User post: What Scares Me Most: Food Phobias

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  Posted by who me? Wed May 6, 2009 2:40pm PDT

  Jello totally creeps me out! It cant be natural to put that substance in your mouth! YUCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!

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  Posted by G Wed May 6, 2009 3:11pm PDT

  I think certain foods affect you when you are pregnant. With my son I was grossed out by beef,with my daughter I could'nt eat green beans.Weird.Now, I hate mushrooms, they are so slimey.

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  Posted by Susan Wed May 6, 2009 3:54pm PDT

  My food phobias: mayo, sour cream, cream cheese, cheesecake, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, or any other kind of cheese. Cheese freaks me out, it is so gross. I can't just scrape it off of something. If any of the above items have touched my food, I can't eat it. Maybe these aren't phobias in the clinical sense of the word, but I'm tellin' ya, I can't go near those foods, or smell them. And if I ever accidentally smell milk that has gone bad again I don't think I'll live to tell about it. That is the absolute worst smell.

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  Posted by Susan Wed May 6, 2009 3:57pm PDT

  Oh yes, I can relate... back in the day when I ate burgers, I ordered a burger from a drive-through with no mayo and no cheese. My burger had both mayo AND cheese! I was STARVING and had already pulled away so I had to go back through the line (late night so only drive-through was open) which was huge because the bars had just closed and everyone wanted some late night food. I was NOT happy!

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  Posted by Eddieslilangel Wed May 6, 2009 4:42pm PDT

  EeeWww! Mayo, mustard, squid, jelly, shrimp (tastes good-just the texture freaks me out), chunky tomato sauce, chunky soup-all makes my tummy curl.

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  Posted by mrscolbert Wed May 6, 2009 7:34pm PDT

  Eew. I hate mayonnaise too... I don't understand the point. It doesn't taste good and it adds useless sludgy calories. But I'm not afraid of it... I can generally scrape mayonnaise off the burger and then eat it without a problem.

  I usually only get squicked out by foods I've thrown up before. Once I taste something on the way back up, it's hard to force another one down, ever.

  Case in point: Burger King Steakhouse Shroom and Swiss Burgers (and typing that made my stomach do a backflip.) I used to eat those all the time when I went to BK... then I ate one back in January and came down with an awful stomach flu a few hours later. Never. Ever. Again. Buuuuuuuuuuuh. I can still eat burgers fine, but no more burgers with mushrooms and brown sauce on them.

  That, and lingonberry pancakes. Those are my "phobias."

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  Posted by ckandw Wed May 6, 2009 7:54pm PDT

  wow i have many and mostly it has to do with the quality of the food...i hate fast food and any place that i think has cheap quality food it really grosses me out...so we cook and eat at home most of the time...unless i'm going some where nice and i know the food is higher quality i just can't eat it...

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  Posted by Apple Thu May 7, 2009 6:01am PDT

  mrscolbert, I understand trying something again just to make sure and then getting sick on it again. Yes... never. ever. again. No mushrooms for me either.

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  Posted by Habanero♥™ Thu May 7, 2009 6:21am PDT

  Susan you must be in incredible shape. You have phobias to foods that most get fat eating.....!!! Lucky you.

  My phobia is ground meats........................ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

  I have worked in the food industry my whole life. Making ground meat is gross. Also most markets rewrap ground meats with a fresh outer coating when they don't sell in the coolers.

  Oysters..............Phlegm !!!

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  Posted by Thu May 7, 2009 6:58am PDT

  I actually like mayonnaise. I dont think it tastes that bad, however,

  i cannot bring myself to eat broccolii. ever.

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