Are you a picky eater?

Kylo Ren · 03-12-2011 12:43PM

I hate your typical 'Irish' vegetables. - Cauliflower, cabbage, turnips etc.

Liver, kidney etc.

Most fish.

Chuck Stone · 03-12-2011 12:44PM

Herb Powell wrote: »

**** no. I'll try anything. The worst that can happen is. . . . .

Anaphylaxis shock and death.

CapriSunFun · 03-12-2011 12:51PM

When I was a kid I was the fussiest eater, my parents couldn't get me to eat anything but tins of sweetcorn for ages.
I'm not fussy anymore, although I have a weird thing against shepards pie, think it's because I remember loathing it as a child, and being left in the dining room alone to have "a few more bites" or I wasn't allowed to leave the table.
And tomato soup makes my stomach churn, but thats because when I was younger my little brother threw up on my head after eating tomato soup.

J. Marston · 03-12-2011 12:56PM

I will not eat onions.

shrewdness · 03-12-2011 12:57PM

I'd eat pretty much anything, apart from parsnip, cauliflower and brussels sprouts - horrible little balls of sh!te altogether. Thank god this is the only time of year you regularly see them.

Scruffles · 03-12-2011 01:34PM

am usualy called a picky/fussy eater though do not see it that way.
have always had a extremely limited diet-waffles [as in the potato type], chicken,fish cakes,fish fingers,pasta,sprouts [believe it or not! we dont all hate em:D],mushrooms,fried potatoes and thats it,excluding stuff like sweets/crisps.
its both routine and sensory,have always stuck to the same things every day and if it wasnt for people changing it woud be stuck having pasta every day.

hate the texture,smell and taste of a lot of food,especialy strong smelling or liquidy stuff like mayonaise,vegetables, peas, cheese, beans,tomato or brown sauce,curry, soup ...have got a sort of phobia of carrots to as dad used to try and force feed them when was younger.
am also on a prescribed liquid food called ensure plus [banana flavour] because of being limited as well as the fact had not eaten actual food for a few years until this year,absolutely rank stuff no matter what flavour it is.

people are told they have free will/choice in what they do,so why does this not stretch to eating if are not actualy wasting anything and are just making a choice?
god knows how many years ago in infant/junior school [oldskool catholic] the dinner ladies were nasty to people who didnt eat all their food,and one was always sat with self;she used to attempt force feeding tomatoes because she knew how difficult was with food,a favourite line of hers was shouting 'there are children in eithiopia who dont get any food....'.
theyre trying to do sensory desensitization to things like food,but screw that-people who have choices shoud use that right and not suffer because other people in the world arent as well off.

working fool · 03-12-2011 01:39PM

i hate onions
there in bloody everything ,,and even when u ask for a meal even a burger without them you still still end up with them .

Professey Chin · 03-12-2011 01:44PM

I can't eat most sauces. Anytime I try I just retch. Good old plain food for me :pac:

Ellis Dee · 03-12-2011 01:59PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I love fish.

I'd order fish more often than not in a restaurant.

If you love fish that much and happen to be in Sweden at the right time of year (late summer/early autumn), you'll have to try surströmming. This is considered a great delicacy by people from, especially, the northern parts of Sweden and parties are arranged in its honour when the new season's stuff arrives.:cool:

It's a small species of herring, fish about 15 cm long, which comes in largish tin cans. The cans are puffed up and have to be opened outdoors, because some pretty foul-smelling gas hisses out as soon as a can is pierced.

The fish are covered in what looks like a thick coating of viscous, slimy, greenish-yellow snot and are swallowed whole.:eek::eek:

I have eaten them. Drinking a half litre or so of schnapps beforehand made it easier, but I suppose I can now say that I'm not that picky about food.;)

MissMoppet · 03-12-2011 02:03PM

Cucumber... Even having it in the fridge makes everything else smell like it..

ejmaztec · 03-12-2011 02:07PM

I won't eat tripe, not after the one and only time I ever tried to eat it.:o

I don't mind cauliflower or cheese, but cauliflower-cheese is sh1t.

I don't mind fish, but fish-pie is rank.

moco · 03-12-2011 02:07PM

I used to be a really fussy eater as a child, it was a battle to get me to eat anything.

Now I eat anything except...

Peppers (can handle green ones, don't like the others)
Any kind of fat on meat or bacon
Liver or any organ meats
Black pudding..never had it but after being told it's made of blood

Coriander. If there's a hint of this stuff in any meal it's ruined for me.

moco · 03-12-2011 02:11PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I won't eat tripe, not after the one and only time I ever tried to eat it.:o

I don't mind cauliflower or cheese, but cauliflower-cheese is sh1t.

I don't mind fish, but fish-pie is rank.

I love cauliflower cheese.:pac:

Tripe doesn't sound too appealing, I'm adding that to my list. Never tried it though!

Kevin Duffy · 03-12-2011 02:18PM

Man, yiz are all weirdos, eat some bleedin' veg will yiz. And some oysters, they are the food of Gods.

df1985 · 03-12-2011 02:25PM

not a big vegetable fan, just do nothing for me.

id eat any type of meat or fish all day long.

The one big thing i dont like that a lot of people do would be pasta.

cloud493 · 03-12-2011 02:26PM

I ****ing love onions

ejmaztec · 03-12-2011 02:31PM

moco wrote: »

I love cauliflower cheese.:pac:

Tripe doesn't sound too appealing, I'm adding that to my list. Never tried it though!

Here's some that was made earlier

Kojak · 03-12-2011 02:32PM

Bananas are filthy and just plain evil. :mad:

Oysters and Tomatoes - ugh, disgusting.

Wetai · 03-12-2011 02:44PM

Very picky, don't like the majority of vegetables. Or most fruit (probably down the the texture - don't like oranges, but I'd eat orange flavoured stuff).
Don't really like potatoes (or chips), but I like them a lot with gravy.
Don't really like chops.
Don't like fish that has the layer of skin left on it, either.

missvirgo · 03-12-2011 03:04PM

Shut your mouth & eat your dinner!

Sephiroth_dude · 03-12-2011 03:31PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Howdy AH'ers - a question for ye.

When I was a child I was pretty bad with the picky eating. Wouldn't eat vegetables. Hated onions etc. That has mostly evaporated over time and now I'll eat most foods.

I was the same when I was younger,will try almost anything now.

Sauve · 03-12-2011 03:41PM

Liquorice. It's the devils' own sh1te.

Acoshla · 03-12-2011 04:07PM

I'll eat anything once, but through this process I now know I despise liquorice (anything aniseed flavour), celery, and jalapenos.

brummytom · 03-12-2011 04:08PM

Yeah, I'm a bit fussy. I don't eat any veg, I don't like pizza, I don't like ice cream, I don't like any fruit except apples and green grapes. I don't like ham or gammon, or any fish except from the chippy. Don't like homemade chips either, and I don't like fizzy drinks.

I basically eat chicken, and food that's bad for you

DubDJ · 03-12-2011 04:14PM

I'm extremely picky. I live off fast food. Also eat a lot of sweets. Basically my complete diet. It is all in your head. I've recently lost my taste and smell but still can bring myself to eat healthy. It's amazing i'm not overweight.

Acoshla · 03-12-2011 04:18PM

DubDJ wrote: »

I'm extremely picky. I live off fast food. Also eat a lot of sweets. Basically my complete diet. It is all in your head. I've recently lost my taste and smell but still can bring myself to eat healthy. It's amazing i'm not overweight.

How can picky people live off fast food? It's so sh*t that it always fascinates me when people who are very choosy about what they eat can stomach it at all.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 03-12-2011 04:25PM

If its cooked & presented well I'll eat just about anything except rat and Foie gras - in fact anything which was once living will have had to be killed humanely as possible.

Actually I detest mushrooms and celery.

And I try my best to avoid processed foods.

But I eat gee.

DubDJ · 03-12-2011 04:29PM

Acoshla wrote: »

How can picky people live off fast food? It's so sh*t that it always fascinates me when people who are very choosy about what they eat can stomach it at all.

When I eat it I enjoy the taste. I've tried other foods and have started to eat a little more of a wider range but can't beat a burger and chips

uncle_sam_ie · 03-12-2011 04:42PM

The Irish are all picky eaters. That's what drives me nuts about you lot.:D

livinsane · 03-12-2011 04:49PM

I eat everything. Cannot think of one thing I do not like. There a few things I am not partial to (mushroom soup and sweet and sour sauce) but I still like the taste, I just can't eat more than a few spoons.

Are you a picky eater?

Comments