Confessions of a Picky Eater
 

DELETE, duplicate thread. Sorry!

so I guess that since both of these threads are duplicates of each other, then neither deserves to exist.

Wow, I hope you never have twins!!

:D

Man, I wrote a lengthy thing about being picky, what I don't eat and that people seem to think they can comment freely on what you eat/don't eat. These comments usually fall into the categories of, "...you don't know what you're missing" (yes, I do), "...your sense of smell must be off" (it's not, I can smell you!) or "...your parents should have made you sit there until you ate it 'cause we ain't running a restaurant" (they did, and I still didn't eat it)

Even the mental giants of the fastfood industry feel free to make rude comments like, "...you're gonna eat it like that?" They make it sound like you're eating something with dog poop on it because it is a plain hamburger!

I'm 52 now and I need no one's permission to eat or not eat what I don't want. Even though I am a meat and potatoes kind of guy I like and eat chicken and pork but don't like fish. I don't like vegetables but I eat most of them because I should...but it is not required that I say I "like" them no matter how much others insist I must. And last I eat no condiments - mustard, mayo, catsup, no salad dressings and almost no gravies.

I am wondering how many more "weirdo's" like me there are in the Pelican world and fully expect the smarta$$e$ to come out and tell me their 5 year old is just like me...or that this "character flaw" of mine is because I am a Democrat or a Republican!

I'll eat a lot of things, but this makes me gag on the spot. Liver and onions (or w/ anything else)http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/puke.gifhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/puke.gif


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YOU DON"T KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN?????? YOU SUCK!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


Oh sorry, I was compelled to post that because this is off topic. Sorry, sorry.

Yeah, organ meat is not very good IMO.

Things that I don't eat that people seem to have an issue with:

1) Mayo- makes me vomit. I don't like it. Never have, never will. Guess what? Its terrible for you anyhow, fatty.

2) Anything mayonaise-ish- includes sour cream, cottage cheese, ranch dressing, blue-cheese dressing. BLECH! And again, all bad for you anyhow.

3) Hard-boiled eggs (or egg salad)- smells like farts. I don't like farts.

4) Butternut Squash- VOMIT.

EDIT- my dog seems to think that I DO like farts. She's always providing them, free of charge.

An interesting "advantage" of being picky as you get into middle age is that you dont have to quit eating a lot of the stuff other middle aged people have to quit...like the fatty, cholesterol-laden creams and sauces. Yes, organ meats are kinda repugnant but.........

I'm hispanic so I eat menudo! Makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, I agree. Learned to eat it as a child and when I eat it now occasionally I think, "I can't believe I like this stuff". If it gags you to think of it, I don't blame you. It's "tripe" for those of my white Eastern or Worldwide brethren that don't know what the hell "menudo" is.

By the way, why is it people who would never say, "you're ugly" or "youve got a big nose" don't hesitate a second to say, "you DON'T like it? or "...you eat it LIKE THAT?" with their faces all screwed up as though the way you eat is just awful. Its plain, not disgusting.

What gets me is when I tell people I hate liver they say "But you haven't had it the way I fix it." In Germany, I went with my girlfriend and her parents to her Aunt's house for dinner. Her Aunt was well known for her "liver ball soup". I tried to be polite and ate a spoonful and yakked in her sink.

As far as menudo goes, I like pazole much better, just can't get past the tripe.

Tripe doesn't taste bad to me, its the texture- just doesn't agree with me.

I completely understand both of your objections to menudo. Tripe has a chewy texture and it also looks weird. Not to mention knowing what it is.

Pozole isn't just menudo without the tripe, though some people make it that way. I like it too, but if made right it tends to be too spicy for me.

Craig, You cracked me up when I got the image of you "yakking" in the sink. I was laughing out loud. Not too much you can do to get out of THAT gracefully! Apparently that contributed to your not staying with that girl?

Meat and potatoes but not gravy. That's unusual, but whatever. It's probably because you've never had MY gravy. ;)

I don't like mayo or gravy either. I'm actually pretty adventurous when it comes to food, but whatever makes you happy. My boss is a meat and potatoes guy. He also likes to say that he doesn't eat the "ese"'s, you know, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, Philippinese (part of the joke).

Everyone has likes and dislikes. I for example hate anything peach. I love salsa's and tomato pastes, but I will not eat whole tomato's....its a consistency thing. The smell of boiling cabbage makes my stomach turn, but I love sauerkraut.

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.

Having said this, I was an extremely picky eater as a child. Eventually I matured and some of the things I now love the most were things I wouldn't touch as a kid.

My standard now is that I will try just about anything (with the exception of eyeballs, genitalia or anything with a natural slime). 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........:D

I can't stand white onions! I don't really like ANY onions. I think the only onions I can say that I liked were some sweet Maui onion rings. (In Maui)
Another "gag me" food is brussel sprouts. I'd rather eat a dirty sweat sock.
One of my sisters tried a little experiment on me when I was younger. She made me a burrito. It had onions in it (which she failed to tell me about) I took a bite of it and crunched into a chunk of white onion. I think I hurled in record time. She never tried that again.
Menudo....yum!

funny that todays new york times dining section has a front page article on picky eaters.
i have said it before and will repeat, there are no coincidences.

This only means one thing...MOREFORME!

Poison and should all be destroyed, rotten bloody things.

Liver is definitely not required dining for my kids like it was for me. As for pigs trotters, and frickin' kidneys, oh ye gods http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/shake.gif

mmmm, those bacon wrapped meat thingies at the reception looked tasty! not! it was a flippin" chunk of liver for crissakes. barfed it into a plant pot. yag! angels on horseback they called them. mushrooms of any sort, the texture mostly, olives, the nasty aftertaste/gag factor. pretty much everything else is ok, american food-wise. oh yeah, tripe.....

Hmm, I dont especially like liver, but I like the ones wrapped in bacon. Another great treat is candied apricots in bacon! mmmm Actually, now that I think about it, I would probably eat dog turds if they were wrapped in bacon! LOL

Cottage cheese. Never tried it in my life, but just one look and I knew I never would.

Don't worry - its a California thing. I know, my wife if from there also and my kids were raised there. :D

They are here now and are about cured.

The fact that you are finally fessing up really means a lot. Lets all give him a big hand. We are proud of you.

You might want to think about a trip to NC latter this fall, after a frost, to attend one of the collard festivals associated with a hog killing. We got some good eats.

You really don't know what you are missing and you asked for it. SmileWavy

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.