A Discussion Inspired By Another Discussion
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
January 6, 2008 7:57pm CST
I admit I have to give credit where credit is due. Our lovable bear of MyLot started a discussion, "Would You Eat This?" where he pointed out that there is such a thing as chocolate shaped like dog poo and would you be willing to eat such a thing as much as you might like chocolate?
Well this got my gray matter going, because then I realize, that we eat many foods that can remind us of other things...things that are rather disgusting actually. So this might turn out to be a real gross out and not for the faint of heart.
I pointed out in my reply to that discussion that one can view chocolate pudding or mousse as looking like diarrhea. Heck even chocolate syrup could fit that category
Now here are some other gross out ideas for you to think about. If you ever have had children or been a "foster" mom to infant, newborn/young kittens or puppies, that things like mustard or peanut butter has the same color or texture as baby poo whether human or infant animals.
AH! Some more gross outs...how about oatmeal? Now I actually like oatmeal but one day while I was eating it, I couldn't help think, gee, this could look like puke. Ah again! How about rice? I remember a story told that when the Native American reservations were being established and the government issued "food provisions" one of the things given to them was rice...a food that Native Americans for the most part never ate (except maybe wild rice, not white)...they refused to eat it...why? They said it reminded them of a bowlful of.....drumroll please...maggots
And who can ever forget that classic scene in The Exorcist, where the girl is throwing up green slime....it was actually pea soup...ah, can we ever view pea soup the same way now...or how about parmesan cheese that smells like smelly feet?
So my question is....why do we eat foods that can remind of us something more gross? Does it change the way you eat? Can you think of any other foods that could represent something more gross?
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15 responses
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
7 Jan 08
What you have said is so true, pyewacket, many foods that we love should turn us off by either their resemblance to something repugnant-whether visual or olfactory. Take sardines, for instance. I have always loved them, but I've had many people tell me they would never eat them because of the smell. You're also right about the rice. To this day I will only eat rice that has been kept refrigerated or frozen due to an experience I had many years ago with rice that actually did contain maggots. I once got such a bad case of food poisoning from eating banana pudding, that, while it looks very appealing, it was many years before I could bring myself to eat it again. Lastly, my favorite is chittlins, which many people won't eat because they DO smell like sh*t, but I consider them a delicacy-as do many other people.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Ekk...I now keep all my grain products from rice to flour, everything refrigerated....not so much due to maggots but bowevils suddenly cropping up if you keep any of it too long. I could never eat chittlins, not because of the smell but because of what they are..
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@janisspaggiari59 (656)
• United States
7 Jan 08
I don't think about poop or puke when I eat.Foods have never reminded me of it.
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
7 Jan 08
LMAO! I guess for me it would have to depend on what it looked like as well as what it smells like. That's the major thing for me...both smell and looks. Texture (I mean what it feels like in your mouth) too plays a small role as well.
You are so right though! I guess we just never think of them in that manner.
I don't blame the Native Americans for that LOL. I've often thought that myself. Though I have eaten rice. But I don't like it. And it does have a bit to do with the texture of the rice too I noticed. And you could hardly blame the Native Americans too considering what the 'government' did to them. They might have expected they'd slip some maggots in there LOL.
I can't think of any more foods :)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
I actually had some rice for dinner tonight...LOL..actually do like the wild rice better and it's tastier..and yes, I just bet the govt. did slip in real maggots in the rice they gave the Native Americans
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Back a long time ago, my husband used to make a breakfast roll from high fiber cereal and a chocolate drink mix (alba I think and some coffee) among other things - raisins, dried fruit etc.
Well it was was brown and it was for breakfast and it looked like a turd...what we called it? Breakfast turds!
Why not - mind over matter - if you don't mind how it looks - it don't matter!
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Don't you remember high school bio class - tape worm - looks like fettucini!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Ewwww...tapeworms! I once saw an Oprah where she had Dr.Oz and he was showing off a twenty foot tapeworm...and yes, it can look like fetticine
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
7 Jan 08
I've heard it said that steamed clams look like buggers and snot. I've never had them so I don't know if it's true! The other things you mentioned are quite true. My husband used to say he didn't like white rice because it looked like maggots, so the Native Americans aren't alone there.
About cheese, when we were on our way to the airport to go to Florida one time we'd taken some snacks with us in the van for the ride because the kids were pretty young then. We had some ring baloney and sharp cheddar among other things. My granddaughter Angela was sitting next to me in the middle seat of the van and she called up to her mom in the front to pass her back a piece of the cheese that smells like "daddy's feet".
More on our beloved chocolate; my daughter was having a tough time getting my grandson, Todd off the bottle. She tried sneaking it away, bribery, you name it. One night after he'd gone to sleep she put a couple small pieces of chocolate candy in all his bottles with a little milk and when he woke up she played dumb and said the dogs must have pooped in them. It worked! He never so much as mentioned his bottle again!
Annie
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Eww..clams...I had clams just ONCE in my life and yes they do look like boogers..taste like em too. Aw, now that wasn't nice of your daughter to tell your grandson that the dog pooped in his bottle...but heck it did work :)
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
7 Jan 08
Well for me,i believe its because i eat this stuff and of course this food reminds me of everyday things in life.If i never ate chocolate,rice,apple juice(pee)haha,etc and never in my life saw this stuff,then i could not compare it to another thing.I saw parmesan cheese before,but never smelled it or ate it so i did not have any comparison for it,until i did one time at supper when i just bought one to try it and automatically a comparison came into my mind and senses from the smell.If i never saw a dog do a poo in its life and ate some chocolate i could not compare it to the dog poo for sure and also maggots.The first time i saw maggots i right away compared it to rice because of the exact look.Its just a thought of comparison thats embedded in our mind for sameness of things.It doesn't bother me,but when im eating it just do not remind me,hahaha!
spaghettie with tomatoe juice = worms
baby food pureed meat = diarrhea
Peanutjar:)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Oh,yes, by George! I nearly forgot how apple juice does look like pee...hehe and yes, spaghetti does look like worms LOL
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@GardenGerty (169490)
• United States
7 Jan 08
My hubby claims that the reason he does not eat pasta is that he got up late one night, and someone had rinsed a spaghetti dish in the sink, leaving the white strands of pasta. In his sleepy little boy mind it began writhing--it was worms. He cannot even stand the smell of boiling pasta. LOL. I guess that is our claim to fame at our house.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
My your hubby had an active imagination...hehe, but yes, pasta could look like worms
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
7 Jan 08
it never change the way i eat, because when im in high school a third year student & CAT training all the big commander will make anything to our food & water so that time even they will said like a poo i really dont care as long i know the food is clean even some make vomite it will not affect to me, not like others just they her a words like pooo suddenly they vomite or even they dont like to see the food. thats only from your mind.:)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jan 08
I guess it is all the power of the mind and of suggestion to what food is or looks like..LOL
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jan 08
How true...if I constantly thought what food reminded me of I'd never eat again either..LOL
@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Oh gross, lol. Yes I used to not eat rice because it made me think of maggots but I love rice and don't think about it but now you got me thinking about it again, lol. Oh and pudding that reminds us of diarrhea, oh so gross. I never thought about mustard or oatmeal that way. Gee thanks for making me want to puke, LMAO. Now chocolate that looks like dog poo? No way! I love chocolate but I wouldn't eat that.
Here's one for you, Spaghetti that reminds you of worms! That is what I used to think when I ate it but like I said I try not to think these things anymore, lol. Great discussion though. If I think of anymore I will post again. :)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
I actually had some rice for dinner..LOL...but had it BEFORE I started this discussion. Oh yes, spaghetti does look like worms doesn't it? Blaugh!!
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
23 Apr 08
As I started reading this my mind went to rice and the pea soup LOL I don't know why we tend to eat things that would gross us out otherwise.
If we're in a restaurant and someone sits a steaming bowl of Split Pea Soup in front of us...we pay for and enjoy it. If the same place sat a steaming bowl of vomit in front of us...we'd be outraged and probably have to fight the urge to vomit ourselves.
It's amazing how our minds and reasoning works.
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
8 Jan 08
How bout tomatoe sauce that looks like blood? Rice and maggots? ummmmmmmm.....I'm sure as heck glad I eat wild rice. lol That thought just turned my stomach 2-fold.
-shudders-
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@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
8 Jan 08
My homemade tomato sauce actually does look like blood with pieces of..ummmmmm..maybe brains in it? I make it with red bell peppers and diced tomatoes. OMG..I can just imagine the dreams I'm going to have tonite. lol
Yep, Tigger showing off his new harness. He loved it at the time but now I think he's getting a lil' peeved over it because it's too big on him. I had a small one but it was too small. This one is medium and it's too big. Too bad they don't make in-between sizes for Tigg. lol He keeps coming up to me with a disgusted look on his face holding his paw way up in the air so I can see he accidently put it thru the neck part of it when he was bathing himself. lol Least he doesn't try to take this off unlike his collar.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jan 08
Mmmm..think maybe something like cherry syrup might look more like blood, but yes tomato sauce would look like blood too..ah, see you got a new avatar....a new pic of Tigger?? I prefer wild rice too or at least brown rice
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Well there goes my need for food. I try not to think about these things when I'm eating. Although there was a time when I did not eat spinich for a very long time. My babbysitter when I was a kid called it boogers. I was tramitized. The other time was when I found out what Hot dogs were made from.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Yes, hot dog ingredients are disgusting...I usually get the all beef kosher ones like Nathan's or Sabratt..think they're supposed to be a LITTLE bit better...LOL
@betsyraeduke (2669)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Ewww...I have a weak stomach, so I will respond to this as soon as I stop gagging...lol...
Anyway, I eat many of the foods you mention. Yes, they do look very much like all of those things, but I do not think of that while I am eating them. If someone mentions it while I am, I immediatly lose my appetite and stop eating it.
Anoter one; rice krispies cereal, it looks like boogers...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Well you have to admit I do have an imagination...LOL. Mmm...never thought of rice krispers cereal as boogers
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
8 Jan 08
I can't explain why we do this but I know I love liverworst but can't stand to think about where it came from - yuk cow liver :( I also love cottage cheese but don't drink milk because of a bad experience with a carton of sour milk - I still eat cottage cheese but find myself not looking at it when I eat it.
