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bloode975 t1_j22dsnw wrote

Reply to comment by police-ical in ELI5: How does "acquired taste" work? And how are some tastes able to be acquired no problem, while others will never be acquired? by PuzzleBrain20

On the vomiting with a food you used to like, when I was a kid I'd had a bunch of chocolate in the morning, like alot of chocolate, turns out I'd gotten food poisoning the night before and spent the entire day vomiting up chocolate and shitting myself, once you've tasted partly digested chocolate mixed with bile lemme tell you chocolate loses most of its appeal.

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giskardwasright t1_j22fk3j wrote

Strawberry ice cream for me. It's been over 35 years and I still don't like it.

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bloode975 t1_j22g8gp wrote

Oh I'd cry, I love strawberry icecream

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giskardwasright t1_j22gnwm wrote

I like actual strawberries with vanilla ice cream, but that's as far as I'll go. My husband likes strawberry shakes and I tried one a few years ago to see how I felt about it. Still no thank you.

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These-Assignment-936 t1_j22kvyj wrote

I got food poisoning after eating lemon meringue pie in 2003. I think in a few years I may be ready to order it again.

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These-Assignment-936 t1_j22kwaq wrote

I got food poisoning after eating lemon meringue pie in 2003. I think in a few years I may be ready to order it again.

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BlackOpz t1_j238uoh wrote

Chicken alfredo for me. Fancy Shmancy restaurant in NY. WORST food poisoning ever had in my life. Over 10+ years and have never had it again.

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cloisteredsaturn t1_j22rq83 wrote

When I was 18 months old I was given some turkey that I ended up getting food poisoning from. It was so bad I was throwing up bile and they had to take me to the ER. I don’t remember it thank god.

It took me years to be able to eat turkey again. Even at 32 I’m still cautious when it comes to lunch meat and poultry, and I’m pretty sure that I have some degree of emetophobia from the situation.

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firelizzard18 t1_j27uijr wrote

I got food poisoning a year or so back and I threw up something the color of Gatorade (almost neon yellow). I think it was bile but I really did not expect that color to come out of me.

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cloisteredsaturn t1_j27yr2p wrote

Sounds like it was bile. Usually if you’re throwing that up, you don’t have any food left in there but the body’s still trying to get rid of the pathogen.

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hux t1_j22hazc wrote

For similar reasons, I can’t even be in the same room as someone eating mussels.

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AdiPalmer t1_j22ylsq wrote

Sounds like you'll have to avoid the entire country of Belgium for the rest of your life.

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amazingmikeyc t1_j23uowc wrote

Yeah I couldn't drink Ribena for about 5 years after my little sister vomited up a blackcurrent squash/sour milk hybrid all over our sofa and it stank of it for about a month.

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