Food-related weirdness?
I was just wondering if some of y'all out there have oddnesses related to food and how you eat it. For example, in our house the wierdness turns up at breakfast. For some unknown reason, DH always leaves the last inch or so of bread crust on his plate. He eats the rest of it with his toast, but always I find a piece of crust about an inch long on the side of his plate. I think that is the bit that he holds onto the toast by...why he doesn't just pop it in I don't know.
As for me, it's the last sip of coffee that stays in the bottom of the cup. We use the Italian Bialetti coffeemaker (the kind you screw the 2 halves together and put on the stove) and the last bit at the bottom of the cup usually has sediment in it. This carries over to any cup of cofee at all...I never drink that last sip.
I also have an odd habit of taking a cup off the rack and--for some reason--sniffing it. I never even noticedI was doing this till my BGF suddenly yelled, "WHY do you do that!" making me almost drop the cup. Apparently it doesn't matter where I am, my house or someone else's...I pick up the clean cup and sniff it.
Anyone else have some food (or dish) related oddnesses?
The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is that we're vegan--that's apparently pretty weird. The cup sniffing thing nearly woke my neighborhood, though. I just suddenly let out this huge laugh and couldn't contain it! I may never look at a cup again without wondering what it smells like ;D
When I was a kid I couldn't let any thing on my plate touch and I would eat only one thing at a time saving my favorite for last. Even gravy had to be in a side dish for me to dip things into. I would try anything as long as it wasn't touching anything else. Now I am always looking for odd combinations. I'll put a little of this w/ a little of that and try all sorts of odd combinations but I still save my favorite for last.
I'm sure that my BF could give you more that I'm not aware of :)
I love cereal but I do not like to eat it crunchy. I pour on the soy milk and stir and stir and stir until it gets soggy. I have been told by several people that this is weird. ::)
I used to be really averse to biting into anything. I would have to cut or tear any kind of food that you would normally just eat with your hands. This is probably a carry over from many many years of braces and oral surgery. I'm better about it now. I no longer require a knife to eat an apple, for example, but I still tear sandwiches into more manageable pieces. It sounds benign, but I get my weird looks.
I always eat stuff on my plate one group at a time. I usually eat my "favorite" thing last. Lol, I don't like bringing stuff to my mouth with untensils either. If my fingers can bring it to my mouth, they usually do. How barabaric! ;D
i am also a cup sniffer and i won't drink out of plastic cups because they always smell funny.
OK, why do *you* do it? Or do you know why? Maybe we should form CupSniffers Anonymous...the veg*n chapter, of course! :D
I also don't like my food to touch and I usually eat one item at a time then move on to the next.
I'm a clean your plate kid. But like Ashley I tend to eat one group at a time. I'll heat up the veggies and eat them first, and then fix a plate of the main course. Living alone ,I eat in front to the computer while studying or surfing the net.
Ashley it's not barbaric many cultures eat with their fingers, like Morrocans (only with their right hand as the left is used to drink and you can't get your drinking cup dirty) and people in Ethiopia, Bangledesh, all over the word.
I used to eat one thing at a time as well. I'm not so bad now. But as a kid, I would even take subs apart and eat one thing at a time! Oh and I hate it when my hubby doesn't put his plates in the dishwasher, or he hand washes them .... NOOOOOO. They had meat on them ... ick. I mean, with pots, it's ok (they don't fit in there). But the plate thing drives me insane.
I peel orange segments... not just the peel off the outside and the white pith, but the skin off of each segment... otherwise I just chew, chew, chew and it never gets broken-up and I end up gagging on it.
My auntie peels grapes, so I blame her... she also had twins, so I blame her for that too... Darn genetics:D
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My cereal has to be dry...the milk has to be separate in it's own glass. When I do by milk it HAS to be in a platic container, or else I won't touch it.
I cannot eat peas, just the look of them makes me gag but then I eat weird things like the white inside of orange peels. WEIRD!?!?!?
actually, the right hand left hand food-eating thing has a purpose behind it. i'm left handed, but growing up in a muslim country, i had about a hundred people try to force me to be right-handed. the reason is that your right hind is clean and your left hand is dirty. this affects more things than just eating... you would usually accept something from someone else with your right hand (money, gifts, even at the store taking your change or groceries). this might sound wierd and anti-lefty, but it's actually a common sense thing. in a culture where you didn't historically have toilet paper, you would use a pot of water and your hand to clean yourself after... well you know. it only makes sense that you wouldn't want to eat with the same hand that you cleaned yourself with and that it would be slightly insulting to your grocer to expect him to take money from your bathroom hand. i'm sure that europeans have had the same issues with not historically having toilet paper.... but europeans have not historically been known for their cleanliness.
as for food wierdness, i don't think i really have any now... i used to be a food mixer and masher. i would mix everything on my plate in one big mush pile and eat it like that. i still am a bit of a mixer, but not to the point that my mother would look at my plate and comment on how it looked like dog food. meat was the only thing i never mixed. when i wasn't a veg, i still hated meat and would pick tiny little slivers off the piece... i hated the texture of anything vaguely fatty of grisly.
I also eat things on my plate one at a time. My dad used to call me a "serial eater".
The people that said they smell cups reminded me a of a woman I saw on TV recently that smells EVERYTHING. http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/?q=is-this-normal
When I go to a deli or anyplace where I can see people making the food (like Subway), I simply can't eat the food if they aren't wearing some sort of gloves. If I can't see them making the food and I don't know one way or the other, I'm okay about eating the food--I guess I just don't think about it. At home, I wash my hands an irrational number of times while I'm cooking food. Consequently, I have "dish-pan hands" and I slather lotion on them all day long.
i don't finish the last few drips of whatever i'm drinking. i always leave a small amt behind
My 5 year old son eats toast cut in quarters with breakfast a lot. He doesn't like the crust. When he is done with each piece, he places it back on the plate where it was, forming an "empty" square at the end. He even does this when he is half asleep-never misses!
i drink applesauce out of the jar. not that weird, but it's all i got.
Ever since I wias little I would "chew" my drinks...still do!
Whenever I make a glass of tea, I HAVE to have this certain clear glass, just the RIGHT amount of lemon juice, just the RIGHT count of ice, and the RIGHT amount of tea poured in.
I'm weird with my tea. 8)
I do two similar things--when I eat sandwich cookies, I eat the cookies from around the center filling and eat the filling last. When I eat cake, I eat the cake out from under the icing and save the icing for "dessert." I'll even cut the cake off the icing between layers and eat that icing along with the icing from the top. :P
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