You are actually a pretty decent example of my point .

17 posts yesterday ( 24 hrs) , evenly spread up till nearly 5am .

There was an eight hour "gap" between 12 noon and 8pm which kinda suggests that you are a night shift worker and asleep at that time or maybe you were working for those 8 hours .
Either way , it looks as though if you are not asleep you are either checking / reading threads / or posting on DS .

I would imagine that you frequent other forums as well , as I do.

I'm certainly not criticising regular posters - or forum junkies as I like to call myself

Hah! Some people would do well to try Rifle Range Stew .

In the army, if we were spending a day on the rifle ranges (which were a long drive away from camp), our lunch would be brought out to us. Most blokes (me included) would have their dinner, pudding and bread or whatever in the same mess tin - it saved on washing up, as there weren't any facilities (you just grabbed a handful of gravel, filled it with water from a nearby river, and swished it about. And yes, it came up sparkling).

I drew the line with my tea though - I'd have that in my mug.

Glad I could help.

It definitely is a possibility in certain extreme cases as I posted earlier.

And as you mentioned, many are not just talking about sauces.

I'm not a night shift worker and don't suffers from Asperger syndrome to a great degree, though I have some symptoms pertaining to OCD and am mildly dyslexic, IMO. I don't post on other forums these days.

I'm more likely to fall under some or all of the following categories, judging by certain comments made to me on DS in the past. You name it, it has been said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_I_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_II_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_NOS

Sorry for being off topic.

Sounds like you , like many , many others are simply on the autistic spectrum which encompasses many traits and conditions , lot of overlapping as well.

Take an online AS test , you may well get a surprise.

Used to have a flat-mate with a similar problem but in his case he would only eat the food items on his plate one whole thing at a time. So for example if he had sausage, chips and beans he would eat all the chips (on their own) then the sausages and then all the beans. I mean, the whole point of the beans is to give the dry things moist sauciness! Bizarre chap...

People mock, but for me it isn't a choice. I didn't just wake up one day and decide that i'd feel like crying if my waffles touch my sauce without me specifically dipping it in. Or that I wouldn't like my mash touching my peas or carrots or whatever.

I'm not saying it is a major problem, but it is an issue.

Alexis7

[Take an online AS test , you may well get a surprise.[/quote]

Thank you. I took the test you linked to and I did get a surprise - I'm not. My score was quite a long way beneath the threshold.

I think what we're suffering from is foibles, rather than anything medical. But you never know, some people may take the test and realise they actually do have a touch of Asperger's.
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If you had a korma didn't you want to stop the almonds touching anything? or the chicken touching the sauce?

Weird.

Thank you all for continuing to post. Pleased to see I'm not alone!!

Yeah I didn't just wake up one day and decided I didn't like it, I have no idea where it stems from, I guess when me and my sisters were little something must have happened at the dinner table to make us this way. I really wish I could just enjoy it all slopped on the plate together but I can't!!

filthy animals.

the only one of those i`ve never seen here is gravy, i don`t think i`ve been to a chip shop here that DOESN`T have peas and curry sauce.

a savannarr.

I know Every time I do it I always think what would those DS foodies on the food forum think.. Never in a million years did I think it would bring down the wrath of a different group of people .