Inconvenient food aversions/allergies

[Rod Hagen]

I avoid anything but the lightest amount of garlic, it fucks with my stomach, intensely

The worst is, I'm deathly allergic to beans.

Lo siento, pero Yo soy allergico a los Frejoles.  

No es possible.

Es possible.  Lo siento.  Yo prefiermos mas arroz, pero no Frejoles.  Gracias.  (when you speak, the listener/waiter only knows that your saying it wrong, not also that you are spelling it wrong).

Edited December 3, 2024 by Rod Hagen

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

20 minutes ago, Rod Hagen said:

Lo siento, pero Yo soy allergico a los Frejoles.  

No es possible.

Es possible.  Lo siento.  Yo prefiermos mas arroz, pero no Frejoles.  Gracias. 

If I close my eyes, I can almost see the look of confusion and disappointment on the face of the abuela taking your order.

[samhexum]

I don't like mayo or ketchup (although I like ketchup baked onto the top of a meatloaf) so I eat french fries plain, unlike the freaks in Europe, who like them with mayo and the freaks in this country who like them with ketchup.

 

[MikeBiDude]

4 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

Lo siento, pero Yo soy allergico a los Frejoles

Well, at least please spell “frijoles” correctly for those of us who love them 😉

[+ José Soplanucas]

Indid, it is a sheim dat u are lernin a second languaje and canot spel it propely.

[marylander1940]

I EAT absolutely everything but tend to go for healthy things, and I am allergic to absolutely anything...

 

 

Edited December 4, 2024 by marylander1940

[samhexum]

2 minutes ago, marylander1940 said:

I ate absolutely everything but tend to go for healthy things, and I am allergic to absolutely anything...

I assume you meant allergic to absolutely nothing...  

AND you still take walks regularly.

Long live @marylander1940!

[marylander1940]

5 minutes ago, samhexum said:

I assume you meant allergic to absolutely nothing...  

AND you still take walks regularly.

Long live @marylander1940!

I meant to say "I eat absolutely everything".

Long walks!

Edited December 4, 2024 by marylander1940

[+ PhileasFogg]

Onions, peppers, garlic, gluten, dairy….yeah, my oven is REAL clean   Oh yeah…and I avoid sugar too 

but, I’m accustomed to it and have no complaints.  
 

no, I’m not celiac, but I have a direct cause/effect outcome.  Dairy causes my retired complexion to act like a teenager. Onions and peppers make me belch.  Garlic makes me self conscious.   

[+ Lucky]

Garlic overwhelms the taste of the other ingredients plus it gives its consumer bad breath. I HATE it!

[Lotus-eater]

Big aversion to fish.

Edited December 4, 2024 by Lotus-eater

[pubic_assistance]

I have a few friends who are allergic to onions and garlic and so is my father.  Sadly my entire repertoire of recipes starts with either garlic or onion.....so I can't invite any of these people to dinner under normal circumstances. I find food that doesn't have onion or garlic to be bland. Even though I grew up never eating it all through my childhood because of my father. (Also Pennsylvania Dutch cooking doesn't call for much onion and never garlic) so traditional restaurants in the area are never a problem for him. Nearly Impossible for him to dine at Italian, Mexican and Chinese restaurants.

[ShortCutie7]

Bumping this thread because I recently had an allergic reaction to garlic, which made me incredibly sad because unlike onions, I LOVE garlic… so now my diet will be even more limited 😢 

[+ Just Chuck]

I have two different groups of foods that I actually love but have to avoid.  

1) I have IBS.  So, a starting point from there is to avoid spicy, greasy, and dairy.  Then there is a long list of potential trigger produce items that any individual with IBS might be sensitive to.

2) I gave myself a nut allergy.  I learned from raising dogs that if you give your dog the exact same dogfood all the time, they are likely to become allergic to some ingredients from overexposure.  I was making a version of my own trail mix and eating that for breakfast everyday.  Almonds were (still would be) a favorite of mine. Then, I started being itchy all the time.  Then, I noticed more and more and with stronger and stronger reactions that it was my breakfast doing it.  Now, I can touch an almond to my lips and my whole mouth and throat become inflamed and itchy.

 

[marylander1940]

On 2/4/2024 at 2:15 PM, Lucky said:

I hate garlic and garlic breath.

I guarantee you 99% of folks don't like garlic breath!

no escargot for you!

[+ sniper]

My cousin got bitten by a tick and is now allergic to red meat.

[mike carey]

41 minutes ago, sniper said:

My cousin got bitten by a tick and is now allergic to red meat.

That's a well known (if not widely known) allergy. I thought it was an Australian thing, but while it was first identified here early this century, apparently there are ticks on six continents that are linked to it. The sugar molecule that causes it is not found in primates, so presumably primate meat would not trigger an allergic reaction, but that is not particularly useful dietary information. For most of us.

Ticked off: how a bite can turn meat against you

WWW.CSIRO.AU

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Exploring the rise of tick-induced meat allergy and its connection to cardiovascular disease.

 

[+ Just Chuck]

54 minutes ago, sniper said:

My cousin got bitten by a tick and is now allergic to red meat.

That's hit my family in Oklahoma too.  
 

I have nightmares about ticks from having dozens of them on me at a time from playing in the woods as a kid.
 

Then, when I worked at a hospital in 1990-1992, I remember being in the ER when they brought in an elderly (alcoholic) man who went out hunting and sat at the base of a tree as HUNDREDS of ticks attached to him.  He was barely alive when he came in.  He was dying of a sepsis reaction to infection.  Whole parts of him just looked like sheets of brown scales instead of skin.

Edited yesterday at 12:53 AM by Just Chuck

[marylander1940]

I eat absolutely everything and I'm allergic to nothing!

 

[Luv2play]

On 12/3/2024 at 12:32 PM, samhexum said:

I don't like mayo or ketchup (although I like ketchup baked onto the top of a meatloaf) so I eat french fries plain, unlike the freaks in Europe, who like them with mayo and the freaks in this country who like them with ketchup.

 

Here in Canada we like fries with white vinegar. 

[mike carey]

Not poutine?

[Luv2play]

4 minutes ago, mike carey said:

Not poutine?

Nope. Never had it. It just looks awful to me. 

[Luv2play]

Just now, Luv2play said:

Nope. Never had it. It just looks awful to me. 

Also I don’t remember seeing it as a kid growing up in Montreal. I think it only became a big thing after I was a young adult.

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, marylander1940 said:

I eat absolutely everything and I'm allergic to nothing!

 

Yes, you're an amoral whore who has sucked off men of every creed, color, and nationality. Tell us something we DON'T know.

Edited yesterday at 02:23 AM by samhexum
for reasons he must keep secret to safeguard national security

[samhexum]

1 minute ago, Luv2play said:

Also I don’t remember seeing it as a kid growing up in Montreal. I think it only became a big thing after I was a young adult.

The time just after WWI was a happy time for many reasons.