# Weird hang-ups (without any logical explanation)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 14, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461 "2009-05-14T21:43:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/1 "2009-05-14T21:43:38Z")
Maybe this belongs here and maybe it doesn’t, but what I am talking about is certain things you do/don’t like for x reason, but if it were presented another way let’s say, said thing would be perfectly ok with you.
Example: I enjoy gummi bears, but not gummi worms.
Anyone else have strange preferences like this?
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### Author:  [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/2 "2009-05-14T23:24:53Z")
Off the top of my head…
I like tuna, but only in [this](http://www.store.elmerguzman.com/images/shoyu-ahi-poke-working.jpg) form, which is referred to as Aki Poke.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/3 "2009-05-15T00:04:43Z")
Usually what happens with a thread like this is, 2, maybe three months from now I’ll think of something - but nothing pops to mind right now.
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### Author:  [@Gwyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gwyen)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/4 "2009-05-15T00:21:24Z")
I have the Gummi Bears/Worms one two
I won’t sit down in a bathtub, ever.
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### Author:  [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/5 "2009-05-15T00:53:00Z")
I won’t eat directly off the trays in my college’s cafeteria, even though they’re definitely washed in the same dishwashers as the cups, plates, and silverware. I tell myself it’s because they’re plastic, and eating off plastic is ickier than ceramic… but the glasses are plastic, too.
I also have an intense hatred for all things navy blue, but the indigo color of new, unwashed denim is exempted for some reason. (Come to think of it, I have lots of color-texture aversions, but let’s not get into those, or I’ll never shut up…)
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### Author:  [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/6 "2009-05-15T01:09:01Z")
I really hate the pasta shape called Campanelle (“little flower”), which is actually more like an ice cream cone shape.
It reminds me of the tentacled animals that live in coiled sea shells.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/7 "2009-05-15T01:27:11Z")
I like orange flavored things (candy, yogurt etc.) but not oranges; same with strawberries.
I love grapes, but don’t like grape flavored things.
I only like mayo on Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwiches.
I only like ranch with buffalo chicken (not regular),
I am sure there are more…but upon looking at what I wrote…God I’m weird.
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### Author:  [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/8 "2009-05-15T01:46:06Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#):
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> Off the top of my head…
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> I like tuna, but only in [this](http://www.store.elmerguzman.com/images/shoyu-ahi-poke-working.jpg) form, which is referred to as Aki Poke.
Typo - Ahi Poke..
Seem to have a bad habit of typing Aki in place of Ahi.. :smack:
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/9 "2009-05-15T15:17:15Z")
I love peanut M & Ms, but any other combination of peanuts and chocolate is unappealing to me.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/10 "2009-05-15T16:23:17Z")
I have too many food hangups to list here but one that nobody understands is that I not only won’t eat cheese of any kind I won’t eat anything that has \*touched \* cheese, with the exception of mozzarella and that’s only on pizza, which is probably my favorite food.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/11 "2009-05-15T17:44:19Z")
I love cauliflower raw or cooked. Broccoli cooked is fine, but I’d rather not have it raw. Even cooked, I don’t want the stalks, which I call “lumber.”
As a boy, I asked my mom what eggplant tastes like. “Sorta like fried anything,” she said, “It doesn’t taste like anything.” Like a fried ghost, then. Eh, no thanks.
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### Author:  [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/12 "2009-05-15T18:36:03Z")
I love the smell of coffee, love coffee ice cream, candy, and those Mocha Cappuccino Blasts from Baskin Robbins. I want to try the Iced Mocha at McDonald’s…
Can’t stand the hot version.
I’m sure there’s more, I just can’t think of them right now.
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### Author:  [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/13 "2009-05-15T18:48:57Z")
Blue M&Ms, blue Starburst, blue Sour Patch Kids, blue Gummy Worms, etc. They all squick me out.
They taste pretty much the same as any other color of candy, but I always skip them. That particular shade of blue is just so…unnatural. :eek:
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/14 "2009-05-15T18:56:45Z")
> [@cjepson](#):
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> I love peanut M & Ms, but any other combination of peanuts and chocolate is unappealing to me.
The peanut/chocolate interaction is a wierd one. I’m not really big into candy in general but I loooooove Reese’s peanut butter cups. I am well aware that it is not a particularly good chocolate, nor is it very good peanut butter. But somehow it is so much more than the sum of it’s parts. Combo candies with Better chocolate and/or better peanut butter are just nowhere near as good as Reese’s. That particular combination just has a weird magic to it.
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### Author:  [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/15 "2009-05-15T18:57:19Z")
Tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, barbecue sauce: yum, yum, yum, yum
Ketchup: yuck
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### Author:  [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/16 "2009-05-15T19:04:45Z")
I totally understand about the gummi worms. I once bought a Jello mold in the shape of a human brain and used a little food dye to make the Jello a realistic color, with the intention of having a brain eating contest at my Halloween party. Not only would I not eat the finished product, I did not offer it for consumption by others either.
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/17 "2009-05-15T19:19:32Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#):
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> Tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, barbecue sauce: yum, yum, yum, yum
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> Ketchup: yuck
I hate to admit it, but I do have a hangup and this is it.
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/18 "2009-05-15T20:10:31Z")
I love ketchup… on hamburgers and french fries ONLY. Watching someone pour ketchup over their eggs and/or homefries puts me off my feed in a most mysterious manner.
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### Author:  [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/19 "2009-05-15T20:10:52Z")
Interesting. My daughter, and my significant other person, both love all things _flavored_ orange, but not the actual orange.
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### Author:  [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-hang-ups-without-any-logical-explanation/496461/20 "2009-05-15T20:41:12Z")
> [@simply\_cats](#):
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> Interesting. My daughter, and my significant other person, both love all things _flavored_ orange, but not the actual orange.
I’m the exact opposite. Love oranges (any citrus fruit, really) but do not have any interest in orange flavored things.
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