Do you have any weird eating quirks?

[Shell Beau]

Like your foods can't touch each other or you have to eat one food item at a time (like your mashed potatoes first, then your beans, then your chicken or whatever).

[MissMillie]

1. I have a really tiny tummy

:silly:

so I have to eat a bunch of little "meals" throughout the day.

[Shell Beau]

2. That is actually a good thing to do.

(I think)!! :)

[Divameow77]

3. When I am eating something messy

such as ribs or buffalo wings, I put my food down between each bite and wipe my hands. I can't stand messy fingers.

[Shell Beau]

6. I do the exact same thing. My husband

always says they are just going to keep getting messy, but I can't stand it either. I go through bunches of napkins.

[WeRQ4U]

17. Sometimes, if noone around is hip to it, I'll just lick them off.....

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's kinda gross.

[Shell Beau]

34. I won't tell anyone, I'm quite sure I've done it too!!

:P

[WeRQ4U]

10. I do that too!!!!!!!

I also have to wash off the shampoo from my hands before I rinse it from my hair. Must be the same gene.

[Divameow77]

40. I do that too!!!

I didn't think anybody else bothered with that.

I guess I'm not so weird.

[XemaSab]

4. I don't eat critters

and I am allergic to tomatoes, so I am hard to feed. :(

[Shell Beau]

8. Well, what do you eat?

If you have a plate of veggies, can they touch each other? I know a lot of people who can't stand that. Doesn't bother me though, I could mix them all together.

[XemaSab]

59. I eat grass

like a cow :(

[GirlinContempt]

87. I'm allergic to tomatoes too

It's very weird, my only allergy

[XemaSab]

90. Wow!

You're the only other person I have met who is allergic to tomatoes!

I feel an instant camaraderie with you!

You UNDERSTAND!!!!!

:pals:

[GirlinContempt]

98. hahaha yeah I do

I can eat like, small amounts of ketchup, tiny amounts of sundried, even a lil bbq sauce, but I'm talking smaaaaaaaall :)

[XemaSab]

99. I'm right there with ya...

I'm at the point now where I can eat little bits for lunch and only get a little stomach ache, but dinner? No-can-do.

[Loonman]

5. I have to eat one food item at a time

That's me. Eggs or mashed potatoes first because they taste lousy cold.

[Shell Beau]

9. Eggs are the worst cold!!

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Sweet cannot touch salty

Never! :bounce:

[MissMillie]

11. never had a chocolate covered pretzel?

they're the perfect PMS food.

[bicentennial_baby]

14. ewwww

:puke:
no, can't say that i have! :)

[kick-ass-bob]

42. definitely not "ewwwww"

I LOVE the white chocolate ones! :9

[Rising Phoenix]

12. I eat in my sleep

[bicentennial_baby]

16. but you are soooo

cute when you do it! :bounce:

:loveya:

[Rising Phoenix]

27. awww

:blush:

[Shell Beau]

21. Isn't that some kind of disorder?

I've seen that on the news before. That can be scary. You don't choke or anything, do you? :hi:

[Rising Phoenix]

25. it is a disorder

I've never choked...but I've tried to walk to the store in the middle of the night for what I've wanted...in pj's, no shoes...asleep

[Shell Beau]

28. Jeez, that sounds scary!!

Is there any treatment?

[Rising Phoenix]

31. nope

doc's find it fascinating, and suggest locking my door, or locking the fridge...but their is nothing to really be done about it...its a real pain in the ass... I try not to keep junk food in the house because I will eat in all in the middle of the night and not even remember it

[Shell Beau]

33. You should set up a camera at night to see all of what you eat!!

[Rising Phoenix]

35. when there is no food in

on purpose so I won't eat it... I'll eat weird stuff, like peanut butter out of the jar...or sprinkles for ice cream...their is no stopping me some times

[bicentennial_baby]

41. awwww, heehee

or oranges, if there's nothing else ;)

[Rising Phoenix]

47. yes, fruit is a last resort...what fun is that

[WeRQ4U]

13. When I'm eating something that comes in many colors....I have a system...

I have to eat them based upon how many of each color there are, and which color they are.

For instance, you cannot eat BOTH blue candies, when there is a green candy left. You must eat ONE of the blue candies so that there are at least one of each. Then you must eat the secondary color first, leaving the primary color.

Also, if there are three blue, two green and one red, you must separate the two blue and one green from the pile and eat them as you would if they were their own pile. One blue first, then the green becasue it's secondary.

If there are two primary or two secondary colors. You can choose based on mood I guess.

I am not shitting you at all on this. I just did it with runts about 10 minutes ago. I have no idea why I do this.

[Debbi801]

18. OMG, I do this with M&Ms all the time. I thought I was the only one ...

to do this. I do it with pretty much any candy--M&M's, jelly beans, gum drops, etc. Don't do it with real food, though.

:hi:

[WeRQ4U]

23. That is crazy. Good to know I'm not the only one.

It's uncontrollable too. It just seems to happen.

[ZombieNixon]

83. I do this with Skittles.

First, eat all the purple ones. Then, eat all the orange ones. Then, even out the numbers of green, yellow and orange ones. I then squish one green, one yellow and one orange Skittle into one huge SuperSkittle and eat it. Repeat until finished.

[Bill McBlueState]

92. yeah, see, what sucks about that

is when you get to a bag of Skittles *after* someone has put their weird color-eating strategy to work, and you're left with a hundred orange and red Skittles, and none of the other colors.

:mad:

[ZombieNixon]

93. I do it just to annoy you, Bill!

:evilgrin:

[Shell Beau]

19. I do that with m&m's!

But if it is something like Runts that has different flavors, I save my faves for last (the strawberry, orange, and banana)!

[WeRQ4U]

26. Ooooh. You're daring.

I don't know if my obsession would allow me to stray so much as you do...saving all the good ones to the end is brave.

If I did it, I would have to eat THEM in some kind of order. LOL.

[Shell Beau]

29. I usually rotate.

Like a strawberry, orange, banana back to a strawberry, orange, banana, etc. Ha ha! I never knew anyone else did anything similar though!

[kick-ass-bob]

49. I used to separate the M&Ms by color too.

But I would eat them in descending color order (10 brown, 5 blue, 3 green)
I would eat 1 brown, then one blue, then one green and start over again.

:scared:

[underpants]

51. I didn't think they allowed colored M&M's at state hospitals

you know cause the green ones might be telling you one thing and the yellow ones are telling you another....

:crazy:

[Debi]

61. I have to put them in a pyramid

with the most on the bottom and the least on top.

Then I eat some of the most and then the next, etc. until there is only one of each left.

Then I eat them in the order of ROYGBIV - :cry: I'm so sad.

[WeRQ4U]

77. Don't worry. You have friends here.

LOL.

[youthere]

79. LOL I do something similar...

Line them up according to color. Then I eat the extras so that ALL colors have the same amount (extras are eaten in order of most to least)...then it's alphabetically by color (Blue before Brown etc...). Also I can't just put them in a pile. They MUST be lined up in perfectly straight parallel lines. When I was dating my husband I almost broke up with him because he just eats them OUT OF THE BAG! Neanderthal.

[Mutley]

85. I'm the opposite.

I eat all of one color first, then move on to the next color until they are all gone.

[Shine]

15. I am a fast eater.

Apparently, I've been this way since I was a baby. My mother likes to say it's because I have such voracious appetite for Life! ;)

[Shell Beau]

20. I eat so freakin' slow. Don't know why.

[Shine]

43. Well, that's probably a good thing, esp. for keeping one's weight down.

Have you ever heard that it takes 20 minutes for the message to reach your brain, from the stomach, that's it's full? One can put away a ton of food in those 20 minutes!! hahah.

Good thing I get a lot of exercise...

[underpants]

30. Me too. Slow eaters should die

Come one lets go its just a freakin' meal

[Shell Beau]

32. Hey now, did you read above this post that I am a slow

eater? :spank:



:P

[underpants]

38. Let me guess-Oooh can you pass the butter.....the salt can you pass...

the salt? :grr:

I eat in the time it takes my wife to get her plate ready.

I have long abandoned the practice of a dinner table (save for holidays) as everyone else is taking 5 times as long as they need to and I am sitting there WAITING!


ME! when am *I* going to eat?

[Shell Beau]

45. I never ask anyone to wait on me to eat.

I guess it can be annoying at a restaurant if you're done and I'm not. But you should enjoy the food, it's not going anywhere. :P

[nickinSTL]

63. I eat fast, too

I've tried to slow down...but it doesn't seem to work.

In addition, I can't eat any meat with bones :puke:

of course, these days (due to health reasons) I mostly can't eat meat anyway (and, I really don't miss it)

[bertha katzenengel]

22. If I get a take-out burrito, I have to open it and rearrange the innards

so that I get some of everything in every bite. I HATE eating a burrito and consuming first the cheese, then the onions, then the beans, then the sour cream.... :mad:

Prob'ly comes from 2.5 years working at Del Taco, a southwestern FF chain that's VASTLY superior to Taco Bell. (At least, 25 years ago it was. Prob'ly still is.)

[WeRQ4U]

78. I worked at a Taco Johns when I was younger, and I do the same thing..

Mainly because I don't think anyone can assemble a taco or burrito better than myself. There is an order to this for sure.

[bertha katzenengel]

89. dude...

high five :7

[Debbi801]

24. A few...

Won't eat dessert on the same plate as my meal, or use the same silverware.

Hot foods are supposed to be hot--will never eat cold pizza, spaghetti, etc.

Don't have a problem with foods touching and don't need to eat all of one food before another UNLESS one requires ketchup and the other doesn't. Certain foods should not be near ketchup, so I must eat them first before I can put ketchup on my plate.

[Shell Beau]

37. I keep ketchup far away from my other food.

Example, last night I was using ketchup for my pot roast, but I also had mac-n-cheese on the plate. Kethcup should be nowhere near my mac!!

[youthere]

82. I eat ketchup n my mac and keep it off my pot roast!

[underpants]

36. MAshed potatoes should be eaten with a SPOON

(Thanksgiving dinner) Looks around....where is the spoon?

My mother:Oh do you need a spoon?

(I look at my brother) Yeah I need a spoon you see mashed potoatoes here don't you? (we both laugh and shake our heads-we have no idea how they always forget that the two of us have had to have spoons since we can remember)

Anything else? :shrug:

I eat fast and expect other to do the same

No sweet and sour anything ever

Water with my meal thank you

I expect coffee when I am done

Oh and hot food. Love my mother but she is completely uncapable of getting all the food to the table hot. We even bought her a hot plate (think she got the message?) and it is still cold. I get up and reheat it. My mother comments "You know it is going to take a while for your food to cool down you know" (my wife grabs me under the table so I don't spoil the meal)

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Both of those apply to me...

I'm just weird like that though.

[Politically_Wrong]

44. I never eat an entire M&M...

I only eat half of one...and throw the other half away

[Shell Beau]

46. Wait... What?

Why would you waste such a yummy treat? I have to say that is the weirdest one said so far!!! :crazy:

[Shine]

48. LOL! Now THAT'S funny.

:thumbsup:

[Politically_Wrong]

94. lol, and unfortunately it is true!

[Shine]

100. Hey, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, my friend!

and, you're only getting HALF the calories that way, right? hahah.

Welcome to DU, btw.

Hope you have fun here.

:)

[LynzM]

50. Yup, things get eaten in pairs.

Tic-tacs, M&Ms, etc. With a candy that has multiple colors, you have to separate all the pairs of each color, then eat any 'leftover' loners first, then the others by pair (though the order doesn't matter, much). I can't think of other ones at the moment, though....

[Jara sang]

52. People who use dirty, eaten off of, dinner plate for their desert plate.

That totally grosses me out. Anybody who does that is a trog and a heathen.

[Montauk6]

53. When I'm bored at work, I'll occasionally snack on ketchup packets

I don't like gravy on potatoes.

I love spinach with a load of butter.

When I eat a drumstick, it's more or less always in this order:

1)Skin
2)Meat
3)Cap and point of the toothpick bone
4)Top cap (if present)
5) Bottom cap
6) The top rounded capless end
7) The bottom rounded (but harder) capless end

[Shell Beau]

56. ketchup packets?

Does it satisfy your hunger?

[Montauk6]

103. Not really.

[chaska]

54. I chew ice cream.

Apparently, some think that weird. :crazy:

[Jara sang]

55. Meat with fruit is disgusting.

Like, duck with plum sauce. Fruit is occasionally permissible in salads, but only, pears. And it has to be a really fancy salad.

[Shell Beau]

57. I'm with you! I don't like

any fruits in my salad. I don't like grapes or apple pieces in my chicken salad, no plum dressing or whatever, the only exception for me is pineapple with a honey glazed ham.

[redqueen]

58. I rarely eat & drink at the same time.

Usually I finish my food first, then drink.

[Shell Beau]

60. My husband does that.

I can't do that. I have to drink with my food. He says I fill myself up on liquids. But foods make me thirsty.

[Debi]

62. I like to mix everything up

veggies/potatoes/cut up meat in one big pile and eat it (not in public, I promise)Same w/breakfast eggs/hashbrowns/bacon all mashed together then spread on my toast..YUM!

I don't eat w/my meal but suck down an whole glass of water afterwords (Then I want coffee).

If ANYONE scrapes their plate w/their fork or knife during the meal - I'm done eating...that just grips me inside and I have to stop.

[redqueen]

64. I like to mix stuff up, too.

Last night it was roast, mashed taters & corn, all mixed up... MMM!

[Debi]

65. Yum! That's awesome

Saturday night I had roast beef w/mashed taters STUFFING & corn and I put gravy alllllll over it!!!

Now I'm back on my diet :cry:

[redqueen]

68. Mmmmmmmmm... gravy!

I can't diet. I just can't. I'd rather work out every single day, twice if I have to. I MUST EAT TASTY FOOD! :P

[Debi]

70. With Wine n/t

[redqueen]

75. Yes!

:9

I've just bought 6 bottles. :blush:

But I got a discount! So, I figured it was the right thing to do. :)

[faithnotgreed]

66. i dont know if its weird

but for as long as i can remember i put water in my ice cream
dont know how or why as i am the only one in my family and of course got teased about it

perhaps its the same concept as i cannot have sweet with sweet
people who have soda with birthday cake confuse me
i cannot even imagine eating all that sugar at the same time

of course right now in the freezer i have a cinnamon roll (from my favorite local bakery sticky fingers) and a great brownie and a piece of homemade shortbread with rasperry jam filling
have i eaten a bite of any of those things

nope

so that may also count as an eating weirdness
though i have lots more

[Nikia]

67. I have gotten weirder

I guess that ed does that to you.
As opposed to normal people who eat more total food if they have a variety, I eat more if I am only having one thing. For example, I'll be more likely to eat a whole big sandwich than half the sandwich and soup. As a result, I'm more likely to make all in one meals like casseroles, pasta with meat and veggies, main dish salads. If they are separate, I mix them together if it is something that works.
If I am having something that needs to be cut up, I completely cut it up first into tiny pieces.
It is easier for me to eat warm/hot food than cold food. Bread must be warm or dipped into something warm or have something warm on it. I have always enjoyed dipping bread into various foods on my plate, although my mother-in-law tells me that is rude. I never put butter on my bread though. When I ate potato chips and related snacks, I dipped them into various foods also.
I am starting to eat "unsafe" foods again like dessert type food and candy bars, but only in ridiculously small quantities. For example at work,
Coworker: "Would you like one of my brownies?"
Me: "Not a whole one."
He cuts into half.
Me: "I'll have half of one of those."

[fleabert]

69. you don't even want to know.

the list is too long. I have issues with food.

[Jamastiene]

71. I chew my milk and other drinks.

I have always chewed on my milk before swallowing it. I cannot swallow without chewing first and that includes Dr Pepper, vodka(especially) and water too. I don't know why either. I get choked if I don't chew it.

[Shell Beau]

72. I kind of do the same. I wouldn't say chew, but

I kind of swallow pieces of a mouthful at a time, not the whole mouthful.

[Jamastiene]

74. Yes. That's very close to what I do.

My family has always picked on me about it. They ask me if I am enjoying chowing down on my milk, because I tend to chew the milk the longest. I do swallow bits of a mouthful at the time too.

[Initech]

73. I seriously cannot stand tomatoes

Which is weird considering the fact that I love pasta sauces and such.

[Left Is Write]

76. No. But I do know someone who does.

He does not like his food to touch any other food. Each individual food must be consumed in its entirety before moving on to the next food.

I know someone else who used to stir her food into big piles of mush before eating it just to irritate him.

[youthere]

80. LOL...you just named my eating thing..

My food must be separated. Then I eat ALL of one item and then turn the plate (the plate MUST be turned) and then eat the next item in a clockwise direction. Any food that touches must be discarded (ALL of that item, not just the part that touches).
Also, I can't have my right foot touch the floor when I am eating. I either tuck it under my left leg, or just lift it off the floor and hold it until I am finished.

[ThatsMyBarack]

81. I *adore* Stouffer's Macaroni & Cheese....

....so much that I have to get every drop out of the tray I nuke it in. I'll swipe out the cheese with my finger, and use a fork to "claw" out the crusty stuff that sticks to the sides! :9

[Shell Beau]

84. They have pretty good lasagna too!

I'm not big on their mac-n-cheese though.

[Trigger Hippie]

86. Ketchup on my tuna fish sandwiches

and I must mix corn and mashed potatoes together!

[Scout]

88. mixing your corn into your mashies...

makes it much, much easier to eat all your corn!

Also, it tastes good. Sometimes I like to eat a Frito and a potato chip together in the same bite.

[Shell Beau]

96. I like mixing English peas in my mashed potatoes.

I can't understand the ketchup and tuna thing though! :)

[William Bloode]

91. This from the original is me to a tee.

"Like your foods can't touch each other or you have to eat one food item at a time (like your mashed potatoes first, then your beans, then your chicken or whatever)."

[mockmonkey]

95. I used to be a

plate spinner. Not like the kind on "The Ed Sullivan Show". I would eat one food item at a time as you have mentioned but I would then turn the plate so that this item was directly in front of me. When my Mom pointed out this weirdness of mine, I stopped doing it.

I was a picky eater when I was young. Now I'm indifferent.

[lakemonster11]

105. I do that (plate-spinning) if it makes it easier to eat.

I don't think it's weird. Is it?

[Patiod]

97. My SO says he's going to put out a salt lick for me

I have low blood pressure, and am addicted to salt & soy sauce.

[Chovexani]

101. I am incapable of eating any kind of meat without bread

It just doesn't taste right. I HAVE to have it.

[hyphenate]

102. Naw

The only things I do are that I save the best for last, and that if I have peas, I tend to mix them with my mashed potatoes.

On the other hand, the last year I have been craving an inordinate amount of pineapple, but haven't quite figured out what that means.

[Wapsie B]

104. With pie I scoop out the filling

then eat the crust last.

[lakemonster11]

106. I don't like chicken *at all*. I think it tastes very bad.

Most people seem to think this makes me a freak.

You have no idea how many times people have tried to get me to eat something by saying, "Come on, it tastes like chicken!" :puke:

Plus, most restaurants seem to think that people like chicken on everything. Pastas, salads, etc. This immediately limits my options by about 80% at the average restaurant.

Minor Exceptions:
I will eat chicken pot pie if my mother or I made it (we use only white breast meat, the least offensive type of chicken, and tear it up thoroughly with a fork---cubed chicken is the height of disgusting).

I will order a half-chicken dinner occasionally if I'm in Greece (other people have told me their chicken is "gamey") or at a really good Greek restaurant in the US. On a related note, I will eat chicken souvlaki if I make it myself.

[Omphaloskepsis]

107. I do both..

And I always eat what contains meat last. My grandpa used to just mix everything up and go to town.. It made me ill. If a little bit of mashed potatoes gets on my pork chop. I will spend minutes cleaning it off.

"It's all going to the same place, why do you care?" R.I.P old man..


And. I never finish what is on my plate. I always leave at least one bite.