Crazy food aversions

[nearwildheaven]

@prettydorky

Wow, I didn’t know it was an actual thing. And I am not allergic to latex, but I am sensitive to latex condoms. Interesting!

Are you a man or a woman?

Some people don’t have an issue with the condoms themselves, but with the lubricant or spermicide on them.

[nearwildheaven]

@lorene

My weirdest food aversion, I think, is the sudden-onset, sudden-offset (?) kind. As in, there are foods that I like just fine, or even love until one day, usually mid-bite, that certain food will suddenly completely gross me out. It’s usually a texture thing (shrimp and hard-boiled eggs being 2 recent offenders). Eventually, it fades and I like the food just fine again. Then more eventuals later, it will gross me out for while. Rinse and repeat.

This has happened to me recently with Amy’s Split Pea Soup. I love it and it was my quick go-to lunch for a long time, and then I lost all desire to eat it although I still have a can or two in my cabinet should I wish to have it again. No, I never got sick on it or anything.

I have, however, stopped buying and using Campbell’s cream soups because they’ve done something to them in recent years. They do not taste the same or have the same texture, and it’s not a positive change either.

[RivkahChaya]

@67java89

That’s so funny, because I grew up around Austintown and I remember the pizzas with green peppers. As a child I found it disgusting.

I love green bell peppers on pizza, which is funny, because in general, I don’t like them. The idea of eating them raw in anything but gazpacho is a no-go. I have a couple of recipes that call for bell peppers, which I like, but I seriously reduce the amount, and I make stuffed peppers, according to the family recipe, except with TVP instead of beef, but I’m very picky about where bell peppers go. I think it’s just because they have such a strong flavor. They don’t blend well-- they stand out in whatever they are in, so the recipe has to be just right. If you want to make me grumpy, serve them to me in a salad. I pick them out of my Chinese stir-fry when I go to restaurants.

I kinda feel the same way about cumin. I love cumin in cumin-based recipes that are supposed to be cumin-dominant, but I know a few people who love the stuff so much, they probably put it on ice cream. They can’t cook anything without sprinkling in a little cumin, but to me, there’s no such thing as a little cumin. It doesn’t blend; it stands out. Someone who thinks pasta sauce or burritos need a pinch of cumin is just wrong.

[wonky]

@67java89

That’s so funny, because I grew up around Austintown and I remember the pizzas with green peppers. As a child I found it disgusting.

There must’ve been a weird cult of craziness up north.

[billfish678]

@nearwildheaven

Are you a man or a woman?

Some people don’t have an issue with the condoms themselves, but with the lubricant or spermicide on them.

I know I can’t stand the taste of them.

[davidm]

@Tibby or Not Tibby

Yep, and if you put anything in your cheesesteak except thin shaved steak, cheese and maybe fried onions, you’re a bumpkin. And if you like your soft pretzels with anything except salt and mustard, or put mayonnaise in your Italian Hoagie instead of virgin olive oil, or eat Jimmy Dean sausage with your eggs, instead of Habbersett Scrapple…you better back out of town real slow, pardner.

Regards,
Tibby (former South Jersey & West Philly resident)

And the “Philly Pretzel Factory” is an abomination against all that is good and holy. Chocolate sauce on a soft pretzel? :eek:

[Evil_Captor]

My family is pure Deep South, and at one time I would deeply offend the womenfolk by claiming I l liked canned biscuits better than made from scratch biscuits. I liked those flaky layer biscuits that had layers so think they just about melted on your tongue. I do not think the women ever believed me, I think they thought I was saying it just to be obnoxious, but I really did like them better. I have since changed my tune, mainly because they don’t make those air-thin layers on this biscuits.