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To think my corn on the cob is making me ill

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Georgeofthejungle · 12/10/2017 00:28

I’m not a big sweet corn fan and tonight I ate a whole mini corn on the cob with my dinner (around 5.30pm) and quite enjoyed it. But now when I think about it, it makes me feel a bit sick. Is it in my head? 🤔

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sueelleker · 12/10/2017 07:09

I had a pate sandwich for lunch one day, as I was developing a stomach bug. Couldn't eat it for years. And my Mum was having mushroom soup when my Dad got whipped into hospital with a bleeding ulcer. She never ate it again.

BillyDaveysDaughter · 12/10/2017 07:15

I'm emetophobic and get really strong associations - I get nauseous very rarely, but the sensation or fear and horror rises with lots of weird things. Pine air freshener, interestingly; bread pudding; scented box hedge; most Cliff Richard songs, and the song Zoom by Fat Larry's Band.

Nakedavenger74 · 12/10/2017 07:21

Oh god. I once washed up using Morning Fresh washing up liquid and started feeling nauseous. Had my first and only migraine right there and then at age 13. I cannot even stand to look at the bottle these days.

Oddly enough that hasn't happened with gin or red wine. Which has ended up in the lavatory more times than I care to mention.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 12/10/2017 07:30

Pine disinfectant makes me queasy... guess what my mum used in sick buckets...

I haven't eaten tinned tuna after being sick in the car as a teenager. An over indulgence of strawberry boot laces was the cause, but it was dark so I couldn't see the pink, just the stench of being covered in it. My mum never worked out why it was so pink... (Fresh tuna steak is lovely though, it's the brine that exceeds my tolerance)

Guess why I haven't touched whisky since my uni days... the smell of that turned my stomach for a couple of years.

Seeyamonday · 12/10/2017 07:31

Eggs, scrambled, boiled, fried.... Boak!!!
I used to eat them occasionally, put an egg on to boil and even the thought of it had my stomach churning, never eaten one since.

AnonEvent · 12/10/2017 08:24

When you feel sick you mind automatically lingers on disgusting foods. It's like your brain trying to help your stomach out (to force the actual puke).

Last time I had noro I literally thought the words "warm cream" out loud in my head.

kaytee87 · 12/10/2017 08:32

When I was a teenager I got very drunk on vodka and orange fanta, I was very very sick the next day. To this day, I still can't look at a 2litre bottle of Fanta without feeling sick 😷

isthismylifenow · 12/10/2017 08:32

Have you eaten corn on cob before and reacted to it? Even a stomach ache or similar.

I cannot eat KFC chicken (not that I would want to these days anyway) and many years back I had a piece, was quite enjoying it, during the time I felt this sudden nausea, and couldn't eat anymore. I just cannot bear even the smell of KFC since then.

Maybe it was the fact that you were holding your food whilst eating (unless you cut the corn off). I know some people are quite adverse to handling food.

isthismylifenow · 12/10/2017 08:33

Kaytee and what about vodka?

kaytee87 · 12/10/2017 08:34

isthismylife funnily enough I have no issues with that

Tastesjustlikecherrycola85 · 12/10/2017 08:40

When I was at the start of my pregnancy, I ate a ton of olives one night, despite not liking them previously. The next day, the thought and sight of olives made me feel so sick and still do nearly 3 years later

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 12/10/2017 08:54

Yes, to pine air freshener, eugh !

Keepingupwiththejonesys · 12/10/2017 09:23

I can't eat cola cubes or anything cola cube flavoured after cola cube flavour shots making me very poorly.

Fluffyears · 12/10/2017 11:49

I used to like little tins of mandarin segments. I had norovirus and as i’d eaten them an hour before the puking started I haven’t touched them for 15 years!

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Georgeofthejungle · 12/10/2017 14:56

This food association thing is quite funny! Explains my aversion to even looking at the jar of sundried tomatoes in my cupboard when I was preg. Had to get my OH to throw them out as I couldn’t bring myself to touch the jar!! I had been eating them the night my morning sickness started.

I’m better now, I think it was just in my head and thinking about the corn on the cob was making my quesy. I could have some again though. :) I should add I am not preg (at least I don’t think I am )

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yumscrumfatbum · 12/10/2017 15:10

I cannot bear the smell or taste of rosemary. My DS used to like sitting on the rosemary plant in my garden when he was small and I now associate it with the smell of pooey nappies!

SheGotOffThePlane · 12/10/2017 15:51

Oh. I can't use batiste dry shampoo either. The smell reminds me of my early twenties when I used to go out drinking after work, stay at my friend's house in the city Centre and use it before trudging back into the office feeling delicate.

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