I cannot stand looking at food that has mold on it. If I do see it, it is very hard to get it out of my mind. After looking at a 3-week-old bag of bread or a pumpkin left on the porch after Halloween, I imagine that everything around me is covered with black or green fuzz. Every time something in the breadbox, refrigerator, or the fruit basket gets rotten, I always leave it for someone else to dispose of. I am the only person in the family who wouldn't even dare to open up a yogurt or cream cheese that expired more than a day ago. One time, I saw a bag of bagels with green spots all over in the garbage can, and boy, I was so discusted, i barely slept that night thinking about it. My mom and dad wonder why the heck i get so freaked out about mold. My siblings tell me "Once you get rid of it, it's not all that bad!"
Moldy food scares me!!!! :sick:
Am I overreactive to mold, or is the rest of my family underreactive? [/i]
I personally think that thinking about the mold after it's disposed of is a little excessive, but hey, to each his phobia...
There are things that it freaks me out to hear described, I don't even have to see it... Can't (don't want to?) remember what, but it just happened again the other day... oh yeah... This is one of them:
http://static.flickr.com/50/127733680_edb979e2bc_o.jpg
[That is an actual scary soup that my mother in law actually ate.
Not recommended viewing for the faint of heart or weak of stomach...]
Possible solution: Maybe you can find a stronger mental image that you can call up at will, to wipe the mold image out of your mind, so that you can eat your next meal in comfort.
I totally get where you're comming from, not so being afraid of looking at mold, but the smell of it. I wont eat lunch meat untill someone smells it to make sure it's ok. Im also cant stand bits of food and milk dribbles on the table, or when people leave their cereal bowls on the table. *shivers* ewww.
I will not eat moldy food. I hate the smell.
I do find mold and fungus very interesting. I used to study fungi at university and grow it in culture tubes and dishes, make slides for the microscope. Fungi is very very important because it is the "trash eaters" of the world.
Yep, of course mold is important, otherwise this world would be messier and more polluted than it already is. I just don't think that buying more food than you need is a very good idea.
I don't like the moldy white crust on Brie. The gooey stuff inside is ok though.
I agree all the way.
All the mold-phobes here would have HATED the sandwich my mother got in a restaurant once...she didn't see what I saw: that about a third of the roll was TURQUOISE with mold! I don't know how that roll made it out of the kitchen without anyone noticing. :shock: The poor waitress was mortified when I told her about it...
Yikes! How could they not notice that.
I like the white crust on brie but think the creamy stuff in the middle is nice too. Mould doesn't bother me a lot but when milk is a bit old and goes lumpy, that makes me sick. This is especially if I only find out after I've poured it into a cup of coffee or tea.
The thought of eating brains makes me feel really ill and so does the idea of eating raw or runny eggs. Eww!
One of the most disgusting things I had happen was when I was eating a salad roll. Some sixth sense made me stop eating and then I found a fly in the filling. Thank God it wasn't half a fly! I would have taken it back to the shop but had already taken long enough time for lunch.
Funny, I think staleness is more disgusting than mold. At least mold is visible and you can decide whether to pick off the green spots or just throw the whole thing away. Staleness is sneaky! You might notice the texture of the item is a bit "off," but then again you might not...then you take a big bite and... :mad:
Doesn't take much to put me off my food. Just the look of the contents of a can of baked beans can make me nauseous. That's why I eat a lot of crackers. :lol:
Doesn't take much to put me off my food. Just the look of the contents of a can of baked beans can make me nauseous. That's why I eat a lot of crackers. :lol:
As long as they're not stale. :razz:
Off milk is sure to make me ill.
Sometimes when I bought yoghurts at the supermarket, they had mould on the top even when they hadn't reached their expiry date. :shock:
One of the worst things I find is putting something into my mouth that I expect will taste nice and then it tastes revolting!
Also, I'm fine with mold on cheese as long as it's supposed to be there, but if cheese gets moldy from being too old I won't touch it.
I agree with this. FYI, Brie/Camembert cheeses will also undergo a secondary bacterial infection as it gets past due. I'm not sure what bacteria causes it, however I do know that it will cause the white pennecillum crust on brie to turn a rusty orange color as it metabolises the cheese /crust into ammonia compounds. --This is quite disgusting, and I've seen it happen all too often in the cheese section of some fairly upscale stores who refused to pull it off the shelves when I told them about it.