Strange Eating Quirks, Anyone?

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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 >_<

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.

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)

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.

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!

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.

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.

Bacon. Lots and lots of bacon.

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! ;-)