Honeydew Melon - Seeds

Alright, is there anybody who can tell me that the seeds inside of a honey dew melon aren't disgusting.... just look at the way the seeds are all clumped inside it!!!!!

Yuuuuuckkkkk!!

Scary Scale : 2/10

Sesame Seeds

In theory, there is really nothing wrong or scary about sesame seeds.

In fact, I note that sesame seeds individually do not scare me, for example, if they are sprinkled into a salad or spread out at a distance apart on the top of a cracker or bun, then that seems to be alright.

However, if they are very closely clumped together, like on top of deep fried prawn toast or sesame cracker then it starts to get very "disturbing" for me. For example, this photo truly makes the hairs on my arms stand up.

To find this photo, I had to google "Sesame Seeds+photo" and the results that came back (mostly from grain supplier websites with lots of close-ups), made me feel faint!!!


Recently, I was buying bagels from the supermarket, and I had choices of blueberry, sesame or plain. I noticed that the sesame bagels were sprinkled with sesame seeds, but they were a little closer together than I felt comfortable with, so I bought the plain ones. :-)

Scary Scale : 9/10

Ryvita Crispbread

Recently, I was having a Ryvita (a wholegrain crispbread), and in the past I never really noticed it, but one side of the Ryvita cracker has a large amount of grains clustered together to form the base and once I noticed it, I couldn't bear to look at it, as it just made me feel terribly uncomfortable and it made my skin crawl.

In fact, I found it so gross that I showed my boyfriend to see whether he thought the same, and I actually screeched as I was taking it out of the packet to show him. He just thought it was weird of course.

So I ended up having to flip it over, and with the toppings on top I could eat it. :-)

I guess the extent of the phobia is not so severe such that I cannot touch the item, its more just that if I stare at the cluster for a long time, I just feel icky.