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

[CrowsInMyGarden]

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 lost 17lbs and 1/3 of my hair. NEVER AGAIN

Years ago, I ate a salad then made myself sick by drinking too much vodka.

For a while afterwards, I had an aversion to vodka … and salad. If I looked at either in the supermarket, a wave of nausea would pass over me. I find it strange that despite knowing it was the vodka which made me sick, part of my brain clearly believed that both were dodgy and should be avoided.

I was defrosting a pork joint when I noticed the liquid coming from it was bright green. I threw it in the bin and googled it as the pork looked and smelled fresh. Apparently its a chemical reaction caused by freezing and is totally safe, but I haven't been able to eat pork since.

This does pass. I couldn’t eat cucumbers after getting sick on too many Hendricks gins one summer in my early twenties. The stomach ‘memory’ lasted about a decade. I’m fine with cucumbers now.

Smells can have such violent associations.

The smell of the hand soap in all nhs clinics makes me feel shaky and weird as it takes me back to the days when my eldest was on NICU and I had to wash my hands with it multiple times a day. I had post natal pre eclampsia and was trying to pump my milk in and was in a very bad place physically, and the sensation of feeling weak, shaky and scared comes right back. So odd.

Scallops lomg time ago I brought a bag of scallops up home from devon thought better prepare them and freeze them nearly through the sack (10Kgs)opened one it was very off sorry the whole lot had to go in the bin still don't like them or even looking at them

I can’t face drinking milk just the thought makes me want to heave! I often wonder if something happened as a child with milk but I can’t remember anything and mum has no idea either!

Crab meat, I used to bloody love it, but then got food poisoning from a crab salad 30 years ago and haven’t been able to touch it since.

Took a bite out of a fresh tomato from the greenhouse as a child and it was warm and slimy inside - made me retch, haven't eaten a fresh tomato since (which is a shame as they look nice, but I've tried and just can't do it)

I had a burger during my first chemotherapy session. Now the idea of one makes me feel sick.

I love curry but whilst in India I had what I think was covid. Between that and the emotional sadness I felt for some of the animals, I just stopped eating whilst I was out there. I can barely touch curry now. Something that would be a 'go to' choice and I just can't.