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Do Visuals (think Wheat) At Restaurants Gross You Out?

brendygirl

By brendygirl
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brendygirl Community Regular
brendygirl
Posted

There is a pub near my work that serves good salads but every time I go there I get anxiety when I see vases of real wheat attached to the walls all over for decoration. I am a teacher and had to teach a unit about how wheat is the seed of life. I had to play and listen to an audiotape telling all about how great wheat products are, while watching the students look in books with colorful pictures of it all. It really weirds me out.

Sometimes if I walk into Mimi's or other places that have big bakery cases right when you walk in, I get freaked out, too.

I can handle it, it's not MAJOR. But, it does draw my attention back to celiac when I'm trying to have a good time.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

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Nantzie Collaborator
Nantzie
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Yea, especially fields of wheat, swaying in the breeze. >>shudder<< It's like I think those pointy little wheat shards are going to jump through the TV and get me or something. :lol:

To be honest, just thinking about it makes me kind of gaggy.

:rolleyes:

Nancy

DingoGirl Enthusiast
DingoGirl
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That is so funny! I hardly register when I see stalks of wheat - maybe just, oh, the irony....they are decorating with my poison. :P I am never disturbed by it, and in fact, just look at such things rather longingly......the smell of breads wafting out of a bakery - - in that case I stop and inhale deeply and wistfully enjoy the odor of things I miss so much......*sigh*.

I crave and miss the breads and cookies and cakes.....and always will.....wheat stalks I suppose are just am amusing form of torment for me but nothing compared to the sights and smells of actual foods I can't have...... :huh:

Nantzie Collaborator
Nantzie
Posted

Bakeries and smells don't bother me at all. I explained it to a friend of mine that to me it's kind of like smelling scented candles or perfume. Candles and perfume smell great, but I don't want to eat them. I guess in my mind I've converted the smell of bakery stuff into the same category as perfume. If I drank a bottle of perfume just because it smelled good, I'd probably be sick as a dog too...

Aren't you glad that there's no CC risk from smelling?

While I was writing this a beer commercial came on and it showed that waving stalk of barley. My stomach went queasy on it. :ph34r:

I guess it's more visual than smell for me.

Nancy

covsooze Enthusiast
covsooze
Posted

My stomach is in a bad way today (ate some cheese yesterday :ph34r: ) and when I went into my office kitchen first thing, a colleague had just been warming up some weetabix. The smell really got me. Yuck! :wacko:

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
Posted

Oh my gosh, I totally understand where you're coming from. I get very disturbed by images of wheat products. I don't like to be close to anything that contains it. I don't know, maybe it's just coming from years of being sick.

marciab Enthusiast
marciab
Posted

Me too. I wasn't like this a few months ago though. Maybe this is our brains way of telling us to stay the ### away from it. Everytime I think I have gotten weird, I come here and see someone else doing the same thing :lol: Marcia

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prinsessa Contributor
prinsessa
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I sure don't look at gluten-filled food the same way that I used to. Now looking a big piles of bread and donuts makes me feel a little sick. I even get a little scared to eat donuts and stuff I know for sure are gluten free.

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
Posted

There are times that I even hold my breath going down the bread isle..........lol I'm SUCH a nerd :ph34r:

-Jessica :rolleyes:

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
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There are times that I even hold my breath going down the bread isle..........lol I'm SUCH a nerd :ph34r:

-Jessica :rolleyes:

Jessica, you are so NOT a nerd. I do the exact same thing and I'm sure there are plenty of others on here that do it as well. My hubbie always makes fun of me for it, but it makes me queasy to smell bread, so...

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
Posted
Jessica, you are so NOT a nerd. I do the exact same thing and I'm sure there are plenty of others on here that do it as well. My hubbie always makes fun of me for it, but it makes me queasy to smell bread, so...

Aww thanks ;)

Helena Contributor
Helena
Posted

I don't feel that way about wheat----I actually like the scent of freshly baked bread. But I have never gotten as sick from wheat as a lot of people here.

I can relate where peanuts are concerned---while I'm okay with seeing peanuts, ever since I've had a near death experience after eating something with peanuts, the smell literally makes me gag. Once, I turned the corner in Whole Foods and was hit with this overpowering stench----my brain registered it as really really bad B.O. and it wasn't until I saw the peanut machine in operation that I realized what it was.

arc Newbie
arc
Posted

My parents live in the Palouse area of Washington state, which is a huge area for growing wheat, barley and legumes, none of which I can tolerate. Driving to their house means driving for miles surrounded by wheat and barley fields and seeing signs everywhere extolling the wonders and goodness of wheat. <_< I always feel like holding my breath as I go through there. :rolleyes: It also means that pretty much anyone I meet there is affiliated to one of the large farms and I feel like a outcast since I can't partake in any of their wares. :ph34r:

brendygirl Community Regular
brendygirl
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It's really validating reading your replies. Thanks lots!

I figured I wasn't the only one after I read that list "You might be a celiac if..." where you've rammed your grocery cart at the cereal aisle.

The hair on the back of my neck stands up when I see the bread aisle. I don't go there.

Yesterday an adorable little student of mine with pigtails gave me a large glass jar for Christmas (it was almost as big as she is) with the layered ingredients for chocolate muffins and the recipe attached. I could see the flour layer. It shocked me. I couldn't touch it. Today she asked me if I made them yet. I said, not yet.

plantime Contributor
plantime
Posted

Whoo, this thread sounds so negative!! Or maybe it is the artist in me that rarely comes out to play! When I drive past a wheat field, I see the beauty of the shadows rippling across the surface. I see the glorious hues in the sunlight. I see farmers able to support their families for another season (that's the practical side of me). When I look at a ripe stalk of wheat, I see the circle of life completing yet another stage. I don't see it as food at all. It is just another part of nature's beauty, proclaiming God's glory to all that listen.

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brendygirl Community Regular
brendygirl
Posted
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Funny, I don't think fear is necessarily a negative feeling.

Viola 1 Rookie
Viola 1
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Whoo, this thread sounds so negative!! Or maybe it is the artist in me that rarely comes out to play! When I drive past a wheat field, I see the beauty of the shadows rippling across the surface. I see the glorious hues in the sunlight. I see farmers able to support their families for another season (that's the practical side of me). When I look at a ripe stalk of wheat, I see the circle of life completing yet another stage. I don't see it as food at all. It is just another part of nature's beauty, proclaiming God's glory to all that listen.

:lol::lol: I'm like you, I think wheat is very beautiful out in the fields and even a single stock is very pretty. They are delicate and yet complex. Perhaps because I like to paint too. However, I don't care much for spending time in a bakery with all that flour flying around.

LL04 Newbie
LL04
Posted

I LOVE(D) BREAD!!! And I'm not kidding. For me the best part about a pizza was definitely the crust! I still love the smell of the bakery and and any kind of fresh baked goodies!! Seeing wheat anywhere doesn't bug me in the least and it's not because it doesn't make me really sick...when I ingest even the smallest amount of gluten my breathing becomes very restricted and I pass out. Then I'm sick with the big D and it takes me weeks to recover...But still seeing a big Tim Horton's donut (Krispy Kreme for my fellow American celiac's) still makes my mouth water BIG TIME!! NO FEAR HERE!

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aggieceliac Newbie
aggieceliac
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yes the thought of wheat often makes me cringe. i think it's almost more of jokingly though sometimes. there's a cingular commercial that has tractors plowing through wheat fields and i always have to comment on it or change the channel. it's like my roommate who is allergic to cats not liking the very thought of them

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