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I am kind of picky, but most of my pickiness comes from my ultra-weak stomach, not a taste issue. I cannot, cannot eat Indian or Ethiopian food. I get sick every single time. I do dislike a lot of things that make it kind of hard to eat - onions, mustard, spices, mushrooms, pickles... they're foods that are so prevalent but I hate them. (excpet I do like fried pickles... weird.) I can't eat anything remotely spicy-hot.

I feel like there are more, but I forget. I go through phases of feeling like I'm picky. When I dated some of my exes, I felt like the pickiest person ever because we had wildly different tastes (and obviously I ate with them the most often, so I had to feel picky almost every day). But since we've broken up, I don't feel as picky as before

While I don't consider myself a picky eater, I am.

I'm a vegetarian with food texture issues and won't eat baked fruit or nuts in anything.

Some scary textures are bananas, shrimp, peaches (it's the fuzz).

I also HATE onions. It's due to texture and flavor. Green onions are okay.

I forgot a few...

The texture of eggs does me in, in most cases. Scrambled and hard boiled are gross. Stange as it may seem, I like a "dunk'n egg" or an egg over easy that I can dunk my toast in the yolk. I will eat things with eggs mixed in (hello, brownies) but a quiche with too much egg I can not eat.

I also don't like water chestnuts. They are too crunchy. They are like an onion in texture, but without flavor.

I won't drink milk for just about every reason imaginable.

I don't like green olives, but love black olives.

I won't eat a raisin, or most dried fruit (I'll eat dried apricots, and that's all that I can think of. Oh, dried strawberries, but they are hard to find), and I'd like to punch the person who discovered sundried tomatoes. It's like having a pretty piece of leather in my salad. No flavor, just stuff that gets stuck in my teeth.

I also can not eat a PBJ, or drink fruit juice with peanut butter toast/bread.

That's all for now.

-gd

-- Edited by greendiamond at 17:50, 2006-12-13

I'm not super picky, but I really don't like seafood. I'll try it, but if I don't like it I won't force myself to eat it. I also don't like cole slaw, asparagus, eggplant, and cherries, other things too, just can't remember them at the moment.

ETA: I don't eat veal. I also used to hate avocados, but then I tried guacamole, and I LOVE it. YUM.

-- Edited by wetbandit42 at 19:07, 2006-12-12

I don't eat coleslaw under ANY circumstances. There's something inherently repulsuive about taking a perfectly good vegetable and rendering it unhealthy with all that whitish stuff...

After that, I'm pretty much game for anything.

greendiamond- I'm a vegetarian with food texture issues, too. One of the main reasons I don't eat meat is because of texture. I don't like most beans, solely because of texture/looks. I try to force myself to eat them, but they sicken me. I can eat black beans as long as there mixed in with something, but I will not eat any others, especially kidney and navy. And refried beans are repulsive.

I absolutely will never eat a mushroom - a lot of people assume veggies love mushrooms. Not this one.

I also have bad associations with food that I try to block out so people won't think I'm nuts. I love onions, but long grilled or sauteed onions remind me of worms. Now chop 'em up and I'm fine. Black olives remind me of roaches. One other reason I can't eat meat because I instantly think of the animal it came from. I see a steak, I think of a pretty cow in a pasture.

Cottage cheese, mayo, and mushrooms.  I can't do mushrooms no matter the size.  It could be the tiny chunks from cream of mushroom soup in recipes and I will pick them out one by one.

I also can't handle beef.  I tried a week ago due to a work dinner and the only menu choices were lamb chop, steak, salmon, or lobster - none of which I eat!  I felt like my whole body was revolting against me for eating that steak (not sick sick but just felt sick to my stomach)

I also utterly hate mayonaise. I am hard pressed to think of any condiment that is more disgusting! Besides that, I hate olives, and sushi almost always triggers my gag reflex. I don't like eggplant or really hot/spicy foods. They make me turn red and blotchy.

I'm not at all a picky eater, although I do have some preferences, hehe. The only things that I always say no to are eggplant (blech! I hate the texture) and extremely fatty pieces of meat. In terms of beverages, I'm much pickier -- I don't like coffee or sodas.

I'm not very picky.  I'll try almost anything once.  But I*hate* the texture of potatoes.  I'll eat them when they're fried to the point of being crispy, but that's it. I'm the only person I know who doesn't like mashed potatoes.     I also won't eat cottage cheese, shrimp (makes me sick), duck (one of my favorite animals, I tried it once and felt really guilty), or anything that smells like mayo.  I'll eat stuff that contains mayo, so long as I can't smell it at all. 

 

-- Edited by Bastet at 09:07, 2006-12-13