Strange Eating Quirks, Anyone?

RhonndaJ

Food has to be in a specific position on the plate.

Certain foods can not be on the plate with other foods. IE beets, coleslaw.

It disgusts me if people have a lot of gravy or sauce on their food.

White I love ketchup, I do not like the smell of it. It squiks me out to see people put it on mashed potatoes.

I don't like butter or margarine on bread for sandwiches, except peanut butter and jam, and then only on the peanut butter side.

I don't like eating things 'on the bone'. Chops, ribs, legs, wings I have to be pretty hungry to even try to pick edible parts off them. Even chicken breasts still on the bone are an issue.

I have a strong aversion to fat or gristle and take the time to 'clean' my meat before actually eating. Ending up with them in my mouth generally means the end of the meal for me.

Bbwnomore2

i am happy to say i have no quirks, however i do know many that do. Some do not tell ya a specific way if thy want there food plated so they have freaked a few out, lets say when i put the mashed potatoes, corn then chicken and noodles on a plate all on top of each other(thats the way my mom plated our food growing up). i do however find its easier to take a fork and mash my peas a bit before eating, i hate when the little buggers roll of my fork:laugh:

diverchic73

I eat things a bit at a time.... so carrots, then broccoli, then potato, then mushrooms, then meat. I only mix things if it's mashed potatoes and certain things but everything else has to be eaten on it's own. I also save the best til last .

Used to drive my ex crazy! He'd mash everything together on the plate which would make me cringe LOL

I eat the same colored sweets together as well.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one!

iSarahMay

I also will not eat cereal with a metal spoon. I hate the way it makes it taste. I eat it as a snack with my hands, dry, if I eat it at all. I hate most sugary cereal.

I can't eat ice lollies as I do not like the feel or taste of the wooden stick!

I always eat my veggies first then eat my meat/fish last.

Mandybean88

I always eat my veg first because I think I decided when I was very small that they go cold first. I have no idea if this is true or not

quillsHP

Wow now I know I am not the only one

I have plenty of eating quirks. If there is more than one item on my plate, I make absolutely sure that they don't touch each other and there's adequate space between them.

I eat most things separately. I cannot mix stuff together. Where I come from, people mix their lentils and rice and veggies and take a big mouthful of that. Makes me gag.

At times, I even resort to using 2-3 plates while eating a single meal because I cannot stand to see one food item touching the other.

hdsqrl

It's been a long time since I've gone near a bag of Doritos, but when I ate them regularly, I'd seek out the ones darkest in color first (they had the most seasoning) and would have to bite the points off each chip before eating the rest of it. I suppose I still kind of do that in a way - when eating chips in a mexican restaurant, I'll break off the points of a chip before eating the rest of it.

quirkytizzy

I have none, but the BF has a few.

1) Won't eat the ends of french fries. Leaves tiny mountains of fry bits on the side.

2) Carefully and rigidly inspects the food before nearly every bite.

3) Dislikes his food touching. (This is so common amongst quirks that I wonder why that is???)

4) Drinks his soda in a glass, no matter the container it was originally in.

5) Is the only Coke drinker I've ever met who will also drink Pepsi.

SARgirl

I eat pizza with a fork and will ask for a fork if I'm at someone's house. I get strange looks but I've always done it!

wcasie

I am a dipper by nature... i love wings, but i have to pull them apart and dunk them in the sauce before i eat them. I don't mind eating with my fingers, but not if i have to get sauce on my fingers. I even dip my hamburgers in ketchup... hmmmm maybe i need help lol

Mandybean88

Tomatoes in sandwiches are NOT allowed to remotely touch bread ever O_O

beskimoosh

I eat items on my plate one at a time usually, and if I find a bit that I've already finished the rest of (like if there's a bit of carrot hidden under mash that I've missed and I've moved on from carrots) I get REALLY annoyed.

I have a friend who arranged his Macdonalds fries in size order and eats them biggest to smallest too. He says it helps with getting the right sauce amount, because by the time you get to smallest you get less sauce because you've used some of it.

pinkbullets

If I'm eating french fries or chips, I have to eat the smallest ones first and leave the largest ones for last. I didn't notice I did that until someone called me out on it >_<

brittryan1017

I eat the crust off of pizza first, so I can focus on the yummy, melty, cheesy part for the remainder of my meal. :laugh:

Me too! And I eat the pointy part last. Its the best part of the pizza!
When I eat chicken wings I save the pieces with the two bones in it for last or trade out with my sister so I can have only the piece with the two bones.
If my cereal gets soggy I refuse to eat it. But I love oatmeal.

liftingcoach

I eat buffalo chicken wings with a knife and fork! I will pick up fried chicken wings with my fingers, but any kind of sauced wing, only with knife and fork.

QuietRain

I cover my mouth when I chew, even though I keep my mouth closed.

TheDarlingOne

Love this topic post! Finally I've found "my people" - always thought I was the only one haha.

Everyone at work and home knows "Becky won't eat that. It has 'foreign objects in it'" lol.

I consider "foreign objects" to be anything that stands out in the food makeup. If that makes sense haha. Like, if I'm eating spaghetti .... and I SEE the chopped onion or bell pepper, etc. i have to pick it out and not eat it.

Or say there's home chili for dinner - if I walk up to the pot and see chunky tomatoes in it - that means no chili for me tonight fellas! lol

My sister makes this chicken dish - has rice, chicken breast chunked up, with ritz crackers on top, and if she makes it with cream of mushroom soup (as the dish calls for) and not cream of chicken like i beg for - I won't eat it. I tell her I'm not eating food with cream of booger (as in from the nose lol) soup in it lol. Because I can actually see the lil' square chunks of mushroom in the dish and it freaks me out.

I think really it's a texture thing more than anything. I see the onion or bell pepper in the spaghetti and I know when I bite into it it'll crunch. My brain says, spaghetti doesn't crunch. If I see the chunky tomato in the chili and I know when I bite into it it'll be smushy. My brain says, no no chili ain't smushy! - same with the cream of mushroom deal, biting into it, I know it's sort of rubbery and smushy - my brain says AHHHHHHHHHHHHH BUGERS! (how DOES one properly spell that word anyway? lol)

TheDarlingOne

Oh yeah, and I also line my fries up shortest to longest - two at a time. Then when I get to the end if there's only 1 left, - i will break it in half, so it's like I'm eating 2 at one time. of if there's 3 left, i'll break 1 of those left in half so it's like i'm eating 2 at a time - then i'll have the last 2 together.

And if it is a snack from a bag - I always eat it 2 at a time.
Like m&m's - cheetos, rice cakes, etc. If it comes from a bag and you eat it 2 at a time - I would say at least 90% of the time, you always end the bag having 2 pieces. As oppose to a handful of 5, or just 1 left, etc.

And if I have a bag of m&m's - i pour them out on the table, and arrange them by color. Then, I find the pile with the lowest amount in it. And I'll eat the difference of the other colors, in twos, til it reaches the same amount left of the pile that had the lowest # to begin with anyways....and then i'll eat 1 from each pile at one time - til the piles are all gone at the same time together.

(however, these issues - may fall under my self diagnosed OCD issue and not exactly a strange eating quirk lol)

peacefulsong

When I used to eat fast food all the time I had this thing where whatever sandwich I ate, I would take it apart and eat the pieces separately. Like when I'd get the grilled chicken sandwich from Burger King, I'd eat the bottom part of the bun first, then the top with all the mayo and lettuce, then the chicken. I did this with breakfast sandwiches, too.

I also have a tendency not to ever want to finish things. Like if there is a little bit of cereal in the bottom of the box, I'll grab a new box instead of getting what I could out of the old one first. Especially with drinks like milk or orange juice. I have no idea why. Drives everyone crazy.

fusion777

This thread is awesome!

No mustard on the cheese side for me. I hate how it looks, how it tastes. Everyone says the sandwich all gets chewed together and goes to the same place. Doesn't matter to me, don't do it!!

tndejong

after reading this. i dont feel so bad! i guess i have some of the same stuff as some of these guys. i like to eat a lot with my fingers. pizza i will pick off all the toppings and cheese then eat the dough and sauce. or in a salad i will eat things individually rather then pick them up with the fork in combinations. i also like variety in a meal. i cant just eat a sandwich. i have to have 2 or 3 items to pick between. i also cant stand wet or soggy foods. like Italian beef when people dip it in the juice or stuffing. i also hate any meats that i can see fat or bones. has to be boneless skinless items. and messy sandwiches like egg sandwiches with the runny egg yoke its icky to me.

and if i eat mm or skittles i do eat them by color! wow lol i didnt realize i did this! and chex mix i eat the same item until its gone and then on to another. and sometimes when im eating french fries i do leave the short ones for last cause i like the crunchy ones? i am weird!

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BeachGingerOnTheRocks

I can't eat a burger that has mayo on the same side as the tomato or pickle. I can't eat a burger with a pickle on it as the same side as the tomato. And I can't eat a burger with cheese on the same side as the pickle, either.

So if I get a burger with a pickle, it can't have mayo, and the pickle has to go under the patty so it doesn't touch the tomato or cheese. If I get a burger with mayo and a pickle, it can't have cheese or tomato on it. In which case, I will be unhappy with the burger because the two things I like most on a burger are cheese and tomato.

Unfortunately, the only way I like pickles is on a burger.

BigDnSW

And honestly, this entire thread isn't about judging each other's food choices. It's about weird food quirks, hence the title Strange Eating Quirks, Anyone? If I had wanted it to include "Feel free to judge others harshly!", I would have included that.

Good call. Can't we just be nice and share info. My only real quirk is presentation. I am the cook for our family and I do make some very nice meals. However, I expect us to eat when the food is hot and properly presented on the plate or bowl. I guess the other thing is that I like to take a bite of food and then put my fork or spoon down till I am done with that bite.

Not too quirky...just some culinary experience and having lived abroad. And at times I LOVE to have my corn and potatoes and peas all in a big pile!

anels449

The only thing I can remember doing as a kid was turning my plate as I ate. I ate each group first and they could not touch (usually veggies first because they tasted the worst [canned beans cooked in their canned water, blahh!!] and the meat last because it tasted the best) and I wouldn't switch to a different food at all. Then I'd spin my plate to the next food. I *still* do it now haha.

Texture plays a huge part for me. I'm not a fan of soggy things like cereal or veggies (hello, gross canned veggies!) and peas are too dry in the middle; they just taste funny.

I like eating my M&Ms in colors usually starting with the colors I don't like like brown and yellow and finishing with either blue or green. Or I make sure if there's more of one color to eat those first so at the end there's one of each. I also split my Oreos and eat the icing first and need to have milk to dunk them in (to get them soggier...weird, I know ) otherwise they're too dry.

raspberryblonde

I, too, group candies by color. Sometimes I smash two Skittles together and eat them in pairs. And I don't eat green M&M's - ever.

It's been a while since I had a Pop-Tart, but when I did eat them, they had to be broken in half and eaten from the center out to the edges.

All sandwiches (which had better not have pickles anywhere bread-adjacent), MUST be cut on the diagonal and eaten from the center out.

Any candy bars (Three Musketeers, especially), must have the outer chocolate peeled off and eaten prior to eating the center.

I despise syrup on pancakes or waffles, but I require it for sausage.

But I really don't care if my food touches. My cats, however, will not let canned food touch their dry food - all canned foods must be eaten from a separate dish.

mastersoloist

Bacon. Lots and lots of bacon.

MommaHoff

When I eat sandwiches I don't eat it as a sandwich. I open it up and eat the veggies, all the tomatoes all the bell peppers all the olives and so on. Then I eat the meat, then the cheese, then if I'm still hungry I'll eat the bread.

I can't eat grapes because they may me think of eyeball popping. Same goes for whole olives but if they are sliced I can. Any kind of melon grosses me out because the texture reminds me of styrofoam.

When eating a meal I have to eat all of one thing before I can move on to the next thing. Like if I start on the meat I have to eat it all before I can eat the sweet taters or veg.

IslandDreamer64

I have issues with different textures of foods together in the same mouth full. So no stews for me (meat and veggies in the same bite? Ack!). Most soups are out, except for Campbell's tomato soup. I don't really like mashed potatoes, but if I'm eating "real" mashed potatoes and come across a "lump" I will gag.

The only other thing I can think of is that I don't ever drink any hot drinks. Ever. To me, fluids are supposed to be cold, preferably on ice. I even put ice in my juice when I drink it. But not in milk, because that would just we weird! ;-)

BoboGritt

I eat roughly a pound of sweet potato's per day. I feel weird doing it but...................Oh well!