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

Same with me. Was about 25 years ago. After a night out for kebab meat and chips. Was in the toilet the rest of the night. My mum had to come see if I was ok back home or needed the hospital. Never touched it since

I cannot eat tomato soup after having glandular fever 45 years ago and it was all I could eat. My lovely Mum got terrible food poisoning after eating coronation chicken and had to be admitted to hospital,I haven’t eaten it since !

Vac packed cheese from farmers market
Had some in the evening
Next day the cheddar was covered in what looked like mould.
Cue the next 7days of pooping and puking myself inside out +extreme shivering,then hot.
Passed so much watery yuk once better I had extremely painful piles.

Would have reported to trading standards but it was Xmas.

I once got an awful stomach bug that didn't go away fully for weeks, which happened to come on just after eating a feta and courgette omelette that I had always like a lot. I think it was a few years before I was able to eat it again after that.

Went totally off salmon when pregnant with DC 1 - never had cravings for anything, but went off that.

I used to love Ribena, till I had an operation on my spine about 25 years ago. When I came round from the anaesthetic, I was thirsty and drank lots of it, then I was violently sick. I've never been able to face it ever since.

How is tuna 'bloody'? It's just pink fleshed fish.

As a teen I loved crème brûlée. Unfortunately after eating one I suffered a really bad migraines somehow my brain connected the 2 and I can’t touch them even now

Sort of a vegetarian 'TV Dinner', I suppose?

40 years have passed and I still feel nauseous when I see or think of a doner kebab as a night out rite of passage made me really unwell. Similarly I couldn't eat tinned tuna as it was the last thing, along with a pre packed salad that caused gastroenteritis in 1991. It's only in the last 3 years I've been able to eat it mashed up with mayonnaise.

I used to love custard, it was my pregnancy craving and I went through a lot! Woke in the middle of the night, sat up thinking oh I feel sick next thing I was exorcist style sick across the room 🤣🤣 haven’t touched it since!

and curry for the same reasons ! Even walking past someone in the shops with either in their trolley has me gagging 🙈

I cant abide mashed potatoes - right back from primary school - and Im in my 60's now

I would love to have custard, but just the thought of it in my mouth gets me heaving

I can turn on a sixpence with food, can eat something happily for years, then just one bad experience, not soft enough, over salted or something, and I will associate that every time

You haven't missed much 😂

I only drink instant coffee because I temped at a company that sold and serviced those big coffee machines that take up half a cafe counter. I spent a day job shadowing an engineer. Seeing maggots in the milk section of a machine put me off drinking anything made in one of those things.

I had a few things that triggered morning sickness when pregnant with DS1 that put me off eating them for a good few years. Burger and Buffalo Hunky Dory's were the main two, they are not pleasant to be vomiting up whole...

Haven’t eaten noodles since watching The Lost Boys. I’m ok with rice though 😂

Also left a bag of prawn cocktail crisps in my car on a hot day years ago, ate them later and threw up. No one on the house is allowed them now.

I used to love Yop drinking yoghurt, had it a lot. Then I got one out of the fridge, necked it and realised it was off. They’re not supposed to fizz 🤢. That was 30 years ago and I’ve not been able to have one since.

I was once violently sick after eating tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce when I was seven.
I still can’t think about it without feeling nauseous.
I’m nearly 67

Around 17 years ago I was on holiday with family, had a little (ok a lot) too much to drink, leading to my first ever handover. Next morning my uncle made his usual full English with the runniest egg ever, I looked at it and ran straight for the bathroom. Haven’t been able to eat fried eggs since.

I once got sick after eating a kiwi (nothing to do with the kiwi) and haven't eaten one now in about 30 years.

I used to love nothing more than a Prawn Mayo sandwich had a dodgy one once and have never stomached them since.

I also can’t eat cold egg, and that goes back to vomiting off a hard boiled egg in childhood

Not food, but once when I was on a medication that made me nauseus, and because I had to inject it, the smell of the hand soap beforehand would trigger the nausea even before the medication was injected.

The last meal I ate before my Dad died was gnocchi. I can’t stand the thought of it now.

I also went completely off fish when I was pregnant and it took years for me to enjoy eating it again.

I have ARFID so this happens quite a lot!

If I connect feeling ill to a particular food - whether that food was what caused the illness or not, that can do it.

Textures tend to do it too, so I can be easily put off things like mushrooms (sliced slug anyone)...

Unexpected textures do it too so finding a piece of bone in a burger or piece of bacon or even just a sudden solid something in a soft thing..

I think to a degree, this is normal, your brain should stop you eating things you link to illness or non-edible items. But for some of us, its a bit over-sensitive!

Years ago we went through the fruit bat exhibit at the zoo with the kids. I came home and took out the raw whole chicken I was planning on roasting... that was the last whole chicken I have cooked.

I used to LOVE Walkers sweet chilli Sensations. One night after having snacked on them earlier that evening I woke up with that ‘I’m going to be sick’ feeling and brought the whole lot up, and, sorry if tmi, but the vomit burnt in my chest and mouth.
I haven’t touched those crisps since!