What are some of the craziest/WTF food aversions that you’ve witnessed that seemingly rational adults adhered to?
An ex-roomie refused to drink any regular brewed ice tea or suntea - it had to be only powdered instant icetea. Only instant coffee too. Blech :eek: <gag>
He refused to eat any homebaked cookies, only store bought Chips Ahoy were good enough. :rolleyes:
An older, married couple both refused to eat any type of gravy, refused to touch any stuffing/dressing (they insisted mushrooms were ‘hidden’ in it, there weren’t) wouldn’t eat any veggies (waterchestnuts in the greenbeans, horrors!) and declined any scratch-made desserts - that was a fun Thanksgiving…
The brewed vs powdered tea thing isn’t weird. I don’t like brewed or sun tea because I don’t like the taste of tea. I do like powdered instant tea, because it doesn’t really taste like tea- it tastes like lemon and sugar, mostly.
I know someone that doesn’t like potatoes. I can’t wrap my head around that. How do you not like potatoes??
I knew a guy who would not eat anything green or anything with mayo.
My nephew also wouldn’t eat anything white for years - potatoes, mayo, bread, vanilla ice cream were all met with tears.
I have a Hispanic friend that doesn’t like corn tortillas, and is the biggest f’n wuss when it comes to spicy foods. Anything spicier than black pepper is too hot for him.
He’s also a first generation immigrant. Good thing his parents moved to the US or else his diet would be very limited.
My ex was the pickiest damned adult I’ve ever known. For example she didn’t like rice. I’m talking about plain old ordinary white rice. How the hell can you not like white rice? It boggles the mind. There are a hundred other things I could post about her eating habits.
Here’s one more, for now. The only vegetables I’d ever seen her eat were carrots cooked in a pressure cooker, or romaine lettuce in a pseudo-Caesar salad. That’s it.
I know somebody who will refuse to eat most shapes of pasta. For the longest time the only shape he would eat was angel hair spaghetti. He now also eats bow tie pasta.
All other shapes he will not eat in any form no matter how small. I know a friend of his once picked out macaroni from some chili she made so that he would eat it.
Yep. That was my ex. Spaghetti only, and only with butter on it. We were out of spaghetti once, and I cooked linguini: same thing, different shape, right? She wouldn’t eat it.
For some reason, my uncle won’t eat most meat – mostly just hot dogs. (I think he eats bacon, maybe ham?). At family gatherings, we always have to make sure there are hot dogs for him. I have no idea why he’s so freaking picky.
I mean, it’s not a huge deal to just boil or microwave a few hot dogs for him, and hey, if that’s what he wants to eat, that’s his deal. (More for the rest of us) But I don’t think I’ve EVER met anyone as picky as he is. And it’s not medical either (like my mother can’t deal with a lot of spicey or greasy foods, for example.)
Didn’t like it or wouldn’t eat it? I’ll eat rice but under no definition would I say I like it. It’s not offensive, but I’m not crazy about the texture. Given the choice, I usually skip it. I buy and enjoy sushi, but will generally opt for sashimi over nigiri, for instance. For another example, if I’m ordering Chinese takeout, I tell them to keep the rice (they usually ignore my request and I wind up throwing it out) but if I’m eating in a Chinese restaurant I eat the meal with rice as it’s served. I pretty much won’t ever choose rice or risotto as a side dish, but will eat some if somebody else is preparing/serving the meal.
For me, rice is a take it or leave it kind of food and I generally leave it. If her reaction was “ew, rice!” then I agree, that’s pretty extreme pickiness. There are a lot of foods I can tolerate but don’t like on a sliding scale. Rice is way over on the “mostly harmless” side of the scale. The only fairly pedestrian food I can think of that I absolutely refuse to eat is beets. Non-negotiable. The last time I was forced to eat them as a kid, I literally vomited. (We never had that argument again.) I get a bit queasy just thinking about eating beets. I don’t even like to look at them.
When I was a kid, my father wouldn’t eat rice unless it had cinnamon and sugar on it. As a side dish. God, I hated rice, too, but I didn’t know why until I had the opportunity to have it without cinnamon and sugar.
Why on God’s green earth would you put macaroni in chili?!? She should have to pick that out so that she learns her lesson and never does that again. That’s just wrong. Way worse and weirder than not eating macaroni shaped pasta (which is a bit strange).
Telling on myself, I tend to be weird about combinations of things. Certain foods may be fine on their own, but I don’t eat them together.
Mayonnaise is the devil’s semen, as I learned on this board years ago.