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Food Fussiness
I cannot stand carrots if they are simply cut into rounds. Ideally I prefer to eat them cubed very small (and realistically that would only be in my own cooking). I can eat them mashed and sort of tolerate them halved and cut lengthways roasted. Grated in salads is fine too. But yeah, circular cross sections of carrot are just horrible for me.
Sandwiches I prefer to eat if cut into triangles. I wish EAT would cut their sandwiches into triangles! I eat them anyway but I know if they were cut differently I would enjoy them more. Which stupid fussy food habits do you possess? |
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I have to eat cereal with a teaspoon
Bananas need to be firm and green and I only ear them sliced. I love them like that try getting me to eat one straight from the skin that has the merest black spot or any squidge of ripeness and I hate them. |
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None at all, eat anything me.
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I'm not fussy at all. There are a few things that I simply don't like the taste of, sprouts, bananas, nuts and dried fruit like raisins/sultanas. Anything else I'm good with, I've never come across any meat or seafood I don't like and I'd happily try anything, I don't think there's an animal I wouldn't eat.
Whilst I understand people not liking the taste or even texture of something I can't understand what difference a sandwich being triangular or square makes, that seems a bit childish to me. Those people that are really fussy about meat and won't eat something because "Rabbits are cute" or "It's like eating Bambi" irritate me quite a bit. |
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My mother will only eat two shapes of pasta: Spaghetti broken up into about 2 inch lengths or fusilli. She claims not to like the other shapes
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I'm not fussy at all. There are a few things that I simply don't like the taste of, sprouts, bananas, nuts and dried fruit like raisins/sultanas. Anything else I'm good with, I've never come across any meat or seafood I don't like and I'd happily try anything, I don't think there's an animal I wouldn't eat.
Whilst I understand people not liking the taste or even texture of something I can't understand what difference a sandwich being triangular or square makes, that seems a bit childish to me. Those people that are really fussy about meat and won't eat something because "Rabbits are cute" or "It's like eating Bambi" irritate me quite a bit. And I might irritate you further by saying I have the exact opposite problem with eating cute animals. I can eat cute animals (especially deer, they are so pretty and taste marvellous), but I cannot eat really ugly ones. Eels, catfish, snails - too ugly when alive so I won't eat them. |
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I kind of did suggest in the OP that it doesn't make any sense…
And I might irritate you further by saying I have the exact opposite problem with eating cute animals. I can eat cute animals (especially deer, they are so pretty and taste marvellous), but I cannot eat really ugly ones. Eels, catfish, snails - too ugly when alive so I won't eat them. ![]() If you were told that something was really delicious would you still not try it if it was ugly? |
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None anymore I don't think.
Went through a funny stage when little of not being able to face up to eating swedes at home. I would actually gag when I tried so mum stopped putting them on my plate. However at school I would happily eat swedes in whatever form, cubed, mashed, in soup etc. |
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i have real bad OCD food issues.
I don't like certain things touching, sauces for example cannot touch at all. Mashed potatoes another thing I hate touching other food. I really can't explain it, it just freaks me out and makes me feel sick. I get quite nervous when out eating as I have to second guess how a place will serve the food, I've had it on occasions where I've had to leave a big part of a meal because I didn't like how it was presented. I'm very lucky that my fella understands my weirdness about food. I really do wish I could get a whole load of food, slop it on a plate not caring what touched what but I can't, the thought of it makes me feel very anxious and sick, I'd probably have a breakdown of presented with it and forced to eat it |
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My mother will only eat two shapes of pasta: Spaghetti broken up into about 2 inch lengths or fusilli. She claims not to like the other shapes
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Tomato Ketchup
Don't like it on chips. Generally don't like sauce on chips. Salt on fries and salt & vinegar on chips. Ketchup on bacon/sausage sandwiches, burgers and hotdogs but even if having chips on the same plate i'd not want the ketchup on the chips. Also for a fry up/all day breakfast where I might have bacon, sausage, beans and chips/hash browns on the plate. I'd be happy to squirt a bit of ketchup or brown sauce over all the items apart from the chips, even though i'd be eating all the items in the same mouthful. |
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My list of food fussiness is legion. It's a texture thing for me. So mayonnaise in sandwiches - no, makes me gag. Yet I like coleslaw.
Also, jelly on its own, yes. Custard on its own, yes. Cake on its own, yes. Trifle - god no. WAY too much going on in that. Re: the ketchup thing, I like ketchup to dip in, but don't like it spread over stuff. |
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I simply can't eat roast chicken without bread sauce, and it has to be home made.
I'd rather go hungry than have roast chicken or turkey with cranberry sauce |
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I cannot eat sandwiches or toast if I have seen them being prepared by someone else. If they are prepared "behind the scenes" I can eat them. However, I can never, ever eat toast that has been buttered by someone else - it makes me want to gag.
I hate the texture of jelly-type foods, as well as alcohol in desserts. Sauces cannot go ON food, they have to come WITH it. I can't eat something passed to me from someone else's plate and if anyone takes something from my plate I cannot eat the rest. |
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When I was in the Priory, one of the rules was that when they served up our main puddings (crumble and custard/ice-cream, pie and ice-cream, cheesecake and ice-cream, summer pudding and ice-cream, fruit salad and ice-cream, eton mess and ice-cream, whatever...), we had to put our ice-cream (often served in a separate bowl as it was kept in the freezer longer) into the bowl with the rest of the pudding. I hate it. I would always prefer to eat the ice-cream first separately, then the rest of it, I don't like the mixture of melting ice-cream on puddings! I like it to be separate.
And although it's not 'fussiness' as such, I eat my meals by eating one thing at a time (e.g. all mushrooms first, then all carrots, then all chicken, then all rice or something). They always class that as a 'behaviour' there, and it drove me mad! |
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When I was in the Priory, one of the rules was that when they served up our main puddings (crumble and custard/ice-cream, pie and ice-cream, cheesecake and ice-cream, summer pudding and ice-cream, fruit salad and ice-cream, eton mess and ice-cream, whatever...), we had to put our ice-cream (often served in a separate bowl as it was kept in the freezer longer) into the bowl with the rest of the pudding. I hate it. I would always prefer to eat the ice-cream first separately, then the rest of it, I don't like the mixture of melting ice-cream on puddings! I like it to be separate.
And although it's not 'fussiness' as such, I eat my meals by eating one thing at a time (e.g. all mushrooms first, then all carrots, then all chicken, then all rice or something). They always class that as a 'behaviour' there, and it drove me mad! |
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I quite often do that. I eat all my vegetables first so they're out the way! I read somewhere that's a good way of eating healthily as you ensure you eat the nutritious bit in case you don't finish your plate. I was baffled by the concept of not finishing a plate of food.
I know which I would prefer so it doesn't bother me when people say i'm wasting food. If in a restaurant I usually put the napkin over unfinished plates as for some reason the staff feel they need to ask why I haven't finished. |
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I cannot stand carrots if they are simply cut into rounds. Ideally I prefer to eat them cubed very small (and realistically that would only be in my own cooking). I can eat them mashed and sort of tolerate them halved and cut lengthways roasted. Grated in salads is fine too. But yeah, circular cross sections of carrot are just horrible for me.
Sandwiches I prefer to eat if cut into triangles. I wish EAT would cut their sandwiches into triangles! I eat them anyway but I know if they were cut differently I would enjoy them more. Which stupid fussy food habits do you possess? |
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My mother will only eat two shapes of pasta: Spaghetti broken up into about 2 inch lengths or fusilli. She claims not to like the other shapes
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Would it be better to stuff yourself and make yourself feel sick or actually vomit or stop when you feel full and leave some food on the plate?
I know which I would prefer so it doesn't bother me when people say i'm wasting food. If in a restaurant I usually put the napkin over unfinished plates as for some reason the staff feel they need to ask why I haven't finished. |
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I'm curious, how does she eat it when it's too short to wrap around a fork?
I always cut spaghetti up and eat it with a spoon. /philistine |
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None, I'm an adult.
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Would it be better to stuff yourself and make yourself feel sick or actually vomit or stop when you feel full and leave some food on the plate?
I know which I would prefer so it doesn't bother me when people say i'm wasting food. If in a restaurant I usually put the napkin over unfinished plates as for some reason the staff feel they need to ask why I haven't finished. |
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It's rather rude, unless you've left a lot and they're concerned that the food was not up to scratch.
I think it's the mentality of if you're out paying for food you would stuff your face rather than waste anything. Maybe in the past I would have done that but these days I would rather not make myself sick. |
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Would it be better to stuff yourself and make yourself feel sick or actually vomit or stop when you feel full and leave some food on the plate?
I know which I would prefer so it doesn't bother me when people say i'm wasting food. If in a restaurant I usually put the napkin over unfinished plates as for some reason the staff feel they need to ask why I haven't finished. |
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