Sam Webster-Harris

But even in my own head, at one point, I got a bit bored of it.

I was like, I think I can eat other things.

Yeah, I got to the point where I was like...

No one knew how to bring it up to her that we probably had enough pineapple cake at this point.

Yeah.

When I was three or something, I was like allergic to sugar.

for a whole year or intolerance I just got a massive rash and so my mum had to learn how to cook everything sugar-free for a while but I could eat fruit and then since then I didn't like chocolate or like really sweet things but I'd eat like vegetables and everything else pretty normally then I went to a school that was really strict and they forced you to eat every single thing they cooked and I don't know what they were doing but they somehow made everything taste horrible and I

I got to the point where I could tell exactly what was being cooked the moment I walked through the gates in the morning.

And based on what it was, I would just feel sick all day or not.

And then I'd get to lunchtime.

And if it was, I couldn't even eat the boiled potatoes that they did or carrots and things.

And you'd be forced to eat everything on your plate, even if you asked to not have it, which was frustrating.

And many times I'd end up being forced to sit there and try and eat something I didn't want to eat until I vomited, at which point I'd be allowed to go, which just seemed really pointless to me because of

I'd rather eat something and then leave than eat some things I'm not going to finish, vomit and have eaten nothing for lunch.

But apparently that was more wasteful to them.

So anyway, I had some like food based trauma in my life for quite a few years in between being a five year old and a 10 year old until I left the school.

This was the 90s?

It's the boarding school and the religious link.

There was just something about waste and stuff.

They just sort of feel like you had to, I don't know, button up your bootstraps and deal with eating, which didn't seem to make much sense to me, if someone's clearly got a problem.