Food Phobias?

Just curious to see if anyone else has any weird food phobias/habits?  Because I SURE do...

• I'm literally scared of mayonnaise.  If it touches me I'll scrub the skin raw washing it off.  Same goes with mustard.
• I can't eat ketchup unless it comes out of a packet and is room temperature
• If I'm handling/cooking with sour cream (won't eat it by itself for MONEY) I won't breathe the whole time until it's incorporated into the recipe that I'm making
• Salad dressing--can't do it.  Even if I make a vinigrette myself and know that I like the ingredients and know exactly what's in it, once it's incorporated into a dressing it somehow becomes repulsive
• If I have to touch/handle a bottle or jar of a condiment or dressing I have to put plastic bags over my hands so I don't come in contact with the jar

Definately. But I'm pretty much forced to get over them because of recovery :(

-I agree with you on mayo. Just knowing how much crap is in it makes me want to hurt
-peanut butter. Though, I'm trying to get over my fear of it
-Real sweets. like, made with REAL sugar and REAL butter. I will stay out of the room or the house if I know it's in my house
-Oils. Olive, canola, vegetable. It goes hand-in-hand with mayonaise and butter.
-Cauliflower. It seems like Broccoli's evil albino cousin. It's not fooling anyone, and yet it still tries. har har
-Bread/brad-like products like pastas and most cereals. Don't trust it.
-Meat. Mostly things like ground beef, chicken, pork, etc. I don't mind fish, but only if it's fish or squid (if I'm making it for my family), I can't STAND touching the other stuff unless I have plastic/rubber gloves on.
-Cheese. It's utterly gross and gets all nasty when it's melted

Indeed I do =P Mostly it's ingredients rather than an entire food though

1. Mayo
2. Salad dressings and oils
3. Enriched flour
4. Sugar/honey/agave nectar/HFCS/whatever sweetener
5. Pasta
6. Full fat dairy (or anything but fat free..yesterday I almost bought skim cottage cheese but saw that it had 2 fat and ran back for the fat free)
7. Red meat
8. Hydrogenated oils
9. Cool Whip
10. Potatoes

I used to be deathly afraid of peanut butter, carrots, and popcorn but I've gotten over those.  EXCEPT I avoid popcorn with any butter or salt like the plague =P  I pop my own at home in a brown paper sack and just eat it plain!

direwolf689-I agree with you on the cauliflower!  It's like broccoli minus everything that makes broccoli good!

for the record there isnt any "crap in real mayo" it is oil, eggs and a couple other things my mom makes it homemade it isnt "crap" processed food is crap

 

no offense or anything i just wanted to put it out there

jeez did you guys get in a really bad 'food' fight at school when you were young?! Most of the foods you've all described you can find at school menus in the cafeteria. A strange relation to the horrors of growing up I suppose? lol

 

CELERY.

Cant stand HEARING it or SEEING it be eaten by others around me.

Yeah, I had a hard time eating lunches at school when I was young.  I remember that on Pizza Day they'd have a salad with ranch dressing which meant that I didn't eat that day because there were possibilities that the dressing a) could touch me, or b) could touch my other food.

Everyone's got their something weird about them, right? XD

Original Post by malibu2008:

for the record there isnt any "crap in real mayo" it is oil, eggs and a couple other things my mom makes it homemade it isnt "crap" processed food is crap

 

no offense or anything i just wanted to put it out there

 AGREED. It way better for you than the reduced fat kind, that has so many ingredients in it i will never be able to count.

ok so food fears:

teddy grahams: i was sick when i was little and puked, that wa the las thing i had eaten, needless to say they make my mouth water like i'm gonna vomit just walking passed them in a store

Mushrooms: My grandmother died of stomach cancer and swore they were what gave it to her

Corn mixed with things ( that aren't other vegetable ): so like rice dishes, cornbread, i hate if they touch anything else on my plate. My great aunt owned a hog farm and the pigs would eat the corn and then dig through their poop to eat it again. eww..... I've actually kinda gotten over this one cuz I've always loved corn

Potato skins or canteloupe rinds... touching them makes my hands feel dry and itchy.

high fructose corn syrup - EVIL.

Oh, and I can't have two things with sauces/broth/gravy on the same plate. I hate when gravies mix together!

Slurpies - I once threw up from one when I was little and havent had one since.

hamburgers- i really am scared of them

mac and cheese- i cant take a bite, which is weird because I lke cheese and I like pasta, just not when the cheese is melted onto it.

pumpkin spice lattes from starbucks.

my junior year of high school i had to go whale watching for a biology class. background info: i havent thrown up since i was 8 years old before this day...also on a whalewatching trip. SO i decided to play it safe, i wouldnt eat breakfast. heard somewhere that pumpkin settles your stomach...so i picked up a nice little latte. as soon as the boat left the dock, i had to lie down...it sucked. ended up falling asleep, and woke up surrounded by my orange puke. it was awful. luckily those are the only two times i can even remember throwing up in my life :)

now that it's pumpkin spice season again, and i now WORK at starbucks, my stomach still gets a little tipsy when i smell/make it. i couldn't ever drink one again!

 

edit to add: i LOST points off my grade for throwing up on board! :( so lame...

Nutmeg - Old wives tale that a tall glass of warm water and a scoop of nutmeg will cure anything.

Pastrami - Threw up a hugeeee portion

Yogurt - I used to chew yogurt when I was younger because I thought that that was the way it made your teeth stronger. Once I chewed it for a tid too long.

Soggy Cereal - My sister used to like soggy cereal. She would let it sit for at least an hour before digging in. Also, we didn't have a garbage disposal in my house. So I would have to flush it down the toilet. This turned me off of cereal until I started living in an apartment with a garbage disbosal.

Raisins - They hide in ALL the best foods and you never know until you're chewing on one.

since i've recovered from my ed, i've gotten over my fears of every food except for pasta. white, whole wheat; doesn't matter, i can't eat it or i freak out.

Wow, I'm glad i'm not the only one with a food phobia!  Thanks for sharing :)

HFCS is a definite no-no for me. I won't eat it. I refuse to. I'm also terribly particular about my bananas- when they are just 5 minutes ripe they are delicious. If they have been ripe for a day and have a different 'smell' I can't eat them. It's nuts and inconvenient.

The skin that comes on salmon or any fish for that matter but salmon always comes with it. I saw it once without but crazy expensive.

• Tuna
• Sourkraut
• Sardines
• Anything real slimey&fishy (Veg*n anyway)

I whole-heartedly agree on anyone who says that mayo is repulsive.

I know it's not crap-I despise the texture, the globby, fatty grossness, and the fact that one of my 9th-grade friends compared it to semen.

I would never, ever, partake in the consumption of such a vile atrocity.  Not real mayo, not lite mayo, not Kraft mayo with olive oil-none.

Im right there with skinnyogi.... I absolutely have a phobia with Bananas...

I don't know where this came from though I can smell a banana a mile away, they are always around the damn house and my family keeps them even after they start turning a little black... I feel as though I've thrown up in my mouth anytime I am around them.

I refuse to have anything to do with them, they are absolutely disgusting!

I know someone who is afraid of bananas.

My sister cannot bear to have something that "can look at her" - if her fish comes with the head as a decoration as it does in some restaurants, or prawns head-on, she cannot eat it. It scares her!

Foods that actually REPULSE me... Mayo, I admit, does make me gag. So does liver, tripe, organ-related food.

I get paranoid as to whether I will react to foods, thanks to my intolerance, but this has lessened.

Raw potatoes!!!

Get it away from meeee!