What perfectly normal thing can't you be around anymore due to something you experienced?
Mine is a pretty tame example: I never minded the smell of garlic was fine around it... but I took a job for DHL and they had these large tubs of garlic for horses that had to go out to people. There were about 10 of them coming down the belt.
Now I can't stand it. I'm just reminded of how strong that smell was I was actually gagging. The tubs were heavy, the handles were feedble. Some of the tubs were damaged so I got a bit on me.
I stunk of it for the rest of the shift. It wasn't even a normal garlic smell it was just so powerful and nauseating.
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Growing up, whenever I was sick with an upset stomach, my mom would give me 7up to drink. I dunno, I guess she figured the carbonation would help? Now decades later 7up still reminds me of the taste of vomit.
Mine was lucosade... The orange lucosade reminds me of nosebleeds. For some reason that's what my mum thought would help me when I was sick and it was always lucosade when I had one... Then the orignal red lucosade I had when it was thundering and I couldn't sleep because I was scared... memories man lol
I've heard hot 7up being a common treatment for illness too, I'm kind of glad I was never given anything fizzy when I was vomiting. I could definitely see it being ruined for me too
I had an ex whose mom used to do that to him with Sprite. Drove me crazy. I wonder if your experiences are both due to a misunderstanding about sodas in general. In truth, eating ginger settles your stomach, so sipping ginger ale actually is a valid treatment for stomach upset. It's why it's so popular on planes.
They may have experienced this themselves and assumed it was the carbonation component that helped, so now they're using stuff like pepsi as a medicine.
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Mostly I figured this was done because whatever they use to make the lemon/lime flavor in sprite/7up/etc doesn't seem to digest all that quickly, comparatively...
...so when you inevitably vomit again, it doesn't taste QUITE as awful or burn your throat quite as bad because it's at least LEMONY bile and stomach acid instead of just pure bile and stomach acid.
The sugar is "neutral" (7) and potentially offsets the pH of the hydrochloric acid in your gut, too.
Puking too much pure stomach acid for too long and not rinsing your mouth out afterwards can cause rapid tooth decay, I'm told.