would you be embarassed by fussy eating?

Robsweezie · 25-06-2017 11:38PM #1

i was at a meal in a chinese place when i was scoffed at for suggesting id just have the plain old rice, nuggets, chips. nothing serious, there was just a sense of ''is that all, you're not having that are you?'' it was just surprise that i wasnt having something more...exotic. thats all id have usually in the chinese, im not adventurous with it. better what you know, than some dish i cant pronounce that i wouldnt eat anyway,for the sake of it.

i was a ''fussy'' eater when i was younger and, in that id eat a different meal to the proper stuff parents would make.at weddings id be happier with nuggets and chips than the ''adult'' main course of meat,veg,whatever. i always felt a bit self conscious, not that i was made to that much.

would a loved ones eating habits embarrass you in company?is it disrespectful?say they get something off the kiddie menu at a wedding or whatever because its what they want, that ok with you?

super_furry · 25-06-2017 11:40PM

I dunno, I don't think I'd be embarrassed but I'd probably think it's odd. It sounds like you have the palate of six-year-old.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 25-06-2017 11:40PM

Grown men eating turkey dinosaurs is unacceptable.

o1s1n · 25-06-2017 11:44PM

I'd find it extremely odd, but eat whatever you want.

Just don't be giving out when you get scurvy :pac:

ED E · 25-06-2017 11:44PM

Personally I'd be mortified if we sat down at a wedding and the OH asked for nuggets and chips.

The J Stands for Jay · 25-06-2017 11:46PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

the plain old rice, nuggets, chips.

Love the way you use "the plain old" to try and normalise that. No-one orders that. Is that even a thing on the kiddies menu?

Pac1Man · 25-06-2017 11:47PM

What's your health like Rob?

Pat Mustard · 25-06-2017 11:48PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

say they get something off the kiddie menu at a wedding or whatever because its what they want, that ok with you?

Adults ordering from the children's menu will get the hairy eyeball from me.

tomwaterford · 25-06-2017 11:49PM

I dont see anything wrong with tbh

So long as your not having sauces i dont mind....fukking hate sauces

super_furry · 25-06-2017 11:49PM

Still trying to get my head around the concept that a Chinese would be considered even remotely exotic these days. Sounds like something out of Bridget and Eamon.

Robsweezie · 25-06-2017 11:50PM

McGaggs wrote: »

Love the way you use "the plain old" to try and normalise that. No-one orders that. Is that even a thing on the kiddies menu?

it wasnt even off the kiddies menu. thats what i normally eat from the chinese, bar chicken balls instead of nuggets. ive expanded my palate to the odd bit of noodles. im the same with indian. i have enjoyed the odd tikka masala and rogan josh but find them too much. just base food for me usually.

freshpopcorn · 25-06-2017 11:50PM

I never understand why people get so worked up about what other people are eating. It's embarrassing that they care so much.

Pat Mustard · 25-06-2017 11:52PM

Pac1Man wrote: »

What's your health like Rob?

Healthy as a horse with a touch of malnutrition on the side?

bellylint · 25-06-2017 11:52PM

Do what makes you happy and dont give a toss what idiots think you need to be doing to make them happy.
If you told people you had major allergies to most foods people would be bending over backwards to help you, but because you really dislike other foods people give you ****... like said, idiots.

Junkyard Tom · 25-06-2017 11:54PM

I have a friend who goes for a Chinese and orders chaken balls, chups, and gravy, if he's feeling particularly adventurous he'll get curry instead of gravy.

Chups are those floppy fat yokes that are supposed to be chips.

Robsweezie · 25-06-2017 11:55PM

Pac1Man wrote: »

What's your health like Rob?

its fine, and my eating has improved with age. i eat all the major stuff now with some exceptions like fish.

when i was about 14, i was at a wedding where i couldnt stomach the proper set meal so i just had the kiddie option. i felt like i was ''representing the family'' or something like that and felt a bit self conscious. its stupid now i know.

Pac1Man · 25-06-2017 11:58PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

its fine, and my eating has improved with age. i eat all the major stuff now with some exceptions like fish.

What about fish fingers cut up on a plate with a bit of sauce?

Burial. · 26-06-2017 12:04AM

I really couldn't give a damn. As long as you're not one of those snobby "I'm not eating that" clowns that feel the need to be seen to have precise tastes I couldn't care less. I certainly wouldn't look down at an adult having nuggets and chips at a wedding. It's just food. Once I'm locked at a wedding all I want is nuggets and chips too.

Baron Kurtz · 26-06-2017 12:05AM

Never got why the kiddies get the real shyte food on the menu. Are we not looking to set an example to parents with smallies of eating healthier etc? Here's some nuggets, chips and half-cooked cocktail sausages for ya, kids. It's all about the cost I suppose.

freshpopcorn · 26-06-2017 12:12AM

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Never got why the kiddies get the real shyte food on the menu. Are we not looking to set an example to parents with smallies of eating healthier etc? Here's some nuggets, chips and half-cooked cocktail sausages for ya, kids. It's all about the cost I suppose.

I know from working in hotels and studying it. Kids often don't eat adult meals at events. They tend just to muck around with them.

26-06-2017 12:18AM

I wouldn't be embarrassed by someone ordering that kind of food, but I would wonder why they bothered going to a restaurant at all if that's the only thing they'll order.

If dietary choices are limited to or regularly involve nuggets and chips, you have bigger issues than embarrassment to contend with. Or you will, when it catches up with you.

freshpopcorn · 26-06-2017 12:36AM

Candie wrote: »

I wouldn't be embarrassed by someone ordering that kind of food, but I would wonder why they bothered going to a restaurant at all if that's the only thing they'll order.

If dietary choices are limited to or regularly involve nuggets and chips, you have bigger issues than embarrassment to contend with. Or you will, when it catches up with you.

I know people and they find Chinese/Indian Restaurants very mucky because they like plain simple food or more traditional food. They go along with it so they can meet the people and they don't want to be seen as fussy.

the_syco · 26-06-2017 12:43AM

I generally check the menu online first, and find something I may like. If I find nothing on the menu that I may possibly like, I don't goto that restaurant.

26-06-2017 01:04AM

The only bad manners here is from people having the temerity to tell a grown adult what he should/shouldn't be eating. Bad breeding.

I can't abide when idiots in cafés and restaurants insist upon putting things on my order that I never asked for. This is widespread. If I order a sandwich, and specifically say I don't want salad dressing, coleslaw, crisps or anything else with it but you still put it on my plate that's just ignorant, patronising, disrespectful. You do not have some finer understanding of taste, and no, I don't feel happy to get something "free" on my plate. Just ignorant people, really.

Carry · 26-06-2017 01:31AM

The eating habits and/or preferences of a lot of Irish people never ceases to amaze me.

I often found that they prefer starchy fatty food even in fine dining restaurants. It's not only about the unhealthy eating but apparently about the fear to expand their tastebuds - what I don't know I don't eat.

I once was actually mortified when a friend I invited to a decent restaurant complained that the vegetables weren't properly cooked - because they weren't soggy as he was used to.

Fussy is different, like being allergic or just not liking certain foods. Otherwise it's just childish.

But eat as you like. It's your body and your wellbeing (or not-wellbeing).
And now butcher me for being judgemental

Robsweezie · 26-06-2017 01:42AM

Carry wrote:

But eat as you like. It's your body and your wellbeing (or not-wellbeing). And now butcher me for being judgemental

Can I deep fry you with chocolate?

endacl · 26-06-2017 01:51AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't abide when idiots in cafés and restaurants insist upon putting things on my order that I never asked for. This is widespread. If I order a sandwich, and specifically say I don't want salad dressing, coleslaw, crisps or anything else with it but you still put it on my plate that's just ignorant, patronising, disrespectful. You do not have some finer understanding of taste, and no, I don't feel happy to get something "free" on my plate. Just ignorant people, really.

Ah, it's not really any of those things. It's just inattentive. Probably as a result of firing out hundreds of sandwiches a day for minimum dollar.

Your problem could easily be solved with a dollop of fcukit and a side order of get over yourself.

On the other hand, if your attitude at the counter is similar to your attitude in your post, perhaps they're deliberately trying to piss you off in the hope you won't come back?

26-06-2017 02:06AM

Don't worry about it OP, if anyone ever says anything just fire back with a 'it's far from X you were rared'

Canis Lupus · 26-06-2017 02:38AM

It wouldn't bother me that much but I'd likely comment on it. I don't really expect an adult to eat 'kids' food.

FanadMan · 26-06-2017 02:47AM

Robsweezie wrote: »

i was at a meal in a chinese place when i was scoffed at for suggesting id just have the plain old rice, nuggets, chips. nothing serious, there was just a sense of ''is that all, you're not having that are you?'' it was just surprise that i wasnt having something more...exotic. thats all id have usually in the chinese, im not adventurous with it. better what you know, than some dish i cant pronounce that i wouldnt eat anyway,for the sake of it.

i was a ''fussy'' eater when i was younger and, in that id eat a different meal to the proper stuff parents would make.at weddings id be happier with nuggets and chips than the ''adult'' main course of meat,veg,whatever. i always felt a bit self conscious, not that i was made to that much.

would a loved ones eating habits embarrass you in company?is it disrespectful?say they get something off the kiddie menu at a wedding or whatever because its what they want, that ok with you?

Right, you're off my Come Dine With Me list :P

AllForIt · 26-06-2017 03:06AM

Carry wrote: »

The eating habits and/or preferences of a lot of Irish people never ceases to amaze me.

I often found that they prefer starchy fatty food even in fine dining restaurants. It's not only about the unhealthy eating but apparently about the fear to expand their tastebuds - what I don't know I don't eat.

I once was actually mortified when a friend I invited to a decent restaurant complained that the vegetables weren't properly cooked - because they weren't soggy as he was used to.

Fussy is different, like being allergic or just not liking certain foods. Otherwise it's just childish.

But eat as you like. It's your body and your wellbeing (or not-wellbeing).
And now butcher me for being judgemental

Irish ppl are totally like this. They would order a fry-up in a fancy restaurant if they could get it.

Irish ppl are very weird about good food. Even the one's who have money. They will say 'oh you can't beat the spuds', kinda attitude.

The English as just as bad. They will brag about their English breakfast and when they go on hols they demand that they get same. Not that the English have anything to brag about when it come to good food, when they promote their disgusting greasy "Fish & Chips" as their national dish.

The truth is is that every other county in the EU aside from Ireland and the UK have a much finer taste in meals and cuisine than we have here in the British Isles, as has been much ridiculed in Europe, and rightly so.

There are ppl out there who eat Heinz baked beans as part of their breakfast, and they think that's good. How embarrassing.

would you be embarassed by fussy eating?

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