Chef Quits Job Because of Fear of Baked Beans

Metro UK ^ | Wednesday 9 Jul 2014

[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…

[nickcarraway]

[Veggie Todd]

He would probably hate the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Bush's fault

(too easy)

[Organic Panic]

Earings. Lip rings. Ugly gages in the ear. Tattoos. Red fauxhawk.

Of all things beans?

[Sherman Logan]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

Finally—the reason why Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans.

[Veggie Todd]

Bush's fault

Did Duke give away the recipe yet?

[GraceG]

WITH ALL THOSE TATS YOU WOULD THINK HE WOULD BE TOUGHER....

[Starstruck]

Maybe his real fear is of John Kerry.

[WKUHilltopper]

Baked beans?? They jump out of the can and chase him down the hallways? Screaming, “We’re gonna bean you!”

[MrB]

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.

[dirtboy]

Probably doesn't have this album, either:

[Fiji Hill]

He probably won't be eating a lot of beans and cornbread.

[moovova]

“They jump out of the can...”

They could be Mexican.

[cripplecreek]

He should be pummeled with cans of baked beans till he gets over it or has a real reason to fear them.

[Moonman62]

[NRA1995]

At least his brothers didn't eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

[gr8eman]

I never did figure out that baked beans and half tomato thing in British breakfasts.

[left that other site]

Well, at least he has triumphed over Trypanophobia.

[RckyRaCoCo]

"I don't know about you keeds...but blueberry pancakes scare the hell out of me!"