# What was the last thing you ate that you swear made you sick and could you ever eat it again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495 "2014-01-11T05:04:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/41 "2014-01-11T18:18:55Z")
Fois gras. My husband and I went to Prime 112 our first night in Miami and since we were baby-free for the first time since she was born, we thought we’d celebrate. Neither of us had ever had it before. We were still queasy from traveling and not accustomed to eating livery-tasting things. On my second bite I started feeling queasy, and I almost threw up my third bite. Which made my husband gag on his. The meal didn’t improve much for us–the blue cheese in the creamed spinach was too strong, and the truffle oil on the frites were too strong, for our discombobulated stomachs. All we could eat was the steak. It’s probably as well that neither of us will ever want foie gras again. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/42 "2014-01-11T18:25:17Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Southern Comfort. 1977. Haven’t touched it since and I doubt I ever could. getting nauseous at the mere memory of it. ETA: Pringles. White wine and Pringles on an empty stomach after final exams. My mom ended up cleaning up the floor of my boyfriend’s car. How to make an impression on the second date! Luckily 30 years later, he’s still around 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/43 "2014-01-11T18:30:01Z")
> [@kbear](#): > > getting nauseous at the mere memory of it. [Lemonade?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1qZS3T7fA) ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/44 "2014-01-11T18:37:22Z")
Beets. Not eating them, though. I got violently ill from just the smell. A neighbor was canning them that day. Her daughter and I were in the kitchen, playing, when all of a sudden, the smell just got to me, and I had to leave. I made it about three steps off their front porch, when I threw up. Repeatedly. All the way home. It has been probably 40 years since I last ate a beet. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/45 "2014-01-11T20:47:22Z")
Cocktail sauce. Even the smell of cocktail sauce triggers my gag reflex for some unknown reason. I don’t ever remember a bout of sickness related to cocktail sauce, but I understand that this kind of connection can be formed at a subconscious level so that I might reacting to an event that I don’t remember. I have a somewhat similar initial reaction to thousand island dressing, though I enjoy it once I get past a first bite of it. Cocktail sauce is just intolerable no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/46 "2014-01-11T22:16:30Z")
Moving to CS. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/47 "2014-01-11T23:43:31Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Another one I almost forgot, which is the most recent I can think of. When I was in college, I hurled after eating tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I tried tomato soup once since then, two or three years ago, and couldn’t eat more than one mouthful. I now have grilled cheese maybe once or twice a year after abstaining completely for five or ten years. I remember when I was growing up in the 60s. We were Roman Catholic and weren’t permitted to eat meat on Fridays. Lunch on many Fridays consisted of tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwiches. Fortunately I never got sick of it, but your post brought back memories. One food that makes me throw up instantly is shrimp. I have developed an allergy to it late in life. I used to enjoy shrimp with cocktail sauce, but alas, I can never partake of it again. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/48 "2014-01-12T00:02:32Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > I don’t remember the date that clearly but it was in the late 1960s and I haven’t gotten over it yet. I wouldn’t drink that slop for money. I was at a party and started drinking it with Coke, which was bad enough but the Coke ran out and Southern Comfort was sweet enough to drink without dilution. Hence the consequences for me. Worst of all, because I was still in training (hospital trained nurse) and working shifts, I was rostered on the next day and called in sick. Back in the day, student nurses had to present themselves to Casualty (i.e. Emergency) to prove that they really were sick. I blamed it on a dodgy Chinese meal but I’m pretty sure the doctor didn’t believe me. He didn’t dob me in, though. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/49 "2014-01-12T00:08:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Looked the same coming out? 😛 Looks remarkably similar, and smells almost exactly the same, except with a touch of vomit smell. It was awful. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/50 "2014-01-12T00:09:58Z")
Potato Sticks (the snack food). I got violently ill on some in 1985 and have not touched them since. All these years later, the thought of them makes be nauseated. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/51 "2014-01-12T00:13:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I wasn’t feeling well, and I didn’t want to eat my tomato soup. My mom told me I _will_ eat my tomato soup, and I’m not excused until I do. So I ate it… and promptly vomited all over the kitchen floor. It was probably a decade or more before I had tomato soup again. (I never swore it off when it happened; but I did avoid it.) Exactly the same, except it was my older sister doing the forcing. And it was twenty years before I tried it again. Didn’t upchuck then. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/52 "2014-01-12T00:17:09Z")
Well, if we’re including booze, two words: sloe gin. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/53 "2014-01-12T00:43:18Z")
I don’t have any currently, but for a long time I wouldn’t touch KFC chicken or biscuits, or egg foo yung, because I got sick after eating each of them many years ago (back in the '80s) and was convinced that they caused it. Eventually I told myself I was being stupid, and tried both with no bad results. These days I love egg foo yung. I don’t eat KFC much anymore but it isn’t because I’m afraid I’ll be sick, but rather because it’s just not as good as it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/54 "2014-01-12T03:17:27Z")
Cheese Pringles. At about half a can one day after work and woke up at 2 am sicker than I can ever remember. Spent the entire day losing it at both ends. My daughter took me to the doc the next morning and I found out I had e coli and should have been hospitalized the previous day. A few days later I’m watching the news and guess what is being recalled because of the potential for e coli? Yep, the Pringles. Got a check for $125 from Proctor and Gamble and a bunch of coupons for free P&G products. Haven’t touched Pringles of any kind since. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/55 "2014-01-12T03:24:33Z")
Rice with soy sauce for me. My dad was in charge at the time, I was 10 and neither of us had the sense to think that a dinner consisting entirely of rice with soy sauce on it was not a Good Idea. It was probably 25 years before I could even smell soy sauce without being nauseous. I am back to using it now, but rather sparingly still. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/56 "2014-01-12T03:45:03Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > Shrimp. My sad lost love. I got some by accident on a pizza a while back, and had the opportunity to cancel plans, lay in some Gatorade, and download a good book for the subsequent hours in the bathroom. > > It was almost worth it. I really, really miss shrimp. Me too - albeit frozen shrimp in the Midwest. Back in college I made a shrimp gumbo and then soon afterwards come down violently ill. After about 24 hours of lying on the bathroom floor unable to move my roommates decided that perhaps they should haul me to the ER. IV fluids for severe dehydration and some anti-nauseau drugs (suppositories since I couldn’t even keep plain water down) and I got better. May not have actually been the shrimp but I haven’t had any desire for shrimp since then - that’s over 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/57 "2014-01-12T04:04:27Z")
Prosciutto. A bout of horrific seasickness all but assures I never eat the stuff again. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/58 "2014-01-12T23:35:33Z")
Heinz Salad Cream, around 1957/8 Candy floss at around the same time. Never touched either of them since. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/59 "2014-01-13T00:34:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My first experience with mussels was similar - the first one tasted really awful (so bad that I spit it out and wiped my tongue off with my napkin). I’m probably lucky it tasted so bad - I didn’t eat any more mussels after that, and didn’t get sick. I’m still not a mussel fan. If only I’d had that much sense…my wife says that’s the sickest she can ever recall me being. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495/60 "2014-01-13T02:53:27Z")
As a lad, I drank a fifth of peppermint schnapps. To this day I cannot stand the stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-thing-you-ate-that-you-swear-made-you-sick-and-could-you-ever-eat-it-again/678495.md?page=4)