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Here are a couple of the most astonishing food-related phobias we've ever heard of. You'll appreciate so much more after reading this list and being thankful you don't suffer from these extreme fears!

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Geumophobia: the fear of taste
Taste is a pretty subjective thing, obviously: what one person finds delicious can make someone else want to puke. Kids are especially famous for their aversion to vegetables and other things healthy, but how do you account for someone who actually panics at the thought of flavor?

Geumophobia can manifest as anything from a fear of just unpleasant flavors, to panic at the thought of any taste at all, which must make life very boring for their dinner guests. The idea of an extreme geumophobe brings to mind some kind of 1950s kitchen nightmare, with plain unseasoned mashed potatoes, and vegetables with all the taste boiled out of them. But for most sufferers, the dinner menu is probably not so obviously handicapped, and they mostly just stick to familiar — and slightly bland — options, only getting palpitations at the approach of new or unusual flavors. It's safe to assume you won't find many geumophobes on taste tours through India, or in any exotic place to be honest, but the same probably can't be said for hospital canteens.

Arachibutyrophobia: the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Understand, arachibutyrophobia is not the fear of peanut butter—sufferers often still enjoy it—but rather the fear of it getting stuck to the roof of the mouth. Strategies for coping with this fear include taking small bites, preferring crunchy peanut butter with a different texture, or adding large amounts of jelly or other substances to create a barrier between the butter and the skin. For some sufferers, the fear is so great that they avoid eating peanut butter altogether, which is a shame, because it's virtually a national dish. For people with extreme forms of the phobia, the anxiety and panic is so bad that it colors their enjoyment not just of peanut butter, but other peanut products as well.

It was once common practice, when trying to create the illusion of talking animals on film, to deliberately stick peanut butter to the roof of their mouth. While trying to get the stuff off, they opened and closed their jaws — when dubbed over, it gave a pretty good impression of speech. The advent of digital effects has put paid to that practice which, in the off chance that arachibutyrophobia

If you thought those food phobias were bad, then hold onto your hats because it gets much, much worse! There's also mageirocophobia, which is the fear of cooking; phagophobia, or the fear of swallowing; and finally cibophobia, which is the fear of food altogether. That's just terrible!

Damn!

So what do you think of these food phobias? How would you cope if you suffered from them? We could manage being afraid to cook, but being afraid to eat?

It's Practically Hell On Earth!

Article Source: Grunge