What food quirks do you have?

[NewWaveChick1981]

:) I have a couple. I always reach for a corner brownie first. They're chewier and have more "edge" on them....:9 Also, I love pudding skin, so whenever we make pudding at home, it has to set up at least a couple of hours before I eat it. :D (That means that instant pudding is banished at our house!)

Also, for you Southerners, I will only eat grits if they have sugar and butter on them. :P

Next!

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. Grits with cheddar cheese!

mmmmm good

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. My husband loves grits and cheddar...

:hi: He thinks I'm insane for putting sugar on grits. :P

[JitterbugPerfume]

38. my mom used to eat grits

with milk and sugar like cereal for breakfast It was pretty good too!

[LynneSin]

41. I put so much pepper on my cottage cheese that the stuff has a dingy gray look to it

It's almost kinda gross but I love it that way.

Oddly, I rarely use pepper for seasoning unless the recipe calls for it

[JitterbugPerfume]

53. my pepper mill

is my best friend >I put pepper on about everything

[Drum]

3. Only a couple...

I won't eat capers. I banged my head once so hard that I got this metallic taste in my mouth...ever since, the taste of capers brings that back, unpleasantly, so I won't touch 'em.

Anything served with Fries: I have to eat the fries first...will eat any hot-food-gone-cold except french fries.

Oh, and cherry tomatoes...no way. I love tomatoes in all formats, but the little bite-size ones, NO way. Why? Rather not get into that....

:)

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Yeah, cold fries are disgusting.

:hi: I'm not much on capers anyway, so I know what you mean.

[flvegan]

4. My fried chicken MUST be coated with Corn Flakes.

:popcorn:

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. I've heard that.

:P :hi: :rofl:

[yellowcanine]

5. Ketchup on cottage cheese, and most anything else.

Mashed potatoes, pasta, bread, crackers, all meats including fish.

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. My aunt does that.

:hi: She especially likes ketchup on scrambled eggs, but she uses it on EVERYTHING.

[yellowcanine]

13. Oh yeah, eggs most definately, cooked in any fashion. My brother was even more of a ketchup fiend

than I am. He made ketchup and onion sandwiches. Yum! My one daughter uses a lot of ketchup also. I think it may be genetic.

[begin_within]

66. My best friend in childhood used to put ketchup on his vanilla ice cream.

He swore it was great, but I could never bring myself to try it. I used to stir my vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup around and around, until it was all homogenized in one soft bowl of chocoloate-flavored ice cream.

[grasswire]

70. I believe it gets colder when you stir it

I'd like to see that tested scientifically. I really think so, and I do it too.

[yellowcanine]

98. I don't think so. The physics of that says otherwise. You are adding energy with the

stirring. Some of that energy is going to change to heat from the friction. Unless of course you have the bowl sitting in a heat sink - otherwise known as an ice cream freezer.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. The breadsticks must be endless.

:yoiks:

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. I thought that was the never-ending pasta bowl....

Oh..wait...:P :yoiks: :rofl:

[TK421]

11. I won't touch anything that has been near or contains onions

the smell of them makes me wretch, the taste of them makes me barf. I will pick out onions from food even if they are diced up super-fine...but I can still taste the damn things

[LynneSin]

46. Same with onions and ESPECIALLY with pickles

I've actually returned dishes at restaurants when they put the pickle on the place. The juice from that damn pickle gets over everything and the food then taste like a fucking pickle. And trust me - I order all my sandwiches WITHOUT pickles

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

58. Ha! Me too! I loathe onions, and will pick out the tiniest bits.

My whole family is like that. Must be genetic. I just don't understand why so many people think everything has to have little pieces of onions in it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Natto and Kimchi on hot rice and Marmite on Toast for breakfast

[TK421]

15. What's natto and marmite? I know about kimchi

And I buy it often. Is marmite like vegemite?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. Marmite is like Vegemite but a tad stronger. I love Vegemite too.

Natto is a food that made my wife gag when she tried it. It's soybeans femented with a bacteria. They smell and taste extremely strong and have mucusy texture when stirred. They are a huge delicacy in Japan and I eat them just about every day. They are extremely good for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto

[TK421]

17. I'll have to check the local asian market for the natto

I'm assuming they would carry it...but I'm willing to try new things. Thanks for the link!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Be forewarned - it is like nothing you have ever eaten

enjoy!

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Shudder. I don't even like being in the same apartment when natto gets opened.

:puke:

I ****love**** Marmite, though!! I finally found a bottle last week, in fact, and opened it last night for way too many Marmite coated crackers. Goddamn, that's good stuff!

Also love Kimchi.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

52. There's an english shop here that sells one lb jars of Marmite

an english friend brought me a squeeze tube of it from London - nw that's the way to do it

[ohiosmith]

14. Gotta eat pizza in a clockwise manner. Starting at 12:00. No skipping ahead allowed.

:silly:

[lost-in-nj]

18. what if

someone turns the box and your really eating 6????


:rofl: :rofl:

lost

[ohiosmith]

23. I thought of that. Now I make my own.

:P

[billyskank]

30. So how do you designate 12?

Do you put an extra olive there or something?

[ohiosmith]

34. 12:00 is the the area that is at the back of the oven during baking.

[MrCoffee]

35. freakshow.

[ohiosmith]

37. chicken fancier

[azmouse]

19. I won't eat anything that's still moving.

:evilgrin:

[lost-in-nj]

21. I like to eat

the bacon off the Thanksgiving turkey,
I like my homemade stuffing better uncooked
and I LOVE to make Ice cream soup!!!


lost

[ThomCat]

27. LOL!

That's an awesome set of quirks. :)

[lost-in-nj]

42. Thanks

you feeling any better????



lost

[ThomCat]

48. Not yet.

I'm so medicated right now that the pain is a strong dull ache across my lower back. I still get the stabbing pain if I move the wrong way.

I hope I'm at least back to where I started by tomorrow. I haven't accomplished much at work today. :(

[From The Ashes]

51. Ice Cream soup?

is that where you stir your ice cream until it is smooth and creamy? I love mine that way. Everybody always tells me to quit playing with it and eat! :rofl:

[Parche]

22. FooD For Thought

I love cherries....but I dont like cherrie pie

I love onion rings....but i dont like onions

I love raisins....but not chocolate covered raisins


I love avacado's, but dont like guacamole


:hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. I love apple pie....

I love apple pie...but I don't like apples. I don't like any real whole fruit really--something about biting into something you've got to hold, and then having to look at it half eaten in your hand, really turns me off. Plus for some weird reason I hate that "crunch" sound that people make when they bite into an apple or other type of hard fruit. Weird OCD quirk of mine.

Yet put it in a pastry, caramalize it, and I love it.

I get all my Vitamin C and other fruit benefits from Orange Juice. I love orange juice, but again, not a big fan of oranges themselves. I actually love orange juice so much that if I don't have it in the morning, I feel incomplete. Even worse than when I don't have coffee, and that's saying a lot.

[montanto]

24. I triage potato chips!

i eat the smallest broken ones, then the biggest broken ones, then the smallest whole ones, until i get to the last and largest. and if its a tie, i save the waviest, or the one that is folded over for last.

[Maraya1969]

90. OMG between you and Ohiosmith I have not stopped laughing this whole

thread. :rofl: I wonder how the 2 of you would figure out how to eat a pizza pie covered with potato chips.

[montanto]

91. i have no problem with ohiosmith's quirk, but

the pizza would get cold before i got all the chips sorted out and eaten off his 12:00 slice!!

[MissMillie]

25. I love the corner brownies!!!!

I love the chewy edge... love it.

I don't usually make sandwiches w/ my cold cuts. I usually just eat the cold cuts on a plate, w/ some cheese and some crackers.

[zabet]

26. I too, claim the corner brownie.

I also love fried fish tails.
I believe making a sandwich is an artform,
not just a quick slap-together substitute meal.
My mayo, mustard or whatever must go totally to
the edge of the bread, only fresh ground black pepper
and sea salt......well you get the idea.

[unpossibles]

28. I am a human garbage disposal

I've learned to like burnt cookies - the trick is to eat them burnt side up so your tongue doesn't hit carbon first.

I've never understood eating organ meats, feet, or spine, etc. even when I ate meat.

I will mix almost any type of leftovers - Mexinese, Indican, and Thaitalian are some of my favorites. It's not that I prefer to do so, but it doesn't bother me, and sometimes I discover new flavor combinations.

I am very adventurous with new cuisines.

[tandot]

29. I get annoyed when people cut off the tip of a wedge of brie or camembert

If you have a round cheese, cut it into wedges (like a pie). If you have a wedge, cut slices from the side of the wedge (from the tip to the outer rind).



The center or tip of the cheese (especially brie and camembert, or some blue cheeses) is considered by many to be the best part. If you are a guest at a party and start cutting the tip off, guests after you will be left with the rind. Cutting it from tip to rind will ensure that all guests have the chance of getting a "fair share"

My mom is French and I might have inherited her Cheese-Nazi Gene. Should you ever go to France, never ever break the cardinal rules of cheese cutting ...or...:

[Tektonik]

57. My mom is French too

and boy she'd get annoyed if I ever cut the tip off a brie wedge. One must always create a new tip when cutting brie.

[Aristus]

31. My favorite snack is Wheat Thins dipped in Hummus.

:9

[Raejeanowl]

65. Yes, That's Yummy

Triscuits are also very good with Hummus, but you have to watch how you combine them if either is flavored.

[lildreamer316]

86. Ooo! Now I have to go try that.

Mmmmm.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. I don't mix my food--I eat in order up to the main food

For example, if I have green veggies, potatoes and a steak, I eat the green veggies first until they are done, then the potatoes until they are done. And I eat the steak last, because the steak is the main part of the meal. It's the climax of the meal. For me, mixing the different foods on my plate would be like fast forwarding and rewinding a movie and watching in no particular order.

If I go to a restaurant and order a burger in fries, I'll always eat the fries first and then the burger. And more than once I've had the waiter/waitress come by and ask me if there is something wrong with my burger because I haven't eaten it yet. I inevitably have to reassure them there is nothing wrong with the burger, that I am just weird in the way I eat.

[Scout]

33. peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, yummmmm

white or brown rice with butter, pasta with butter, butter with butter, bread with butter, toast with butter. Pretty much i love butter.

i loathe most vegetables ... especially brussels sprouts, cauliflower, lettuce, green peppers, mushrooms, cucumber, ESPECIALLY celery.

i loves my meat and taters, and some other stuff too, but i am a pretty classic "finicky eater." i've gotten some better as i've gotten older, i'm better about trying foods now, but still don't really like that many of them.

[ivycat]

71. I thought it was only me.

I absolutely cannot stand celery. I will not buy any soup or any of the easy to prepare meals if it has celery showing on the package. At Thanksgiving or Christmas, I will pick the stuffing clean of celery before I can eat it.

[Scout]

92. nothing ruins a good cole slaw like putting CELERY SEED in it

try picking those little buggers out! My husband bought cole slaw dressing with celery seed, instead of our usual brand. It's still in the fridge, i'm not going to use it because it is too nasty.

[HERVEPA]

39. Ice cream in bowl, not cone, and should be halfway melted

[HERVEPA]

40. Dup. Sorry.

[LynneSin]

43. I will NOT put milk on my cereal

I drink milk, but it must be in a glass separate from the cereal I'm eating.

I have a brother who loves corn-on-the-cob but someone has to slice it off of the cob before serving it to him

[AnneD]

44. My fav sandwich from childhood...

and still is....peanut butter, mayo and dill pickle. Mom said I had the healthiest eating habits for a kid (loved spinach, peas, carrots, wasn't too fond of sweets). She never could figure this one out.

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. Whenever I eat a spear of asparagus, I fire a round from my 12-gauge into the ceiling to celebrate.

:woohoo:

[NewWaveChick1981]

49. Tease...

:P :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. No, really! You should see the place in April.

Fuckin' mess, let me tell you. I go through pounds of the stuff.

[MazeRat7]

50. I generally try to not to eat anything that is blue

The only exception would be blue corn tortillas.

MZr7

[WinkyDink]

54. ITA, about the corner brownie! And corner lasagna. Main "quirk: Eating apples first, on pie, then

entire crust.

[pokerfan]

56. I prefer cold pizza to hot

I absolutely love liver and onions.
I prefer my hash browns well done and crunchy.
I must have Tabasco® with my scrambled eggs.
I must have an entire slice of sweet onion with my hamburger.
When eating crab, I completely shell it first before eating instead of shelling and eating as you go.
I like to eat green apples with salt.
I like to pour chilli over a single serving of Fritos® corn chips making what is called Frito-pie.
I eat the muffin bottoms first because I like the tops best of all so I eat the tops last.

[momophile]

59. I won't eat anything on a bone - that goes for corn on cob

I think it's disgusting to eat food with the bones still in it. my hubbie cuts my meat for me if it has to have a bone.

the corn thing just kinda happened and wasn't planned. I'll cut corn off the cob and eat it but I can't eat it on the cob.

[Wapsie B]

60. With pie, I'll eat out the filling first and then eat the crust.

Same with desserts with graham cracker crusts.

I love to eat chili, lasagne, and casseroles cold.

No milk at all on my flavored instant oatmeal, the only kind I'll eat.

[begin_within]

68. I won't even eat the crusts or the whipped cream.

I'll eat the filling out of the pie, carefully extracting it from between the crust and the whipped cream. I'll throw the crust and whipped cream away. They are bland and fattening. However, I love graham cracker crusts so I will eat that.

[mitchum]

61. I can't stand to smell catsup if I am not eating it on something

[QMPMom]

62. I'm very picky about my peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches:

1. It must be *white toast*.

2. Butter toast well.

3. Spread with *crunchy* peanut butter only.

4. Cover entire surface with sliced dill pickles.

5. Place second piece of toast on sandwich.

6. Cut sandwich *corner to corner* only.

7. Eat round cornered half of sandwich first. *Never* eat pointy half first.

[keroro gunsou]

63. let's see...

ketchup on scrambled eggs...

tarter sauce on the potato pancakes/fries at the fish fry

eating a can of cream of chicken soup or mini-ravioli cold and right out of the can

lawry's season salt on popcorn

yeah, i've got a few... :D

[opiate69]

64. My big quirk about eggs...

I cannot stomach even the slightest sign of runny whites. But I love runny yolks, so it's damned near impossible to make me a perfect fried egg.

[VenusRising]

78. Try covering your egg with a lid while frying.

The steam will actually cook it enough to get an easy flip with less chance of yolk breakage. It really stops the whites from remaining runny. I also use olive oil to fry my eggs. :9

:hi:

[opiate69]

79. I'll have to try that.. thanks!

[begin_within]

67. George Carlin used to ask, "When you make a sandwich,

do you reach past the first 3 or 4 slices of bread, to get the "good bread?" I laughed because this is what I do. Only when there's nothing else left will I use the heel or the slice next to the heel.

[Raejeanowl]

69. I Have a Method For Eating Greek Salad

It sounds almost fetishistic trying to explain.

It has to be a very good one, with everything including young, small anchovies and a few pepperoncini on the plate. But I combine maybe two of the strong-flavored items at a time with the lettuce: a slice of red onion with a chunk of feta cheese, a bite of the hot pepper with an olive, an anchovy with a tomato. Then I alter the combos the next round. It's like I don't want to be too overwhelmed by the flavors, or I want to experience them in every way.

I'm also a chewy, crusty corner brownie lover!

[Orsino]

72. I don't like different foods touching.

I dig the pure experience of each dish.

edit: oh, yeah; I nearly always eat one dish at a time.

[SarahB]

73. I won't eat meat rarer than medium.

I think it's disgusting.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

102. Really?

I don't like meat cooked higher than medium.

Well-done tends to dry things out for me. I take a risk with the ecoli and such.

[1gobluedem]

74. I don't eat salad dressing

People can't understand it. I also dislike: eggs, mustard, mayonnaise, sweet pickles, mushrooms, squash, canned vegetables (can't stand the smell either), lobster, crab, oysters, salmon, sushi, peppers, olives....it goes on and on and on. I am a very fussy eater and it drives my family and friends nuts.

I also will not buy generic or store brands of anything even when I know the store brand is the same thing as the name brand.

And I put ketchup on mac and cheese.

[Skittles]

77. I don't eat salad dressing either

actually I don't care for any kind of "sauce", including kethup :D

[redqueen]

75. I like my chocolate chip cookies when they're still fresh and soft...

and I store them with slices of bread, to keep them soft & chewy. :)

I'm not a picky eater, though... so I don't have many quirks.

Wait, does not drinking anything while you eat count? I dunno why, but I usually don't.

[Shakespeare]

82. Then allow me to introduce you to the holy grail of chocolate chip cookie recipes:

Alton Brown's chewy recipe. I'll never use another recipe again, just this one. You'll note a few changes from the back-of-the-chips-bag recipe, like using bread flour, and melting the butter before creaming it with the sugar (and the sugar and egg proportions are also different). These stay chewy for days, uncovered--but they probably won't last that long.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_13617,00.html

[redqueen]

83. Ooooh thanks!

I already melt the butter first... but I'll enjoy trying the other changes and finding out how they taste!

Ooh I love cold weather. SO good for baking and making takes-half-a-day-to-cook meals. :D

[Shakespeare]

84. Using bread flour makes a huge difference...

...as does eliminating one egg white (which makes a drier cookie). mmmm....maybe I'll make these again tonight.

Enjoy! :hi:

[lost-in-nj]

76. I forgot one

I LOVE cold pork chops....
especially if they have shake and bake on them and cooked on sauerkraut


and I am a middle brownie eater.....
where its nice and soft



lost

[Sugar Smack]

80. I like a proportional sandwich.

I like every bite to taste the same, not TOO MUCH mayo here or TOO MUCH tomato there. Almost impossible at Wendy's.

[av8rdave]

81. I hate onions. I mean really, really hate them. Mayo too.

[Inchworm]

85. I'll eat ANYTHING ... once.

Then decide if I'd like to taste it again. The best combo to date.. pepperoncini chewed, then take a bite of extra sharp cheddar with plain yellow mustard on it. Clense with Budweiser and repeat till cheese is gone :P

:hi:

[kwassa]

87. I eat salads without any salad dressing

I like them better that way.

[ironflange]

88. I can't think of any that _I_ have

Just a few dislikes, I guess I'll eat pretty well anything, except cauliflower and Marmite, the two most vile things ever placed on the planet.

The rest of my family, though, will take cheese dreams -- you know, broiled open-face bacon and cheddar sandwiches -- and put strawberry jam on them. Ugh! And they think I'm weird because I like to put poached eggs and salsa on them.

[HEyHEY]

89. I'll only eat that what's been killed inhumanely

[mcscajun]

93. If I have cheese on a cold ham sandwich, it must be only ONE Slice.

That's all.

If it's grilled and that cheese is gonna melt, Pile it On! Not too much ham, now. :9

Proportions are everything!

[jakefrep]

94. I loathe ketchup and mustard

Which is why I NEVER order a burger at McDonald's.

[Tektonik]

95. When I slice apples

I once in a while eat one of the seeds I've cut in half. I know they contain a small amount of cyanide, but the aftertaste of the seed is yummy.

[bicentennial_baby]

96. Oh jeez...where to start?!

Ok...

I won't eat any shellfish/crustaceans other than clams and lobster.
The only fish I have really ever liked are haddock, tuna, and shark.
I will never touch brussel sprouts, b/c my Mom had a horrible allergic reaction to them when I was little, and they scare me.
I hate cabbage. End of story.
I smell everything that I eat before I bite into it, even if I cooked it myself.
Under- and Over- done pasta enrages me.
I think that chicken is boring and bland, unless it's fried.


I'm sure there are more... :rofl:

[Withywindle]

97. Not picky at all and pretty adventurous, I'll eat just about anything

EXCEPT...

anything in the licorice/anise/fennel flavor family.

The mere presence of a single fennel seed can render a whole dish revolting to me. :puke:


Also, when I was a little kid, I used to drink a glass of lemon juice after school the way most kids do orange. I also liked to eat yellow mustard out of the jar with a spoon. My guilty secret is, I still do.

For a woman, I'm pretty indifferent to sweets. Most of my food cravings are for spicy or salty or savoury things. I'll take a hot sausage or a flavorful cheese over chocolate any day.

[crim son]

99. I like very spicy, hot foods.

I don't much like sugar. I dislike bananas.

That about covers it.

[Arkansas Granny]

100. I received a new catalog today that has the perfect brownie pan

for you. Nothing but edge and corner pieces!



http://www.solutions.com/jump.jsp?itemID=10726&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C4%2C112%2C123&iProductID=10726

[SacredCow]

101. My dislikes are mostly texture-based....

Eggplant, for example, is something I can't stomach unless it's pulverized to remove it's texture. Same thing with mushrooms- I love the flavor, but the texture makes my skin crawl.

I also like the corner brownies, and when baking cookies will sometimes slightly over-cook one batch on purpose- I like them extra-crispy.

[SmokingJacket]

103. I'm so glad I'm not all of you guys's mom!

Honestly, I thought my kids were bad because they don't like tomatoes.

I'll eat anything except breakfast sausage, or gum.