Normal things that gross you out?

[Mysterian]

I am totally weird about eggs. I can buy eggs at the store no problem, but eggs from friends with chickens kind of gross me out. Ridiculous I know, but I guess I don't like thinking about where eggs come from? I'm getting over it, but I'm a weirdo.

I felt this way at first too. But then I compared the store-bought to the eggs from some local chickens, and they're no different in neither looks nor taste. I actually met said chickens, they're not a bad couple of birds. Thanks for the eggs, chickens!

 

[Mysterian]

Feet. Baby feet are okay, but the fungus-ridden scaly feet of adults, I am completely disgusted. I don't know how there are people out there who...love...feet. Blech.

Yeah most peoples' feet, those need to keep to themselves. How foot fetishists are born, I have no clue.
Of course I type this, and a year from now a foot freak will resurrect this thread after they perform a very specific search.

 

[nursejackie]

I would say
The sight of dog food

And smell. Yuck

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Cheese teeth

 

[Moliphino]

And smell. Yuck

That's why I've been feeding my dog Freshpet since she got all picky about kibble. The rolls look and smell like bologna. Maybe not my favorite food smell in the world, but at least it smells like real food and not vomit.

 

[Boopuff]

eggs: can't eat them, won't eat them. Yuck
Disgusting bare feet: you know, those feet that are black on the bottom, the cracked heels and I know those people just climb into bed with those filthy feet....

 

[mrodgers]

I felt this way at first too. But then I compared the store-bought to the eggs from some local chickens, and they're no different in neither looks nor taste. I actually met said chickens, they're not a bad couple of birds. Thanks for the eggs, chickens!

With talk around the net about growing your own food, I've heard many people mention they can't tell a difference. It blows my mind. Store bought eggs isn't even close to a fresh egg in that it seems ridiculous people say this.

Unless you are buying local eggs at the store obviously. The shipped in eggs in the store with the pale yellow and flat yokes are just completely different than a bright orange yellow stiff thick round yoke.

 

[NotUrsula]

Wet aluminum foil, especially if it also has grease on it. My DH has a tendency to pull foil off a pan and toss it into the sink, then run water on it. Just makes my skin crawl.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Touching raw poultry. I do it, but really hate it.

 

[mumto3girls]

I just thought of another one—gristle, visible fat, tendons in a piece of meat I am eating. Ugh! I am immediately done and may not choose to go back to the offending place for a long while. Right now it is Moe’s. Had a gross piece of chicken there in early May and I am repulsed. I trim my own meat obsessively (even that grossed me out a bit) and would never choose to eat something like a steak or a pork chop, but would do my best if served one. I also never eat something like General Tso’s Chicken where I can’t inspect the meat closely and think it may be suspect. Sometimes my husband will give me a piece of his if he has eaten several pieces and he is impressed with the quality. Even then I take tiny careful bites.

ETA: this is why I prefer fish. I can handle small bones or pieces of pieces of shell (weird I know) so if I was cooking only for myself I would probably rarely eat meat.

 

[Mysterian]

With talk around the net about growing your own food, I've heard many people mention they can't tell a difference. It blows my mind. Store bought eggs isn't even close to a fresh egg in that it seems ridiculous people say this.

Unless you are buying local eggs at the store obviously. The shipped in eggs in the store with the pale yellow and flat yokes are just completely different than a bright orange yellow stiff thick round yoke.

Like I said, these eggs were practically identical, yolk and all. Probably because the store-bought kind I buy are free-range organic.

Is your mind still blown? Is your world rocked?

It should be, Rodgers.

 

[mrodgers]

Like I said, these eggs were practically identical, yolk and all. Probably because the store-bought kind I buy are free-range organic.

Is your mind still blown? Is your world rocked?

It should be, Rodgers.

I'll admit I've never done the organic cage free because they're $6 here when I can get fresh from coworkers for $2.

When I say "store bought" however, I do mean the run of the mill stuff. Organic is a different animal than the run of the mill store bought even though you do buy them in a store. Egglands Best, Hillshire Farms, store brand. That sort of thing.

 

[1GoldenSun]

People filing their nails.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Cheese teeth

Huh?

 

[DisneyHardin]

I have pretty severe trypophobia, so things with bumps and lumps often make me gag.

 

[willowsnn3]

Watching or hearing another adult brush their teeth.

This is exactly what I came on to say. And just about every tv series has scenes with a couple in their bedroom with one of them standing at the bathroom door brushing their teeth. And talking while doing so. Completely grosses me out.

 

[willowsnn3]

Dog slobber. And I have an English Mastiff so I see it a lot.

 

[NannyBeBe]

In my many decades, I have seen and cleaned up all manner of disgusting things, so one would think that nothing bothers me. But I cannot stand seeing dirty dishes in my sink with food stuck on them. I immediately rinse them and put them in the dishwasher so I do not have to look at them.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Huh?

Plaque not removed by brushing and flossing.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Plaque not removed by brushing and flossing.

Oh