My Fear of Mustard and Pickles Is Ruining My Life

by Nicole Weston, Posted Jun 28th 2006 @ 11:04AM

Back in March, Andrew wrote a post about a woman who was terrified of peas to the point where she couldn't even be in the same aisle with them when shopping. I assumed that that was a one-off incident and that an actual fear of a food product wasn't keeping many people awake at night. While I can't actually speak to what they do with their nights, there are more food-phobes out there and they are spending their days on national TV. I saw a link to this video while reading the Amateur Gourmet. The episode of Maury is titled "My Fear of Mustard and Pickles Is Ruining My Life."

The title just about says it all, doesn't it? Watch the clip above and you can see the girl (a waitress) with the pickle phobia visit a pickle factory before they attempt to cure her. You might want to turn the sound on your speakers down, too, as there is a fair bit of screaming involved.

Filed Under: Television/Film, Food Oddities
Tags: daytime tv, fear, maury, oddities, phobia, pickle, pickles, television, tv

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7-07-2006 @2:38AM Kaylene Shepard said... My respect for Maury Povich has hit a new low. When his program was more about helping people, at least it had some socially redeeming value.
When I saw this clip, it made me sick! Whether or not this woman is for real or just wanted attention on TV;
she is clearly unstable.
That Maury is so desparate, as to support this kind of irresponsible, degrading programs, is greed.
I didn't even know he still had a 'talk show'. So, Goodnight Mr Chung. That is really the only reason we still see this idiot on TV.
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7-07-2006 @2:47AM Kathleen Atkinson Ramirez said... Don't make fun of her. This is just a wild guess from me, but most likely she was probably killed with pickles in a past life as an animal and that fear of the "horrible smell" is probably what the soul remembers the most and is afraid of. She needs to conquer her fear in this life to move on.

-- Kat (Kathleen Atkinson Ramirez)
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7-07-2006 @3:23AM Yo Momma said... This girl just wanted a free airline ticket and to be on tv, it worked!!!
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7-07-2006 @3:27AM Raquette said... Peter Piper was afraid of peppers also.
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7-07-2006 @3:28AM Stormy said... People have phobias. There are people that faint at the sight of blood, are afraid to leave their homes, or to be in a closed space. Some people fear clowns, spiders and the unknown. Unfortunately for her she has found her phobia and it is an item that can be found easily and is not scary to others. Honestly everytime I see my ex husband I have the same irrational urge to puke and commit Harry Carry. Be gentle on your condemnation, you may one day find yourself alone with a pickle.
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7-07-2006 @3:53AM Reagan said... Haha. Well I'm scared of birds and a lot of other things but not pickles
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7-07-2006 @6:03AM Deejay said... Maybe the pickle is this girls' "baby daddy". Isn't that what most of Maury's show are about now????
hahaha
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7-07-2006 @10:20AM G Carey said... Okay... when I was a child my grandmother told me a story about a woman who could not enter a house if there was a cucumber in the refrigerator or anywhere else. Now, she didn't mention allergy, just that the woman got sick or "detected" the cucumbers as she walked in the door. Apparently, something about the smell or whatever she detected bothered her. I always thought it was funny and then dismissed it.

Welll... fate being what it is, later in life I developed allergies to many substances. Not cucumbers, but other things. I now can walk in a house and detect mold, mildew, water, etc., and if I smell something very pungent, it makes me very sick. It's actually neurological. The brain overreacts to what it thinks is toxic, and it's very real. It's a form of neuropathy.

Soo, ladies and gentleman, the little girl (moi) who thought it was funny, doesn't think it's so damn funny anymore. It changed my life

Perhaps this girl has a response that even she is not aware of and it affects her "fear" centers in the brain. Thus, she isn't really afraid, but her brain is telling he so.

Stranger things have happened.

Now lighten up... Pickles anyone?

Later Taters
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7-07-2006 @6:49PM Victoria Nicholson said... If that girl was'nt molested by a pickle shes a whiney crybaby.Someone hit me with a pickle or
threw one on me Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Get
a life if someone threw a pickle on you"Lift me
like an olive branch.Be my homeward dove"Cohen.
I have a paranoia of people with black hoods over
their face and knives. I have a phobia of wideness.
I fear boxers.I'm scared of a girl who is training
to be a nun.Who always gives me the evil eye and
tells me she hates me in private but when shes
surrounded by other people and we are'nt standing
secluded at the mall or library . She acts all nice.
Hypocrite.Vengeful.I've been called ugly by 50 or
60 people that I never provoked.My dad told me my
eyes were going to turn blue and never be green.
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7-07-2006 @7:00PM Victoria Nicholson said... I don't like pickles but Im not going to whine about
it.Now I dig parsely, cilantro, guacamole, kiwi,
olives, grapes, raisins, almonds, oranges, apples,
banannas.
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