Things that put you off your food (poll) possibly TMI

In My Humble Opinion
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Do any of these sorts of things suddenly put you off your food?

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[li]Sight of something unpleasant - you’re eating dinner in front of the TV and a documentary is on, showing cute furry animals munching and tearing apart enormous beetles, or showing open heart surgery, or hippos defecating[/li][li]Mention of something unpleasant - your dinner partner starts one of his anecdotes about when he worked in the pathology department, or describes the process of colonic irrigation in graphic detail[/li][li]Comparison of your food to something unpleasant - “hey, your Waldorf salad looks like vomit”[/li][li]Intimation that your food may be contaminated - “I heard that chefs often spit in the food, or worse”[/li][li]Mention that your food is contaminated (but not dangerously) - “haha, you’ll never believe this, but when I came back to drain the pasta, there was an enormous cockroach floating in the pan, but it’s OK, I rinsed it twice with boiling water”[/li][li]Mention that your food contains ingredients you wouldn’t normally choose to eat - “Hey, you know that sausages are all eyelids, noses and genitals, don’t you?” or “Of course, whitebait are too small to fillet, so you’re not only eating the eyes and guts, but also everything it was about to excrete too”[/li][li]Something else - please elaborate.[/li][/ol]

Or perhaps nothing puts you off your food, please post and say so.

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[li]Sight of something unpleasant - [/li]Depends on the sight - if its on TV generally no but if its real and right in front of me (ie cat brining me offering of dead animal) then yes.

[li]Mention of something unpleasant - [/li]No - dads a doctor and mums a nurse so I got used to this early on. Then I worked at a doctors surgery for 5 years, I remember one night going out to a noodle house for dinner followed by a tour of the biology lab at a local uni to look at different types of intestinal worms, that was nearly to much.

[li]Comparison of your food to something unpleasant -[/li]Depends - anything involving bodily functions - yes. Other stuff not really

[li]Intimation that your food may be contaminated - [/li]Yes

[li]Mention that your food is contaminated (but not dangerously) - [/li]Yes

[li]Mention that your food contains ingredients you wouldn’t normally choose to eat - [/li]Maybe - depends on ingredients and how tasty it is to start with.

[li]Something else - [/li]bad smells wafting past as I’m eating.
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3

I know I shouldn’t do this but I eat my dinner on the couch as I’m watching TV. Usually I watch The Animal Planet station. I can plow through any other scene, but I get queasy watching a snake consume its prey.

4

A big 'ol fat curly black pubic hair in my food does it for me.

5

Just black?

You don’t mind brown? Orred? :stuck_out_tongue:

6

I think in order to be genuinely put off I would need to see something directly afoul in the food in front of me. The situations you describe wouldn’t do much to ruin my appetite.

7

The only thing that puts me off hoeing in to my meal with great gusto is the sight/sound of someone else at the table eating with their mouth open.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

8

Yep, the only thing in the world that would prevent me from eating would be finding a hair (of any type) in my food.

9

The only thing that would put me off would be to hear, or see, someone hurling, in person. Though the cockroach thing might get me.

10

Just listening to, without even looking at, my friend’s dog as she cleaned her genitals rather slobberingly was enough for me.