I don’t like to knock my country of origin, so it is embarrassing to have to record that the British seem to be a little quirky in the satiation of their various appetites.
First, Claire Simmons, a 33 year old from Notting Hill in London has eaten nothing but pizza for the last 31 years (can you imagine anyone who would let their kid eat exclusively pizza from age 2?). But she shakes when presented with other foods apparently.
Then Stacey Irvine from Birmingham, who is 17, has eaten only chicken nuggets for the last 15 years (two must be a vulnerable age). She has anemia breathing problems and was recently rushed to hospital with swollen veins in her tongue (some new “nugget disease”? Maybe there’s Nobel Prize in the offing?)
The only meat that 44 year old Jonathan McGowan, from Bournemouth, in southern England, has eaten for the last 30 years has been road kill - fox has a lovely texture and no fat; frogs and rats are good in stir fries; owl makes a good curry (who’d have guessed) but badger’s not nice, and hedgehog is “hideous.”
These seem to be victims of “Selective Eating Disorder” which is a continuation or exaggeration of being a faddy eater and unwilling to try new foods according toe the University College London Institute of Child Health.
OK, SED is a little quirky and eating exclusively pizza or chicken nuggets is liable to lead to health problems from too little of some foods (vitamins, minerals, fiber etc) and too much of others (fat, cholesterol, food additives). But you could be even more screwy and have “objectum sexuality” like 27 year old Amanda Whittaker - which affects other appetites.
This is a condition where you fall in love with inanimate objects. She was in love with a drum kit (and used to take one of her drums to bed), but now she’s in love with the Statue of Liberty - who just “barged in” apparently.
She has pictures and statuettes in her house and visits as often as possible and says she is “blown away by how stunning she is.”
Actually it’s not fare to blame the Brit’s for being the only crazy ones to present these Monty Python-esq type conditions - there’s a Swedish woman in love with a red fence who is married to the Berlin wall. And a woman in Pennsylvania who is in love with an amusement ride and sleeps with a picture of it.
British media psychologist Dr Funke Baffour says objectum sexuality is a form of Asperger’s Syndrome - in this case in women, not men as in the post on Asperger’s about how all women think their husbands have it.
Whittaker and her love
But I think the bottom line is there are some pretty damn crazy people out there.
