Strange Eating Quirks, Anyone?

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

I can't figure out the mechanics of this. I'd think it'd just end up a gooey mess.

I totally do this! My favs to do it with are Butterfinger and Reeses cups...It's not as messy as you would think.
I also eat the outside of any sandwich or burger and then eat the middle...It always has the most filling and tastes best, so I save it for last!
I also do the small spoon thing...the smallre the spoon the better HAHA!
I'm wondering what people do when eating fruit rollups? As a kid I wrapped them around my finger and licked them off.

Anyone that can't have their food touching on the plate, how do you cope at a restaurant? Do you disassemble it before you eat it?

I just move it on the plate so it no longer touches.

my meal times are usually set in stone. delaying them unnecessarily results in some degree of anxiety for me. also, i dislike being interrupted mid-meal with phone calls or work questions.

these quirks make me feel like rain man sometimes, lol. however, i suppose that's just how i'm wired, so i have to go with it.

I can't eat meat on the bone. If it has a bone, I refuse to let it touch my mouth. I am gagging just thinking about it.

Also, runny yolk in egg. GROSS. Needs to be cooked all way through.

I've thought of a couple more:

The yolks of fried eggs must be broken and spread around the white, and cooked until the whites are entirely hard. I gag if I taste or SEE runny eggs.

No meat on a bone.

I'm the opposite of this! I can't eat a fried egg if the yolk is broken...

I can't eat salami cause I am convinced it smells/tastes like feet.
If I have a sauce on my plate (mayo or mustard) it is a very tiny amount and it has to be in the very corner of my plate so as not to touch anything else
I hate having my salad on the same plate as my meal so I always have a separate bowl for salad.

Same here about the salad...

I can't eat anything if I perceive it to be in an even numbered group. For example, if I'm eating Skittles, I'll separate them by color and eat them in such a way that I will have odd numbered piles; if there are 4 reds, 1 yellow, and 3 greens, I'll eat one red and then eat the rest of them in an order that I decide seems symmetrical, and in reverse order of preference. For example, 2 reds, 2 greens, then 1 yellow, 1 green, and 1 red, to save the best for last.

for breakfast i have a two egg white omelet on a mini bagel. i always make sure i place the egg on the bottom part of the bagel. no idea why i can't place it on the top part, then turn the bagel over, but that just seems like too much work.

my favorite piece of the steak is the very first piece cut at the end. if i don't get that piece, the meal is ruined.

with pork chops and mashed potatoes i have to eat the last bite of pork chop with the last bite of mashed potatoes. i have to ration it perfectly. if not, i take more of each to try again.

Question for you: if you cut the steak in half, can you eat it from the part where you cut it, or must you still eat it from the edge inward?

edge inward. in fact, since i am usually the one cutting the steak, i will cut and eat both edges, then cut the remainder of the steak in to strips or whatever.

i dont and wont eat salad dressing ..i dont find it weird but everyone else seems to . most people seem to be finding my habit of no salad dressing shocking and are amazed ..i feel lucky ive been able to really enjoy a healthy salad with no dressing ..i cant even bring myself to eat it any other way anymore .,it drives me nuts if im at a banquet and the salads are premade and i get mine with dressing on it . its almost embarrassing to ask the server to get me a dry salad

this is totally me. i don't understand why someone goes thru the hassle of making a salad, or eating one, to then goop it up with salad dressing that has a ton of calories in it. at a restaurant, the servers can't believe i want no dressing with it. sometimes if i don't feel like the hassle, i'll just ask for dressing on the side and never use it.

I used to work with someone who was the same way and I never understood how he could eat a salad with no dressing.....and now I find out he's not alone!! ..... To each their own!

I have some similar quirks to some that have been already posted. It's great to know I'm not alone! I line up any small colored candy (m&ms, skittles, smarties) in straight lines by color and eat from the ones that have the most until they're all even, then eat them symmetrically saving my favorite color for last. I eat the crust off sandwiches and pizza first except for a small area to hold onto so I don't get my fingers messy. I don't like any of my food touching the rest of my food, and I greatly dislike most cooked vegetables (prefer raw!). I used to have a thing about having a napkin on each side of my plate, but I forced myself to get over it. I'm going in the Army National Guard in a few months, however, so I guess I'll have to get over most of my eating quirks and eat whatever I'm fed!

I'll eat from my plate in order from the thing I like the least to the thing I like the most.

And I always leave the biggest mouthful for last. It's very unladylike!!!

My biggest quirk is that I cannot be around people who make mouth noises when they eat. It makes me cringe.

THIS! I've had to make up a polite reason to leave the room sometimes if a certain friend is around. Took some research but I have found the least noisy food for them and make that when they come over. Luckily they really like it so think it's done as a treat for them (which it is, but the sound thing is a BIG bonus)

unicornpoop wrote: »

My biggest quirk is that I cannot be around people who make mouth noises when they eat. It makes me cringe.

Same here, only I don't cringe, I want to scream it just gets on my last nerve. What happen to good manners?

I eat anything that tastes good. I won't eat anything that does not taste good. If they find out that all the good tasting food will kill me...then I have to die of something it may as well be food.