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March 10, 2025 1 min

Find out what this a New York City residents biggest fear is!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread show is one friend's fun fact Fred's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So much, guys. There's a woman making news the New
York Post and she is battling a crippling fear of ketchup,
speaking out about her struggle, calling her tomato trouble no
laughing matter. She compares a confrontation with the so called
creepy condiment to being held at gunpoint. There is a name, though,

(00:32):
for the fear of ketchup, And here's the guy with
the weird voice to tell us how to say it.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
More cus mortuous sick worse phobia.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's how you say mortuous christ porfobio. That's how you're
saying just like that.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Je us sick worse phobia.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, that's it. I think it's all supposed to be
one word, but yeah, mortuous Chris chris phobia. It just
rolls off the tongue. And that means that you have
a fear of ketchup, which is a real thing. Supposedly.
This woman says that she will have a panic attack
and that she has banned ketchup from her home, avoids

(01:14):
looking at him. If she's aware that something might be
infectorate infected with it, then she finds out to be
vile and vicious and can be nowhere near it. Some
people feel this way about Mayo. I'm sure there's a
word for that too, but today it's mortuis rei phobia,
which is the fear of ketchup.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
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