Krissie Palmer-Howarth, 61, a cabaret singer from Newhaven, East Sussex, has not been able to handle vegetables or even say their names since developing her phobia at the age of 17. Just their smell made her feel sick.
Now, after a session of hypnotherapy, Miss Palmer-Howarth says that she can stand to be close to vegetables, even broccoli, which she detests most of all, though she is not yet at the stage where she can handle them.
Woman finally cures her 40-year fear of vegetables (Telegraph, via Arbroath)
I imagine it might have been the result of a run-in with these:
(Okay, one’s a legume and the other’s technically a fruit. But yikes.)