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

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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?

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

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 🙈

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 !

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

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

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

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.

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

I wish!

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 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.

Are you me? 😁 Same.

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.

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.

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.

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 😭

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 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.

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.