#if y'all couldn't already tell JSJSJ anyways though i hope you liked my response to this even though it was really kind of sad and just-
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OOH, thank you so much for the ask, @crimeclean! this is honestly a prompt that i was kind of hoping to get because i've been looking for an excuse to talk about this. so, allow me to tell you about one food that barton has had an aversion to over the years and for... honestly, a very unfortunate (to say the least), but also a good reason. and this is mushrooms. now i have talked about this a bit a while ago, but whenever barton was still with his bio father, wesley mathis; he went through a period of having to feel food insecurity and hoarding food. this was due to the fact that wesley had lost his job as a forester at one point, which caused them both to struggle a lot with having enough to eat. and one day, as sad as this may sound, barton had ran out of the food that he stockpiled for a day where wesley wasn't able to feed either of them. so the choice was either to go out to try to find something to eat or simply ruminate in his hunger / try to make it go away by sleeping. however, barton was just SO hungry this day that he was literally having pains and as a result, because they lived out in the woods at the time — a six or seven year old barton went out to see if he could find something to eat amongst the wilderness.
and barton had found morel mushrooms, a species that is known to grow in new jersey that isn't toxic when eaten cooked, BUT is when eaten raw. and he had eaten a good amount of them so the onset of symptoms he got from eating them arrived pretty quickly. they are known to cause gastrointestinal issues especially in large amounts and have even killed some people who didn't have the knowledge that you can't eat them uncooked. as a result, barton had to be hospitalized and after that, he didn't even want to look at mushrooms for years. even now, he doesn't really like eating them because of the fact that they caused him to have a quite traumatic experience as a kid, but if they're being cooked by someone as a part of a dish and barton KNOWS that this person doesn't have a toxic type of mushroom... he'll eat them. though about 9 times out of 10, if someone actually offers him the choice to eat something without them, he will gladly take that.
#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#yeah so. if your muse is cooking a dish with mushrooms he won't STOP them from putting them in buttt he definitely doesn't use them himself#in his cooking because of what happened back then. and ofc it is REALLY sad that he felt SO freaking hungry that he literally felt like he-#had to resort to eating something that unbeknowst to him would put him in the hospital. i ultimately blame wesley for this however TBH bc#he probably knew that he was on thin ice at work for not going in when he should've multiple times. he just didn't CARE bc the main thing-#that was important to him was indulging in his serial killing as much as possible and that is just... so selfish and twisted of him.#because it really shows that wesley didn't care that he had a kid to take care of at home y'know? so yeahhh i just. i REALLY hate the guy#if y'all couldn't already tell JSJSJ anyways though i hope you liked my response to this even though it was really kind of sad and just-#expands on the idea that barton's bio father's terrible actions did in fact have consequences as all decisions do including on his child.#tw: mentions of food insecurity.#tw: poisoning.#tw: trauma related to food.
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