food issues

[befsquire]

wasn't there already a thread like this? i searched, but couldn't find it.

anyway, i have the following food issues:

my food cannot touch on the plate
i eat all of one food on my plate before i start on another, eating the meat / chicken / pork last
i have to eat oreo doublestuffs in groups of three, pulling one from each row so that the rows are even. if someone impolitely eats from one row, i have to even out the other two rows by eating the cookies -- i can't just shift them over to even the rows.

i'm sure i have more, i just can't think of them right now. or it's just that i don't realize they're not normal.

[jabumbo]

i eat pretty much everything but egg yolks, yams, and squid

[Justin]

wasn't there already a thread like this? i searched, but couldn't find it.

anyway, i have the following food issues:

my food cannot touch on the plate
i eat all of one food on my plate before i start on another, eating the meat / chicken / pork last
i have to eat oreo doublestuffs in groups of three, pulling one from each row so that the rows are even. if someone impolitely eats from one row, i have to even out the other two rows by eating the cookies -- i can't just shift them over to even the rows.

i'm sure i have more, i just can't think of them right now. or it's just that i don't realize they're not normal.

I have lived with those first 2 issues my whole life.

The worst thing is gravy. Once it starts to run its hard to stop.

Just about everyone i know (when eating a big meal) usually eats a roll while eating other foods. That always discusted me.

Some people should just go throw all their food in a bowl and heat it up and not even worry about putting it on a plate.

[befsquire]

almost as bad as gravy is a lake of butter in your mashed potatoes. once you breach a retaining wall, the butter seeks out the meat specifically.

[Drederick Tatum]

I have lived with those first 2 issues my whole life.

The worst thing is gravy. Once it starts to run its hard to stop.

Just about everyone i know (when eating a big meal) usually eats a roll while eating other foods. That always discusted me.

Some people should just go throw all their food in a bowl and heat it up and not even worry about putting it on a plate.

you guys sound like white trash, raised on tv dinners.

[befsquire]

thank you sunshine :)

[Justin]

you guys sound like white trash, raised on tv dinners.

just the opposite. I like to enjoy what i eat individually. Im not a fucking dog

[Drederick Tatum]

heaven (http://theimaginaryworld.com/baggies03.jpg) for beth and Justin.

[Drederick Tatum]

WHEN GOOD TV DINNERS GO BAD. (http://thegreencuttingboard.blogspot.com/TV-diner.jpg)

[befsquire]

heaven (http://theimaginaryworld.com/baggies03.jpg) for beth and Justin.
clearly not, since there are other things in the corn, AND, there is green stuff in the meat.

oddly enough, i do like to put corn on top of my mashed potatoes. that's the only exception.

[Justin]

damn. All that gravy would give you the runs

[Drederick Tatum]

Beth and Justin go for the neat, seperate packaging, but they stay for the good times! (http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news907.article.jpg)

nice of Echewta to chaperone. Sting sucks though.

[Justin]

I really dont eat many tv dinners, but i do like the sweet and sour/mangerine chicken and rice dinners.

[Justin]

Beth and Justin go for the neat, seperate packaging, but they stay for the good times! (http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news907.article.jpg)

nice of Echewta to chaperone. Sting sucks though.

haha. I would never wear a Sting shirt though.

[befsquire]

drederick, i'm so going to drive up there just to lob mcnuggets at your mcnoggin.

[Justin]

bed time for me

Keep your food Separated! *guitar riff*

[befsquire]

i'm gonna be dissin' drederick on my next rap album.

[zorra_chiflada]

i don't eat meat, and i haven't for most of my life. it's just that the idea of eating flesh grosses me out to the max. and i'm really used to it now, so no biggie.
i eat a lot of candy.
my mother is a dietician, so i have had healthy eating stuff all around me most of my life. now i've moved out of home, i'm rebelling! i haven't put on any weight or died either! sucked in mum!

[TurdBerglar]

i can't eat for like 2-3 hours after i wake up. it's like as if my digestive system hasn't awaken yet. i never eat breakfast

[TurdBerglar]

i just puke it right back up. even water. just comes right back up almost instantly. i even have a hard time keeping myself from gagging when i brush my teeth in the morning.

[Rancid_Beasties]

I can't eat for three hours before I leave the house. True.

I'm scared of throwing up in public, so before I go shopping, to the movies, etc. I won't eat for at least three hours beforehand.

That increases to 6 when i'm going to be drinking alcohol.

I rarely used to eat at school, uni and work.

Plus this limits my ability to go out for dinner - though, I am getting better at it.
Wow that really sucks, was there an event that triggered this phobia or is it something you've always had.

[FloorK]

The only problem I have with food is that I cannot stand when one food is touching the other.... With some (more messy) meals I even like to use seperate plates..... does this make me a freak?! :confused:

[Pres Zount]

i can't eat for like 2-3 hours after i wake up. it's like as if my digestive system hasn't awaken yet. i never eat breakfast

Yeah. same here.

another problem I have is that my fork is never big enough, nor my mouth.

[cunning stunt]

The only problem I have with food is that I cannot stand when one food is touching the other.... With some (more messy) meals I even like to use seperate plates..... does this make me a freak?! :confused:


Does it make u a freak? Not sure Floor. My sister has the same thing - she won't even eat out because she has a near on panic attack if a plate of food is served up to her and there are different food groups touching. In her case it's definitely an obsessive/compulsive disorder but maybe for u it's not that severe and more a matter of preference.

[befsquire]

if my foods touch, i just don't eat the spots where they touched.

a friend of mine has a hard time eating in front of others. so, if she goes to dinner with me, she can eat, but if i look at her, she stops chewing and won't start chewing again until i'm looking elsewhere. and when i'm done, she's done, because that just means i can look at her the whole time. she's working on it, but i just try not to look at her too much while she's eating.

[na§tee]

how curious. very interesting!

i'm very normal. the only thing i can't stand is baked beans. purely because it seems once they touch the plate they immediately start to go cold and cold tomato sauce covered products, or even just lukewarm tomato sauce covered products, i really, really cannot abide.

you just can't eat them quick enough! same with spaghetti o's or whatever you call them [but who the hell eats them past the age of 12 anyhoo?].

there was a program on recently about a feller who had a phobia of baked beans, and he was a greasy spoon "chef"! he had to make breakfasts for lorry drivers and truckers every morning and he had to get his pal to cook all the beans. he just could not look at them. i'm like that. i will eat beans only if they are STEAMING hot, and only on toast. this is because if the beans are part of a larger, more complicated meal you would have to eat them first [cos they will go cold - fast] and then have to negotiate the rest of the food around the rest of the minging cold tomato sauce left over! YUCK!

brrr. end of story.

[enree erzweglle]

My biggest eating issues are related to etiquette.

It sort of nauseates me when people...

. leave stuff in the corners of their mouth, lips.
(I'll say, "you have something" and I'll point and some people just nod like they know and they leave it there.)

. lick their fingers while eating or when they're finished.
(I knew this one guy who did that after every meal, regardless of whether or not there was food on his fingers. He'd just sort of lick each finger until he did all 10. It was so odd because he was fairly refined otherwise.)

. practically lick the bowl/plate to get every last crumb and then use a licked finger to collect the bits that they couldn't get otherwise.
(Are they that hungry?)

Gross. All of it.

[abcdefz]

I guess my "food issues" would be that sometimes I let my mood dictate what I eat: eg "comfort food."

But when I was a kid, I would eat or not eat food based on what it looked like. This led to many, many PBJ sandwiches. I wouldn't eat Chinese food or even pizza until I was in high school. That stuff -- if you don't know what it tastes like, it can just look asty. Don't eve get me started on salisbury steak or chipped beef. And also, don't blame me if you serve something called "Shit on a Shingle" and I mdon't dig right in.

[mp-seventythree]

people should just shut the fuck up about breakfast. it ain't all that great for you after all.

Are you serious? Eating breakfast is what kick starts your metabolism each day. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything if I didn't eat breakfast.

But if it's not your thing, then it's not your thing.

[abcdefz]

Yup. Bad idea to skip breakfast. And the food is as healthy as the choices you make.

[beastiegirrl101]

My only food issue is with textures. I cant eat the majority of fruit because the textures freak me out...think orange, kiwi...that grainy, stringy, slimy..no way man.

I can go in my garden and pull a cherry tomato off the vine and pop it in my mouth...but cannot touch a grape. Same texture....just cant do it.

I pretty much eat everything else though, and like enree unpleasant manners like when people pick their teeth at the table, or when females dont excuse themselves to the bathroom before touching up their makeup...bad. (n)

[abcdefz]

My only food issue is with textures. (n)




This reminds me: nuts and coconut shavings, 99% of the time, do not belong in cakes, cookies, and breads.

In fact, store-bought, shaved cocnut is always bad. Prying open a cocnut and scraping the meat out is great, though.

And it's all a texture thing, yes.

[bigblu89]

There are foods I don't like, but I don't think I have any Seinfelds when it comes to food.

Which could explain why I'm such a miserable fatbody.

[enree erzweglle]

I pretty much eat everything else though, and like enree unpleasant manners like when people pick their teeth at the table, or when females dont excuse themselves to the bathroom before touching up their makeup...bad. (n)I have that texture problem with types of materials rubbing together. I cannot tolerate wool against wool. Goes through me.

What you said reminded me that I also hate it when people clean their teeth at the table. Like they'll put a finger right in there and poke around and then eat what they find. (!) I have braces on right now and stuff gets stuck in interesting places and I don't do that finger thing...I'll excuse myself and go and brush my teeth and I'll use a toothbrush to do that. Damn.

[monkey]

i cant eat things without knowing the ingredients, or things mushed up together, or anything like that.
i cant stand sauces and dressings. i refuse them.
i cant drink water first thing in the morning. either i eat or drink tea or have juice. just not water or i'll gag.
i dont eat things with eyes except potatoes.
i cant eat spicy things (even pepper sometimes) or bitter things. doc said im a super-taster, i taste all the ingredients in my food and all the flavors are superstrong. so my diet tends to be kinda bland cause strong foods really bother me.
i cant eat garlic.

[enree erzweglle]

This thread fascinates me. I had no idea that people had issues like these about foods.

The one, Pauli, about things with eyes--that's so interesting.

I have learned the hard way that there are several foods that I can't eat or I'll die without treatment, so I carry epinephrine.

I can eat garlic, but if I touch it, I'll get a migraine.

If I touch or eat raw or even semi-cooked onions, bad migraine.

[beastiegirrl101]

when I used to eat meat and made a deli sammach of some sort the only way I could eat it was if I microwaved it and the cheese was slightly melted.

[voltanapricot]

I can't have sauces running into certain foods on my plate becasue it spoils my little routine. For example, if I'm having baked beans with potato smiley faces, I have to form a fish finger wall to seperate the smiley faces and the beans so I can cut up the smiley faces then drench them in beans. If they're already tomato sauced up from the beans, then I'm not a smiley eater.

[befsquire]

^ your post was awesome; i can see the fish finger wall and what i hear in my head at the same time, for some unknown reason, is the guy from south park that owns the city wok yelling at the mongolians to quit tearing down his shitty (city) wall.

so, potato smiley faces, do you buy them like that, or are they mashed potatoes that you then form into a smiley face, or what?

[jennyb]

I hate the sound of liquid pouring into a glass, makes me wanna gag. I've tried to tell myself to get over it, but I can't. Also, if someone shakes a ketchup bottle in front of me... ugh, my gag reflex kicks in. Cripes, now you all know my kryptonite! Curses.

Also, sometimes I can't eat if I know someone is watching me. I can feel your friend's pain Beth. It was cool to read that I'm not alone on that one. Sounds like she's a tad worse off than I though. Poor dear.

Man we're all freaks up in here eh? ;)

[monkey]

The one, Pauli, about things with eyes--that's so interesting.
.

thats cause i used to watch my mom cut up a fish when i was little, and then she'd give me the head to throw out and i would look at the eyes and they seemed... sad. once i poked them out and touched them.

so thats the image i get when i think of meat or fish or poultry. very succesful method of vegetarianism. :)

[fucktopgirl]

I hate the sound of liquid pouring into a glass, makes me wanna gag. I've tried to tell myself to get over it, but I can't. Also, if someone shakes a ketchup bottle in front of me... ugh, my gag reflex kicks in. Cripes, now you all know my kryptonite! Curses.


God damnit,are you joking?You must!

*pourring some wine in a cup*

did you gag?

[kaiser soze]

beth, how do you eat chinese take-out?

I don't have many qualms with food..i'm not fond of liver, baked beans, cooked spinach and sugar cereals.

[tracky]

i don't like eating foods with white sauce. especially like white pasta sauce. it's not the flavour and i have no problem eating other white foods, say like yogurt, it's just white sauce that i don't like. i dunno, it's weird.

[fucktopgirl]

i cannot eat anything that is slimy!

[jackrock]

I don't eat meat if i see it raw, or being prepared.
I don't eat breakfast, no particular reason, i guess i just don't.

[befsquire]

kaiser, some foods are only prepared mixed up, so it's not like food is really touching. chinese food being a great example. i'm generally speaking about traditional dinners that have a meat, vegetable, and potato. green beans don't need to touch my chicken or sweet potato, yaknowwhati'msayin?

[kaiser soze]

word up!

[jennyb]

*pourring some wine in a cup*

*gags*


:p

Thanks fucktop!

[jabumbo]

you people would hate to eat with me then...


i love to toss everything into a bowl and eat it that way.

[Yeti]

I'll eat with you and the Iron City beer is on me.

[jabumbo]

you're a good man yeti, no matter what those other people say

[mikizee]

there are certain foods that i will not eat or go near.

i grew up near a mushroom farm, and within a 5 km radius was a really bad stench in the air. i CANNOT eat mushrooms. think about it, its fungus, and its grown in 95% manure. buried in it for most of its life. ppl say, 'but its washed', but would u eat something that i buried in my own shit, even if i washed it afterwards? no way! fuckin disgusting. even if a mushroom has touched my food slightly, then i wont eat the food. or if a bbq hot plate/pan has been used to cook mushrooms, then other food, i wont eat the other food.

same goes for olives, they have such a repugnant taste that makes me wanna throw up. also pickles, gherkins, (seriously, would u wanna eat something thats called a gherkin??? i mean really) and um thats it.

i always like to lick my knife when im eating, and the missus hates it. she hates my general eating habits at the table full stop. i'm a 'mash it all together then shove it in ya gob' kinda guy.

if im eating fast food like mcd's etc i have to eat everything evenly so i finish everything at the same time. i hate it when u get thru all your fries and still have half a burger left! or vice versa.

[Justin]

I'll eat with you and the Iron City beer is on me.

That Iron City Beer tastes like a bad alternative to old milwaukee

[ericlee]

I'm not too picky at all when it comes to food except for eggs and fish.

If I'm eating eggs and happen to chomp on an eggshell or if I happen to get a bone from fish, it's put fork down time and I'm finished eating.

[b-grrrlie]

One of my friends doesn't eat anything with eyes either, except potatoes! And my sister has to have preferably at least three different colours on her plate, like potatoes, meat and colourful veggies. So I guess she wouldn't want my woks with mushrooms cause they colour everything yucky brown... ;)
I'm not that fussy about food. Being vegetarian is tough enough sometimes. Of course there's some flavours that I don't like, like the white sauce in lasagne (I think they call it bechamel here) and I do not like aubergine at all, in any shape.
When I was younger tomatoes stung the corners of my mouth, just as oranges, but I suspect it must've been all the pesticides and stuff, cause when I eat organic or homegrown (which are organic) they don't sting.

[zorra_chiflada]

when at home, i can only drink coffee from the one cup. i just can't drink it if it's in another one.

[Funkyfreshgrape]

thats super wierd!:eek:

[fucktopgirl]

when at home, i can only drink coffee from the one cup. i just can't drink it if it's in another one.

and now you did loose that cup!:(
what are you gonna do?

[zorra_chiflada]

and now you did loose that cup!:(
what are you gonna do?

i found it!! :)

[Randetica]

when my parents said i can drink from their glass i was like ewww fuck off

im also not able to drink from the same spot twice cause im grossed out by myself (but not having that problem with bottles hmm..)

i also chew with my mouth open cause im a mouth breather

i dont like to eat stirred up spaghetti sauce wank, first spaghetti and sauce on top!

im kinda freaked out finding meatish shit in my food cause my mum forgot to make it veggie friendly a few times

before my diet i added more sugar than milk in my coffee

and it's my life goal to try one of those krispy kreme things before i die

[Mrs_Princess]

I hate when my food touch... they touch I don't eat them!
I don't like turkey at all or anything with turkey.. or pork except bacon, and ham on thanksgiving
I only eat chicken breast, no other part of the chicken

[Yeti]

That Iron City Beer tastes like a bad alternative to old milwaukee

What about Yuengling? That's a good Pennsylvania brew.
I grew up in a rural part of Virginia. I drank---Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Mil and damn it I liked it at the time.
To quote Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet--Pabst Blue Ribbon motherfucker!!

[Documad]

Ah Beth, we did have a great OCD thread that had food issues in it. Another one lost in a purge. :)

I had a lot of issues but most of them are gone. I used to eat each kind of food individually and leave the potatoes for last. Now I eat a bite of this or that, but I still like each bite to be separate and I don't want things to touch unless they were meant to touch. I blame my mom because she would cut up her food in pieces and then stack it on a fork so that she had a little bit of each thing on one forkful. That used to freak me out.

After I stir my coffee with a spoon, I have to lick the spoon. I know that's gross and so I don't like to do it if I'm eating with someone, but it bothers me if I don't do it.

If I have a little bit of chocolate with my coffee, I break the chocolate into tiny pieces to that I can apportion the chocolate to match the cup of coffee.

I don't like it when the coffee shop people put the top on my coffee cup because they always press their fingers on the hole where I'll be drinking. For some reason, it doesn't bother me when they wipe the frother down with a dirty rag.

[monkey]

we shoukd have a food issues oarty where we get to watch each other haveall these ussues wuith eating. that would be sooo funnny.

<3

[Justin]

What about Yuengling? That's a good Pennsylvania brew.
I grew up in a rural part of Virginia. I drank---Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Mil and damn it I liked it at the time.
To quote Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet--Pabst Blue Ribbon motherfucker!!

I can handle yuengling. It's actually the only "non-commercial" beer sold at the pirates games. I really cant tell much of a difference in it really.

I tried the iron city shit last weekend. Nasty. Worst after taste ever.

I'll drink the canadian shit before iron city anyday.

[Yeti]

Right now my brew is El Presidente--a Dominican beer and I always love a Red Stripe. Harp to..................................
and Pabst Blue Ribbon motherfucker!!!!

[Justin]

is that a dark beer?

[Yeti]

El Presidente and Harp are medium lager beers. I am not a dark beer drinker. And Pabst Blue Ribbon is undescribable.

[cosmo105]

don't know if this is so much a food issue as a weird habit.

any time i get a bottle of something - water, beer, whatever - when i finish it, i peel the label off, down to scraping off the last bit of adhesive. and then i roll it up and put it in the bottle like a message to Sting or something. and then i put the cap back on. every. single. time. i don't know why. i just have to.

[Yeti]

don't know if this is so much a food issue as a weird habit.

any time i get a bottle of something - water, beer, whatever - when i finish it, i peel the label off, down to scraping off the last bit of adhesive. and then i roll it up and put it in the bottle like a message to Sting or something. and then i put the cap back on. every. single. time. i don't know why. i just have to.


OCD or a form of Tourettes syndrome is my guess.... or a really big Gordon Sumner fan.

[befsquire]

if i finish my drink and there's half melted ice left and i'm not immediately getting another drink, i have to chew the ice cubes. i can't leave them, dump them out, etc.

i can only have gravy on my meat if the meat is pot roast, and i cannot eat any pot roast unless it is made with my recipe. and even though all the foods cook together in the crock pot, they still can't touch on my plate.

[Drederick Tatum]

don't know if this is so much a food issue as a weird habit.

any time i get a bottle of something - water, beer, whatever - when i finish it, i peel the label off, down to scraping off the last bit of adhesive. and then i roll it up and put it in the bottle like a message to Sting or something. and then i put the cap back on. every. single. time. i don't know why. i just have to.

In NZ peeling the label off your beer, etc is seen as a sign of sexual frustration. and by the sounds of it you're in need of some tantric.

[befsquire]

same here. chewing on the end of a straw is also a sign.

[b-grrrlie]

Same here with the peeling of the label. I didn't know about the straw tho. I never buy drinks with straws anyway.
And I never leave my drink out of sight at clubs or bars, cause I suspect once my drink was mixed with something else cause I had to throw up just after a couple of sips and I felt really really bad. I had to lie on the floor in the ladies so the other girls went to get the security and I think they understood straight away what had happened cause they didn't throw me out as a drunkard. Guess it had happened before at that place.... So now I never accept a drink from a stranger, unless it's an unopened bottle.

[Rancid_Beasties]

^ your post was awesome; i can see the fish finger wall and what i hear in my head at the same time, for some unknown reason, is the guy from south park that owns the city wok yelling at the mongolians to quit tearing down his shitty (city) wall.

so, potato smiley faces, do you buy them like that, or are they mashed potatoes that you then form into a smiley face, or what?
I dunno if anyone answered you, but here is an example of mccain potato smileys (http://www.alynappies.com/images/smileys.jpg) :)

[mezzanine]

My Ma used to cook (and then eat) tripe. I fecking hated it because even if u open every damn window in the house, the smell of it lingers for days. yeeeuuuuckkkkkkkkk! :(

[jennyb]

In NZ peeling the label off your beer, etc is seen as a sign of sexual frustration. and by the sounds of it you're in need of some tantric.

Uh oh. Looks like Boomin's got some work to do! ;)

[alexandra]

i'm sexually frustrated without even knowing. :=/ :confused:

[venusvenus123]

this thread is disturbing.

[fucktopgirl]

i'm sexually frustrated without even knowing. :=/ :confused:

about food?