Am I going to go cite a study? No. I don’t care that much. Nor do you, I suspect. If you felt the need to belittle everyone who raises your premiums, you’d have a grudge with most of the country. Since you’re zeroing in on picky eaters, I’d guess it’s more about them specifically irritating you.
This is a very good answer. Everyone, without exception, is picky about what they eat. There is not one person who doesn’t dislike some food. There’s no reason to look down on someone whose likes and dislikes aren’t in lockstep with yours.
Actually, I co-moderate a nutrition forum and have been a fanatic about it for 15 years.
:rolleyes: I’ve no doubt you could.
Keep this shit up and I will. LOL
I would call them by their name, realize that they’re another person with their own preferences, and shut up. People like what they like. For some reason people think that everyone should be like them. I’ve gotten crap for it before too. I don’t like vegetables and many fruits. I have been told that I’m a super taster, regardless I’m a guy that certainly has a preference for sweet tastes and struggles with things that I personally find bitter. I also have a lot of issues with texture. I have bigger issues with people that think they’re better than me because they have a wider palate. Often they have a wider bottom too, but I don’t point that out and come up with clever names for them, which would be easy. I wish I liked fruits and vegetables, and my palate has adapted as I’ve pushed more as time has gone by, but it is still limited. I’m not a toddler because I don’t like certain foods any more than you’re a toddler for wanting to come up with juvenile names to make yourself feel better than me because you eat a wider variety of foods. Yeah, it kind of strikes a nerve with me.
Pickytoddlerarian and proud!
I’ll start printing the T-shirts.
we need a word for “adult who cares too much about what other adults eat”
I just wanna eat chicken fingers leave me the heck alone
That’s gonna have to be a German word.
Yeah… I bet people think I’m picky, but I’ve discovered that being adventurous is punished **far **more often than rewarded. For example, I went to Texas on a business trip late last year and tried to be as careful as I could with what I ate, but still woke up with intestinal distress two different nights. 
Hell, I LIVE in Texas, eat like a 90 year old stomach cancer patient, and still get intestinal distress on a regular basis.
As someone who suffered from severe IBS for years and now can’t eat gluten, I’ve found that the vast majority of people are really understanding if you just say that you’re stuck being picky because you get sick otherwise.
I was going to say much the same thing. I haven’t been tested, but I’m pretty sure I’m a super-taster. I certainly have a more sensitive palate than most people. I can usually tell what vegetable oil was used to bake packaged cookies, for instance.
Curiously, I, also, don’t like thing spiced with anything that has capsicum in it, and like almost every vegetable except eggplant and okra. I like radishes and almost all meats, though. (So long as they are fresh. Old meat is a turn-off.) Fortunately for me, I enjoy a little bitterness in my food.
I guess I’m a picky eater, but it’s very rare for me not to be able to find something I’ll eat on a menu.
Anyhow, whatever makes some people only eat bland fried food, it’s not being a super-taster.
I find these people annoying, too, mostly because if I am eating with them they can severely limit my food options. But I think you are going overboard if you think this is a major reason you are paying for health insurance.
It’s the biggest. The problem is that people don’t even know what a healthy diet IS, and so they don’t know what a healthy population even is like. The main reason we spend the most on health care, yet have such poor health outcomes, IS poor diet. I’m not blaming individual people all that much. I know how hard it is to pin down what the right diet is. I struggled for years before I zeroed in on it, and I’m constantly learning more. However, it can be done, it’s just not easy.
Yes. There’s a huge difference between being selective to avoid getting sick, and wrinkling your nose at an entire menu while saying “it all sounds weeeeiiird.”
These people are “food cranks”. I am also including the people you invite to your house for seafood dinner who don’t tell you they’re allergic to seafood/vegetarian/on a new diet and it’s a no fish day/ have religious objections/the food has to be cooked in olive oil/no oil/ broiled/no salt/no sugar/gluten free/whatever until you put the food on the table. I used to run around trying to make these people happy, now I just tell them “I’ll order you a pizza what do you want on it”
I like how “supertasters” make up maybe 25% of the population, but 95% of people on the Internet will claim they are one.
I’m a pickytoddlerarian, an on again / off again vegetarian, and I have allergies. And I, for one, am on your side. I’ve never been comfortable with putting the burden of my pickiness on others, or had any desire whatsoever to do so. Sure, I’ll take the pizza. Or I’ll just pass on that cake. No worries whatsoever, dude.
I guess your mileage may vary, though.
I’m picky, if it’s got more than two ingredients and one of those ingredients isn’t bread it’s not for me. My sandwiches consist of one meat and one condiment, never with cheese. I eat cheese pizza only. I do eat vegetables and fruits, but when I do that I decide I’m going to have broccoli, or I’m going to have corn, or I’m going to have apples. Never mixed together and rarely if ever spiced. Don’t add salt to anything either. I do know someone much worse. He only eats pizza and burgers. That’s it. No chicken, no steak, not even cake. Pizza. Burgers.
I wonder what the name is for our opposite, people who eat anything. Whenever I make a mistake buying food, my wife just has me leave it for her brother in law. He will eat literally anything.