Pickle phobia

I know some people don't like pickles, but running away screaming at the sight of them? Insane.

Pickle Phobia

"You're afraid of pickles? Bring out the pickles".

I´ve got a jar of pickled walnuts (no double entendre intended!)

I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts

@Joliet Jake: but they´re not pickled, are they?

I don't really believe in these "new age" phobias, for the most part I think they are just cries for attenttion.

Phobias serve an evolutionary purpose because they made our ancestors avoid things that would be potentially harmful (snakes, spiders, lions, heights, the dark etc.). People and children especially, who didn't have phobias were less likely to add their genes to the gene pool (hmm, nice cobra, I think I'll pet you).

Things like pickles and tin foil and all these other outrageous phobias haven't been around long enough nor does a fear of them serve any purpose whatsoever. As times have changed, the potential dangers have changed as well but our phobias haven't caught up with the times yet or we'd be seeing people with phobias of electric sockets or trains other things that take many more lives than any snake ever did.

That being said it has been proven that phobias can be a leanred behaviour by introducing a traumatic event associated with a particular object to a young child.

I prefer a nice pair of juicy melons...

I don't believe how people get these "phobias" either. How the hell can you be scared of a pickle or mustard?

They are however good for a laugh. At my old job there was a chap who was petrified of spoons. Yep, spoons. There was a reason but I can't remember what and it was generally unimportant. We used to fill his laptop bag with the things - brought him to tears. Hilarious!!
Those were the days

I have a phobia of telephones: Once when I was a small child one rang and rang and did not stop. Now whenever I am near a telephone and it is ringing I have to pick it up to stop it ringing and this causes incalculable mental harm to me, espacially at work. It it especially difficult if the phone has been wrapped up un aluminium foil beforehand, as it is shiny too. There is jelly and icecream involved too but I won't go into this.

Does anyone else have a phobia similar to this?

PS I am sitting on a plane in a bath full of buttons with a spider on my head and a snake wrapped around me in an attempt to cure myself of other phobia's.

My daughter-in-law is afraid of bicycles (fell off one when she was 10 and broke her wrist), bowling balls (they are so heavy) and men with moustaches (no idea why). She also does not like guacamole. But she wants to join the Army? I can see her being attacked by a moustached man on a bicycle throwing bowling balls with guacamole in the fingerholes at her ...
Having said that, she is a really nice and fairly intelligent girl.

There is jelly and icecream involved too but I won't go into this.

Oh... go on, give us the details

@sarabyrd: do you think that being in the army will help her get over the phobias: she might have to wade through a guacamole swamp carrying a bicycle only to have to face a moustached man with only a bowling ball to attack him with!

My mate from years back had a phobia of buttons, she couldn't wear anything that had them on or even look at, let alone touch them. I thought it was a bit strange but it was a genuine 'fear'

Am I the only one TTer who likes pickled eggs (in brown vinegar, not that wussy white vinegar)? There are some wonderful taste contrasts in a pickled egg.

OhFFS: No your not

Leave my knot alone!

Do you know if there is a source in Munich, or am I going to have to pickly my own? I've always wondered how long I should leave them before I start eating them, but I've just found out 10 days is long enough. I think I waited over a month last time, and ended up with some that were rather odd. The rest were lovely though

Look for "Soleier", I think I've seen them at MiniMal.

Make your own Soleier by cutting a hard boiled egg in half, remove the yolk, fill the center of the egg with a mixture of olive oil, malt vinegar and mustard, replace the yolk and shove said mess into your mouth all at once.

Messy but quite tasty.

Soleier sind in starker Salzlösung eingelegte, hartgekochte Eier. Durch die Salzlösung werden die Eier konserviert und bleiben ohne Kühlung einige Zeit haltbar. Sie sind ein traditionelles Gericht besonders der Berliner Küche und gehörten dort in Kneipen zum Standardangebot aus dem Hungerturm.

But I don't eat eggs so I can't say if they're one and the same.

First, the list of phobias is unbelievable, specially (to me) how some phobias are very much specific, like, some people have phobias of something when it is in some state but not another...
Any way, to the case above, I am not a psychologist, but I can think on one explanation for her phobia:
It *could* be that she was sexually abused as a very very young person, and it could be that her brain is shutting that memory off, and all the fear and anger emotions she got enclosed are concentrated on pickles and mustard.
It could be a form of Medorthophobia (phobia of an Erected penis).
I mean, it is so classic "Freudian" pickle and mustard...
Phobias are very often a "transferred fear" from the real issue on the a proxy subject.

Phobia list: http://phobialist.com/reverse.html#A-

My favorite is still "parthenophobia". I used that in a pub quiz once.
P.S. Look it up, I don't want to spoil it here.

@sarabyrd: yes that is a funny one, but have you ever heard of anyone suffering from it?

Not only that but getting treatment. Seriously!

WTF?


No, that's how to make deviled eggs, though there are many recipes, most of which use mayo, not oil.

Soleier are whole pickled eggs. You hard-cook eggs and dump 'em in brine.

Admit it ER: you're just doing everything you can to increase mustard consumption around here.

woof.

once again Bad Doggie proves he doesn't know everything. There are many different recipes for Soleier, one of them from Berlin is EXACTLY as ER described.

No devilled eggs are something completely different, the yolk gets mixed in with the rest of the ingredients and the replaced whereas with soleier the yolk stays intact as detailed below. (from Wikipedia)

Kaufhof at Rotkreuzplatz sells pickled eggs in white vinegar but not in malt vinegar. Pretty easy things to make yourself though.
The Arc once had a bottle of pickled eggs behind the bar, they were for don_riina.

Are you confusing this with 'pickels'?

@pike: didn´t you click onto the link, otherwise you would have seen that the subject was definately pickles!

There's also this one which appears to be an earlier part of the same show. One woman has a fear of birds, the other a fear of mustard.

And a bit off topic, but also from the Maury Povich show:

White man shocked to find out that black baby is not really his son.

I was rather disappointed not to see a brawl in that one. American trash TV isn't what it used to be. Bring back Jerry Springer.

Doesn't sound like Soleier are like pickled eggsies though, because the latter are done in vinegar (which is the definition of "pickled, shirley?).