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The woman who's eaten nearly 13,000 baked potatoes because she's scared of nearly all other foods
The Daily Mail ^ | March 22, 2013 | Anna Hodgekiss

Posted on 03/23/2013 11:17:29 AM PDT by EveningStar

A young woman has eaten her way through more than 13,000 jacket potatoes - because she has a phobia of almost all foods.

Claire Jones, 23, has panic attacks and is physically sick at the thought of eating proper meals.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bakedpotatoes; eatingdisorders; halfbaked
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1 posted on 03/23/2013 11:17:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

ping


2 posted on 03/23/2013 11:18:14 AM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: EveningStar

It looks like she’s afraid of the Sun as well.


3 posted on 03/23/2013 11:22:22 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EveningStar

She looks fine although her arteries must be a starchy mess.


4 posted on 03/23/2013 11:22:38 AM PDT by albie (re)
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To: EveningStar

Maybe she should move to Idaho, or eastern Oregon. I bet she would fall in love with that giant potato on the semi trailer that drives around out here.


5 posted on 03/23/2013 11:25:03 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: EveningStar

I have friends who have a child who will only eat chicken nuggets and tater tots. Why? Because he throws a fit everytime they put something in front of him that isn’t chicken nuggets and tater tots, so they rush to make him chicken nuggets and tater tots to make him calm down.

I have, as lovingly as possible, told them that if he missed a couple of meals, and had to sit at the table until everyone else finished, that he would be eating other foods by the end of the week. They think it is cruel to let a 3 year old miss a meal. I think it’s cruel that in 20 years I will be reading about a 23 year old man who can only eat chicken nuggets and tater tots.


6 posted on 03/23/2013 11:25:36 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com)
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To: EveningStar

Potatoes. One of the few things I can still eat. I feel her pain.


7 posted on 03/23/2013 11:26:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EveningStar
I wonder if she ever considered seeing a psychiatrist instead of the Daily Mail?
8 posted on 03/23/2013 11:26:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: EveningStar

Sounds like a neurotic female to me.

A rarity to be sure, but I understand they have been known to exist.


9 posted on 03/23/2013 11:27:24 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: EveningStar

Proof she was a potato bug in her previous life and her diet preference wasn’t reset when she was reincarnated. j/k


10 posted on 03/23/2013 11:31:42 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I doubt that food phobias are much of a problem in much of the world.

Freegards


11 posted on 03/23/2013 11:35:30 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: EveningStar

She must have malnutrition deficiencies. Maybe the coleslaw is enough to prevent scurvy?


12 posted on 03/23/2013 11:36:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: EveningStar

I’m a barmaid!
I have a tattoo!
Look! I’m in the paper!

I wonder if the bit about the potatoes is real?


13 posted on 03/23/2013 11:37:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: EveningStar
She sounds like Monk.


14 posted on 03/23/2013 11:37:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: EveningStar
She sounds like Monk.


15 posted on 03/23/2013 11:37:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: EveningStar; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Yes, indeed, the lowly potatoe is good for something! (What it has to do with Frederic Chopin, I dunno!)


16 posted on 03/23/2013 11:41:11 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: EEGator

She has no fear of the tattoo parlor, I see. I bet she’d be a real laugh riot to be married to.


17 posted on 03/23/2013 11:42:25 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I’m sure she’d be a real treat.


18 posted on 03/23/2013 11:47:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

There’s a couple in our church whose eldest son lives on saltine crackers and ketchup. Wherever he goes, he carries a ziploc bag with crackers, just in case. He is a junior in high school now, not quite as sickly as this girl, but very small. He had wanted to play football for years and the parents missed the chance to make him eat (if you don’t eat you will never be able to play). I wonder if he will be able to survive college!


19 posted on 03/23/2013 11:49:47 AM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: EveningStar

And a story about Spuds MacKenzie is important because?


20 posted on 03/23/2013 11:50:35 AM PDT by Cyman
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