Foods you avoid due to bad experience such as choking?

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  • FlyByJuly
    FlyByJuly Posts: 564 Member
    Elk meat. Years ago, a good friend had invited my husband and me over for a dinner of elk burger. The friend was pretty proud that he was serving us a meal that he'd hunted, bagged, butchered and froze himself. As I took a bite, I smelled something. Not sure what it was, or where it came from. I wasn't real impressed with the flavor of the elk ( I'd had elk plenty of times before this). Anyway, I chewed it up. Went to take my next bite...same smell. Awful. Like something rotten. Then I had a hunch. I made sure the friend wasn't looking, and then I sniffed my burger. Yep, that's where that awful, rotten smell was coming from. At this point, I HAD to say something, because it was obvious to me that this meat was spoiled. And once I said something, the guys smelled their burgers, and we were all pretty grossed out. I have not been able to eat elk meat since then. That was over 30 years ago.
  • Erindipitous
    Erindipitous Posts: 1,234 Member
    I choke on PB2. But I still eat it.


    I can't eat Roasted Red Pepper Hummus anymore after getting sick afterward. I just associate it with vomit. :(
  • lizdavis07
    lizdavis07 Posts: 766 Member
    I never choke...NEVER
  • htimpaired
    htimpaired Posts: 1,404 Member
    Taco Bell. Had a very unfortunate night following Taco Bell two years ago, haven't touched it since.

    When I was a kid I had a hard time chewing cuts of meat, like chuck steak, pork chops. My parents would make me take the grisely chewed up piece of meat out of my mouth and break it into smaller bites so I could swallow it. I REALLY have an adversion to pork chops now.
  • lour441
    lour441 Posts: 543 Member
    Southern Comfort.

    Thanks... I think I just had a flash back :sick:
  • BlueGenius
    BlueGenius Posts: 103 Member
    Corn Dogs, blech ... When I was 7 I tore into a corn dog because I was so hungry. Turns out it was spotted and spoiled. Vomited immediately.
  • Birdie
    Birdie Posts: 256 Member
    those red and white striped peppermints, choked when I was 5
  • Birdie
    Birdie Posts: 256 Member
    Corn Dogs, blech ... When I was 7 I tore into a corn dog because I was so hungry. Turns out it was spotted and spoiled. Vomited immediately.

    :sick: ewww
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    Jack Daniels.
    When I was 16, I went to a "party" and we were doing shots of jack and jumping on the trampoline.
    I got hungry and ate a tuna fish sandwich I found in the fridge.
    Afterwords, I had to go home to meet my girlfriend but, I wasely decided I was too drunk to drive so, I took the go-cart that was in the garage.
    Once I got home I was in BAD shape.
    My Mother told me to go lay down in the bathroom and, as long as I had my head tilted JUST right, the room stopped spinning.
    Well, my girlfriend came over and gave me a playful kick to the ribs to get me up. Three hours of food and drink reappeared.
    For YEARS I could not even stand ther SMELL of wiskey.
    Even today, at 42, I still cannot drink American wiskey. I was able to drink a little bit of Irish wiskey and some home made stuff but, the Jack Daniels kills me.
  • roachhaley
    roachhaley Posts: 978 Member
    I've thrown up twice at TGI Fridays... actually, I still eat there, lol.

    I've also choked many a time on a mozzarella stick... again, I still eat them.

    I guess I just love food too much.
  • IronPlayground
    IronPlayground Posts: 1,594 Member
    Funyuns and Sunkist. Ate them as a kid. Threw up shortly after. Never touched them again.
  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    Sun dried tomatoes .. don't ask... makes me gag to think
  • cream corn/spinach, and really cheesy pizza
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    As a kid, I choked on a huge piece of cabbage. I don't avoid it, but I am very careful and stressed when I eat it. Same with mozzarella cheese in cheese sticks. It's so stringy!
  • popcorn
  • TKelly06
    TKelly06 Posts: 225 Member
    Choked on tomato soup when I was like 6. Can't stand to look at it, smell it or even talk about it and it makes me gag! Bleck!
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    None! I have the throat muscles of a snake. I've had stuff stuck in my throat but I could always some how just like make it come out...?

    Hahaha perverts.
  • OnWisconsin84
    OnWisconsin84 Posts: 409 Member
    I f*cking HATE sprinkles because my mom used to open up my pills as a child & mix the little ball thingies into applesauce to get me to take my meds (pneumonia + bronchitis). Nothing like crunchy *kitten* in your MF applesauce. Thanks Mom. I guess that kinda ruined applesauce for me too.
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    canned peas... they make me vomit....lol
  • chocolateandpb
    chocolateandpb Posts: 438 Member
    Those Brach's butterscotch candies. You know, they're round discs, the perfect size for getting stuck in a child's esophagus. Almost choked to death on one when I was about 9 years old. I'm still too scared to eat them.

    I also almost choked on a tortilla chip, but that's just because I'm a gluttonous piglet. I was mowing down the chips so fast I didn't chew them well enough, and when I swallowed, a jagged chip got stuck in my throat. It wasn't completely obstructing my airway, but I could feel it stuck there and it was so sharp that it hurt. I tried drinking water, then tried eating more to try to push it down, and then started to have an anxiety attack and felt like I couldn't breathe (from the panic more than the chip itself). It FINALLY went down. I don't avoid chips (I'm not insane!) but I do CHEW my food slower and more thoroughly before I swallow it.
  • Honey buns and butterfingers...I am gagging just thinking about them. The only thing I ever choked on as a kid was a nickel and those really aren't a part of my regular diet. ;)
  • jus_in_bello
    jus_in_bello Posts: 326 Member
    I once spent the night of a bad break up with a cheap bottle of tequila and now I'm pretty selective about my tequila.
  • konerusp
    konerusp Posts: 247 Member
    I guess i have a long list,all of the below make me throw up

    Red Meat
    Anything with excess butter/margarine/clarified butter
    seafood when it smells like seafood :grumble:
    Anything too sweet,i can handle chocolate upto 50 %,anything less than that im dead.
    Castor Oil-traditional use to clean bowels back home
    artificially flavored anything
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I nearly choked to death on a piece of meat when I was about 3 but I don't remember it. Then I nearly choked to death on a tootsie roll when I was 9 months pregnant. I still fear tootsie rolls but I still eat them.
  • Roll_Tide_Meg
    Roll_Tide_Meg Posts: 255 Member
    Sweet-tarts. I love em but I almost choked to death on one when I was a teenager. Felt like it was going to take forever to get the thing to melt.
  • HypersonicFitNess
    HypersonicFitNess Posts: 1,219 Member
    Does shots of pineapple upside down cake, count? Let's just say I partied a little too hard the day I graduated college...

    that stuff will kill you....if you're talking about pineapple upside down cake shooters...only I had a couple of martini's ...sheesh nearly killed me.
  • Rubie81
    Rubie81 Posts: 720 Member
    Th isn't a food, but, psyllium husks capsules. Last month I bought this for the first time for digestive purposes. So the first time I took it, fine, the second time, the pill just kind of lodged there, and no amounts of water would flush it down. And all I could keep reading was warning, drink with plenty of water, pill may enlarge in esophagus and cause choking :noway:
    So no more. Now I break those capsules open and stir them into my water.
  • laurenellenmarie
    laurenellenmarie Posts: 331 Member
    The last shot of Jameson I took made me literally wheeze afterward. Like I said, it was my last shot.
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    Water chestnuts. The crunch of them sound like when you accidentally step on a junebug or a snail. BLARGHHH.
    My mom sneaks them into her pancit, and if I accidentally bite into one, I gag.
  • Jaeger. *shudder*