Mistaken food can scar you for life

[warrior1]

[TheMadMonk]

1. What has this person got against zombie grapes? ----IST! /nt

[1gobluedem]

2. Like the time I ate an anchovy thinking it was a piece of bacon

I still can't think about it without shuddering.

[In_The_Wind]

3. That will do it.

[Ron Obvious]

4. There's some truth to that...

I once took a big swig of buttermilk expecting it to be regular milk and nearly threw up. I still can't think of buttermilk without shuddering today.

Once, I bit into an After Eight chocolate mint expecting it be regular chocolate and had the same reaction. I like mint and I love chocolate, but the thought of the two of them together revolts me.

[pipi_k]

8. I never touch

anything that has raisins in it.

Too hard to tell if the raisins have legs or not.

[kiva]

6. A school lunch in grade school, 1960s...

hominy...who the hell knew hominy, I thought it was just big sweet corn. Trust issues, you betcha.

[madinmaryland]

9. Oh god! I remember that stuff from the 60's.

My mom made it and it was one of the few things that she made that I just couldn't eat.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. One time when I went to a friend's house,

probably 1967 or 68, his mother had fixed a frying pan full of hominy, deep fried in bacon grease. I took a bite and nearly spilled my cookies.

[pipi_k]

7. One reason

I won't eat beef (aside from a couple of others)...

It's too easy to mistake something else for it.

Like the time a friend of my mom's made dinner and served meatballs with gravy.

And another time a guy I went camping with made some steaks.

Yeah.

Bambi. Or his mom.

both times.

At least Smokey the Bear meat has the decency to look like black corned beef and smell really bad.

[hibbing]

11. sausage

Hi,
We had a food day at work one day and someone brought some summer sausage, I'm glad I only took one slice because the second I took a little bite of it, it tasted weird. Yes, it was deer sausage.

Peace

[Duer 157099]

10. Try putting horseradish cream

on your Swedish pancakes someday. Whoo boy.

[whistler162]

18. Love horseradish and love my Grandpa's

recipe for Swedish Pancakes but not together<shudder>!

[olddots]

12. One word

Haggis ,after many shots of single malt sometimes they will serve you haggis .

[Ken Burch]

14. I was eight or nine, on a picnic, saw something creamy white on a dinner plate

I thought it was going to be sweet, and tasted it. It was mayonnaise.

Another time, my mom had made puffs for a party and I thought they were cream puffs...bit into one...and discovered they were TUNA puffs.

[tabbycat31]

15. even worse

The families that gave raisins instead of candy to trick or treaters. That was a surefire way to get your house egged.

I hate raisins and won't touch anything with them in it.

[Wounded Bear]

16. My mistaken food story....(kind of tame)

I was young Marine assigned to an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. In Barcelona, Spain, I went into a restaurant. Since it is a big tourist town with folks from all over Europe and the world, they had menus with pictures of the food.

Being a naive young fellow, I order the onion rings.
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Yeah, you guessed it. It was kind of rubbery. Octopus or squid or something similar, in rings, breaded and deep fat fried.

After the inital shock, it was actually somewhat tasty.

[patricia92243]

17. My ex motherinlaw had roaches. When I ate her "crackling" corn bread - which I had never heard

of - I thought it was a roach and spit it out right there at the table. Never ate at her house again. It was definitely a trust issue after that.