Weird eating habits and/or food combinations

[Bethylphenidate]

I was gonna post this on the "Share a random fact about yourself" thread, but then I realized that everyone has their own weird eating habits and/or food combinations. So... what are yours?

My weird eating habit:
I don't eat the tips (i.e. the crunchy part) of French fries. First, I rip off one tip. Then, I eat the fry 'til I'm left with the other tip. When I'm done, I have a small pile of French fry tips. I've done this since I was a child. (Admittedly, though, as I've grown older, I've started to eat the tips. Some of them... sometimes.)

My weird food combinations:
I like my scrambled eggs black; that is, covered in pepper. A few years ago, I was at a restaurant with some friends. I ordered eggs with my meal and, of course, peppered them up! When the waitress came to our table to see if we needed anything, she looked down at my plate horrified and said, "Oh my God! Do you want another order of eggs?" My friend's boyfriend laughed and told her, "She likes them that way," and I had to reassure her that yes, I really do. The waitress must have thought the top of the pepper shaker fell off or maybe that my friends poured the pepper on them or something. By the look on her face and the tone of her voice, I could tell she felt so bad. (I don't even use pepper otherwise... mostly only on eggs.)

McDonald's French fries dipped in McDonald's soft serve ice cream.

Hot sauce on Saltine crackers, salad, and baked potatoes. (Although I don't know how people can put it on pizza!)

Orange juice and coffee cream. (When I worked at McDonald's, I'd squirt a few pumps of hazelnut syrup in, too.)

Coca-Cola and coffee cream.

Not a "combination" at all, but I only like my chicken boneless and skinless (and I only eat the breast). I hate steak, and I like my hamburgers plain, fully cooked, and paper thin. Most people find that "weird."

[lala1187]

I'm not sure that I really have any. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I loved grilled chicken that was burnt! lol It happened once on accident and after that I always had to have mine a little burned.

These days, I barely eat. It started in June or so, when I was going through a major move and a huge stressful time with another issue. My daughter was also moving on her own. I literally fell to pieces. I basically couldn't eat hardly at all and it just got worse and worse. I wasn't even taking ADD meds then.

It's still about the same as I am under some tremendous stress with my job and adjusting to my dd being out on her own. Not to mention all of the ADD stuff going on and the constant change of meds. I have lost so, so much weight. I guess you could say that it is weird that I am not stress eating, because that has always been what I have done.

I love "vegetarian" lasagna. Most people do not like it, but I love it with vegetables and such. Of course it has cheese, so not truly vegetarian... but yummy to me! Oh, thought of something else... I LOVE salt, the sea salt that is little rocks. I can pour some of that into my hand and eat it just like that, weird, I know!

[DvlsAdv0c8]

Don't know why, but I always leave exactly two bites worth of food on my plate. It doesn't matter how much I started with, my "full" button is pushed when there's two bites left.

I rarely mix things together. My BF mixes things like veggies and mashed potatoes. I like to taste each thing on its own.

[scrambled86]

I love baked potatoes with marmite..some people think that's weird!

Also often drink a hot drink and a cold drink at the same time.

And I will always leave something on my plate - even if it's just a small amount

[demuregeek]

My weird thing -- well, my partner considers it weird, anyway -- is that I've got no regard for what foods are "supposed" to be eaten at any given meal. Lasagna for breakfast? Absolutely! Cereal for dinner? Why not?

I blame three years in the military -- actually, the concomitant irregular meals in the field, eating at weird times, and getting things like Mac & Cheese for breakfast (which is awesome especially on a cold day, btw).

[Bethylphenidate]

Originally Posted by demuregeek

My weird thing -- well, my partner considers it weird, anyway -- is that I've got no regard for what foods are "supposed" to be eaten at any given meal. Lasagna for breakfast? Absolutely! Cereal for dinner? Why not?

I blame three years in the military -- actually, the concomitant irregular meals in the field, eating at weird times, and getting things like Mac & Cheese for breakfast (which is awesome especially on a cold day, btw).

Yeees! I love going to IHOP and having pancakes at 11:00pm... and a hamburger at 8:00 the next morning.

[Conman]

i eat almost any meat except gross **** (like 'prairie oysters', other obscure foods that i may or may not be privy to try) and ground beef. so burgers dont work for me unless theyre chicken or sirloin.

i despise vegetables, that's what food eats. the only ones i eat are corn on the cob (no dinner separated corn kernels from a can, that stuff tastes purple), peppers, and...celery i guess?

i had kraft mac n cheese, KFC, and skittles as a dinner's worth one night...i literally choked on my farts the next morning

[Flory]

i love my steak bleeding still..but i know a lot of people like it like that
i put ketchup on everything
i like vinegar on my spaghetti
i love cockles and seafood omnomnom, doused in vinegar of course

it takes me forever to eat because i get up and leave the table alot or conversely im not patient enough to eat slowly and i wolf it down so i can get up again

[Flory]

conman....that was a dinner of champions ^_^

[scrambled86]

Originally Posted by Conman

that stuff tastes purple

what does purple taste like?

[Flory]

Coke is a legitimate food source at any time of the day.....

when i had my ED, i lived on Diet coke, Sugar free lollies, smokes and clear broths.

[ADDarren]

The food on my plate can't touch each other............

Thanksgiving drives me nuts.......several trips for food.

[Conman]

Originally Posted by scrambled86

what does purple taste like?

go look at a thread i made about Synesthesia. i can taste and smell in color

[scrambled86]

Originally Posted by Conman

go look at a thread i made about Synesthesia. i can taste and smell in color

ahh I see. No offence meant by me in my previous comment.

Purple is my fav colour, if I had Synesthesia I would be pretty miffed to see that colour when tasting things I disliked!

[keliza]

I don't like to have any of my foods touching. My family always jokes that they're going to give me one of those kid's plates for family dinners, the kind that are separated so none of the foods touch. I would be perfectly happy with that! I'm also really weird about textures and colors. I will refuse to eat something based on texture and color alone, without even smelling it, much less tasting it. I've always been a really picky eater, a lot of kids are, I guess I just never grew out of it.