Re: Okay, Be Honest

Green-Eyed Chris wrote:
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"DaveD" <davedn1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Ron Hunter" <rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:JemdnfU22fUUHUXbnZ2dnUVZ_sSlnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Ron Hunter escribió:

Do they do much food without onion (just that I'm not just allergic to it but also almost phobic!) as loads of countries seem to find it mandatory in their cuisine :(

DaveD
Wow, and I thought I had a problem with not eating cheese. Not eating onions is REALLY a problem. I don't like raw onions, but can eat onions if they are throughly cooked, as in soup.

Nope - totally hate them. I had to ask flatmates to wrap onions in non-see-through bags in the fridge once they'd cut them in half (using the specially designated onion chopping board as I can tell if something else is chopped on the surface afterwards!) because even seeing them induces nausea - as well as triggering my phobia!

(Whereas actually eating them - eek! - induces extreme nausea, retching, stomach upset/cramps and vomitting - all great fun, even if most of that is psychological...)

There may well be nothing you can do about the physical effects, but you certainly can deal with the psychological effects by phobia treatment. You might consult a specialist in phobias, unless you are afraid of psychiatrists as well.. Grin.

No, I've seen lots of psychotherapists in my time :) But the onion phobia is such that I can't imagine why one would ever want to get over it - it's just so normal (to me lol). Actually *liking* onions? Eiw, no!!!


Can be quite hard explaining in restaurants that "NO onions" really does mean that - one very helpful Chinese restaurant carefully prepared all my courses without onions, then thoughtfully sprinkled chopped spring onions on the top :)

Try telling a mexican restaurant 'no cheese'. They do fine on most of the stuff, but then there is that little sprinkle of cheese on the refried beans... Sigh.

Yup, it's so ingrained they don't even know they're doing it :)


As for those hotdog vans that sell "hotdogs" in the wee small hours after the pubs and clubs have closed - I just have to hold my breath and run for it!

I don't have many phobias but the ones I do have...

I have no phobias. I realize that most people do have some, but I am rather fortunate in that respect. My wife will be come nauseous just seeing a snake on TV.
She didn't confess this problem until we had been dating a while. I wondered why she always seemed to be a bit ill after leaving the herpetarium at the zoo.

She did very well concealing it from you then!

Sorry to *** in here, but I deleted your previous posting.

Don't make yourself out to be worse than you are. Following your onion odyssey, with great interest, I in no way gain the impression that it is necessarily a phobia or even need have a psychological basis at all. It might very well be a warning bodily reaction of allergic type or some other form of metabolic issue for which the basis is simply not yet known. Were it otherwise, you would probably be able to trace the whole thing back to a very vivid and specific incident. (My liquidation is in the mail.)
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Chris

Bit presumptuous, don't you think. The poster should know if he has a phobia (irrational fear which interferes with normal functioning) or not.
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