# So how does being a boring eater work?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 25, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-does-being-a-boring-eater-work/653926 "2013-03-25T16:24:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-does-being-a-boring-eater-work/653926/61 "2013-03-27T03:23:19Z")

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I’m not a super-boring eater, but no one would call me adventurous. A lot of the things that have been mentioned above make sense to me, but I think the biggest thing is that I really prefer for my meals to have a fairly limited number of ingredients. Years ago, I went on an student exchange program and lived with a family in France for a month. The mother was a great cook and made a wide variety of meals from scratch for lunch and dinner every day. I kept a running list of the new foods I tried, and it got to be pretty long! But you know what the best meal I had was? One day, the mother had some sort of appointment over the lunch hour and I was left to my own devices. I had a chunk of baguette, some yogurt, and an apple. I felt enormously relieved to have nice, simple food.

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