# Strange eating restrictions. **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/21 "2012-10-10T23:56:09Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > So I’m guessing [Orecchiette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orecchiette) is just right out of the question? I figured that would come up. I’ve actually never had it, but it wouldn’t bother me. I know what it means, but it doesn’t really look like ears, at least not like tortellini does. > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > 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. I’ve never had macaroni and cheese, but I’ve made it enough times for my daughter. It is kinda gross sounding when you stir it. I wouldn’t have any issue with eating it, it’s just not something my mom had around the house growing up so I never developed a taste for it and at this point it doesn’t look all that appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/22 "2012-10-11T00:09:48Z")
My sister went semi-vegetarian for a while, as a kid. The weird part was just what constituted the semi-. She wouldn’t eat anything for which the name of the food was the same as the animal. Thus, beef and pork were fine, but chicken and fish weren’t. She knew where they all came from, of course… She just didn’t like being reminded of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/23 "2012-10-11T00:28:41Z")
My mother won’t eat blue M&Ms. … because they’re communist. I can’t do applesauce - texture weirdness. It’s like apple-flavored soggy cold grits - just totally not appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/24 "2012-10-11T00:48:08Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > 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. I read my husband your post. He would like your friend’s address so that he may punch him for you. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/25 "2012-10-11T00:50:03Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > My mother won’t eat blue M&Ms. > > … because they’re communist. If explain the truth to her, you might be able to get her to hand over all the blue _and_ red M&M’s. ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/26 "2012-10-12T04:11:10Z")
In our house, tortellinis are called “belly buttons” and no one has ever had a problem eating them! As I kid, I wouldn’t eat any type of casserole because icky things could hide in them. My sister also hated mac and cheese for the same reason - that squishy sound. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/27 "2012-10-12T04:39:41Z")
I don’t eat popsicles. I have no problem with the popsicle part. It’s the wooden stick. It creeps me out to have wood in my mouth - I keep feeling like I’ll get a splinter in my tongue or something. Same thing with those little cups of ice cream that come with a wooden spoon - I throw out the wooden spoon and eat it with a metal or plastic spoon. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/28 "2012-10-12T07:27:43Z")
I can’t stand sliced cheese. I’ll pick it off a sandwich and even a cheeseburger, yet shredded cheese is A-OK. Seriously, I won’t eat a subway turkey sandwich with sliced whatever on it, but replace it with shredded cheese and it’s fine. Hot or cold - same difference. I love quesadillas made with shredded cheese, but don’t think I could choke down a grilled cheese sandwich made with a Kraft single, even though they’re essentially the same thing. I’d rather take a punch in the face than eat a spoonful of mac and cheese: sight, sound, texture, aroma - nope, can’t do it. I hate my cheese hang ups. My friend had a similar hang up with raw tomato slices (bad) vs. any other use of tomatoes in food (good). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/29 "2012-10-12T07:36:58Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > I am anti white gloop. Mayo, Ranch, cottage cheese… Barf. Yeah, I got that too. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I cannot eat peanut butter or jello because that texture makes me gag. Not those specific things – but there’s lots of stuff I won’t eat because I think of it as “slimy” – for instance, spaghetti with any kind of sauce on it. In fact, most things with sauce on it. Gravy, the slimiest thing of all! Ew. Not a big fan of soups either. Of course, when I think about it, just about everything gets slimy while being chomped in my mouth. So I don’t think about it. ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/30 "2012-10-12T08:20:45Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > My friend had a similar hang up with raw tomato slices (bad) vs. any other use of tomatoes in food (good). I have three. This is one. The other two are: banana-flavored things, and alcohol in food. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/31 "2012-10-12T08:33:49Z")
I have issues with some textures, such as ground beef that is less than well-done or soggy pastry (can’t stand cake or pie that’s had ice cream sogging it, for example). Can’t stand chunks of tomato (tomato sauce is fine), raw onion (cooked is fine), or any bell pepper. I’m sure I have others that just aren’t occurring to me right now. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/32 "2012-10-12T13:15:46Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > My friend had a similar hang up with raw tomato slices (bad) vs. any other use of tomatoes in food (good). I’m the same with tomatoes too. Tomato sauce? Love it. A plate of pasta with tomato sauce in front of me makes me happy as a pig in mud. But if there are chunks of solid tomato in or a slice in my sandwich, I gotta pick it out and toss it. Rather annoying really. It’s just such a terribly stupid thing to be picky about. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/33 "2012-10-12T14:06:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I don’t eat popsicles. I have no problem with the popsicle part. It’s the wooden stick. It creeps me out to have wood in my mouth - I keep feeling like I’ll get a splinter in my tongue or something. Same thing with those little cups of ice cream that come with a wooden spoon - I throw out the wooden spoon and eat it with a metal or plastic spoon. Me too. Also, tomatoes - I can handle sliced tomato on sandwiches. I can handle sliced tomatoes on a plate with some salt. I love Spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce but there had better not be ANY tomato chunks in it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/34 "2012-10-12T14:53:22Z")
My gf and I eat anything, apparently. Last night she made an incredible pizza from scratch. After placing slices on our plates, she garnished with some fresh basil from our kitchen garden. As she snipped the rolled basil leaves onto the pizza, something flipped onto the table. A stinkbug. Worse yet, _half_ of a stinkbug. The other half was on her plate or mine. After a cursory look, and unable to find it, we each began eating. I told her I was pretty sure it was on her slices. She told me she thought it was on mine. Delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/35 "2012-10-12T14:57:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I don’t eat popsicles. I have no problem with the popsicle part. It’s the wooden stick. It creeps me out to have wood in my mouth - I keep feeling like I’ll get a splinter in my tongue or something. Same thing with those little cups of ice cream that come with a wooden spoon - I throw out the wooden spoon and eat it with a metal or plastic spoon. I have this one too. Plus drinking milk out of paper cartons like we used to get in grade school. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/36 "2012-10-12T14:58:14Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > 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! Agreed except for the “when I was young” part. I still won’t eat things like that. Grosses me out. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/37 "2012-10-12T15:03:12Z")
A friend of mine refuses to eat anything foamy, like whipped cream or chocolate mousse. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/38 "2012-10-12T15:11:43Z")
I don’t like melon of any form. Just don’t like the flavors. I’m not a fan of gritty fruits like pears and watermelon, although I do like those flavors. Take the grit out and I’ll eat it. I do not eat raisins. I will eat other dried fruits, I don’t know what it is about raisins. Also, I do not eat coconut. If you crack a fresh one open, I’ll eat the coconut because it tastes a lot like any other nut. However, I can’t stand processed coconut, coconut milk, or anything that has coconut oil in it. And I have the thing about raw tomatoes. Cook 'em and I’m fine. Raw? Bleargh. I pass them over to my cat, who \*loves \*raw tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/39 "2012-10-12T15:54:58Z")
I loves me some tomato soup, juice, sauce, paste, ketchup, but tomatoes - ick! Something about the texture, I think. Hubby is averse to beets, cannot even bear to see the bottle in the fridge, poor thing. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327/40 "2012-10-12T16:48:36Z")
I have all sorts of food issues. I try to be discreet about them most of the time. The big one for me though is fruit. I have a hard time with most fruit. Peaches are easily the nastiest things on the planet. I love strawberry smoothies but I won’t eat fresh strawberries. I like apples as long as they are are certain varieties (and I have an order of preference.) If the apple isn’t the right kind, I won’t touch it. I will eat fresh salsa, but I will not eat fresh tomatoes in any other form. I’m not weird about cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli. Those I just plain won’t eat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-eating-restrictions/637327.md?page=3)