> Some disgust reactions are hard-wired (e.g. reactions to fecal matter or vomit), and others are culturally learned. Others are learned by experience. I used

> Some disgust reactions are hard-wired (e.g. reactions to fecal matter or vomit), and others are culturally learned. Others are learned by experience. I used to like peppermint a lot, until one day in uni I poisoned myself by drinking half a bottle of peppermint schnapps. Ever since then, for many years, the smell of peppermint makes me dry heave and physically gag uncontrollably. I cannot tolerate peppermint at all, something in my brain 'learned' that peppermint is a poison and won't tolerate it.