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Ever over-indulge in a favorite food and now you can't eat it?

The article about Butterscotch reminded me of one Christmas when I was doing a cookie exchange with some friends. I was to make butterscotch oatmeal cookies (one of my favorites at the time)..... I had to make about 15 dozen cookies. By the time I had finished tasting the batter and "testing" each batch of warm cookies I was just sick with sugar overload. To this day butterscotch is a turn-off for me! Anyone else ever ruin a favorite by over doing it?

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Never! I absolutely love sweets, but stay pretty strong on not eating them often.

I have, however, stopped eating certain foods because I learned how they were created or what the actual ingredients were.

I could make brownies, eat the bowl of mix, then eat the tray of brownies. Jesus, you've got me hungry for sugar now. Thanks!

I was once in love with cheesecake. And I can still manage a peice now and then...after a long time without it. However, my hunnis sister was once went into a cheese cake baking craze. Honestly she made it 2-3 times a week!! I never want creme brule cheesecake ever again...

(ThatGirl153 was referring to Bring Back The Butterscotch! over on Required Eating.)

I've done that on certain seasonal dishes, like when tomatoes are ripe, I'll make a bread salad every single day. By thte end of the season, I'm usually kind of burned out. Luckily, after a whole winter without tomatoes, I'm anxious to eat it again this summer. Mmmm....bread salad....

Trader Joe's Indian food... not the frozen kind, but the kind that comes in foil packs. I ate (and eat) it all the time at school and I can never eat it at home now - in general my "at school" food isn't that great so I don't like being reminded of it when I'm not there.

Oh gods yes.. Mint Chocolate. When I was a child, my grandmother sent be a package with three boxes of Andes Candies in it. I ate two and a half boxes in one sitting and was sick for days. To this day, mint chocolate makes me utterly nauseous.. I don't even want to smell it!

I've put myself in the hospital overdosing on chocolate too, but I can still eat that. I just don't like it nearly as much as I used to.. I prefer fruit now ;}

Oh, I forgot one other time. I used to work as a coat check girl in a dinner club complete with impersonators and dancers. During the perfomances I would be bored out of my mind. At the hostess station they had a bowl of those individually-wrapped candy-coated chocolate mints. I would eat those non-stop all night and every night that I worked. To this day, when I see those things at a restuarant I want to gag!

Embarrassed to admit this, but I had a serious addiction to Herr's salt and vinegar chips. I must've O.D.ed on them, because the remnants of the last bag I bought sat around for months before I finally polished them off. I haven't wanted any again since then!

It's somewhat hard to believe, but I had to abstain from croissants for a good few months before I've eaten them again. The reason why, it's because I wrote two lengthy posts about the "Best Croissants" in NYC, and I killed my love for it a good while. But recently, I'm eating an occasional croissant.

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