Oh yeah. Cheese arranging. It’s an art.
I like peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Yum.
When I finish a savory meal, I soon cross over into “dessert zone.” Once I’ve had something sweet, I cannot eat anything savory again for several hours. One cookie before dinner and dinner’s officially cancelled.
Don’t be silly. Ketchup is blood! 
Same here, though I usually describe the texture as “vomit-like”. I can eat oatmeal if it’s made with less water than normal. No cottage cheese, though I will eat ricotta (I always use ricotta instead of cottage cheese when I’m cooking).
My texture issues extend to most raw fruits and vegetables, too. I don’t eat most of them because of the texture. About the only raw vegetables I will eat are lettuces, avocados, and shredded vegetables in sushi or coleslaw.
I don’t like raisins. I taste a sort of weird metallic flavor from them. Mr Neville expressed great surprise when I told him this, so I finally figured out that most people don’t get that from raisins.
And there is a place for sweet and non-sweet things to mix, but syrup on bacon isn’t it. That’s just wrong.
That’s it, you just made my list.
::adds Anne Neville to list::
As for my food oddities:
Eggs. I like them, but only if the eggs are runny. And when I say runny, I mean runny as all fuck. A normal fried egg is no good, it HAS to be over easy, and as easy as you can make it. Cooked yolks are ass-nasty. The exception is deviled eggs. The addition of all that other stuff makes the yolks edible, and indeed, tasty. But then, all that other stuff could make chopped up dog crap tasty.
I can’t stand chocolate. People never believe me, though, and are convinced I’m refusing just to be contrary. I’ve hated it since I was a toddler. It’s gotten to the point where I just tell people I’m allergic to it, to which they usually respond “You poor thing!”, instead of going through the following exchange:
“No thanks, I don’t like chocolate.”
“What? Whyever not?”
“I just don’t like it.”
“Well, you’ve never had good chocolate before!”
This is generally followed by varying degrees of hysteria when I flatly refuse to eat whatever it is.
My food oddity is also a tomato issue. I love fresh tomatoes out of the garden in July, and I can eat them sliced with a little salt. I love ketchup, marina and tomato based sauces of any kind, tomato soup, tomato chunks in chili, salsa, BUT…
I cannot, under any circumstances, eat diced tomatoes in a salad. I just won’t. Crispy lettuce and greens is yummy with crunchy croutons and nuts, but squishy tomato can’t touch my salad. Ever.
Oh, I like plain yogurt, and I keep the ketchup in the fridge (which drives Stonebow insane).
I have to eat all my sandwiches upside down. It’s not just an issue of how I pick up my sandwich, its a concious decision.
I love fresh tomatoes. On salads, fresh salsas, fresh off the vine with a bit of salt. In my top five favourite fruits. But cooked tomoatoes I can’t stand. Tomoato sauces, in soups, katsup (though I’m not sure that actually has tomatoes in it, I still dont like it), you name it, I won’t eat it.
I also love cheese curd. I will make my mother visit a local cheese factory when I go visit, but I can’t stand cottage cheese. I don’t know if its a whey issue or something else all together, but I haven’t been able to eat it since I was little.
[Keanu] No whey! [/Keanu]
When I eat fish and fries in a meal, I dip my french fries into the tartar sauce.
I’ll dip my fries into just about anything. Ketchup, tartar sauce, ranch dressing or milk gravy.
I dip my biscuits into my mashed potatoes.
I eat the crust off my sandwiches first, then eat the sandwich.
I’m kind of ashamed of this…sometimes I’ll dip a potato chip or a frito in my tuna and skip the bother of making a sammich.
When eating a hamburger, I take the top bun off and eat it seperately.
I’ll eat pretty much anything. Like Lou, I like different combinations of tastes and/or styles in one meal, plus I love exotic and spicy food. There are things I’d prefer not to eat, though:
I don’t like eggplant, except in babaganoush.
I’m not a fan of zucchini, unless it’s in zucchini bread.
I don’t eat raw mushrooms, and regular button mushrooms (cooked) are usually kind of boring to me. I prefer wild mushrooms (though I will eat regular ones, just not raw).
I don’t particularly like most organ meats, excepting of course the wonderfulness that is foie gras (either goose or duck); I also like chicken livers (like in dirty rice). But if it’s all ground up, like in a pate or terrine, it’s all good; it just tastes like meat then.
I don’t eat raw shellfish (although raw crustaceans, particularly ama ebi at the sushi bar, are delicious).
That’s all I can think of. Personally, I don’t think those are “oddities” at all.
I like fresh jalapenos, but not pickled ones.
I like pickles, but not fresh cucumbers.
I like watermelon and green apples, but not things flavored like them.
I used to eat things on my plate 1-by-1, and not moving on until the item was finished, but I’ve mostly stopped that.
I’m a compulsive plate-clearer.
I love tomato-based hot things (picante sauce, salsa), but I don’t like vinegary ones (like Tabasco)
Count me in as another individual who thinks that mayonnaise and ketchup are among the more loathesome substances known to man, and I will raise you a mustard and relish. I like barbecue sauce but I am terribly picky about the brand. I have been known, however, to pour A1 sauce into a bowl and eat it with a spoon if there isn’t any beef around.
I have a tomato weirdness. I used to like them fresh and raw with salt when I was a youngin’ but not anymore. I can eat tomato sauce, salsa (preferably not too chunky), sun-dried tomatoes, and have no problems whatsoever with using stewed tomatoes, sauce or paste in my soups. Just no kethchup or raw tomatoes, thanks 
And I always ate my hamburgers totally plain until I was 17 and discovered cheese was ok. I still eat them this way mostly, but sometimes like grilled onions (I LOVE onions). The only hamburger I can eat from a fastfood joint unaltered from the menu is the Carl’s Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger. When I go to In-N-Out, it is a plain double-double (and in 24 years of living they have never once botched my order )
Oh and eggs, too. I can eat them when I make them - fried in butter or bacon fat, and only after having been thoroughly beaten. I can’t eat eggs other people make and find the smell disgusting. The worst smell on the planet is egg salad, to me.
Damn straight. I think
James “Kibo” Parry captured the essence of this not-quite-vegetable-not-quite fruit when he wrote: “A tomato, being an ugly bag of mostly water, is a giant thalidomide ameba.”
My other hates: bananas outside of banana bread, anything in the melon family (think I’m allergic), green peppers in any form, the crunchy wet spiny feels-like-I-ate-a-bug parts of lettuce, ratatouille (don’t you people realize it’s French for “snot”?), broccoli stalks, most Indian spices (just don’t taste “foody” to me), and cilantro, which NO sane human being should put in anything, because IT FRICKIN TASTES LIKE SOAP.
HA! Coming clean on the food weirdness in the family, eh? I, too, have texture issues, although I can eat pears, now. Usedtocouldn’t.
I also seem to remember someone cooking scrambled eggs so done, they were brown and crunchy. We dubbed them “eggs erroneous” from the Ernest movies.
Do you know how hard it is to feed a kid on a road trip when she won’t eat anything except fried chicken, a hamburger “plain, with nuttin’ on it”, and water?
Also, does anyone else find it odd that our user names have food in them?
Yeah I forgot that egg weirdness, too. They can’t be wet, they have to be browned and crunchy on the outside, hot and fluffy on the inside.
Eggs are the only thing I can never properly make for my husband.
Take a piece of bread, tear it in half. Put around 4 french fries in it, salt the fries and roll the bread around them into a tubular sandwhich and consume. Feel free to add a little ketchup.
Use Pita bread and what you’d have is what the Arabs might call a litmah (LIT-ma, sounding the ‘ma’ is as in Massacusetts.)
Delicious.
I love tomato sauce, tomato juice, sun-dried tomatos, tomato soup, and just about everything about tomatos.
Except I don’t like fresh tomatos.
Now, I have tried soooooooo hard to like them! Including trying ones that were lovingly home-grown and picked and served at the peak of ripeness. But no go. 
Otherwise I’ll eat, or at least try, about anything under the sun. Tho I was formerly an extremely picky eater, until I got into my early 20’s.
Bananas are just icky (except banana bread or banana chips)
I cannot stand milk, or milky drinks (coffee and tea always black please). But I love other dairy: cheeses, ice cream, yogurt.
I don’t really like almost any traditional breakfast food (pancakes/eggs/french toast/cereal, etc.). I probably only eat real breakfast food a few times a year (unless you count peanut butter toast, which would bring it up to about once a month).
My favorite pizza topping combo is pineapple, onions, and banana peppers. With LOTS of garlic sauce if available.
I always finish one “course” before moving on to the next thing.
I find potatoes edible, but would never order them or buy them in any form. Chips, fries, mashed…they just don’t do anything for me.
I like brains! Yummy, yummy brains!
With chorizo, potatos, and eggs and a nice hot steaming bowl of menudo on the side.
I get this from coffee-a-holics. They keep telling me I have to keep trying new coffees until I find the one that I might like.
If I have to work that hard at it, it’s too damned much effort.
My food oddities are that sometimes I get a craving for my ‘gross’ lunch: Liverwurst sammiches made on brown sugar/cinnamon poptarts, with REAL grapefruit juice to wash it down. I don’t know why I love that, but I do. (fortunately I don’t feel the need to have it that often.)