The pepperoni slices on a frozen pizza have to be spaced equally apart, so that when it’s cut up, there’ll be a close-to-equal amount of pep on each slice. To insure this I’ll not only rearrange the loose pep slices but will also use a paring knife to carefully wedge its way under each still-frozen-to-the-pizza slice with small, twisty motions to slowly disnegage the slice, HOPEFULLY FULLY INTACT, to be lovingly relocated to the correct forever-home region on the pizza.
Whatevs with the SO’s cocked eyebrow.
I don’t know if it’s neurotic, but it drives my guy crazy. If we have meatloaf and mashed po, I chop up the meatloaf and mix it all up together with the gravy. Same with the beans and rice when we have Mexican food.
due to the now nonexistent Parkview middle school’s way of preparing alleged food … I pretty much eat bbq sauce on 90% of everything i eat … even things like mashed potatoes and the like I mean you never used the ketchup packets because it was last years frozen leftovers the only thing they didn’t freeze was the bbq sauce and ranch dressing … which was in big plastic gallon jars with pumps on the top
one of the reasons it closed was the dozen or so health department violations over its food one of my classmates were served a thawed out cheeseburger that was so old it was green … and it wasn’t the first or last time (the other reason was the fed education said it needed about a 30 million dollar gut and rebuild and the district said hell no so they sold it to a budding junior university thing who find it for 90 percent cheaper than what the gov estimated )
Because they are no longer the right coloros, I really don’t eat M&Ms as I used to and only eat them if my husband has some. I don’t eat the blue ones.
When I did eat them often, I would sort them out, brown, tan, orange, yellow, green. I would then eat the color which had the fewest items, so green, then yellow, orange, tan and then brown. This is pre-1987 when they brought back red.
If it has layers, I will eat it layer by layer. Lasagna, Kit-Kat, cinnamon rolls, etc. My husband thinks it’s cute.
I will often flip pumpkin pie upside down and eat the crust first. If I remember, I might put a bit of salt on the pumpkin pie. The salt is from my paternal grandfather who always did this. The flipping the pie? No idea. I think that’s just me. And the crust is good. At least if it’s one made by my mom or me.
I also salt watermelon and other melons. I do not have a blood pressure problem. My mom has major problems with low blood pressure and has to add salt to her diet, especially if she’s somewhere hot where she drinks a lot more than usual.
I prefer just one kind of glass for gin and tonics. They’re often served in “goblet” glasses (rounded and with a stem) which I don’t like but will accept if there’s nothing else. In any case, I always ask about the glass when I order. I favor a big stemless glass, like a pint glass for drinking beer, but with a wider base. I really don’t care for those “goblet” glasses. Stem just gets in the way and makes the drink top-heavy (especially after a few of 'em), and its design seems intended to keep liquid in the glass rather than to facilitate its transfer.
When eating oranges or grapefruit, the fruit must be peeled and all of the segments separated from each other before I will eat any of them.
When eating pancakes and sunny side up eggs, the eggs go underneath the cakes so that the yolk soaks up into the cakes. I’ve seen too many people place the eggs on top of the cakes which just interferes with syrup distribution.
I can only drink milk from a ceramic mug or opaque plastic cup. I don’t know why clear glasses and cups bother me, but they do.
I prefer to use a handful of bowls for any of the various foods that get eaten in bowls. Not to the point where I won’t eat if they’re dirty, but to the point where I’ll bitch a bit if I’m not the one who dirtied them.
For both pizza and pies, I’ll eat the crust end first, then work my way to the point. After all, the point is the best part, so it gets saved for last -* DUH!!*
I never knew that M&Ms were a food with so many requirements. I eat them two at a time, and they must be the same color (until the end when there’s one of every color, then it becomes pure chaos.)
For both pizza and pies, I’ll eat the pointy end first, then work my way to the crust. After all, the crust is the best part, so it gets saved for last -* DUH!!*
I also don’t like anything to hang over the edge of the bread in a sandwich. I’ll fold or sometimes cut the meat/cheese to make it fit more exactly. Lettuce gets a larger margin of error. But I’m not fanatical about it, and I would never alter a sandwich made for me by someone else.
Concurred.
Never been a nibbler of said product, but understand and sympathize with the effed-up parameters associated with variances in its consumption.
If there’s crap extending over the edges of a hamburger, I’ll mow all that off, first.
When eating a banana, which I haven’t done in possibly 15 years (taste is ok, but why oh why is it the only foodstuff on the enitre planet that gives me heartburn? Why!?!?!?!?) if there any “threads”, they get pulled off.
Any burnt edges on toast get snipped off. (someone said that the charcoal from burnt food is extremely carcinogenic - could be apocryphal, for all I know, but still do it, anyway.)
(oh - and only Don Cherry is supposed to eat a pizza slice from the crust, first.)
I’ve got a wide and adventurous palate and would consider myself something of a food freak, but I’ve got a hangup on as far as appearance and texture of certain leafy greens. You know those cellophane bags of pre-fabricated salad? I’m so picky, and the “quality control” ( from my POV ) is so spotty, that there are times I’ll discard as much as a third of the contents because I don’t like the color or the leaves are to “vein-ey”. For example, the outer leaves of Romaine lettuce make me skeeve, and I’d barf at having to chew and swallow it…and know that something like that…is…inside me!
When I’m eating a pile of something, whether on a plate or from the bag, like potato chips or bagel chips, I eat the broken pieces first and eventually only the whole pieces are left for me to savor.
Personally, I think that popcorn is unpleasantly like styrofoam. However, I am related to someone who feels that popcorn is best eaten when covered in tomato sauce, as though it were pasta. I am assured that this is perfectly normal, but I’m growing less and less sure of that as the years pass.
Back in the 1960s I remember that drinking glasses made from metal were not uncommon. I don’t think I’ve seen one since the end of the 1970s. Anyway, I used to enjoy filling them with ice cream & strawberry jelly, then putting them into the freezer for a few hours. You could get your tongue stuck to the side very easily if you weren’t careful… it’s just not the same with glass.
A college friend enjoyed Dr. Pepper soda, but only if it was 1) Flat 2) Warm. He’d pour it from glass to glass to get all of the carbonation out.
One friend, now in his 90s, worked at a place that bottled soda before WWII. He would sometimes “accidentally” leave a case outside in the winter so that it would freeze, because he liked it frozen & flat. He still does. I gave him a few bottles of Green River soda the other week. He opened them & put them straight into his freezer.
