Did you ever eat so much of one food, that you couldn't it again?

@AmbiePam (85605)
United States
April 29, 2008 8:25am CST
Apparently when I was two, I loved cooked broccoli. Of course this thrilled my parents because it was healthy. So they let me have it when ever I wanted. Unforunately, one time I had too much, and I threw up. To this day, I don't eat cooked broccoli, unless I'm at someone's house and I would hurt their feelings by not eating it. I prefer the washed broccoli raw, dipped in a lite ranch dressing, if at all. Did you ever eat so much of a food you stopped eating it altogether? Or maybe you just couldn't eat it for a certain amount of time, but now can eat it without it being gross?
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
1 May 08
Hi AmbiePam! Usually when I love something to eat, I do have it for several days repeatedly and there will come a time that I don't want to even taste it. I feel like throwing up at the sight of it. Then it will take several months before I would want to have it again or sometimes won't have it anymore. I have this thing before with bittergourd stir fried with tomatoes, garlic and onions and other vegetables. I really love the dish, took it for several days but it has been years since I have it. I never want to eat that kind of dish ever again. Just my thoughts dear friend. Take care and have a nice day!
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
1 May 08
Hello! I know what you mean about eating something until you can't stand the sight or you'll throw up. It reminds me of my dad who used to go to McDonalds every day for breakfast. He'd get a sausage biscuit every morning. He did this for a solid year, until one morning he couldn't even make himself walk into the McDonalds because the thought of the food made him ill.
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
2 May 08
haha..Exactly my dear friend!
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@mbs730 (2147)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
I know this is weird but I used to love Nutella, you know the chocolate hazelnut spread? I am emetophobic (phobic of puke) and one time my daughter got sick after eating it (fortunately I was not around to see it but knowing about it was enough for me) I refuse to eat Nutella because it reminds me of that incident so much. She also will never eat it again, wonder why huh? lol.. ugh
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@mbs730 (2147)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
I basically can't handle anything to do with puke and fortunately I rarely do it myself! Fortunately my kids rarely get sick that way and each time they have my husband has taken care of it, he kinda has had to! And the sad thing is I mentioned this on another forum and they poked fun at me pretty badly for it. So not fair, there is a phobia for just about everything and emetophobia is actually the 7th most common phobia in the world.
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
30 Apr 08
Oh wow, I didn't know there was a phobia of that. Does that mean when you puke, it makes you puke more? I never had had nutella, but I've heard of it.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
29 Apr 08
I used to hate hot dogs.. and mustard! And now I like both. But! I hated, yes despised turnips, and I cannot conceive of ever liking them! I would gag on them when forced to "eat my vegetables" - but after gagging, I think my mom finally believed how much I hated them, and quit making me eat them - Wow.. liked broccoli as a kid, kool! Wish my extremely picky granddaughter liked it! Too bad you hate it now tho.. nothing better than broccoli with lots of cheese!
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
29 Apr 08
To my knowledge, I've never eaten a turnip. I guess I'm lucky in that respect. I don't think my parents cared for them either, or else they would have made them at some point.
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• United States
29 Apr 08
...take my word for it.. they are the ugliest tasting food ever!! Well, try 'em if ya want.. but don't say I didn't warn you!
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@us2owls (1681)
• United States
2 May 08
When I ws a teenager in school in the UK we ate lunches cooked at the school. We had to get a plate and someone would serve up everything. We had to have some of everything and eat everything that was on our plate. One day I got a load of cooked cabbage given to me. I tried eating it but it was nasty and made me gag. They made me stay in the lunch room until I ate it all. I gagged at every mouthful. I finally got it all down in time to go home that afternoon. I ate nothing else that day because I was too busy throwing up. It took me years to even try cabbage again but finally I got so I could eat it and I quite like it. It is by far from being my favorite vegetable but I do eat some now.
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
2 May 08
I didn't know school could make students eat something they didn't want to.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Maybe I ate so much that I couldn't eat it as often, but not to the point of not eating it at all.. A couple of examples, spaghetti and hot dogs.. When we first moved out of the city, my kids were 5 and 3 and it was a big deal to build a fire and roast hot dogs..And it wasn't just on weekends, it was whenever we felt like it and it was raining..So my kids and I, though we still eat hot dogs, we don't eat them as often.. Then the spaghetti..99% of the time when I ask my husband what he wants for supper, it is spaghetti..So now, though I still eat spaghetti, I don't eat it as much.. As for something I won't eat because it made me sick was when I was a teen, right around the time cookie crisp first came out..It had nothing to do with eating too much, but because I had gotten the flu bug or something and I ate the chocolate chip cookie crisp with red koolaid..I still to this day, won't eat cookie crisp.. And what is ironic about my husband is he doesn't eat too much of things, his appetite and preferences never change and I find that weird..For over 24 years he has been taking almost every day peanut butter and jelly on toast for breakfast and like I said, he can eat spaghetti every day and not get sick from it or sick of it..I find that very strange unless I am the strange one and like to have variety in my diet..
@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Your husband sounds somewhat like my dad. He would be happy eating beans and cornbread every day of the week. When he was a kid, that was all they ate, Monday through Friday. That was what they could afford. I would have thought that would have made him tired of it, but no. He'd happily eat that every day for the rest of his life.
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• United States
11 May 08
Thanks for the BR Ambie, guess what is for supper tonight?? No not spaghetti, but close enough, lasagna....
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
30 Apr 08
Bologna. We pronounce it "baloney" in my area. In second grade my mom made my lunch and one day put a baloney sandwich in it. I had that type of sandwish at least twice a week. That particular day I must've been getting ill--I had the flu the next day--because after lunch we were doing arithmetic and I threw up all over the floor beside my desk! I was so embarrassed and haven't eaten bologna since then, can't even think about it. I couldn't eat peanut butter for a few years because I was so poor one month that it's all I lived on, that and a couple loaves of bread. It took about seven years to like peanut butter again!
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
30 Apr 08
We say baloney too. And I had a similar experience. I still cannot eat it, and won't. There is one thing that I refuse to eat, even if it appears rude, and that's 'baloney'. I know I'll get sick on it.
• United States
30 Apr 08
For me, it was carrots. I've always loved raw carrots right out of the garden. So, when I was about 10 yrs old, my aunt sent me and my cousins out to the garden to pick some fresh carrots for supper. They lived in the country and had a huge garden. I know now that they were just trying to find something for us kids to do, so we did what we were told. We picked carrots. All the carrots. We picked every bloody carrot in the garden. It took 2 wheelbarrows to get them all to the house. My aunt freaked when we told her we had the carrots. She came outside and lost her mind. Then, she told us we had to eat every single carrot in those wheelbarrows. We all three ate carrots until we thought they were going to come out of our ears. I threw up orange that whole night, and to this day, it's hard for me to eat raw carrots. In fact, I'm almost 40 yrs old and last year was the first time I ever planted carrots in my garden. I couldn't bring myself to pick very many and there are still some out there.
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
30 Apr 08
That is awful!
• United States
12 May 08
I'm not sure that I've ever eaten so much of something that I don't want it again but I know I've been sick and a particular food comes up and I will not eat it for a long, long time! I was that way with spaghetti after being sick in college and throwing it up. I still don't often eat it!!!!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
I did not eat a lot of food to get sick of it. I did eat quite a few sweets, but I gradually lost the taste. That is the same with anything too salty. I gradually lost the taste. I find that there are foods that I cannot stand in combination like broccoli with cheese, but I have never liked it. In me it was the opposite, I did not like a certain food at first, and then I had to eat a bit of it to see what it was like. So I either did not like it, I gradually liked it, or I loved it. In that case, I was careful of not eating too much because usually the stuff I loved was something that took a lot of time to prepare.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
30 Apr 08
Well it's never been a problem about eating too much of one food and then not wanting to eat it again. Some years ago, I had food poisoning by eating Gorton's fresh fish fillets...my suspicion that maybe it was a case that somehow the frozen foods had defrosted but then re-froze..the supermarket that used to be here was famous for their freezers going on the blitz---Anyway I LOVE fish, but I took a small bite and thought, yikes this doesn't taste right..there's something wrong with it...well thank goodness I didn't eat anymore of it, but that one bit I did have...OMG..don't ask how sick I was....to this day I'm still cautious about eating fish...I know this is silly since one can get food poisoning with anything, but I'm just really cautious now about fish...in fact some months later after that incident I decided to have a nice scallop dinner and bought some fresh scallops...then maybe cause I was a bit paranoid, to me it didn't smell right...so didn't eat it..I know sounds wacky right?
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
30 Apr 08
No, not wacky. I once got food poisoning from a Long John Silver's shrimp wrap. I could not stand even thinking of wraps or seafood for years. My sister would bring that up every time she got mad at me because she knew it bothered me so much. : )
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
1 May 08
I used to have too much of a certain kind of pickled vegetable for some time that I do not want to eat it again. It has been for years that I show no interest in this food again though I used to like it very much. So after that, I decide not eat too much or too often of one special food that will later make me have no taste of having it again. Thanks for your discussion, AmbiePam.
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@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
30 Apr 08
The only food I can think of this sort of happening with is pizza. My best friend and I ate pizza and french fries every single day for lunch in high school. I don't think pizza is gross or anything but I ate it so much as a kid that I rarely ever choose to eat it now. The only thing I will never touch again is not really a food...but a drink! Southern Comfort...ugh. I will never drink that stuff again! I am not really a drinker anyway...but I got soo sick drinking this with Coke that for the longest time I couldn't even stand the taste or smell of plain Coke because I would smell the SoCo. Blah. My favorite drink is Coke, so that was rough!
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
30 Apr 08
That is a sacrifice, I'm a Coke drinker too.
• Australia
18 May 08
Not that I can remember. I have cycles of what I eat and what I want to eat (sadly, not always possible to have what I want! Small country town and all). Sushi is one I will always come back to though. I know in my teen years, I ate so many grapes off the vines we had, that I got really sick with allergic dermatitis. Hasn't stopped me eating them, but can only eat all foods in moderation now or I end up with the same rash.
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@giorazor (46)
• Georgia
29 Apr 08
yes mcdonalds for example.... i was fan of this food once i was in moscow and i was eating every day twice or more and when i returned in georgia (my home) i saw building of mcdonalds and i was like get me out of this place.... now i dont eat it because i dont like any more
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@AmbiePam (85605)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Ugh, I don't blame you!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
I only eat that much food once at a buffet, every one was stuffing their face and I did it so much that I throw up and that was it I never tried to over eat again.
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@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
30 Apr 08
There is high chance I might have eaten too much of one food, but so far it has never gets me "frightened" of it. However, I do stop taking the food if it causes me indigestion or gastric flu. It happens once. I had big black fungus and that night I puke and it was gastric flu for the new few days. I stopped eating big black fungus since.
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
30 Apr 08
I don't think that I over ate anything to the point that I could never ever eat it again. But I know there are a few that I ate a lot of that I didn't eat for a really long time or don't eat very often because of overkill. The one that sticks out the most was boiled eggs. Easter every year my mother would boil dozens and dozens of them so we could paint them which was fun yet left a lot of boiled eggs to eat.
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@popocan (222)
• Hong Kong
30 Apr 08
Yes I had the same experience too! My partner bought me loads.....of oreo chocolate biscuits last year and I had it everyday for months. I eventually got really sick of it and I don't think I want it again. In fact, I don't eat any chocolate biscuits anymore!
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30 Apr 08
I cant eat tapioca milk pudding because of this.When I was a girl I stayed with my Granny and she mae the milk pudding,well I ate too much and I really suffered for it,now years and years o nI still cannot bear the thought of that tapioca pudding.
@obidan (367)
• Romania
30 Apr 08
Yes, i've eaten loads of hamburgers from a supermarket in town, they were so good and i was eating 1-2 almost everyday... One day i couldn't eat them anymore,and I didn't like them...
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