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A boyfriend once told me that if I ever wanted to make him cry, I could serve him scrambled eggs on a Wednesday night in the winter. I had no particular interest in making him cry (though that changed later on...), of course, but I asked him why. He wasn't especially keen to elaborate, but it had something to do with childhood, and his mother having choir practice, and his now-estranged father taking over kitchen duties the only way he knew how.My best friend's husband is only now, at 35, accepting small wisps of mayo on his sandwiches after an incident 25 years ago involving his older, stronger brother, a spatula, and a family-sized jar of Hellmann's. My own grandfather, the child of immigrants who settled in a small Pennsylvania town, refused garlic for the first several decades of his life for fear of, in his words, "smelling Italian". It breaks my heart to know that, and it absolutely underscores the massive emotional impact that certain foods can have on us.
Food is uniquely powerful in that besides our multi-sensory involvement with it, it also becomes part of us. While other aesthetic details -- songs, smells, etc., may imprint themselves on our memories of situations both joyful and otherwise, they're not as likely to, well, make you feel like you're gonna hurl. It goes deeper than an aversion to taste or scent or mouth-feel. Food certainly warms the soul, but it can also make it heave.
My trigger food? Tuna-noodle casserole. And no, I don't wanna talk about it.
What are the foods that hit you where you live? Let it out in the comments -- we're here for you.
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1-23-2008 @1:07PM G. Godfrey said... My "yuck" food is oatmeal and cream of wheat. I became an aunt at the young age of 10 due to my older sister. My mom used to fix my nephew and me a hot bowl of wheat in the winter before I left for school. This particular time, my nephew was ill. My mom tried to get him to eat a few spoonfuls just to have something on his stomach. To my surprise all that was put in his stomach went right back into the BOWL!!! Needless to say, I haven't had oatmeal or cream of wheat or anything that resembles it since then, and I'm 47 years old now. I was simply traumatized!!!
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1-24-2008 @12:37AM Sherita said... Blackeyed peas..........yucky ..they look like bugs
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1-23-2008 @8:35PM Janet Fields said... turkey and fishy fish...tuna casserole is nasty too!!
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1-23-2008 @10:28PM Rosalyn said... SPINACH.......don't cook; it tastes like what I would think seaweed tastes like when cooked. Serve fresh only.
TOMATOES.....best when eaten fresh. Again, do not cook, ruins the flavor.
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1-24-2008 @11:30AM Jenny said... Collard greens or turnip greens and fried chicken with the skin on. The hair still shows sometimes and that is so nasty. A lot of southern foods are gross to me especially the ones full of grease. Vienna sausage is also so gross with the congealed fat gel in the can.
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1-25-2008 @2:12PM Malinda said... It's a type of lunchmeat called Souse (I hope I spelled it right) It looks like gelatin with hunks of disgusting weird pig parts YUK
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1-25-2008 @2:30PM Joanne said... Mayo... I went to fast food joint and ordered a fried fish sandwich.
There was more mayo then fish patty. Gross!
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1-25-2008 @3:02PM Derek Stamper said... I must share my #1 and my oohh so close #2. I grew up in at the unfortunate time when folks thought calfs' liver was wonderful for you, chock full of iron and all that rubbish. My father was somewhat of a disciplinarian with a military background so we were often reminded of the starving people around the world when we struggled at the dinner table trying to force down our throats something exetremely disagreeable to our stomachs. When liver was served you could see me still at the dinner table hours after everyone else was gone gagging on each piece as I held my nose forcing down my throat. For awhile i got tricky, put a piece into my mouth then sneak it out and under the table where our bassett hound gladly whoofed it down. That didn't last too long as I got caught and dad made sure Missy (our bassett hound) was securely tucked away in another room. There were (5) five of us kids around the table growing up but alas I was the only one who could not get the liver down. My youngest brother made the unthinkable mistake of requesting liver for one of his birthday dinners (tradion we had growing up) and needless to say the other four of us pulled him aside and made sure that never happened again.
The #2 item, greenbean casserole. Yeeech! I like greenbeans and I like fresh mushrooms but canned mushroom soup to this day makes me gag. Guess what's still a tradional side affair at both Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday dinners...? You guessed it, greenbean casserole. Thank goodness I am an adult now with the right to choose! Oh, and as for my kids....they don't have to eat what they do not like!
Jammer
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1-25-2008 @3:24PM shaun said... virginia peanut soup 6 years "sober"
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1-25-2008 @3:49PM Nuthowsen Yankorich said... I hate all types of fluffs. All fluffs taste like raisin heimers and I despise raisin heimers. I hate any kind of black chutney mixed with lime and a dash of flour.
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1-25-2008 @4:13PM Tia said... OATMEAL...there is nothing more revolting then awakening in the morning to what appears to be "vomit in a bowl." As a young child my Mother would insist we eat breakfast before school. Having 3 children to ready, this quickly made concoction was the breakfast of choice. My sisters would enhale theirs joyfully while I adamently refused. This resulted in my Mother making me gag it down - COLD! To this day I can't bare to look at, touch or smell the stuff!
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1-25-2008 @4:25PM Kirby said... OKRA.!! As a child i thought my mother was boiling sluggs for dinner,I refused to eat them and spent many a night at that kitchen table. I dont allow okra in my house
VEGETABLE SOUP - If you want me to pass out cold on the floor show me a bowl of veggie soup (I feel faint thinking about it)
AND MY BIG YUCK- pears, thats right pears the texture of a pear reminds me of an apple with dirt on it.
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1-25-2008 @5:55PM Jim said... Meatballs are disgusting to me. My dad makes them, and they suck! I could stomach tuna noodle casserole much easier, or even lima beans....Would rather eat pasta with chicken, a vegetable primavera, or fish....
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1-25-2008 @10:18PM lola said... i know most people who aren't from or don't know anyone from the south might not even know what the hell this is, but chitterlings are the most wretched, disgusting smelling things IN THE WORLD! Anyone who has ever smelled them would agree. Anyone who hasn't, consider yourself lucky. The smell literally sends me running out of the house. For those who don't know, they're pig intestines. (Who the hell thought up that bright idea?)
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1-25-2008 @4:43PM Kirby said... #141 That was the funniest thing I have ever read. I had to get up and get water from laughing so hard. Was your mother really that bad at cooking?
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1-25-2008 @4:55PM Cathy said... Any thing with onions, red or green peppers and garlic totally gross food....make me have to go to the bathroom for hours...you get the idea not a pretty sight :/
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1-25-2008 @4:59PM Cathy said... besides the onions, green and red peppers, I can't stand being near someone chewing gum...Makes me want to wretch. Could be because I couldn't chew gum when little because I had braces...I don't know why really but the smell makes me want to.......burp..oops barf. lol
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1-30-2008 @7:55AM Deb H said... COOKED or dried Fruit...ewwww! No way, ever, at all. No pies, no syrups, no sundae toppings, no Jams, jellies, muffins with fruit, ice cream with fruit, no trail mix, no raisins. I have never ever like it. It just tastes old and rotten. It's soft and gushy, or the dried stuff sticks to my teeth. Yuck. Ew. Strangely, though I do quite enjoy wine. Wine is really old fruit. Call me odd. (I LOVE fresh fruit, though).
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1-25-2008 @5:20PM Missy said... In America, judgment is spelled without a second e.
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1-25-2008 @5:28PM Phyl said... Anything REMOTELY like mayo-salad dressing/creamy salad dressings of ANY kind/plain cream cheese/sour cream/plain yogurt....
make my stomach turn just looking at them.
Smelling them...the only word that seems appropriate is 'VILE.'
My kids probably never tasted mayo til someone else introduced it to them at school or something. I could never understand how anyone could make their kid eat something so disgusting!
Oh, the other stuff that looks totally disgusting to me is those nitrate-filled lunch meats (my son always thought ham looked like "old ladies' legs!") Those "loaf" things with pimentos or something in them....bologne, salami, pastrami with those fatty things in them, deviled ham or SPAM. Totally gross.
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