Why do I always hiccup from salami?

Maybe the nitrates they use in making the salami.

@zensky Shouldn’t this be in social? I’ll confess to paint peeling farts from pickled eggs. I can’t stand myself.

It’s a serious question – why Social?

Chilli and beer is a MAJORLY wrong choice for me! LOL!

@zensky My apology. More latitude for gross adolescent humor in social. Salami has a lot of fat and chemicals.

@znesky and@adirondack, Salami doesn’t affect me but pepperoni on pizza causes significant air pollution in my household.

@Tropical_Willie Nitrates makes sense to me. Some beers, esp bottled Heineken, make me hiccup almost immediately. That foul stuff is packed with nitrates. Most craft beers don’t have that effect on me.
Some foods with black pepper will get me hiccuping too.

I’m deathly allergic to cabbage, of all things.

As to the hiccups, here’s what I found: Hiccups are unintentional spasm of the diaphragm, which is the muscle located at the base of your lungs. The spasms cause your lungs to suck in air quickly, after which your epiglottis (a flap of tissue that covers your windpipe when you’re swallowing so you won’t inhale food into your lungs) slams shut. This is what produces the “hiccupping” sound. Usually the reason someone gets the hiccups is not known. More often than not hiccups start for no apparent reason and then they usually go away after just a few minutes. However, there are some things that are known to sometimes contribute to getting the hiccups.

Eating some foods may make it more likely for you to get the hiccups. These include hot and spicy foods or drinks and carbonated beverages. Eating and drinking too quickly or too much can give you the hiccups as well, as can consuming too much alcohol.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/respiratory/are-there-foods-that-cause-hiccups.htm

Social because you are not asking for an answer to a question as much as asking for other people’s experiences. But I don’t give a shit. I think the categories are bogus, anyway.

My question is why do I—not always, but pretty often—suddenly feel an urgent need to do my business when I talk to my wife in the morning? Ok, not exactly talk to. It’s more that she gives ample evidence of an imminently emerging large rant. I grab my paper and hie myself to the loo with an, “I’m sorry. Gotta go!”

Actually, it doesn’t seem to be just my wife. It might be my boss and my mother, as well. I was visiting my parents recently and just before breakfast, it looked like my mother was going to exhibit that same behavior and my body just suddenly went… gotta go!

Maybe I need a sign to pin to my chest saying that I am not available for serious conversation until at least 11 am.

@wundayatta: I need a sign to pin to my chest… Why not simply tell them? It’s not such a big deal for many SO’s and parents, is it.?

My daughter’s SO told everyone who was sleeping over at their house that he needed two cups of coffeeand 20 minutes with the newspaper, alone and silent.

Whenever he was at my house, we let him have his morning solitude.

(My brown-out time is between 4:39 and 6:00 PM. My family ignore me then.)

Haha “brown-out time.” I always hiccup from bread!!

@gailcalled These are not things anyone in my family ever talked about. We are descended from Puritan stock. Pure – itan. We don’t do anything as gauche as activities involving the alimentary canal.

At least, we don’t talk about it.

You sure it’s not the beer with the salami??

I had a friend that announced his Brown out time proudly. Did Mommy have something to do with that??

and now I want salami.

@wundayatta: How about being the first to break the mold? Set new standards of openness for your kids, maybe?

As Sherlock Holmes said in response to @wundayatta – Alimentary, my dead Watson!

Why do I always hiccup from salami?
I don’t know.
And what strange reactions do you get from various foodstuffs?
My upper mouth (palate?) gets itchy whenever I eat bananas or dates.