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?

Yep, vomited during pregnancy after eating gnocchi with sundried tomatoes. Can't eat either since. I only vomited twice during pregnancy, but that dish was the unlucky one. Can't face a sundried tomato especially since.

Agreed, cucumber taints anything it touches.

I had a twix 40 years ago just before sickness bug. I've not eaten one since although they probably weren't related.

Ha ha- just even seeing bottles of anything rum related and it reminds me - I was staying at my grans villa in Spain and was sick all up her walls

Oh and i havent bern able to drink milk since primary school in the late 70,s early 80,s when we were made to drink those horrible little bottles that had been left in a warm classroom all morning 🤑
Would it have killed them to either have given them first thing or kept them in a fridge?

I wasn’t able to eat falafel for years after I was ill after eating it. I don’t think it was even the falafel that made me ill either, it was a bug.

I felt sick after eating prawn cocktail skips while I was pregnant , that was 38 years ago and I’ve not eaten them since . The thought of them is enough to make me feel queasy even now .

Chicken drumsticks since I got food poisoning from one 15 years ago.

I ate a banana when in labour. It reappeared a little later. Haven't been able to touch one since. Weirdly I didn't have the same reaction to the fruit tea I'd drunk just before the first contraction made me sick.

Years ago i used to buy chicken thighs but one day I was preparing them and one had the exact shape of a small baby turtle.
Once cooked I couldnt eat them and haver done so since.

My daughters hamster died when she was about ten and before she buried him in the garden she said he looked like a chicken Kiev and it put me off them for life haha

Not food but I can’t drink disaronno anymore. Went to gay pride years ago, drank probably half a bottle, had to leave early to puke and it was just that stuff so it was all I could taste and smell. Haven’t touched it since.

I won't touch a certain bakery Cornish pasty after eating one and being sick for 6 weeks after. I was off work all that time with a fever and vomiting. I couldn't keep much down at all. The NHS settled on gastric flu being the cause- not an eating disorder which was frustratingly suggested by more than one doctor. God forbid being young, skinny and ill.

I lost about 2 stone I couldn't afford to lose. Then put it all back on again slowly when I got better.

I had a craze for meusli in the late 70s when I was a young teenager. My mum rolled her eyes at the numerous bowls I got through during each day.

Then I got Hepatitis A and the last meal I ate for some weeks was meusli. It's taken 40 + years for me to be able to enjoy it again! Also, I remember we had Pears soap during my illness (and before). It also took a long time before I could used that without feeling bilous.

Oh wow - that sounds like much more than gastric flu. It sounds like what I had (Hep A), or campylobacter??

I'm assuming the bakery name rhymes with 'begs'? Or am I being unfair?

It could have been re-heated inadequately, but I'm sure that would only cause the usual food poisoning...what you describe sounds like (sorry) faecal contamination from handling after cooking.