Food-Deficit-Phobia

Sometimes, I get overzealous. This is an actual e-mail exchange between my friend, Elise, and myself about her visit this coming Sunday for brunch:

Me: I'm thinking for the menu:


• biscotti
-leek and artichoke tarts

• pear/feta/walnut salad
-sausage frittata
• mini peach pies

• maybe bruchetta or sauteed veggies (I got a lot of tomatoes from the farm this 
week)

• of course, there will be coffee/tea


Friend: How many people are coming? I thought it was just us. If it is just us there is no need to knock yourself out with all that cooking. I assure you one item or two would be more than enough!

Me: Yes, there will be, in fact, only two people at the table. I’m convinced I suffer from fooddeficitphobia, the fear that there won’t be enough food, a generic disorder that I inherited from my parents.

Fooddeficitphobia isn’t real, but here are some real food phobias:

• Acerophobia- Fear of sourness
• Alektorophobia- Fear of chicken
• Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic
• Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes
• Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria
• Botanophobia- Fear of plants
• Carnophobia- Fear of meat
• Cibophobia- Fear of food
• Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks
• Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation
• Defecaloesiphobia- Fear of painful bowels movements
• Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations
• Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking
• Emetophoia- Fear of vomiting
• Frigophobia- Fear of cold things
• Geumophobia- Fear of taste
• Hematophobia- Fear of blood
• Hydrophobia- Fear of water
• Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids
• Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish
• Iophobia- Fear of poison
• Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables
• Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking
• Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol
• Mycophobia- Fear of mushrooms
• Necrophobia- Fear of dead things
• Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight
• Oenophobia- Fear of wine
• Olfactophobia- Fear of smells
• Ornithophobia- Fear of birds
• Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish
• Osmophobia- Fear of odors
• Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing
• Pnigophobia- Fear of choking
• Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation
• Sitophobia- Fear of eating
• Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms
• Thermophobia- Fear of hot things
• Toxophobia- Fear of being accidently poisoned
• Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating
• Verminophobia- Fear of germs
• Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow
• Xerophobia- Fear of dryness

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I’m pretty sure Kevin has consecotaleophobia (fear of chopsticks), ichthyophobia (fear of fish), lachanophobia (fear of vegetables) and mycophobia (fear of mushrooms).

Which food phobias do you have?


Tip: You should also read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time if you are interested in xanthophobia.