...well-adjusted adults with unyielding, often secretive, eating practices [View All]

[KurtNYC]

A self-described "hyper-picky eater" who consumes little more than raw carrots and celery, french fries, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter crackers, cereal, beer and milk, Krause will not dine at friends' homes; he will go to a restaurant only with his wife.

"She will have a three-course meal and I might have a beer and french fries. In fancy restaurants, the fries might come with spices, batter or vinegar, and there I am with french fries I can't eat and two beers," says Krause. In his universe, Thanksgiving is "Black Thursday."
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Extreme eating habits almost killed the romance for JoAnn Polickoski, 34, who lives in a suburb of Columbia, S.C. In the early 1990s, her Marine boyfriend flew her to Spain for a vacation that was to include a marriage proposal. But James Polickoski, 34, did not fully comprehend his sweetie's ironclad culinary credo: "If it looks like what it is -- if it has a head, bones or scales -- forget it."

When confronted by the day's catch in a quaint seaside restaurant, "she completely melted down," he recalls. The paella he ordered contained "oversize prawns and crawfish with heads on. She wouldn't eat anything; she wanted to go to McDonald's, to eat commissary food. We had a horrible time."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501276_pf.html

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it can also be funnier. Loved the "anti-hunger" crusader who won't eat most foods. The line about Thanksgiving being 'Black Thursday' got me also -- I'm not a picky eater but much of the standard Thanksgiving fare turns me off. Anything involving jello or yams especially. And you're FULL. And someone you liked cooked it all and you don't want to hurt their feelings so it's like a triple whammy.