Fruit is evil.
I hate the texture and the smell of most fruits. I can manage fresh apples OK (green, not red) and some fruit juices (fresh orange, for example), but in general being in close proximity to a piece of pineapple is enough to make me retch. The smell of strawberries also gives me a headache. I am the best person in the world to take strawberry picking because my berry to punnet ratio is a straight 1:1. However, I am also a bloody nightmare on the car journey back, hence I now do not indulge in this pastime anymore.

This stems, I think, from being in the dining hall at first school and not being allowed to leave until I'd eaten all of my dessert, which happened to be a fruit salad. As I sat and stared balefully at the multicoloured pool of gloop swimming in the bowl, the teacher on duty made encouraging nomming movements with his hand. My response was to shake my head; I really didn't like the look of the stuff. So he made the same hand gesture, subtly indicating his mastery over me and general "You ain't going anywhere until you've finished your pudding, bucko" attitude.

Sensing defeat, I duly began to shovel the nauseating concoction down my throat, trying desperately not to gag on the taste and texture of the vile chunks of pineapple and peach and orange and God knows what else was in it. Teacher had gone back to join his colleagues at their table, happy in his victory and general sense of having bested a five year old.

As the last mouthful went down, I got up to leave the dining hall and go and join my friends in the playground. Not entirely unexpectedly, my stomach decided at that point that it didn't appreciate having itself filled with something so abhorrent. Unfortunately for the teachers, it also chose the exact moment that I walked/half ran past their table to forcibly eject its contents all over the floor with an almighty "BLAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Some of it may have got on their shoes. It's a miracle none of it got on the back of their heads...

And that's why I don't like fruit.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 1 Jun 2011, 14:11, 5 replies)

Yuck!
I am exactly the same, can just about manage a Granny Smith if eaten with a knife. I also quite like orange juice but nothing else. The smell of bananas or orange peel makes me heave. Fruit is cold, squishy muck! Worse thing is people looking at you like you're mental when you say you dont like strawberries. They are ming!!
(jonnyninetails, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 14:48, closed)

1 berry per punnet is a terrible ratio.
I'll be offering the job to another candidate. Good day to you.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 14:52, closed)

I meant as in each one goes into the punnet
rather than one for the punnet, one for me malarkey :)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 1 Jun 2011, 15:00, closed)

When I was about 8 a classmate barfed up his lunchtime salad all over his desk, including, I was interested to note, many lumps of beetroot.
Dunno why but that beetroot stayed with me and I can't bear it to this day. It frightens me in the same way that spiders or confined spaces frighten arachnophobes and claustrophobes.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 1 Jun 2011, 16:07, closed)

I don't eat a lot of fruit
I don't mind it as long as it's covered in cream or something similar. However pears make me boke like you wouldn't fucking believe.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Thu 2 Jun 2011, 0:02, closed)