Care to share your quirky food habits?

When I crave something sweet and don’t have anything else in the house, I mix up some instant waffle batter in a cup and eat that. Along with the sweet it has a slightly bitter taste which I don’t like, but I eat it anyway. The thing is, I love batter of any kind.

I love hot coffee and iced coffee; but cool coffee is repulsive to me.

I often crave yellow mustard and view hotdogs/hamburgers as mere conveyances for same.

Champagne pairs well with everything.

I’ll take a slice of bologna, put mustard on it, roll it up and eat it plain.

On Cinco de Mayo, I eat 5 jars of mayonnaise! ;-P

I eat 2 table spoons full of durian fruit eat morning with my vitamins and 2 large glasses of water.

I have to have the cheese on grilled cheese sandwiches melty!

I love raw cabbage, red or green, dipped in miracle whip. The lazy womans cole slaw. haha
I also LOVE brussels sprouts dipped in mayo (go figure )and peanut butter on saltine crackers with OJ. I like tons of hot sauce/salsa on my mexican food and shamelessly always order extra when out.

I also like stale easter peeps candy and stale cheetos, the puffy kind.
The easter peeps and cheetos are a rarity, but every once in awhile I buy a medium size bag of puffy cheetos and leave it open to ”:age” for about 48 hours in the cupboard. My junk food fest moment.

I hate to waste any food. I will often take the food that other family members have left on their plate, and put it in a baggy for a later meal for myself.

I make sure every single piece of food that is in a package comes out onto the pan, and I even rinse soup cans out with a small amount of water to be sure. I save and use the crumbs from chips and cereal in casseroles or meat loaf.

I insist on only eating eggs that have been laid by hens named Gertrude & they simply must be capricorn.

I hate Nutella in the morning, but like it at night. And right now I don’t like it at all.

I like strawberries as fruits, hate them as ice cream, juice, or any artificial strawberry taste. In fact, I despise all S.b flavors. (Except for extra and trident gum.)

Same with mangoes, but sometimes I feel like having the juice. Fresh of course.

Hate anything to do with oranges except if its fresh orange juice, no seeds.

I like how aspirin pills taste.

I’m sure there are more weird things

No matter what, my food must not touch each other on the plate! For fear that the world will collapse around me…I must adhere to this rule.

None of the food on my plate can touch, it is either already mixed or not at all. I do not eat left overs. I do not eat prepackaged food. I am a vegan. I do not eat much because of it and am close to anorexic. I actually find food repulsive. Yes it is a problem. But I love oranges and apples. And bananas with chocolate syrup I make from coco. And the best hulless freshly popped popcorn that my mother makes.

I read restaurant inspections before I go anywhere new (unless my friends talk me into it.)
I eat a spoonful of peanut butter as my sweet treat occasionally.
I love breakfast for dinner and so does my husband. Farm fresh eggs only. Cereal as dinner is fun, too.
Peach fuzz makes me gag, I have to slice them.
I hate Jello of all kinds, but especially with stuff in it like fruit and marshmallows.
Sometimes I mix up my food in my plate, like my gpa did, it’s weirdly good.

@marinelife Is there any other way? lol
@YARNLADY My husband refuses to eat leftovers so my neighbor lady and I exchange sometimes. Is that too weird?

@KNOWITALL No, you did not go there! Mixing food on the plate…I can already feel the world collapsing…

@Plucky Do you also eat things in a certain order? LOL I do it all the time, the starchy things are always last. I am very ritualistic when it comes to food, I am probably classified as anorexic.

@Plucky Normally I like everything neat and seperate but breakfast foods and meat, mash and veggies, you HAVE to mix!!! hahaha!

And I LOVE burnt popcorn, there I admitted it!!!!

@nofurbelowsbatgirl Yes I do! And I have to eat all of the one thing before starting on the next type, on my plate. I tend to save the best for last (unless the best thing is best fresh from the pot/pan).

@KNOWITALL Ha, burnt popcorn… that is so wrong.

I like a dollop of limburger cheese on my potato salad.

A friend of mine dips his chicken nuggets in chocolate jello pudding.

I like a little bread with my butter, and a little pie with my whip cream. Like @picante , it is just a conveyance. I like burned popcorn like @KNOWITALL . I like rare steaks – like bleeding all over the plate. I like melty ice cream (definition of “melty”, not solid, not liquid.)

@Skaggfacemutt I LOVE bleeding steaks, no one around here gets it right though. When I say rare, I mean a minute on each side max and I’m in.

Have you ever done the raw diet or tried the totally raw meat with seasonings?

Bleeding steak yuuuuckkk! Vampires do exist.

@KNOWITALL No, but I have seen the chefs prepare some kind of raw meat dish on the cooking shows. The very thought makes my mouth water.

@KNOWITALL Around here if you want your steak cooked that little you have to order it blue, and it isn’t listed on the menu as such.

I just tell the waiter to hit the cow in the butt with a hot pan and bring it on in.

@WestRiverrat Okay I’ll try that. Everyone cooks everything here or you’re a dirty crazy hippy…lol

@Skaggfacemutt Heck, let’s go cow-tipping and cut our own…lol

@nofurbelowsbatgirl It’s supposedly really good for you!!

I eat pie for breakfast and ice cream for lunch about half the time. I save as leftovers what most people consider ridiculously small portions – like one or two bites.

I throw anything leftover from lunch or dinner into soup, including salad and excluding dessert. Nuts are interesting in soup.

Wait. @nofurbelowsbatgirl there is hulless popcorn?!? That is life-changing! Must get some.

Nobody can touch or take a bite/sip of my dairy products. No you may not have a bite of my ice cream! Do not touch my cheese. If it happens, it’s all yours…it grosses me out and then I can’t eat it.

I eat Grape Nuts cereal mixed with soft butter, no milk. Love slightly burnt food, especially anything involving cheese. I like fruit and I like chocolate, but the two shall never meet.

LOL @augustlan Yes hulless popcorn, it is amazing! It is less annoying because you are picking less of the hulls out of your teeth usually there is almost no hulls and they are more delicate so they don’t get stuck in between your gums and teeth and irritate your mouth! You don’t mix fruit and chocolate? that IS weird. lol.

I don’t as a rule like fruit with meat (pork and applesauce, lamb with mint jelly, etc.)b But I do like chutneys with curry and raisins in meatloaf. Go figure.

Mugs and glasses need to be filled to the brim if I’m supposed to enjoy drinking out of them. I love crisps, but don’t like them crinkle-cut. And I usually eat things grouped. For example, I will not eat a single M&M, but two, three, or five. Never four. Seldom one. Trying to get over that…

I like the taste of aspirin tablets too.

Now we all know the secret to get @augustlan to give us her ice cream! Muahahaha…

When my father would go to work, he would leave his plate on the table, and I would come into the kitchen and eat the burned bacon he didn’t eat.
I still love burned bacon.

I’m not a fan of ice cream because I ate it for every meal for about a year straight. But that’s another story. The only kind of popcorn I eat is Boom Chicka Pop, which is basically just pre-air-popped, butterless, gluten-free, non-GMO, lightly salted popcorn which a lot of people tend to think is flavorless, but I think is delicious. I prefer almond butter over peanut butter. I detest tomatoes, but I love ketchup. I hate potatoes unless we’re talking about hashbrowns or latkes, and I only eat french fries if they’re dipped in ketchup, with the exception of Popeye’s Cajun fries and Arby’s curly fries. I use ground turkey in my tacos instead of ground beef. I once ate a whole pickled baby octopus at a Chinese buffet, and liked it. I drink my coffee black with just a little bit of nonfat milk in it, but once it starts to cool I find it repulsive. The only other thing I ever drink is water. I eat the same things every day, except for on special occasions. I’ve had fast food exactly once in over a year. I’m a notorious healthy eater, even though just over a year ago I had the worst diet you could imagine.

@mangeons You are a true culinary freak. :)

I can only eat Peeps and Ginger Snaps if they’re stale. Ginger snaps I find particularly interesting because they have what I like to call reverse staling. As they get stale they get really soft and chewy.

If I’m eating any kind of colored candy I need to separate all the candy out by color. Generally what I do then is eat a certain amount of each color so that I have the same amount of each. Then once I get down to one of each I tend to pick at random and see which color will be the last one “surviving”

I love fruits, but don’t like anything that has fruit in it (i.e. fruit pies, fruit ice cream, etc) except for banana bread. I love peanuts but despise peanut butter – just the smell of it makes me feel sick. Seeing onions in my plate makes me gag, but if I don’t see them, I’ll eat everything just fine even if I know they’re in there.

@jordym84 I’m the complete opposite! I love peanut butter (though not as much as almond butter) but I hate peanuts! I love almonds and pistachios though. So addicting!

@mangeons I’ve never had almond butter, but a few days ago someone mentioned it to me. Almonds are my favorite nuts, so I’ll see if I can find the butter to give it a try. How do you eat it?

I like to sprinkle chocolate powdered milk mix or chocolate Slim Fast powder shake mix in with my ice cream, then stir it up. I like the gritty texture of the mix in my ice cream.

Also, when I’m making hot chocolate with a powdered mix, I don’t stir the mix until it is completely dissolved. This leaves me with a few little clumps of the chocolate mix floating in my cup. They feel like tiny chocolate powder bombs when I put them in my mouth, and I’m always a bit bummed when my last powder bomb is gone.

@jonsblond I can relate 100% to your second paragraph! I love those “chocolate powder bombs.” I’m stealing that name from you, I hope you don’t mind. :D

@jordym84 lol. I had a hard time thinking of a good way to describe the texture. You can steal it. I’m glad someone else gets me. This habit makes me feel like a weirdo. ;)

@jordym84 I love it with pretzels, on whole wheat toast, on whole wheat toasted English muffins, with bananas, melted over these things called Wasa crackers, and even just by itself! It’s pretty versatile, you should definitely give it a try! The only downside is that it’s a bit expensive, I like the Barney Butter smooth almond butter but there are plenty of other brands! I buy mine at the regular grocery store, and they also have it at places like Costco and Sam’s Club.

@jonsblond when I make hot chocolate I do that too! I forgot about that. I put like 15 tsp of hot chocolate mix on the bottom of the cup then I add the water, then stir it gently then I scrap the bottom of the cup and eat the half dissolved hot chocolate powder. Or I just resort to eating just spoonfuls of the powder, it is the one of the very few prepackaged things I will eat.

@nofurbelowsbatgirl I usually have a small layer of chocolate goo on the bottom of my cup and I scrape that with my finger. I get every bit of it. I know it’s terrible for me, but it’s so good.

@nofurbelowsbatgirl If you make your hot chocolate with water, you should definitely try making it with milk if you aren’t lactose intolerant, or anything! I used to make it with water and didn’t really love it, but I tried making it with milk and found that the milk makes it a million times tastier! Just a random suggestion :-)

I also loved the chocolate grittiness left at the bottom of the mug, it’s so strangely satisfying. I can’t remember the last time I had a mug of hot chocolate, though.

@jonsblond I know its terrible for me too, funny since most things I wont eat for that very reason, especially prepackaged stuff but I will eat that by the half cup fulls :/

@mangeons I would do the milk thing, but as mentioned in an earlier comment above I am a vegan so no milk for me, there is chocolate soy milk it makes it taste good.

Butter and cheese must be melted. I don’t eat the rims of any kind of bread. My meats must be disected and throughly inspected to make sure they are properly done. I only drink skim milk, and everytime I go for a glass I’m compelled to sniff it first. That said, I have no problem eating a meal that has set out overnight (as long as I know my cats couldn’t have gotten to it).

@Sunny2 Ugh! Salad in soup! One time my husband (who is now an ex) threw some leftover cracked wheat cereal into my spaghetti. I could have killed him! He ruined a perfectly good batch of spaghetti for the sake of not wasting a bowl of cracked wheat. Really?

Other that the food not touching thing, here are some others:
I will not drink the last serving in bottles/cartons/jugs of liquid.
I rarely eat the crusts on bread -that’s what pets are for!
It takes me a long time to eat an orange – I have to get all the white stuff off. And I don’t puncture an orange with my fingernail – I hate that feeling.
The only room temperature fruit I will eat are bananas.
I never eat while drinking a heated beverage.

I also only like water with my meals, a diet soda with burgers, pizza etc, otherwise just ice water please.
I have never liked drinking alcohol with my food at all. Wine or beer or anything.
If I want a couple of cocktails I have them before my meal.

@Plucky Me too on the oranges, but I read that the ‘white stuff’ is really good for you, so we shouldn’t pluck it all away…just a silly factoid.

I have recently decided that while yes I love oranges I will only eat them before I have washed them for at least 20seconds with dishsoap before I peel it, I like the white so I am not so picky there but then the must be room temperature before I will even attempt eating it.

That whole, food can’t touch and not eating different foods on a fork, fascinates me.

weird!!!!

My daughter is extremely anal about different portions of her food not touching. It comes from her dads OCD side of the family.
She got my verbosity, artistic ability and humor and her dads OCD issues.
Genetics…fascinating stuff. haha

I forgot one of mine, earlier. I love to dip McDonald’s french fries in a vanilla shake. Likewise, I pretty much love any salty/sweet combo, especially if there’s crunchy stuff involved.

I also always blow in my glass/mugs before using them (and quickly swipe my plates with my hand). Which is silly because I’m anal, in most areas, about cleanliness…so they are very clean and not dusty.
I know it has to come from when I was a kid. My dad always did it. We had a lot of mice and bugs in the house…and dust collected quickly, even in the cupboards. It was a run down house from the early 1920’s.

I’ve been working on it but it’s become such a mindless habit.

I’m kind of a germaphobe :P

@Plucky I currently live in a 1920/30s run down house, and the dust build up is amazing! I now blow my cups/bowls out, too.

Lol @augustlan…you are now my forever cup/bowl blower friend in life. I’ve never met anyone else who does that (other than my dad – not sure if he still does it though).

I always rinse glasses out before filling with water. I am weird about any potential soap residue. Even when they come out of the dishwasher clean, I still pre-rinse them again. haha

@Skaggfacemutt Haven’t you had Asian soup with various greens in it? And the vinegar in my salad dressing just makes it kind of sweet and sour. A little soy sauce and spicy garlic sauce et voila!

@Sunny2 Yes, I have. If you put it that way, it sounds good, other than the cooked lettuce. Any other green would probably be good; cabbage, spinach. What kind of lettuce do you use?

When you said that you take everything left and make a soup, I was picturing a pot full of all kinds of unidentified stuff and salad. That would be gross.

^^I usually use iceberg, butter lettuce, spinach or Romaine. The lettuces cook up similarly to spinach. And my salads may have fruit, nuts, tomatoes, cucumber, croutons etc. As I said, nuts are not a usual ingredient in soup, but they are good too. Sometimes I add Chinese sauces if the mixture seems to warrant it. I’ve been doing better at not making too much salad so we don’t have as many ‘salad’ soups.