Poll: Eccentric eating habits

[BlackStar42]

I take my Jaffa cakes apart, usually nibble around the edges, eat off the chocolate, lick the orange thing for a bit, eat the cake then suck on the orange thing until it shrinks and eat it. Usually results in very sticky fingers.

Yesssssss, I do this too! Glad I'm not the only one. :3

Sometimes I'll put the orangey bits on a plate and save them til the end.

You people are weird. My housemates do this too, I'm just like...why?

 

[DeadRise17]

On Wednesdays I eat a ham and cheese toasted sandwich. Only on Wednesdays. Nothing else.

 

[Jadak]

All of these options are silly, you mix all your food into one big pile and eat them all together.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I've never really thought about the order of my eating. I just kinda... eat. I'm usually thinking about other things while eating. Even if I'm not involved in a conversation or thinking about something, all I tend to think about with food is the quality of it.

 

[infohippie]

I apparently eat weird because I have my fork in my right hand and knife in my left stab it cut it and just eat it. I have been told this is wrong an American and bad manners you are supposed to cut with your dominate hand put the knife down the re-stab it with your for and eat because that is how correct Americans with manners eat... or something.

That is a bit of a weird Americanism. The "polite" way to use a knife and fork in most of the world is to hold the knife in your dominant hand, fork in your off-hand, then just cut and eat. So basically the same way you already do except with the knife and fork in the opposite hands. The American idea of cutting, then transferring the fork to your dominant hand for moving it to your gob is just plain weird.

 

[Dimitriov]

Poll is weird. The only reasonable option is to eat one's favourite thing throughout the meal. Paying careful attention to eating all things at the same rate.

Yeah, I might be OCD.

I apparently eat weird because I have my fork in my right hand and knife in my left stab it cut it and just eat it. I have been told this is wrong an American and bad manners you are supposed to cut with your dominate hand put the knife down the re-stab it with your for and eat because that is how correct Americans with manners eat... or something.

That is a bit of a weird Americanism. The "polite" way to use a knife and fork in most of the world is to hold the knife in your dominant hand, fork in your off-hand, then just cut and eat. So basically the same way you already do except with the knife and fork in the opposite hands. The American idea of cutting, then transferring the fork to your dominant hand for moving it to your gob is just plain weird.

We do it in Canada too. And it's not WEIRD. Our non-dominant hands are just completely useless... and we like them that way!

I generally eat my favourite food last, and a little throughout the meal, and if there are multiple favourite foods I tend to eat them sort of co-operatively, but the one thing that will never change is I get rid of the stuff I don't like first, whether that involves eating it or removing it. Onion can fuck right off. I will go through my meal with tweezers if I have to, but any substantial pieces of onion do not enter my mouth. Of course by that stage it's already been cooked in and the meal is ruined, but I do what I can...

I've always been curious about that as well. With SO many people who hate onions and mushrooms, why are they used so often? WHY!? Onions are the scourge of the Earth!
Ten-to-one they cause cancer or something...

People say I'm a picky eater, and they can't make anything for me; that I'm difficult. I just tell them to LEAVE OUT THE ONIONS AND I'LL EAT IT. They never listen... "You don't like ANYTHING! Wah wah wah!"

But... most people LOVE onions and mushrooms D:

Also: http://onions-usa.org/all-about-onions/onion-health-research

TLDR: onions are super good for you!

 

[Smiley Face]

I intersperse my foods so that no single one becomes dominant (with the exception of Orange Juice - holy crap, I love that stuff, when it hits, I can't taste anything else) - generally it'll also be a combination of wetter and drier foods, and I'll use the wetter foods to stop my mouth from drying out.

I usually start with my favourite food, and finish with whatever it is I'm drinking, because generally speaking, I prefer my liquids to my solids (Juice, Milk, Water, etc. Don't care for alcohol - probably for the best).

 

[infohippie]

I've always been curious about that as well. With SO many people who hate onions and mushrooms, why are they used so often? WHY!? Onions are the scourge of the Earth!
Ten-to-one they cause cancer or something...

You would hate my cooking then. Onions in everything, and lots of them. I love onions, they are delicious! One of the best sandwich fillings ever is a tinned tuna/raw brown onion mix, about 2:1 ratio of tuna to raw onion. As for causing cancer... Sorry to break it to you, but onions in fact are excellent anti-cancer foods, and they are especially effective at helping prevent prostate cancer.

 

[Hagi]

Not really any habits beyond sometimes forgetting to eat, but meh... who needs food anyway right?

I do drink a lot (mostly just plain water and coffee).

Nothing really beyond that I think, not a particularly eccentric or picky eater. As long as it's got meat in it somewhere it's all good.

 

[Angie7F]

I eat soups veges first. Then I leave my most favorite thing til last.
But along with that I leave the carbs (rice, bread) until last too because i try to leave us much as possible.7

I have no particular sauce that i am obsessed bout but I always want tabasco and chilli peppers. ALWAYS

 

[Starik20X6]

Let's see now... Some random musings on my eating habits:

-I'm Australian, so I eat Vegemite. That's bound to gross out most of the planet...

-Peanut butter and potato chip sandwiches are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern age.

-I've recently taken a shining to putting pineapple on my burgers.

-Oh, this is me around cheese:

 

[Stasisesque]

I can't eat in public or around people I don't feel comfortable with. However, I'm a massive sushi nut and I'm never going to prepare that myself so I'm forced to eat it in the company of strangers. This results in me choking on food fairly often. I'm eventually going to have to get some behavioural therapy to combat it, but that seems like an awful lot of work for events I only take part in once every couple of months.

Aside from that, I can't eat burgers the traditional way (open mouth, insert burger) I have to rip them into tiny pieces first. It's almost certainly related to the fear of eating in public/choking on food, so I make the mouthfuls as small as possible. Although, it could just as easily be due to the fact I have the world's smallest mouth. My dentist is constantly commenting on how small my mouth is.

I suppose my last "eccentric" habit would be eating anything and everything at least once. Amongst my friends this is a rarity.

 

[DANEgerous]

Oh I will never eat Mayo unless it is homemade, Not ever a restaurant may be able to make it into a sauce but that is a big maybe and typically it is made in house if it is such so even the ones that do it tend not to count. Mass produced Mayo is just to dull especially with how dense in fat an calories it is, and yeah Hellman's is one of the worst.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

My one's weird. Whenever I have fried eggs I always, always eat the white first and then get the entire yolk on a spoon or fork and eat it in one. I've been doing it since I was a toddler.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I cook my own food. Always.

I am the only one at work (game company, 200+ people) that doesn't order food, I just bring my own. Thai-based food, Japan-based food, Ukraine-based food, all entirely selfmade. I actually had to get a microwave placed just for me (though some people use it to heat their instant food stuff they bought)

That seems to be pretty unusual, actually cooking properly. I hate processed meals, I want the taste to come from actual food, not from chemistry.


Next weird thing: I count calories obsessively. No, I'm not a diet nut. Far from it. I do so to make sure I eat enough. If left to my own devices, I'd eat some fruits, some salad, and I'd be done. Unfortunately, that kills my organs to lack of nutritition, so I have to count to make sure I at least eat enough/day :/

Heh, I actually do the same. I thought of it as "normal" though so I didn't bother mentioning it. I'm Greek so I guess I have different notions of normal.


I cook mainly cause anything pre-made that doesn't cost 4 times as much to purchase is plainly worse than what I could make for myself. By a huge margin too. Those frozen ready-meals are a joke, the portions are tiny too, I'd need 3 of em to fill up.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Favourite last. Usually, though, I don't have a favourite so I just scarf it all down with no preferred order.

 

[purf]

When it comes to eating habits, mankind has some serious civilising to do.

Internets and heart transplants and all that stuff, but here you are expecting me to gnaw off bones, break open lobsters or alternatively, when I don't want to eat like a fucking caveman, perform surgical operations on that half of a chicken to seperate the edible bits from the rest? A fish head on my plate?? Go away.

 

[purf]

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