What's the strangest diet you've heard/witnessed someone being on? (Not fad diets.)
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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.
he must be a dream to sit and talk to face-to-face
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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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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.
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
Lol I used to do this as a kid. Completely forgot about it. Something about the texture I didn't like. I only liked soft fries.2 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »I eat kitkats by carefully nibbling off all the chocolate from the sides before eating the wafers.
I do the same thing! But I also separate the layers of wafers and eat them one by one.
My other strange WOE is also candy related. Go figure! I eat M & M's by color, starting with all the browns, then the reds, oranges and yellows. When it's just the blues and greens left, I eat them together.2 -
my mom used to eat raw potatoes with salt. She'd just peel and slice them and eat them like chips. MIGHT have had something to do with the fact that she was pregnant at the time, but she'll still occasionally do it to this day.2
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I eat kitkats by carefully nibbling off all the chocolate from the sides before eating the wafers.
I do the same thing! But I also separate the layers of wafers and eat them one by one.
My other strange WOE is also candy related. Go figure! I eat M & M's by color, starting with all the browns, then the reds, oranges and yellows. When it's just the blues and greens left, I eat them together.
I'm a "playful eater" too! I eat raw carrots by nibbling on the outer part to separate it from the inner stem, then eat the stem last. I also peel the chocolate off ice cream pops and eat it before eating the ice cream. For dark chocolate, I break it into teeny tiny pieces and eat them one by one to easily dissolve in my mouth, and the thinner the strings I pull off of string cheese the better.3 -
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.
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
Lol I used to do this as a kid. Completely forgot about it. Something about the texture I didn't like. I only liked soft fries.
My wife does something like this too, but for a different reason. She will not eat any part of her food that she touched with her hand. She ends up with a little pile of french fry tips because that's where she was holding it. She does this with every food.
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TavistockToad wrote: »I'm just curious because I'm sure one of you have a friend or family member that has been on some off-the-wall diet plan or habits. I'm not talking about the typical fad diets (grapefruit, cookie, paleo, etc).
For example, this teenager once wouldn't eat lunch but was eating a hefty breakfast, such as tons of pancakes and syrup, butter, tots, and the whole bit lol.
Not a diet--but this one woman I knew was *LEGIT* grossed out from any vegetables because she had been eating crap her whole life.
What are some odd habits/diets you have seen?
Sorry if this is the wrong thread.
so the teenager sounds like either IF or an eating disorder and the woman who can’t eat vegetables would probably be best served with a therapist... but as long as you find this thread entertaining...
Not an eating disorder. Mind you, this was 10+ years ago. She had this grand idea because she heard that if you eat breakfast that is big you'll lose weight if skipping a meal. The other one clearly has some sensory issues going on, haha.
I'm just curious for crazy things you've heard.
How nice that you think sensory issues are so amusing, you'd kill yourself laughing in this house as my son vomits because he can't cope with new foods or certain textures.
That was a completely random link to something she totally wasn't talking about. I am sorry for your son, but that was uncalled for.2 -
I have a friend who puts so many lemons in her diet coke, there is almost no room for the soda.
I have another who puts so much pepper in her ketchup for her fries, it turns black. I sneeze just watching her do it.
I like to stir the crunchy, tiny fries into my frosty, or smear the frosty onto my chicken sandwich. Especially the spicy chicken.
With cupcakes, I tear the bottom half of the cake off and throw it away. It significantly changes the frosting to cake ratio, as well as saves a few calories. Win-Win.1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »I eat kitkats by carefully nibbling off all the chocolate from the sides before eating the wafers.
The proper eating method for a Jaffa Cake is similar, going round and leaving the orangey bit until last.2 -
In my opinion they are all fads short of getting yourself in a calorie deficit.0
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