A man has developed a crippling phobia of Heinz's popular Baked Beans dish[INS]

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Rob Griffiths, 31, feels faint and gets shaky if someone puts the breakfast favourite and lunch time meal anywhere near him.



He describes baked beans as the "orange devils" and had to quit his previous job as a chef because he could not make a full English breakfast.



Mr Griffiths is one of a small number of people worldwide who have leguminophobia - the fear of baked beans.



He said: "I think the fear has developed from my brothers. They used to throw food at me and I think they used to throw beans and then I developed this fear.



"I'm better with it than I used to be.



"The smell of them just really, really weirds me out.

Rob Griffiths feels faint and gets shaky if he is near a plate of Baked Beans [INS]

At one point I couldn't go down the aisle in Tesco because of the beans Rob Griffiths

"At one point I couldn't go down the aisle in Tesco because of the beans.



"I couldn't go into cafes or anything like that because people would be having fry ups. Just the thought of it would horrify me.



"I used to be a pub chef and breakfast was hard.



"I had to get my waiting staff to prepare the beans while I hid in the back."



Mr Griffiths, from Milton Keynes, now works as a window cleaner but still hates going into cafes in case he spots anyone eating a plate of baked beans.



His girlfriend Emma Beckett does not keep beans in the house but his friends are not as sympathetic and tease him about his phobia.



Mr Griffiths, who has an 11-year-old daughter Genie-May, said: "Obviously a lot of people would wind me up about it.



"People have heard about it and actually started chasing me around the house with them.



"It is very distressing."

Mr Griffiths quit his previous job as a chef because he could not make a full English breakfast [INS]