Who hates seafood?

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My mom tells me when I was quite young, her, my dad and I used to sit down to a bowl of crab legs and garlic butter instead of popcorn to watch a movie. I vaguely remember this, but I do remember going on a crab fishing trip with my aunt and uncle when I was about 5 or 6 (I was REALLY seasick!) and bringing all the crabs back to my grandparents house. They were all scuttling around the deck, and I was playing with them with a butter knife. They’d grab it with their pinchers and I’d shake it a little until they let go. I was having a blast until my uncle came out, picked up the crab I had just played with, took it inside and dropped it in a boiling pot of water. I was devastated. He’d taken my friend away! And the sound… just like screaming (initially I thought the crab did scream, but I’ve since read that they don’t have vocal chords and that it’s the water escaping from cracks in the shell that causes this sound, not that it makes me feel much better). Since then I’ve never eaten crab again, and most other seafoods make me retch just to smell them. I’ve never been a big fan of fish either, so I pretty well don’t eat anything that lives under the water. Anyone else hate seafood?