What do you make out of your food?

Depends. I always play with Reese’s before I eat them for some reason. I can’t stand an Odd number of finger foods(chicken wings, Mozzerella sticks etc) they have to be in an even number. Whenever I eat mashed potatos I dig out a little fox hole in the middle, put some butter in the middle, cover the butter up again, then put gravy over it. <== by far the best way to eat them :)

Well, not usually. I do have a couple examples: I like to eat rice with teriyaki sauce. What I do is I put the rice in a small Japanese bowl and microwave it. Then I put teriyaki sauce in it and put a small plate over the bowl. Then I flip the bowl and plate and take the bowl away and I’ve got a perfect little “rice cake” on the plate…lol. Another is sometimes when I eat microwaved slices of sourdough bread, I’ll knead the white part of the bread (after eating the crusts) into a ball in my hands and then eat it that way.

I know, I’m weird… :)

I don’t care about things touching unless the combination is gross.

Nothing can touch. Ever. Unless I pointedly choose to make them touch.
I eat colored candies in color order (skittles, reese’s pieces, m&m’s, etc)
I only eat all of one thing before moving on to the next and I eat those separate things clockwise.
I am actually seriously neurotic when it comes to eating.
When I was a kid I was a master mashed potato architect.

Also I once watched my sister create an entire martian land (volcano included) out of her blue cake frosting from her birthday cake (wouldn’t you know…3 years later she would go on to a top Culinary school).

Now, I do not understand why searching on “woggly” fails to bring up that other thread, but I’ll supply a link to it just in case anyone has an academic interest in the background to this question.

By the way, I was describing what I did at about the age of 6. I do not sculpt my mashed potatoes any more, no matter how tempted I may be.

Solid waste, usually.

Haha! Yes!

I have made an entire circus before out of carrots, peas, mashed potatoes, pork chops, romaine and asparagus.

Asparagus for the supports, romaine for the tents, carrots and peas as customers, animals made of potato and rides.

It was amazing, and no one witnessed it because then a baby fell on it.

Stupid Thanksgiving.

I eat M&Ms and Skittles by color, in order of worst to best.
If a cereal has marshmallows, I eat the grain parts first and then the marshmallows by color.
When I eat out of a pint-sized container of ice cream, I eat it flat across the top so that the ice cream looks the same as when I first opened it.
I eat pizza with a fork.
I eat the chocolate around the wafer of a Kit Kat, then eat the cookie. Same thing with a Twix.
I could go on…

For some reason, I always want to do this with my mashed potatoes.

@adreamofautumn – I’m the same exact way! Nothing touches, unless I decide to mix them.

My son; however, loves to create a pathway with him mashed potatoes and veggies. The potatoes are the pathway and he lines it with the veggies. generally, we do have a rule of not playing with your food, for some reason, we all enjoy his potato pathways.

I make only meals out of my food.

You mean ultimately?

Personally, I must always eat cookies in even numbers or they just don’t taste right. And there must be exactly the right cookie:milk ratio or I have to start over (no wonder I tend to grow sideways).

However, once upon a time, when I was in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) I used to love to make sotelties and warners. These are edible or semi-edible sculptures and constructs or food disguised as something else entirely. For example: a castle made of sugar paste, a gilded pig, a model of a deer with an arrow in its side which pours wine out of the hole when the arrow is removed, what looks like a Peacock in full Pride meaning feathers and all, a roast piglet set to look as if it were running with a roasted chicken dressed in pastry armor riding it and carrying a breadstick lance, and so on.

The most common soteltie today is probably the gingerbread house, but those cake competitions on the Food Channel are right along those same lines. The most common warners are both desserts: the Dirt Cup, and and the Litter Box Cake.

@AstroChuck – I said before you eat it. Unless you are coprophagous that leaves the term “ultimately” out of the equation.

Oh. In that case, sometimes I get the overwhelming urge to build a scale model of Devil’s Tower out of my mashed potatoes.

@AstroChuck – How Spielberg of you.

@AstroChuck You can use me link above as a reference. ;)

@jonsblond- The corn is a nice touch.

@AstroChuck I thought so too.

@tinyfaery I eat marshmallow cereal that way too!!

When I make grilled cheese, I always have to cut halves into triangles. Any other time I make a sandwich it doesn’t really matter.

I don’t do anything with my food, other than eat it.

I have a bad habit of spitting out what I don’t like. I’m a professional at it, and very discreet. My husband used to hate it, but I’m too much of a pro for people to notice.

I will arrange my lunch meticulously in a tiny lunchbox. Western Bento?

I also make shapes out of mashed potato sometimes, and i don’t like it when saucy foods run into all my other food and make them taste like that sauce.

@mcbealer I’m with you on the grilled cheese cutting – other sandwiches don’t have to be in triangles, but for grilled cheese, it’s a must.

I also used to put black olives on all of my fingers and then eat them off one at a time – sadly, my fingers are now too big, and the olives split when I put them on. But that doesn’t stop me from trying…

@sdeutsch- My daughter does that. Me? I hate olives.

@AstroChuck – They’re definitely an acquired taste, but if you’re eating them 10 at a time, it doesn’t take long to acquire!

@sdeutsch ~ black olives are soooo addictive! I usually keep a can chilled in the fridge, especially in the summer because they’re such a great snack.

@mcbealer – I know – I have to be careful how many I keep in the house, ‘cause I could scarf down a whole can at once!