# What kind of food will you eat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994 "2015-11-19T17:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/21 "2015-11-20T02:06:02Z")
Melted cheese is a food group. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/22 "2015-11-20T02:09:11Z")
I’m on a seafood diet. Any food I see, I eat! ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/23 "2015-11-20T02:34:43Z")
Omnivore. There’s no class of edibles I won’t at least consider eating. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/24 "2015-11-20T02:53:00Z")
I. It has to taste good. Eating it has to be a pleasant experience. I absolutely _will not_ turn eating into an obligatory consideration or do dutiful chewings of unpalatable substances “because it’s good for me”. To a lesser but still non-negligible extent, I’m not _much_ willing to forego good eating experiences “because it’s bad for me”. II. It has to not be conscious and/or in agony at the time I’m eating it. I don’t mind doing my own killing but by and large I prefer that my food be either dead or of a nonconscious form of life at the time I’m eating it. III. General disclaimers, most of them specifications of exceptions to the rule that I don’t avoid eating food that’s bad for me: I do not want to eat it if it is poisonous to me; that includes biologically compromised, as in spoiled; in a similar vein, it should not be a growth medium for some other organism (parasite, etc) that I’d end up ingesting to my own detriment; generally speaking it has to smell OK — although theoretically something could taste good and smell awful, I don’t want to eat something that smells awful. I eat vegetables and meat from land-dwelling critters and meat from air-flying critters and meat from river- and lake-swimming critters and from ocean-swimming critters. Haven’t eaten lots of insects but I’m not closed off to the idea; fungi are often yummy as are lots of bacterial and yeasty cultures; I’m not much on minerals and nonorganics by themselves but their presence in food is often a wonderful plus; I like eggs and dairy and fermented things, I like fresh meat and cured meat and smoked meat and meat that has had mysterious things done to it in the dark; I like fried vegetables and steamed vegetables and raw vegetables and boiled vegetables and baked vegetables and anything else you can imagine doing to a vegetable. I eat sweetmeats and intestines and brains and livers and bone marrow and eyeballs and would consider chewing on claws and fingernails depending on the cook’s skills. I eat roots and stems and leaves and flowers and seeds and pollen and trunks and bark. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/25 "2015-11-20T03:00:15Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > You forgot the creamy nougat center food group. Not to mention coffee and liquor. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/26 "2015-11-20T03:08:16Z")
I’m with AHunter3. I eat food that tastes good. I eat all the categories you list. I also eat grains, and I’ve eat insects. (grasshoppers and ants. Both were tasty. The consistency of raw grubs is icky, but I’d probably be okay with them cooked, or better yet, cooked and ground up into something else.) I don’t care for overly spiced foods, especially hot spicy foods. And there are lots of particular veggies, etc., that I don’t care for because I dislike either their flavor or their texture. But I’ll try most anything that’s “food” for people, and I like a lot of offbeat foods. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/27 "2015-11-20T03:10:26Z")
I’ll eat anything (except bugs or people). Although you can add me to the short list of people who would prefer not to eat fruit. (Unless you count tomato as a fruit; I love them!) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/28 "2015-11-20T03:14:12Z")
Yeah, I forgot grains. I totally do grains. Hell yeah. I do hot spicy foods. Scald me, give me hiccups, make me cry from the heat, I love it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/29 "2015-11-20T03:16:58Z")
Omnivore here, too. Bugs don’t bug me, either. I will draw the line at human flesh, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/30 "2015-11-20T03:22:40Z")
I like most things, except fish. I like prawns, lobster, and shellfish, but give it scales and fins, and I don’t like it. Blech. Yucky. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/31 "2015-11-20T04:43:57Z")
I used to eat everything except fish. I’ve been working on that so I can eat and enjoy some fish, but only a limited range so far. No shellfish except Prawns and if there’s calamari on the plate I’ll eat it but wouldn’t order it. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/32 "2015-11-20T05:22:33Z")
I eat just about anything typically considered food, in whatever cultural situation i may be in. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/33 "2015-11-20T05:56:06Z")
There are only two categories of things I will not eat: 1. Things that I am allergic to. This list includes lots of foods I really like, such as walnuts, pecans, shellfish, certain vegetables, and certain types of fish. Sucks to be me. 2. Things that I have a strong aversion to. This list includes disgusting things such as pickles, olives, summer squash, and yellow mustard. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/34 "2015-11-20T06:50:20Z")
If you’re not gonna eat that…can I have it please? (I’m well-known among my friends as a table-hyena. I get the cherry-tomatoes off one friend’s salad, and the pickles off the next guy’s burger, etc. I got no pride…and it really is a sin to waste good food. Plus, I’m usually still hungry!) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/35 "2015-11-20T07:28:25Z")
Anything on that list. “Other” for me includes some insects, reptiles, fungi, alcohol & minerals like salt, ice and nitre. I’m considering “other animal products” to include honey & swallow-spit. I’m considering “vegetables” to include grains, nuts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/36 "2015-11-20T07:31:55Z")
Anything bite-sized. ---
**Author:** ![fridolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85f322/32.png) [@fridolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fridolph)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/37 "2015-11-20T08:01:52Z")
I eat all in the list although I don’t eat much seafood. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/38 "2015-11-20T10:18:05Z")
I’ll eat most things, in all categories, that are generally available in Western countries. There are a few, in the mammal / bird / vegetable areas, which I dislike and avoid – no allergies: I just hate / am repelled by the foods concerned. > [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > I’m OK with eating most living things except that I try to avoid\*\* pork, octopus\*\*, and bugs. > > And ever since I saw those giant arthropods that look just like roly-polies, I classify lobster and crawdads as “bugs” if presented to me in their intact state. (I’m OK with them if I don’t have to look at their buggishness, and I will eat shrimp regardless, because I am inconsistent.) > > **The pork and octopus thing is just because those animals are intelligent enough that it feels wrong to eat them.** Even if they are sooooo tasty. And even if I have trouble resisting spam Musubi or Sausage McMuffins sometimes. Because mostly, I succeed at avoiding eating them. Mostly. Was interested to see your mention of the intelligence factor. Not long ago, I was talking with my almost-vegetarian cousin. He said that he won’t consider eating octopus, because of the species’s high level of intelligence by invertebrate standards. (He didn’t mention pork, but I know he doesn’t eat it – he likely entertains these scruples vis-a-vis pigs being bright animals.) I’m afraid that despite these creatures’ being the geniuses of their biological categories, I like almost everything from the pig; and octopus / squid / cuttlefish; too much, to even contemplate refraining from eating them. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/39 "2015-11-20T11:17:10Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > If I was to name a class of food that I won’t eat, it’s SPICY!!! You’re the polar opposite of me. I want just about everything to have some sort of zing. I prefer rye beer and whiskey for their sharper flavor. I even want some cinnamon in my breakfast cereal. Fried chicken better at least have a bunch of black pepper in the crust. But when I don’t want spicy, I want plain: plain tortillas, plain Cheerios. But that might happen once a week. I’ve never eaten insects other than as an additive or an acceptable contaminant. I’d especially like to try [Chapulines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapulines). ETA: Hehhehee, “other”. Bee vomit. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994/40 "2015-11-20T11:30:18Z")
I’m what people call a “picky eater”. I think I’m a supertaster, as I don’t like bitter or overly sweet foods, which includes fruit and vegetables, alcohol, and coffee, etc. So I tend to stick with savoury foods, pastry, bread, meat, cheese, eggs. I tend to eat a lot of chicken. My philosophy with food is don’t choose your diet based on an ideology, just eat whatever you want, it’s your stomach. Stop pestering others about what they eat. Live and let live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-food-will-you-eat/737994.md?page=3)