# Have you ever eaten so much of something you never want to eat it again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 21, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559 "2023-01-21T11:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/1 "2023-01-21T11:49:40Z")
I’ll go on binges where I’ll eat the same thing, usually leftovers for a week at a time, and I’ll be off it for a month or so, then have it again. But I’ve never been completely put off something that I like. My Dad, being Okinawan, didn’t like pork because that’s all he had growing up. It never dawned on me that whenever we had a party at my paternal grandparents, we never had any beef, and rarely chicken. He never outright complained about whatever we ate, having grown up poor, but he said he didn’t care for when we had pork chops. Which is how I learned about why he didn’t like pork. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/2 "2023-01-21T11:55:22Z")
Ate so many canned pears one Saturday as a kid that I couldn’t stomach another for _years_. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/3 "2023-01-21T11:58:46Z")
At the Cadbury chocolate factory, staff are allowed to eat as much as they want, but not take it out of the site. Some people last as much as a week before they go right off chocolates. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/4 "2023-01-21T12:47:49Z")
I grew tired of broccoli when we were dieting and ate it every day. Same for cinnamon rolls. My daughter and wife loved them for breakfast but they lost their appeal. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/5 "2023-01-21T13:31:59Z")
When I was a kid my Grandma on my dad’s side was a compulsive shopper / hoarder. As in, full-blown OCD. We used to get a lot of weird stuff for Christmas. Once she gave us a huge box of off-brand butterscotch pudding cups she got from lord knows where. At first, it was awesome. Butterscotch pudding every day! But I eventually got so sick of it I couldn’t even stand the smell of it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/6 "2023-01-21T13:34:06Z")
I once ate so much garlic that i felt sick. And the next day, people at work commented on how i smelled of garlic. I still eat garlic, but now I really don’t like food that’s very garlicky. Like, most of the vegetable dishes from my favorite Chinese restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/7 "2023-01-21T13:49:50Z")
Bananas.🍌 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/8 "2023-01-21T14:05:00Z")
When I was in high school, I’d save most of my lunch money to buy cigarettes, but Little Debbie cakes in the school cafeteria only cost a quarter. I wouldn’t touch one now with a ten-foot pole. (Not a cigarette either). ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/9 "2023-01-21T14:27:39Z")
Decades ago I was visiting a small city on a business trip. I bought my first Papa John’s pizza and took it back to the hotel. It came with a container of _oily, garlicky dipping sauce_, which was something I had not seen. I’ve had a few slices of Papa John’s since then, but never again touched the dipping sauce. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/10 "2023-01-21T15:29:51Z")
I managed to do it with a beverage in a single night. The very first time I got drunk, at the tender age of seventeen, it was on peppermint schnapps. I took to it with great gusto. And boy howdy, did I get drunk. Came home puking in front of the parents, wish-I-were-dead hangover the next day, the whole nine yards. To this day, at the age of sixty-five, I can’t so much as take a whiff of that stuff without getting a queasy feeling in my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/11 "2023-01-21T15:43:22Z")
> [@Didi44](#): > > My Dad, being Okinawan, didn’t like pork because that’s all he had growing up. A friend’s father refused to eat chicken because of the sheer volume of (boiled) chicken he ate growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/12 "2023-01-21T16:21:08Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > My daughter and wife loved them for breakfast but they lost their appeal. Your daughter and wife, or the cinnamon rolls? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/13 "2023-01-21T16:25:17Z")
When my mother had dementia and was still living in her house, before she went into a nursing home, I would be driving over there all the time, doing chores, doing shopping, cooking, cleaning. I always brought a bowl of jello with bananas cut up in it. We would both have some, but I now can’t even look at jello or bananas. They are both ruined for me. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/14 "2023-01-21T16:27:36Z")
Same here. Vodka and OJ. 1978. Never together again. Not even mimosas. Keep my OJ away from alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/15 "2023-01-21T16:30:04Z")
After eating out on trips to the Maine seacoast, there is a brief period in which I don’t care to consume fried seafood. It lasts a couple of days sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/16 "2023-01-21T17:11:59Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > > [@Didi44](#): > > > > My Dad, being Okinawan, didn’t like pork because that’s all he had growing up. > > A friend’s father refused to eat chicken because of the sheer volume of (boiled) chicken he ate growing up. My father wouldn’t eat lentils, and we never had them in the house. He nearly starved to death as a child (war zone); some of the time there was nothing to eat but lentils. He said that he was very glad to get them at the time, and he never wanted to see them again in his life. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/17 "2023-01-21T17:21:16Z")
> [@Picky eaters:what is the mildest, most unassuming food ingredient you or the person you know has been too picky to tolerate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picky-eaters-what-is-the-mildest-most-unassuming-food-ingredient-you-or-the-person-you-know-has-been-too-picky-to-tolerate/958862/105): > > way back when I was starting my career in the Federal government, baked beans were about all I could afford. Got so sick of 'em that they were out of my diet for a couple decades or so.   ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/18 "2023-01-21T17:32:05Z")
Every single time I made pancakes in the past. Especially when I was a young teen and my stepsisters would beg me to make a batch. We were always so sure we could eat a million of them. And always, _always_, we’d get to the third one and never want to even see another pancake ever again. We’d go through as long as a whole month when even the scent of _waffles_ made our bellies ache. But sooner or later, that pancake itch would start again. . … Nowadays I know to make enough pancakes for everyone to get only 2. Leave them wanting more. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/19 "2023-01-21T17:42:55Z")
This is me, almost verbatim, except I was 19, the 'rents were on vacay, and the drink was Jack and Coke. Never again. If you look in the dictionary under, “Falling down drunk,” you’ll see my picture from that era. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559/20 "2023-01-21T18:13:53Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > At the Cadbury chocolate factory, staff are allowed to eat as much as they want, but not take it out of the site. Some people last as much as a week before they go right off chocolates. My mom worked as a “soda jerk” when she was in high school (she worked 6 pm to 10 pm for 10 cents/hr). She was told she could eat as much candy and ice cream as she wanted. Even when we, her children, were adults, she was never that hot on eating ice cream. Also, when she was a little kid in Murray City, her family only had a barrel of pickled herring to eat for a whole month. She’d get a little nauseated when I’d chow down on it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-so-much-of-something-you-never-want-to-eat-it-again/978559.md?page=2)