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Chef Quits Job Because of Fear of Baked Beans
Metro UK ^
| Wednesday 9 Jul 2014
Posted on 07/09/2014 10:41:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A chef has been forced to quit his job because of an uncontrollable fear of baked beans.
Rob Griffiths, 31, left his job as a pub chef in Milton Keynes because he felt faint every time he saw the food.
The ex-chef believes his rare fear - technically known as leguminophobia was a result of his brothers throwing beans at him as a child.
I get shaky and I just have to run if theyre anywhere near me, he said.
I was a pub chef and breakfast was hard.
Staff had to prepare the beans while I hid in the back.
Mr Griffiths, who now works as a window cleaner, said he cant even go near the beans which he calls orange devils when theyre in tins in the supermarket.
It is very distressing, he admitted.
Research using mice has suggested irrational fears may be passed down genetically.
An experience with a poisonous spider, for example, causes chemical changes in DNA that are then passed on to offspring in the form of a phobia.
Perhaps one of Mr Griffiths ancestors had a particularly nasty encounter with a baked bean
TOPICS: Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beans
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To: nickcarraway
He would probably hate the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:45:09 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:45:35 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: nickcarraway
Earings. Lip rings. Ugly gages in the ear. Tattoos. Red fauxhawk.
Of all things beans?
To: nickcarraway
An experience with a poisonous spider, for example, causes chemical changes in DNA that are then passed on to offspring in the form of a phobia. Uhhh.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:47:29 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
To: nickcarraway
Finally—the reason why Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans.
To: RckyRaCoCo
Bush's fault
Did Duke give away the recipe yet?
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:47:48 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: nickcarraway
WITH ALL THOSE TATS YOU WOULD THINK HE WOULD BE TOUGHER....
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:47:55 AM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: nickcarraway
Maybe his real fear is of John Kerry.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: nickcarraway
Baked beans?? They jump out of the can and chase him down the hallways? Screaming, “We’re gonna bean you!”
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:48:32 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: GraceG
Nah, he’s just going for a “disability” check.
Get into the career of “cheffing”, then develop a phobia that prevents you from working -
instant life of leisure.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Veggie Todd
Probably doesn't have this album, either:
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:50:53 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: nickcarraway
To: WKUHilltopper
“They jump out of the can...”
They could be Mexican.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:51:16 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: nickcarraway
He should be pummeled with cans of baked beans till he gets over it or has a real reason to fear them.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:51:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Veggie Todd
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:51:50 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: nickcarraway
At least his brothers didn't eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:51:56 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
To: nickcarraway
I never did figure out that baked beans and half tomato thing in British breakfasts.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:53:15 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(A good rant should have the word "crap" in it at least 4 times!)
To: nickcarraway
Well, at least he has triumphed over Trypanophobia.
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:53:25 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: cripplecreek
"I don't know about you keeds...but blueberry pancakes scare the hell out of me!"
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posted on
07/09/2014 10:54:38 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
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