It sounds like the fear of sitting, doesn’t it? But no, sitophobia or cibophobia is the fear of the pains that eating might cause. Pains like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and one might imagine, fear of an oozing red rash.
I don’t know if Gary has sitophobia. He discovered the term when he found himself cooking his sweet potato/chicken/squash/ apple juice concoction but then refusing to eat it until it had been refrigerated overnight. I thought, “Sure, the flavors have to meld, like a chili or stew.” But no, he was having irrational thoughts that a freshly made mixture might kill him if it didn’t get a chance to … settle.
Right now he has three tubs of it in the fridge, settling. He eats a tub every other day, and I think that’s a while to keep chicken in the fridge, but it is possible he will cook the chicken and add it separately.
He did pass Structural Organic Chemistry, so maybe his subconscious knows about some dangerous time-delayed chemical reaction.
It is concerning, though.