"Eat! Eat! May you be destroyed if you don't eat! What sin have I committed that God should punish me with you! Eat! What will become of you if you don't eat! Imp of darkness, may you sink ten fathoms into the earth if you don't eat! Eat!"
--Alfred Kazin's mom (Alfred Kazin,
A Walker in the City)
Okay, I'm hoping to enlist all you savvy, fabulously talkative TWGers in a class project of mine. Here's the scoop: I'm working on writing some content for a book tentatively entitled
Beyond the Peel. My Book Design and Production class is going to publish this book, and we're focusing on all sorts of cool food-related projects.
What I'd really like to do is put together an awesome paper on people's funny/gross/weird/cheesy
food aversions. So,*not* stuff you just don't like to eat, but food that you developed a
psychological aversion to b/c of a bad experience.
For instance, I won't eat regular Cheerios anymore because I once ate a moth that had gotten in my Cheerios and drowned... ick. Guess I shouldn't have tried to watch cartoons and eat cereal at the same time...
So I'd love it if you guys could help me out. Tell me what you won't eat and why. Please be sure to include all the delicious details you can think of. Thanks! I can't wait to hear your stories.