Ice ice baby!
I have been called the world's fussiest eater, but as I know a friend of a friend who eats nothing but pate and white bread without the crusts, I'd say that's an exaggeration (how has he not got scurvy?!)

A few years ago when I was at uni my friend suggested I go to the doctors because she'd read an article in a magazine about anaemia and she was convinced I had it. I thought it was all crap - so what if I was tired all day and spent a good 10 hours sleeping - I was a student, that's what we are supposed to do! The other thing that gave it away was that I was obsessed with ice cubes - crunching through at least two trays of the things a day and getting VERY UPSET if anyone had the audacity to pinch any of the precious squares from the communal fridge. I once had a massive barney with a girl who took a few for her vodka and orange and DIDN’T FILL THE TRAY UP AGAIN! Apart from the whole ice thing I was perfectly rational, but I really didn’t see that I had a problem – I thought it was perfectly normal to demand that the bar staff at the uni pub fill my glass up to the brim with ice before adding any drink, and was well known in the student shop for buying bags of ice and eating them like other people eat crisps (but colder).

Anyway, long story short I had a blood test and it found that I was very anaemic and they gave me iron pills which stopped the cravings but gave me constipation and very black poo. Delightful!

I also don’t eat red meat because it freaks me out, mushrooms because they are fungi and therefore mould, cooked spinach because it is stringy, prawns or lobsters in the shell because the legs and little black eyes disturb me, yoghurt because it is too smooth, and courgette because it tastes of arse. Still not as bad as pate-boy though.
( hanabanana, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:48, Reply)

Is that weird?
I don't like eating foods with the word "baby" in e.g. baby sweetcorn. It makes me feel like an ogre.
(Mad McMad, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:45, Reply)

argh, I will stop posting soon
ok, I don't like white chocolate. But I think that's partly because when I was a baby and used to eat it I came out with eczema all over my face.

OH my brother has not eaten cheesecake since he found out it actually had cream cheese in it. He says it makes him feel sick now and he used to love it. Idiot.
(lei, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:44, Reply)

Oh that reminds me of another one...
My brother and I both hate the pickle that you get in the burgers at McDonald's/ Burger King. Once my mum and brother were enjoying a fine dining experience at Maccy D's and brother removed his pickle and put it in what he presumed was an empty cup. My mother soon found out why her coffee tasted so strange.
(Pixel, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:39, Reply)

More of a fussy drinker...
I was never a terribly fussy easter, but one thing I did hate was the 'juicy bits' in orange juice. For my entire childhood my poor parents were forced to put my juice through a sieve to get rid of the bits. My fickle brother refused to drink smooth juice and we were, at that point, too impoverished to afford both smooth and bitty juice.

For me, this is the clonclusive evidence that my parents like my brother more than me.
(Pixel, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:35, Reply)

Burger King
The message about the Big Mac avoider till the fries have been dealt with reminds me of the least pickiest eater I ever came across. working in Burger King one saturday, a 'large' gentleman waddles through the door, reaches the counter with only a few beads of perspiration across his meaty forehead and wheezes the following order

"Double whopper with cheese and bacon meal please, super sized"

Anything else Sir?

"Erm let me see..Ah yes, I'll have a large portion of onion rings....And some chicken pick em ups please"

I did kinda expect someone to come in and eat with him, maybe a slim partner who only picked at food, hence the onion rings and pick em ups but no, the chunkmeister eat the lot. Every. Last. Morsel.

Now, what drink do you think he had with the super sized double whopper with cheese and bacon meal? time for my best Rolf Harris impression

Have you guessed what it is yet?

Twunt, when I asked him the immortal fast food question 'what drink would you like sir' he had the cheek to ponder it for a few moments before saying diet coke.
(The_Greyhound wrote www.luckymcdanger.blog.co.uk on, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:31, Reply)

Random. Sorry.
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:29, Reply)

Zombie Dinner Ladies
I have a food quirk, and what's more I know where it came from. It's all down to the arrangement. I have to have all the different foods in their own clearly defined areas of the plate. They can touch, but not overlap. Simple eh? And where does this quirk come from? Evil feckin sloppy dinner ladies at school - I still seethe silently when I remember queueing up with my little tin tray to have all of the food slopped into it in one big mixed up pile of shite. The vacant stare, the near automatic scoop and slop movement, and the unspoken challenge - as if to say "Yeah? And what are you going to do about it?" As I type this people are looking round to see why my keystrokes have the weight of hammer blows. Rot in hell zombie dinner ladies, rot in hell.

I'm going for a lie down now.
(Ott3r, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:27, Reply)

One of my friends will not eat eggs in for breakfast.
It doesn't matter how they are cooked, but eggs for breakfast makes her "want to heave". If she sees other people eating them for breakfast, it also makes her "want to heave"

Any other time of the day is fine, lunch, tea etc. But for breakfast is a big nono.

This is 100% true.
( FreudianSlap, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:25, Reply)

When I worked in London there was a guy in our office...
...who used to eat McDonalds for lunch quite often. Big Mac, fries, and a drink.

He'd always eat the fries first, then the Big Mac, then finish with the drink. The Big Mac wasn't touched until the last fry had disappeared.

One day, halfway through his fries, the boss said "Why don't you try having a bit of your burger now, and then some more fries in a minute?"

So he stopped chewing, looked at his Big Mac, picked it up. Holding it before him, he inspected it, looked enquiringly across at the boss again, then back at the burger, for all the world like a man about to defuse a bomb.

We all watched in awe as he moved the burger towards his face, opened his mouth...

And then put the Big Mac down again.

"Nah" he declared "It's too weird", and finished his fries.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:21, Reply)

Butter beans
I eat pretty much everything except butter beans. They are the devils tiny gonads, dry as fuck and taste of shite. Where the fucking butter in them? I tried putting butter on them once, and they still sucked.

Oh, swede and marrow too. Pointless fucking veg they are. Otherwise pile it on!

Length? In relation to the devils gonads, it might be quite large!
(i AM that masked man Book him Tonto, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:21, Reply)

Sprouts. not really food are they?
I am the least picky eater I have ever known and will generally eat anything with any nutritional content - and plenty with none. But Brussells sprouts... They're not actually supposed to be edible are they? My wife has tried various ways of making them palatable (with chestnuts, bacon, spices, allsorts) but FFS, they just taste nasty. I'm convinced they're not actually a foodstuff.
(isotope23 accident free since, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:20, Reply)

picky eaters
My Friends brother, spent a week in disney world and all he ate was chicken fingers and Fries. Even the night they had dinner at a steak house
(MrPlankton, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:18, Reply)

LAST ONE. ISH
When I was small, I had all the 'don't mix textures/food touching on plate' tendancies.
I'm well over this now. But I can't contemplate the thought of Gravy.
Why would I want this?
It makes my chips soggy.
And taste of not-chips.
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:13, Reply)

Sanatogen
Ew ew ew - unstabledan has reminded me of this:

My parents used to make us (sis and me) drink this Sanatogen shit. White powder mixed into warm water.

I don't know what it was, all I knew was it was fucking disgusting and we HAD to drink it. Retching and all - I don't know what it was, I don't care, but I never want it again.

I don't know why as we had a healthy mixed diet and we (I) ate everything with some vitamin supplements. So no idea why.

Yuck.
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:11, Reply)

*RETCH*
Back when Unstablemum was alive, she would force me and my younger bro to stand to attention in the kitchen in the mornings for our daily large table spoon of FKUCING MALT EXTRACT. No reason was ever given.
No explanation for what it may/may not do for our young bodies.
It was effing nasty.
Still miss Ustablemum tho.
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:08, Reply)

My mate Mank
Won't eat crisps as they are "too sharp" ie they might cut the inside of his mouth. No really, it's true!

fucking weird
(urgle-splurgle molesting small goats since, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:00, Reply)

Cake
A guy I lived with at uni didn't like cake. any sort of cake.

as a non-stoner he particularly didn't get on with hash cake when he sampled it. ended up with hallucinations and a fever...not sure from pot or from cake...

felt mildly guilty about that for a little while.

Additionally: there are lot of weird people on b3ta (weirder than I previously suspected)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 11:00, Reply)

MMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMM






PIE
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:55, Reply)

RANDOM MUSHROOM PREJUDICE
yeah. the old 'shrooms then eh?
Hate tinned ones.
Have an undeniable NEED to remove them from any pizza.
Dont like em in my bolognese.
Wont eat em fried.
Dislike the stuffed/filled open cup ones.

My favourite meal in the world is Fettuccini Basciola. Made almost exclusively from pasta, tomatoes and............
MUSHROOMS.

So, i'll be a bit odd then.
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:54, Reply)

PIE
my ex didn't like curry (unforgivable in my opinion), pizza or PIE. How the crap can you not like pie? I don't get it, am I missing some devil pies floating around killing people or something?

HOW DO YOU NOT LIKE PIE?! Am I being completely stupid?
(lei, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:52, Reply)

My dad
dear old pater, cannot stand the smell of certain seafoods. For instance, he absolutely can't stand the smell of tinned pilchards/sardines but will demolish a plate of grilled sardines. Second for instance: again with the smell thing, he recoils in disgust if I eat prawns in his presence, "cos they smell really bad", yet it is traditional that mater and pater will have fried kippers for tea every friday evening, which leave the house pretty much permanantly reeking of fish.

WTF is going on here?

For years he would not eat red or green peppers, strong cheese such as roquefort or indeed anything spicy. He was the typical British male "not eating any of that fucking foreign muck". Despite being married to my mum who is Spanish and would eat this stuff all the time. It was at least 25 years into their marriage before he succumbed to any of the above. Now he eats all manner of foreign muck (except the fishy stuff)
(urgle-splurgle molesting small goats since, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:51, Reply)

Chocolate
When I was a littl'un my mum discovered I would eat anything with chocolate in. Since she was a single parent with me (3), a baby and sod-all money she accepted this as a gift from God and stocked up on cocoa powder. I dread to think what Jamie Oliver would think of a mum who fed her wickle daughter chocolate scrambled eggs and liver with chocolate gravy, but hey, he's a smirking twat anyway so who cares?

I can't eat choc these days though, it gives me christ-awful stomach cramps. I daresay I ate my lifetime's ration back then....
(littlesunshine licked your blinky diodes on, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:51, Reply)

picky picky picky
i used to hate :

salad items, of any description.

pickles, of any description including branston.

cheese, of any description.

tomato sauce.

i used to be a vegetarian too - which meant that i ate omlettes for every meal (sometimes even breakfast)

i'm better now tho. i'm not a veggie, i eat cheese if it is cooked. and tomatoes when they are cooked.

it is vitally important to me that food does not touch on the plate. but i always mix mince and gravy into my mash to make a massive plate of slop. which is fine for some reason.

when i eat ice cream, it is vital that noone else gets a lick - not out of fear of germs, they just ruin the shape.

i hate parsnips. corgettes? they make me think of slugs.

apple / cranberry sauce? it's fucking jam! jam has no place in a sunday roast line up!

this is all ok in my head, but writing it up makes me sound like a massive freak. i'll get my coat...

(p.s. marmite and spready cheese on toast - breakfast of the gods!)
(localhost, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:35, Reply)

I once was fussy, but better now.
Right. Since Day 0 I have been a fussy eater. Much better lately, fruit and veg are no longer the spawn of Satan. One historic moment I threw my toast with spread in the bin, because I didn't like it. For some reason I got a funny idea in my head it wasn't just bread warmed with spread on... Also when I was about 7 my folks' duped me into eaten courgette, "It's cooked cucumber dear..." Bastards!

However I draw the line at cauliflower, broccoli, celery, sprouts (dear god take these smited flactulence inducing balls of evilness away from us!) or asparagus. I’ll eat all meats and seafood, why else do we have canines? Also on the avoid list are: brown sauce, marmite, vinegar (but I’ll eat salt and vinegar crisps).

Anyhoo, the ex-missus had an aversion to anything with seeds in, so no tomatoes but ketchup was fine. No meat except chicken, and generally a bit fussy about other things.

Current other half is equally fussy, Nothing with seeds in and doesn’t like coffee. WTF who doesn’t like coffee, or vodka for that matter!?

Oh Southern Comfort will even at the slightest whiff at 50 paces make me want to have a chat with the big white telephone.
(Stanlington Jobsworthy Smythe Last skived off work on, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:33, Reply)

Alright, I confess
I am a vegetarian who cheats; I will happily eat fish (Piscitarian? Pescetarian? Nobody knows what it means when I say it, so Veggie is easier all around.)

Now I get a lot of stick from my buddies as I have never tried any meat and don't have any desire to do so. This has nothing to do with ickle fluffy cows and sheeps, I couldn't care less about veal, foie gras and all the other things that taste better because things suffered for them. I'll happily watch my firends chow down on most anything and I absolutely support real fur coat wearers (For crying out loud - if that stuff is so good at keeping rats warm, then why should we all settle for cotton?)

The only reason I don't eat meat is because it seems very easy to eat some real crap as a carnivore (Kebabs anyone? And I don't care how wonderful they seem at 3:30am, you have to realise that they're probably made of donkey lips, right?)

As I am now, I eat lots of 'healthy' veggies and get a reasonably balanced diet, also I can eat like a big dustbin and not gain weight. Yes, you can see my ribs. No it doesn't bother me and if you think I'm anorexic then you can stop being a silly bugger and piss right off.

Despite being a veggie all my life, I have certainly had to make an effort to acquire some tastes that just didn't work out for me when I was younger - mushrooms, garlic and all the wonders of herbs are now a big part of my diet. There are only two things that I can recall which I will avoid wherever possible - Peaches as the fuzz just gives me a nails-down-a-blackboard shudder and blue cheese because it's a bit pungent for my tastes.

As an addendum, I tried sushi (specifically sashimi) for the first time last week, and while I've certainly had more enjoyable meals, I feel that it's a taste I may try to acquire. After all, anything that looks that good on a plate MUST be healthy and wonderful, right?
(Kendal, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:19, Reply)

james_tiger_woods Quote: "Horsemeat - I've eaten it, but I won't do it again - something to do with Horses being closely related to man"

only if you're a frigging centaur!
(willtheyorwon'tthey, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:15, Reply)

Um
But if you're a redneck or from some of the deeper parts of the countryside, surely the daughter/girlfriend thing is just natural.

I live in Lincolnshire - some of the sights in the countryside are, well, odd at best.

On topic.

Horsemeat - I've eaten it, but I won't do it again - something to do with Horses being closely related to man.

It is, however, yummy :-)

Edit - Ok, I prefer the term eejit - I meant Horses being, er, used by man for centuries and stuff for non foody type things

Tpthhh :-P
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:06, Reply)

Cheese
My friends tell me I'm the only person in the world who doesn't like cheese. Can't stand the stuff.

Is this true?

I'm also apparently the only person who doesn't like Pringles. They taste like feet.
(Zutroy started without you, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:06, Reply)

Chicken legs
A fat obnoxious git I used to work for was eating the aforementioned when he said this chicken tastes funny ..

I looked over and the fucking thing was still pink, brrr - what put me off for life is the fat cnut carried on eating it - with his mouth open (as usual)

bastard
(flibbley lame balloon man far and wee, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 10:03, Reply)