What's the strangest diet you've heard/witnessed someone being on? (Not fad diets.)
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Okay, I haven't seen this one yet, so here's one of my oddities. I've read most of my other one's in here to one degree or another (smarties must be eaten in colour pairs chewed one on each side of the mouth and then the oddballs are eaten last with their closest related colour, that's a little different from the previously mentioned small candies in two). The one I haven't seen in here (perhaps I missed it, or I am just weird), is that I eat the edges of certain foods first, like sandwiches and burgers. That gets rid of the crusts or the additional bun bites first, leaving just the middle juicy bites for the last.
I don't mind syrup running off my pancakes or French toast onto my eggs. Maple syrup eggs are a delightful treat, when it happens (I usually eat my pancakes or French toast with peanut butter and jam though). I do usually eat things one at a time though. I have no excuses/rationale for it though.
I do this and of course I have to eat the pizza crust first.0 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »Okay, I haven't seen this one yet, so here's one of my oddities. I've read most of my other one's in here to one degree or another (smarties must be eaten in colour pairs chewed one on each side of the mouth and then the oddballs are eaten last with their closest related colour, that's a little different from the previously mentioned small candies in two). .
Oh gosh, busted again. I eat the smarties that way. I eat skittles two at a time and they have to be the same color. And with M&M's i have to color coordinate, or eat them singularly.
I never realized I had so many food quirks.
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I know someone who always falls for whatever internet woo their friends forward to them. Whenever they see one of those clickbait lists ("10 foods that fight cancer! You won't believe what's #4!"), they decide that they can only eat those foods. That usually lasts about a week. Currently they're putting turmeric on everything apparently because it's the latest cure-all superfood.4
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Wow, my parents sure got lucky with me. I wasn't fussy at all. Other than meat I ate most things (which wasn't a problem for my parents because I just calmly picked off any meat that made its way into my dish). I had no problems at all trying new things and never complained about food. Even that aversion to meat did not last forever, in my late teens I started eating specific kinds of meat prepared in very specific ways.1
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Alright, here it goes!
For burritos, especially the microwave kind, I have to eat the middle part first and then eat the tortilla.
I hate mayo, because I feel like it tastes like rotten milk, and the texture coats my mouth.
Foods shouldn't touch at all, and if it does then I won't eat the contaminated bits.
For pizza I have to dab off the oil with a napkin, then I proceed to eat all the toppings first then all the bread saving the crust for last.
When I'm eating a full meal I will eat the vegetables first, then the meat, then whatever starch.
Sweetened cream cheese is gross, I won't eat any kind but plain.
Cheese cake is disgusting, it tastes like rotten milk, and has a horrible aftertaste.
For any colored candies I have to eat until they all have the same amount from the darkest to the lightest ones. Then eat one from each color going from dark to light and repeating until all done.
I think that's all!3 -
I've known a couple of people who were really lazy about cooking. They would buy whatever was on sale and eat it, and nothing else, for several days. i.e. English muffins and snickers bars = Snickermuffins - for 12 meals straight. Or a bag of tomatoes or potatoes that were eaten for a week. Or macaroni and cheese with bologna - every single meal for a week. I always thought I wasn't a picky eater, but I do need variety.1
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A very informed and well knowledged gentlemen on our senior staff will not eat any macros together. He completely separates any and all carbs, proteins, fats and does not drink with meals. This diet goes back to the 1800s and repeatedly debunked. He knows all this, but has convinced himself that eating this way has helped him.
Even he admits how strange this is and has acknowledge the placebo effect.3 -
A very informed and well knowledged gentlemen on our senior staff will not eat any macros together. He completely separates any and all carbs, proteins, fats and does not drink with meals. This diet goes back to the 1800s and repeatedly debunked. He knows all this, but has convinced himself that eating this way has helped him.
Even he admits how strange this is and has acknowledge the placebo effect.
He eats each macro separately at the same meal or each meal has it's own macro? How does he manage that? How do you have fats as a completely separate component of food, pure fats being things like butter or oil, etc. Does he just drink them?0 -
I used not to eat "mixed" foods like pasta and cheese, it needed to be completely separate or I would not eat it. I hated russian salad, and still do to this day, never liked mayo and would't touch anything if it had mayo on top of it. But on the other hand I think cooked chicken tastes better when unsalted and unseasoned, same with fish. I could eat grilled fish all day long with no seasonings (most of ppl I know find this weird)0
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ElvisPedro wrote: »Not really diet but I know a few people who will not let food types touch each other on their plate and have to eat items separately. Eg if baked beans touched a sausage the whole meal would be ruined and they'd refuse to eat it.
Nothing worse than going for a nice English breakfast and finding baked beans slopped everywhere, then having to make a holding pen for the beans from the sausages. Baked beans have no business being there in the first place.6 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »JeepHair77 wrote: »court_alacarte wrote: »ElvisPedro wrote: »Not really diet but I know a few people who will not let food types touch each other on their plate and have to eat items separately. Eg if baked beans touched a sausage the whole meal would be ruined and they'd refuse to eat it.
this. knew a guy who hated tomatoes, and once when dining out with him and he ordered a sandwich, the restaurant forgot to leave off the tomatoes. he couldn't just take tomatoes off the sandwich, it had to be completely re-made since the juice had tainted everything else.
another interesting quirk i've witnessed: people who eat meals in sections; my ex would do this. basically if he ordered a burger and fries, he would eat the burger first and then work on the fries; if he had meat and sides, he'd eat all of one side first and then start on the meat, etc.. his sister did the same thing... i personally saw it as a very inefficient way of eating since one of those foods is going to be cold by the time you got to it! his perspective was that he wanted to enjoy the food in its purity without having other flavors in the mix?? whatever, he's a loser.
i think that book "the starch solution" was modeled on how i ate as a child. i always ate pasta noodles plain without sauce, i always scraped off the toppings of my pizza (even the cheese) and would just eat the cooked crust, i ate burgers plain and dry with just the meat and bun. however this was all remedied by the time i got to college and now i'll eat everything. and that's probably why i'm here....
No, no, this is an EXTREMELY efficient way to eat! You eat the best, most delicious part of your meal, and you eat it at its ideal temperature and enjoy it to the fullest. Then, if you're still hungry, you nibble on the lesser items a bit.
But that's the wrong way to do it... You eat the bad parts first to get them out of the way, and you save the best til last! Haha...
My cousin would always leave the bits he disliked until the end. I could never understand it - why wouldn't you get them out of the way?
He explained that there was always the (slim) possibility that a meteor would crash into the earth, or some other cataclysmic occurrence, which would mean he wouldn't have to finish his plate before being allowed down from the table. And what an extra calamity it would be if he'd already eaten the horrible bits.12 -
When I was little, I would eat Shredded Wheat cereal mixed with instant mashed potatoes. Yeah. I don't know either.
My mom has told me that I used to eat onions like they were apples. I don't remember that and I hate raw onions, so I can't imagine.3 -
My college roommate wanted to lose weight and decided to skip breakfast, eat a 100-calorie yogurt for lunch, then at dinner eat a salad without salad dressing. Then she eliminated the salad because she was afraid of "packing on the pounds." At the same time, she started a running program. She did drop weight, but then found she was having trouble concentrating on her studies. But she wouldn't change her eating habits. After three weeks of this, I phoned her sister and we asked the Resident Aide at her dorm to check in with her. She kept up the running but began eating food again.1
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Fun fact: there are two cranial nerves that contribute to your sense of smell; the olfactory and trigeminal nerves. The olfactory detects odour, while the trigeminal detects sensation. For instance, the cooling sensation of peppermint is trigeminal, while the scent of flowers is olfactory.
I was born anosmic, and I can only detect sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami (all detected on the tongue) and pepper, spice, mint (trigeminal). I liberally apply salt, pepper and sriracha to almost all of my food, otherwise it has no flavour.13 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »Remembered one more thing that my friends consider weird. I'll have alcohol in desserts and liqueur chocolates just fine, but I rarely drink it, and when I do it's in very small amounts. Imagine someone pouring less than 1/4 cup of beer at a party? That's me. I'll drink "several cups" of alcohol that barely add up to one serving. I LOVE Bloody Mary, but I doubt you can even call it that because my idea of one is 5-8 grams of vodka per cup. I get plenty of banter over this.
That's me too.0 -
Derf_Smeggle wrote: »My dad when I was growing up. Supper wasn't supper unless there was a russet potato involved. Mashed, baked, fried. Didn't matter, so long as it was there.
Rice, sweet potato, or some other starchy vegetable, along with a protein and some other vegetable? Not supper! I can remember him getting actually angry because supper comes with a potato by god! Then demanding to know where were the potatoes?!?!
He's chilled out a bit now, but most evening meals still have a potato dish involved.
My dad was like this, but it was bread. My mom was of the sort to always include a starch- but it might be rice, pasta, or potatoes. But my dad always wanted bread. I remember my mom throwing a bag of sandwich bread on his plate once when he complained.
He has since realized how many calories it adds and is okay without bread at meals.
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laurenebargar wrote: »This isnt that weird but if im drinking something from a can (sparkling water, diet soda, etc) I have to pour it into a cup, Im always afraid there will be something in the can, and if its in the can I wont see it until the end.
One of my grandmas wouldn't drink out of a can, but she just found it awkward.0 -
A very informed and well knowledged gentlemen on our senior staff will not eat any macros together. He completely separates any and all carbs, proteins, fats and does not drink with meals. This diet goes back to the 1800s and repeatedly debunked. He knows all this, but has convinced himself that eating this way has helped him.
Even he admits how strange this is and has acknowledge the placebo effect.
Balancing the humors.
My grandmother was raised like that and as her esophagus got weaker with age the no drinking with meals caused an abscess. (She recovered, but still wouldn't drink with meals.)1 -
markswife1992 wrote: »ElvisPedro wrote: »Not really diet but I know a few people who will not let food types touch each other on their plate and have to eat items separately. Eg if baked beans touched a sausage the whole meal would be ruined and they'd refuse to eat it.
this is me. i have to use separate bowls for some foods so they don't get on my other foods. if a pea gets into my macaroni, i have to get a new plate. i also have to use a new fork if i get seconds.
I LOVE mac & cheese and Peas together!
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Ok I'll throw my quirk out there.
I do not eat the pointy ends of french fries. If a fry has one pointy end and one square/rounder end I'll hold it at the pointy end and eat down to the point. If the fry has two pointy sides I'll break one point off and then proceed as above
By the time I'm done an order of fries there's always a pile of pointy french fry ends in my plate...which my husband scoops up and eats because he hates waste lol.
My brother grew up on ketchup sandwiches...and my grandpa started putting peanut butter on his green beans, he managed to get my nanny to eat them that way too...but the rest of us are holding out 2 -
When I was little, I would eat Shredded Wheat cereal mixed with instant mashed potatoes. Yeah. I don't know either.
My mom has told me that I used to eat onions like they were apples. I don't remember that and I hate raw onions, so I can't imagine.
Only tangentially related (or tangentially on topic), but gonna tell the story anyway:
On one occasion, when I was a tiny child, my aunt let me eat all the home-made fresh butter I could manage, with a spoon. (My mother later said I'd kept eating it until I shuddered at each new bite.)
I couldn't eat butter again for 10 years or more (unless deeply hidden in a multi-ingredient dish, such as baked goods). I couldn't eat it cold on bread or rolls until I was maybe 30.
Perhaps your childhood raw onion consumption had a similar effect.5 -
That's classic!Derf_Smeggle wrote: »My dad when I was growing up. Supper wasn't supper unless there was a russet potato involved. Mashed, baked, fried. Didn't matter, so long as it was there.
Rice, sweet potato, or some other starchy vegetable, along with a protein and some other vegetable? Not supper! I can remember him getting actually angry because supper comes with a potato by god! Then demanding to know where were the potatoes?!?!
He's chilled out a bit now, but most evening meals still have a potato dish involved.
My dad was like this, but it was bread. My mom was of the sort to always include a starch- but it might be rice, pasta, or potatoes. But my dad always wanted bread. I remember my mom throwing a bag of sandwich bread on his plate once when he complained.
He has since realized how many calories it adds and is okay without bread at meals.
One more. This is less a diet, more of Grandma being a grandma. Before she passed, when I traveled to the hometown I would stay at her house. This allowed me to spend time with her everyday that I was home.
However, Grandma's idea of breakfast for her, my girlfriend, and I was a bit out of proportion. Mind you, I have it on good authority from other family members that she never did this except when I was home.
It started with 8 or 9 fried eggs, a pound of bacon, and 8 or so pieces of toast with butter and jam. She would have 1 egg, maybe 3 pieces of bacon, and 3 pieces of toast. My girlfriend would have 2 eggs, 4 pcs of bacon, 1 slice of toast.
Leaving me at least 5 eggs, 4 pieces of toast, and 8 or 9 pieces of bacon... and my grandmother asking after my 2nd plate if I was feeling okay because wasn't I gong to finish the last egg and couple pieces of bacon... Every day for a week...
My girlfriend would just sit there, pardon the pun, egging her on too! "Don't up like your grandma's cooking?" and "Sweetie did you drink too much last night with your friends? You should have some more to settle your stomach..."
Arrrggghhh.6 -
amandarawr06 wrote: »Maybe not weird, but kind of grossed me out... I know a guy who eats a whole roasted garlic everyday. Sometimes, he will roast several of them and eat them all in one sitting.
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joeyzuraski wrote: »If I was to pick people's weirdo diets, it's those who eat inedible objects like newspapers that has no nutrition.
That is a condition called PICA0 -
spiffychick85 wrote: »Ok I'll throw my quirk out there.
I do not eat the pointy ends of french fries. If a fry has one pointy end and one square/rounder end I'll hold it at the pointy end and eat down to the point. If the fry has two pointy sides I'll break one point off and then proceed as above By the time I'm done an order of fries there's always a pile of pointy french fry ends in my plate...which my husband scoops up and eats because he hates waste lol.
The pointy, crunchier end pieces are the best!!5 -
I once as a kid grated cheese into milk and ate it like cereal, I also tried to defrost an entire party sized frozen Sara Lee chocolate gateau in the microwave as a teen, it was literally boiling (bubbling) when I took it out, I proceeded to stir the entire hot disintegrated cake with a spoon and ate the awesome hot chocolate cake paste.... no regrets.
I also still to this day eat jelly babies by peeling off the sugary skin with my teeth usually starting with the spine until it's just a translucent lump of jolly coloured jelly innards which I then devour with psychopathic glee. ^_^7 -
I eat kitkats by carefully nibbling off all the chocolate from the sides before eating the wafers.5
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I've known a few with left-of-center eating habits:
For decades, my brothers have eaten only 1 large meal/day. I'm guessing it had something to do with long careers in the military & being in war zones where it wasn't always possible to stop for meals? Why they've continued decades later, I don't know, but they have.
One sister's friend only eats homemade, unseasoned mashed potatoes with ketchup & fried hamburger patties for each meal, everyday. 30-yrs later, my sister says she's still the same. I don't know if she takes vitamins, but she's been healthy & is happy & successful. Perhaps we're not all the same, even though that sounds like a major case of vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
I have another sister who lives on sugar, chocolate, Diet Pepsi & cigarettes. That's all. Time will tell if she keels over of some awful disease, but so far, she's surprisingly productive & never gets ill. She's 56.
I know a lot of others with odd habits & I myself am a very picky eater... eating only fresh, homemade, cooked from scratch. For me, it's as I get ill if I don't. I'd love to be able to eat hotdogs, canned junk & fries & function, but I can't without feeling all sorts of side effects. So, I don't count my diet as being odd, just a medical necessity if I want to feel healthy & normal sans headaches.
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I did the whole foods not touching thing with some things like a desert and custard had to be in separate bowls but at the same time other meals like a roast had to be mashed up togeater and yet other meals I wasn't fussed about and could eat however . This was when I was a teenager and I don't know when it stopped but I think I eat most things normally now . It's strange how little things like this seem to be so coman and yet most peo0
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My cousin used to eat butter !0
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