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Andrew Garfield recalls ‘brutal’ school lunch trauma that still affects what he eats

Andrew Garfield opens up about his school lunch trauma he still can’t shake offAndrew Garfield recalled an embarassing school experience that left him unable to eat loose sweetcorn.During a recent appearance on the Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and chef Angela Hartnett, the 43-year-old…

Andrew Garfield recalls ‘brutal’ school lunch trauma that still affects what he eats
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Andrew Garfield opens up about his school lunch trauma he still can’t shake offAndrew Garfield recalled an embarassing school experience that left him unable to eat loose sweetcorn.During a recent appearance on the Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and chef Angela Hartnett, the 43-year-old…

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He also used to hide in the toilets to avoid eating his primary school lunches.He explained, “It’s a pure, like visceral association with I think… like I vomited on a teacher.

Who force-fed me some of these things one day at school.

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I would hide in the toilet to not have to eat my primary school lunches.Garfield said the experience still affects what he eats today, despite loving corn on the cob.He added, “School dinners have f***** everyone up to a certain degree I think.

Yeah… .“So, I can’t have corn off the cob.

On the cob is one thing.

On the cob is actually one of my favourite things.

With a lot of butter.

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Off the cob, I can’t do it.”He remarked the experience as a form of torture, saying, “It’s like a version of waterboarding but with like mashed potato and loose sweetcorn.”Elsewhere during the podcast, Garfield also discussed his upcoming film The Uprising, set during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.Garfield is also making headlines for for playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial.He revealed in an interview with Variety that….

Andrew Garfield recalls 'brutal' school lunch trauma that still affects what he eats October 8, 2026.

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