Expound please.
Midwest Degenerate Gambler
-I kind of like single mothers. 1) Sex-positive vibes. 2) Dominance vibes. 3) I want to be a dad one day, but I dont want to deal with infants and toddlers. Older kids are fun though.
Can’t quite decide which one is grosser.
I can.
When I said “dominance” vibes, I meant HER being dominant, not me. I like strong women.
When I found out my dad was dying, the first day or two, the only things that even vaguely tasted good were Pop Tarts and bananas.
Back when my wife was a Girl Guide leader, we used to take them camping for a week every year.
With a bunch of girls aged 10 to 14 (plus a couple of young leaders), there were always going to be some picky eaters. We happily catered for the vegetarians, but the girl who "only ate crisps (chips) was more of a problem.
We did come to the conclusion that many of these fads were rebelling against their parents because they soon started eating “normal” food once the parent(s) were gone.
Of course, the influence of exercise, fresh air and peer example had a large part to play.
I recall a thread we had where someone proposed Bachelor Chow. Some nutritious hunks of processed glop you could eat dry like bar snacks or pour water over to get something like soggy cereal.
An amazing number of Dopers showed up to claim they only eat to stave off death another day, derive no enjoyment from it, and are mostly indifferent to what tastes like. They would lurves them some Bachelor Chow if it existed.
Sounds like this would fit here:
There’s also this classic movie scene.
Thank you for reminding me of that movie. Damn, I loved Repo Man. And the “Food” was one of the reasons.
The can of Food still resonates, but when the movie came out it was even funnier, because generics had just started to be carried in grocery stores, and so there were very plain labels that said things like “crushed tomatoes” or “corn.” Since then, store brands like Signature, Kirkland, and others have replaced those eerily basic product labels. But it remains one of my favorite scenes. (Along with the response to the comment, “You have nice friends,” which was: “Thanks. I made them myself.” And several other terrific scenes.)
I love Repo-man.
Surely I pointed out in that thread that that product is available; it’s called Primate Chow.
My sister goes on a lot of cruises. Anyone who has cruised knows they offer quite a variety of foods every day, even multiple entrees at dinner. And every.single.night my sister orders a steak, medium well, and 2 baked potatoes. Yes, I have cruised with her as has our other sister, so it wasn’t a one-time thing.
She and my mother spent a couple of weeks in Poland. The entire time, my sister would only eat at McDonalds. Not quite the same as eating only chicken fingers, but pretty close.
When I was volunteering to help with the animals at college, I tried a bite of Monkey chow. Okay, I mean I guess it would be better than starving but it does not taste good.
It would be pretty cruel not to supplement the Monkey Chow with fresh fruit and other treats.
But they need to be served in cage-like boxes that take tools found in the habitat to open. Enrichment is important to keep your subjects from going nuts with boredom.
A brief and partial history of Bachelor Chow on the Dope:
March 2011:
Feb 2013:
Dec 2019:
This thread reminded me that I still had two bottles of Soylent in my fridge. I haven’t eaten yet today and don’t feel like making something, so I dug it out. Turns out it expired in 2017! However, it smells and tastes fine. I’m not sure if this puts me in the running for one of our “what’s the oldest edible thing in your fridge” threads as well. Hope it doesn’t kill me!
I wouldn’t go that far, but presented with the choice of having something I already know that I like or something new, the large majority of the time I’ll choose the sure thing. Anywhere I go I pretty much stick to takeout from large fast food chains that I’m already familiar with. (And usually the same menu item every time from each chain.)
I’ve been on two medically supervised Optifast diets that were incredibly effective. The trick was really getting into the mindset that food is not for me, just chug six Optifast shakes every day at regular intervals. Feeling outside of the onslaught of food messaging and hyperbole felt freeing, and it freed up a lot of time otherwise spent on shopping, meal prep and dining.
When the weight loss phase was over and I transitioned to a maintenance diet of real food, I worked out a very narrow routine based on raw veggies, sardines and nuts for lunch and a ground turkey/tomatos/asparagus sauce on butternut squash noodles for dinner. Same thing every single day. It was delicious so I could feel the clarion call of yumminess again but it was also satisfying enough to allow me to ignore everything else.
So in a way maybe I understand the mindset of the picky eater - it keeps chaos at bay.
Long term however, my cherished routine just wasn’t compatible with living together with a “normie” who loves to cook so I’ve completely abandoned it. Now, when we go out to a new restaurant and there’s something on the menu that I don’t recognize, I don’t ask the waiter about it, I order it.
I think there’s a really big difference between that and being “indifferent to what it tastes like”. If you were indifferent to how it tastes, you wouldn’t choose the item you know you like - you would choose the cheapest item, or the fastest item but not the one you like best because " indifferent to what tastes like " more or less means there isn’t one you like best