What I mean by that is; do you have any quirky preferences having to do with food?

For example, my brother eats white rice WITH KETCHUP! If there's beans or something on the side, he's cool, but if it's served plain, it has to have ketchup.

As for me;

- I cannot eat cereal with cold milk. I need to warm the milk up. Of course that makes for soggy cereal, so I eat it a handful-of-cereal-at-a-time.

- I eat fast-food/restaurant french fries with salt & pepper, but homemade french fries must be served with ketchup. The only exception are the fries from Nathans' (hot dog joint) I need either ketchup or hot cheese.

- A plain hamburger gets mustard. A cheeseburger gets mayonaise. No ketchup unless it's a BK Whopper.

- I enjoy the taste of onions cooked in food...but if I bite on a piece of onion it makes me gag...so my pre-meal ritual often involves picking onions out of my food.

when i was little i LOVED ketchup and white bread samiches. of course, now, i am far too sophisticated for that malarkey. but back in the day.....

I tear sandwhiches apart.

I mean, I can never ever eat a sandwhich as one whole thing. I shred it and multilate it with my hands, and often don't eat the bread around the edges.

And I don't conciously dislike bread either.

PurpleJedi said:

What I mean by that is; do you have any quirky preferences having to do with food?

For example, my brother eats white rice WITH KETCHUP! If there's beans or something on the side, he's cool, but if it's served plain, it has to have ketchup.

As for me;

- I cannot eat cereal with cold milk. I need to warm the milk up. Of course that makes for soggy cereal, so I eat it a handful-of-cereal-at-a-time.

- I eat fast-food/restaurant french fries with salt & pepper, but homemade french fries must be served with ketchup. The only exception are the fries from Nathans' (hot dog joint) I need either ketchup or hot cheese.

- A plain hamburger gets mustard. A cheeseburger gets mayonaise. No ketchup unless it's a BK Whopper.

- I enjoy the taste of onions cooked in food...but if I bite on a piece of onion it makes me gag...so my pre-meal ritual often involves picking onions out of my food.

i'm like that with onions too

I have texture issues with eggs, but will eat them if they're the only thing on a breakfast menu that has protein. (I'm hypoglycemic - so just eating pancakes or some other carb-heavy item is a disaster waiting to happen.) I'll order something like an omelet, but ask them to scramble all the ingredients together (including hash browns, bacon and anything that comes with it), so it masks the texture of the eggs.

i find the whole idea of eating unfertilized chicken egg cells disgusting

so i don't eat eggs

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Dewrede said:

i find the whole idea of eating unfertilized chicken egg cells disgusting

so i don't eat eggs

But apparently, being a [snip - CarrieMpls] about your own dietary proclivities doesn't disgust you in the least. So you have that going for you.

Dewrede said:

i find the whole idea of eating unfertilized chicken egg cells disgusting

so i don't eat eggs

[Edited 3/21/11 9:46am]

But you are an unfertilized egg, honey!

Genesia said:

Dewrede said:

i find the whole idea of eating unfertilized chicken egg cells disgusting

so i don't eat eggs

But apparently, being a [snip - CarrieMpls] about your own dietary proclivities doesn't disgust you in the least. So you have that going for you.

OMG

Genesia said:

Dewrede said:

i find the whole idea of eating unfertilized chicken egg cells disgusting

so i don't eat eggs

But apparently, being a [snip - CarrieMpls] about your own dietary proclivities doesn't disgust you in the least. So you have that going for you.

wtf are you on about

who exactly is being a [snip - CarrieMpls] here ?

[snip - CarrieMpls]

i was merely replying to the question asked

no need to attack me for no reason

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I like raw tomatoes, but hate cooked tomatoes; I like tomato sauce and tomato soup but only if there are no chunks of cooked tomatoes.

I like raw spinach but not cooked.

Crustaceans gross me the f*ck out. Lobsters are the worst. I was just on vacation and went to a restaurant where they have the live lobsters in a tank. Of all the tables in the place, we were seated right next to it. I thought I was going to be sick. And all night, the owner was coming over and grabbing the live lobsters out with his bare hands - everytime someone ordered the lobster. I'd see him walk by and then 10 minutes later I'd see a boiled lobster, cut open down the middle go by on a plate.

If I eat a Kit-Kat I like to bite the chocolate off first and then eat the wafer bit...

That's all the quirks I have.

Lisa10 said:

If I eat a Kit-Kat I like to bite the chocolate off first and then eat the wafer bit...

That's all the quirks I have.

On the rare occasions that I have a Twinkie, I like to freeze it...then eat the cake first, leaving the cream filling for last.

Genesia said:

Lisa10 said:

If I eat a Kit-Kat I like to bite the chocolate off first and then eat the wafer bit...

That's all the quirks I have.

On the rare occasions that I have a Twinkie, I like to freeze it...then eat the cake first, leaving the cream filling for last.

I have never heard of a Twinkie!

Sounds like a simular technique though

PurpleJedi said:

What I mean by that is; do you have any quirky preferences having to do with food?

For example, my brother eats white rice WITH KETCHUP! If there's beans or something on the side, he's cool, but if it's served plain, it has to have ketchup.

As for me;

- I cannot eat cereal with cold milk. I need to warm the milk up. Of course that makes for soggy cereal, so I eat it a handful-of-cereal-at-a-time.

- I eat fast-food/restaurant french fries with salt & pepper, but homemade french fries must be served with ketchup. The only exception are the fries from Nathans' (hot dog joint) I need either ketchup or hot cheese.

- A plain hamburger gets mustard. A cheeseburger gets mayonaise. No ketchup unless it's a BK Whopper.

- I enjoy the taste of onions cooked in food...but if I bite on a piece of onion it makes me gag...so my pre-meal ritual often involves picking onions out of my food.

my only burger issues are that there must be no mustard. Ever.

I went to Atlanta, GA a few times when I was little in the '80s.. the burgers there had mustard and mayo or mustard and ketchup -- I dunno which, but it was so gross... I was like 8 or 9..

I like mustard, just not like that...

and no pickles on any kind of burger/sandwich. Ever.

- pickles go on the side; not sliced up and thrown into the mix..

Hate raw tomatoes, except for grape tomatoes. Those are so sweet!

I get ill if someone cooks with corn oil around me. A deep fryer with corn oil in it will get me so very sick

OH! Frozen grapes are nasty to me, my son loves them frozen... that's the only way he will eat a grape.

When I fix a bowl of ice cream (that came from the grocery store), I put it in the microwave for a few seconds to get it slightly soft.

Lisa10 said:

Genesia said:

On the rare occasions that I have a Twinkie, I like to freeze it...then eat the cake first, leaving the cream filling for last.

I have never heard of a Twinkie!

Sounds like a simular technique though

Behold the Twinkie...

[img:$uid]http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/twinkies-0407-460x360.jpg[/img:$uid]

vainandy said:

When I fix a bowl of ice cream (that came from the grocery store), I put it in the microwave for a few seconds to get it slightly soft.

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

I couldn't eat Jello as a kid. The texture of it made me gag. Now I can eat it with no problem.

paintedlady said:

vainandy said:

When I fix a bowl of ice cream (that came from the grocery store), I put it in the microwave for a few seconds to get it slightly soft.

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

Yup - ice cream should (ideally) be eaten at 1º below its melting point. That is the point at which there is perfect synergy between the sugar, fat, non-fat milk solids and water (ice).

paintedlady said:

vainandy said:

When I fix a bowl of ice cream (that came from the grocery store), I put it in the microwave for a few seconds to get it slightly soft.

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

Is that why I stir my ice cream first? After stirring it, it has the consistency of frozen custard, and I love it like that!

Genesia said:

Lisa10 said:

I have never heard of a Twinkie!

Sounds like a simular technique though

Behold the Twinkie...

[img:$uid]http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/twinkies-0407-460x360.jpg[/img:$uid]

Mmmmmm. That would go nice with a cup of tea.

Shyra said:

paintedlady said:

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

Is that why I stir my ice cream first? After stirring it, it has the consistency of frozen custard, and I love it like that!

Yup - stirring warms it.

paintedlady said:

vainandy said:

When I fix a bowl of ice cream (that came from the grocery store), I put it in the microwave for a few seconds to get it slightly soft.

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

Well, the reason I do it is because the damn stuff is too hard if I don't. Sometimes, I even have to put the carton itself in the microwave for a few seconds so I can scoop it out without bending all my spoons.

Genesia said:

paintedlady said:

I watched a PBS show on icecream, you are supposed to eat it slightly soft to get its full effect.

The round molecules in your mouth of the icecream sends seratonin to your brain. Yeah, its like a drug.

Yup - ice cream should (ideally) be eaten at 1º below its melting point. That is the point at which there is perfect synergy between the sugar, fat, non-fat milk solids and water (ice).

yay, science!

PositivityNYC said:

Genesia said:

Yup - ice cream should (ideally) be eaten at 1º below its melting point. That is the point at which there is perfect synergy between the sugar, fat, non-fat milk solids and water (ice).

yay, science!

Ice cream making is all about chemistry, baby!

Genesia said:

PositivityNYC said:

yay, science!

Ice cream making is all about chemistry, baby!

some ppl look at me funny when I say (with enthusiasm) that cooking is science+math (and art)

* I do not like the taste, smell or my own physical contact with ketchup. And if it touches something on my plate, that portion must be cut off or the thing is rendered inedible. Oddly, though, similar products like tomato paste in pasta dishes or BBQ sauce are somehow OK.

* I can't tolerate the sounds of the digestive process. No biting, chewing, saliva swishing, swallowing, stomachs churning, belching, farting, etc. If I'm eating around other people, I require sufficient noise to mask those sounds (TV, radio, chatter, etc.) or I have to leave the room.