Picky eaters

Lia_lia wrote: »

Yeah, and even at that I think children should be brought up to eat what they are given. We had to eat whatever was given to us when we were kids. I also find it rude if you are out for dinner at someones house and refuse to eat what is given to you. Unless you are a vegetarian/don't eat certain food for religious reasons etc..

I work in a restaurant and always find it odd when people order "plain pasta". And not just kids...adults too! Weird.

I don't see why food should be exempt from people's preferences tbh. People have different taste in TV, books, hobbies etc., it's not a case of "suck it up", ya try to minimise that which you don't enjoy. It's exactly the same with me for food to be honest, i eat what i like and don't eat what i don't like.

Can you honestly say that you will eat absolutely anything and everything that's put in front of ya?

I must say, the fact that someone just doesn't like to eat something is a far better excuse than religion, IMO.

I have a pretty varied diet. There are things that I don't like but I like most food and I'll try anything just to see what it's like. I can't drink milk on its own though. I never drank milk since I was a baby. Every now and then I try it to see if it's just in my head but it's not even like a drink to me, it doesn't feel like something people should drink!

Haven't found anything yet that I don't eat/haven't tried. The only thing I try to avoid is sweet and sour. Separately fine, mixed together meh I'll try everything. Not picky in the slightest nyom nyom.

Some foods it all depends on how it's cooked, I prefer stir fried cabbage to boiled, raw spinach to cooked stuff like that, that's preferences, but haven't ever turned anything away without tasting it. People who point blank refuse certain foods annoy the hell out of me.

plein de force wrote: »

my mother thinks i'm picky because i refuse to eat a massive helping of potatoes everyday with dinner, while we need carbohydrates we don't need potatoes covered in milk, butter and salt and mashed

You're right; we don't need them covered in milk butter and salt: you want a load of cream cheese in there too.

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i've seen/heard a lot of fcuked up sh!t on boards, but this, this is making me wretch.
i'm not a big pasta fan at the best of times, but if someone were to ask me to eat it plain!?! i think i'd weep.

how about pro cyclists who often have it with just jam in the morning :eek:

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

well at least there's something on it to give it a kick. plain pasta? PLAIN PASTA?!! like wet cement.

At least wet cement would fill you up!!!

I think I'd rather the plain pasta than jam on it but yeah, who the fook goes to a restaurant and orders plain pasta! It'd be like ordering apple tart but without the apple or cream!!!

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i say kill them all. :mad:

Bit drastic but there should defo be some sort of public shaming!

Maybe when they order it the waiter/waitress just takes the menu from them, looks at them like they are something they'd scrape off the bottom of their shoe and say, "I'm sorry, we don't serve your kind in here!"

I'm a picky eater. I know I am.

Trying to try new things at the moment, but I'd rather stick to what I know and know I like.

Since I was a child, I was the same. There were times I'd go hungry rather than eat if the mammy tried to make me eat something i didn't like. Was living on chips, fried chicken, crisps, sweets and coke.

Then a nutritionist came to school, and told us all that these kind of food would kill us. So I stopped eating all together. That was a whole bunch of fun for my parents. The only thing I would eat was coco pops and custard (not at the same time!). For a month.

I can't eat green vegetables, any of them, they taste like green. I know it sounds stupid, but thats what it tastes like to me. It tastes like the colour green would taste.

If I make fajitas, I'd use onions, red peppers, green peppers, meat etc. I'd find at the end of the meal, I'd have a pile of green peppers on the side of my plate, and I wouldn't even be conscious of it now. (Its only recently enough that I've started eating peppers. Even onions, I hated them, but took a craving one day in Dublin for onion rings, and got some from Borza's in Donnybrook one day, and haven't looked back since.)

Potatoes HAVE to feature in my meals in some form or another, mashed, boiled, chips, wedges, baked, whatever. Sweet potatoes I'm not keen on, but have tried.

Meat, god I love it. I'd try any meat. Beef, chicken, venison, veal, pork, lamb, turkey, mutton, goat, horse, crocodile, whatever.
Cannot eat fish. Or seafood in general. The texture is vile, and all taste like saltwater to me. I know they should taste different depending on what it is, but salt water is all I can taste. Even if they're fresh water.

junk food I love. Crisps, chocolate, sweets, popcorn, cakes. Yum.

Fruit, I eat apples, bananas, oranges. Thats about the height of it, and not very regularly.

Rice and pasta I can't do. The texture is vile. As we'llallhavetea said, wet cement for pasta. And rice is the same.

And the odd thing is, I love cooking. I just can't eat a lot of what I cook.

Onions are evil. End of.

A V A wrote: »

i hate picky eaters . . .eat what your given , you should be grateful you have food to start with !!! picky eaters are just selfish !!! " oh i dont like this " grrrr wrecks my head!!!!

selfish?

How can not liking the taste of something be selfish..

how bout I give you a lime green pair of shoes...but you choose to wear your regular black ones..

How selfish of you to wear the shoes you prefer...

Mushrooms aren't always that bad

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Aubergines though...what is that all about?

A V A wrote: »

i hate picky eaters . . .eat what your given , you should be grateful you have food to start with !!! picky eaters are just selfish !!! " oh i dont like this " grrrr wrecks my head!!!!

How is this selfish?

If I gave you a bowl of salt water, with bit of cat poop in it, would you eat it because you were given it?

Away with you, and your discrimination.