Food Texture Issues/Quirks - Who else has them?

Smccabe8

Just for fun, who else has weird food texture issues and what are they?

Some of mine are:

-Bananas - strings!
-Yogurt/Oatmeal with Fruit Chunks
-Okra
-Wooden Popsicle Sticks - I eat around the stick, and can't lick the last little bit off. I feel like I'm going to get a splinter in my tongue.

I know I have a bunch more but I don't even think about them anymore.

So what are your weird food texture issues?

Mr_Knight

I have the popsicle stick one. Some coffee stir sticks, too. They give me full-body shivers, damndest thing....

lmarshel

No squishy! I cannot eat jelly candy, orange slice candy, jelly beans and absolutely NO gummy anything. Just before Christmas, a lot of stores had those giant gummy bears, and I was physically sick just looking at them. The very idea makes me break out in a cold sweat.

SamLD88

Me, but nothing oddly specific. Just if I eat too much of something, I can't handle it anymore. Like Nature Valley hard bars -- I ate too much of those in like, 2007 and haven't touched them since. Yogurt, tuna, burgers, anything with a crumbly texture, can all blindside me if I'm not careful.

VeryKatie

I have problems with most pastry and shortbread cookies. Why do people think things that sap all the moisture out of your mouth feel fine? I don't get it. I gag every time. That and taquitos.

Lift_Run_Eat

Coke (Soda/Pop) cans... I can not drink directly out of them. I wash the top with soap and water, then I drink with a straw or pour in a glass. This is probably more of a germ/ocd issue vs texture type of thing.

melodyg

I love the taste of coconut, but can't deal with the texture of shredded coconut. I also don't like nuts in breads or brownies, although they are fine eaten alone, in ice cream, or in cereal. It's some kind of texture thing or mixing textures thing. And I love the taste of blackberry but can't deal with the seeds in blackberries (I don't eat seeded grapes either).

flabassmcgee

I hate grits. Consistency of vomit.

WickedPineapple

I can't eat oranges, lemons, or limes. I love the citrus tastes and smells, but can't do the texture. Raw onions and garlic are another one, although I like them in powder form. Tomatoes too... but they're okay squished up in marinara. Oh, and raisins in cookies are an abomination.

sarcathryn

Me! The texture (and look) of spaghetti noodles freaks me out!

JazzFischer1989

I don't like the texture of tomatoes or mushrooms.

lemurcat12

Mr_Knight wrote: »

I have the popsicle stick one. Some coffee stir sticks, too. They give me full-body shivers, damndest thing....

Me too. But yet I still mock my sister, who can't lick envelopes, because she's afraid of getting a paper cut on her tongue.

My only real food/texture thing is peanut butter. When people talk about eating spoonfuls of it or putting it in oatmeal I cringe. Also, a million years ago when my father prepared tongue in a way where you could still feel the taste buds, ugh.

Lasmartchika

Ugh... mushrooms... disgusting!

cocates

I do not like the texture of beans. Any kind of bean. Except green beans. It's like a soft, gritty texture. Gross.

The popsicle stick is a good. I got body shivers from just thinking about that! Ick!

Mr_Knight

lemurcat12 wrote: »

Mr_Knight wrote: »

I have the popsicle stick one. Some coffee stir sticks, too. They give me full-body shivers, damndest thing....

Me too. But yet I still mock my sister, who can't lick envelopes, because she's afraid of getting a paper cut on her tongue.

My only real food/texture thing is peanut butter. When people talk about eating spoonfuls of it or putting it in oatmeal I cringe. Also, a million years ago when my father prepared tongue in a way where you could still feel the taste buds, ugh.

Food that tastes you back!

And then there's tripe...trying to make food out of something nature specifically designed to be undigestible. :drinker:

jlahorn

Celery strings, uni, chia seeds, banana strings, and accidentally touching my lips to kiwi skin. Worse, though, there are also a LOT of synthetic fabrics (acrylic, lycra) that I cannot stand to touch. The feel causes a serious physical reaction like nails down a chalkboard - it's actually nauseating. I am shuddering just thinking about it.

Laurend224

When I was a kid I couldn't drink milk with supper if we were having mashed potatoes. Something about the texture icked me out.

I don't like food with tiny holes, like English muffins, or sometimes eggs (vegan now, so no longer an issue)

My versions to meat started with my first pregnancy. Icky slimy raw chicken. Gross.

rbfdac

I absolutely despise raw onions- won't eat them in anything. I will also eat onion rings all day long, but will absolutely not eat anything with cooked onions in it.

I hate the taste of the raw onions and despise the texture of cooked onions. No clue why I'll eat a solid ring of cooked onion as long as it's covered in batter..

KerrieCC

im with you with the bananas
also red meat, people look at you like your crazy when you say you don't eat much red meat because you hate the texture.

FitFitzy331

cocates wrote: »

I do not like the texture of beans. Any kind of bean. Except green beans. It's like a soft, gritty texture. Gross.

Me too, I can't stand them. I also have a problem with crunchy onions, like if they aren't cooked/haven't been cooked enough... idk I just can't take it I want to rinse my mouth out after taking a bite of one.

Lourdesong

Meat right off the bone. It makes me cringe when I see anyone chewing meat off a chicken bone or ribs or whatever. Especially when they put the end of a drumstick or something in their mouth where there's cartilage and marrow and whatnot and suckle on it to get the little bit of meat. So gross.

jennwhite34

Mushrooms
Broccoli
Noodles (of any type)

Also can't stand the smell of coffee or milk

blink1021

I cannot stand oatmeal I gag every time I have ever tried to eat it. I also cannot stand grits, meatloaf, stuffed peppers, meatball sandwiches, sloppy joes I could go on but anything that could possibly make anything soggy especially french onion soup or that resembles dog food or vomit. I have always been this way since I was a child and still can't do it. My husband says its all in my head but I don't care still can't eat it.

lsgibbs83

Mushrooms! I also don't like the taste or texture of coconut.

becky10rp

I don't like the consistency of Jello, pudding, grits, tapioca, flan, bread pudding, rice pudding

ShinyFuture

Cold cooked egg whites - so like deviled eggs, egg salad, boiled eggs - just can't do it. Finding chunks of chopped cold egg in potato salad - sooo gross. I have the same problem with tomatoes, but in reverse. I cannot do hot tomato pieces - like diced or stewed, but fresh tomato I could eat every day.

Olives. Something about the way they squeak on my teeth - just can't eat them.

Mayo and cottage cheese. The texture - both are like some nasty bodily function-y thing.

AllOutof_Bubblegum

None. I will eat anything, regardless of texture. That's why I'm here, lol. Maybe if I were a little more selective of what I put in my mouth (ba dum-tss!) I would never have gotten as porky as I did.

beethedreamer

rbfdac wrote: »

I absolutely despise raw onions- won't eat them in anything. I will also eat onion rings all day long, but will absolutely not eat anything with cooked onions in it.

I hate the taste of the raw onions and despise the texture of cooked onions. No clue why I'll eat a solid ring of cooked onion as long as it's covered in batter..

Yes! I can't stand onions in any form, except onion rings. It doesn't make sense to me and everyone I know thinks it's extremely weird.

ncwingnut71

Lima beans
water chestnuts
black eyed peas
wet bread

yuck....texture thing

civilizedworm

I was on an anti-depressant a few years ago and just about everything gave me the gag reflex including fried eggs, spinach, apples, and toothpaste. I'm glad I am over all that now.

Lourdesong

civilizedworm wrote: »

I was on an anti-depressant a few years ago and just about everything gave me the gag reflex including fried eggs, spinach, apples, and toothpaste. I'm glad I am over all that now.

I took Topamax briefly for headaches and it changed the way everything tasted and smelled, the most drastic change being the ability to sense carbonation - all soda was perceived as being completely flat.
Very bizarre that a medication could effect the senses to such a degree. Made me wonder if the sensation of carbonation even exists or if the sensation is illusory.