Picky eaters ...

[Chromatic]

I have synaesthesia, a near-photographic memory for tastes and smells and an incredibly sensitive digestive system. I'm not picky about food, although I am fussy. Or should that be the other way around?

Mostly I prefer to cook for others because it's easier. If I do eat at a friend's, I tend to specify vegetarian food that's not too spicy hot and just cope with any after-effects. With that restriction (I'm not actually vegetarian) any digestive upset is usually fairly minor and easily managed.

I'd never be rude enough to complain about the colour of the pasta, FFS!

Sam

It would have been tempting to bypass the eating stage and stuff it directly up his arse.

 

[XmisterIS]

The only two things I've ever found that I don't like to eat are tripe and raw celery.

Celery cooked (say, as part of a pasta sauce) is fine.

I remember when I was 16, I did a summer job at the NCDL (now the Dog's Trust) - we used to feed them on raw, unwashed, unprocessed tripe (literally straight from the abattoir). The smell was the worst thing I've ever smelt in my life ... the dogs absolutely loved it though! There was one who was incredibly friendly and would want to jump up all over anyone who she saw ... the trouble was that she like to sh*t in her own bed and roll in it ...

 

[Fnaar]

There was one who was incredibly friendly and would want to jump up all over anyone who she saw ... the trouble was that she like to sh*t in her own bed and roll in it ...

I've met a few... no, edit brain

 

[fimm]

A good macaroni cheese pie is very nice - it tastes like macaroni cheese (surprisingly enough) so it has to be made with nice cheese.

WRT picky/fussy eaters - I think that there are people who make a fuss and annoy others, and then there are people who try to eat stuff out of politeness. Allergies are different, of course. For example, I'd rather not eat raw onion, but I will if I have to - but it was not that long ago that I realised that I was "allowed" to pick the raw onion out of a salad in a pub meal, rather than forcing it down me - no one was going to be offended!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

The only two things I've ever found that I don't like to eat are tripe and raw celery.

Celery cooked (say, as part of a pasta sauce) is fine.

Not liking raw celery is not being a fussy eater, it's just the same as not eating , say, rawl plugs. Raw celery is not food.

 

[ColinJ]

Not liking raw celery is not being a fussy eater, it's just the same as not eating , say, rawl plugs. Raw celery is not food.

Raw celery by itself is boring but it makes a great edible spoon for dips! I was eating houmous (hummus?) with celery on my recent trip back from Scotland - lovely!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Raw celery by itself is boring but it makes a great edible spoon for dips! I was eating houmous (hummus?) with celery on my recent trip back from Scotland - lovely!

The only thing you should dip raw celery in is an abandoned mineshaft. By the pallet load.

 

[Archie_tect]

Loved to eat celery with the groove filled with Dairylea when I was a teenager.... nowadays would probably have to use Philadelphia Light or some other low fat pale imitation!

 

[Ravenbait]

The only thing you should dip raw celery in is an abandoned mineshaft. By the pallet load.

I wouldn't get that close.

Sam

 

[Brains]

I think having been bought up in Bording schools where fussy eating was not an option (eat or starve).
Looking at school photos we were all very thin and I seem to remember always being hungry, so I don't think we were well fed by todays standards.
It now means I will eat almost anything and will clear a plate in about one third of the time it takes everyone else, I also never leave anything.

Only things I draw a line at are visible tripe and I'll always cut off all the fat/jelly.

Unfortunatly having got ill in India nearly 20 years ago I can not eat things with that cheap white fine flour in it, so no battered fish, no crepes and I can't eat most of the canape's that come around cocktail parties. I even have to avoid cheap sausages and cheap white sliced bread (not difficult)

 

[swee'pea99]

Not liking raw celery is not being a fussy eater, it's just the same as not eating , say, rawl plugs. Raw celery is not food.

For some reason that reminds me of Homer Simpson defending his diet: "I eat purple. Purple is a fruit."

 

[Arch]

Raw celery by itself is boring but it makes a great edible spoon for dips! I was eating houmous (hummus?) with celery on my recent trip back from Scotland - lovely!

Hear hear! Whereas cooked is, well, I'll eat it but not really enjoy it.

Off at a slight tangent, who else has little food rituals? Like:

I cook spaghetti and sauce - usually a tomato sauce with veg and either mince or tuna in it. I serve the spaghetti, and toss it in pesto if I have it in. Then I serve the sauce on top.

Then I eat the sauce off, eating all the bits of veg first, then the meat or fish, with only a few mouthfuls of pasta. Near the end of it, I'll even push the pasta to one side to separate out the sauce. Once it's all eaten, I'll finish the pasta. Now, I could serve it with the sauce to one side, but the tomato has to mix with the pesto, so I end up deconstructing my dinner.

And with any meal, I'll leave the nicest morsel - the chunkiest chip, the biggest lump of steak out of a pie, the rice or the pasta, to last. Which is fine until you can't decide which thing you like best for the ultimate mouthful...

 

[Archie_tect]

....as Victoria Wood wrote in 'dinnerladies', "Must make coleslaw a challenge?"

A perfect hotel-cooked breakfast is when you have a bit of everything on each forkful- right to the last one. Lovely!

 

[Ashaman42]

Hmmm picky eaters or slow eaters.....not sure which deserves tasering more

And people that can't avoid going "smack smack smack" when they eat.

EDIT: Actually, not people that can't avoid it, it's the ones that just don't care/try that annoy me.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

but it was not that long ago that I realised that I was "allowed" to pick the raw onion out of a salad in a pub meal, rather than forcing it down me - no one was going to be offended!

I would be!



Coat please!