I couldn’t eat cheese-flavoured Twisties for about 15 years.
When I was 7, I had a sleepover at a friend’s house. I remember waking up during the night in an unfamiliar bed, alone, and covered in vomit. I crawled into my friend’s bed, only to find she’d done the same thing.
I doubt it was the Twisties that did us in, but that vomit was neon orange, yo, and Twisties have a smell. I couldn’t stomach the sight of that delicious wonky-looking snack for a good chunk of my life, based on that one upchuck as a youngster.
One of our friends with a new baby recently experienced the joys of their first family gastro bug, and now feel similarly toward dark chocolate and whisky – which is a shame, because that’s not what caused their gastro, and whisky and dark chocolate are great.
Lunchbox and I were discussing things we couldn’t eat any more because a spew turned us off for good. His main culprits are marshmallows and white chocolate, and mine for a while were watermelon and the aforementioned stenchful extruded cheese food.
I did get severe food poisoning once, from chocolate… I don’t love chocolate, but it wasn’t the foodborne illness’s fault. It’s my undying devotion to salt, and my desire to eat stuff laden with it at any and all opportunity.
It got me thinking though – what’s something you absolutely cannot eat now because you threw it up once? Enquiring minds must know.
Brielle says
Bourbon.
Stacey says
OH YES.
Pinky Poinker says
My sister would say chocolate crackles. I would say hamburgers. I ate a half raw hamburger when I was twelve and spewed my guts for four days. I burst all the blood vessels in my face. That is why I am a vegetarian.
Stacey says
Oh god I am actually dying reading that.
Jess says
Vodka and raspberry
Sausage rolls
Stacey says
Hahah what memories they must be!
Tina Lacy says
Ginger beer, everything told me it would help my morning sickness and I tried it more than once but every time it came back up and now the though of it just makes me feel sick, I think I have forgiven the other foods that the small human seemed to dislike when she was inside me thank god because there was a lot and Im not usually a vomiter
Savannah says
Ginger was the worst during pregnancy. My husband tried to be me to have ginger tea, but every time the smell wafted by, I gagged and ran for the toilet!
Stacey says
Oh no! They say it’s so good for nausea! I drank it for the second pregnancy… you poor thing!
Stacey says
Ginger beer is such a specific smell too! You can’t escape it!
Savannah says
Chocolate martinis. Luckily, my husband, being the gentleman he is, held my hair back and took care of me. I think it was fear of his future mum in law or his love for me….I think It was the former?
Stacey says
Hahah at least he didn’t turn and run!
Nice piece of work says
Jack Daniels.
Jo says
Cherry Ripe ?
Jo says
When I was 6 or 7, as well.
Stacey says
nooooo!
Jacq says
For a loooooong time, tomatoes. I used to eat them like apples when I was little, and I have a very specific memory of being in the car with my dad, driving into town, eating a tomato, and having a torrential spew. The spew was actually unrelated to the tomato, but I could not stomach raw tomato for, like, two decades.
Stacey says
Forever linked with a power spew! Nothing like it. Poor tomatoes!
Lily (A Rhubarb Rhapsody) says
For me it’s lemon vodka, thanks to some overzealous celebrations at a house-warming party.
I had an aversion to Indian food for a few years after getting food poisoning. My own fault. 16 year old me was none too bright and didn’t see the harm in eating leftovers that had been sitting on my bedroom floor for a couple of days. Gross, I know.
Going waaaay back I still remember hurling my guts up in the bath tub when I was about 4. I recall freaking out, thinking I was dying, because my puke was an ominous red/purple colour (due to cough medicine). Haven’t had cough medicine since!
I don’t think I could ever develop an aversion to chocolate or Twisties. my love for them runs too deep. 😉