A banana without any green on it has gone bad. That is the only way I will eat anything banana. I will not eat banana bread, banana chips, or banana flavored anything. I do like green bananas though.
Every sandwich I make for myself, no matter how fine the ingredients, is disappointing. It’s OK, and you would never look at me and think ‘she needs to eat more’, but still! Every sub sandwich I try to make is wrong - the lettuce is warm, the onion is bitey, the tomato is pulpy, the cold cuts are fatty, and the bread is hard and dry. The filling falls out. There’s some secret to the Subway or Jiffy Sub or even the cellophane wrapped things at tht 7-11, I guess that’s why those places do such great business. (Same thing goes for fried chicken, pizza, and lame attempts at Chinese food - what I produce is OK, but not as good as the boughten.)
To me, personally, Miracle Whip is not bad if you are expecting Miracle Whip. But last week, my 10YO daughter and I stopped in a diner, and I ordered a BLT, which promised “Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo” on Texax Toast. I ordered it , with the chili. The chili was fine. The BLT did not have mayo, it had Miracle Whip. If the menu had said that, I’d have either specifically requested mayo, or ordered another sandwich.
Ruined the whole thing, it did.
People who use Miracle Whip instead of mayo don’t bother me. People who don’t understand the difference bother me greatly.
I like marinara sauce on spaghetti. I like chocolate sauce on ice cream. However, I do not like chocolate sauce on spaghetti, nor marinara sauce on ice cream.
I love chocolate, in almost any form (preferably dark). I love oranges. But never the twain shall meet, in my mouth anyway.
I am also gratified to see that I am not alone in detesting raw tomatoes, but loving them in just about any cooked form. (And loving pico de gallo.)
Freak!
You’ve been around these boards for 10 years, and you’re just now figuring out that this place is full of freaks???
I will not eat fruit that has been cooked in anything, unless it is strawberries, peaches, or blueberries, in a muffin. I will not eat raisins IN anything but I will eat them by themselves. I will not eat any small fruit that has a pit (cherry) or seeds (grapes) in it, that I have to work around while chewing. I like jelly, but do not like when it has hug chunks of the fruit in it. I like most fruit in general, just raw.
When eating banana pudding, I skip eating the actual sliced bananas in it.
Love cheese, hate milk.
I like nuts in general, but not in other foods (like salads or bread).
Oatmeal smells awesome but it makes me gag when I try a bite.
I think it’s a texture thing with me.
I’m another one of these. My theory is it has something to do with a) the acids in the raw tomato, which are presumably altered by the lime juice &c of the pico and b) the texture being changed, by even slight ‘cooking’.
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I’m the complete opposite wrt bananas – they need to be soft with brown spots on the skin (but not the fruit) before I’ll eat them, because even the slightest bit of green or state of unripeness makes them taste awful to me. And I can only eat them in things (like in fruit salad or cut up in yogurt), because plain bananas kind of gross me out anyway.
Add me to the list of people who love tomato-derived foods but can’t stomach raw tomatoes. I can’t eat green peppers, either (red and yellow, yes), but that’s because the smell brings up unpleasant childhood memories that I’d really rather avoid. I’m sure the taste would, too, but I don’t let them get that close to me.
I have a weird Grape-Nuts related distinction. I hate Grape-Nuts, can’t stand them in a bowl of milk no matter how much sugar I add. BUT sprinkle those Grape-Nuts on top of yogurt (most any flavor but particularly boysenberry) and they become awesome again.
About once a year or so I get a craving where I simply must have Grape-Nuts and yogurt and that’s what I eat for days…I don’t eat breakfast or lunch most days but on Grape-Nuts-with-Yogurt days I’ll eat some for breakfast, some for lunch, some for dessert and some as a snack (and for dinner if everyone else already has plans). Once I have gorged myself on the stuff for a few days, I am over it and go back to “Grape-Nuts are vile”.
I love tomato sauce, ketschup, salsa, gaspacho, pico de gallo, various pastas, etc. But I cannot stand tomato slices.
Yet another hater of fresh, raw tomatoes, but fine with sauces, soups, ketchup, etc. as long as it doesn’t have raw uncooked tomatoes in it.
I used to hate broccoli, now I love it, but I still hate cauliflower even though they seem to be close to the same thing.
Give me a fajita with grilled onions and green peppers and chicken or steak, and I’m happy. Give me onions of any kind, raw or grilled or whatever in any other context and I’ll scrunch up my face as if you just fed me earthworms and spit it out. When I was a kid and my momwould prepare a dish with onion in it, and I would complain, she would say, “but you can’t even taste it!” to which I would reply, “then why did you put them in there at all??”
I’m with you on this one. I also hate food you have to work at, like crab meat. But mr. singular, bless him, will empty a whole goddam crab and give me the meat. This produced such a look of “Really? You’re that lazy?!?” from my friends the first time I told them, without missing a beat I added “and he used to chew it for me, but I do that myself now.” I think for a brief second they believed me…
But take me to a crawfish boil with ice cold beer and a pile of hot crawfish, corn on the cob, garlic and potatoes, and stand back, baby. I’m peelin’ me a bucket of crawfish, pinchin’ tails and suckin’ heads!
Sometimes I really miss New Orleans.
Boy, if I had ever had the nerve to ask my mom a question like that, I guess I’d have the nerve to eat just about anything!
As for onion, though, I guess that’s where I run into another weird, fussy food distinction I make. I like the flavor of cooked onion in things, but I hate to bite into one. Ick. So I use a lot of onion powder and dehydrated onions in my cooking. Oh, except I do like to eat onion rings or things like Bloomin’ Onions. . .
Yep. I’m strange all right, but I don’t think I’m any stranger than most anyone else who’s posted to this thread. . .
I’m a butter lover, too. Recently I made this discovery - NOBODY makes better scrambled eggs than Mr. singular. I never knew why until this weekend. I was in the kitchen when he started the procedure - he starts with almost half a short stick of butter in the pan! I just use a little pat - no wonder his always taste so much better!
Been eatin’ those eggs for 23 years, and just found this out.:smack:
I’m buying a box of shredded wheat to try your suggestion. I’ve had it warmed in the microwaved with milk and butter, but I never tried it dry. I’m on a fiber kick lately, so I’ll give it a shot!
That’s me with pickle on a burger. Pickles/gherkins are revolting, but I do like the flavour left on a burger after I’ve picked the vile thing off.
Another one I thought of: Tinned/canned sardines in tomato sauce.
I loathe fish at the best of times (we’ve made a deal - if I don’t eat fish then a shark won’t eat me), and tinned sardines are particularly gag-worthy. However, I really like the taste of the tomato sauce they come in.
Honey, is that you?
My husband has the exact same issue. He will not eat any meat that is still touching the bone. He also will not eat any chicken that has any discoloration to it at all, so taking the meat off the bone doesn’t work. Where it was attached, it tends to have a slightly different color. If we are having a boneless chicken breast, he wont eat the thick end. I’m not entirely certain why. I have to slice all meat into strips (fajita style) so he doesn’t know which pieces were from the thick end.
I have plenty of food distinctions, but they are hardly fussy or illogical! They all make perfect sense!
I don’t like ice cream, and will always turn it down. I also don’t particularly like root beer.
But I LOOOOVE root beer floats.
I will eat raisins raw. I like raisins in my trail mix. I do NOT like chocolate chips or M&Ms in my trail mix. But I will eat them by themselves.
However, I do not like raisins in anything. If it’s in a cinnamon roll, I will eat around it.
Ditto nuts. I like nuts. I don’t like nuts cooked in things. Never, ever.
The only part of a chicken that I like to eat, in the general course of things, is the part right around the wishbone. This wasn’t a problem when I was a kid, as I was an only child, and when eating at family gatherings, every other person in my family liked dark meat and the big fight among the kids was for the drumsticks.
But now, butchers don’t cut a wishbone piece, so the meat gets put in with the rest of the breast. Which means there’s a lot of that piece that I don’t eat.
I will, however, eat buffalo wings. Lots of 'em.