Eat your peas one at a time? Cut a Snickers with a knife and fork? Eat the cheese off your pizza first? Tell me all about your food quirks!
I eat my food in strict order of what I like most (from least to most). For example if I had a steak with fries and vegetables, I’d eat the vegetables first, then the fries, then the steak.
Unless it’s a pairing. I love tomato mozzarella salad and I go to great lenght to make sure there is a perfect 1:1 ratio of tomato and mozzarella.
I do this too!
Well, stop it, I’m trying to be unusual here.
Lol, well I do mix it up sometimes so I guess you’re the weird one for strictly doing it always? I guess that makes it different enough
I do a strict order but it’s generally by what I consider the main parts of the dish. So I always eat the main dish before the sides and if there’s multiple sides, I’ll eat the more “important” one first and so on. There’s not much logic to it, my brain just sorts it out automatically
I do this in reverse order.
Meat is always first. Something died for my meal I’m gonna make sure it doesn’t go to waste. Usually a starch next, then veggies.
If I get a burger and fries, I eat all the fries before starting on the burger. If I can’t finish it all, the burger will be good the next day. Fries are only good fresh.
I do the opposite, I pick up the burger and eat it all without putting it down so that I don’t have to clean my hands multiple times. I then wipe off my hands and try not to eat all the fries because I’m always trying to watch my weight. I often fail at that last part.
Thats smart.
I also do this but I can always finish the burger
I try to eat the boring parts of food first. This leads to two notably unusual habits:
- I eat 90% of the pizza crust before the pizza, leaving just a small handle for my fingers.
- I unwrap and turn muffins upside down, then eat the bottom before the crunchy top. (this is less feasible with cupcakes but I still do it sometimes)
For cupcakes, unwrap, rip off the bottom and place it on top of the icing. Cupcake sandwich. My mom saw me do this once and now she does it every time haha
You’re a goddamn genius. Why have I never done this.
Similar - i take it the bottom, smear half the frosting on it, and make two cupcakes.
I do that with cupcakes and muffins too. Saves the best part for last and you get a higher tasty-to-meh ratio.
I like flipping crepes a couple of extra times so that they get a second go around on each side and become slightly crispy. If any French people try to stop me I swear to god I’ll pronounce croissant more Britishly every time you do it
croys’innit
You misspelled crescent roll
Sometimes ill eat a single chip and put the bag away immediately*
*for 30 seconds then devour the entire bag
I’d call that “a win for temptation”
Not really eating, but drinking. At least in my circle of friends and family, I’m the odd one out.
I drink nearly 2 gallons of ice water per day.
Do you work at a labor job?
No, I’m retired now, but used to be a software engineer.
Long story short: The main reason I drink so much water is that I was in a bad accident in 2006 that required a knee replacement, I spent nearly a year on my back and gained a ton of wait in that time. As the years went on gained even more, ballooning up to 470 lbs. In Nov of 2019 I finally decided to do something about it. Water was one of the things I used to help me lose the weight, and I was surprised how well it worked. Now I’m down to 260 lbs with a long way still to go before I reach my goal of 180lbs. I still drink a crap ton of water to help feel full and to curb my apatite.
Hell ya dude that’s a feat! Drowning in success (and maybe water) haha
Mention this to your doctor on your visit. Two gallons is a lot of water and you can be too hydrated.
What is your sodium intake like? Are you retaining all of that water?
I rarely eat chips at home, but when I do, I eat them with chopsticks.
My friend showed me this too. Makes sense, keeps things clean and limits the pace of indulgence!
Anyway, here I go grabbin handfuls again
Like, potato chips or french fries?
Eating cheetos with a fork is also a good one. No gross fingers.
Like eating the wrappers off cupcakes? I definitely don’t do that.
I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve eaten part of the paper wrapper of a Döner Kebab.
My father used to do that. It was like his signature move. He didn’t eat cupcakes often, but when he did he would love to watch the horror on our faces when he ate the whole thing at once, including the wrapper.
I eat crustaceans and some fish whole where applicable. Shell and all.
I divide rice plates into rows and eat it like a dot matrix printer.
I never use my left hand while eating. It literally stays behind my back while I eat right handed. No idea why although I hear that my late grandfather used to do that too.
Lol I love the dot matrix imagery.
It may be totally unrelated to your family, but depending on your cultural background, only eating with your right hand is pretty common across the Middle East. I believe it’s because the left hand is usually associated with wiping your bum, so it was best to keep that hand away from your food. Some folks can actually get a little offended/weirded out if you eat with your left hand at their table. I love these little cultural anecdotes.
I will say right now with a passion, whoever invented spaghetti must’ve had a low bar to go by. It’s both a chore and a test of etiquette. Some people twirl it and eat it in forkfulls, others slurp it, others cut it, and typically each of these are considered rude by whoever doesn’t. And then there’s me, because dexterity, I don’t know. My happy place when eating spaghetti is twirling it and then vacuuming it from the fork like the people in the second category. And that is why I haven’t had spaghetti in years.
When I was a kid I was invited around to a friend’s house for spag bol. I was never invited back. I hear they had to mop sauce off the ceiling.
Spaghetti is so popular as a pasta form factor not because it’s easy to eat, but because it’s easy to make (as in the production of the noodle, to the storage prep, to the cooking).
If I eat a Hostess cupcake I “unscrew” the top and eat it first…
I have food taboos:
- No cooked fruit
- Don’t mix beans and egg
They have their exceptions as my egg and tomato curry is a real winner.
I also don’t eat cooked fruit, it’s definitely a texture thing for me. Cooked fruit is slimy and gross and just ruins anything it touches. I don’t like jam, pudding, or flan or Jello or anything else with that consistency.
No applesauce? What about deep-fried battered bananas at the Chinese buffet?
No applesauce unless it’s an ingredient in a recipe, like I make a banging apple cider bread, but after it bakes you’d never know there was apple sauce in it.
I didn’t know deep-fried battered bananas was a thing, but I don’t eat bananas, either, deep-fried or otherwise! Ironically, I do like “fake” banana flavor, line banana Runts candy or banana flavored jelly beans.
Oh it’s definitely a texture thing (how could anyone think it was a good idea to make something as crisp as an apple into a concoction with the consistency of mucus?) but I also find that cooking fruit makes them more… acidic.
Ugh, cooked apples are the WORST. They’re like slimy slugs baked into a pie! Or baked cherries or raisins, and they get all fat and gross and pop in your mouth and the guts come out! Aggghh!
I feel ill now. 🤢
Don’t mix beans and egg
Woah wait what why?
exception is my egg and tomato curry
Your egg and tomato curry has beans? Like lentils? Chickpeas? I’m imagining a pinto-dahl and freaking out here!
Sorry, it’s don’t mix tomatoes and egg, which usually happens with a full English breakfast, hence the beans.
I eat cooked fruit on its own, or in a pie, if it’s not too acidic. But one thing I cannot stand is fruit cooked with or served with meat. My in-laws are the worst for it, they serve roast pork with apple sauce, roast beef with cranberry sauce, baked ham served with mango chutney, and they have apricot chicken on a weekly basis.
I don’t know who decided that was a normal thing to do, but it’s disgusting.
Oh don’t get me started! Pineapple in sweet and sour! Apricots in tagines! Pineapple on pizzas! Raisins in curries! Pineapple on gammon instead of an egg!
Apricot chicken sounds frankly horrifying.
I have several quirks, I suppose.
I eat popcorn one piece at a time. Same with shoestring chips. Really anything with small individual bits has a high chance of being eaten one by one. More entertaining, and less likely to overindulge.
I used to eat Mac and cheese with chopsticks, but that was as much to get good with chopsticks as to eat each noodle alone. It worked very well, too.
Ripple chips get nibbled one ridge at a time.
I won’t eat mayo, so I use sour cream on sandwiches (idk if that counts)
I typically lick my plate or bowl clean after eating (at home).
And finally, I eat anything that isn’t super messy with my fingers, even in public (mess level goes about to “potato salad” - might get my fingertips messy but easy to lick off, and made of discrete chunks). This includes leaf greens salad. Dip it in the dressing and good to go. I really really like the tactile connection to my food. If I’m at home I’ll eat things like steak with my hands - just tear it apart with my teeth. Feels really good.
I do waffle fries one row at a time.
I do popcorn one at a time as well, unless I have to share the bowl then it’s handfuls, followed by picking one at a time from my hand.
I do not put milk in my cereal. I have a glass of milk with dry cereal, but I don’t put it in the cereal. I don’t like how the cereal gets soggy and the milk gets a weird flavor. The one exception is chocolate cereal, mostly because it creates chocolate milk.
When I eat with white rice, I tend to keep the rice separate until it’s in my mouth because I appreciate the rice itself. This goes even when there’s broth/soup/stew/gravy involved.
I do this too
