This is no yolk...I’m scared of fried eggs
SUSAN Newton’s friends think she is cracking up – because of her bizarre fear of fried eggs.
Just the sight of one is enough to make her ill. But boiled or scrambled eggs don’t have the same effect.
Beauty therapist Susan, 39, said: “My friends think it is madness but I completely freak out at the sight of fried eggs. They look like an evil eye.”
Susan, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, added: “I can’t go to restaurants because I’m afraid of seeing a fried egg.
“I do anything in my power not to come into contact with them because I am unable to control the feelings that overtake me.”
The mother-of-one believes her phobia started around 20 years ago when a friend made a fried egg sandwich.
“It was the nastiest, greasiest-looking sandwich I had ever seen. It still haunts me to this day.”
Susan, who also has a fear of birds, is thankful that she does not have to cook eggs for her seven-year-old daughter. She said: “She just doesn’t like eggs. I guess that solves any problems she might have with egg phobia in future.”