Food: The great unifier.

[offbalance]

Some of you know that I'm a huge devotee of Midtown Lunch.com. It was through them that I discovered the amazing Chinese food at Hing Won in Midtown. Food so good, I even braved the touristas during high season to get my fix. They have a selection of your more typical fare, but they also have a marvelous menu of more Chinatown-style items,

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[first_lobster]

I AM ALLERGIC TO AVOCADO.

[first_lobster]

You're the first person I've ever met who is also.

I break out in hives. We found out when I was 7 and ate a pile of guacamole that someone brought to a BBQ.

I can't use herbal essence hair color or bath and body works body butter because they have avocado oils in them.

[offbalance]

HOLY CRAP REALLY? MY HEAD IS EXPLODING.

I never ever had any until I was a teenager and this great Mexican place opened in my neighborhood. But I'd get sick after I ate there, or anytime I had sushi (California Rolls!). I was never that sick (kind of mild-ish food poisoning symptoms), and I sometimes have a sensitive stomach so if it acts up I just deal.

Annnnyway. For my 17th birthday my mom made me this HUGE meal with tons of home-made guacamole. It was AWESOME. I ate a truckload, and was so sick I had to stay home the next day. It was awful. So I tried not eating things with avocado at mexican or sushi restaurants, and SURPRISE! No more stomach upset. :P

And I've noticed that, too!! If I use something that has avocado oil in it and I have a cut on my hand, it'll get irritated. But I'm usually in the Stomach Doomsday than the hives camp. Except with wool, but that's another tale for another time.

[katiebea]

I have THE FEAR of avocados, so I usually claim allergic just to make sure they don't get anywheres near what I'm eating...

::jumps on the bandwagon::

THE FEAR being directly due to being forced to try guac in Cali when I was ~ 8 or so. I horked up everything on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant called The Bell Pepper. See also reason number elventy five oh seven my father is an asshole (he was the one who made me try it).

[lulu_girl]

I can't eat shell fish (weird mental images, grosses me out) or shrimp unless it's diced up in something. Otherwise all I can think is I'M EATIN A BUGGGG!!!!!!!

so yeah, I understand weirdness when it comes to fish. I love all other fish though! well. not eel. D:

[offbalance]

Ooh, see, I adore eel. So very much.

But yeah, these things? They do not love me.

[angelicillusion]

I'm trying to remember ... was that the salad you had at the sushi place or was the octopus in sushi?

[offbalance]

It was roasted octopus, and they brought out a plate for us, no charge.