Quirky ways you eat/drink stuff

[EeveeElectro]

There's plenty. I leave quite a lot of tea/coffee in the bottom of my cup. I go through phases of not eating my crusts on sandwiches. If I get myself some tap water I have to run the tap for a while and on the fullest setting. I have to rinse my cups/glasses out before using them, even if they're sparkling clean. I don't like drinking or eating off white plates/cups.

There's probably more, I'm pretty weird.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Pringles.

I lick both of the sides before eating one chip, cause I get all of the flavour that way.

And here come the "that's what she said" jokes...

 

[soren7550]

I eat ramen noodles raw as a snack.

I kinda do the same thing. If I'm making some kind of pasta, I take a few uncooked bits and pop 'em in my mouth.

If it has marshmallows, I make sure that when I'm finishing up my cereal, there's just a bunch of them left in the bowl for me to finish last.

Also, for non marshmallow cereals (if the bits are big enough), when there's about two spoon fulls left, I count how many pieces are in the spoon and get annoyed if the two spoons end up an odd number.

 

[excalipoor]

Apparently I make a duckface while drinking, which my peers find hilarious. Incidentally, I haven't eaten in a school cafeteria for...7 years now.

Doesn't matter if it's a glass or a bottle. Duckface. It helps me to not spill anything, okay?

I'm also right handed, and hold forks in my right hand. It makes perfect sense to me, and I think it's everyone else who's doing it wrong. So fuck everyone else.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

"Burger"- I eat all away around until only the middle is left,...then I eat the middle. Sometimes I'll eat the veggies out of it first and then eat the bread , veggie-patty, and cheese that's left (eating the edges first of course), all while dunking it into ketchup or mustard.

Sandwiches - I tear all the crust off and it eat it before consuming the rest in-tact.

Pizza - I eat all of the toppings first. Then the crust is cut up into chunks, dipped into hot sauce, then greedily consumed.

Bean and cheese burritos - I gently muscle the refried beans to the top of the burrito (or exit) and then eat them right off the top, after that it's just a cheese burrito. I try not to do this in public.


I seem to be in the habit of food deconstruction - by the looks of it. If it comes all put together, I tend to take it apart. If it comes to me separated, I try to put it together. Scrambled eggs and toast? You mean a scrambled egg sandwich. I used to do the same thing with bread and spaghetti and bread with meatloaf and mashed potatoes.


I also can't handle any raw onion. Restaurants can be a food nightmare for me. That crunchy rogue onion gets in my food sometimes. That one crunch, combined with the taste, makes me want to vomit everywhere. It makes it really difficult for me to finish my meal. Many a time I've had it boxed up and my husband eats it later, so it doesn't go to waste.

 

[an874]

I like to eat string cheese by cutting it into little pieces with my pocket knife, and then eating each piece individually. I guess that's wierd enough for this thread.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I eat sandwiches without cutting them into halves/quarters etc. - My mother freaks out if I try and demands I cut it in half.

I'll generally bring bread with me to the table to use the meat in a sandwich. I can't eat steak if it's not in buttered bread. Even then, I'll make stuff like potato cake sandwiches and potato and gravy sandwiches...om nom nom...

If I have bacon and eggs on toast, Ill cut the white away from the yolk and eat it, before breaking and smushing the yolk on both pieces of bread and smushing them together in a sandwich.

 

[Artina89]

If I am eating burger and fries I have to eat the fries first. It is something that I have always done, I don't know why and as far as I know that is the only quirk I have when it comes to eating food. An ex boyfriend of mine always put some of the fries in his burger and would eat it like that, which is something my dad has a tendency to do as well.

 

[Goofguy]

When it comes to chips or crackers, I eat the broken pieces first and leave the fully intact ones for last. Don't know why, I just do it.

There's this great trail mix from Costco that I eat a few times a week. Every time I do, I eat all the nuts, cranberries, dried bananas and raisins first so I can save the deliciously sweet and tasty strawberries, kiwis, mangos and apples for the end. And I eat those ones individually, never mixed.

I guess I just like to save the best for last.

 

[Bomberman4000]

I take french fries and stack them on top of my burger. I just love the extra texture and flavor that goes into each bite when I eat it that way. Also, if I see there's an excess of bun around one side of the burger, I'll go around and eat the bread off the side of the burger, before eating any of the meat.

Reese's peanut butter cups get eaten in one of two ways.

1. nibble the chocolate off the edge, then bite the chocolate off the top and bottom so I'm left with a ball of peanut butter. This works best with the holiday ones (Easter, Christmas, Halloween) because they tend to be bigger and have more peanut butter inside of them.

2. I put the whole cup in my mouth, push the middle section out with my tongue and completely separate it from the edge, then chew and swallow. Not really sure why I do this since they both get eaten at the same time, but that's just how I do.


WHen it comes to drinks, I can rarely just sip things. Most of the time I chug the entire drink. Especially if I'm drinking milk and eating something sweet. Can't just sip it.


One final one, when I want a PB&J or PB and Nutella sandwich, if i have some I'll put some BBQ chips between the slices of bread. Pringles are my favorites, but I'll take pretty much any brand.

 

[BrotherRool]

I eat all of the apple and in a very specific way. I was tired of trying to dispose of cores and I never felt I was really finishing/had the patience, so I came up with a way to solve my problem.

1. Eat one vertical strip as much as deep as possible

2. Eat around the edges of the strip and eat deeper as the allows.

3. Repeat 1-2 until until the apple looks a bit like a trapezium (ie you've begun to excavate around the core)

4. Take a big bite out of the stalk, take another bite out of the apple simultaneously if finding it hard to chew down.

5. Take bite out of other end.

6. Remaining part of core is now exposed and easy to eat (and pretty tasty).

7. Finish apple

 

[trollnystan]

SNIPP

Also, and this is more neat-freakish than anything else and I learnt it off my sister, but when eating chicken drumsticks, I'll use chopsticks (shut up, I'm Chinese) to eat the meat around the thin end, then wrap a tissue around the bone, and hold it while eating the rest... uh... yeah...

SNIPP

That's not that weird; every parent I know wraps paper around the bone before handing it to their kids. No chopstick though, that's all yours ;P

OT: I dunno. As a kid I used to always eat the crust of the bread first before eating the middle - my motto was pretty much "icky part first, nommy part last" - but I hardly ever do that any more.

Hmm... I chew ice cream! In fact I chew almost everything - I love it when soup is the chunky kind so I can chew on something. I can't suck on candy either; sooner or later (usually sooner) my teeth go CRUNCH through it. I almost always finish my ice cream first =(

 

[keideki]

You know those bags of the mini Reese peanut butter cups? When I eat them, I always take the first wrapper and form a ball with it, then after that I wrap each one after that until I have a huge ball of wrappers.

 

[Euskalduna]

Pizza slices are to be laid on top of one another which creates a doubly delicious pizza slice sandwich.

Amem. Whenever I make the pizzas, that is how they shalt be consumed.

EDIT: Though sometimes I just do it with the entire pizza, just fold it in half, to create a what I like to call, a "ta-zzi".

 

[Headsprouter]

Noodles MUST be eaten while watching a video on YouTube, etc. Otherwise they are wasted.
Tayto Spirals must be sucked until they're soft before being chewed and swallowed.
Not enough meat in one of the ends of a Sub sammich? Eat it first. Save a good bite for last.

Always.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

While this may not exactly focus on the act of eating itself, I am very, VERY picky about the prospect of certain foods touching and will do everything in my power to make sure things like, say, corn and spaghetti are separated and have a decent sized gap between them on my plate. If they touch, well... I don't exactly freak, but I don't just brush it off lightly either. Why I'm like this I've never been able to completely figure out, but I think it's just the aesthetic look of certain foods mixed together with foods you wouldn't expect them mixed with that just bugs me to no end.

The weirdest part too? It's only certain foods I get anal about if they're touching or not. I mean, for example: if some corn accidentally gets mixed in with some mashed potatoes? Not a problem. But if even a single piece of corn accidentally slips over into a spaghetti pile? An OCD-fit to end all OCD-fits is thrown.

 

[Terratina.]

I go for the topping on pizzas then nom on the remaining sauce and base. Doesn't particularly work with thin crust pizza or the stuff you get in Rome, but is amazing with deep pan.

 

[Aethren]

I always have to have a drink with my food, unless it's something like soup or cereal. Said drink will be drunk between every few bites, and if I run out, I refill. Typically this is milk. I drink more milk than a cow, I swear, nectar of the Gods themselves, milk. As long as it's 2%, or possibly Whole milk. None of that Skim crap. And milk seems to taste best out of those cartons you find in schools and such.

Oatmeal must always be made with milk.

When I eat waffles, pancakes, or french toast, I spread peanut butter on them and stack them. Banana as well, if available. The resulting heavy mass of food is best washed down with milk.

Eggs must always be sunny-side up, runny yolks. Bacon must always be chewy, not crispy. And if available, syrup will be put on the bacon. This flavor profile pairs amazingly with milk.

If something has to be fried, it's fried in either butter or bacon fat. No exceptions. The greasiness is easily cut by drinking milk.

In the summer months, I tend to freeze milk for a few minutes. The resulting milk-ice is quite delicious.

 

[Rellik San]

I always take the crusts off of my sandwiches and eat them first, delicious delicious crusts.... Unless I'm having soup, because then I can use the crusts to crust pseudo-croutons.

I always separate my Oreo's and scrape the cream out with my teeth and save the actual biscuit part for dipping in my brew. Same with Foxes Crinkle Crunch which are the best biscuit ever, in fact any biscuit made with honey over sugar is awesome.

I also hold my knife and fork in the left handed way despite being right handed, but then again, apparently I also hold pens weirdly too, so go figure.

Apparently and many people have noticed this, when I drink Whisky (yes capitalised, respect the damn drink foo'), I always close my eyes and slowly tilt my head back.

When making French toast, I always have to cut giant doorstop pieces and leave them in the egg mix for a solid 3 minutes each side before doing it on the Foreman grill. I always serve with crispy bacon and Honey, which I never thought was that strange as plenty of people in the UK put sugar on theirs (admittedly without bacon, heathen bastards), but honey is a step too far, as is apparently using a knife and fork.

And yes, I also lick all the flavour off my pringles, but only the salt and vinegar/salt and pepper flavours.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Some of the things you guys do makes me believe you had to raise yourselves in total isolation. Not cool.

Coming out of a hefty caffeine addiction every 3-7 years, I've taken to mostly just make batches of 8 pints / 4 liters of spicy herbal infusions which I then keep in re-used bottles. Room temp ones as standard fare, chilled ones for... chillin'.

I refuse to buy processed sweets of any sort and processed/pre-made foods most of the time, because we usually bake/cook ourselves. When I do buy processed sweets, I tend to disassemble them like other people do with, say, broken radios. I marvel at the consistency of the components and I am mostly quite disgusted by the taste and texture of the singled-out bits.

For years, I haven't been licking Oreo's, as they taste just fine (for store-bought sugary crap) in their entirety. I have severe issues with people licking or otherwise disrespecting their food (picky eaters, people that never eat their crusts, messy eaters that seem to have issues, etc.), especially when they do it in public, as they then also disrespect the humans around them. I don't care if you bathe everything in spittle in your cave at home, I just appreciate it if your tongue stays well behind those teeth of yours.