What is your irrational food fear?

McKayMachina
McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I've been inundated with worm-in-the-apple imagery since birth. Despite never actually experiencing it in real life, I developed a lifelong fear that I would bite into a worm body one of these days.

It has yet to happen but I still freak out every time I hit a spot that's even remotely oxidized.

"DID A WORM CRAWL THROUGH THERE? IS HE STILL LIVING IN THIS APPLE?! AHHHH!!!"

:tongue:

I've resorted to slicing apples thinly like deli meat. It feels like worm hide-and-seek every time. And I'm "it".

:laugh:

What are your irrational food fears?

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  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    I always feel like I dont cook meat enough lol
  • hummzz
    hummzz Posts: 385 Member
    I don't have it anymore, but when I was young we ate lots of watermelon. When I would accidently swallow a seed I was so fearful that a watermelon would grow in my tummy. Its funny that I still have that fleeting thought when I eat watermelon now. I don't believe it of course, but the thought still enters my mind if I don't get every single watermelon seed. Maybe that's what happened to me. I"m not fat after all! Its a big ole watermelon in my belly!!!!! LMAO!!!!
  • elle18287
    elle18287 Posts: 267 Member
    One time I found a caterpillar in an ear of corn. Yuck! So I always fear that when preparing fresh corn.
  • tobitude
    tobitude Posts: 89 Member
    A friend of mine told me when cut into an Entemens cheese danish that a couple cockroaches ran out, that was it for me I refuse to eat anything Entemens.
  • helloiloveukitty
    helloiloveukitty Posts: 448 Member
    I'm extremely excessively fearful of that vile gross egg "crust" you can get when scrambling eggs. I only let professionals or my mommy make me eggs because it freaks me out so bad. hah
  • littlenoms
    littlenoms Posts: 46
    I always overcook chicken. I'm terrified of not cooking it long enough and getting sick.
  • skinnyhopes
    skinnyhopes Posts: 402 Member
    Well I never eat expired dairy.
  • kao708
    kao708 Posts: 813 Member
    I cannot eat anything with eyes/head still on it! those places that serve whole fish??? Not a chance.
  • Meganne1982
    Meganne1982 Posts: 451
    I eat a lower carb diet, but my mother is the Atkins queen, so I am frightened by her voice in my head whenever I even think about eating a potato, rice, or- god forbid- the evil CORN!

    And my mom's judgemental voice running through my head is pretty scary.

    She lectures everyone she meets on the evil of carbs.

    Her zeal is frightening.
  • elliecolorado
    elliecolorado Posts: 1,040
    I always overcook chicken. I'm terrified of not cooking it long enough and getting sick.

    I am the same way, for many years I wouldn't even cook chicken, I'd only eat it if someone else made it. I'll cook it now, but I always over cook it!

    I also will never use the last inch or so of milk, my logic is that it has been in and out of the fridge the most... not sure why that matters, but you did say irrational fear ;)
  • Sasha_Bear
    Sasha_Bear Posts: 625 Member
    I won't eat fish with bones in it because I fear I will choke on one of the bones. And I have a habit of cleaning meet to death before I cook it cause it never seems clean enough to me! LOL
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    Well I never eat expired dairy.

    I once walked in my grandmas and took a big ol swig from the milk carton and it was chunky.scared me for life and i will never drink out of the carton again.
    (that was 25 years ago almost and i still wont drink out of the carton)
  • ybba12490
    ybba12490 Posts: 252
    When I was super young I was watching an RL Stine movie where these bullies put worms into a girls pb&j sandwich. Even though pb&j is my favorite, I still have fears before I eat one because she actually BIT into the worms!! eww!!
  • Omicron
    Omicron Posts: 48 Member
    Caterpillars in frozen spinach. I found one in my lunch a few years ago (after eating half of the dish) and can’t stand the thought of buying anything but fresh. It was in leftovers too so who knows if we ate any the night before. Eeeww.
  • ybba12490
    ybba12490 Posts: 252
    Well I never eat expired dairy.

    I once walked in my grandmas and took a big ol swig from the milk carton and it was chunky.scared me for life and i will never drink out of the carton again.
    (that was 25 years ago almost and i still wont drink out of the carton)

    I did that with chocolate milk also! and I was drinking from Capri Sun in the pouch and a huuuge fuzz chunk came up! it was mold!
  • JodiS75
    JodiS75 Posts: 284
    I have most of these, lol! I seriously examine any fruit or veggie to confirm that there are no worm or bug holes. I can't stand anything "looking" at me while I eat. I'm totally freaked out by juicy meat- I figure it must be raw. I always smell milk, no matter how fresh and I never eat dairy even on the day it expires. I examine each piece of bread for any mold before eating it. I won't eat grapes that are soft around the stem hole. Even a little brown grosses me out!

    Gosh, I sound like a freak! I'm actually not a picky eater!
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    overcook chicken, i also always think i'll find a worm in my fish, because once as a child i did.
  • CassieLEO
    CassieLEO Posts: 757 Member
    Im super paranoid about eating undercooked pork products, ESPECIALLY sausages....
  • squeaktones
    squeaktones Posts: 195 Member
    when i was in 2nd grade a boy at my table flicked a booger in my apple sauce while i was away from my seat. when i found out i puked all over the floor. since then i can't eat or see apple sauce without it reminding me of boogers. to this day i still want to vomit.
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    when i was in 2nd grade a boy at my table flicked a booger in my apple sauce while i was away from my seat. when i found out i puked all over the floor. since then i can't eat or see apple sauce without it reminding me of boogers. to this day i still want to vomit.

    hahahahhahahahhah

    OMG.

    All of these have been great so far but that one just wrecked me. haha aww! You poor, applesauce-deprived woman! ;p
  • PattiPositive
    PattiPositive Posts: 71
    My irrational food fear...

    Chocodiles

    I AM AFRAID The chocolate covered mega love Twinkie will find me when I'm in the store. ANY STORE!!! It can smell when I'm coming. It will seek me out, track my every step and will overtake me. It will grab my ankle and tackle me to the ground, SHOVING ITSELF INTO MY MOUTH !! FORCING me to Choke on Chocolate Covered Spongy Golden Cake Creamy GOODNESS.

    Now thats the Stuff that scares me!!!!
  • Tree72
    Tree72 Posts: 942 Member
    Cherry tomatoes are the same way for me. I'm always afraid to bite into a juicy tomato and find a bug. I always have to cut them at least in half.
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    I always feel like I dont cook meat enough lol

    Very much that. I tend to overcook meat because I'm scared to undercook it.
  • Barelmy
    Barelmy Posts: 590 Member
    I just worry that things have gone off. Even if they look/smell fine, I'll sometimes not eat them anyway.
  • DeBlue
    DeBlue Posts: 254 Member
    I've been a vegetarian for 30+ years, but have the occasional nightmare that I'm in a fast food restaurant finishing eating a hamburger, then (fade in scary music) realize I just ate meat!!! !
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    When I was little, I refused to eat summer squash because of the way it looked in its whole form. Kinda scary all gnarled up like that. Now it's one of my favorite veggies.

    I refuse to buy fresh fish. The last time I tried, I got to the check out counter, and saw a worm CRAWLING out from under the filet. Not cool.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Cherry tomatoes are the same way for me. I'm always afraid to bite into a juicy tomato and find a bug. I always have to cut them at least in half.

    once when i bit into a cherry tomato as a child, it squirted into my throat and triggered my gag reflex. this caused me to swear off tomotoes (raw) entirely. to this day.
  • abyt42
    abyt42 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I've eaten larvae-infested barley....and am now very, very careful about barley. And other grains. Even though I finished the barley, and didn't really notice a difference, it's still a bad memory of bad times......

    Processed dairy makes me violently ill...(American cheese-like product, Velveeta, crocked cheese.....), so I'm super careful about eating foods that may contain dairy that isn't from a reputable source. (I trust my family, but not so much my coworkers, for instance....) I mostly eat what I've brought to potlucks.
  • Tamstar1985
    Tamstar1985 Posts: 334 Member
    i am terrified to eat cauliflower. why? well,...

    just at the end of high school, i went to live in china with my dad while he was managing a factory there. because it was just me and him, and the fact that my dad can't cook, he put me in charge of cooking duties for lunches and dinners. one saturday morning, i was feeling all proud because i bought a lovely super fresh cauliflower and pork sausages from the market near our home. i was all like "hey dad i am gonna cook an awesome lunch!"

    so i set down to cleaning the veg, and i split the cauliflower in half only to find... a HUGE. GREEN. YELLOW. GIANT-EYED. grasshopper-thing. i can still remember its ugly green face and its massive eyes, and i feel crawly all over. i screamed "omg dad help me!" and ran out back into our garden, where i tossed the cauliflower over the fence into the construction yard behind the house.

    yep, i haven't eaten cauliflower since. i get like scary-bug-eye-flashbacks.
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