What Do You Always Pick Out of your Food?

[Scealle]

^I've actually wanted to try fried cockroaches or fried grasshoppers before, but that's an idea for a different thread.

Fried cockroaches?
*Runs*

I'm weird....I like supreme pizza but I take off the mushrooms, olives, and peppers. I like the flavor they add to the pizza but the texture of mushrooms and olives disgust me.

I used to do that when I was a teen. Huge fan of pure cheese pizza with nothing on it lol! (I am so vanilla lol even in food)

[zoltanspawn]

There's almost nothing I pick out, unless it's poorly prepared. Of course, I usually know where the food is good and don't run into that problem much. The other day I tried some gristly ribs from a Cambodian cart. I chewed all the tender meat away and "picked" the gristle wad from my mouth which my dogs enjoyed. Probably won't be going back there.

And offal are popular in my country! There are soups and satay recipes using offal - especially Padang food. Not healthy of course

Offal is popular in lots of places, including many parts of these here United States. I like liver, tripe, brains, heart. And variety meats too: trotters, ears, tongues. To be totally honest, I'm a little squeamish about uterus, pizzle and balls; I'd need some coaching to eat them.

[RazorzEdge88]

I can't really think of anything. Everything I don't like is a condiment, and that's kind of an all-or-nothing proposition (having a tomato doused in mayo makes a sandwich a no-go for me, even if someone wipes it off).

[Nishin]

Despite loving them, I can't digest bell pepper well at all, so I'll usually eat a couple pieces to have a bit of the taste and leave the rest untouched...
Apart from that I'll eat anything I order, cook or am offered, I'd usually consider it rude not to and will probably not invite nay-eaters again (that is if they didn't give me a list of what they don't eat before the menu was decided)

[peeonme]

I find that I can swallow anything, even as a child I liked all food. I have always been different.

[Daximus]

Depending on how the dish is presented I'll pick out mushrooms, olives, and green peppers. I love fresh green peppers, but say on a pizza, YUCK!!

[CowboyBob]

Cucumbers if they're in a salad. I'd taste those things for a couple of days if I ate them.

But I love mushrooms, olives, green peppers and tomatoes.

[frankfrank]

I don't like cheese, so I pick that out. However, I'm not an absolutist; I only need to get most of it out.

[JP.]

Damn..I..sleepy as hell

last thread.

hmm...at first I thought what's going on with the title? It doesn't make sense to me at first, tbh

What I pick, what?

But since this thread got hit, so I came by and yes, I see it now

The food/garnish I never touch is the vietnamese/thai basil leaf. Yuck, I hate them


thats what I can think now..

[teadrinker]

Melons out of a fruit salad - I don't like melons, especially canteloupe that seems always to occur in fruit salads. Other than that, I'll eat pretty much anything and everything.

-T.

[star-warrior]

I don't like cheese, so I pick that out. However, I'm not an absolutist; I only need to get most of it out.

I hear on the fetish forum that some like find it excitable

[star-warrior]

Apart from scallops I won't eat anything with a shell, oysters, winkles, etc, prawns, crabs, lobsters, etc. The crawling shellfish gives me hives.

[alister]

The only thing I've ever picked out of a dish is water chestnuts. I don't like the crunchy texture, and don't really understand their use. They have no flavor, it's like chewing ice cubes to me.

[EuroSoccer]

Fatty parts of meat. If it's a little bit, then it's fine. But the texture and taste of bigger fatty portions gross me out.

Yep, this ^^^
Not all fat though, just the soft fat that has the consistency of mucus.........

I also hate red/green peppers (but not chilli)

[desertboi]

Hair, I always pick hair out of my food

Sorry, I couldn't resist

[loveguys72]

Carroway seeds.

[JohnJay201212]

I pick out anything thats not soy, butter, wedding soup or lettuce.

[JP.]

I pick out anything thats not soy, butter, wedding soup or lettuce.

You're sooo stereotypical. What next? estrogen pills?

[SaskGuy]

I had a cheeseburger tonight, and although I like onions, I just had to pick off the inch thick slice of onion they put on it. The foot thick pile of lettuce was nice though, because they used the green leafy part, and not the stem.
They were trying to make the burger look bigger than it actually is, which kinda irritates me (kinda like the McDonald's Big Mac... which is basically two Happy Meal patties, and 90% filler! what's with that useless bun in the middle, and about 12 truckloads of chopped lettuce stems!).

Oh, and another thing I pick out is whole peppercorns! honestly, who ever thought it was a good idea to put those in food whole?! Oh, and the gigantic boulders of ginger that you get in some Chinese food. Really... ever bite into one of those thinking it was a water chestnut or something?!

[rareboy]

It is inconceivable to me to pick anything out of a dish of food and leave it on the plate.

We were trained from the earliest age to eat whatever is put in front of us and if there was something we didn't like, to eat it anyway.

The people who amaze me the most are those who pick things out of their food and move it to a different plate.

WTF?

Anyone who picks anything out of their food has eaten their last meal in our house or as a dinner companion in a restaurant.

[SaskGuy]

Anyone who picks anything out of their food has eaten their last meal in our house or as a dinner companion in a restaurant.

I think it's different when you're having supper at someone else's house. You eat everything no matter what, so you don't offend the hosts.

Here's an amusing, and somewhat related story: I was having supper at a friend's parents' house, and one of the things they had were baked potatoes. I ate the skin (as I always do)... some of them kinda looked at me funny as I did this, then I noticed a short while later that no one else ate the potato skin. They probably thought I was fucked in the head, and I kinda felt like an idiot
Oh well... is it a faux pas to eat the potato skin?

[SaskGuy]

Anyone who picks anything out of their food has eaten their last meal in our house or as a dinner companion in a restaurant.

I think it's different when you're having supper at someone else's house. You eat everything no matter what, so you don't offend the hosts.

Here's an amusing, and somewhat related story: I was having supper at a friend's parents' house, and one of the things they had were baked potatoes. I ate the skin (as I always do)... some of them kinda looked at me funny as I did this, then I noticed a short while later that no one else ate the potato skin. They probably thought I was fucked in the head, and I kinda felt like an idiot
Oh well... is it a faux pas to eat the potato skin?

[Pianist]

I would think that if anyone is hosting dinner for someone, they would ask in advance what they may not like or can't eat for various reasons including allergic reactions.

[Vannie]

I don't know what the hell I'm eating anymore! Here at Shady Pines they puree every God damned thing!

God damed kids! Get the HELL off my lawn!

[Swellegant]

I cannot abide avocado, but I'm the only person in my entire extended family who doesn't like them, so I pick them out...and relatives fight to sit next to me so they can benefit from my pickings. In restaurants, though, they make a big deal of avocado so it's easy to avoid. In restaurants I will pick out any visible cilantro: I'm in that really quite large percentage of people who cannot stand the taste of the stuff. It's a genetic issue, not being able to taste/smell the thing in cilantro that makes people go apeshit for it. Raw celery will also find itself on the side of the plate, and any kind of pepper.

The rest of the time, I just don't order things that I know have stuff I don't like in...and I will ask if there's any on it, if I suspect it might be in there. If I encounter it as a guest in someone's home, I claim allergies. For some reason, an unpleasant gastrointestinal reaction is more socially acceptable than something tasting horrible.

[Kiwils]

I don't like too much frosting, cream, filling, etc. on any baked goods, so I usually scrape off most of it. I find I can't tolerate sugar as much as I used to.

[JockBoy87]

I read a study once that said more women than men pick the little bits out of ice cream and eat them first.

[para0402]

Parsley and mint. Hate them.

[JohannBessler]

^I love parsley. In fact, if you don't want your parsley, give it to me; I'll eat it by itself.

[whitedavo]

I'm usually pretty particular so that I don't have to do this. I can't think of anything at the moment. Closest would be pulling pepperoni off someone else's pizza they offered me.

[sokker]

Not necessarily in salads.. but in general I hate pickles, every time I get it on a hamburger or something I just have to pick it out. I can't stand it.. yuck!

[rareboy]

I think it's different when you're having supper at someone else's house. You eat everything no matter what, so you don't offend the hosts.

Here's an amusing, and somewhat related story: I was having supper at a friend's parents' house, and one of the things they had were baked potatoes. I ate the skin (as I always do)... some of them kinda looked at me funny as I did this, then I noticed a short while later that no one else ate the potato skin. They probably thought I was fucked in the head, and I kinda felt like an idiot
Oh well... is it a faux pas to eat the potato skin?

You absolutely did not commit a faux pas by eating the skin. It is the best and most nutritious part of the potato.

I am baffled that anyone would waste them.

[zoltanspawn]

You absolutely did not commit a faux pas by eating the skin. It is the best and most nutritious part of the potato.

I am baffled that anyone would waste them.

Yes, and moreover looking at your guests as though they are doing something funny is a faux pas.

[ibill1]

In salad, I always pick out the tomatoes if there are any. With cheeseburgers, I always pick out the pickles and tomatoes... I like pickles, but not on cheeseburgers.

Same here. I like pickles but just by themselves. I will pick them off of anything they are on.