From her tellings, her mother was a spectacularly horrible cook (some of her stories about the dishes her mother made were pretty nauseating), so maybe that had something to do with her apparent ingrained fear that anything and everything might be puke-worthy horrible. She also said the reason for her combativeness whenever anyone tries to convince her to eat something was an abusive relationship when she was a teen with a guy who bullied her into eating lots of things she didn't like.

Oranges do the same to me sometimes! A nice sweet mandarin is fine, but I'm really cautious about oranges b/c a sour one will just about give me exploding head syndrome. Like a real high-pitched squealing in my head. I love strawberries, but if they're not perfectly ripe (and the ones from the store never are) they have to be covered in sugar.