Weird Food Quirks
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My usual go to depression food is Taco Bell Cinnamon Twists. However, I can never eat them as is. So I always dipped them in Nacho Cheese.
How awful is that? I'm too afraid to look at how horrible that would be for me while on my diet. So I've just given them up completely.0 -
if i make hard boiled eggs i have to cut them in half and put mayo on each half; i will only eat pork if i cooked it (that stuff will give you a tape worm!) ; if i eat mashed potatoes i like them dry... no butter, gravy, sour cream, cheese, nothing just potato; i'll dip almost anything in ketchup; and when i make chicken i have to clean the kitchen top to bottom in case any salmonella got anywhere i might touch then i could touch my face or my son's food and someone would get sick and die! (the last one is extreme but that's seriously my train of thought when i see raw chicken, sadly i LOVE chicken.)0
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If I eat a hamburger I start from the bottom and work my way up..layer by layer.
I eat the outside layer of a candy bar first then I eat the middle.
If I eat spaghetti I have to have grape jelly in it.0 -
When I have a McD menu, I eat fries first, then the burger.
When I have a cake formed like a spiral, I have to eat it just the way the spiral turns round. I cannot just take a bite going through 2 layers.I'm nibbling it round and round until I reach the center.
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I can't eat anything I deem to be 'slimy' or 'furry' which includes mushrooms (slimy), mashed potato (furry) and banana (furry outside and slimy middle, double wrong)
I can't stand onion except onion rings (no idea why) - but only if the onion inside isn't big enough to become 'slimy'
I don't really like any dry food so have to have some sort of sauce
I also have to do the spiral thing with any food like that. With M&Ms I have to alternate between biting them and sucking them.
I have to leave at least one forkful of food on my plate or one mouthful at the bottom of my coffee. I'm actually working on that one as it stems from when my eating was a little disordered and was a control thing.
I tend to eat my least favourite things on a plate first and work up to my favourites
I know there are loads more0 -
prawns - i actually dont mind the taste, but the thought of them grosses me out. I feel like im eating insects and just makes me feel a bit sick. This is getting worse as i get older0
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I hate eggs in any form except possibly scrambled. I don't even like to eat with someone who is eating eggs. I especially hate egg salad or hard boiled eggs.
I am so with you on this! Except I can't do scrambled eggs. Having said that, I am going to try to make them with egg white to see if they are more palatable. I did this with a frittata the other day and it was OK (I did put loads of other stuff in it to disguise the potential egginess of it though). I'd also like to add runny boiled and fried eggs to the list - eeek, just so unutterably gross! The smell of eggs is particularly nauseating to me.
As is the smell of tea (the beverage, not afternoon cakes and sandwiches)!
I don't think I have any quirks though - just distinct preferences!0 -
I also have a hard time with shrimp, bc it weirds me out that you can eat a whole animal in one bite. : )
HAHA! :laugh: I've never thought about that!
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I eat plain popcorn seasoned with ketchup and mustard.
I eat plain popcorn seasoned with lemmon pepper seasoning. YUM!0 -
My foods can't touch, I can't eat it if they have.
BUT there are certin thigns that belong together like I can have mushrooms in my pasta or somehow I can eat sheppards pie and pizza. I'm a weirdo :-(
I can't do foods that touch either. I will eat things one at a time, mindful of the layers0 -
prawns - i actually dont mind the taste, but the thought of them grosses me out. I feel like im eating insects and just makes me feel a bit sick. This is getting worse as i get older
Prawns and crawfish are the same thing right? If they are, I hate when I go to cajunfest in my town and there are HUNDREDS of people sucking the heads of crawfish BARF CITY. My stomach just rolled thinking about it0 -
Haha, this thread is hilarious!
I dont eat shrimp - I think they look like abortion-waste (as in flushed out fetuses). I know this is gross and ridiculous, but I am a biologist and have actually seen miscarriages from different animals and I swear - it looks exactly like shrimps!
When eating a sandwich I always take off the top and eat it as two open-faced sandwiches. Top half with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, salad and dressing, and bottom half with creamcheese, regular cheese and filling. I will rearrange my sandwich to be like this, otherwise I cant eat it.
I cant sink my teeth into bread. I have break off a small piece with my fingers and put the whole piece in my mouth. I do not like to eat sandwiches, bruschetta and other bready stuff with my teeth - I will pick it apart, then eat it!
I eat mars and snickers bars by taking off the chocolate sides, then the top layer of chocolate, then the chewy layer beneath the chocolate and then the bottom layer!
I am now a vegetarian, but back when I ate meat, I would always put chocolate spread under my meat in sandwiches... And I couldnt eat any meat that had bones, veins or tendons in it. If I saw the slightest bit of bone, I couldnt eat it. Makes eating chicken sort of a challenge. I took the hint, and became vegetarian - now I dont have to worry about anything animal-like in my food (Well, except for bugs in the vegetables :laugh: )
Wow, I am such a freak - my friends always make fun of me, when we eat! But it's great to see that I am not the only one :flowerforyou:0 -
these are so funny! Im abit strange with stuff too. Im actually getting better these days! I hate tomatoes, hate them, but love ketchup so much. I can only eat raw finely chopped onions, cannot abide cooked onions. I hate hate mushrooms, though as a kid I wouldnt eat without them. I love cheese esp melted on toast but cannot eat spag bog or the likes if theres melted cheese on it, only toast. love mayo and cheese but if they put side by side on sandwich cannot eat it! love the smell of prawns and mussels in garlic or whatever, but physicaaly gag if they so much as touch my lips. would live on eggs only forever if I had to but for some reason cant eat omlettes at all! if I see anyting even a dot of blood or darkness on raw chicken I isually cant eit it for a few weeks. hate loose peas but love sugarsnaps! love bean sauce but not beans. and then texture, dont get me started! hot dogs, kidney beans, fish, fillet pork?(love other pork!). hate sweet things in savory food, sweet chilii, pineapple, coconut, lime etc but love them all otherwise. my husband is very patient!!! and he cooks all the time....0
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You guys are hilarious! I won't eat anything mushy- avocado, banana, tomatoes, beans, etc. Gaggggggg!0
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This past year my friends at school started to make fun of me for my eating habits... so I feel all of your pain!
Let's see...
1. Nothing can touch on my plate..( when I was younger my mom told me how her mother used to put everything together and the water from the peas would mix with the blood from the meat and the ketchup too... yech)
2. Any sandwich is better with cheddar and sour cream chips on it.
3. All sandwiches crusts must be eaten first. The middle part of the sandwich usually gets torn into pieces and then eaten.
That's all I can think of for now, but I know there are other weird habits!0 -
I don't like my foods to touch. I also eat one thing at a time. Everyone picks on me for it as well.
This is me!!!0 -
I can't eat an egg and chicken (or turkey) in the same day.....it grosses me out.
Why does that gross you out? Is it because an egg is basically just a chicken's period?
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Okay I have lots...
1) I CANNOT have my food touch on my plate
2) No matter how well I cook skinless boneless chicken breast it tastes raw and makes me sick!
3) I used to hate cooked fruit. Now I love it!
4) I over cook my eggs.... and then I microwave them for 1 minute because I can't handle them being runny...This drives my husband insane.
5) I can't stand nuts except for peanuts and even then it's tough.
6) I hate fruit in salad, or stuffing, or any other savory dishes... ick.
7) bacon and steak need to be cooked to a crisp. I'm getting better with the steak tho.0 -
I like my soup cold and my soda hot
Lisa - "mom! Bart's drinking coffee!"
Bart - "no i'm not, it's hot Pepsi!"0 -
This thread is great!
Not sure if this is weird but its my fav: I LOVE BBQ sauce and shredded cheese on my scrambeled eggs.
When I eat chocolate covered peanuts, pretzels etc I usually suck off the chocolate then eat the inside seperately.
I like to bite the different gummy bear heads off and attach them to a different colored body before I eat them (I haven't had any in forever!)
When I used to go to McD's I enjoyed their vanilla icecream cone with frenchfries--I would dip them into the icecream
I also like the combo of mayo and ketchup on my fries (again haven't had this in forever)
I can't drink water out of a normal cup--I NEED a straw, even my waterbottle has a built in straw0 -
My texture issues involve tapioca, orange juice with pulp, and Jello salads. I can't stand fish eyes even though I like the taste of the pudding. If I take a drink of orange juice with pulp -- I will gag and spit it out, I can't even swallow it. and I won't even attempt to eat jello salad.
I like doritos on my bologna sandwiches -- but only with ketchup and mayo.
I love hog jowel and if we get fresh pork chops -- I let the "juice" (blood) fry up and I salt it and eat it.
When I was younger -- I had to split a bag of M&Ms with my 3 brothers -- so we'd count them out -- trade for favorite colors lol. then I would bite all of mine into 4th -- put them back in the bowl and drive my brothers crazy by savoring each little morsel while they had scarfed theirs down.
In high school -- I would put hot sauce and mayo on my fries, pizza, and fiestada (sp?) to keep people at my table from stealing them.0 -
Oh boy, I have at on of these. Some I haven't done in a long time.
1) I Despise tomatoes. I cannot eat a taco if it has chunks of tomato. I can eat tomato sauce, paste, etc. I can't eat tomato soup. I can't eat raw tomato UNLESS it is in the buffalo bleu salad from Zaxby's. OMG best salad ever.
2) I hate mushrooms.
3) I can't stand when my grandmother puts whole seasoning leaves in food.
4) If I eat too much banana, or yogurt without anything mixed in I gag. I have to have granola in my yogurt. I don't eat bananas often b/c of this. This also goes for cottage cheese.
5) I won't eat store bought pork. I can raise my own, or eat wild hog and it is sooooo much better. Store bought tastes chewy and gummy to me. Gross.
6) I cannot eat shrimp unless they are de-veined but I am thinking I may just switch to craw fish full time after this thread.... fetus...gross.
7) I have to have my steaks rare. If they are too cooked, I cannot chew them to a consistency that my body will accept. I can chew and chew and chew but if I try to swallow my body chokes it back up. Totally not mental, it really is physical. I can't eat lamb chops for this same reason.
8) I love fries in chocolate cake icing (It has to be cream cheese icing, not confectioner's sugar icing) or chocolate pudding.
9) I hate pickles unless they're fried.
10) I have to have chips with a regular sandwich. This doesn't go for subs. I have to have a bite of chip per bite of sandwich. It's my major comfort food. The sandwich has to have melted cheese and a gob of mayo too.
11) I drink hot tea all summer.
12)I can't eat celery without peanut butter.
13) I eat peanut m&m's in my popcorn at the movies. One m&m per bite and if I run out of m&m's I stop eating the popcorn.
14) I HATE cocktail sauce
15) I can't stand the smell of plain fried chicken. I worked at a chicken specialized place for two weeks and it destroyed fried chicken for me. Love buffalo style though.
16) I will only drink bottled water plain the first time. If I refill the bottle it has to have Crystal Light or Ocean spray sweeteners in it.0 -
Cooking the tail of the chicken or. Turkey in the oven till the fat is all. Crispy salt and pepper it.my dad did all the cooking so left over spaghetti became spagetti and egg scramble, he would make us refried bean sandwhichs cold, and jelly and griled cheese sandwhichs, and fried potaoe sandwhichs,mircle whip and white bread,...oh the peanuts and pepsi thing lol I remember all my. Classmates doing that one...my dad came up with some weird combos to fed us kids....lol0
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DH quirks, he eat skyline chili with a peanut butter sandwich. He also put peanut butter between 2 waffles then covers them with syrup. Oh and he puts ketchup on everything. We have to put it out at Thanksgiving.
My brother, - at the japenese restaurant we go to they cook in front of you. Usually they cut off the excess fat from the steak and pitch, my brother eats everyone at the tables.
My aunt has to have meat with her dessert. She will eat a bite of one then the other.
Me, I hate sliced bread. I eat all my luchmeat on crackers. Same thing with pulled pork.0 -
What is jello salad? I don't think we have that in the uk0
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This thread is great!
Not sure if this is weird but its my fav: I LOVE BBQ sauce and shredded cheese on my scrambeled eggs.
When I eat chocolate covered peanuts, pretzels etc I usually suck off the chocolate then eat the inside seperately.
I like to bite the different gummy bear heads off and attach them to a different colored body before I eat them (I haven't had any in forever!)
When I used to go to McD's I enjoyed their vanilla icecream cone with frenchfries--I would dip them into the icecream
I also like the combo of mayo and ketchup on my fries (again haven't had this in forever)
I can't drink water out of a normal cup--I NEED a straw, even my waterbottle has a built in straw
Here in Utah we have a regional favorite called "fry sauce", which is ketchup and mayo mixed together. Most restaurants here serve it. Some will do variations such as BBQ sauce mixed with mayo, which is also very good. It's so funny to go out of state and request "fry sauce" or describe it and see the looks of horror from people, but seriously, here in Utah people are addicted to it. I remember when Katie Couric was here for the Olympics in 2002 she kept raving about it on TV :laugh: Obviously I very rarely eat fries/onion rings now, but when I do it is fry sauce all the way! 0 -
This is so interesting! I personally am not a picky eater, but I do have one or two quirks:
- I have texture issues with foods that "squeak" against my teeth, like raw spinach and some kinds of raw lettuce. I eat them, but I usually try to have some sort of dressing or olive oil on them to get rid of the squeak.
- I like to put peanut butter and syrup on my pancakes, which my dad finds horrifying.
- On the rare occasion I eat peanut butter M&M's, I like to smush them between my fingers before popping them in my mouth.
Other odd food quirks from loved ones:
- My best friend can't stand eating with a spoon. She thinks spit pools up on a spoon and gets so disgusted. She will only eat cereal with a spoon, eats ice cream with a fork, and avoids soups altogether because of the spoon issue.
- My husband dips his fries in just mayo (gagggg!! And so unhealthy!!)
- My in-laws like to put salt and vinegar chips in a cup of buttermilk and eat them with a spoon. So weird.0 -
How much do I love this thread? A lot!
I eat m&ms by color. First the green (because they're so pretty altho sometimes I add a couple yellows because they look good together), then the yellow, then orange, then red, then brown/black and the blues get thrown out. In the days before calorie counting, I'd buy one of those big bags and separate them, not into 100 calorie packs like I would if I bought them now, but into bags by color. Now, when we get a mega bag from one of our vendors, I take a few at a time but still by color.
I don't like hot on top of cold so when I get my grilled chicken salads when going out to lunch, I get the chicken in some sort of separate container (if they don't already do that). Except at El Pollo Loco. I should really ask them to do that.
I've never liked the texture of mushrooms.
I don't cook much but when I do I overcook because I'm always worried it won't be cooked enough. The person who liked raw meat's post made me gag a little.
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Wow. This is great! No bones for me Boneless all the way for me. I also have some texture issues (bananas!) But Raw Steak! Wow. 0
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I'm now seeing spoons in a whole new light! Actually I have issues with forks. There are a couple of forks at home that I just can't use. Not really sure why, but the feel of them makes me gag. I can't eat with a fork if the tines 'look funny' or if it is too wide. All other cutlery is ok (although I have distinct preferences) but the fork thing is a strange but significant issue.0
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