I'm surprised that I'm not joining in. My family members would say I have food phobias, but I cannot think of a single one and reading through this list, I don't see myself here. Sure, I hate brussels sprouts, but that's just because they don't taste good to me. No phobia there.
What I cannot stand though, is people touching my food. For the record, I think this is normal, not a phobia. I mean, who wants someone putting their hands all over their food?
Here are some examples that a relative does that make me crazy. When I visit or she visits, I cannot stand the way she has to touch every piece of food one thousand times!
1. If I put out a cheese tray, I come back and find the cheese cut into tiny cubes. Trust me, there are fingerprints on 4 sides of every one of those cubes.
2. If she makes meatloaf, she insists on using her fingers to mush the egg and spices through the meat. Yes, that means the hamburger meat oozes around all five of her stubby fingers and underneath her fingernails! I want to vomit whenever I see it.
3. Want to fill a bowl with chips? She will stick her hand in the bag multiple times to grab handfuls and put those handfuls into the bowl, rather than just pouring the chips from the bag into the bowl.
4. Ice cubes? same as above.
5. She likes to "decorate" serving dishes by placing tiny chopped up pieces of peppers, cheese, olives, etc individually in some pattern. All I see is her touching every single thing that goes into my mouth. I completely lose my appetite.
6. She pours advil/aspirin into her hand, picks the one or two pills she wants, then puts the remaining (now sweaty) pills back into the bottle (My requested method is to pour them into the cap, pick up one, then pour the remaining untouched pills back into the bottle.
7. Also, when she eats popcorn or nuts, she'll grab a small amount, put them into the palm of her hand, then open her mouth lean her head back, and press her palm to her open mouth cavity! This is how teenage boys eat when no one is watching! Not a civilized woman! Those are called FINGER FOODS for a reason. Not PALM FOODS.
Everyone else in my life has agreed to not be overly touchy with my food, but this one relative just won't stop.