A "little bite" of green beans

Last week's Resolution Recipe: Green Beans with Walnuts and Mortadella.
I planned to make this on Valentine's Day, but the whole us being sick with the flu thing put the kibosh on it. So I made it for the weekly Homeowners' Meeting instead.
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Second averse, same as the first.

Martin E. P. Seligman (president of the American Psychological Association in 1998) has described how, in 1972, he ate sauce béarnaise on steak and then became ill with what was definitely stomach flu (his colleague at work who had not eaten the steak came down with the same affliction, and his wife who had eaten the steak did not). Yet, even though he was absolutely convinced that the sauce béarnaise did not cause his illness, Seligman acquired an aversion to it.

The fuzzy upstairs neighbor and I were discussing this recently. Has this ever happened to you? If so, did you ever reverse the aversion?

Mine was Jordan almonds. When I was a kid I got violently carsick; it was not the fault of the Jordan almonds, but rather trying to read in a VW microbus driving in high winds. But there were Jordan almonds in the microbus, so I associated the smell/taste with the carsickness. I never tried to get over the aversion, mostly because outside of weddings I don't tend to see them...