Definitely macaroni and cheese. I used to eat it all the time when I was younger, but one day I ate way too much of it and ended up puking. Now, I can’t even look at it without feeling a little queasy
When I was young this happened with pistachios and with gummy bears. I was in my 30s before I could touch either of them but now I love them.
The last thing I ate before 3 day food poisoning from a Cesar salad when I was a teenager was hazelnut chocolate. I still canāt stand hazelnut chocolate except Nutellaās is slowly growing on me.
I used to love eating chocolate cakeālike, it was my go-to treat. But after one too many slices at a family gathering, I definitely overdid it and ended up regretting it big time. Havenāt been able to enjoy it the same way since!
Salami. I remember eating a salami and cheese sandwich in 1st grade (Australian school. Age 6) and I was sick from it. I have never eaten salami again.
My favorate pizza used to be chicken and sweetcorn, but years ago I got one with a bone in. Never touched one since because you donāt check pizza for bones
Salt and vinegar chips. Devoured an entire family-size bag while binge-watching Netflix. My tongue was raw, and well… let’s just say my stomach violently rejected my poor life choices at 3 AM. The taste of vinegar still haunts me.
circus peanuts (the marshmallow candy ones). i loved those fuckers as a kid until one day i ate too many and projectile vomited bright orange slop all over the bathroom
The croissanwich from Burger King. I used to tear those things up as a kid, but I got really sick after eating one and have not been a fan of fast food breakfast in general since.
Pineapple. I had a chunk fly down my throat unchewed enough to give me a gagging fit bad enough to have to run to the bathroom… I’ve shied away from it ever since
I canāt stand anything cherry flavoured thanks to my best friend puking a whole 2 litre bottle of cherryaid down the side of my bunk bed at a sleep over about 35 years ago. Even smelling cherry coke on my husbands breath makes me gag.
I had the flu when I was a little kid but my parents didn’t believe me. Like, I was way sick, barely holding my head up. But they had plans to go to a sports-bar-ish restaurant with some friends and I was too young to leave at home. I can’t remember if I even got food, but if I did I can’t imagine I ate it. But next to me, my mother got french onion soup.
Nowadays, french onion soup hits so many things I love. It has all the elements of stuff I use in my own cooking. I should LOVE french onion soup. But I can’t bring myself to try it. Because it’s indelibly ingrained in my head of those moments that seemed like days, barely holding it together, sweating, aching, getting blared at by a football game on a big screen I couldn’t focus upon, and trying desperately to not throw up in the middle of a booth between my parents. All I could see was that cheese stretching over the spoonful and the broth smell and it’s stuck in me now. Seeped in and forever related to how awful I felt.
Maybe some day I’ll make it myself and finally file it away. I’m an adult, I know I can totally handle it. I could get a bowl right now and I know I’d be fine. It’s just one of those stark, visceral food memories I haven’t felt the need to challenge.
The Jack Daniels sauce chicken and shrimp dinner at T.G.I. Fridays. Loved the sauce so much, I put extra along everything…my stomach decided one day that was enough.
One time, I grabbed a box of walnuts in the dark to snack on while watching a movie. I ate quite a lot, even though the taste was kinda off… like weirdly airy or something, just strange. I figured whatever, kept going ā then I turned on the light, and the box was full of tiny worms.
Green juice. A bottle of ‘Happy Planet’ gave me food poisoning, now I can’t look at the stuff. I still make juices at home but they can’t be dark green
My primary school camp in the late 90s was in the middle of the bush in rural New Zealand. We car pooled and my car pool buddy and eventual room mate became violently ill.
I woke up one morning in denial. Later that evening we were offered food I couldn’t eat and then hot chocolate to wash it down. Thinking I’d feel better with something hot; I chugged it.
I walked outside thinking I could just put my head down and sleep it off. But was overwhelmed by the liquid and projectile vomited into a flax bush.
I couldn’t even go home straight away because we were hours from nowhere on some confidence course thing and my parents took the opportunity to drive to another far away place and play golf for 4 days.
I can’t stand the smell of hot chocolate. I start getting queasy. I can stomach all kinds of things, I’m not easy to make ill. But hot chocolate gets me every god damn time.
Seaweed. My first year of university I bought a huge multi pack of dried seaweed from Costco, always loved it – my granny used to just eat it straight out of the sea. For some god forsaken reason, I foolishly decided that this would be enough to live off of.
If anyone reading is considering trying this (for some strange reason), I found that the daily limit was about 50-60g of dried seaweed before you start feeling like Poseidon himself is emerging from your stomach.
Iced tea and burritos. Can’t drink or eat that anymore after I got serious food poisoning and threw up. I know the ice tea wasn’t the cause, it was just the last thing I drank before I threw up. But I am 90% sure the burrito got me sick as it was the only thing I had eaten for the day and I was perfectly fine beforehand, but after eating I had gotten seriously sick within an hour. Vomit and diarrhea for the next few days + not feeling great for awhile after that.
Also the spot I bought the burrito from closed not long after (within a year or so). Not sure of the exact reason why, but seems like too much of a coincidence to me.
I got food poisoning from a Sonic hamburger once. I will now occasionally eat something from Sonic, but my stomach flips if someone mentions eating at Sonic.
I was an extremely picky eater as a kid. I basically only ate cheese pizza and nuggets. One year, we went on a family trip to Rome and I caught some kind of stomach bug. The last thing I ate before puking more than I have in my entire life? Cheese pizza. The next thing I ate, to avoid the rage of my mom finding out the only thing in this country Iād eat had been puked off the list? Also cheese pizza.
Pizza with green olives: As a kid, I had the misfortune to eat some at the same meal as some deli meat that had been out too long, but the pizza was what stuck in my brain. I couldnāt eat it for many years.
Fettucine Alfredo with crab: Ate this on vacation the night I started getting symptoms from norovirus. Still canāt eat it.
Homemade wild rice and mushroom soup: another virus, still donāt want to eat it.
Fettuccine Alfredo. I was 19 when I got sick after I ate it and was never able to even think about eating it againāuntil I got pregnant with my 2nd, in which I was 36 by this time, and it was all I craved š Hormones are strange lol. I can eat it just fine now.
Milk. I used to love milk as a child. One day I had a stomach flu and kept throwing up. My mom made me drink warm milk and told me it will soothe my stomach. As soon as I drank it, I threw up HARD. From then on, I can’t drink milk alone. Up until a few years ago, I could barely handle dairy. Coffee with creamer, milk shakes, yogurt, soft cheeses etc. Now I can handle stuff with milk. I just can’t drink plain milk.
Chili. My mom said the two week old leftovers in the back of the fridge were āfineā. Never knew a chili bean could pop out your nose while projectile vomiting.
I used to love Popeyes fried chicken, until I got food poisoning from it twice in a row.
That being said, if you’re flying thru ATL, the Popeyes there does have the best breakfast biscuits. I just skip the chicken tenders biscuit and get sausage instead
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hot dogs and dr. pepper
Fries
This happened a month or so ago when I confused raw waffle mix for mushroom soup.
Definitely macaroni and cheese. I used to eat it all the time when I was younger, but one day I ate way too much of it and ended up puking. Now, I can’t even look at it without feeling a little queasy
food in general.
Chicken burgers
Sai krok Isan
chilaquiles š
After I tired bean boozled after Chinese canāt eat Chinese chicken anymore
Eggplant
Domino’s Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza.
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese
Culver’s Butterburger
All 3 took at least 2 years before I could eat again.
When I was young this happened with pistachios and with gummy bears. I was in my 30s before I could touch either of them but now I love them.
The last thing I ate before 3 day food poisoning from a Cesar salad when I was a teenager was hazelnut chocolate. I still canāt stand hazelnut chocolate except Nutellaās is slowly growing on me.
Southern Comfort
Those tuna cans
I used to love eating chocolate cakeālike, it was my go-to treat. But after one too many slices at a family gathering, I definitely overdid it and ended up regretting it big time. Havenāt been able to enjoy it the same way since!
omelette with eggs, i can’t even smell it anymore
Nacho Doritos and Vodka Screwdriver
Seafood
KFC
I used to eat those Hot Mamas in a jar at the store until I ate a bad one. Who knows how those things had been sitting there in that jar.
subway š
Corn š½
SIOMAI! š«
Salami. I remember eating a salami and cheese sandwich in 1st grade (Australian school. Age 6) and I was sick from it. I have never eaten salami again.
Kebab on a night out.
Pizza shapes
My favorate pizza used to be chicken and sweetcorn, but years ago I got one with a bone in. Never touched one since because you donāt check pizza for bones
root beer floats and jambalaya, separate occasions
Guacamole
Crab Rangoon
Dark eyes cherry vodka. I was 15.
Doritos š¤¢
triple sec combined with oreo cockles
Tequila.
As a kid, I ate applesauce with cinnamon almost every day. Then, I got the flu and threw it up. Never ate it again.
I once was eating honey on toast and got into my second slice before I saw all the ants. Not just a few and they all came back up.
I still eat toast but I canāt think of honey without thinking of ants anymore
salmon sashimi. i got salmonella.
Burgers
Oysters.
White chocolate. Ate a whole pack of white freddo frogs on a hot dayā¦ been 30 years and still canāt look at it
Cake
Salt and vinegar chips. Devoured an entire family-size bag while binge-watching Netflix. My tongue was raw, and well… let’s just say my stomach violently rejected my poor life choices at 3 AM. The taste of vinegar still haunts me.
Jalapeno poppers with cream cheese filling
Rice
Ramen. Nothing like pulling long noodles out of your nose and throat.
i looove chicken liver but i threw up from it twice now i am scared to eat it again..i love it tho i used to eat it alot idk whats wrong this time
Nacho cheese Doritos. Late 70s. Havenāt been able to eat or even smell them since.
Heaps of Nutella, bonus fact, i managed to loose a tooth to nutella too
Plums, pesto pasta, and lumpia
sushi š
SOBE pina colada drink. Canāt stand anything pina colada since.
Oysters.
Butter croissant. Itās been 30 years and I still ā¦ canāt.
circus peanuts (the marshmallow candy ones). i loved those fuckers as a kid until one day i ate too many and projectile vomited bright orange slop all over the bathroom
Chicago style popcorn
Eggs
Cheesecake
eggs, it’s immediate nausea when I smell them.
strawberries
Rice crispy treats
Yogurt
Hard booked eggs
Fig biscuits
Brussel sprouts. Itās been almost 30 years. It sucks cause they always look so good.
The croissanwich from Burger King. I used to tear those things up as a kid, but I got really sick after eating one and have not been a fan of fast food breakfast in general since.
Shrimps
Chocolate crackles; jam donuts
Pineapple. I had a chunk fly down my throat unchewed enough to give me a gagging fit bad enough to have to run to the bathroom… I’ve shied away from it ever since
I canāt stand anything cherry flavoured thanks to my best friend puking a whole 2 litre bottle of cherryaid down the side of my bunk bed at a sleep over about 35 years ago. Even smelling cherry coke on my husbands breath makes me gag.
Fireball
Okra
Spaghetti.
I would barely touch it for most of my life because of that. I just started eating it again within the past year or two.
Pickles and milk
chicken instant noodles ): took me years to be able to eat them again
From a friend – it was Campbells Tomato Soup. The aftermath looked like the set of a slasher movie. They’ve never touched tomato soup since.
I had the flu when I was a little kid but my parents didn’t believe me. Like, I was way sick, barely holding my head up. But they had plans to go to a sports-bar-ish restaurant with some friends and I was too young to leave at home. I can’t remember if I even got food, but if I did I can’t imagine I ate it. But next to me, my mother got french onion soup.
Nowadays, french onion soup hits so many things I love. It has all the elements of stuff I use in my own cooking. I should LOVE french onion soup. But I can’t bring myself to try it. Because it’s indelibly ingrained in my head of those moments that seemed like days, barely holding it together, sweating, aching, getting blared at by a football game on a big screen I couldn’t focus upon, and trying desperately to not throw up in the middle of a booth between my parents. All I could see was that cheese stretching over the spoonful and the broth smell and it’s stuck in me now. Seeped in and forever related to how awful I felt.
Maybe some day I’ll make it myself and finally file it away. I’m an adult, I know I can totally handle it. I could get a bowl right now and I know I’d be fine. It’s just one of those stark, visceral food memories I haven’t felt the need to challenge.
Tequila
Chicken sausages
Tater Tots. I loved them as a kid. Had them at the elementary school cafeteria and got sick after. Never again.
Post Maloneās Oreos. Can barely type this without getting nauseous
Chicken pasta bake.
It’s not even what made me sick but the specific meal in question definitely had chicken that was past it’s best. Being poor in college is fun.
No I got appendicitis completely unrelated to that dinner but throwing it up has made it impossible for me to be in the room with it now.
The appendix episode nearly killed me though so I’m not surprised my body developed such pure disgust towards the last thing I ate at the time.
Movie theater popcorn
The Jack Daniels sauce chicken and shrimp dinner at T.G.I. Fridays. Loved the sauce so much, I put extra along everything…my stomach decided one day that was enough.
Soup, I’ve never eaten soup again after that
Jello š
Lucky charms.
Not really a food, but orange juice. Threw up after drinking a lot as a kid and that was some sticky, foul smelling, awful coloured vomit.
Fish
One time, I grabbed a box of walnuts in the dark to snack on while watching a movie. I ate quite a lot, even though the taste was kinda off… like weirdly airy or something, just strange. I figured whatever, kept going ā then I turned on the light, and the box was full of tiny worms.
cheese
Brains
A big ass burrata
Chilaquiles
Cheetos. Ate a whole XXL bag (seriously, it was bigger than myself) at a wedding once and spent the whole night puking.
beef stroganoff š
Bbq meat lovers pizza
Green juice. A bottle of ‘Happy Planet’ gave me food poisoning, now I can’t look at the stuff. I still make juices at home but they can’t be dark green
Canāt eat MacDonalds fries atm because of a cocktail night followed by junk food š¬
Nesquik Hot Chocolate.
My primary school camp in the late 90s was in the middle of the bush in rural New Zealand. We car pooled and my car pool buddy and eventual room mate became violently ill.
I woke up one morning in denial. Later that evening we were offered food I couldn’t eat and then hot chocolate to wash it down. Thinking I’d feel better with something hot; I chugged it.
I walked outside thinking I could just put my head down and sleep it off. But was overwhelmed by the liquid and projectile vomited into a flax bush.
I couldn’t even go home straight away because we were hours from nowhere on some confidence course thing and my parents took the opportunity to drive to another far away place and play golf for 4 days.
I can’t stand the smell of hot chocolate. I start getting queasy. I can stomach all kinds of things, I’m not easy to make ill. But hot chocolate gets me every god damn time.
When I was a kid I threw up spaghetti and couldn’t eat it for a few years after.
Seaweed. My first year of university I bought a huge multi pack of dried seaweed from Costco, always loved it – my granny used to just eat it straight out of the sea. For some god forsaken reason, I foolishly decided that this would be enough to live off of.
If anyone reading is considering trying this (for some strange reason), I found that the daily limit was about 50-60g of dried seaweed before you start feeling like Poseidon himself is emerging from your stomach.
Iced tea and burritos. Can’t drink or eat that anymore after I got serious food poisoning and threw up. I know the ice tea wasn’t the cause, it was just the last thing I drank before I threw up. But I am 90% sure the burrito got me sick as it was the only thing I had eaten for the day and I was perfectly fine beforehand, but after eating I had gotten seriously sick within an hour. Vomit and diarrhea for the next few days + not feeling great for awhile after that.
Also the spot I bought the burrito from closed not long after (within a year or so). Not sure of the exact reason why, but seems like too much of a coincidence to me.
Shrimp
I got food poisoning from a Sonic hamburger once. I will now occasionally eat something from Sonic, but my stomach flips if someone mentions eating at Sonic.
I was an extremely picky eater as a kid. I basically only ate cheese pizza and nuggets. One year, we went on a family trip to Rome and I caught some kind of stomach bug. The last thing I ate before puking more than I have in my entire life? Cheese pizza. The next thing I ate, to avoid the rage of my mom finding out the only thing in this country Iād eat had been puked off the list? Also cheese pizza.
Tequila was a good friend untill a certan night
Also strawberry flavored drinks
Didn’t throw it up, almost did. Whole wheat bread. It had mold. Haven’t enjoyed it the same in a decade.
Walnuts. I ate a 3lb bag in one sitting and threw it all up shortly after. It was like a chunky, acidy peanut butter coming up.
Tuna sub from Subway. Got terrible food poisoning. Haven’t looked at tuna the same way again.
Chicken Katsu Curry from the local Wagamama… always my go-to from there
Cherry cordial hershey kisses
Salt and vinegar discos. I loved them but hadnāt had them for ages. Bought a pack and they made me violently sick. I donāt dare try again.
Wurtherās Original caramel hard candy. 35 years ago, I ate half a bag of them, then drank a 32oz cup of sweet tea.
Havenāt touched either since
Pizza with green olives: As a kid, I had the misfortune to eat some at the same meal as some deli meat that had been out too long, but the pizza was what stuck in my brain. I couldnāt eat it for many years.
Fettucine Alfredo with crab: Ate this on vacation the night I started getting symptoms from norovirus. Still canāt eat it.
Homemade wild rice and mushroom soup: another virus, still donāt want to eat it.
Tequila
Fettuccine Alfredo. I was 19 when I got sick after I ate it and was never able to even think about eating it againāuntil I got pregnant with my 2nd, in which I was 36 by this time, and it was all I craved š Hormones are strange lol. I can eat it just fine now.
Shrimp
Milk. I used to love milk as a child. One day I had a stomach flu and kept throwing up. My mom made me drink warm milk and told me it will soothe my stomach. As soon as I drank it, I threw up HARD. From then on, I can’t drink milk alone. Up until a few years ago, I could barely handle dairy. Coffee with creamer, milk shakes, yogurt, soft cheeses etc. Now I can handle stuff with milk. I just can’t drink plain milk.
Sambucca
Chili. My mom said the two week old leftovers in the back of the fridge were āfineā. Never knew a chili bean could pop out your nose while projectile vomiting.
pizza. i got food poisoning
Red Lobster.
Late winter 2002 it was coming back out both ends. I was up all night.
Still to this day, I hate Red Lobster.
Porridge yam
Coconuts
I ate a whole bag of fun sized Mounds and that did it for me.
Never again.
I used to love Popeyes fried chicken, until I got food poisoning from it twice in a row.
That being said, if you’re flying thru ATL, the Popeyes there does have the best breakfast biscuits. I just skip the chicken tenders biscuit and get sausage instead