Weird Quirks

Do you have them?

I'm just sitting here eating a banana and wondering how many people have issues with food that are almost always certainly in their head.
Regarding the banana, I only like them when it still has a little green in it, and I'm always scared that it will have a spider in it at some point...which is why I rarely eat them.
And why I just threw half of it away because it started looking scary and I couldn't get past it!!

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OMG= there can be spiders in bananas?
Really?
i never heard of this but now you got me thinking.

THANKS!

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i have a ton of quirks lol

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I HATE tomato seeds! To the point that when I was younger I used to strain my spaghetti sauce because I didn't want any of them on my food! Whenever my mom would make pasta with sauce, there was always my little teeny strainer with a bowl for me to strain my sauce!

I still don't like tomato seeds, but I can at least eat pasta now without my strainer! But if I see a seed on a piece of food before I eat it, I have to take it off!

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Yeah, I've got them.

I eat cereal dry, no milk.

I eat oatmeal cold, soaked in vanilla soymilk.

I don't like sandwiches cold, but I don't like them warm...just room temperature. Same with water.

The consistency of things like flan make me want to scream and run for the hills.

I highly dislike small groups of circles bunched together...think, for example, honeycomb. The sight of something like that gives me MAJOR heebie-jeebies.

I get clammy hands at the mere thought of alien abduction...blech, just typing that makes my heart race.

There's more, but I don't have all day LOL

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I am a very textural person, especially when eating chicken and fish. If I get gristle or a bone, I'm done eating. I just totally lose my appetite.

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Posted by jerseypanda

I HATE tomato seeds! To the point that when I was younger I used to strain my spaghetti sauce because I didn't want any of them on my food! Whenever my mom would make pasta with sauce, there was always my little teeny strainer with a bowl for me to strain my sauce!

I still don't like tomato seeds, but I can at least eat pasta now without my strainer! But if I see a seed on a piece of food before I eat it, I have to take it off!

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I can't eat eggs anymoe becuase I found something funky in it

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I can't eat anything off a bone, but that not too crazy. Seriously, my husband makes ribs that everyone raves about and I can't eat them (except when DH cuts it off the bone for me).

I love chicken noodle soup, but it can only be small pieces of white chicken, noodles and maybe some carrots. If I get soup from a deli, I pick and throw out most of its contents.

It's not an issue anymore because they are now all "white meat", but I used to have a love/hate relationship with Chicken McNuggets. If I bit into one and it was dark, it would spoil my appetite for the entire day.

I hate having too much food on my plate and it makes me lose my appetite. For instance, if I order pasta at a restaurant and there is too much of it, I can't eat it.

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I have lots of food quirks....

I dont like small chunks of anything in my food. Like little onion pieces in sauce, or celery in stuffing. I wont even eat it.

I only eat bananas if they're firm, never when they get mushy or brown spots.

I eat everything with a fork and knife, I hate getting messy...I could go on and on.

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I don't like chunks.

When I have chips with salsa, I only dip into the juice. If I get a chunk I have to wipe it off. When I eat pasta, the chunks of tomatoes is piled on the side of my plate when i'm done. Etc.

My food can't be touching on my plate unless it's 'supposed' to (Ex. Pasta/Sauce, Chili/rice...). For example, if I make chicken cutlets, corn and mashed potatoes, when my plate is 'full', it's actually neat little piles of food, sectioned off so butter from the corn won't accidentally hit gravy from mashed potatoes or the chicken.

I can go on and on. I have major food issues.

ETA: Pretty much when i'm done with ANY sort of meal, there's usually a pile of unwanted stuff on the side of my plate. I am seriously picky.

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When I eat sandwiches, I eat half of it as a sandwich and then I take apart the other half and eat each piece individually.

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Having the inside of my wrists touched completely freaks me out.

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Belly Buttons... I HATE THEM, the only thing I hate more than seeing them, is touching them. Makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

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I dont like chunky soup either.

I will eat tomato sauce, and ketchup but I won't eat tomatoes ( I dont like the skin, pulp, or seeds)

I can eat some veggies either cooked or raw but not both:
a) I like raw baby carrots, but not cooked
b) fresh string beans, but not canned
c) cooked onions, but not raw

I generally don't like cold food (cold cuts, cold fruit,etc) -except for ice cream and such.

and if you want me to eat mushrooms, cut them up real tiny so I cant pick them out!

I also have other quirks which are not food-related.
ETA: I dislike anything pickled!

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Just realized another one.

I am a huge NEAT list maker.

Here's my example.

I have a list of the people I need to buy gifts for, what I am getting them, A space to check if it's been purchased yet. Also on the list is several lists of home accessories to get (Advent Calendar, Stockings..) and a space to check if it's been purchased. ALSO on the list, is a list of the holiday traditions I want to start.

Now. This is a little anal in itself. But, I have gone one step further. I have re-written said list THREE times already (because of silly things like an eraser mark or accidentally checking off something that wasn't purchased). I just sat here typing out the whole list and had to re-print twice because I realized I left a colon off in two different spots. I have also put it into a new Manilla folder twice. The first time because the bottom got a little wet and had a water mark (reason number one that I had to re-write) and just today because it had random pen marks on it.

I didn't realize how insane I was until all of this, but I do things like this fairly often, such as DD's b-day party or baby planning..

Weird.