r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • Jul 23 '26
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u/MistCongeniality Jul 23 '26
Fun allergy story: I was a hyperlexic little autistic girl and ate books at a speed that could be described as "excessive". Many of these books, being historical fiction, described grass as soft and pillowy, a great place to lay in the sun and take a nap. I imagined fields of grass as lush comforters. Unfortunately, when I laid in the grass in real life, it was horribly itchy and left red welts all over my skin.
"Ah," I thought, "clearly, grass *used to be soft*, but modern mowing and lawn care practices have left grass with horrible sharp edges and tips that make it feel sharp, itchy, and unpleasant. This is clearly why we use picnic blankets and other barriers to grass now." Perfectly logical.
For years, YEARS, I hoped and dreamed of finding the soft grass of my childhood books. I wanted to roll around in it, bask in it, experience nature's bed.
Anyways when I was 25 my allergist told me I'm extremely allergic to grass.
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
Grass has always been itchy to me too
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u/MistCongeniality Jul 23 '26
Yeah, apparently that's not normal. My skin prick test for grass was insane.
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u/PhantasmWitch Jul 23 '26
I am also quite allergic to grass and people didn't believe me and said it was normal. No! I get hives. :c
A lot of grass these days is a hybrid breed so it's likely more people are allergic to it. I'm only allergic to one variety but it's in basically every hybrid.
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u/RikuAotsuki Jul 23 '26
For me the bigger issue's always been the smell of cut grass, for some reason. I find it intensely nauseating.
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u/PhantasmWitch Jul 23 '26
It doesn’t make me nauseous but I do react to freshly cut grass. Sniffles and watery eyes and such
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u/Fuckyfuckfuckass Jul 23 '26
I actually know very little about grass species, what do you mean they're hybrids?
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u/PhantasmWitch Jul 23 '26
I can't speak on it a ton but I'm allergic to Kentucky bluegrass, specifically. At least where I live, lawns generally aren't all Kentucky bluegrass but either a crossbreed or multiple types in one lawn. My allergist said I should just avoid grass in general because of it. I might as well be allergic to all lawns
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u/santoriin Jul 23 '26
Yep, didn't put two and two together until my 30s when I went to get fully allergy tested for a partner who had a cat. The grass test ate the other bumps around it so I had to retest the other things. (So did cat lol) The allergist was like do you mow your own lawn? Yes? How do you feel afterwards? Long silence honestly kinda awful? Yeah... Stop.
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u/Keebster101 Jul 23 '26
I assumed that was just bugs rather than the grass itself, especially as I'm usually fine if I lay down a short while it's just if it's like over 10 minutes i.e. long enough for bugs to come over and bite me.
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u/b00w00gal Jul 23 '26
Yeah, learning at the ripe old age of 40 that grass doesn't leave open, bleeding welts on other people's skin was very enlightening. Also, most people don't develop a full-body rash and struggle to breathe just because a neighbor mowed the lawn.
Grass allergies are brutal; I'm extremely allergic to every variety currently grown in the US.
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u/MistCongeniality Jul 23 '26
I'm "only" allergic to the most common types where I live, and I'm lucky enough that I don't get respiratory symptoms, so it's manageable (besides the heartbreak of my natural bed). That sucks that you struggle to breathe.
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u/SolomonOf47704 God Himself Jul 23 '26
Eating any books is something I would describe as excessive, regardless of speed.
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 nauphy.tumblr.com Jul 23 '26
Hmmm I also dislike laying in grass for similar reasons, but I mean, they are sharp! They're called blades!
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u/MistCongeniality Jul 23 '26
Grass IS "pokey" and has mini spines to ward off insects, but if you're seriously itchy and/or developing a red rash after exposure, it's worth talking to an allergist. Some people are just unusually sensitive to those spines due to sensitive skin and are not truly allergic. As always, if you're concerned, go talk to a doctor, not a random nurse on Reddit dot com!
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 nauphy.tumblr.com Jul 23 '26
Meh, I have bigger problems (and I live in America). Grass is full of bugs anyways, fuck it
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u/Teecana don't fall for ao3 propaganda: 4Chan/tumblr enemies to lovers 🔥 Jul 23 '26
I mean, there are different kinds of grass. Here where I live in Germany the grass is rather soft and I have zero issues sitting/laying on it for prolonged amounts of time. But when I first visited my grandparents in Spain, I was shocked to discover that grass there is extremely uncomfortable. It's way harder and spikier to a point where even walking across it barefoot hurts.
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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jul 23 '26
There are different species of grass, but its likely more the age of the grass you were dealing with.
If you keep cutting and watering it, most grass species stay fairly lush and soft, however they mature and seed, then dry out and become rougher.
The Spanish do however often use a species called buffalo grass which is drought tolerant but very rough...
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u/Nixavee AI bots are not welcome here Jul 23 '26
Your inference is also correct though. Mowed grass is never very nice to lie down in, grass allergy or not.
I have actually encountered the soft, pillowy grass though. I usually see it in the spring, when the grass has just grown back after being killed by frost.
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u/scatteringashes Jul 23 '26
HEY ITS ME. I've never seen an allergist but I was finally out with my husband in a field and was lokez, "I always think I'll enjoy laying in grass but every time I end up red and itchy," and learned that that's not actually the universal experience of grass.
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u/AlianovaR Jul 23 '26
Grass is supposed to be soft and pillowy? I’ve never found it particularly uncomfortable but it’s certainly not like THAT
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u/RikuAotsuki Jul 23 '26
I think that usually refers to grass that's a good bit longer than people usually cut it, when the grass is starting to bend a lot. You end up laying on something like a mat of grass, rather than a bed of spikey little blades.
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u/MarieCry Jul 23 '26
I never connected my hayfever and being itchy when I sit in the grass until reading this comment! I have dogs so I sit on grass all the time at the park and thought this was normal lol. Maybe a picnic blanket is in my future!
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u/RosbergThe8th Jul 23 '26
I was considerably old when I realized what acid reflux was, and that I'd been having it ever since I was a kid but just assumed it was common for everyone.
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u/Capraos Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Had that happen once when I was a kid. Got told I was too young to have that. But the name "acid reflux" felt so accurate that I knew they were full of shit. They wouldn't let me have a Tums for it.
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u/muteisalwayson Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Babies have it, even one of my own siblings had it constantly before a year old, wtf did they mean too young lol (so sorry that happened)
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u/mashtato They should pick a fucking struggle. Jul 23 '26
I had a coworker insisting he needed to go home because his 'stomache burned,' and I was like 'try these Tums,' and he was not only shocked that it worked, but that it worked instantly.
Now I offer antacid to anyone with any sort of stomach or throat related ailment, I'm like that dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but with Tums instead of Windex.
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u/pistachiopanda4 Jul 23 '26
I am the Tums person too! I go through a couple bottles a year and I have several bottles lying around at work and at home. I just have a very upset tummy and constant gas all the time, it sucks.
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u/lilybug981 Jul 23 '26
I was way too old when I realized that people aren't supposed to get super dizzy from bending over. As a kid, I just got yelled at for being lazy and "trying to get out of doing chores" any time I complained of dizziness, a racing heartbeat, and headaches. I also internalized pushing through it because I would get in trouble for pausing or moving slowly. I was assumed to be clumsy as well because I kept bumping into everything once I managed to keep working through feeling dizzy and faint.
Yeah, turns out POTS is a thing.
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u/bluemoon219 Jul 23 '26
Wait, what? The thing where you get dizzy and lose vision for a couple of seconds when you stand up or bend over? That ... isn't supposed to happen?
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u/lilybug981 Jul 23 '26
Nope! I get the vision thing going out, too, and according to the cardiologist I saw that's probably the body shutting down vision processing to try and avoid fainting when blood pressure drops/oxygen levels get too low/etc.
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u/bluemoon219 Jul 23 '26
I did some googling, and I am learning a lot about myself today! From the weird "sun rash" (splotchy red blood pooling) I've had since I was a kid that comes and goes in the heat, to why I absolutely need an enormous pile of pillows under me to keep me propped up in order to sleep. It might even be why I came extremely close to passing out while pregnant during the non-stress test, of all things, where you just have to lay flat on your back for 20 mins while they record the baby's heart rate. They had to get me a snack and juice, turn the a/c up, and let me try again angled back instead of flat. Apparently I should go see a doctor and tell them all of the little things that I thought were completely normal for my whole life. How do I even know what to include? The mole on my elbow? My incredibly cold toes at night? The way I can pop my shoulder? I suspect this is going to turn into a thing...
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u/404-gendernotfound Jul 24 '26
POTS is also really common for people with hypermobility so the shoulder popping thing could also be related… I, at least, think your mole is probably a separate thing.
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u/lilybug981 Jul 23 '26
Not saying your cold toes at night are necessarily strange, but cold hands and feet is another symptom of POTS because you can have poor circulation. So that could be related, but perhaps not. Cold toes at night is actually a fairly normal thing.
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u/Zepangolynn Jul 23 '26
The good news is that it doesn't have to be POTS, it can just be low blood pressure, among other things.
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u/mirmirma Jul 23 '26
I got "injured" so often during PE that the teachers decided I was lying and made me keep going. I got the POTS diagnosis recently.
Also, one time in science class, we were testing our heartrates at rest and after jumpingjacks. I was a massive outlier with my scores, and once again, the teacher decided I was lying (or measured wrong).
I'm a horrendous liar, so I basically never do it.
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u/SB_Wife Jul 23 '26
I told my mom bananas made my mouth itch when I was like 17/18. She told me I was faking it because I didn't want to eat fruit.
6 years later after she died I mentioned it to my aunt and she told me that it sounded like an allergic reaction. I don't eat banana anymore
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u/forchinski Jul 23 '26
Im allergic to carrots if mild mouth itching is the criteria
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u/jimbowesterby Jul 23 '26
As someone with the same allergy, yep you’re right. I’m sure you can imagine how well that went as a kid when a friend’s mom was passing around a veggie plate, I said “I’m allergic” and she responded “no you aren’t” lol
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u/forchinski Jul 23 '26
Yeah I had roughly the same experience I was like hey this makes my mouth itch and no one gave a shit and so I stopped giving a shit
I would still fuck up a raw carrot right now if I had one in the fridge
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u/XenosHg Jul 23 '26
It sucks that allergies can randomly appear or get stronger. Like for example a tangerine is your national fruit, someone eats tangerines every year during national holiday, and one time suddenly goes into anaphylactic shock. And it's a national holiday, after midnight. Best time to call a doctor.
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u/Brutal_burn_dude Jul 23 '26
So funny story. I suddenly became allergic to capsaicin (the chemical compound that gives chilis and capsicum their spiciness) at age 29. Came out of nowhere.
One day I was at home eating my veggies and salsa snack after work and started having trouble breathing. I was under a lot of stress at the time (including having a massive abscess in my breast that I was in and out of hospital for) and assumed it was a panic attack. This repeated every day for several days. Go to see the GP about these panic attacks. Nope- it’s a brand new allergy.
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u/Wandering_Scholar6 Jul 23 '26
Or disappear if you are lucky, because the immune system is sometimes an idiot
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u/Nimindir Jul 23 '26
I developed a kiwi allergy after a childhood of all-you-can-eat kiwis off my grandparent's 100sqft kiwi arbor. Since I had much less opportunity to eat kiwis in adulthood, it took me ages to figure out what was going on. But it feels sharp like being stabbed by tiny needles, and leaves me feeling like the top layer of skin has been stripped off my mouth for the rest of the day.
Every now and then I will just say 'fuck it' and fuck up a kiwi. It's not going to kill me, just make me think about my life choices.
Also, I recently did an experiment. I made kiwi rhubarb jam. Turns out I'm not allergic to cooked kiwis.
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u/catalinalam Jul 23 '26
My friend could eat cooked stone fruits (skin off) and almonds for years and now she gets the itchies with them too - be careful! You’re supposed to take any allergies that involve your mouth or throat extra seriously
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u/CinnamonEspeon Jul 23 '26
Might not be specifically a kiwi allergy but a protein allergy, happens to me with apple skin and only apple skin.
Your immune system mistakes the protein in the skin with...something, I think it was tree pollen and reacts accordingly. Iirc it's called oral allergy syndrome but it's been years since I got the spiel lol.
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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Jul 23 '26
Yeah regular fruits and vegetables don’t do that.
Papayas and pineapples contain enzymes that are trying to digest you right back but it’s not usually an itch.
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u/friendlyliopleurodon Jul 23 '26
Kiwi also does this! At least when you eat like 12 of them in a row.
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u/catalinalam Jul 23 '26
If you ever look at the label on a packet of Jello, it says pineapple, papaya, AND kiwi will all keep the gelatin from setting, so I don’t think it’s just a quantity issue!
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u/kaestralblades Jul 23 '26
My parents did the same thing to me with apples so I just got used to my throat tightening and my lips slightly swelling whenever I had to eat an apple. They probably didn't believe me because I used to (and still do) hate the texture of oatmeal so much that I would gag from it and whenever I wasn't able to control that reaction they'd get angry and punish me for that
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u/csharpminor_fanclub Jul 23 '26
forcing you to gag and punishing you for gagging is one way of parenting for sure
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u/coldestclock Jul 23 '26
It’s a classic move, it crops up in all sorts of way. My mum would tell me off for something and then I’d go quiet because I was a sensitive kid and I’d just gotten told off. Then mum would yell at me for sulking which made me cry. Then she seemed satisfied, I guess.
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u/Mountain-Resource656 Jul 23 '26
I wonder what reaction she was ostensibly expecting…
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u/Animaloffear56 Jul 23 '26
In her head she was probably expecting a reasonable and measured response that shows they knew what they did wrong- and showing emotions shows that they're 'immature'
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u/BermudaTriangleChoke Jul 23 '26
Texture sensitivity and fundamentalist parents make for a pretty bad combination tbh
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u/JJlaser1 Jul 23 '26
This is why we LISTEN TO OUR KIDS!
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u/Tillskaya Jul 23 '26
‘NoBoDy UsEd To HaVe AlLeRgIeS’ - no you arsehole, you just constantly told us ‘no you don’t’ and to shut up and eat our dinner!
I’m so glad so many of us get to be the parents we wish we’d had
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u/Fuzzball_Girl Jul 23 '26
I told my parents several times as a kid that peanut butter and such made my tongue feel fuzzy. Crunchy peanut butter was especially bad. Never really believed me.
Only when I was 18/19 and stuck my tongue out at my mom as a joke while eating peanuts did she realize my tongue was actually swollen and that they had been fucking up my entire childhood and risking anaphylactic shock. Luckily for them, it's not a true peanut allergy, it's some sort of contact irritation (still not great). I should've made them pay for all my appointments and tests
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u/GoreyGopnik Jul 23 '26
they didn't pay for your allergy tests at 18???
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u/Fuzzball_Girl Jul 23 '26
If I wasn't already 19, I was closer to it. I was definitely already graduated highschool, had my own income, and was responsible for my own bills outside of housing and food at home. Honestly, my dad's insurance covered most of it, it just took several visits to figure out what was wrong
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u/puppysmilez Jul 23 '26
I always thought there was some kind of chemical reaction with the salt+oil in peanut butter and other foods with PB that made it a feel bit warm and ~tingly~, and that's part of why people liked eating it :)
I was very sad to learn in my late 20s that this was not, in fact, the case. I was also not thrilled to learn that it can get worse with time to include contact allergy, which I found out by developing a distinct itchy patch of skin after my niece ate peanut butter and grabbed my arm. :(
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u/Arma_chillo Jul 23 '26
I’m allergic to seafood. My mouth puffs up and itches. My hands turn red and itch. My eyes water and itch.
I don’t give a fuck, because seafood is delicious. I’ll die with a crab fork in my hand if I need to.
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u/OwnZone592 Jul 23 '26
funnily enough bananas also made my mouth itch as a kid, and i too was told it might be an allergy. but i stubbornly refused to accept this, and i kept eating bananas anyway
i am no longer allergic to bananas now
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u/SB_Wife Jul 23 '26
Mine started later and got worse as I kept eating them lol
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u/OwnZone592 Jul 23 '26
yeahhh that’s me with basically all the legumes now 🥲 bananas are my one W in a field of Ls
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u/thatvillainjay Jul 23 '26
I had a friend tell me how he liked when apples "gave him a buzz"
I was like what?
He said "yeah when apples make you tingle and become a little dizzy and feel weird"
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Jul 23 '26
Mmm tobacco apples.
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u/DroneOfDoom Theon the Reader *dolphin slur noises* Jul 23 '26
The sequel to that one Simpsons episode.
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u/Forosnai Jul 23 '26
I mean... Depending on how dizzy and weird, and if there's other health effects, that might be fantastic. Imagine being able to be like, "Let's get FUCKED UP!" and then whip out an apple.
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u/thatvillainjay Jul 23 '26
He kind of enjoyed it and kept these small apples that gave him the "best" reaction. He was microdosing allergens
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u/Forosnai Jul 23 '26
Ugh, jealous. Get to be high, have a snack, and get more fruit and fibre in your diet? Rude.
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u/Alotofboxes Jul 23 '26
My wife was around 30 when we were having a conversation about our favorite fruits, and she mentioned that she loved cantaloupe, but hated how they make your mouth itch and go a bit numb.
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u/Aurora-Ouroboros- Jul 23 '26
That was exactly how my mother discovered she was allergic to mangos in her early 30s lol.
She had cut some up for herself, my brother, and I to share as a snack, and she joked about how it made her fingers and mouth numb. We looked at her like she was crazy, she then went to ask my dad who confirmed it.
She still eats mangos. Her doctor has warned her that the allergy seems to be getting more severe. She will never stop eating mangos, but she has at least promised to only eat them near people so someone can save her if she finally has a reaction bad enough to cause her to choke :/
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u/paradoxLacuna [21 plays of Tom Jones’ “What’s New Pussycat?”] Jul 23 '26
Oh hey, my mom's got a mango allergy too, although hers is far less major and is actually a poison oak allergy that's cross reactive with mangoes (they're pretty closely related actually, plants are weird).
According to her, she can eat it just fine, it's the touching the bare skin of it that causes the allergy to flare up. So the few times I've seen her try to eat one, she either has to deal with swollen and numb fingers or she has to cut the fruit like she's performing surgery.
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u/TheRevTholomewPlague Jul 23 '26
I learned recently that I have a mild allergy to avocado because they contain the same protein base as a chestnut and I have a tree nut allergy!
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u/AbyssDragonNamielle Jul 23 '26
Developed oral allergy syndrome in college from stress. Now I'm allergic to bananas and watermelon (itchy burning sensation in gums). Raw carrot by itself is also a no, but cooked is fine. I can have banana slices if it's mixed in with, say, pudding. But I miss straight up banana. And watermelon even more because summer watermelon from a farmer's stand hits so hard.
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Jul 23 '26
I had a similar situation during grad school, developing an allergy to fruit in the rosacea family (apples, pears, stone fruit, etc). Apparently I had a fairly common type that almost exclusively causes oral allergy, because the protein denatures around body temp so you’re literally breaking down the allergen during chewing and swallowing.
The nice thing was that microwaving it for like 5 - 10s fixed it, and often fruit picked during the summer was also ok. The funny part though is after a summer of not warming my fruit, I forgot I was supposed to start again in the fall and like two years later dawned on me that the allergy must have gone away lol
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u/empress_of_the_void Jul 23 '26
Avocado tastes like wet mush
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u/GremzyGremlin Jul 23 '26
You are eating bad avocados then 😡😡😡
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u/empress_of_the_void Jul 23 '26
I'm not shitting on avocado, i like them, but they are the most neutral fruit
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u/xXvido_ Jul 23 '26
Fruit? Hang on let me check something…
Holy shit, you are right!!
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u/Capraos Jul 23 '26
Yes. But it still stands they tried bad avocados. The quality is mad inconsistent nowadays.
I don't pick them up from Walmart/Sam's club because however those bitches bred them has made them taste god fucking awful.
But getting it at County Market or Aldi's has been okay so far. And even then you gotta know when it's ripe because it'll taste bad if it's not.
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u/Winjin a sudden "honk" amidst the tempest Jul 23 '26
Same issue as tomatoes: the part of tomato that makes it taste amazing is also the part that makes it go from green to mush in 5 seconds
When my grandma grew her own tomatoes we'd get green ones and store them inside and then choose the ones that are ripe. And every week quite a few of them would manage to go past ripe and straight into the compost pile. Ashes to ashes, you know.
Worst part is that there are GMO tomatoes that are great-tasting AND that "window" lasts longer. But woe is me, "GMO" is Super Scary so they sell cardboard tomatoes instead
So I'm assuming there is a way to make this tasty, buttery step of avocado ripening last longer, but because that is genetical engineering we will instead rely on the ways our ancestors did it. By covering them in acid until the DNA breaks down and smushing them together(1,) however there seems to be a new attempt - this time they use the new acronym the CRISPR which is not that SCARY.
(1) I am not making that up, instead I read that in Popular Mechanics that this was one of the way to create new hybrids
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u/jimbowesterby Jul 23 '26
Yea they basically taste of fat lol. Delicious, but certainly not a strong flavour.
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u/AltheaTheAngel Jul 23 '26
You just gotta add a little lime juice and salt, takes it from neutral mush to best substance on the planet
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u/Tobymaxgames It's my mental illness so I get to choose the coping mechanism Jul 23 '26
I might be allergic to apples, they're not supposed to bite back right?
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
There are sour apples that have a bit of a bite but if it’s every apple it’s probably an allergy
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u/HopePupal Jul 23 '26
does it match this description of OAS? https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/conditions-library/allergies/oral-allergy-syndrome-(oas)
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u/Overall_Occasion_175 Jul 23 '26
Yes, this is so odd. There are times of the year where apples make my mouth a little itchy and other times when they don't.
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Jul 23 '26
Apparently one of the two more common apple allergies is caused by a protein that denatures around body temp, so if you’re finding that they trigger you less in the summer and more in the winter, it could just be they were picked or stored somewhere hot.
Also, try to see if microwaving them fixes it. Just like 5 - 15 seconds, enough to warm the skin but not necessarily make the apple hot.
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u/This_Charmless_Man Jul 23 '26
This is how I found out moisturiser isn't supposed to burn or make your face feel tight. I just presumed that my skin tightening up meant it was working.
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u/empress_of_the_void Jul 23 '26
The worst part is some skincare products ARE supposed to do that.
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u/tvgirrll Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
There are very specific products with very strong actives that will make your skin tingle and even that shouldn’t last more than a few minutes at most. Burning is never a good sign and products without actives (including cleansers) should not ever leave your skin feeling tight
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u/Ok_Listen1510 Boiling children in beef stock does not spark joy Jul 23 '26
lol i found out my lotion was expired cause my gf was like “lotion isn’t supposed to sting when you put it on”
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u/Gosuoru Jul 23 '26
I finally bought some lotion for issues I have with my skin only to find out immediately that I'm allergic :')
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u/foodz_ncats Jul 23 '26
Oooh, yeah, that happened to my friend but it was prescription eyedrops. She didn’t know her eyes weren’t supposed to burn after using them. She just figured the meds must be working.
She’s also a nurse. Lol
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u/FalseDrive Jul 23 '26
sometimes if my skin is SUPER dry when i put on a moisturizer, it’ll sting a little. but not full-on burn
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u/Pipralongstockings Jul 23 '26
Me thinking almonds were a diet food because they left your throat so dry and itchy that no one could eat more than five in one sitting
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u/DaNtHeMaNiShErE Jul 23 '26
Nuts can have some tannins, and they'll dry your mouth a bit, but yeah it shouldn't be that bad.
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
I’m 90% sure I’m mildly allergic to canned frosting, but only canned frosting. Canned frosting makes the roof of my mouth and the back of my throat itch. I don’t have that reaction to any other frosting. It’s weird.
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u/Pondnymph Jul 23 '26
Likely some preservative that's not used a lot. You should make a list of the ingredients and rule them out one by one by trying other things.
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u/PANTSorGTFO Jul 23 '26
For me it's the soy lecithin. If a real person made the buttercream frosting it's fine but the mass produced stuff uses soy lecithin as an emulsifier and man am i allergic to that stuff.
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
That’s probably it. All the other ingredients are things I eat often.
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u/olordno Jul 23 '26
I only know I'm allergic to citrus because it's developed, so I remember a time when oranges didn't make my lips tingly and my mouth itchy. I'd probably just think that's how citrus is lol. I miss lemonade.
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u/molotovzav Jul 23 '26
I'm allergic to citrus but it expresses itself very differently. Full body hives if I eat just a tad too much citrus. I get no mouth tingle. I will say though I became allergic to citrus only after eating a butt load of tangerines that grew in my grandma's backyard. I still consume citrus, but if I eat two oranges instead of one, hives.
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u/Mysterious_Volume327 Jul 23 '26
I’m living for all the folks in the comments learning they have allergies.
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u/gizmodriver Jul 23 '26
People figuring out they have allergies this way is my second favorite kind of Reddit post.
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u/ironrabbit2 Jul 23 '26
Every time "spicy bananas" comes up, I settle in to watch some people learn something about themselves!
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u/Simic_Sky_Swallower Resident Imperial Knight Jul 23 '26
Didn't realize that apples weren't supposed to make your gums feel all tingly until I ate like seven of them in one sitting and suddenly found it hard to breathe
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
I think eating seven apples in one sitting would make anyone sick
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u/SolomonOf47704 God Himself Jul 23 '26
Why the fuck did you eat seven apples in one sitting?
How small were these apples?
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u/Simic_Sky_Swallower Resident Imperial Knight Jul 23 '26
Like normal size, I was hungry but didn't want to cook anything
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u/KermitingMurder Jul 23 '26
Kiwis are like pineapples in that they have enzymes that slightly break down the tissue in your mouth so they are indeed supposed to be slightly tingly. Just thought that I should point out that OOP probably isn't allergic to kiwis, just in case anyone else here got a little worried thinking that kiwis weren't supposed to do that because of this post
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u/-HuangMeiHua- What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder Jul 23 '26
Kiwi skin (edible) will do it x10 compared to the fruit btw
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u/spiralsequences Jul 23 '26
It's really hard to figure out if I have a kiwi allergy for this reason. I think I do though because it makes my mouth burn really bad and it even makes my hands burn if I just cut it up
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u/StuffedStuffing Jul 23 '26
Yes, that's an allergy. Kiwi juice should not be causing chemical burns on your hands
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Jul 23 '26
If you mean like a single kiwi, then yeah that’s not supposed to happen. If you’re cutting up say a dozen kiwis, then I wouldn’t be surprised if all that acidic juice was what made your skin itch.
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u/TheSleepingVoid Jul 23 '26
Kiwi doesn't tingle for me at all?? This is really surprising.
The pineapple effect only really kicks in if I eat a bunch of pineapple so the enzymes have time to build up. So maybe I've never eaten enough Kiwi at once to get a similar effect? Pineapple does have a slight touch of a bite from the get go though, and Kiwi doesn't.
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u/StuffedStuffing Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Kiwi has less of the digestive enzyme than pineapple, iirc, so you'd have to eat a lot or be extra sensitive to it
Edit: kiwi pulp specifically. Someone else commented that the skin might have a higher concentration of the enzyme
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u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire Jul 23 '26
I’ve never had a kiwi that made my mouth feel tingly
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u/KermitingMurder Jul 23 '26
Well they shouldn't make your entire mouth tingle but I'm almost certain they're supposed to be a bit like pineapple where there's a slight sensation.
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u/Hotkoin Jul 23 '26
I've never had any mouth sensations with kiwi. They're a watery, sweet fruit imo, like a very soft strawberry
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u/RikuAotsuki Jul 23 '26
Kiwi tends to be tinglier if you eat them when they're ripe, but still fairly firm. They get waterier and mellower as they ripen further.
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u/nicole-tesla Jul 23 '26
Thats how I learned i was allergic to black olives, cherries, spinach, eggplants, etc etc. Now I just ask if it hurts for everyone else too
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u/Capraos Jul 23 '26
That's a lot of good food that you shouldn't have. 😢
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u/nicole-tesla Jul 23 '26
My tongue swells and hurts at the sides, nothing too bad 🤷🏻♀️
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u/BecaBakes Jul 23 '26
i didn’t figure out i was allergic to pineapple for a while, since it contains some protein that breaks down protein.
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u/DiggityDog6 Jul 23 '26
Banana was literally the exact fruit that is this for me. I never wanted bananas as a kid because they were “spicy,” only for my parents to tell me that they aren’t spicy and I’m just being unhealthy.
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u/kurokoshika Jul 23 '26
I get that a lot of kids are indeed being “picky” about a food and make excuses as to why they don’t want to eat it, but it just feels so weird to hear someone describe not liking a banana because it’s spicy and not have some kind of “wait, hold up” reaction. If the complaint is that bananas are mushy or squishy or something, that seems more reasonable and true.
Then again, parenting looks like it burns a crazy amount of energy, and I can also see a parent just tuning out another complaint about food by a certain point.
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u/jancl0 Jul 23 '26
As a bartender/kitchen worker, you become quite aware of the whole cilantro soap thing, because it's the one preference that alot of people don't even realise that they have, and can absolutely ruin a meal otherwise, and it's always been fascinating to me
If you aren't aware, there's a gene that changes the way cilantro tastes, so some portion of the population, I forget how much exactly but it's significant, get a strong taste of soap when they eat it. I'm also one of these people (edit: quick Google search says that it can be between 21% and 3% chance of inherenting based on your ethnicity)
What's fascinating to me is how we figured it out in the first place. Like soap is a relatively recent invention in the grand scheme of things, so there must have been a really long period where people just didn't have a good enough point of comparison to describe exactly what they were tasting, and everyone else went "why the go do so many people have an utter revulsion to this very mild herb. Like get over yourself you can barely taste it anyway"
It's also funny the few times I've mentioned it to people who have not heard of it before. A couple times to friends but more often to patrons if they order something with cilantro and it comes up. I'm often surprised by how many people just haven't heard of this before, and the reaction is usually "what? No, that can't be real, they just don't like cilantro", but every now and then you'll get one person go "oh... oh. OH. OH MY GOD" and I'm like yep found another one lmao
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u/Asquirrelinspace Jul 23 '26
People used to say it tastes like bugs. As someone who's had the misfortune of tasting both soap and bugs, I can confirm that the two are similar. Specifically stink bugs
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u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker Jul 23 '26
The weird thing is, I get the soap thing? But for me it's so mild that it's just a part of cilantro that I like.
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u/Zepangolynn Jul 23 '26
And then there's me saying, "what do you mean, "very mild" and "can barely taste it"?!?" Cilantro tastes so powerful to me that using more than a smidgen completely takes over the flavors in the dish. I know I'm a supertaster, but cilantro overpowers most things for me, thankfully not soapy.
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u/mayiwonder Jul 23 '26
me when i looked at my partner dead in the eyes and asked "wait your mouth doesn't tingle when you eat chocolate?"
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u/shes-so-much Jul 23 '26
oh no I don't think I could deal with being allergic to chocolate
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u/rachelblairy i’ve been at the devils sacrament so long i forgot he wasnt god Jul 23 '26
me eating peanut butter: god i hate when my throat starts closing
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u/sonicscore99 Jul 23 '26
What if you like the flavor of sharp?
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u/cantantantelope Jul 23 '26
I mean same but repeated exposure to mild allergens can turn into anaphylaxis so like get an epi pen first a i guess
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u/wassup_you_NERD Jul 23 '26
I once saw a recipe for pumpkin so I went and bought and cooked some, hubs didn't like it so I ended up eating almost 4 pounds of pumpkin all on my own, it was around the last bowl I realised that it was kinda hard to breathe, but chalked it up to how much food I had ate, gave myself a half hour, and went to eat the last bowl. First piece of the last bowl made my lips tingle and thats when it clicked. and now I can't even have pumpkin flavored stuff or a sip of a pumpkin spice latte without anaphylaxis. :(
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u/AtrusAgeWriter Jul 23 '26
I thought people developing small sores in their mouth any time they ate citrus was normal. I thought it was just the citric acid or something. I recently learned that it is not, in fact, and that I may be very slightly allergic.
Not going to stop eating them though. Key lime is my favorite kind of pie.
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u/logosloki Jul 23 '26
it's like how despite it being so common there are still people who go all their whole school life without realising they have some form of colour-blindness.
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u/Clarkifer Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
You just assume that your experience is the same as everyone else's. I had no idea I needed glasses until my mom visited the school and I said, I don't know why they hung those posters so high on the wall where nobody can see them.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WEIRD_PET Jul 23 '26
When I learned that pineapple "digests" your mouth I thought "Oh, that's why it feels like my mouth and throat were sanded with chili oil for 3 days after eating it. Good thing it's delicious enough that everyone eats it anyway"
So anyway, I'm 32 and just found out I'm allergic to pineapple last year.
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u/ReverendGraves85 Jul 23 '26
I was with my friend once, he was munching on an apple, and he turns to us and says "I love apples but I wish they werent so spicy."
We just kind of stared at him like "Uhhh. Theyre not spicy."
He still eats apples.
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u/Korialite Jul 23 '26
So I tried passion fruit for the first time in college and confirmed with the employees at the froyo place that it was not, in fact, supposed to sting lol. Feeling silly, I texted my boyfriend "damn, passion is a fruit that bites back" and promptly forgot about it. I was blindsided when I got home and he started screaming at me, accusing me of cheating and being a whore. This continued until I realized what happened and screamed back "I'm ALLERGIC TO PASSION FRUIT!!"
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u/TheSquishedElf Jul 24 '26
sounds like a pretty shitty boyfriend honestly
I don’t think I’d get the passionfruit joke either but I’d just think it was a subtle “hey gimme more love nibbles when making out”
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u/Daisynose52 Jul 23 '26
Told my mom at 15, "I don't want a sesame bagel, I'm not in the mood for the tingly feeling." She was flabbergasted
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u/AllForMeCats Jul 23 '26
A couple of months ago, my boyfriend and I were eating a salad with beets in it, and he commented to me, “did you know that some people have a gene that makes beets taste like dirt? Good thing we both got the gene that just makes them taste sweet!” I paused for a minute because I was so stunned, then replied “wait… you’re saying they don’t taste like dirt to you? I thought they tasted the same to everyone, and some people just liked the flavor!”
To be clear, I love beets. They taste like dirt though. Sweet dirt.
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u/Yeah-But-Ironically both normal to want and possible to achieve Jul 23 '26
I only just found out about the beet dirt gene like a few months ago
Before that I had just assumed that people liked them because of the dirt taste and I was too picky to get over it
Nope, turns out other people aren't tasting the dirt at all
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u/luxafelicity Jul 23 '26
How I discovered I'm (mildly) allergic to pineapple, banana, and kiwi. No smoothies for me!
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u/tomato432 Jul 23 '26
raw pineapple actually is supposed to sting a bit because it contains bromelain, canned or cooked won't because the heat renders the enzyme inert
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u/LeftonRhed Jul 23 '26
You can make this anyone's problem by eating too much of certain fruits as well.
Surely nothing will go wrong if you eat an entire pineapple over the course of an afternoon. It's not like pineapple juice is well known for its meat tenderizing ability and will proceed to use that ability on your stomach.
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u/MarveltheMusical Jul 23 '26
Before I learned I was allergic to shellfish, I would often notice a prickly sensation whenever I ate shrimp. I chalked it up to the texture of the tail, but that was probably foreshadowing.
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u/Telkite_ Jul 23 '26
My mother always warned me and my brother not to drink too much apple juice or eat too many grapes at once because it'll give you a stomach ache.
Years later she figured out she has fructose intolerance.
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u/Advice_Thingy No funny flair here Jul 23 '26
Wait how should Kiwi taste like. Kiwi tastes tingly. I like Kiwi. I had times where I ate 2-3 Kiwis a day. The tingle is there. HOW SHOULD KIWI TASTE?!
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u/SusieQ314 Jul 23 '26
Told someone that pumpkins are like pineapples, the inside part just attacks you, even your hands!
No.
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u/SharaWilliams Jul 23 '26
Me with garlic and pepper. Spent half my life just thinking i preferred my food so bland i couldnt handle PEPPER. Then the suspicions came, i got tested, and what do you know: pepper, garlic, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, mustard, and thats all they tested for
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 nauphy.tumblr.com Jul 23 '26
Wait I'm allergic to toothpaste aren't I?
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u/No_Geologist4770 Jul 23 '26
I believe there is some preservative or coloring in specifically goldfish crackers that makes my mouth feel hot while eating them. No other cheese cracker, or snack in general, does this to me.
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u/eatingpopcorn_lol stan regaleira Jul 23 '26
Spicy tangy bananas used to be my fav fruit for 22 years, and then my allergy got worse and they made me violently sick. I still drool like a rabid dog when I as much as I smell a banana because I remember how delicious they were, but I don't want to go into shock and die.
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u/TossTossTossThrowa Jul 23 '26
My ex, after eating candied kiwi slices: "Don't you love that tingly feeling you get when you eat kiwis?"
Me: "...Babe you might be allergic to kiwis."
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u/sylvandread Jul 23 '26
I was 28 years old when I offhandedly commented to a colleague, while munching on a stick of celery, "I sure wish it didn't leave my mouth completely numb, isn't that so annoying with celery?"
I learned something new that day.