# Strange eating restrictions.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 10, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327 "2012-10-10T16:47:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/1 "2012-10-10T16:47:14Z")
[In this thread about what you eat when you eat alone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=668192) a poster says spaghetti because the SO won’t eat skinny pasta. It reminds him of worms.
My father-in-law, rest his soul, would not eat anything darker than he was. Lucky for him he was a pretty dark skinned black man.
I now work with someone who won’t eat anything blue. Because-- yuck! Blue! She’ll eat blueberry pie if the innards are purple but not if they’re dark blue. Go figure.
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### Author:  [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/2 "2012-10-10T16:59:50Z")
I had a friend in college who would not eat the ends on french fries. She’d bite into the middle part and then leave the ends in a pile on her plate.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/3 "2012-10-10T17:23:14Z")
Even in a “wacky food quirks” thread, I have a hard time buying that one.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/4 "2012-10-10T17:28:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> I now work with someone who won’t eat anything blue. Because-- yuck! Blue! She’ll eat blueberry pie if the innards are purple but not if they’re dark blue. Go figure.
Well, I’m kind of like this…only I don’t eat purple either.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/5 "2012-10-10T17:39:26Z")
When I was a child I would avoid eating the bottom crust of the bread. I don’t mean cutting off all the crusts. I liked that bit. Just the bottom. When eating a sandwich or toast etc. I’d leave the bottom crust like the “pizza bones” the one fella mentioned in another thread.
That was as a child, mind. It’s all the same to me now. And I can’t even give a silly explanation for why I thought that way. It just seemed a bit gross to me for some reason.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/6 "2012-10-10T17:51:14Z")
Did someone call for me?
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### Author:  [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/7 "2012-10-10T18:03:07Z")
I am anti white gloop. Mayo, Ranch, cottage cheese… Barf.
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### Author:  [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/8 "2012-10-10T18:12:15Z")
A woman I used to work with said her dad wouldn’t allow chewing gum to be anywhere in the house. He stormed the beach at Normandy and chewed up gum reminded him of what he saw floating in the water that day.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/9 "2012-10-10T18:16:51Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> A woman I used to work with said her dad wouldn’t allow chewing gum to be anywhere in the house. He stormed the beach at Normandy and chewed up gum reminded him of what he saw floating in the water that day.
Bazooka, eh?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/10 "2012-10-10T18:27:11Z")
An ex-girlfriend wouldn’t eat lettuce because it was (a) green and (b) crunchy.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/11 "2012-10-10T18:45:21Z")
As a child, I wouldn’t eat chicken except for the skin. I’d leave the meat, dark and white, untouched except for the portion that would slip off when I ate the skin.
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### Author:  [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/12 "2012-10-10T19:15:25Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> A woman I used to work with said her dad wouldn’t allow chewing gum to be anywhere in the house. He stormed the beach at Normandy and chewed up gum reminded him of what he saw floating in the water that day.
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Bazooka, eh?
No, Beech-Nuts.
I’m sorry, that was really bad.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/13 "2012-10-10T19:26:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Well, I’m kind of like this…only I don’t eat purple either.
So you’re not a purple people eater?
You sure look strange to me!
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/14 "2012-10-10T20:14:19Z")
I cannot eat peanut butter or jello because that texture makes me gag.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/15 "2012-10-10T20:48:59Z")
> [@tomcar](#):
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> I am anti white gloop. Mayo, Ranch, cottage cheese… Barf.
My brother-in-law and my fiance’s brother-in-law agree with you.
My mother refuses to eat green Jell-o. It’s not the taste she minds. It’s the color. Then again, my mother is one of the most screwed up eater I’ve ever met and for her, not eating green Jell-o is pretty normal.
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### Author:  [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/16 "2012-10-10T21:25:31Z")
A kid I went to high school with would not eat pepperoni if he could see it. He would eat a sandwich with pepperoni on it, knowing that it had pepperoni, tasting and enjoying the pepperoni. But the sight of pepperoni turned his stomach, he said. So if he glimpsed the pepperoni while eating the sandwich, he would not continue.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/17 "2012-10-10T22:17:37Z")
When I was young, I couldn’t eat hamburger, or pepperoni, italian sausage - any sausage. Why? Because I took a good close look at it and OMG there were bits of gristle and fat in it! I had a horror of fat. Chicken had to be skinned, meat had to be trimmed. Oh, and if there was a 1/4" speck of the casing at the end of a natural casing hot dog? Freakout time!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/18 "2012-10-10T22:35:33Z")
Back in grade school the hot lunch for the day was either “pasta and sauce” or “[tortellini](http://www.mreinfo.com/images/mrestar/Tortellini.jpg) and sauce” and my mom told me it was just a shape of noodle. Coming from an Italian family the concept of ‘it’s just another shape of noodle’ wasn’t a big deal, it all tastes the same, so I opted for the hot lunch that day. Imagine my horror when I got a big plate of sauce covered _ears_ on my tray. Bleh. Couldn’t eat them, they looked like _ears_. It was, literally, at least 20 years before I got myself to eat tortellini again because it looked like ears. And at that point, don’t get me wrong, it was still very much on my mind, but this was in a white soup and they were filled with cheese. So even though I was still thinking back to that day in grade school, it was a very different context then ears covered in cheap red sauce. Funnily enough, my ex-wife even said to me “Are you eating the tortellini soup?” knowing full well that I never eat tortellini.
Thinking about it, I’m not sure if it was tortellini or something a bit more earlike. If I ever ran across it, I might still have a hard time eating it. Either way, it turned into a dislike of tortellini.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/19 "2012-10-10T23:14:58Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Back in grade school the hot lunch for the day was either “pasta and sauce” or “[tortellini](http://www.mreinfo.com/images/mrestar/Tortellini.jpg) and sauce” and my mom told me it was just a shape of noodle. Coming from an Italian family the concept of ‘it’s just another shape of noodle’ wasn’t a big deal, it all tastes the same, so I opted for the hot lunch that day. Imagine my horror when I got a big plate of sauce covered _ears_ on my tray. Bleh. Couldn’t eat them, they looked like _ears_. It was, literally, at least 20 years before I got myself to eat tortellini again because it looked like ears. And at that point, don’t get me wrong, it was still very much on my mind, but this was in a white soup and they were filled with cheese. So even though I was still thinking back to that day in grade school, it was a very different context then ears covered in cheap red sauce. Funnily enough, my ex-wife even said to me “Are you eating the tortellini soup?” knowing full well that I never eat tortellini.
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> Thinking about it, I’m not sure if it was tortellini or something a bit more earlike. If I ever ran across it, I might still have a hard time eating it. Either way, it turned into a dislike of tortellini.
So I’m guessing [Orecchiette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orecchiette) is just right out of the question?
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/20 "2012-10-10T23:29:33Z")
I have a friend who won’t eat macaroni and cheese because of the sound it makes when you stir it in the pot. I resist the urge to punch him.
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