It's all Psychological . . .

I haven't eaten rhubarb crumble since I was force fed, by a teacher, at junior school and promptly projectile vomited over the entire lunchroom. It wasn't the skin on the custard, it was the taste and organic texture of the rhubarb stalks that signalled to my brain that the dessert was not staying in my stomach for long. I really can't stomach brocolli, cauliflower, sprouts, chickpeas, salmon mousse, liver, kidney, tongue, squid, haddock and duck pate.

I've been offered and tried various things that you wouldn't generally find in a typical English/North West European diet. Chinese deep fried crispy chickens feet, ostrich, shark, crocodile, locust, ant, strange multicoloured vegetarian gloop, etc and glad that I had the opportunity to try them.

I will try anything, if I eat it and it comes back up, it is purely my mind and my body rejecting it?! A couple of friends are off to Peru, where the staple diet is roast guinea pig, I would quite happily eat guinea pig, but never again do I want to taste rhubarb crumble.

I know that I am lucky, in the fact that I can make these choices. My parents generation grew up during the second world war, with rationing. One of their friends grew up in the Welsh valleys, he ate everything that was put on his plate. To this day he eats oranges, bananas etc, whole, including the skins! Which b3tard eats banana skins? Rob? Mongychops? 4dam? DTH? Didn't think so?

I have so much choice, supermarkets full of different produce from all over the world. If I was stuck in the wilderness and had to survive, i'd eat fried worms, pidgeon hearts, tree bark, lichen and yes i'd probably really enjoy a bowl of steaming rhubarb crumble and custard. Until then, I pointedly refuse to eat it, it's not a childish decision, I'm a grown up!*



(*lies)
(Apologies for length, but you can't leave until you finish what's on your plate!)
( 42 Loves Teh Funphenschnaffles, Thu 1 Mar 2007, 19:48, Reply)