I am most definitely not a vegetarian, but I will admit that I do find it a little difficult to eat food that is watching me – fish cooked with the heads attached for example. As an aside, I have never been able to tackle a plate of baby octopus either. I keep having images of a poor mother octopus swimming about somewhere saying “where are my babies?”
Given my anti-here’s-lookin’-at-you-kid attitude to food, you can no doubt understand my dismay when I peered into the saucepan where I was planning to boil some eggs last night to see this:

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ARGH! Those enigmatic smiles can only be hiding the brains of serial killers. BOIL ‘EM! BOIL ‘EM ALL!
But at least they look happy!?