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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 they’re 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 can’t even go near the beans – which he calls ‘orange devils’ – when they’re 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 Griffith’s ancestors had a particularly nasty encounter with a baked bean…


TOPICS: Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beans
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve never understood the fascination that the Brits have with beans.Even if it *wasn’t* for the disgraceful *result* of eating them they’d *still* be disgusting.


21 posted on 07/09/2014 10:57:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Maybe it’s like Spam. During WWII & afterward, maybe beans & Spam were all the Brits could find.

Beans with breakfast? Original Spam ads used to feature “Spam and eggs” to start the day.


22 posted on 07/09/2014 11:17:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: RckyRaCoCo
Bears "repeating" ....


23 posted on 07/09/2014 11:35:12 AM PDT by mikrofon (GMTA ;)
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To: nickcarraway

My brothers threw rocks at me when I was a kid.

Until Mom and Dad bought me The Junior Scientist Chemistry Kit.

“Go ahead, dear brothers, eat up. Don’t worry about why your bowl of Frosted Flakes is bubbling.”


24 posted on 07/09/2014 12:10:15 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nickcarraway

So basically, he is angling for some kind of social welfare support for life...


25 posted on 07/09/2014 12:23:54 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh oh, I see some bogus disability-for-life scam here.


26 posted on 07/09/2014 1:29:17 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Veggie Todd

Let’s just hope that law enforcement is not in his neighborhood...


27 posted on 07/09/2014 1:31:57 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t think I’d want this specimen anywhere near my food.


28 posted on 07/09/2014 1:36:31 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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