Picky Picky!

[BattleNymph]

Even eaters who are not generally picky are picky about something.

What are you picky about with your dining?

I know some people who won't allow different foods to touch each other on the plate.

I know some people who require the silverware and the table to be set just so, regardless if they're having pizza or escargot.

I know some people who can only drink coffee at a certain temperature.

My sister will only drink Dasani bottled water.

[Huxley]

I don't like to eat the same meal daily for a month or more.

I'm also picky about my my alchoholic beverages.

Less grease is ussually a good thing in my book, too.

[TinSoldier]

Since becoming an adult, I'm not very picky any more.

I still don't like beets or potato salad, though, so they shouldn't touch any food that I actually want to eat.

Of course, with beets, you get that red juice all over the place...

[TinSoldier]

I don't think this is picky, but when I go to a Mexican restaurant or make Mexican food myself, I like to mix up the beans and rice together. They taste good as-is, but they taste even better mixed up.

[Baelfyre]

Okra and sweet potatoes are the foods of the devil, made to make us throw up on the smell of it.

[Amso]

I'm not so bad that foods can't touch, but I really don't like mixing them up. I have to eat all of one thing, then another, then another in a nice progression.

I was eating spaghetti with some garlic bread the other night and the guy I was with couldn't believe I wouldn't mop up the rest of the sauce with the bread. Why would you spoil something so perfect on its own with sauce?

[silverwhisper]

i'm not. i'm big on finding the positives where i can and focusing on them. even in a meal that doesn't exactly blow me away i can generally find qualities that are commendable. this makes me a bad food critic, i suppose.

[COTSBOE]

I know some people who require the silverware and the table to be set just so, regardless if they're having pizza or escargot.



I'm one of those people.



Insofar as food goes I've got an iron stomach and there's very little that I won't try; but I'm particular about the quality of my food. I don't really consider that "picky" so much as selective.

[BattleNymph]

I am tacitly NOT a picky eater. I can eat caviar out of the can with a spoon or have Mcdonalds in the back of a limo. Or bread and cheese on a dirty rock when camping. I like most foods, or at least tolerate them.

The one thing I can think of that bothers me is leaving a mess. I don't like my kitchen with food left on the counter or dirty dishes piled in the sink.

Even out on that dirty rock, I have to make sure my wrappers or whatever are picked up.

[carmachu]

Even eaters who are not generally picky are picky about something.

What are you picky about with your dining?

I know some people who won't allow different foods to touch each other on the plate.

I know some people who require the silverware and the table to be set just so, regardless if they're having pizza or escargot.

I know some people who can only drink coffee at a certain temperature.

My sister will only drink Dasani bottled water.


I'm not good at trying new stuff. I'm better than I use to be, but still not that good.

[Magnus Bergqvist]

One thing I am picky about, is cutting away all the visible fat on meat. And yes, that definetly includes bacon...

/Magnus

[Cranky Dog]

One thing I am picky about, is cutting away all the visible fat on meat. And yes, that definetly includes bacon...

/Magnus
Even bacon? Ok, that's a little extreme. Especially since the way we make our bacon, nearly all the fat melts off.

I'm usually not picky in the way I eat food that I like. The only thing I can think of is that if I'm eating something with ingredients I don't like (mushrooms or bell peppers in pizza or various sauce), is that those ingredients are large enough to be selectively taken out of my serving and put aside. So, anything chunky style is a plus in my book.


Cranky Dog
"I have a picky opinion, international!"

[Water Jess]

I used to be SUPER picky, but now I'm tolerable.

I hate pickles and any type of melon and I won't eat anything that has TOUCHED either one. (No, you can't just pick pickles off, they leave nasty juice behind.)

I don't like raisins and cooked carrots are nasty. If I'm eating broccoli, I prefer the stems... but I will eat the flower.

Generally, I don't eat beef. I've eaten it twice in the last year, once on my birthday at a very high-end place, and the other was when my boy's mom made it. If I know who cooked it, and how it was cooked, then I'll tolerate it. I won't eat ground beef, though.

I won't drink Diet Coke when it gets too warm. I prefer it straight out of the fridge.

I will only drink skim milk. I will tolerate 1% on cereal. I don't like regular yogurt, only low-fat.

No sausage. I also detest nacho cheese sauce. The smell of it makes me retch.

Those are my big ones. I used to be a LOT worse. And most of those are pretty tame and really, I don't come across problems often. According to my boy, I am terrible at restraunts because I always want to substitute something. I don't ALWAYS do that, though.

[Kalzazz]

I dont want anything with straight catsup, dislike catsup immensely

I dislike raw or undercooked veggies of most stripes, and am of Very mixed opinion on asparagus (like some of it, dislike some of it)

Barely tolerate milk if its not whole milk. Will eat cereal (with or without milk) as a food of last resort

Dislike warm soft drinks, warm beer. Especially diet ones, which I dont even like cold

I loathe those scratchy bottomed plates that make horrible sounds, or ones that make horrible sounds otherwise. My preferred form is paper plates and plastic silverware for anything not knives

I will try anything at all, at least once. In fact, I actively want to try anything I see

[Water Jess]

Its amusing to me. Kal and I are opposites in the fact that he wants whole milk and regular cokes, but I hate most things that are full-fat or full-sugar.

[Parzival]

Vinegar.
Loathing does not manage to capture the revulsion I feel. (I've mentioned that my mother has a magnetic attraction for quacks. For a while when I was growing up, I got to drink 8 oz of white vinegar every night.)

Seafood-- invertibrates like lobsters, crabs, oysters, clams, whelks, ad naseum. I grew up inland. IMO, eating bugs and snot for reasons other than basic survival is something that has to be imprinted early.

Oriental food. I've tried it twice, and both times spent at least the next 12 hours pointing alternating ends of myself at the toilet. I'd prefer to avoid repeating the experience.

[Stephane]

Parz, have you tried other kinds of vinegar? There are many. Wine vinegar as well as cider vinegar. The last is less harsh.

I'm generally not picky. I've got an iron stomach and to this date only two plates have not been finished by me for taste.

I'm particular about pasta. It's got to be al dente. I've eaten it mushy, I'll probably still eat it mushy, but if I have a choice, I'll skip it entirely.

I have a good nose/taste buds for turned food, so I'll pass.