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What perfectly normal thing can't you be around anymore due to something you experienced? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LillianVS@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] LillianVS@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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