Foods that irrationally yuck you out

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I bought some duck eggs from an honesty box the other day and I’ve made soft boiled eggs with asparagus and an omelette with them. both times I’ve felt a bit strange eating them even though there’s very little difference to hens eggs. I have absolutely no idea why.

Also when I was a kid I’d only have milk at my own house, and if I stayed over at friends would only eat toast for breakfast.
 
I know someone with an irrational fear of eating small round things . . . like peas. To the point if one accidentally ended up on his plate, he'd leave the whole plate.
 
I hate ketchup and baked beans but don't mind people eating them near me, although there are times when ketchup absolutely honks and it does put me off my plain(seasoned) food. One thing that always made me feel sick or want to walk away is kids eating coleslaw near me at primary school. God that was disgusting, school coleslaw. And their breath afterwards as well, dear me. I can still feel the horror of it now.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I hate ketchup and baked beans but don't mind people eating them near me, although there are times when ketchup absolutely honks and it does put me off my plain(seasoned) food. One thing that always made me feel sick or want to walk away is kids eating coleslaw near me at primary school. God that was disgusting, school coleslaw. And their breath afterwards as well, dear me. I can still feel the horror of it now.
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I hear you Viv, it's called mortuusequusphobia and I used to suffer from it. For me it was the glisten of the sauce, it looked artificial, then the slight vinegar smell despite the act I love vinegar on chips. I used to get really tense if people ate ketchup near me and I wouldn't even touch a ketchup bottle
 
BoroMart said:
I hear you Viv, it's called mortuusequusphobia and I used to suffer from it. For me it was the glisten of the sauce, it looked artificial, then the slight vinegar smell despite the act I love vinegar on chips. I used to get really tense if people ate ketchup near me and I wouldn't even touch a ketchup bottle
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That is literally the first time I've ever heard of that! For me it is one of those smells, along with coleslaw and occasionally mayonnaise, that seem to sort of touch the back of your throat instantly. And then you can't really get rid of it.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
That is literally the first time I've ever heard of that! For me it is one of those smells, along with coleslaw and occasionally mayonnaise, that seem to sort of touch the back of your throat instantly. And then you can't really get rid of it.
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It was exactly the same for me, coleslaw and mayo....but weirdly I could eat mayo on a chicken sandwich if shop bought but I couldn't ever pour it on a sandwich myself, I'd gip opening the bottle. I was always apprehensive first bite with a shop bought sandwich though. I got fixed by The Speakmans on This Morning within an hour. You can find it on youtube.
 
bear66 said:
I love garlic in most things but can't stand the smell of the goo sauce that people bring out of kebab shops.
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That 'sauce' is horrible. It smells so bad it is borderline offensive. To the point where even if the other half orders it on the odd occasion we order a pizza I'm a bit put out by it because of the smell, and it being in the house.
 
BoroMart said:
It was exactly the same for me, coleslaw and mayo....but weirdly I could eat mayo on a chicken sandwich if shop bought but I couldn't ever pour it on a sandwich myself, I'd gip opening the bottle. I was always apprehensive first bite with a shop bought sandwich though. I got fixed by The Speakmans on This Morning within an hour. You can find it on youtube.
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I could never eat mayonnaise or ketchup on anything at all as a young kid and it used to drive our Mam and Dad up the wall, especially on holiday when we would eat out every day. If we ever ordered a burger our Dad would always have to ask for no relish, no sauce, no mayonnaise. Which doesn't seem like a lot of bother but he must've had to do it hundreds of times down the years. He couldn't just take his family out for a meal and relax, it was always fraught with worry about relish and sauce and anything arriving on the plate that hadn't been specifically ordered.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I could never eat mayonnaise or ketchup on anything at all as a young kid and it used to drive our Mam and Dad up the wall, especially on holiday when we would eat out every day. If we ever ordered a burger our Dad would always have to ask for no relish, no sauce, no mayonnaise. Which doesn't seem like a lot of bother but he must've had to do it hundreds of times down the years. He couldn't just take his family out for a meal and relax, it was always fraught with worry about relish and sauce and anything arriving on the plate that hadn't been specifically ordered.
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I still don't eat ketchup but it doesn't freak me anymore.

I did agree to do a link segment for This Morning about a year after they fixed me. They sent a crew to meet me on my lunch break in a private room in a local pub and filmed me eating burger and chips absolutely smothered in ketchup....that was a challenge but I did it.
 
While there are things I don’t like and I don’t eat meat through choice, I can’t think of anything that would make me toss my breakfast if I consumed it. Scratching my head here, mentally going up and down the aisles in Tesco.
 
Was it so bad you had to go on This Morning? That's excellent! I'm not sure I ever got to those levels but I still don't eat any of the things listed. Apart from aioli sauce now and then, or maybe a bit of tartare when the mood takes. I will never, ever be able to eat coleslaw.
 
BoroMart said:
I still don't eat ketchup but it doesn't freak me anymore.

I did agree to do a link segment for This Morning about a year after they fixed me. They sent a crew to meet me on my lunch break in a private room in a local pub and filmed me eating burger and chips absolutely smothered in ketchup....that was a challenge but I did it.
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Was it so bad you had to go on This Morning? That's excellent! I'm not sure I ever got to those levels but I still don't eat any of the things listed. Apart from aioli sauce now and then, or maybe a bit of tartare when the mood takes. I will never, ever be able to eat coleslaw.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Was it so bad you had to go on This Morning? That's excellent! I'm not sure I ever got to those levels but I still don't eat any of the things listed. Apart from aioli sauce now and then, or maybe a bit of tartare when the mood takes. I will never, ever be able to eat coleslaw.
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My wife made me go on as she was terminal with cancer and wanted to know that I wouldn't scream at the kids for coming near me with ketchup when she was gone. I'd probably have banned ketchup from the house and passed the same phobia on to them by now if I hadn't gone on
 
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