Whenever I put anything on a cracker, be it cheese or a spread of some sort, I always put it on the unsalted side, so that when I pop it in my mouth I get the full salt flavor against my tongue. On some crackers it is easy to determine the salted side, but on Triscuits, I’d better have good light!
What’s your eating quirk?
Oh, and eating the chocolate coating off the equator of a Whoppers malted milk ball and then letting the rest dissolve in your mouth is not a quirk…just good common sense, right? Come on, I know I’m not the only one…right?
I’m just the opposite with Whoppers. I put a tiny hole in it with my canine tooth, let my spit get in and dissolve the inside, suck it out gently, then eat the chocolate
Let’s see … I like lite Wasabi mayo on pork chops. And fries (though that’s not so weird).
I used to have orange juice on cereal (specifically, Five Alive on Kenmei rice bran cereal). Now it’s Silk.
Same here. So far, I can only recall off-hand one book that I spoilered myself with by doing this.
My food habits:
If I am making a sandwich to be eaten then and there (as oppossed to making one in the morning for lunch,) I will assemble everything, and once the top slice is down, take one bite from the “top”-left corner. The top meaning the side of the bread that has the top part of the crust on it. I will then put away all the fixins, get myself a drink and/or chips or some other side, then go off and finish eating. And although i said I don’t do it if making a sandwich for later, I’m not perfect, and I have gotten my lunch out of my bag before and noticed a bite missing from the corner. The worst part is I don’t ever remember doiing it, it’s just an impulsive action. (Though now I am in the habit of keeping all my fixins seperate and then make the sandwich at lunch, to keep the bread dry and such.)
When I’m eating a Kit-Kat bar, I eat all of the chocolate off, then I take the wafers apart with my teeth and eat the middle stuff off by scraping it with my teeth. Then I eat the plain wafer. It’s a disgusting spectacle, I assure you.
Other than that, I think I eat food pretty normally. Except I am fanatical in my belief that lettuce and tomato have no place on a sandwich.
Whoppers (or malteesers) get the chocolate coating stripped clean off, then the malted center gets dissolved in my mouth.
Kit Kat: I bite the edges off the stick. If I’m feeling particularly playful I’ll separate the wafers and eat the individually.
Aero: I wet da bubbooz mewt. Just the bubbles; I often strip the solid outer layer first.
Celery: I try and strip out as many of the strings from the first bite as I can, biting/bending the stick down so that the strings get exposed and can be sort of peeled out of the rest of the stick. That leaves the rest of the stick string-free.
My wife likes to lick the flavour-dusted side of the Pringle before consuming the chip.
I can think of two: 1984 and Flowers for Algernon. I read half of the latter book as an adolescent, then flipped to the last page to see how many pages it was, and inadvertantly read the last sentence. That was the last I read of the book: having read the end, I had no desire at all to read the rest.
I eat the outside edges of the sandwich first, whether there’s a crust or not. The reasoning is that then there’s no chance of having a bite that’s just bread. The real explanation is that I’m just weird that way. When I take a bite of anything I can hold in my hand I have to make sure the edges are even, with no jagged places from my bite. Which means I have to kind of nibble off the sticking out parts.
When I drink anything from a paper cup, or from a bottle with a label, the seam or the edge of the label has to run straight across the middle of the ball of my thumb when I hold it.
Sandwiches - I cut off the crusts on three sides, leaving the top crust on. I bite off the four corners first, then take bites evenly around the edges, whittling it down to the last bite in the dead center.
Any kind of candy that contains nuts - with each bite I will dissolve off all the candy, leaving the nuts to be chewed up last. It takes me forever to eat a Snickers bar.
If a bag of chips is poured out where I can see them all, I will eat the “good” chips first: the ones that are folded or have bubbles.
Food may not touch. That is the law. Food may be combined to make different food, such as peanut butter and bread to make a sandwich, but the sandwich may not touch anything else on the plate. Food that touches may not be consumed, for it has suffered a chemical reaction and is now disgusting. If social pressure is such that said poison must be consumed anyway, then the antidote can be delivered in the form of inventing a new food.
For example: my boyfriend makes me a breakfast of eggs, bacon, and grits. Through a calamity of galactic proportions, the plate tips and the grits get all over the bacon and eggs. Because I can’t be so big a jerk as to not eat it or to even fuss about it, I mentally dub the breakfast a “scramble” and can eat it in peace.
It really does make sense if you think about it long enough.
I like to eat my salad last, if we’re not somewhere like a restaurant where you get your salad before all the food to shut you up. I believe this is the way it’s supposed to be served, actually, and modern restaraunts just give it to you first because its easy and so you won’t whine. That’s not why I eat it last, though, I just like it better that way.
Same way I eat a Kit Kat. Also, there’s no tossing a handful of M&Ms in my mouth. The crunchy candy coating has to be removed and eaten seperately from the chocolate. And ketchup on cabbage, I don’t know where that came from but can’t eat cabbage without it.
I eat oreos whole. The white stuff in the middle is horrible and chemically, and the “chocolate” biscuit part is nothing too special on its own. As a whole, there’s some sort of chemical/spiritual reaction that turns the oreo into more than the sum of its parts, and you don’t end up tasting the horrible ersatz nastiness, it’s just good.
Me? Whenever I get a ham and cheese croissant (mm, toasted) I always, always have to put salt & vinegar chips (crisps) on it.
Also, burgers. Any burger I get from McDonalds will have fries put into it before consumption. Same with any KFC burger. That doesn’t work for sandwiches, though. If I have a sandwich with fries, they’ll both be eaten separately.
Vegetables are always eaten first, then I’m allowed to eat the meat. That’s a hangover from when I was a kid, and my mum’d force me to eat the veggies first, before I was allowed to have my steak or chicken or sausages or whatever.
When consuming a meal that includes french fries, I always eat all the fries first. Cold fries are much nastier than any other part of the meal could become.
And actually, I tend to eat all I’m going to of one dish, before moving on around the plate…except with chinese food when it’s a little this a little that.
I eat pizza “backward.” Mom was much too effective in training me not to waste food, so I MUST eat the crust. But I don’t want that to be the taste/texture that is left in my mouth after I finish, so I get it out of the way immediatly, then work my way to the point.
I honestly feel that chinese food tastes better eaten with chopsticks.
I think beets are a wonderful food. I was probably 30 before I realized that many people don’t like them.
There are things I don’t especially care for, and wouldn’t order off a menu, but there is nothing I wouldn’t eat if that is what a host were serving. For this reason some of my “inlaws” (Kevbabe and I live in sin) think that I like things I actually don’t…like sweet taters with nasty brown sugar syrup and marshmallows melted on top. I like baked sweet taters, with sour cream (like a proper idaho spud) just fine…which people find wierd.
I dunno if you can still get Sugar Babies everywhere, but you can where I am at. I pop three at a time in my mouth, and s-l-o-w-l-y “chew” them between my front teeth until the caramel has broken down into sugar crystals and they are a mass with the consistency of brown-sugar in the front of my mouth, then I swallow. How the hell I ever learned to do this I don’t know, but it’s now impossible to resist. I love that brown-sugar texture when the caramel breaks down! Fortunately I seldom indulge in these.
Can’t eat potato chips without mustard on them, the spicier the better, but will make yellow mustard do in a pinch. Also like fries dipped in mustard as well. I never did like ketchup on anything so this is my substitute.
I always eat the meat portion of dinner first, because Mom always said eat all your meat, it is the most expensive part of the meal. Except at Thanksgiving, where I love all the flavors blended and will eat forks full of turkey/spuds/dressing/cranberry/green beans/gravy all at once. Mmmmm. How long until November?
I do the same thing, though I’ll do it in front of anyone.
Two of my other strange things involve sandwiches. Hamburgers and the like I eat in pieces. I’ll take off the top bun and all or most of the lettuce, onion whatever and eat that, then I’ll eat the bottom half. It’s been years since I had one, but big macs were always eaten in three parts.
Other regular bread sandwiches I might do the above or if it’s small I eat around all the crust first and then the middle.
M&Ms and other colored candies must be eaten by color group and the same # of each color at a time. To avoid this routine I sometimes pour directly from the bag into my mouth so I don’t see that I’m mixing the colors.
Food that comes in pieces, like wings, breadsticks etc must be eaten in order so that the same # of each is left. Like I’ll order from Pizza Hut and get a 10 piece wing, order of 5 breadsticks and the quepapas, which come in 15 bite size pieces. So, for every breadstick, I eat 2 wings and 3 quepapas. (I have this weird counting thing, it’s not just food related)
