# A trypophobe's nightmare meal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653 "2011-12-01T02:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/1 "2011-12-01T02:32:04Z")
Holey moley! How disgusted would you be if [this](http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/restaurants/review-sundays-fine-dining-offers-well-priced-seafood-specialties-in-a-hip/1203856) was brought to your table? I saw this in today’s St. Petersburg Times and gasped. Why not just bring me a lotus boob on rye. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/2 "2011-12-01T03:07:35Z")
Holes don’t bother me, so I think it looks interesting. Wook - Are you in St. Pete, too? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/3 "2011-12-01T03:33:30Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Holes don’t bother me, so I think it looks interesting. > > Wook - Are you in St. Pete, too? I am! I tried to post to your thread about us being in the saddest city but it got disappeared. Then I was sad:p ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/4 "2011-12-01T04:14:57Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Holey moley! How disgusted would you be if [this](http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/restaurants/review-sundays-fine-dining-offers-well-priced-seafood-specialties-in-a-hip/1203856) was brought to your table? I saw this in today’s St. Petersburg Times and gasped. Why not just bring me a lotus boob on rye. I wouldn’t be disgusted, I would be impressed. I’d have thought that was a piece of art from some famous artist I’d never heard of. I would have nodded approvingly and started clapping. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/5 "2011-12-01T04:46:44Z")
Looks just kind of like little pretzels, if anything. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/6 "2011-12-01T05:35:12Z")
I’d eat it, once anyway. After all, it seems to be no more than Italian/Floridian sushi, and there’s nothing there except the lotus root that I haven’t had before. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/7 "2011-12-01T05:43:00Z")
I’d be disgusted that I’d have to order more food in order to felt like I’d eaten anything at all, lol. Not much there…that’s more of a snack than any kind of meal, and from me that’s saying something, as I can’t eat much at once…I tend to feel full very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/8 "2011-12-01T10:52:43Z")
Look at his [smug face](http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00201/tas_review_sunday11_201162d.jpg), laughing as if you were you were actually getting an entire meal! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/9 "2011-12-01T13:17:39Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I wouldn’t be disgusted, I would be impressed. I’d have thought that was a piece of art from some famous artist I’d never heard of. I would have nodded approvingly and started clapping. Ah, but do you have an aversion to holes? My point is not the ingredients of the dish but those god forsaken holey things on the top of it. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/10 "2011-12-01T18:22:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I am! I tried to post to your thread about us being in the saddest city but it got disappeared. Then I was sad:p Aw, that makes me sad. But maybe we’ll bump into each other some day, most likely not at that restaurant though. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/11 "2011-12-01T21:06:53Z")
I thought trypophobes were just scared of pits - that there was some instinctual response that there’s a possibility there’s something inside the pit. Those are just holes (possibly the cross-section of a pit), with nothing in them. (Not that I’m saying you didn’t trigger on it - I’m just curious.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/12 "2011-12-02T00:42:28Z")
Are trypophobes scared of Swiss cheese? That dish looks great to me. I love lotus root (it’s crunchy, like water chestnuts) and sashimi. ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/13 "2011-12-02T00:52:17Z")
Looks very pretty to me…not a pear person, but the rest of it sounds good. Nicely presented… ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/14 "2011-12-02T17:01:38Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I thought trypophobes were just scared of pits - that there was some instinctual response that there’s a possibility there’s something inside the pit. Those are just holes (possibly the cross-section of a pit), with nothing in them. (Not that I’m saying you didn’t trigger on it - I’m just curious.) Maybe I’m not actually a trypophobe; heck, I didn’t even know there was a word for it until I read it here and I’m not exactly \*afraid \*at the sight of them. I just get an extreme feeling of _revulsion_. And yes, I find Swiss cheese oogy, though to a lesser degree. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/15 "2011-12-03T02:14:17Z")
I feel the same way after seeing this: WARNING: Gross, scary and stomach-turning Photoshoppery!! (sorry, I don’t know how to spoilerbox.) Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > **[Is This a Breast Rash Caused by South American Larvae?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/south-american-larvae-breast-rash/)** > > Photograph supposedly depicts a breast rash caused by 'South American larvae'? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/16 "2011-12-03T03:28:35Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Maybe I’m not actually a trypophobe; heck, I didn’t even know there was a word for it until I read it here and I’m not exactly \*afraid \*at the sight of them. I just get an extreme feeling of _revulsion_. And yes, I find Swiss cheese oogy, though to a lesser degree. Revulsions count for phobias too. Irrational fear, disgust, or hatred of is what the category requires. I, however, find nothing irrational about the screamie meemies the above pic gives me. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/17 "2011-12-03T04:51:08Z")
I’m no trypophobe, but that just looks like wagon-wheel pasta (rotelle) or fiore. [List of pasta - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta#Decorative_shapes) Do trypohphobes hate those, too? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-trypophobes-nightmare-meal/604653/18 "2011-12-03T08:23:31Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I feel the same way after seeing this: > > WARNING: Gross, scary and stomach-turning Photoshoppery!! > (sorry, I don’t know how to spoilerbox.) > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. If you code [noparse]really gross stuff[/noparse], it will appear as really gross stuff.