Food Eating Quirks

We all have them—the idiosyncrasies that make our experiences of consuming food uniquely ours, and this is the place to share them.

First two I can think of off the top of my head:

• When I order sushi I add wasabi and ginger, in that order, to each individual piece before I eat any of them.
• For plates with different foods—meats, side veggies, etc.—I like eating each in equal amounts so I'm left with a perfect bite of everything together to finish.

What are some of yours?

 

I eat too fast and have to force myself to slow down.

 

I am very persnickety about serving foods at the proper temperature. Particularly hot things like soup.
I also like to eat everything at the same rate, like DamnitAll so I am finishing each part of the meal at about the same time.
And the smell of certain strong cheeses (never mind the taste) makes me gag so I stridently avoid those. I'll eat just about anything else.

 

I tend to be finicky about proportions in foods and beverages. So, for example, when serving pasta, I need just the right balance of noodles to sauce; or when having orange-carrot juice, I need just the right proportion of orange juice to carrot juice (to seltzer if added). I'm sometimes the same way about spicing.

I do tend to eat some things in certain orders, too. And if I have multicolored candy-- M&Ms, Reese's Pieces, Mike & Ikes, jelly beans, etc.-- I have to separate them out into their groups by color before eating them, and eat them in reverse order of color desirability.

 

If I've ordered a drink other than water with my meal, I'll do my best not to have any left over by the time I'm finished eating—more equal proportion stuff. This explains why I generally don't give a crap about free refills.

I'm also the opposite of @Charlatan—if I'm eating something I really like, I'll eat it more and more slowly the closer I get to finishing it so I can savor what's left of it as much as possible. It probably drives anyone I eat with pretty crazy.

 

Exhibit A: the makings of the perfect final breakfast bite.

 

This is more physical than mental. I was born naturally left-handed, but was forced to be right-handed. When I have to cut my food I hold the fork in my left hand, cut with the knife in my right hand, then switch the fork to my right hand to eat.

I much prefer to have my drink on my left. Prefer tables over boothes. If the chair next to me is empty, I'll move it over a few inches to give myself more room. Don't like the table crowded with dishes when I'm eating.

I also tend to eat a bit of everything rather than focusing on just one item on my plate, but not to the point of keepng everything equal.

 

That's weird. I was born naturally right-handed and do everything else the same way as you. Am I the one doing it weird?

Also, the rest of your post is amazingly accurate to the way I eat.

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If I'm eating French fries or home fries and use ketchup, I put so much pepper in my ketchup you can barely see the red any more after it's mixed.


I'll be back...

 

When I eat with my hands I use my left hand. In some places it's frowned upon but I am lefty, so fuck em.

I too prefer my glass on the left side and usually move it there.

 

Lefty pride. *fistbump*

 

I'm ambidextrous, and the cutting then switching I actually do dead opposite - cut right eat left.
I taste everything on the plate first, then if you are seated near me, you can tell what I dislike or like least - I eat it first to get rid of it, because if I eat it last its likely to get left on the plate.
God help you if you put something cold on the plate with something hot, I'll throw a fit. Cold and hot can't touch, let alone be on the same plate - same with sweet and savory. Just THINKING about cheddar cheese and apple pie makes me twitchy.
It has always been a great source of amuesment to my sister to purposely put things that "don't go" on the same plate, together so I'll loose it. (Which is why i've not attended a family function at my sisters house in 17 years).
M&M's. green are always last - I couldn't tell you why, they just are. I don't share food, nor will I finish something that I'm eating if someone reaches over and snags a bite to take a taste of it.
Chips, - ok - Doritos - you know the family size bags? Most people can open a bag and pass it around, everyone grabbing handfulls out and passing the bag on - I have to be the one opening the bag then pouring some out (I won't reach in) onto a little plate or a napkin or paper towel, then pass the bag on - I won't take any once someone has reached into the bag. I also cant take things out of a candy dish for instance, unless I saw the candy go into it, and it's wrapped - then I can take some before anyone else touches it, otherwise, I won't take any.
I bring my own individual soda or water with me. Always have a couple in my purse, and I never set them down.
It goes on and on and on and on. Needless to say I acknowledge the irrationality of all this, and will just stay home to avoid making other people uncomfortable, or cause them any additional trouble to be accomodating to my "quirks", as there are many. Far more than these.

 

Me, too. A big plate of food (e.g., a restaurant entree) is like a job to do, and I get right to it.

In restaurants, I'm neurotically reluctant to disclose what I'm ordering until I'm actually telling the waiter. When my fellow diners ask what I'm going to get, I say, "I'm thinking about it."

I have a lot of idle fantasies about bizarre happenings in restaurants.

For example, one cold winter evening, a couple comes into a restaurant for dinner. A waitress takes two menus and leads them on a very long walk to their table, up a flight of stairs, across the stage of a dimly lit auditorium, over a steel footbridge that crosses a river of dark vinegar, down a torchlit aisle flanked by huge, grotesque statuary, etc., etc., etc., until they come out into the hot, blazing sunlight, to a table on a patio shaded by thick old palm trees. Any questions they have about this only get a shrug from the waitress.

 

I have a problem with some textures. Food, clothing etc.. If the texture bugs me I can't eat it. I can eat cream of mushroom soup in/on things, but hate mushrooms. I can also use dried onions/powder, but hate raw onions. When pouring drinks, I MUST rinse out the glass first or I think I can taste soap, whether it's there or not. Foods with a tomato base, MUST be eaten along with a cola flavored soda. If I eat before 10 am I am ravenous the rest of the day, and will eat and eat and eat. I always separate my M&Ms into colored piles and eat them in the same order, every time. Ok, there must be more, but it's late and I can't think of them. I'll post again if I do.

 

I replaced all of our plates at home with Corelle "Luncheon" plates. Apparently, I have this need to fill my plate and overeat or waste food as a result. It's 100% phsycological; but smaller plates work better for me.

 

Doing it right. ^^^

Egg yolk is the golden nectar of the gods.

 

Those are the best. Seriously.