Anyone else have super weird food quirks....

serhart

Like me.. Food can't touch, it can't be any other color than it normally is ( ex: mashed potatoes mixed with gravy, etc.), if it smells weird .. i wont eat it, if it looks weird.... i wont eat it, if it has a weird texture to it (ex: grits, stringy bananas, etc.).. i wont eat it. I have to have my food placed in a certain place on the plate, and it CAN NEVER TOUCH!!!! i can't drink Milk, unless it is in a closed container, like a travel coffee mug, (because i dont like the smell)It doesn't even matter if i am the one who cooked it, or i knwo ecatly what is in it. it it falls under any of the categories and yes, there really are others..( but id rather not tell them all , or you will really think im crazy...... ) i simply cant and wont eat it..

I'm really hoping there is someone else out there like me so im not just a super weirdo....

scubacat

I can't say that I'm a vegetarian but I do have a problem eating meat. I cant eat any kind of meat with a bone, like ribs or chicken on the bone, its just reaffirms that it was once an animal.

pkarim

I had a friend like that i just told her to think of all the people around the world that are starving to death because they have NO FOOD and reminded her every time we went to eat. She dropped those habits quick

risefromruin

The whole milk in a closed cup thing...I can understand that, I really dislike the smell as well. I don't really drink it though. I can't think of anything crazy off the top of my head for myself but I'm sure there's something. When I was a teenager I would only eat the potato chips out of the back that were folded over on themselves.

methetree

You aren't a freak. I don't like tomatoes, not because of the flavor, but the consistency of the middle of a raw tomato. Just slimy... makes me gag.

Food can't touch on my plate, but I sometimes eat bites together... if that makes sense. I usually eat one thing in entirety and then move on to the next....

Ok, enough spillin my geekyness ... Just wanted to reassure you that there are freaks of all kinds on MFP. After all, it takes all kinds to make the world go round!

vellacraptor

I have a few weird things like that too...I think? XD
I eat everything plain, hate tomatoes ( except for sauce without chunks), and I can't drink milk unless it's mixed with something.

I also wipe everything off before I eat with it and blow into glasses before I use them...though that's mostly because I had dishwasher soap in the bottom once and I drank without noticing until it was too late.

Erindipitous

I can't eat chicken unless it's practically burnt. If I start eating it and something doesn't seem right, I will stop eating it. I'm really weird about poultry, but I like my steak medium to medium-well. :P

Oh, and if I get any kind of gristle, I'm done - no more eating. That's true for chicken, beef, whatever. Just grosses me out.

I have other food related weirdnesses on one of the other weird food habit threads.. Too lazy to look it up and copy/paste.

GreenSkinnyJeans

Food cant touch.
No matter how small a piece of food is, if its on the fork, I HAVE to take two bites, I cannot just stick the whole thing in my mouth.
Buns and muffins I smoosh in my hand to smaller compacted bits.
I have very sensitive taste buds, but love to eat curry. By the time a finish a bowl of curry, I nearly have tears running down my face.

Stephie_W

Okay, I'll 'fess up to a few things: like someone else said, I can't eat meat that has bone-in, and while I mostly love chicken breast, some days I just can't stomach it! I think my sometime disgust for chicken breast is related to this one: the beef that I buy can't have a body part in the name, so I can't buy cuts related to the shoulder, or rump, etc... I know, it sounds wacky even to me. But as long as I can keep myself in denial with beef and chicken breast I love it, once I equate it to the animal from which it comes I can't eat it.

sarah307

i tear my food into pieces before eating it.

not everything, but always sandwiches. I got in the habit of doing this when I had braces for five years! I just had to do that because with braces, you can't bite into a sandwich or you'll get bread stuck everywhere! LOL. but i've had my braces off for 6 years now...and i still tear my sandwiches in pieces haha

kparks770

Well,before I purchase anything I have to check the date,it cant have dents,be smushed if its a box,have any holes no matter how small and if it smells weird,feels weird or looks weird I wont get it. Milk doesnt bother me.I dont really use it unless Im cookin with it or in my coffee and Im on silk right now and love it. I am in a try something new phase now,but fish is 99% of the time is something I dont like. I have to eat usually a meat 1-2 veggies,and I dont like things mixed up like if I have spaghetti I have to have peas,garlic bread, or salad, asparagus, and garlic cheese bread. Meatloaf has to have potatoes,greenbeans.Etc

azsuzi

My husband doesn't like his food to touch either. For me, if something on my plate is runny (like cooked veggies) I don't like the liquid to mix with my other food. And I can't bring myself to eat bruised fruit - I know lots of people who don't think twice about it but it always grosses me out!

Oh yeah - I won't eat a PBJ sandwich unless I put potato chips on it! :laugh:

serhart

scubacat: i'm not big on anything that has bones in it either, but i can eat meat... But i totally feel you!!

pkarim: Everyone i know has tried something to get me over it all, but nothing has worked, i have been like this since i was a small kid. I have even seen doctors and therapists about it.. :0( I wont waste food either. i just know if myself or a family member cooks, they kinda all know and respect my weirdness. If i am out to eat and food is touching, my fiancee will take my plate before i can see it and move the food away from each other. I really dont know what it is..

risefrom ruin: Finally SOMEONE who understands the milk thing.. ahah ! that seems to be up there on the list of the hardest ones for people to figure out. As far as the chip thing.. my daughter is like that, and my son does like the ones that are folded on each other...

methetree : thank you for not calling me a freak.. I have heard that SO many times. I can totally understand the tomato thing, i cant eat the insides either ( or the insides of bell peppers, cantaloupe, pumpkin.. just ugh.. ) i will usually finish one thing and move on UNLESS.. ( i get made fun of for this alot).. if it is 2 portions of something the same color, i cant eat them right after each other. like green beans and broccoli.. cant do it..

I have spent the majority of my middle school to adult life being picked on and the butt of jokes about my quirks.. I'm fairly certain it is some form of OCD. But.. im no doctor!! But thanks for letting me know im not a total whack job!!!!!

Ajontheguitar

Nope. I'm non-ocd, not picky, not a germaphobe, (our bodies were designed to fight little things off as it is) and don't have strange food necessities.

Don't care much for white sauce though. Don't like ranch, sour cream, bleu cheese, etc

TheBraveryLover

The only thing I can think of is I have to combine the food I eat. I can't eat it separately. For example, if I have chicken breast and broccoli and brown rice (very rare that I have rice, but for example's sake) on my plate, I can't eat them separately. I have to combine a small portion of all three foods on the fork in order to enjoy it. I do this with my breakfast too; this morning I had scrambled egg whites, turkey bacon and smothered potatoes. I could not eat them separately even if you paid me to.

It also kind of annoys me when other people eat their food separately. Ridiculous huh? LOL I don't say anything, I just think it to myself so I keep my judgmental eating quirks to myself.

jamielise2

Everyone has SOME food issues, and most food dislikes (they say like 75%) are a texture issue rather than a taste issue. So I suspect maybe you are just really sensitive to textures and smells. Have you had a full workup? Maybe there is a chemical or hormone off in your body somewhere?

jesienia

I hate when my food touches! If something has a lot of liquid, I have been known to take napkins and soak up everything so it doesn't run all over my plate and mix with other foods. I get made fun of constantly for that!

OBXGal

I didn't realize I had so many weird eating habits until I started reading what you guys posted. So here are mine - I don't like my food to touch..thanksgiving is a nightmare with all the different foods! I don't like crunchy stuff in my ice cream..no sprinkles, peanut butter cups, chocolate chips. I can not eat the stringy parts of a banana. I'm weird about fat on chicken, beef, etc...hate it. I can only eat mushrooms cooked. I can only eat sushi if the rice is on the outside..the wrapper freask me out. Also, I don't drink milk..ever. Not with desserts, PB&Js, nothing. However, I will eat it with cereal and put it in my coffee.

I have a friend is a thousand times worse than I ever thought about being..she has a 'discard' pile on her plate after every meal

serhart

ajon.... i cant do blue cheese because of the texture.. im sorry ,.. anything that is meant to be poured over a food should not be lumpy.... and btw , for the most part my kids are very non judgmental eaters.. if its on the palte they will eat it, mixed in everything or not.. the Fiancee is the same way..

I am the exact same way at the store.. once something is opened at home, it ha to be put in a resealable container.. i can NOT handle rolled up and clamped cereal bags inside the box...

At least it is really nice to know im not a weirdo..!!!

lsd007

Nope. I'm not weird at all.

serhart

I have had a full work up.. and while i do have some medical issues, the cause of my food weirdness has never been explained other than a possible OCD.i have a list that can go on forever. Some very very silly and some that are very serious for me. I count myself very lucky though that my family is very understanding and supportive with it. I dont think any one of you is weird.. I think its awesome that some people are lucky enough to not be so weird about food, and its just as awesome that some of us are. there are times i wish i wouldnt get stared at while eating out because i wont eat something a certain way or because i ( like your friend) have a discard plate.

sunkisses

Nope. I'm non-ocd, not picky, not a germaphobe, (our bodies were designed to fight little things off as it is) and don't have strange food necessities.

This. I'm even overcoming my distaste for warm tomato-based sauces/soups. Slowly.

cawood2

I eat one thing at a time on my plate... And if i drink milk, juice, or anything liquid in a container, or pouring cream, I have to shake it first. Which is awesome if the cap hasn't been put back on properly... And I absolutely refuse to eat any sort of organ meat or sausage, or artichokes.

That's about as weird as I get. But I don't get bugged, because my friends have some pretty out there food quirks, so mine seem relatively normal.

CharNordie

I will hold a hamburger or sandwich from Subway in the exact same spot and never put it down until I finish the whole thing...EXCEPT the parts of the bun that my fingers have been touching. Not because my hands have germs (because I always wash them before eating especially when in public) but because the bread is now the same temperature as my fingers. It grosses me out beyond belief. And I don't want to put my sandwich down in between bites because then I'll be touching it all over getting the whole thing that weird temperature.

My milk and water has to be ice cold. If it is milk that has "warmed up" even just a little I won't drink it. So in the case of milk I usually pour a glass and chug it as quickly as possible. If it's water, it always has to have ice in it or be chugged right away.

I don't eat bananas because of the sound that happens while you chew it. It makes me think of spit and then makes me want to throw up, I'm super sensitive about spit. It's weird

Ajontheguitar

I suppose my only quirk is I hate drinking anything that isn't near freezing.

thenewkarisa

GREAT TOPIC! Are you sure you're not OCD? JK I can't drink milk in an open cup either... my water also has to be closed.. if my water sits for a couple hours, I look at it, find some pieces of dust, and give it to the dogs. I'll sit and peel the strings from a banana until they're all gone before I eat it. When I make a sandwich, I can't put the cheese on the mayo - I have to put it on the slice with mustard and the meat onto the slice with mayo. When I used to eat pop sickles, I couldn't lick the ice cream off the stick because I can't handle a piece of wood in my mouth (I'm making a fish face as I type). I can't stand seeing bits of butter in the jelly jar or bits of jelly in he peanut butter jar or any combo of the 3. I can't stand something scraping on the front surface of my front teeth (like when you split pumpkin seed shells with your front teeth). Ok, I think that's enough LOL

serhart

Oh karisa, i am totally ocd.. i have a list a mile long and seriously it gets bigger ALL the time...

in addition to everything else ive already mentioned...

i can ONLY eat gummy bears, or any squishy gummy candy) if they have been in the freezer, i cant do the squishyness in my fingers... ( the texture thing)....
I take utensils with me everywhere i go and i use them... ( even other peoples houses)....
I cant eat tomatoes, bell peppers, cantaloupe, pumpkins etc, unless someone else has cut out all the inside slimey seedy parts,,,
i cant eat chips if i dont like the shape of them...
i can not eat crust on bread unless i take it off and put it inside the sandwich...
The only way i will eat eggs is if they are cubed or such in a salad or in egg salady type foods.. hard boiled and scrambled and such are a no go for me...
I cant eat anything if something was added to it to make it a different color ( mashed potatoes mixed with gravy,)
i cant drink water unless it is in a plastic or reusable bottle
if i eat off a square plate i have to put something inthe middle and each corner
my utensils can NEVER touch each other after they have touched food, or i will get new ones

i am TOTALLY ocd.. hahah! the only part i really hate is when i think i have finally reached the end of my list, i discover something else to add.. and i cant eat mustard, mainly because i have an allergy to it.. but the smell of it just makes my blood churn.. its so crazy

serhart

in all super seriousness though.. I absolutely love that no matter how strange the quirk is.. no one is judged for it! That just goes to show what great amazing and supportive people there are on this site!!..

Weirdos and normies unite!!!!!:flowerforyou:

helloiloveukitty

my food CANNOT touch, I'll often eat of of 2-3 plates just to prevent touching. I also am weird about scrambled eggs, if it has "crust" or "bottom eggs" as I call them (eggs that aren't really mixed and just look like an imprint of the surface of the pan) I gag. I also can't watch eggs being scrambled and then eat them.

serhart

i seriously love all you guys!!! Im all at home with my quirkies!!! I LOVE IT!

theflyingartist

If it's oily or greasy, it gets wrapped with paper towel to sop up the grease, no matter how much or how little comes off. Twice.