Haifisch posted:

The comments have even more gold:

Clark Nova posted:

Is there any way to get this idiot fucker to understand that eventually his wonderful, patient girlfriend will stop trying to share the joy in her life with him? That he is the dealbreaker, he is undateable, and he deserves a life utterly alone, untroubled by the horrors of lettuce contamination?

Bogus Adventure posted:

Ugh, I would ditch that girl in a heartbeat. I'm a picky eater, but a big reason is because I have a hair-trigger gag reflex. If I eat something with a weird taste or texture, I will throw up right then and there. My parents learned that the hard way when I was a baby. It's my one mutant power.

Haifisch posted:

My mom [47F] wants me [26F] to invest in her business "plan" aimed at Millennials [20s/30s, M/F] but I have concerns over this and she's very aggressive/insistent over it. Money worries are cuasing me stress.

Yawgmoth posted:

The fact that you're using £ instead of $ shows that you really don't even have the ability to know what the gently caress you're talking about. $30 is enough to break a significant amount of people's budgets over here in The Land Of The Free™ and while it's great that you can spend your way out of a "learning experience" a lot of people just loving can't. Until you've had to go put an onion back and get a smaller one because you can't afford it, you don't get to talk.

cyberia posted:

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u/wontgohomeagain

My bf and I have a great relationship, minus a major food issue.

He's always been intolerant of garlic and onion, but when we met it was far more mild. I never even knew he allergic for the first year we dated. We ate garlic fries once and he got pretty sick, and that was the first time he admitted it to me.

It's become extremely bad in the past 5 months. He gets sick even from cooked garlic and onion. His worst episode happened recently (he was shivering and having full body spasms with severe abdominal pain, followed by an entire night of running to the toilet). I put my foot down after that. No more cooking with garlic or onion (which is devastating for me, because I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE poo poo OUT OF THOSE INGREDIENTS). We've tried to be super careful at restaurants, but it's almost impossible to avoid them. This has lead to him pushing for us to just go ahead and do it, and him winding up sick.

I need some ideas about how best to support him so he doesn't feel like he's letting me down, or repressed and stuck eating bland food. Trying out the endless restaurants in our/nearby cities (we live in a foodie paradise land) was one of our favorite things to do together. It's been tough to find an evening activity to replace that. (We still do a lot of stuff that doesn't involve food, like hiking and drinking craft beer, but now we have to go back home after the bar and cook sanitized meals that neither of us are thrilled about, when both of us are in the mood to still be out).

I don't want to struggle with him because he gets frustrated with the impacts this is having on our lifestyle. I know he feels like a burden. But I would rather eat bland food then see him hurt.

tl;dr: bf became a vampire, delicious food was something we both shared a passion for, need coping strategies to support him and ideas for things that are still good to eat

The Snoo posted:

I can't imagine gagging on textures and tastes. the only thing I've ever really been uncomfortable with was some meatball dish my mom made that smells and tastes like vomit from the vinegar and ginger.

girl pants posted:

My [31/F] bf [31/M] of 3.5 years has developed a severe garlic and onion allergy... how do I support him and figure out what to eat?

The Snoo posted:

my husband is like this except I'm fairly certain it's 95% psychological because he'll eat something with a weird texture he normally hates if it tastes good, or if he doesn't know it's in something, or if I prepare it differently... at least he tries stuff and eats more variety than he used to

but I hate it and it's a pain in my goddamn rear end. I can't imagine gagging on textures and tastes. the only thing I've ever really been uncomfortable with was some meatball dish my mom made that smells and tastes like vomit from the vinegar and ginger.

obviously if it's been a problem since you were a baby then that sucks, is probably difficult to change, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it

cyberia posted:

If you don't have the money to buy an onion then what the gently caress are you eating in the first place? Obviously nobody is advocating for you to learn to cook if you're in a loving homeless shelter or something but there's absolutely nothing wrong with expecting a college student or young person living out of home to go to Walmart and buy a couple of cheap pans then go and buy some food and learn to loving cook it instead of living of Hungry Man dinners and chicken tendies. When I first moved out of home, I bought a small saucepan for maybe $5 and a non-stick frypan for $10. The frypan has been replaced a few times but over 10 years later I still have the saucepan and use it multiple times a week. Even if my finances were so precarious that buying that pan caused me to miss a meal or two it would still be worthwhile in the long run.

Learning to cook and understanding that food is more than just frozen poo poo or fast food can allow you to save money and live healthily. I have times when my budget gets hosed by unexpected expenses and knowing how to cook means I can buy $10 worth of groceries that will feed me for two weeks until my next paycheck. People dismissing the ability to cook as something that's only accessible to bougie white people and to suggest otherwise is somehow ablest or privileged makes me so loving angry. Just learn to cook, Jesus, it's not that hard. Hell, if you're so poor that buying a goddamned saucepan will put you out on the street you could put aside a dollar a week and save up to buy that five dollar saucepan then start cooking things that require one or two ingredients. You don't need to go to Whole Foods and fill a trolley with groceries to cook for yourself.

Haifisch posted:

At least that's a good excuse to find some obscure cuisine that doesn't use onion or garlic at all?

Barudak posted:

I've learned from having met someone with this before it just makes you insanely into hot sauces and spices that normal people don't use because they have garlic and onions.

Haifisch posted:

As a former picky eater, I can confirm that poo poo sucked.

It also mysteriously vanished after I decided it was a problem I needed to work on and started expanding my palate, even when it meant sometimes eating stuff I didn't like at first.

There's a reason it really gets me when picky eater redditors insist it's some 100% immutable trait.

Jesus, being allergic to flavor seems like a fate worse than death.

At least that's a good excuse to find some obscure cuisine that doesn't use onion or garlic at all?

girl pants posted:

Garlic is a migraine trigger for me. On my birthday I ate a dish that was seasoned with I think mostly garlic, and it was wonderful, and I was in horrible blinding pain for most of the next day. I miss garlic.

The Snoo posted:

my husband is like this except I'm fairly certain it's 95% psychological because he'll eat something with a weird texture he normally hates if it tastes good, or if he doesn't know it's in something, or if I prepare it differently... at least he tries stuff and eats more variety than he used to

but I hate it and it's a pain in my goddamn rear end. I can't imagine gagging on textures and tastes. the only thing I've ever really been uncomfortable with was some meatball dish my mom made that smells and tastes like vomit from the vinegar and ginger.

obviously if it's been a problem since you were a baby then that sucks, is probably difficult to change, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it

Bogus Adventure posted:

You have my sincerest condolences.

Bogus Adventure posted:

Ugh, I would ditch that girl in a heartbeat. I'm a picky eater, but a big reason is because I have a hair-trigger gag reflex. If I eat something with a weird taste or texture, I will throw up right then and there. My parents learned that the hard way when I was a baby. It's my one mutant power.

Pick posted:

Even the "super gross" foods like hakarl and natto aren't that bad. They're like, bleh. But no big deal. Just don't psych yourself out.

Barudak posted:

We have picky eaters, picky sleepers, picky drinkers but do we have picky breathers? I want to believe somebody only huffs nitrogen less air and claims they will get violently ill if they have to breath regular air.

Saeku posted:

Have you tried (on an empty stomach) shoving your fingers down your throat until your body gets over gagging? Then you can eat whatever you want AND give great head.

Bogus Adventure posted:

To be fair, iceberg lettuce is a garbage vegetable. Better to eat spinach or kale.

Pick posted:

I'm just kidding of course, there are some foods that are so unpalatable that you're entering indiana jones monkey brains territory, but bafflingly, they are foods for childish palettes so I can't tell you what



I saw these and had to know and it was... so wrong.

The Snoo posted:

ok to be fair cilantro smells and tastes like soapy rear end to me and I would like to enjoy it because I love herbs, but, alas

I have eaten it in things and I don't go 'ew no thanks' and throw it out, but I definitely don't seek out the experience

Pick posted:

I'm just kidding of course, there are some foods that are so unpalatable that you're entering indiana jones monkey brains territory, but bafflingly, they are foods for childish palettes so I can't tell you what



I saw these and had to know and it was... so wrong.

Pick posted:

I'm just kidding of course, there are some foods that are so unpalatable that you're entering indiana jones monkey brains territory, but bafflingly, they are foods for childish palettes so I can't tell you what



I saw these and had to know and it was... so wrong.

Haifisch posted:

Jesus, being allergic to flavor seems like a fate worse than death.

At least that's a good excuse to find some obscure cuisine that doesn't use onion or garlic at all?

PetraCore posted:

My rule is that even if I think I'll hate a food I have to give it a genuine try at least once before I can go 'no thanks'. Even if you've got genuine problems with specific textures or flavors it's really easy to work yourself up before you even take a bite and you might be completely wrong about something.

I'd eat a bite of natto.