Eat your peas one at a time? Cut a Snickers with a knife and fork? Eat the cheese off your pizza first? Tell me all about your food quirks!
I eat my food in strict order of what I like most (from least to most). For example if I had a steak with fries and vegetables, I’d eat the vegetables first, then the fries, then the steak.
Unless it’s a pairing. I love tomato mozzarella salad and I go to great lenght to make sure there is a perfect 1:1 ratio of tomato and mozzarella.
I do this too!
Well, stop it, I’m trying to be unusual here.
Lol, well I do mix it up sometimes so I guess you’re the weird one for strictly doing it always? I guess that makes it different enough
I do a strict order but it’s generally by what I consider the main parts of the dish. So I always eat the main dish before the sides and if there’s multiple sides, I’ll eat the more “important” one first and so on. There’s not much logic to it, my brain just sorts it out automatically
I do this in reverse order.
Meat is always first. Something died for my meal I’m gonna make sure it doesn’t go to waste. Usually a starch next, then veggies.
I go least to best like OP, but like you said about meat - it died to be put on my plate. Always make sure that gets eaten or taken home for another day. Least to best is a good way to get in veggies if they don’t keep as well or you like them less.
The veggies are the best part though
If I get a burger and fries, I eat all the fries before starting on the burger. If I can’t finish it all, the burger will be good the next day. Fries are only good fresh.
I do the opposite, I pick up the burger and eat it all without putting it down so that I don’t have to clean my hands multiple times. I then wipe off my hands and try not to eat all the fries because I’m always trying to watch my weight. I often fail at that last part.
I also do this but I can always finish the burger
Thats smart.
We’re not weird, anyone who likes cold or reheated fries is weird.
However, you’re in the same camp as the guy who likes to dip his fries and burger into a chocolate milkshake. Chicken nuggets/tenders, too. I think it’s a sweet n savoury thing.
When I’m eating a meal with different sides I’ll eat a little of everything with each bite. As I get towards the end of my meal I’ll plan out my last 4-5 bites and make little piles of food that contain everything so that I don’t run out of any particular side.
I always do this too. You think I’m going to finish my meal with 2 bites of chicken in a row?! No chance. Gotta be a clean finish with a bite of salad, bite of rice, bite of chicken.
With the best selection of the chicken, salad, and rice saved for that last bite.
When I’m feeling lazy after Thanksgiving it all just goes in a fucking bowl together (pre-chopped, if necessary) and I stir it up. Rolls stay out of course, I goop some Thanksgiving mush onto a chunk of roll 😁
Congrats you just created the Gobbler from wawa
Unless Wawa has been doing that for 25+ years they stole it from ME.
Man, Wawa, haven’t heard that name in years, that brings back some memories.
Well here I was thinking I don’t have any odd eating habits but yes the last bite should be the best bite, and this comment reminded me that I do also eat potato chips from the smallest to the largest, eat the little ones while moving/saving the big whole ones for last. Usually with chopsticks.
I do not put milk in my cereal. I have a glass of milk with dry cereal, but I don’t put it in the cereal. I don’t like how the cereal gets soggy and the milk gets a weird flavor. The one exception is chocolate cereal, mostly because it creates chocolate milk.
I like flipping crepes a couple of extra times so that they get a second go around on each side and become slightly crispy. If any French people try to stop me I swear to god I’ll pronounce croissant more Britishly every time you do it
croys’innit
You misspelled crescent roll
I try to eat the boring parts of food first. This leads to two notably unusual habits:
- I eat 90% of the pizza crust before the pizza, leaving just a small handle for my fingers.
- I unwrap and turn muffins upside down, then eat the bottom before the crunchy top. (this is less feasible with cupcakes but I still do it sometimes)
For cupcakes, unwrap, rip off the bottom and place it on top of the icing. Cupcake sandwich. My mom saw me do this once and now she does it every time haha
You’re a goddamn genius. Why have I never done this.
Similar - i take it the bottom, smear half the frosting on it, and make two cupcakes.
I do that with cupcakes and muffins too. Saves the best part for last and you get a higher tasty-to-meh ratio.
Not a huge crust fan either so I eat until I have about an inch of pizza then I double it over like a sandwich. I also sometimes save the crusts until they get stale and eat them as dipping sticks with a sauce.
I eat crustaceans and some fish whole where applicable. Shell and all.
I divide rice plates into rows and eat it like a dot matrix printer.
I never use my left hand while eating. It literally stays behind my back while I eat right handed. No idea why although I hear that my late grandfather used to do that too.
Lol I love the dot matrix imagery.
It may be totally unrelated to your family, but depending on your cultural background, only eating with your right hand is pretty common across the Middle East. I believe it’s because the left hand is usually associated with wiping your bum, so it was best to keep that hand away from your food. Some folks can actually get a little offended/weirded out if you eat with your left hand at their table. I love these little cultural anecdotes.
I’ve heard this before and it always makes me think of how terrible I would be at wiping with my left hand. I don’t think I’ve ever done it. My left hand is so much less dextrous than my right, I imagine it would be very messy.
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Sometimes ill eat a single chip and put the bag away immediately*
*for 30 seconds then devour the entire bag
I’d call that “a win for temptation”
MSG has a powerful effect on my brain as well
If I’m having pancakes or waffles, I’ll precut the whole thing into bites so I can put my knife down and not have to pick it up again.
The only thing I find unusual here is using a knife. Unless the waffle or pancake is extra tuff for some reason. Otherwise, I will sometimes cut a meat up before starting to eat. I.E. country ham or pork loin.
I rarely eat chips at home, but when I do, I eat them with chopsticks.
My friend showed me this too. Makes sense, keeps things clean and limits the pace of indulgence!
Anyway, here I go grabbin handfuls again
Like, potato chips or french fries?
Potato chips and similar kinds of snacks.
When I want to keep clean fingers while I’m working or gaming, I eat them with a fork! Pretty easy to wedge a chip between the prongs.
If you eat cheese puffs the fork is pretty clutch as well.
Eating cheetos with a fork is also a good one. No gross fingers.
Not really eating, but drinking. At least in my circle of friends and family, I’m the odd one out.
I drink nearly 2 gallons of ice water per day.
Do you work at a labor job?
No, I’m retired now, but used to be a software engineer.
Long story short: The main reason I drink so much water is that I was in a bad accident in 2006 that required a knee replacement, I spent nearly a year on my back and gained a ton of wait in that time. As the years went on gained even more, ballooning up to 470 lbs. In Nov of 2019 I finally decided to do something about it. Water was one of the things I used to help me lose the weight, and I was surprised how well it worked. Now I’m down to 260 lbs with a long way still to go before I reach my goal of 180lbs. I still drink a crap ton of water to help feel full and to curb my apatite.
I like shredded cabbage for feeling full for a long time. Various cabbage salads are a lunch go-to.
Wow that is an incredible accomplishment! Good work!
Hell ya dude that’s a feat! Drowning in success (and maybe water) haha
Mention this to your doctor on your visit. Two gallons is a lot of water and you can be too hydrated.
You can be low on electrolytes if you drink too much fresh water. I’m sure at some point in the last seventeen years he’s mentioned it to his doc though.
What is your sodium intake like? Are you retaining all of that water?
I like eating KFC chicken with room temp rice or warm rice with cold KFC chicken straight from the fridge. I don’t know why I like it, I just do.
If I eat chips and queso, when I get to 1-2 spoonfuls left of queso in the bowl, I’ll crush a few handfuls of tortilla chips, throw it in the bowl, mix it all up, and eat it with a spoon.
Why not try it for the whole bowl? I like to blend all the vegetables you’d expect with mexican, with beans and corn chips. Then eat it like a thick soup… with more corn chips
That’s called logic.
Ugh, I’ve tried this and it was no bueno.
I will say right now with a passion, whoever invented spaghetti must’ve had a low bar to go by. It’s both a chore and a test of etiquette. Some people twirl it and eat it in forkfulls, others slurp it, others cut it, and typically each of these are considered rude by whoever doesn’t. And then there’s me, because dexterity, I don’t know. My happy place when eating spaghetti is twirling it and then vacuuming it from the fork like the people in the second category. And that is why I haven’t had spaghetti in years.
I break the spaghetti into 3 pieces before cooking it as then it’s much easier to deal with. :)
Same, but apparently Italians hate us for that 🤷🏼♀️
It’s soo much easier to deal with tho!
When I was a kid I was invited around to a friend’s house for spag bol. I was never invited back. I hear they had to mop sauce off the ceiling.
Spaghetti is so popular as a pasta form factor not because it’s easy to eat, but because it’s easy to make (as in the production of the noodle, to the storage prep, to the cooking).
Spaghetti is the hardest pasta to cook. You have to keep stirring it to ensure it doesn’t clump together, but you can’t stir it too hard or it breaks apart.
Kind of a weird food I like more than a habit, but I love raw potatoes. Peeled, washed, sliced, and lightly salted. I grew up snacking on potatoes prepared like that with my grandma. I don’t eat raw potatoes often. Maybe like once or twice a year when I get a craving lol.
