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

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'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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

So many questions...

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.

I distinctly remember being on a family holiday in Isle of Wight, and I was ill with a stomach bug (I think I was 7 or 8 yrs old).

I had not long had an episode, and my sister was stood near me eating liquorice comforts. I couldn’t eat liquorice for years after that (but I love it know 😁!).

Not me, but one Christmas many years ago my (then primary age) daughter ate so many Lindor truffles that she was sick. She hasn’t eaten one since.

I consider that a great outcome. All the more for me, especially as my other daughter is now a vegan so doesn’t eat them either!

My DH once took the top of a boiled egg and it was bad. He’s never eaten eggs since. This was in Spain from a supermarket called Eroski. I never shopped there again.

Tinned macaron segments. I ate them and a few hours later I was down with norovirus. My mum had it a few days before. Seeing and smelling them in reverse put me off.

I can not eat a lychee.
Never had one, so I have no idea if I’d like the taste.
However, I’ve always seen them served in a small ball shape, and the thought of eyeballs just popped up in my head.
I can’t brave crunching down on an eyeball (lychee), as I’m sure I really would puke up 🤮

Wow that’s quite random!

Weetabix isn't nice on the way back up. I still can't eat it after severe morning, noon and night sickness with DS 2 who's now 14.
I also went completely off tea while pregnant and still can't stand the taste.

Got sick on my birthday cake with whipped cream and strawberries in it after getting food poisoning from Chinese food the day before .

Gammon. Threw it back when pregnant and can't even look at it now.

Any rich fruit cake.
Had some Christmas cake at my cousin's home then fell off her pony. Subsequent concussion resulted in me throwing up violently.
Haven't touched any rich fruit cake or Christmas pudding since that day 45 years ago.

Sprite / 7UP / Lemonade - not food but I had the unfortunate experience of having picolax as prep before a colonoscopy years ago which had a nasty lemon / lime flavour and now I can’t have any lemon / lime flavoured drink as it instantly reminds me of it.

Onion bhajis. Thirty-odd years ago I was so ill with food poisoning at university that I was hospitalised, and an onion bhaji was the last thing I’d eaten.

It wasn’t even the onion bhaji that actually made me ill but I just cannot shake off the association with overwhelming nausea.

I watched a nature documentary where I learned that seal milk is the consistency of mayonnaise, and didn't touch mayo for a good decade after that!

I have had 2 temporary picks that just lasted a few years and one permanent ick.

Temporary ick
Ham roll. Sat at my desk at lunch, heard the typist at the next desk go into great detail about her young son’s circumcision. Put me off ham .

Prawn cocktail. New to a company , first office Christmas meal. First course prawn cocktail. It was then that a colleague thought it appropriate to give the reason and detail of his big toe amputation.

Permanant ick. Can not eat a roll or sandwich if the filling is hot and has been buttered. Someone gave my a buttered roll with a beef burger in it. I was violently sick for an unrelated reason. Hospitalised for about a week.