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I don't like Sprite/7 Up due to associations with having stomach flu. Even a taste of lemon lime soda makes me feel nauseous, because that was the only time I had it as a kid...when I was nauseous. I remember in high school psych learning that this type of taste aversion is called "sauce bearnaise syndrome."
I don't like Sprite/7 Up due to associations with having stomach flu. Even a taste of lemon lime soda makes me feel nauseous, because that was the only time I had it as a kid...when I was nauseous. I remember in high school psych learning that this type of taste aversion is called "sauce bearnaise syndrome."
i remember as a kid thinking that my grandma was the best cook in the whole wide world. we moved away and the grandparents always came to visit us rather than us going to them. anyway, as a teenager i visited my grandparents and grandma cooked...ugh... choke... barf. i mentioned to my mother that sadly, grandmas cooking had gone way down hill and mom said that grandma was ALWAYS a lousy cook. i wondered why i hadn't noticed it as a child and mom said that it was because the only thing i had to compare it to at that time was her own cooking. hmm...(can you say "the runs"...we won't even go there). luckily enough my granny on the other side of the family WAS a great cook till the day she passed away, so at least when i hear the phrase "just like grandma used to make", i don't puke
I'm pretty far away from home right now. I'm from the deep south. When I get really homesick, I tend to go back to the foods I grew up eating. It reminds me of home and I instantly feel better.
When I was about three or four years old, my parents took my brother and me to a Chinese restaurant. I was fascinated by the little dishes of bright red and bright yellow sauce. My mother became alarmed when saw me reaching for the yellow one. She said, "Don't eat that! You won't like it!" Her warning must have buried itself deep into my consciousness. From that day forward, whenever I had Chinese food, without even thinking about it I would reject the yellow sauce. It wasn't until I was well into my 40s that I realized that hey, it's OK, you are allowed to have the hot yellow mustard now!
Not really a food food, but my dad loves jellybeans. One Christmas I got him the Jellybelly mixed box. I grabbed one thinking it was lemon and it turned out to be buttered popcorn flavor. No problem if i had been expecting that flavor, but I was expecting lemon and got this butter crappy taste.
For at least 15 years (even still today sometimes) I refused to eat popcorn or jellybeans.
When I was about three or four years old, my parents took my brother and me to a Chinese restaurant. I was fascinated by the little dishes of bright red and bright yellow sauce. My mother became alarmed when saw me reaching for the yellow one. She said, "Don't eat that! You won't like it!" Her warning must have buried itself deep into my consciousness. From that day forward, whenever I had Chinese food, without even thinking about it I would reject the yellow sauce. It wasn't until I was well into my 40s that I realized that hey, it's OK, you are allowed to have the hot yellow mustard now!
Come to think of it, when we got Chinese food delivered, my mom would always dump out the mustard packets. It wasn't even left on the table, so we never tasted them. I think I lived alone before I did have one. I remember not even thinking twice and just leaving them in the bag that would soon become the "garbage bag" for the containers. I kinda like it now, but in small doses or mixed in to make sweet and sour hotter. I just don't like the vinegar-y taste, but I like the hot.
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just like grandma used to make
