Only when I eat chocolate and usually 30 minutes to an hour later. I'll get the sneezing fits that last through nearly a dozen good ones and then nothing.

I've also been doing it these last several years. I, personally, think it a result of chewing.

In the last few years, yes - sometimes. I can't seem to tie it to anything spicy though. The routine is, I'll cough twice then sneeze about three times. Just about enough to make me good company at the table. But DH will sometimes do it too and like me, we can't seem to tie it to anything he is eating. And I know my kitchen is not dusty ;) Benadryl makes us both sleepy enough, I wouldn't say a good remedy for something only slightly annoying. I can't think of a time its happened in a restaurant and we do go out for Mexican.

Everyone in my family experiences photic sneeze reflex....step out into bright sun and sneeze. Not just me who lives in the often cloudy PNW and not always used to bright sun, but cousins raised in SoCal too ;)

I could sneeze at any time, but I don't specifically after eating in general. In the last year or two, however, I do sometimes get a strong whiff of chilies or black pepper up into my sinuses from my mouth and that will give me a sneezing fit, though it never did before. I'm not sure if it's a lack of caution on my part, getting that whiff from eating whatever with impunity, or from aging, or what. Pepper and peppers never used to make me sneeze, cartoons aside.

Once in a great while after eating something spicy, but not always. Just kinda random.

The only thing that I know for sure will make me sneeze is white wine. So much so that my daughters call it "wine sneezes." That being said, once in a while I will sneeze like 15 times in a row for no particular reason. I do have a deviated septum, don't know if that is a contributing factor.

I ate another bowl of soup, and it did not make me sneeze, but it did seem to give me diarrhea. I wonder if that is related.

Black pepper (freshly ground) will make me sneeze, but that is the only ingredient that I know of that does that. I very seldom use black pepper, since I tend to use hot chilies instead. I like to use black pepper with mushrooms, but otherwise I prefer cayenne or hot sauce. I think my preference might be because we had pre-ground black pepper in pepper shakers when I was growing up, and I didn't especially like that, although I do remember using it on potatoes. I was vegetarian as a teenager, and so I did not use it on meat back then. Actually, I did eat fish, but I did not eat meat, dairy or eggs, partly because I grew up on a farm and considered farm animals (cows and chickens) to be pets. I did not have any affection for pigs, however, as I thought they were mean.

Irritation of the mucosa?

Don't be surprised if taking an antihistamine does not help spicy sneezing. It's likely not allergy/histamine. It's more likely gustatory. Different food chemicals triggering different reactors. Different meds, I know there's a nasal spray. Not sure of what all is OTC or not for it.

nekotish, do you know if you have an allergy to sulfites?

list of foods with sulfites (do these also affect you?)

I don't sneeze after eating soup, but I do get a stuffy nose. The steam/heat &/or spice seems to stimulate my sinuses. Sometimes a bit of pepper/spice from my food will get stuck in the back of my throat and that usually makes me sneeze.

Dust too, will almost always make me sneeze.

Lately, I've been sneezing multiple times after smelling strong perfumes in cleaning products and toiletries - like 5-6 times in a row. Last time was from the hand soap in Aldi's bathroom. I was sneezing into my mask, which is pretty awkward, and I'll bet people around me were glad I was wearing one 😄

Sneezing does help clear my head, and blowing my nose helps, of course.

Other foods seem to make my nose feel stuffy too - for instance, when I eat too much ice cream or sugary stuff.

Perhaps your sneezing wasn't related to food at all Lars, but from some other trigger like dust, perfume, or pollen?

I sneeze if I eat something with pepper on it, not in it. I will also start sneezing if I eat hard peppermint candy. My father and my grandmother did the same.

I often start sneezing after eating out! Also some asthma stuff! I wonder if restaurants (especially chinese NOT bashing, but just observing) might still be using MSG?

Only if I have a cold - or got a big whiff of ground pepper powder of whatever sort.

FWIW, MSG has been shown to be a lot more benign than we've been led to believe.

Yeah, but if you're allergic.....

I figured out that my MSG headaches are probably from too much total sodium rather than specifically MSG. Not an allergy. One I don't have!

I don't think I would sneeze from MSG, but I do not know how others react to it. I'm sure I'm not allergic to MSG, and so I think it is benign for me.

I do have a lot of other allergies, and for food, I have mild allergies to most grains, including wheat, barley, corn, rice, oats, plus soy. I do not have allergies to eggs or milk even though they both seem to give me diarrhea - at least I know milk does, and so I avoid it.

Lots of things make me sneeze, and I think this is at least partially because I have very sensitive olfactory receptors. I don't consider this a bad thing, but lots of fragrances are overpowering for me, especially flowers such as Oriental lilies. I like their fragrance, but they make me sneeze as soon as I get within 10 fee of them. Asian lilies do not affect me this way because they have little (or no) fragrance. I am able to smell a lot of orchids that my brother cannot.

My allergies were worst in Costa Rica, and I was pretty miserable the whole time I was there, even while taking antihistamines. I did not take enough of those with me when I went there, and the drug stores there frequently ran out of them. I met people there who lived there and had the same problem that I had, and I could not understand why they still lived there.