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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
: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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
