smell of anything rum related

themesses · 18/05/2026 18:06

I vomited mushroom soup in my sleep as a child, about 7 or 8 years old. It ruined my favourite teddy. I haven’t eaten mushrooms since.

AggroPotato · 18/05/2026 09:12

Apple juice, accidentally took a drink of some that had gone off, didn't touch it for 20 years.

Choked on a prawn and never touched seafood since.

I have loads!

Thebibleofdave · 18/05/2026 09:11

Also I can't drink tea anymore. You know when your engrossed in a good book in bed and you take a sip and realise it's gone tepid? Well I thought it had gone that cold that a skin had formed and literally folded down my chin. Except it was a giant moth.

Thebibleofdave · 18/05/2026 09:07

Not sure if this counts but I have not been able to eat a prawn after watching the film Sharks Tale. All I hear is 'pleashhhhh don't eat me, my shishter had a baby, its fairly happy, i workshhh in the factory😥

MegMortimer · 18/05/2026 08:59

I grew up with a sibling with a range of psychiatric conditions that made him somewhat challenging to live with. There's about 5 foods that I still can't eat because they take me right back to my childhood, and memories of him eating them.

pinkpony88 · 18/05/2026 08:55

Squirrelchops1 · 17/05/2026 20:27

Those honey and lemon Lockett throat lozenges that melt in the middle.
If i just say I didn't realise thet had a laxative effect and I thought I'd let out a fart....you can guess the rest.

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