Was reading through this thread and I thought it would be cool to hear about all the individual eating habits I’m sure we all have. A quick search seemed not to turn up any ‘prior art’ in the last 6 months so I’ll go first.
I like to eat foods that are in the form of separate things on the plate (like steak and different veggies) in a certain way:
I carefully eat everything in such a way as to have a bit of every different item on the fork for each mouthful. The amounts are modified so as to eat the things I like least, first and always leave a bit of thing I like best for the last mouthful.
*Disclaimer: I am not mad or obsessive. The voices tell me so and I believe them, like they tell me to wash my hands 147 times per day and I think no-one could argue that that is bad advice, right? Umm, Guys? Hey, why are you all leaving.
Mayonnaise, Sour Cream, Cream Cheese—if your dish contains any of these three things, in any amount, don’t even offer it to me. No, really. <Urgle>
I eat in groups. First goes all the peas, then all the meat, then all the taters, etc. Only exception is bread or the dinner roll, which gets munched on periodically throughout the meal.
New foods–if they smell funky, I’m not trying them. Sorry, you can call me a baby all you want, but the nose knows.
Salads–croutons must be rooted out and eliminated. They contaminate my dish with their granular nastiness. Like reconstituted scabs, they are. Ick.
That’s enough for now, I suppose. I’d hate for anyone to think I was odd.
I always eat one thing at a time… usually veggies first, then meat. I refuse to eat food that has touched other food. If the peas touch the potatoes, I will eat neither. I LOVE those divided plates that keep my food items separate!
I’m very weird about textures. Most foods I don’t like, it’s because of texture not taste.
For example, I hate large chunks of tomato with all that jelly and mush in there. But, dice that tomato up (like in homemade salsa) and I’ll eat a plateful. Same with veggies. I can’t stand most cooked vegetables, but will scarf them down raw (i.e. carrots, peas, broccoli, etc).
I eat with silverware as much as possible. This include pizza, french fries, brownies, sandwiches and other things usually considered hand foods. I am not anal about it, but when I have the option, I will use utensils.
All food must be eaten in order!
A small bit of each thing on the plate in the same order every time. No deviance! ever. My weirdo brother on the other hand feels that nothing must touch with many adjustments to the plate throughout the meal(push the peas back move the mashed spuds over etc.)
As for eating one thing at a time? Heresy!
I don’t make ‘combo’ foods; but I still eat ‘meals’ =)
PB&J will go:
Two peices of bread
Some peanut butter
Some jelly
I even go so far on large deli ‘sandwiches’ as to squirt some mustard in my mouth at the end, or shake a dash of pepper at in my mouth at the end. It’s really just a lazyness thing
I’ve got a friend that is the pickiest eater I’ve ever seen. Up until I really started working on him the only thing he would eat would be a selection of his mother food (mostly meat and potato Philipino dishes) and Soudough Jack meals.
For variety, he would eat KFC, but only breasts and thighs. And Jack in the Box Chicken sandwiches.
Literally, that’s all he would eat. No matter what. His girlfriends would make him something else, then cook for everyone else. His mom would do the same thing.
It’s kind of sad… one of my best friends, and he limits himself this way… sigh
My eating habits border on obsessive compulsive. First of all, smell texture and appearance are more important than tatse. If I dislike any one of those, I will not eat it. Won’t even try it. And yes, I have a very unhealthy diet because of it.
Whenever I actually do eat I have to follow a very specific set of rules. Each time I take a bite it has to be chewed on only one side of my mouth. Left bite, right bite, left bite, right bite. The right side must always be the last to chew at the end of a meal. Also the right side always gets the prime cuts. If I eat a some cookies, for example, I must have an even number. Then all of the cookies are surveyed to find the yummiest ones. The best ones are always reserved for the right side, with the very best eaten last.
There are a few more weird things, but I’d rather not give you too much of a glipse at my inner madness.
I’m with slortar and much the opposite of xizor in that I’ll pretty much east anything in any order of any texture, color, smell, liquidity, etc. but with as FEW untensils as possible. It’s amazing the things you can actually eat with your fingers - rice, for example, can be very entertaining this way. Yogurt almost requires a spoon, but in a pinch…
Paper towels and napkins are wonderful things:D
oh, but brussel sprouts? THOSE are the most hideous food product on the face of the planet. You couldn’t get me to eat brussell sprouts if you covered them with chocolate - come to think of it, that would make them even WORSE (if that’s even possible)
I don’t really have any weird eating habits other than maybe mixing everything on my plate together into just a pile of mush. Yum! Just have to scoop some into my mouth to get a good sampling of everything.
When I eat a bite, I have to get a little bit of everything on my plate in my mouth at once.
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When I’m having say, steak, mashed potatoes, and peas for dinner, I take a small piece of steak, a forkful of potatoes, and some peas. That way the flavors complement each other nicely.
I had an ex who would, after I’d take a bite of the meat (since this always goes in first), take his fork and fence with mine so I couldn’t get a damn forkful of potatoes or peas before the meat got cold. Really damn annoying.
I don’t think I have any particular eating habits except that I’m one of those who eats in groups (i.e., veggies, then meat, then taties…).
My mother, on the other hand, would make a sandwich out of anything she could fit between two slices of bread. Radish sandwiches. Fried potato sandwichs. Butter-and-sugar sandwiches. I attribute this to her growing up without running water; I suppose that when you have to haul water to the stove, boil it, then use it for washing dishes, you avoid using any dishes unnecessarily.
Not so much what I east, but proportions and timing: I forget to eat, I decide not to eat for stress reasons, and when I do eat it’s mostly fat because I realise that I have to make up for not eating. I get really thin, and it’s impossible for me to gain weight, although I expect this to change when I quit smoking… see Great August 2002 Smokeout thread… maybe I’ll stop going through a jar of mayo per week…
Sorry to OP and run, I mostly access the Internet from work.
Anyway, it’s great to know just how weird we all are.
It’s not really a weird eating habit, but I do like to drink my Tea or Coffee quickly while still very hot. If I’m not sweating 5 minutes after drinking it, I’m not happy.
Whenever i get coloured lollies eg MM’s / Skittles I like to sort them into colour groups then I have to make the groups the same size eg if in a packet of MM’s
Yellow = 2
Blue = 5
Brown = 20
Red = 6
then I would eat the Brown until there was only 6 of them. Then I would eat a red and a brown so that there groups were down to 5. Then I would eat the Blue, Red, Brown until there was only 2 left in each of their groups.
Then I put the lot into a plastic container and save it until the next day. The following day i can enjoy a container of perfect MM’s.
Or if leechboy is around I just give him the uneven colours till its all perfect.
