The news story everyone is talking about
The papers have been full of one story today. The Budget? No. The chef that will only eat biscuits!
We tried to think of something to blog about from the budget but the biscuit eating chef was much more interesting.. Well, we thought so.
Today, the metro had the story of Andrew Foster who has a fear of food and only eats biscuits. The 27-year-old regularly munches his favourite biscuit, Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers.
He said: “I used to get through two packets of biscuits a day. When I was 18 months old, I stopped eating. Experts advised my mum to starve me as I’d eventually eat, but the only thing I’d want was biscuits.”
Talking about his job as a chef. “I’d think, “That smells delicious”, but the thought of tasting it would make me feel sick.”
We’ve all been wondering, what made him become a chef?
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
He might well have a sensory overload problem. Its fairly common with conditions like Asperger’s Syndrome. The sufferer will stick with food they know will not taste too strong.
Unless he has other seriously disabling sysmtoms the condition might never be picked up. Certainly not in the UK - where the medical establishment regard anything more recent than the Four Humours to be newfangled American rubbish.
:)