no mayo, diced raw onions, bell pepper, brussells sprouts, celery, pimento cheese..

i don't like seeing those foods..:mad:

Which is my primary point and why can't people leave it as that but even you go on to make an automatic assumption that a grown adult's choice of foods is an indicator of character below:



I think I am somewhat similar to other people ajudged "picky." When I see something I've never had before and particularly if I don't know what it is? My first inclination is NOT to stick it in my mouth! To me that is smart not immature.

Why is it irritating if I won't eat what you eat? Why do you care? Do you require validation? Of course not but I just made what YOU eat into a character issue just as you made what I eat into one. If I made faces like a child (I don't) or if I insisted we go to a place where I can get what I want (I don't) then I could understand it.

Look, I've been a grown man a long time. I go along if the situation calls for it but I just say, "No thank you" if I am offered something I don't care for. I don't pout if there is nothing I like. When YOU are someone's guest and if they serve "eyeballs, genitalia or something with a natural slime to it" would it be "rude" not to eat it? Would it "kill you"? Of course not and and you probably think that's a ridiculous proposition. Why? Because most hosts would probably never serve those kinds of foods to guests yet they don't understand when someone who ALSO has strongly held preferences, albeit not the same as most people, they are labeled. Its actually this kind of categorical thinking (you don't eat what most peole eat therefore you are immature, rude and irritating) that annoys the cr@p outta me.

Cannot believe it... someone else who hates liver and mushrooms. Everyone thinks I am crazy for not eating muchrooms but cannot take them in any form. Do not even mention liver... no matter how its cooked.

Oh yea, snails... and oysters.

Another thing that gags me is any kind of "seafood soup" in a clear broth. I love chowder, cioppino, coctel de cameron, sieta mares, anything but fish in its own "broth". Tastes like old sewage. But the funny thing is, I can eat smelly cheese which I hated as a kid.

And I'm sure DaninPasa can appreciate this, I had a friend (ex, became a jerk) visited me after 3 years of military service, and we went for lunch at a great mexican place near work. He ordered a carne asada burrito, and proceeded to give the guy behind the counter a bunch of schit. We went back to my office and we started to eat and I swear, there was nothing but chunks of fat mixed with rice and beans in that burrito. Took me 2 weeks before i could even think about eating another burrito, but he got what was coming to him

Hi Dan,
I suspect there is a little background that we are not getting here because you seem a bit sensitive.

I think you missed my point. Yes, we all have likes and dislikes based on what we have tasted or limits to oddites that we are comfortable with.

What I call a picky eater is what I used to be. Someone who wouldnt eat entire groups of food based on assumptions and who would never try anything outside of my comfort level. At some point I grew a little self awareness and realized I was a source of irritation to my family and that I was mising out on some good stuff. After a while, enough people had commented about me that I realized; "Hmmmm, maybe its not the rest of the world that has a problem, maybe its me". ;)

You may be totally different, but that is what I was.

You ask why being a picky eater is rude and irritating.....well, because it is. Truely picky eaters (and this may not be you) typically (and this is a stereotype based on my experiences) make it difficult for thier wife/mother to feed the family and typically require that food and resteraunt decisions revolve around them. I think it is normal that easy going people are more fun to be around whereas inflexable personalities, not so much.

Anyway, sorry to offend you. You asked for opinions and that is mine, based on how I used to act as well as a few people I have known.

I Was raised on tongue sandwiches, cant stand them anymore, I don't know why?


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+1 for mushrooms, I hate them and they ruin anything they are on.

I also have a no green food rule but break it because I know I have to eat veggies to be healthy. But I still do not like them.

Cornpanzer,
First, I am not offended. You're right I guess I did come off as "sensitive" on this issue, sorry. Maybe its because I am! I DID ask for opinions so not trying to give anyone a hard time but it does baffle me that what I eat makes others feel I am rude. I'd completey "get" that - if I made you conform to me. What I don't understand is why that doesn't make "you" (not you literally cornpanzer) rude when you make me conform to you?

So yes, I think I am a picky eater - at least that's the word most people use. I'm not trying to dodge the label I just wish people wouldn't project all these "things" on me for what I eat/do not eat.

My daughter in law is picky. For example she LITERALLY doesn't eat a vegetable, EVER. Now that's going to result in health problems sooner rather than later but I know what it is to have people feel free to comment on what you eat, so I don't. There was long time when I didn't eat many vegetablers and my girlfriend probably would tell you I still don't. Maybe she'd be right but I eat a LOT more of them than I ever ate up till the last 5 years or so. I reluctantly changed because I grew concerned about my own health.

Now my daughter in law won't eat any fruit that has been cooked...for example applie pie grosses her out. I can't really relate to not liking apple pie, but I don't think its rude of her not to eat it. Where she and I differ hugely (at least to me) is that she won't let foods on her plate touch each other before she eats them. She dislikes spanish rice or rice pilaf because it isn't plain white "like rice should be". I don't find it rude that she won't eat it, but I find it rude if she makes comments like, "...it's dirty" about what I am about to eat. I find that whole 'food touching" thing to be ...well, odd. To me its indicative of...something, I don't know what.