What food can or has given you the ick.

You know how to can get turned off of eggs if you get the egg ick.

Well I've gotten that with coffee and pomegranate molasses too, what foods have done that for you?

And bonus, anybody know why that happens?

Also the ick isnt just getting bored of smth after a while, it's one event that ruins that food for you. Also can't be a food you are having for the first time. Ideally if it is being consumed in a normal way and its not the preparation of the food that ruins it.

Beeps ,

I get the chicken ick often throughout the year. I can eat it grilled or slow cooked any time. Baked or stove top gives me the ick at least a third of the time. It’s mostly a taste and texture thing.

Unrelated but I haven’t been able to eat chicken parm for 15+ years. I ate it as a school lunch (the chicken patty on spaghetti noodle kind) and threw it up during sports practice after school. I remember the awful breading taste and noodles hanging from my face mask.

ValiantDust ,

You know how to can get turned off of eggs if you get the egg ick.

I don't think I do know actually. But here's an attempt at answering this question anyway:

And bonus, anybody know why that happens?

We are usually very quick at relating sickness or even discomfort to the food we ate at the time or slightly before. This is a very valuable trait to avoid food that is unhealthy or even poisonous. But it's only based on correlation, so it can turn us off food that is not actually causing the sickness but we just happened to eat at the time.

breadsmasher ,
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I get it but specifically with alcohol. For example having a very bad, messy night on scotch- just smelling it will now cause me to heave at least.

yngmnwntr ,

I quit drinking this way, one booze at a time!

folkrav ,

That’s rhum for me…

I_am_10_squirrels ,

Plain water. One time when I was young, I got thirsty and drank a lot of water straight from the tap. Then got sick and threw it all up. Now I have a hard time drinking plain water. I can drink water with flavor, I can drink water with food.

xilliah ,
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What about bottled mineral water?

RebekahWSD ,
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Peanut butter smells bad. Peanut butter smells like mouse traps.

No one else could set them (disabled, or cried about it) so it was all on me

Can't stand the smell of peanut butter now

boogetyboo ,

I'm extremely allergic to it. I smell it and I can't actually describe it as food - it just smells like danger.

Hadriscus ,

Are you able to tell it is toxic to your system by the smell alone, or do you recognize the danger by association ? because you've been stung before ?

boogetyboo ,

It's so hard to say because the allergy has been present my whole life - many exposures. The same thing goes for the taste of peanuts/peanut butter - I couldn't actually describe how it tastes because I'm about 30s from throwing up.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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I knew pb was used in roach traps, didn't know its also used for mice. Thats cool

RebekahWSD ,
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It's the easiest thing to use, as it clings to the snap traps. Other items can fall out.

Sometimes they manage to lick the traps clean without them going off. One day, a better mouse trap...

Vanth ,
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My mom was cooking some beef and brown sauce dish as I was reading a book with cannibalism at way too young an age. I associated that smell with eating human flesh for over a decade and would have to leave the house as it was cooking.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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I would actually love to try human meat at some point

folkrav ,

Apparently similar to pork, but tougher.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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Which brings me to my followup, I've always wanted to try pork. Have had bacon once but thats all.

Thats bc I live in a Muslim country and its very illegal

ouRKaoS ,

BBQ pulled pork is delicious & readily available in a lot of places. I hope you get the chance to travel & pig out one day!

Hadriscus ,

One of my favourite meats, there's so many ways to make it delicious. I also live in a muslim place and it's very hard to come by, although not illegal

Hadriscus , (edited )

Ruins food ? an event ? like what event ? I'd be quite mad any food were ruined for me

Hm, reading the comments I understand better. Fortunately I can't say I have experienced anything traumatizing enough to keep me off any food

Masamune ,

Shrimp.

A friend pointed out to me that shrimp are basically the cockroaches of the sea. They just float around and eat fish poop all day. So gross and I can't even.

Barzaria ,

Cream soda. I had a plastic dinosaur shaped cup to drink from one summer and was required to keep it the entire time. I drank a 2 liter of cream soda over a couple days then every single other thing I drank from it tasted like cream soda. Water, milk, other soda. For a whole summer. I don't drink cream soda now. Weirdly enough, my brother, another dinosaur cup haver from that summer, loves cream soda.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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I NEED these dino cups

StaySquared ,

Canned chicken. One time I decided to buy a can just to see if I can take a break from eating canned tuna (would have two cans of tuna as a meal)... the moment I opened the canned chicken I was like nooooooope. It smelled fkin gross.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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Yeah that sounds disgusting.

jmbmkn ,

Car sickness while eating a blueberry nutrigrain bar and now I can't eat anything with cooked blueberries. I used to love eating blueberry muffins.

Maul535 ,

Went to a party once and ate a bunch of nacho cheese doritos among other things. Ended up getting sick from some undercooked cookies and I could taste the doritos when I threw up. Now I get queasy just thinking about them

StephniBefni ,

Blueberries.

My family has never been financially in a good place, but especially when I was still very young. From what I understood my grandmother had a friend who owned a blueberry farm, and one day my mother brought home a giant thing chock full of blueberries. Deal was we could wash, package, and freeze them. Then we could have blueberries all year.

We went to work, though my help at that age was largely superficial, but we filled most of our freezer and all of a rolling cooler which was going to my grandparents. All washed in the colander and packaged in ziploc.

The other thing my parents would do was make enough dinner for the whole week. They both worked, my dad had 3 jobs at somepoint, and I often went with my mom to hers. So when we all got home it was easy to just nuke whatever had been made rather than make it then.

This week's dinner was mac'n'cheese and hot dogs, yum right! Except no, my mother forgot to wash out the colander and it was all blueberry flavored. One week of blueberry flavored mac'n'cheese was enough for me to grow a healthy distaste for blueberries.

klemptor ,

American cheese, because I threw up once as a kid after I ate some. Honestly no big loss, I wouldn't eat American cheese now even if I'd never thrown it up because it's a trash cheese.

Also, any meat where I can tell what it once was. I don't want to eat anything off of a bone, or anything's skin, or god forbid a fish is served whole. Growing up we used to have whitefish sometimes on the weekend and no fucking thank you.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
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You have definitely been called a picky eater by your parents haven't you.

klemptor ,

Ha, actually no! But that's because my sister was wayyy pickier than me. Her diet primarily consisted of hamsteak & oodles of noodles for a long time.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Gin, I think.

It's debatable about whether this counts for the question, but I'm commenting because this wasn't a case of "drank too much, was very sick" kind of story, which many people have about alcohol. Basically I was at a small party and I downed a shot of clear liquid that I believed to be vodka. It was not.

I didn't even know there was any gin in the house, I hadn't seen anyone drinking it. I wasn't keen on the taste of gin before, but the unexpectedness of the taste was so bad I was sick. People were concerned because they worried I was overly-drunk, but it was entirely the flavour that did it. Now, anything that tastes or smells remotely similar to gin makes me feel sick.

Though even if we are counting gin as a food here, this is very much gin not being consumed in its normal way - I have never met anyone who would choose to do a shot of neat gin.

AmosBurton_ThatGuy ,
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Mushrooms.

Everything about them disgusts me, from the way they look, to the way they smell, the texture they have and the disgusting mouldy, dirty taste. Even seeing them growing in the ground grosses me out and I'll take a wide path around them to avoid going near them.

Outside of magic mushrooms, they have literally zero redeeming qualities. I hate them with a passion and it's basically the only food I never grew out of hating.

13esq ,

Same, although I tolerate a mushroom here or there now, I never select them to eat by my own choice.

I was in a cafe recently and the table next to me ordered mushroom soup, the smell nearly made me sick, I was pretty hungover that day though!

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