Fond farewell, favorite food.

[FilmGeek]

I love the green bean dish that can be found at a lot of Chinese restaurants. They have a drawback, though. Whenever I eat them, I get swollen lips. This wasn't a problem until yesterday when my tongue started doing the same trick. Not one to mess around with anaphylactic shock, I'm not going to be indulging in any of these again any time soon.

No more tasty garlicy green beans for Filmgeek.

What foods can't you have that you love due to allergies, spousal aversions, medical conditions, monetary restrictions or other reasons?

[FilmGeek]

Maybe, now that I'm not distracted by my huge greenbean lips, I'll remember to subscribe to my own threads.

[Burrido]

WOW chips. I loved munching on chips, but hated the fat/calories. I don't have the intestinal/bowl problems associated with WOW chips, rather the tip of my tongue tends to get very numb.

[Capt B. Phart]

What foods can't you have that you love due to allergies, spousal aversions, medical conditions, monetary restrictions or other reasons?


Pumpernickel (or any dark rye bread) love it, makes me fart like a fruit-bat, so off the menu.

[PussyCow]

I have a sad story. I cannot eat salmon. I recognize that it is a very tasty fish, but it makes me sick, and here's why.

My mother went to Alaska for six months at one time and she went fishing. She caught a buttload of salmon and had it canned for bringing home. She gave me a few cans. It was very delicious salmon.
One day I got stoned. I got stoned and I got the munchies. I thought it would be very yummy to eat some salmon. So I ate a whole can. A whole can all by itself. Then I opened the second can. About halfway through it I discovered that I was really not feeling well. The taste and smell of the salmon was overwhelming. I was very nauseated.

I have not been able to eat salmon since. I find it very odd that I recognize how yummy salmon is, but my silly brain has created an aversion to it and I get nauseated if I try to eat it.

[foxymoron]

Corn Nuts.
leenmi can't stand the smell, so I can't eat them around him.
But he's out of town a lot, so why don't I eat them when he's not here? Good question.
Guess what I'm buying tomorrow.

[Ephemera]

I've yet to run into a food that I like that has averse effects on anything other than my ass and waist, thank god.

And I love Chinese style string beans.. I usually get at least half a plate of them whenever I go to my favorite restaraunt in Salem. I'll try not to eat too much of them if or when I ever take you there. :D

[percypercy]

Some day I'll stop eating fresh strawberries. It only bothers me when they're fresh, like I'm just washing and eating them. But my lips itch, sometimes my palate. Still I can eat strawberry jelly, strawberry pie, anything else, and it doesn't bother me at all. I'm not sure if it's the cooking process or it's something in the hairs but damn it triggers the allergic response.

[betenoir]

I love the green bean dish that can be found at a lot of Chinese restaurants. They have a drawback, though. Whenever I eat them, I get swollen lips. This wasn't a problem until yesterday when my tongue started doing the same trick. Not one to mess around with anaphylactic shock, I'm not going to be indulging in any of these again any time soon.

No more tasty garlicy green beans for Filmgeek.



:dubious: But...what is it that causes that reaction? Green beans? Garlic? Seems to me if the resturant uses something (MSG?) that you react to you could stll come up with some version you could eat. Just trying to be optimistic :>.


Me? I can't think on any food I've given up...but then the only thing I've ever given up because it was bad for me was heroin...

[pepperlandgirl]

I had to give up sour cream entirely, and guacamole, since apparently some people make guacamole with sour cream.

I should give up ice cream. I really, really should. I regret it every time I eat it. But I'm weak.

so weak.

[ShadiRoxan]

Sandwiches. I love them. They're the perfect snack. Apparently my pregnancy hormones didn't agree with that. They just tasted weird. I'm slowly coming back to them as long as the lunchmeat doesn't have too much flavoring. No honey ham, smoked ham or baked ham, just cooked ham.

I try to keep my husband from eating seafood around me. It works for the most part. I can't stand the smell, especially not right now.

[jsgoddess]

Peppers.

Oh, I can eat bell peppers, but I don't like 'em.

But chiles? Jalapenos? Banana peppers? Nothing doing.

I used to put banana peppers on sandwiches and on pizza and green chiles in my scrambled eggs and hot salsa on my tortillas and everything was good. But lo, there was a disturbance in the force and they started to make me want to off myself just to feel better.

Strangely, I can eat those vicious little red-brown peppers in Chinese food. *happy dance*

[overlyverbose]

Restaurant Indian food. I think many restaurants must put MSG or just too much fat in their recipes. Even if I go to a buffet, I manage not to eat much (usually just get one plate, and not an overloaded one), yet every single time I eat Indian food out, my legs feel heavy and I get heartburn. I don't experience the same thing when I make it at home, but I use an Indian cookbook that provides tips on how to reduce fat in the recipes without losing flavor, so I assume it's something to do with how they make the food at the Indian restaurant we go to. It's even worse at any other Indian restaurant - this is the best of the bunch. We don't go very often anymore - my stomach just can't take it.

I can't think of anything else that adversely affects my palate or stomach. There are foods I will not eat - brussels sprouts and plain ricotta - but those are based solely upon pure dislike. Any other adverse food effects are caused by overeating (which I make strong efforts to avoid). Though I did get food poisoning from shrimp once that sent me into several fever-induced seizures. That doesn't happen every time I eat shrimp, but I try to avoid bottom-feeders now, just in case.

[cher3]

I really can't indulge too much in fresh citrus or pineapple, or I'm looking at a mouthful of canker sores.

I also recently discovered that tomato sauce in quantity is a bad idea. Pizza is okay, but spaghetti, no.

And dark chocolate gives me a tummy ache, too. Poo.

[bouv]

Coffee beverages.

I don't drink coffee mainly because I don't like the taste, but I do think that's more beacuse I don't like the taste of cheap coffee. I ahve gone into nice coffee places, ordered something, and liked it. I can't usually remember what the somethign is, suffice to say I do like cappuccino. But coffee beverages do not agree with my stomach. They make me horribly queasy. I don't know what it is, but about five minutes after I'm done, my stomach feels like it's doing jumping jacks. It's not a "I'm gonna vomit" feeling, or a heartburn feeling, it's just a feeling of wrongness in mt stomach. So, alas, I pretty much don't drink anythign that comes from a coffee bean.

[Khadaji]

All fizzy drinks, including both beloved drinks: Diet Pepsi and Beer. :(

I just had some work done on my stomach and I am forbidden fizzy stuff. And although I miss them, I may not return to drinking either beer or diet soda if he ever gives me the go ahead. I suppose I am probably healthier without.

[FilmGeek]

Ardred can't drink coffee or he gets diarrhea something awful.

As for the beans, I think maybe it's the sesame oil. I rarely have sesame oil, but I eat all the other ingredients in quantity. The lip thing has only happened with one other food, the lasagna at a local fancy italian place.

[N. Sane]

Onion rings. Those delicious, greasy, crispy morsels of oniony goodness. They give me the most disgusting gas--we're talking toxic nerve gas here. I personally can live with it, but my family refuses to be within two rooms of me within an hour after I've eaten onion rings, so I save them for very rare occasions (like when Mr. N.Sane's out of town).

I can't complain too much, though. Mr. N.Sane got kicked out of the living room at his sister's house after a sumptuous repast of kielbasa, kapusta, and pierogi. IIRC, he slept on the couch that night, as I didn't want him anywhere near.

[zoid]

Escargot. Now I know some people find hem disgusting - and if they're not made properly they can be pretty bad. But when done well they are fantastic.

The only problem is that my face and hands swell up like baloons if I eat them. It was never that bad, but it's getting worse. The last time I decided to give them a try I was actually considering going to the hospital :(

[Anne Neville]

Indian food, particularly the spicy chickpea dish and the yumminess that is samosas and other fried goodies.

Before Passover this year, my in-laws took us out to eat at an Indian buffet near their house. I very much enjoyed the food at the buffet, but after dinner, my stomach started feeling a little off. By 5am the next morning, I was sicker than I can ever remember being from food poisoning. Samosas used to be one of my favorite foods, but I can't stand the idea of them now. Haven't been to an Indian restaurant since, either, and I used to love Indian food :(

[FilmGeek]

That aversion might pass, Anne. I had a friend who got herself a huge snickers blizzard. She ate the whole thing and then started getting sick. She got sicker and sicker (it was the flu) and vomited copiously onto her dorm room carpet.

She couldn't eat ice cream with stuff in it for years and still can't eat ice cream with snickers in it, but she can now eat snickers and ice cream.

So, there is hope.

[Khadro]

The list of foods I do not eat at home because my wife hates the taste/smell:

Coffee
Tea
Beer
Wine
Squid/Octopus/Prawns
Tomato (fresh only, sauces and cooked tomato are fine).
Really hot chillies
Slightly pink inside steaks
Vegemite
Sour Cream
Rye Bread
Avocado

The list of foods she does not eat because I hate the taste/smell:

Crabmeat.


End of Lists. We have such a balanced relationship :D

[chaoticbear]

Butter beans. The canned ones. I got on the hugest kick on those for a while. Ate them at least once a day. Then my mom bought some frozen ones and tried cooking them. I got scarred from ever eating butter beans again.

[tygerbryght]

I love the green bean dish that can be found at a lot of Chinese restaurants. ... Whenever I eat them, I get swollen lips. This wasn't a problem until yesterday when my tongue started doing the same trick. Not one to mess around with anaphylactic shock ...

What foods can't you have that you love due to allergies, spousal aversions, medical conditions, monetary restrictions or other reasons?
(Still catching up)

For all those who get swelling somewhere on/around their heads from foods: Either benadryl or chlortrimeton (chlorpheniramine maleate) will usually relieve the symptoms. For many people, they will even allow modest indulgence in the Forbidden Fruits. Dunno about swellings elsewhere, but it might work. Ask Your Doctor.

Things I can't eat/drink:
egg yolks (discovered before I was old enough to remember): When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher insisted I eat a boiled egg along with the rest of the class (at Eastertime, maybe?). Shortly afterward, I barfed on her shoes when I went to ask her to let me go to the restroom. I'll bet she never made another kid eat an egg! :p I can eat most things with eggs in them, and I certainly can eat meringue (egg whites), but no French toast (unless made with lots of milk) or egg custard (under any circumstances; it tasted wonderful going down, not so great coming back up). Gotta ask that my fried rice be made without eggs when I get the urge. Effects: see above.

legumes, except for very young peas (seeds not mature, usually includes Chinese peapods, yay!) or beans (seeds barely begun to form, like in French-style green beans); peculiarly, there are periods of my life when I can eat peanuts. Effects: make my tummy very unhappy.

raw tomatoes, or cooked, with skin and/or seeds, or ketchup; thoroughly cooked tomato sauce, and things made therewith, are just fine. Effects: give me the lip swelling, only it's mostly the upper. Looks weird.

fresh strawberries, same as tomatoes, just not as bad.

from 18 or so until sometime not long before my 20th birthday, I drank coffee ... lots and lots of coffee. Then, suddenly, even a sip of it gave me horrendous heartburn. Love the smell, love the taste, but can't take the fire in my chest. Good thing I also love tea, and have since childhood. :)

probably not an allergy, but - too much animal fat (i.e., lard, etc., excluding butter), unless a very low percentage, and thoroughly mixed (ground) with lean meat makes me really ill. When eating a slice of meat, I hafta trim off all the fat, even narrow "veins" of it. Makes me really ill. I've often speculated that I got a defective model gall bladder. :dubious:

[Broomstick]

Due to allergies, I can't eat

Tomatoes (which I never liked anyway - if every time you eat something you get Projectile Vomit From Hell you quickly learn distate for it)

Corn (But I like corn!)

Barley (But I like barley! Used to cook it as a side dish, like rice, and put in soups and stews and bread. And beer - no more beer and I love beer! I've had my last Guinness Stout :( because breathing take priority)

Lentils (But I like lentils and fallafil and lentil stew...)

Peas (that's OK - never liked 'em anyway)

Oranges (meh - I could take 'em or leave 'em)

Peanuts (this makes eating in Thai restaurants a death-defying feat. And I do miss my Reese's peanut butter cups :( )

[yBeayf]

For a while I was having the problem of whenever I ate Thai food I would experience near-instantenous liquification of all intestinal contents, followed by the usual consequences. Through examination of commonalities of ingredients, I narrowed the culprit down to either fish sauce or squid. I recently made a Vietnamese stew with lots of fish sauce, and had no problems, so I guess it's the squid, which is good, because there's plenty of Vietnamese and Thai food without squid, but not much of it without fish sauce.

For years I couldn't eat chili or hot dogs, after an experience that combined a jumbo chili dog and severe gastroenteritis. Luckily, I'm over that one now.

[Harriet the Spry]

I love the green bean dish that can be found at a lot of Chinese restaurants. They have a drawback, though. Whenever I eat them, I get swollen lips. This wasn't a problem until yesterday when my tongue started doing the same trick. Not one to mess around with anaphylactic shock, I'm not going to be indulging in any of these again any time soon.



In no way am I suggesting you mess around with anaphylactic shock, so obviously talk to your doctor. But I will tell you my story. I have gone through the whole rigamarole with the allergist for food and non-food allergies.

I get the swollen lips thing from MSG (which is in a lot more stuff than Chinese food). In general, whenever something savory tastes way too good to be true, that's MSG, in my experience. True food allergy to MSG is rare but adverse reactions are widely reported. MSG works by stimulating the taste buds. For me, stimulating is another word for irritating. So this could be a benign reaction, or there's a small possibility it's a true allergy to something else. An allergist will probably tell you a true food allergy to MSG is highly unlikely, though. I avoid MSG, because in addition to the swelling it often leads to canker sores, but I don't worry about it killing me. If you get this reaction from flavored potato chips, that would be one way to informally see if it's MSG bothering you.

What I don't eat is shellfish, though. Even though the test came out absolutely no shellfish allergy, serious projectile vomiting has resulted on one too many occasions. This may be a sensitivity to a preservative, or maybe an extreme prevalence of inadequate refrigeration. I'm just not going there again with the shellfish.

[picunurse]

I love the green bean dish that can be found at a lot of Chinese restaurants. They have a drawback, though. Whenever I eat them, I get swollen lips. This wasn't a problem until yesterday when my tongue started doing the same trick. Not one to mess around with anaphylactic shock, I'm not going to be indulging in any of these again any time soon.

No more tasty garlicy green beans for Filmgeek.

What foods can't you have that you love due to allergies, spousal aversions, medical conditions, monetary restrictions or other reasons?
When my husband was about 10, he and a friend stole some watermelons from a neighbor's garden. They ate a lot of watermelon. The friend got sick, so hubby got sick.
Now 30 years later, nurse can't bring watermelon inside the house.
I miss watermelon, but I'd miss the love of my life more ;)

[Lynne_kilii]

I can't have anything with caffeine in it. My nose goes numb. Don't know why. If I have say, 2 cans of coke worth, my cheeks start to go numb too. Irritating! no one has been able to give me an explaination, either.

[Ms Boods]

I used to like bread and butter pickles, quite a lot. I would eat maybe 1 or 2 on their own, and of course put them into sandwiches.

As a treat, my mum sent me a jar whilst I was in grad school. Yummy! A whole jar just for me. So I ate about a dozen slices whilst preparing for a 3 hour seminar, and then when off for class...where I spent the next 3 hours desperately fighting the urge to vomit. Crikey was I queasy. Haven't tried them since.

On the positive side, I know potential for 'lost foods' can be averted. When I was wee, my big brother was baby minding me one night, and he made us pizza. A few hours later, after I went to bed, I woke up and knew I had to vomit, so I calmly went along to the loo and unloaded the pizza. My brother came running (turned out it was the flu), and I was more upset that I wouldn't be able to eat pizza again, because of the association of pizza 'n' puking.

My big brother, who was of course my hero, dismissed this as nonsense, and said of course I would be able to eat pizza again. And of course he was right, because, well, he was my big brother.

Come to think of it, I haven't thrown up since that night, too. Even reverse peristalsis has respect for my big brother...hmmm...

:)

[The 27th Evil]

Coffee without food is starting to make my stomach go wonky. I could cry. I need that caffeine and really can't eat that often.

[overlyverbose]

What I don't eat is shellfish, though. Even though the test came out absolutely no shellfish allergy, serious projectile vomiting has resulted on one too many occasions. This may be a sensitivity to a preservative, or maybe an extreme prevalence of inadequate refrigeration. I'm just not going there again with the shellfish.

Not sure if this helps; however, my doctor told me, after a bout of projectile vomiting and fever-induced seizures caused by getting food poisoning from shellfish that, since they're "bottom feeders," shellfish tend to eat all the sludge and crap from the bottom of the ocean/lake or wherever it is they come from. He said that because shellfish absorb all that crap, and shrimp especially sometimes have that vein right down the middle that many restaurants fail to remove, lots of people get sick on shellfish, though they might not be allergic to them. I wish I had done more research on that comment, but it made sense to me at the time, and more or less still does, especially when you consider that a lot of shellfish are caught right off the coast or near it, where I think there tends to be higher pollution density.

[eno801]

tacos de tripitas bien doradas. the united states banned them for fear of mad cow disease. man I miss them.

[Aragowyn]

Like cher3, pineapple will give me canker sores. I don't think it's the acid however. I've had the new engineered low acid pineapple, and it's the same problem. I can eat all sorts of citrus fruits and enjoy extra strong lemonade.

The pina allergy started in my early 20s and I denied it for years because:
1) I grew up eating a LOT of pineapple without any problems.
2) at first the sores came days after, making identification of the culprit difficult.
3) I absolutely love pineapple.

By the time I was in my late 20s my sensitivity was such that the first bite would instantly make my tongue swell, so I couldn't deny it anymore. I mourned the loss desperately. Once in a while I'd give myself just a nibble just in case the allergy has gone away or is just in my head. It hasn't and isn't.

Speaking of the benadryl trick, I tried it once. Well I tried claritin. It was on a trip to SE Asia; we were served a plate of the juiciest, cheeriest yellow pineapple I'd seen in a long time. Canker sores be damned, I had one piece. It was divine. Then I told myself, maybe if I practically swallow the next bite whole, I'll be ok. Choke risk be damned, I gulped a second piece. Then I felt the swelling. Some of you know it well. The top of your tongue feels raw as it gets pushed against your upper molars. I knew it was time to stop and I said to my friends, "I guess I'll be swishing my mouth with benadryl & mylanta tomorrow" (a trick for relief that my doctor once gave me). Then one of my friends suggested taking Benadryl orally. Since I carry claritin with me to prevent hiking-induced hives (that's another story), I popped one. Waste of a good claritin.

I don't know if it's because I didn't take it before eating the pineapple, or if benadryl would work where claritin doesn't. Maybe I should try benadryl next time. But I don't really like using my gums as a ginea pig and the tongue swelling thing is a little scary.

And as if the pineapple allergy happening to me, someone who loves all food & especially fruits, isn't bad enough, the other day, the tongue swelling thing happened for the first time after eating kiwi. Nooooooooo! Not kiwi!!!!!!!

[cher3]

Broomstick, I think falafel is usually made with chickpeas, if that makes any difference.

[Broomstick]

I don't know if it's because I didn't take it before eating the pineapple, or if benadryl would work where claritin doesn't. Maybe I should try benadryl next time. But I don't really like using my gums as a ginea pig and the tongue swelling thing is a little scary.
Benadryl and Claritin are NOT the same thing!

First of all, if I recall correctly (and I may not) Claritin works by blocking your histamine receptors - problem is, if the allergic reaction has already started the horse is out of the barn and it does no good to ask Mr. Claritin to bar the door at that point. Claritin should be taken before the reaction starts up.

Truthfully, Benadryl works better when taken before, too, but the drowsiness side effect kind of blows. However, Benadryl will work after a reaction starts. In fact, 50 mg of Benadryl is a standard treatment in the ER (along with other stuff) for severe allergic reactions. In the ER they can even give it intraveneously for really fast relief.

Lately I've been carrying those Benadryl tablets that dissolve in your mouth for "just in case" - a pharmacist told me they are absorbed faster (would be nice if a Doper with medical credentials could confirm/deny this, hint, hint) which would be a good thing in a serious situation. They're labeled "children's", but that just means each tablet has a child size dose - so as an adult I figure take four to make 50 mg. As always consult your doctor beforehand. I am not a doctor, I am not telling you what to do, I am just telling you what I do, which may or may not be a good idea for you.

[Broomstick]

Broomstick, I think falafel is usually made with chickpeas, if that makes any difference.
It would make a difference if I could trust the kitchen, but the cook getting either careless or creative could make me seriously ill for days. To top it off, Middle Eastern restaurants, at least in this area, frequently have this problem called "a language barrier" which can make communicating difficult.

Which is why I end up doing a lot of ethnic cooking at home - it's the safest way to enjoy these tidbits. Some purist usually comes along at some point and screams "no! NO! no! NO! - you're not doing it right!!! but hey, that's the other cool thing about doing my own cooking - I can make it the way I like it.

[tygerbryght]

Benadryl and Claritin are NOT the same thing!
...

What s/he said! AFAIK, the only things that will work on the kind of reactions discussed here are either Benadryl and ChlorTriMeton. I think they're considered to be of the same drug "generation", even though the benadryl didn't come out until a long time after. I can't use benadryl. I don't sleep, I don't merely bounce off the wall; I bounce off the ceiling. And even ChlorTriMeton doesn't put me to sleep. It interferes with my sleeping for the first few days when I start taking it in the spring, but then my body readapts, and I sleep normally.

But it is something to remember, if you (or someone around you) starts having a bad reaction. If you can get either of the above, stick it under the person's tongue.

(I got Xanax #2 that way last Thursday after they were an hour late starting on me, and before having dye and a tube threaded through the vein that joins the two major leg veins. Neither the Xanax nor the rest was any fun. I complained about the nasty taste of the pill, and yelled (better than moving!) when the tube was being put it - that hurts.)