Great question ~
You will get some different replies based on everyone's personal experience -
From speaking with IBS sufferers, I have found that there are different triggers for different people - overall - this is not the same as people who have food intolerances/allergies, etc.
In my experience, and speaking with other sufferers - A trigger is a food that the brain-gut perceives as causing problems - we know this because sometimes if a person has the food unknowingly, it may not cause the reaction. At one point, every food was a 'trigger' causing IBS symptoms for me, and I was down to crackers and water. It was not the food, but the act of eating that caused the symptoms for me. This is not to say that there aren't specific foods that cause problems for people, but they may be different for different people. Coffee is known to be a trigger for some, but it could be that some coffee has more strength, taken with or without food, time of day (first thing in the morning on an empty stomach) - but is this then IBS, or just a reaction to coffee?
So it is my experience, and based on what you mention, that foods are not necessarily a trigger but the act of eating - triggers are not necessarily common to all people, or to you all the time - so what you mention is common.
Supposedly, the food you eat takes a good 24 - 48 hours to make its way - but I have had people tell me they 'see' evidence of their food pretty quickly - as in goes right through them. So is it that the 'trigger' causes the problem itself, or is it that the trigger food 'triggers' the gastro response of making the previous food 'move.'
I have had IBS symptoms happen mid-way during a meal - the food I was eating was fine - it was the 'eating' that made me have to go.
To find out one avenue to working with trigger foods, consider the brain-gut connection in addition to any dietary modifications you may consider. Once I did hypnotherapy, I could eat ANYTHING - no more triggers - and again, everything was a trigger for me 12 years ago....
Others will give you their experience which will be different from mine, so your mileage may vary as they say!!!
Hope this helped! 
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