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Food
This section of the Hall contains phobias about food, for which bad school dinners are surely a common culprit.
Read about general food phobias, choking, meat and food poisoning. Below are the ten most recently added food phobias.
I am terrified of grapes. I am not scared of choking or food poisoning or anything I'm just scared of the actual fruit. I can't even be in the same room as someone who's eating grapes and I won't go in the fridge if I know theres grapes in there.
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It seems I can hardly ever finish the last bite of anything solid or bread-like like a sandwich without feeling nauseous. I think it's because I feel like the last bite is the wrong size and I am afraid of swallowing air along with it.
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I freak out when people touch my cheese!! lol as crazsy as it sounds. I can handle it if i see people with gloves preparing my food.. but if im at home and someone tries to make me a sandwich or some thing i freak out. jus the thought of the dirt on someone hands being on my cheese makes me sick to my stomach.
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i have a fear of jelly.... even the word freaks me out.. i shake every time i see it or hear someone say the word.. i get a lump in my throat like im going to be sick... even on tv i hate it.... even cartoon jelly freaks me out i dont why but i really really hate it... but i still have no idea the name of the phobia
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I am absolutly petrified of jelly and jelly like substances im not exactly a dramatic girly person but i cant even look at jelly with out screaming out or feeling as if im going to throw up. Its horrible I cant even be with my friends if they eat it. I dont even know why or how it started.
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I'm not afraid of the taste of fruit (juices). In fact I love a good glass of orange juice, but I can't make myself swallow actual fruit. Something about the way it feels in my mouth just makes me gag and cry. My parents have always gotten on to me about needed to balance my diet, but I just can't eat fruit!
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I can not go near any form of cinnamon even the word freaks me out my brother eats cinnamon toast crunch and has the box of it in the pantry next to mine i can't get my cereal because it is there. I have gotten it in my eye 7 times and i have eaten cinnamon 7 times and visine only made it worse.
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I'm not afraid of condiments, as others are. I am afraid of these substances touching my skin. I've been looking for a while and I have never come across anyone with this fear. No. Fear isn't the right word. My friends laugh whenever I scream at mustard falling on my hand, but I truly believe I have some sort of phobia or condition. A few months ago I was at a restuarant. As I was walking back from the bathroom a woman unintetionally dripped ketchup on my arm. It was a huge glob. I smiled and nodded at her apology to be polite and raced off to the bathroom, but by the time I got there, I was balling. I washed my hands for 10 minutes!
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I can't stand, the smell, look, or taste of condiments particularly mustard, mayo, ketchup, pickles, relishes ( I hate how the words relish and pickle sounds as well). I think it comes from watching my neighbors when I was a kid, eating white (Wonder) bread and mustard sandwiches. Even if I think something might have mayo or what ever in it, I cringe.
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Ever since literally as long as I can remember, I have had a phobia over choking on food, which rolls over into being unable to swallow pills. There are many, MANY things I can't eat because it feels as though if I swallow, it will be caught in my throat and choke me. My first memory is choking on food as a baby and being rushed to the bathroom to cough into a towel. I can't eat most fruit, such as oranges, pineapples, grapes, cherries, etc; many meats such as steak; mushrooms, stretchy cheese/stretchy anything, most vegetables (I would kill to be able to eat a salad, but the stringy quality gets me). Any serious thought of attempting to swallow such things while they're in my mouth makes me break out in a cold sweat and start trembling. Sometimes it can come and go with something I was eating perfectly well a moment ago and suddenly can't conceive of swallowing. I have never sought help for it, but research has told me it's called "anginophobia." I wish I could just <i>try</i> swallowing something to try and force myself into believing my throat can handle it, but the fear of having no one who could perform the Heimlich should it not work stops me. The one time I swallowed a pill was by accident, and my throat ached and could feel its path down to my stomach for hours afterward.
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