We used to live with this guy who
would mostly only ever eat chicken, a week or so ago I watched him buy a'just chicken' sandwich, he complained that there was butter in it.

We also used to live with a guy who only ate eggs. (he got rather ill)
We currently live with a girl who only eats a small section of raw veg.
(rubber sponge In Austria they call normal bread 'toast', Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:51, Reply)

tootired
it is the tough cellulose outer husk of the sweetcorn that we can't deal with too well, the soft, squishy, tasty innards are fine.

Correct application of teeth to food will enable this to be got at.

as for not having the right teeth to deal with it, I can use my teeth for many things ranging from ripping my way through a bloody steak, munching on crunchy things and opening beer bottles. I reckon they can probably deal with sweetcorn...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:49, Reply)

dodgy ersatz

I was offered what I was told was the body and blood of our Lord, only to find it was just some kind of wafer!
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:46, Reply)

can`t stand sweetcorn either
It was always just chewy tasteless rubbish to me until a workmate told me that it passed through the body almost completely unaltered, as we didn`t have the right teeth for dealing with it, and didn`t have the right gut bacteria to digest it. "Next time you eat it and have a dump take a look"
I did, and the sweetcorn was as billed looking as if straight from the can studding the mersey trout in the pan. That image comes to mind every time I see the stuff now.
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:44, Reply)

Just remembered
a guy who lived in my flat in halls last year only ate ready meals on paper plates! He was clearly incapable of washing up. Also he rarely came out of his room and we think he had a microwave in his room coz we never saw any signs of him having prepared any food. He was weird. No idea what happened to him after the first year though.
(wench, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:44, Reply)

Oranges..
Are evil, I can't eat oranges in any form or drink the juice because it is just rank. Apart from that though there really isn't anything that I won't eat, apart from ready meals because they don't taste of anything and are expensive. As I am now in my 2nd year of uni I have found ways of making good cheap curries etc that are probably a lot cheaper and tastier per portion than any frozen shite.

The boyf on the other hand is a bit more fussy than me, although I am beginning to convert him. He won't drink tea or coffee - where as I live on the stuff, although it has to be black espresso for the coffe and green or flavoured black teas. He only drinks fizzy drinks yet hasn't needed to go to the dentist for years. Won't eat cheese - madness! And when we are at his for tea he insists on putting ketchup on everything, but I wont let him do it at mine coz I dont really like it much and don't buy it. However we are moving in together soon... should be interesting.
(wench, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:39, Reply)

Picky picky picky
Just been reading all these answers thinking how odd/nutter/why? (delete as appropriate) until I read about green apples.

I love them but cannot bring myself to eat a red apple as, obviously I'll fall asleep for 100 years and I dont really want some chancer of a handsome prince tounging me on the pretence of waking me up, the big gayer!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:35, Reply)

one of my friends
doesnt eat sweetcorn, and feels sick at the sight of it
( epiphany coming live from sweden, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:34, Reply)

Really hungry now
I've just spent the last hour or so reading a load of the answers to the question and am feeling so hungry now. Almost every answer I read* gets me thinking "I could just eat one of them right now". I'll eat anything and right now that includes a scabby horse my stomach is rumbling that much.

*Apart from the ones talking about swallowing baby-gravy
(brocky, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:24, Reply)

I can't drink pineapple juice any more...
...because i had a run-in with a rather off date carton of it at work. (run-in being i took a massive swig of it then immediately threw it back up all over a fridge)

Its quite hard to tell the difference from the smell alone if the juice is OK or not and now any pineapple juice scent just makes me queasy.

I like pineapples though. Never on pizza though, good shout Phookoo)
( Mister B is eating an icanhazcheezburger with lmaonaise, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:23, Reply)

Back in the day...
When I was in the Scouts no less, we went on camp one weekend with some new members, recently moved up from the group below.

I cant for the life of me remember his name, but one lad was a deathly pale albino-style white with blonde hair and no fat on him whatsover. A real sickly looking wimp.

He was such a picky eater that his mum had packed him a box of food for the entirity of the camp consisting of 6 packs of toasty waffles and two jars of nutella. Which is all he ate, ever.

Oh how we laughed as we sat and ate our fish and chips when he realised the lack of a)his mum to "cook" for him, b) electricity for a toaster for him to "cook" for himself.

I hate picky eaters like that, almost as much as I hate their parents for letting them get like that.

No apologies for length, or the use of the word hate.
( Mister B is eating an icanhazcheezburger with lmaonaise, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:18, Reply)

keeps on happening!!!
I always have to eat my hat!!

must stop making the suggestion.

or at least guage situations properly.
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:16, Reply)

juice
My first girlfriend wouldn't swallow. She'd keep it in her mouth and make a face like she'd just licked vinegar off a nettle, gagging and choking until she could cough it up with an exaggerated "Blaaahhh!" all over the carpet or my chest. This was not erotic.

However, my wife likes it when a bead of pre-come glistens at my tip. This means she can twist the silvered strand elastically around her tongue as I gaze on with feverish eyes. The she moans and gulps down the hot geyser.

And it tastes like syrup if I eat half a pineapple in the morning. Apparently
(frankspencer, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:14, Reply)

Ploppy
A running joke amongst people who know me well is that I don't like anything "ploppy" (my words).

I can eat anything in a sauce, and I can eat chewy sweets etc, but not really anything in-between in that horrible semi-solid/semi-liquid clingy plop state.

However, I can eat something that is 'ploppy' if the 'ploppiness' is counter-balanced by something harder and munchier. For example, I don't really like cheesecakes with masses of the ploppy bit but if the ploppy bit and the munchy biscuit base are about equal I can happily enjoy it.

Gravy is ok because it's watery more than ploppy.
Mince on it's own is ok.
Don't like mince in gravy though (these don't counter-balance each other, they just center themselves in the middle of the ploppy scale). Couple that with the dislike of mashed potato and I reeeally don't like shepherds pie.

Wine gums and chocalate can edge into ploppy territory too, so I put them in the fridge to harden them up. However I like chocalate melting in my mouth.

Oddly, ice cream can never get ploppy to me. I think this is because it never has that greasy clinginess.

Maybe I should submit a definition to the Oxford English Dictionary...

I don't like coffee either but that's because it tastes like shite.

Length? Well sometimes it GETS ploppy.
(stubbledchin, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:07, Reply)

not picky exactly
... but I like to "open up" my fish fingers, eat all the fish, saving the outside for a breadcrumb/tomato sauce combo blowout at the end of the meal. Yum. Likewise I eat the crusts *first* on a sandwich, and (when they still made them) perfected a way to get the biscuit off a Trio without breaking up the toffee bits.

It's all about saving the best bit until last.
( shavedchimp something something oranges something, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:55, Reply)

Green Apples
I forgot this one, quite recently a lovely lady who worked as a receptionist a the recruitment company i worked for offered me a lovely shiny Granny Smith.

I couldn't recall the last time I had eaten a green apple, as I've never been a huge fan - but was feeling pretty healthy so thanked her and went on my merry way. About twenty minutes after eating the said apple, it decided to make a reappearence - whilst I was on the phone to a big boss at one of the company's I was recruiting for.

The worst bit was having to clean the phone with a flash antibacterial wipe and picking the bits out of the cradle, whilst the boss bollocked me for being "unprofessional".

I happened to mention this embarassing incident to my mum, and she just laughed and said I'd always had that reaction as a child, so she stopped trying to feed me apples from about the age of 3. Why did she never think of mentioning this and saving me from utter humiliation?

Puking is ok when you're a kidlet, but when you're 24 and there is no alcohol involvment whatsoever, there's no excuse.
(madamebonsoir, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:53, Reply)

Orange smarties
I hate orange smarties. If I've got a tube of Smarties, I pick the orange ones out in order for them to be dealt with (ie chucked at random people, pigeons etc etc). They taste horrid!!
(angelica666, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:52, Reply)

My friend Sarah
Won't eat anything red. Anything at all. She says she can taste when something's red and it makes her sick - so if we go for pizza she has to ask for no tomato on the base, as well as not eating peppers, apples, any sort of meat - even red Fruit Pastilles are shunned and bestowed upon less disconcerning friends.

Maybe in a past life she hated Communists or something.
( Spazzcat jam out with your clam out, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:40, Reply)

Chocolate....or????
I remember going to a birthday party when i was about 4 and spied on the buffet type display that there was a plate of soft buns with chocolate sauce on them!

Lovely. I waited my chance, ever patient, and when we were finally allowed at the food I grabbed one of these soft buns with chocolate, took a huge bite, only to discover it was the most foul tasting substance I'd ever tasted....that's right, it was Marmite!!! I'd never tasted it before and whilst trying not to retch managed to find a bin to quietly lose my 'chocolate' bun in!

It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't absolutely covered the bun in Marmite, christ there was enough on them to make a grown man puke let alone an unsuspecting 4 year old!

length , girth: about 4 inches long and covered in brown sauce, that's best!
(anon_is_best, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:39, Reply)

Tomato ketchup and egg-based dishes
I can't even look at ketchup on eggs. Even thinking about it now makes me want to vom. It all stems back to my father making me an omlette one evening, when I was about 10 or so. I love omlettes, and this one was looking particularly good, despite the fact it was my dad making it. He put it in front of me, and then for reasons best known to himself, poured the best part of a bottle of ketchup over it. I gingerly took a bite. I promptly threw up on his shoes.
And the weird thing is I love eggs; fried, scrambled, you name it. I also love ketchup. Combine them in front of me and I'll be legging it to the nearest receptacle.

Feel ill now.
(helpermonkey, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:26, Reply)

Pineapple
I have only tried pineapple once, when I was about five years old we were served pineapple and custard one school dinner - a strange combination I know, but it was the 70s.

Unsure of what this delicacy was, I asked my neighbour. "Jellyfish", he replied.

"Ha ha", I thought, "that's unlikely".

Then I put a spoonful of the stuff into my mouth and it was prickly! My scepticism evaporated and I would not eat the rest despite much cajoling from the dinner ladies.

Still can't eat pineapple to this day. I eat most other things, the most unusal thing I've ever tried was cock's comb (the wobbly bit on top of a chicken's head) - tastes like bacon.
(andymurd, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:22, Reply)

bit of an opposites story
my scout group decided to have a night out on the town - which had us at one stage eating at an ice cream parlour where one of their specialties is "The Sink" (bowl is a fake small-scale of a kitchen sink with pipes! and takes a decent family to eat the whole lot.)

anyways before getting to the place a couple of the female scout members were starting to take interest in one of the big, shy, solid male member of our group.

we managed to devour most of the ice-cream in "the sink" till it only had the melted slop at the bottom. A few of us were getting a bit stupid and started chucking in the serviettes and stuff that was gonna get tossed out.

I think we killed the guy's chance at romance at that point when we dared him to eat some of what was left. Those girls looked horrified when they saw their potential "new friend" do something disgusting!
(mudslinger lives in a house surrounded by pussy....... cats!, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:17, Reply)

Shellfish
Coming from the town at the end of the Young's advert you would thing i would have grown up eating the muck that is shellfish.

You would be wrong. I find it impossible to eat something that is so closly related to snot.

I am therefore an family and hometown outcast i swear my grandad (being a trawlman) was fully ashamed of the gurning i used to do when present with such evil things!

am i wrong in think shrimps live arond sewage pipes?!?? EWWWW!!
(Ferrelcat, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:10, Reply)

frank
don't get me started on the whole nut allergy thing either, where seemingly overnight 99.99% of the world's population now suffer from that.

This has lead to a world where everything carries that "this product may contain nuts" warning, which would you f*cken believe it, appeared on the bag of mixed nuts I bought yesterday!

I
kid
you
not.
(Handel blah blah blah, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 15:03, Reply)

celiacs
What a load of crap. There were no celiacs five years ago and now everyone is whining "OH! if I eat a pizza crust I'll swell up to the size of a hippo and die of black plague." Of course, no such thing happened before they discovered they were celiac. It's the emo of food faddism: "Oh, look at me - I can't eat gluten." And what hapens if they do? Well, they' feel a bit unwell' and admit that they hadn't died of black plague this time because gluten is OK in small amounts.

It's the same with vegetarians. I'm certain it's a hangover from those schooldays when pale goths needed something to make them appear more tragic and sacrificial. Meat is good - get it down you, you insipid bastards.

[Frank is experiencing some mild personality disorder today having not eaten meat for a week]
(frankspencer, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 14:59, Reply)

audreyforbes
I have the same problem with tinned tomato soup, but it has to do with the fact that i am klactoseintolerant an we never put the tomato soup = cream thing together and i would vomit, and the other back end fountain, for hours afterwards.

I am not that picky in my eating habits really, apart from the non dairy thing, and no pig products, im not strictly jewsih, but i do object to eating animals with a high cognitive ability, carib indians used to call the human meat they ate longpig so there !!!!
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 14:53, Reply)

not food, but eating
Click "I like this" if you believe people who scrape cutlery across their teeth while they're eating should be shot?

*shudders*

EDIT: Maybe there should be some fork-related torture prior to death
(Jugular, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 14:52, Reply)

Fruit in things
My cousin has a violent aversion to fruit in things. Fruit is fine. Things are fine. She just can't abide fruit in things.

Take, for example, rapberry pavlova. She likes cream, meringue and raspberries, but she can't eat a pavlova because the raspberries have touched the rest. She won't eat a fruit tart, hates jam with seeds in and rarely troubles a gateau.

For my own part, I quite seriously dislike raisins. I hate Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, wedding cake and all of that ilk, yet give me a mince pie and I'm happier than a pig in shit. Go figure.
(EricPhillips, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 14:51, Reply)

Pineapple on pizza
Just. Fucking. Wrong.
(phookoo, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 14:44, Reply)