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I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meat clearly isn't gonna be a unique answer here, but it does have a weird effect on what it feels like to travel to different countries when your diet doesn't revolve around animals.

Where other people see tons of street food and opportunities for interacting with a culture, some places mostly just feel empty.

Not meaning it in a judging way, but there are tons of places where I don't really feel welcome.

Also how is your butthole doing, bro?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

My country would be one of those places unfortunately. It's extremely animal protein centric. And although I'm not a vegetarian myself, I really wish we had more options around here.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Beer. Since I stopped drinking it I have lost so much weight and feel so much healthier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He long had it been? Did you check it alcohol altogether?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

McDonald's

I don't know if the recipe/ingredients changed, or I just started eating healthier, but I can't even have a cheeseburger from there without my body rejecting it.

Whataburger is still good though, love me a chicken bbq sammach with bacon, pickles and toast bun.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Came here wondering if anyone said mcds. Everything about that place has gotten worse over the last 5 years or so. It wasn't that great to begin with. The only redeeming factor was that it was cheaper than many places, but now it's garbage and expensive.

I haven't considered mcds since the covid shut down, and even then I'd been off it for years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can eat a lot of weird foods, but McDonald's food just falls into the uncanny valley for me. It's like something an AI would synthesize from raw chemicals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I distinctly remember McDonald's being more than a rough approximation of food at one point. I don't know when that changed.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chef boyardee. I served some to my kid and took a bite cause I hadn't had it in decades. That shit is vile. Was it always that bad and we didn't notice as kids, or did they change it up and it's awful now?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Little of column A, little of column B

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Meat, 18 years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

White bread, white rice, white pasta. Makes me bloated as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Iceberg lettuce has this effect on me as do all these things you mention. I don't know how it works but I avoid these foods like the plague.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

alcohol of any form I will not consume... I'm not against getting fucked up, I smoke weed but alcohol itself is just absolutely nasty to me. hate how it tastes, hate how it feels

I also avoid ketchup or ketchup based products like BBQ sauce... I just think it tastes bad... I like mustard... I have been like this since a very young age

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here. I even use certain hallucinogens like psychedelics and salvia on occasion, but I absolutely abhor alcohol or any downer with every fiber of my being.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How do you consume your salvia out of curiosity? I want to try it but I'm hesitant because smoking it feels risky and I hear sublingual tastes awful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usually just do sublingual, I've smoked it a couple of times but have found the onset to be waaaay too fast for me personally. I believe you can make a tea with it too but it'd probably be a lot milder of an effect kind of like mushroom tea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Understandable, I'll have to give it a shot

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't eat meat for 25 years. When people around me would be eating a meat centered meal I would feel like they must still be hungry when they were done because only like 25% of their plate was food? I couldn't imagine how meat could be filling, since it wasn't food.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

didn't eat meat for 25 years

not my business at all, can I ask what changed?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I have a connective tissue disorder that makes my muscles, tendons and ligaments prone to tearing. Eating extra protein won't help, per se, since it's just a bad genetic code for making those structures, but being protein deprived wasn't doing me any favors. Of course it's possible to get enough plant protein, but it's a lot of work and you have to eat about twice the volume of food to get enough. I had major depression and eating at all was difficult, so a big bulky vegan meal was just not happening.

Since eating meat my joints no longer pull apart like taffy at the slightest strain. And I have enough iron to donate blood regularly! The depression is better too, but I've had a lot of therapy and done a lot of work as well, so I can't say if it's related.

I am lucky to live in an area where it's very easy to get all animal products from nice small farms where animals are well cared for and just have "one bad day." It was still very hard at first, I would weep while preparing a chicken for the oven. But I've gotten used to it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

You might want to look into fodmaps. They are sugar alcohols that people can have intolerance too (lactose is common) frustose in excess of glucose can be a problem. There are lots of others. Monash University does studies on how much is in what fruits and vegetables so you can exclude all of them, then test by reintroduction. Once you know which you are sensitive to, there are lists of which foods have which and safe portions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Crisps (potato chips). I looked at the nutritional breakdown and the ingredients and just didn't see the point. It feels like eating flavoured cardboard and it's like sludge going through my system. That's kinda off-putting 😄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Soda, or anything with fizz

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Agreed, unless you get kidney stones, then it's pretty much the only thing you can ingest, other than water...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I don't know that I've ever thought of something as inedible. But, I will say that, when I stop eating sugar for awhile, it is crazy tasting going back to it.

Going through these phases has helped me to understand what people mean when they say American food is too sweet, especially things like sandwich bread which I never thought of as sweet before.

It also makes sense about desserts that are "sickeningly sweet" - I've always had a sweet tooth (have one now) so I never thought of it that way. But whenever I go back to these desserts it becomes pretty obvious what people mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Any kind of fish or seafood. I had severe food poisoning from fish in the student cafeteria so I cannot stand fish or seafood anymore. The smell makes me turn and run.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Your mother 🤤

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Most cheese, really. I mean, I can eat it, but it rarely adds anything good to a meal for me. It wasn't until I spent a good chunk of time in Erope ad came that I realized how much cheese we put on everything and how it just makes everything taste like, well, cheese.

So, I no longer add cheese as a topping to most things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I have kinda recently developed a distaste for junk food also mayonnaise i hate that shit with all my heart.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

MC Donalds and similiar. Crispy oven pommes and self-made burger beats greasy pommes and spongy burger tasting like old socks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Meat, nobody tastes good anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Goulash, pot roast, chili, and all the other shit I ate regularly while growing up in the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I've gotten much more omnivorous as I get older, but have not eaten a fast food burger since I was a little kid. Don't remember being bothered by them back then (unless they involved ketchup) but it's been at least 40 years and they seem like inedible items to me now, I'd much rather have nothing.

Popeyes chicken I can still eat, and the American Chinese fast food. Oh and fries from about anywhere, though I don't consider them nutrition, I like 'em.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Mushrooms. Ever since I learned more about mushrooms than I ever wanted to know in school like 30 years ago I haven't been able to even touch them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I have literally eaten entire plates of only mushroom. I fucking love the texture and the nuttiness is just so fuck good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They just make me shit my pants. Wish I could eat them tho, they're in lots of good food.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Natto. Literally the worst, IMO. Even a good number of Japanese folks don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Baby formula

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was like you for some time (low fodmap) and vegan. Then I eat that stuff again and I had a hard time to digest these food and felt some pain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My wife was vegan for several years and went back to vegetarianism. She was always tolerant of my omnivorous diet, so long as I was mindful of cross-comtamination. I got used to eating her choice of proteins as well, and now I eat nearly as much vegetarian substitutes as I do meat. But holy fuck, does red meat tear me up now with the most painful and absurdly disgusting smelling farts, with a volume and frequency so great that it could blow down a brick townhouse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Bologna
Breakfast cereal

I haven't had either, in any way, shape or form, in decades.

There's another one but this I'd like to try again - root beer with two scoops of vanilla ice cream. I've had the ice cream, but not the root beer.

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