Hello! One of my earliest memories (not the earliest, but close), was of gorging myself on the sugared almonds my mother had left on top of the TV for a party. I ate the whole bowl and felt really, really very sick – to this day I can’t stand the things. Please would you tell me about something (anything) that you used to love but now you can’t stand and why? Thanks :)

My condolences!  I think I share that experience, actually.  When I was little, I remember loving walnuts.  I would sit with my grandfather and sister, and we would shell and eat a whole bowl full of walnuts between us.  But now the very smell of walnuts makes me feel queasy.  

I don’t remember why, but I think I must’ve eaten some bad ones at some point, and gotten sick, and now I associate the smell with being ill.  A similar thing happened to me a couple of years ago when I got a pretty nasty stomach virus.  The last thing I ate before I spent the next two days throwing up was an orange.  It took me several months before I could smell or eat oranges again without feeling nauseated.