cloisteredsaturn t1_j22rq83 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 5:49 AM

Reply to comment by bloode975 in ELI5: How does "acquired taste" work? And how are some tastes able to be acquired no problem, while others will never be acquired? by PuzzleBrain20

When I was 18 months old I was given some turkey that I ended up getting food poisoning from. It was so bad I was throwing up bile and they had to take me to the ER. I don’t remember it thank god.

It took me years to be able to eat turkey again. Even at 32 I’m still cautious when it comes to lunch meat and poultry, and I’m pretty sure that I have some degree of emetophobia from the situation.

firelizzard18 t1_j27uijr wrote on December 30, 2022 at 7:08 AM

I got food poisoning a year or so back and I threw up something the color of Gatorade (almost neon yellow). I think it was bile but I really did not expect that color to come out of me.

cloisteredsaturn t1_j27yr2p wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:01 AM

Sounds like it was bile. Usually if you’re throwing that up, you don’t have any food left in there but the body’s still trying to get rid of the pathogen.