food reactions

[burntcopper]

Okay, NOT an allergy query thing.

This one's for odd/uncommon reactions to food.

Not talking about caffeine and sugar for sending someone bouncing off the walls, that's fairly common. Or wine and cheese giving you a migraine.

Anything that brings on an odd reaction?

Example: mate of mine gags if given fresh coriander.

I go completely bouncing off walls with too much hydrogenated fat. I can consume sugar like no-one's business and have no noticeable difference. Hydrogenated fat, bouncing off the ceiling. Oh, and I upchuck if given suspensions.

A mate's little brother had an extreme reaction to colours - one blue smartie, took us an hour to scrape him off the ceiling. really. This was scientifically tested.

Comments

[gmh.livejournal.com]

Apparently it does that to everyone, but only a fraction of the population have the (genetic) ability to smell methanethiol (a.k.a. methyl mercaptan).

Congratulations, you're evolutionarily superior!

A story that has been hanging around for years (but has no solid evidence behind it that I've seen) is that methanethiol is actually a powerful fish attractant; and that tinned asparagus was issued to US aviators in the Pacific as part of their emergency rations; they could eat the stuff, piss over the side, and then hang a line out for the fish.

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

I never knew that about the emergency rations - how intriguing!

I also like the theory that only a few people can smell methanethiol, but if that's the case I appear to have developed it in later life as I definitely didn't smell it when I was younger. :-)