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

Truthfully, all it takes for me to stop eating a food is for someone to make a joke about the food while I am eating it. It can leave my diet for decades. It can be an absolutely beloved food. Once I have a negative association, I can’t take another bite.

I am autistic and the only person in my household without an ARFID diagnosis.

So many questions...

As a young child we were on a day out somewhere. This would be late 1960s; obviously fewer cars than now but also fewer motorways and bypasses so, on a busy Bank Holiday, it was not uncommon to get stuck in traffic queues trying to get through some bottle neck in a little market town.

Anyway, for a considerable amount of time we were beside another car in this queue (I think Dad assumed they were trying to push in to the queue so was doing his level best to prevent it!) There was a teenage girl in this car with the most terrible acne who was eating an orange. For months after the sight of an orange reminded me of this girl's skin and I just wouldn't touch them.

It’s no loss but years ago we got KFC and when I went to put it on the plate, oil dripped. It made me gag and I’ve not touched it since.

Doctor had to come to the house because I kept passing out. It really was horrendous.

I don’t feel as weird now! My dad doesn’t get it but I felt fucking awful. Went to a&e on day 6 and ended up on antibiotics

I basically lived on bananas for three weeks as I was so tense about a massive deadline I couldn’t stomach anything else. Couldn’t look at a banana after that for about fifteen years. Eating them again now, yum.

I had the same in 2015 and don't think I'll ever eat chicken again! I've never been so ill

I'm quite weird so I have a lot of these. I was once in a friend's caravan when I was about 8, and it wasn't very clean. There was a scattering of brown bread crumbs on the carpet and that put me off bread for about five years. I have lots of other examples of seeing bits of food on dirty floors, or down the sides of seats on public transport, where I've instantly gone off whatever food it is. Even thinking about it now is making me feel a bit anti-bread!

I have a lifelong aversion to the smell of mint because I used to get horribly car sick as a child and my parents used to suck mints on long car journeys, so I associate the smell with nausea. Oddly, it's only artificial/sweet mint that's a problem - fresh mint or mint tea is ok.

Mint desserts following a long work Xmas lunch completed by a chocolate mint souffle. Obviously it was the souffle and not the vast amount of wine served with the lunch (many years ago, different times) that caused the subsequent discomfort.

I can't eat prawns anymore . I can't even write why as it triggers me too much.

The smell of Red Bull. My DH was drinking it in the car when I was pregnant. I’ve never even tried to drink it so no idea what it tastes like but the smell instantly makes me nauseous.
Other food. I avoid are anything with jelly texture. Every party I went to as a child had jelly and ice cream. Even when I asked for icecream on its own I was always “encouraged” to try the jelly.Creme caramel is also on the list but I love set custard and crème brûlée possibly because the texture is slightly different.

I had proper flu when I was about ten and strangely ( I don’t know if someone tried to feed me soup with them in perhaps) but boiled carrots kept popping into my mind. The thought of cooked carrots still makes me want to heave 40 years later. Raw are fine weirdly.

A lot of these are quite serious, mines a bit lighter. I was working away and was staying in a just renovated boutique hotel. In my room was a fruit bowl. I'm not really a fruit eater but on top was a huge lush strawberry. I bit into it....juice everywhere....up the wall over the carpet, the sideboard just everywhere. Thankfully, the wall, side etc wiped easily. I had to drive out of the town to a supermarket and buy some carpet spot cleaner. Then panicked when I read the can that it could bleach the carpet. Thankfully it didn't.

I've not touched a strawberry for 20 years.

I saw this massive thread on Twitter about a guy who found caterpillars on a Tesco brocolli...kept them, fed them, watched them turn into butterflies then released them. It was actually kind of heartwarming.

It was about 3 or 4 years ago and I haven't been able to eat broccoli since 😭

No loss, but cauliflower cheese grills with boiled potatoes soaked for two days with a slimy stalk of mint that didnt look like any mint I'd ever picked. They were the only thing that MIL1 would cook when her son went vegetarian (and he wouldn't entertain the idea of chickpea, vegetable or lentil curry as he was equally trained to only have bland food). One hyperemesis pregnancy later and I swore I would never touch the things again as long as I lived. Oh, and his warm white bread, mild cheese and extra large spreadings of flora sandwiches that he kept in a 1979 tupperware container that smelled just like a 20 year old tupperware container would be expected to smell.

So many! I haven’t eaten a sandwich in years (unless toasted) because of a YouTube video I watched.. The guy in it was showing his hoarding/not cleaned in years house while eating a sandwich and well that was that.
As a child I was on a long car journey with my cousin who vomited Sultanas everywhere, I can’t even smell them without wanting to throw up.
At school I remember getting massive anxiety incase anyone sat next to me and ate cake and custard, no clue why but it lasted years.
Years ago I watched this show called my half ton son, he shit himself just as I swallowed a mouthful of tea, couldn’t drink tea for weeks afterwards.
I don’t know why I’m so sensitive to these things, it’s getting worse and it’s annoying.

My granny once made me a chicken soup that was so bad that I went vegetarian for ten years.

I watched a video of a chick coming out of an egg that was bought in a shop. It put me off eggs.

Are you me? 😁 Same.

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.

Not the same but aged 2ish ate lots of cashew nuts and then vomited. I still remember the dress I was wearing. Nearly 50 and have never eaten one since!

I wish!

I’m on an injection that gives me flu symptoms for about 48hrs and I start retching before I inject it now

At 6 months pregnant I had to dive off the tube at Kings Cross to vomit up the katsu curry I'd eaten for lunch. 8 years ago and I still can't bear the faintest whiff of it.

Similar issue. I threw up red jelly as a child!

It was in kind of wobbly chunks and was blood red. Horrendous.