As a child, I was an extremely fussy eater. I can pinpoint several key factors to this:
- My school served us things like tinned tomatoes (yes, served on their own) and stewed cabbage, and we were made to eat it all!
- I was taken to Lowestoft fish market when I was 10. The smell was putrid and now I won’t eat fish.
- My mum never forced me to try new things, I ate separately to my parents so I could eat whatever I wanted.
Since growing a bit, I’ve forced myself to overcome my food fears – trying new fruit (it’s a texture thing for me) and trying to understand why I’ve always avoided things I’ve never even tried before.
So this month I’m asking, what foodie fears do you have or have you had? And do you know what’s caused them?
I’ve never had any phobias about food at all and only remember eating everything that was put in front of me, including the dullest of boiled cabbage in school dinners. I never lived during the war but I belive it was a crime to leave anything on your plate. Mum was a lovely home cook pretty much most of the time.
My one foodie bug bare is with my children. When they were little I tried to encourage them to eat dried fruit such as currants and sultanas. Grandad, bless him, was a bit of a joker and kept telling his grandchildren they were flies. They didn’t eat them then and they haven’t eaten them since. So whenever I’m baking with mixed dried fruit, I always think of my father.
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Cheesecake.
It’s because cheese and cake should never mix.
And yes, I know it isn’t cheese per se. I know it would taste wonderful. If someone offered me a piece of “Strawberry Cake of Awesome”, I’d take a slice in a flash. But call it “Strawberry Cheesecake” and I’ll run a mile.
Words have a wonderful power.
I used to hate all fruit as well because of the texture! Now I eat pretty much all of it through forcing myself to like it before I died of vitamin deficiencies…still gag a little when I have to chew a berry.
And I HATE HATE HATE nuts and raisins. It’s really annoying and I really want to like them, I do, but I just can’t do it. It’s just so rubbish not being able to eat Christmas cake or fruit scones or nutty chocolate…or even have an ice cream sundae just in case they put those horrid little crunchy nuts on top.
Oh and eggs. But they’re just disgusting. There’s no need for them at all. I dont want to like them ever. A fry up is no better with an egg. And for those of you who say “but you eat cake and that’s got egg in!” Well yes, but you eat bread- that doesnt mean you regularly snack on yeast and flour. Things CHANGE when they’re cooked!
I love food. Ill try anything twice, which is usually enough to make me love it. I’m glad I’m so unfussy. However…. There is one food I am honestly phobic of.
Raisins, sultanas, currants. Devil’s food, hate it. There’s nothing worse than tucking into something perfectly lovely then finding one of those sordid beats in it. Other dried fruits are fine. Even cranberries which look bet similar to raisins. Dates too, I particularly like.
The reason I’m so fearful can be traced back to one day when I was about two. I was tucking into handfuls of the things as a snack, and then got one with a stick in it. An actual stick. Now just the thought of the things is enough to raise my blood pressure.
A few years ago, realising that this was entirely irrational, I decided to try to wean myself back onto them. I got those little boxes, and made myself eat one every day. This lasted a week. I survived. But I still hate them.
Haha yes I HATE dried fruits like that too. I’m always weary of sticky toffee pudding and ask at restaurants if it’s been poisoned! Oh and mushrooms, they are the devils work.
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I have two . . . not so much phobias but more as raging hatreds. The first is for bananas . . . the smell makes me retch, which I put down to childhood medicines being banana-flavoured. So extreme was my reaction as a child to the medicine that they had to give me watered down adult versions. To this day I really do loathe bananas.
Also despise beetroot, particularly pickled beetroot. I feel as if I should like it . . . it’s pickled, it’s purple and it’s good for you. Unfortunately as a child my father used to make sandwiches which consisted of layers of pickled beetroot and piccalilli . . . looking like a really bad accident!
I am trying to get over my hatred of beetroot and even managed to make a fairly acceptable cake with the stuff . . . but banana is firmly off the menu!
BTW, read Jeffrey Steingarten’s “The Man Who Ate Everything” . . . he reckoned he couldn’t be a good food writers with all his prejudices so he learned to embrace them . . . very funny!