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Fri 27 March 2026 16:30, UK
George Harrison and John Lennon were the first members of The Beatles to take LSD, but Ringo Starr wasn’t too far away from the lysergic events.
“John and George didn’t give LSD to me. A couple of guys came to visit us in LA, and it was them that said, ‘Man, you’ve got to try this’,” said the drummer. “They had it in a bottle with an eye-dropper, and they dropped it on sugar cubes and gave it to us. That was my first trip. It was with John and George, and Neil and Mal. Neil had to deal with Don Short while I was swimming in jelly in the pool. It was a fabulous day. The night wasn’t so great, because it felt like it was never going to wear off. 12 hours later and it was: ‘Give us a break now, Lord’.”
Starr has always been open about his problems with drugs and alcohol, and now that he’s clean, he’s happy to talk about his history with such issues, coming off pretty blasé when discussing his affinity for different substances, as when asked about the kind of stuff he was on, he replied, “I’d take anything”.
It’s interesting, then, to learn that there are a lot of foods which we would consider incredibly mundane that Ringo Starr refuses to put in his body. Drip some acid onto a sugar cube, and the drummer will wolf it down, but if you even try to serve him a ham and cheese sandwich, you’d better run and take the sandwich with you.
So, what are the different types of food that Ringo Starr refuses to eat?
Five foods Ringo Starr simply won’t eat: ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE 
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