Any food traumas you have?

[Saint Nick]

Lemon Meringue Pie. Never again.

 

[coloumb]

None that I know of - however, I can't stand the taste of brocolli or black licorice.

My wife is allergic to Soy [vomit, face swells up, etc]

 

[AstroManLuca]

I can't enjoy tequila because the first time I got majorly drunk was mostly from tequila. It's just disgusting to me, don't care how good anyone claims this or that brand is, it's all equally disgusting to me.

There are other things I simply won't eat or drink (oysters, most organ meats, cow's milk by itself), but only because I don't like them, no trauma involved.

 

[SpiderWiz]

Made me a little sick just looking up the picture. Made some as a teen, must have been spoiled. Was sick for two days.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I used to have an aversion to onions, but got over that in my early twenties. Still won't eat them raw.

Got food poisoning from a Taco Bell Chilito (sp?) twenty years ago, and just the thought of eating at Taco Bell still makes me nauseous.

Had an aversion to eggs of any style for a couple of years (don't know why), but now eat eggs several times a week.

Got sick from a fried bologna sandwich when I was ~13, haven't had bologna since. Also can't stand any form of heavily processed meat.

I guess I've had a few traumas...

 

[BoomerD]

Do liquors count? Can't do Captain Morgan's at all anymore. I don't even remember exactly what happned, but it was bad.

I'm that way with bourbon whiskey. I got way drunk on the stuff when I was young...can't tolerate the smell of the stuff, even now...more than 40 years later.

 

[ahenkel]

Brown Rice. Had to eat it once as a kid. Puked it up on my plate. Mom got a new plate and a second serving made me eat it. Puked that up too. This went on 4 times till I managed to hold it down long enough to satisfy the parents. Won't ever do brown rice again. Also the smell of pears makes my stomach do backflips.

 

[brandonb]

Onions - just don't agree with me, gives me indigestion and onion burps which are nasty.
Lima Beans - Forced to eat them as a kid and thought they were horrible, haven't eaten any since I was 6 years old.

Other than that, I'm good.

 

[Anubis]

i do not have a food trauma

there are things i dont eat because they taste like crap however

 

[Paladin3]

Coffee. When I was 12 I mistook my mother's unsweetened iced coffee for a glass of A&W root beer and stole a drink. I swallowed it without choking, but haven't tried coffee since.

I make coffee for my wife most mornings when I cook breakfast, and the smell still puts me off.

Edit: What's with all the parents forcing kids to eat large amounts of food they hate? We have a rule that you try new foods before saying you don't like them, and all my kids love vegetables, but forcing a puking/crying kid to eat any food to the point that it traumatizes them is barbaric.

 

[SunnyD]

Honestly, no. I can't think of anything I wouldn't eat, particularly if I don't know what it is.

There are a few things I won't eat simply because I know what it is and the "thought" of it disgusts me... liver, tripe, century eggs, animal testicles, etc. However I'd probably eat liver and/or tripe should it be prepared in a dish and I not know what it is.

My son on the other hand has severe sensory issues, particularly with food textures. He's slowly getting over them, but he will tell you he hates beef (steak, but oddly recently I've prepared it in such a manner that it nearly disappears off his plate). He used to gag at the presence of any sort of beef in a meal. He throws a fit about mushrooms and olives as well.

 

[Joseph F]

Do liquors count? Can't do Captain Morgan's at all anymore. I don't even remember exactly what happned, but it was bad.

The same thing happened to me except I remember barfing all over my friend's kitchen floor, then later I threw up all over myself while I was asleep.

 

[dank69]

I once ate a lot of a certain type of candy and got really ill. For years I would throw up even if I just ate 2-3 pieces of that type of candy.

Man candy?

 

[CurseTheSky]

Most seafood. Shellfish specifically, but anything fishy smelling / tasting will do it.

When I was 10ish, my parents threw a small party, and people were eating shrimp with cocktail sauce. I decided to "act like the adults" and try one... except, no one told me you were supposed to peel it first. Crunch crunch crunch, *hurl*. I still enjoy canned tuna if mixed a very specific way, I've eaten breaded crab cakes that I enjoyed, I've had really good smoked salmon, but lobster, shrimp, or any sort of fish by itself makes me sick just from the smell, let alone the taste.

On my brother's 12th (?) birthday (Dec 23rd), he had some cheap yellow cake with nasty vanilla frosting, nasty vanilla ice cream, and egg nog. The combo of all three together was just way too much, and I got sick. To this day, I can't drink egg nog, and some dairy products still turn my stomach. I can only drink milk if it's ice cold, or with certain things like chocolate or peanut butter. I do enjoy yogurt and certain cheeses, though.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Food trauma? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard of one.
Pansies!

 

[PingSpike]

I had some turned smoked turkey when I was like 10....after the vomiting it took maybe 3-4 years before I could eat it again. I loved smoked turkey.

I couldn't eat combos for a few years after I somehow got sick off those. I don't even know how its possible to get sick off of combos, those things probably have a shelf life of 200 years.

I would literally retch when even smelling bananas from the time of my earliest memories until maybe a few years ago. I still don't think I could eat one but I seem to be able to consume them in smoothies now and they aren't unpleasant. Apparently I loved them as a baby...I suspect I was overdosed on them and had a vomiting incident that forever changed me.

 

[Fayd]

nope. there's some foods i don't eat, but there's no trauma assosciated with it. i just don't like the idea of them. (oysters, for one.)

 

[JulesMaximus]

My Step Dad once forced me to eat steamed cauliflower and I puked it back up onto my plate after one bite. Strangely, I don't mind eating it now though.

Cheesecake used to disgust me as a kid too but I love it now.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Tomato Soup. I used to love it, but after heaving up a whole can when I was sick, the smell of it just turns me away now.

 

[TwiceOver]

I had a real hard time with non processed chicken after getting food poisoning. I bit into a chicken chimmechonga (sp?) right into raw gelatinous feeling chicken and knew right then I was in trouble.

Haven't eaten at that restaurant since.

 

[D1gger]

Orange Juice.

One New Years Eve I was had to work late and arrrived at the party at 11:45pm. Attempting to catch up to the drunken revelry going on around me, I downed a shit-ton of screwdrivers. Worked for about an hour, then I spent the next 12 hours puking my guts up. Definitly experienced alcohol poisoning.

Funny thing is I still drink vodka, but I can't stand orange juice.

 

[slayer202]

Chicken patties, a staple of school lunches of my childhood. I still get nauseous if I get a whiff of that shit. Of course school lunches are something like 4 or 5 times more expensive now than when I was in the 6th grade. But I bet they still serve that vile trash.

for me it's clear haribo gummy bears

 

[moshquerade]

Orange Juice.

One New Years Eve I was had to work late and arrrived at the party at 11:45pm. Attempting to catch up to the drunken revelry going on around me, I downed a shit-ton of screwdrivers. Worked for about an hour, then I spent the next 12 hours puking my guts up. Definitly experienced alcohol poisoning.

Funny thing is I still drink vodka, but I can't stand orange juice.

Hmmmm... this is similar to an episode I had with pre-mixed screwdrivers that I was chugging out of the bottle at a party for no good reason.

But... I have no problems with orange juice, just orange juice and vodka.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

In kindergarten the kid across from me vomited up his cheese doodles during snack. To this day I still haven't tried them.

 

[Iron Woode]

I will eat just about anything.

I have no food trauma at all.