As children a majority of us grew up with food hang ups. Hamburger wasn’t my thing but I have grown out of that as well as being a picky eater. The question is have we truly out grown them? I can’t help but think of Everyone Loves Raymond’s character Robert Barone who would touch his food to his face before eating it. Yes, it was a character on a television program although these strange hang ups exist. I remember a friend who couldn’t have his foods touch each other on the plate. My sister’s friend had to smell everything before she ate it. Another friend's child would only eat cereal or lettuce. Have our childhood food phobias overlapped into adulthood, why can’t we get past them?
What brought this on
In my recent food escapades someone at the Mason Dixon Master Chef competition said they didn’t like goat cheese, said it was a childhood thing and to this day can’t eat it. They wouldn’t explain the phobia. So I started to think about this, thought is was fodder for a post. A number of people can’t eat foods because they got sick from eating it once or the odor reminds them of something else. Mushrooms, peppers and olives seem to rank high in textural phobias and then there is the cilantro. I’m not talking allergies but hangups, quirks and/or phobias.
Do you have a food phobia? Care to share?
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Comments
I hate canned tuna. no, I don't mean I just dislike the taste of it, but I regard it as my enemy, and I like a menu less when I see it on there, even if it is the elegant Italian tonno vitello.
When I was young, I several times saw tuna salad, and thinking it was chicken salad, took a big mouthful of this nasty stuff, which I think is why I now regard it as not just a dislike, but an enemy.
I used to eat sliced tongue as a child UNTIL my mother brought it to the table whole....that finished that
Hated mayonaise as a child - I don't hate it anymore, but I only eat it on certain things where i can hide it like cheese steak subs. I also couldn't eat butter on anything unless it was completely melted - still prefer it that way but I'm not as particular about that anymore.
I won't eat lima beans if I can help it, but I'm certainly not afraid of them! So no, no food phobia.
So glad I stumbled onto this article! I'd love to hear from people who live in the Los Angeles area and have a food phobia of any kind for a new food based documentary series that I'm working on.
If anyone is interested in chatting with me about their phobia, please get in touch with Jessica at KiernanCasting@gmail.com ASAP.
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