On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:39:58 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>>
>>
>> My father, God rest his soul, knew some 'interesting' people. One such
>> person took my father on a bender with some 'homebrew'. Finest kind made in
>> the bathtub. Father dear got deathly ill....swore until the day he died it
>> was because he drank it out of a green bottle. Would eat or drink nothing
>> from that day on that originated in a green bottle.
>
>:-)
>
>Lots of people won't drink certain liquors because it was the first thing
>they ever got so drunk on that they puked their guts out, but they usually
>blame the booze, not the colour of the bottle it came in.

this is known as a learned food aversion. people have that mechanism,
but not as strongly as, say, rats. i suppose you could call an
aversion to the bottle color stimulus generalization.

(my bête noire is scotch, due to an unfortunate experience as a
college freshman, generalized to a certain extent to bourbon and rum.
oddly, i've puked many times drinking beer, but the aversion never
kicked in, thank god.)

your pal,
ivan