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Originally Posted by Cornpanzer
Everyone has likes and dislikes.
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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:
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Originally Posted by Cornpanzer
On the other hand, if you have the same eating habits as you did as a child then yes you probably are a picky eater. The picky eaters I know make arbitrary decisions about entire groups of food. "I don't eat seafood" or "I don't eat Chinese food". Typically, these type of people have made the decision that they aren't going to like something, so they never give it a chance. In that case, yes they are missing out on something good. It is an immature trait which can be irritating for their friends and families because usually where or what the family eats always revolves around the picky eater. It is also rude when you are a guest.
....If enough people think it is good, then it is probably good. I haven't tried a single bite of food that has killed me yet........  |
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.