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Aug 29, 2018 17:48
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Schubalts posted:Getting Stockholm Syndrome for food you can't stand by forcing yourself to eat it anyway. A lot of it is psychological, and once you eat something a few times and realize it won't kill you, that part goes away. There's also stuff where people agree it's an acquired taste, like coffee. It's fine to have a couple things you don't like, but if you dislike so many things it's hard to find more than one thing you like on the average restaurant menu, it's worth trying to change.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:48
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Aesop Poprock posted:I’ve been forcing myself to eat mushrooms for at least 18 years at this point and I probably will again because I’m stubborn and they still taste like rubbery dirt to me. I think if you’re spending literal decades on a food giving it every chance you can and it’s still awful you could probably throw in the towel Mushrooms are one I've acquired a taste for. I don't love them but I can eat them. I also got myself to like cucumbers, capers, some other stuff. I'm extremely stubborn but also self conscious and I don't like picking things out or eating around them at restaurants.  Also I went pescatarian last year so it's fairly necessary to have a palette for a wide range of non-meat foods (I like every loving meat, for what it's worth, even offal, hell yeah).
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Aug 29, 2018 17:55
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I loving love mushrooms and olives and a lot of other foods people hate. I love every single kind of seafood I've ever tried with one exception: Salmon. I hate it. I want to like it, it's healthy and popular. I don't "think it will kill me"or anything stupid like that. There's plenty of other things to order. Is anyone really suggesting I purchase fairly expensive fish to consume over and over even though I don't enjoy it, on the off chance that someday I will? I mean, for those people that only eat chicken nuggets and nothing else I totally agree
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Aug 29, 2018 18:02
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People tend to go overboard on what they call a "picky eater". Having preferences is fine. If you've given a food a reasonable chance, it's fine to choose not to eat it. It's only a problem if you whine about it and make your friends change their plans to suit you. Like I really hate olives, but if I get something with olives in it I can just pick them out and not eat them, I don't need to make a big scene telling the waiter I demanded no olives.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:08
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Depending on how important this is to you as a person, it's super nice to never have to be the limiting factor in what a group decides to eat. I'm like Thai:  Japanese Indian Ethiopian Chinese Vegan Wherever we end up, if people are going to have arguments about what we can or can't have, it won't be because of me 
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Aug 29, 2018 18:10
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I hate olives. When they're in my salad I demand the waiter bring me more olives. I tell him to stand there as I choke and gag on the olives. I cry and cry. I order more olives over my friends' begging.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:12
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If you order the house salad at Carrabba's it comes with two (2) olives. I have, on more than one occasion, ordered the caesar salad and requested "add olives" and had it arrive with a shitload (10+) olives I like olives
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Aug 29, 2018 18:15
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I do not like mushrooms, but I will cook with them, I just don't eat them. Broccoli and cauliflower can both gently caress themselves though.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:15
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Data Graham posted:Depending on how important this is to you as a person, it's super nice to never have to be the limiting factor in what a group decides to eat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFwPmQqSsU
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Aug 29, 2018 18:17
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Data Graham posted:I'm like 
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Aug 29, 2018 18:23
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I hate olives. When they're in my salad I demand the waiter bring me more olives. I tell him to stand there as I choke and gag on the olives. I cry and cry. I order more olives over my friends' begging.  but with cheese
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Aug 29, 2018 18:29
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Perry Mason Jar posted:
Lol I actually know exactly what you're going through. I absolutely could not eat raw tomato when I was a kid and into early adulthood. I was fine with it if it was cooked but the texture of raw tomato was extremely unappealing to me, and I didn't like the flavor enough for it to be worth it. I think I first started giving it a chance with fresh tomatoes from a garden. It really makes a huge difference. Also grape tomatoes cut in half were one of the earlier ones I could tolerate. I still get kinda grossed out by the crappier tomatoes you get sometimes on a sandwich or whatever and I may pick them out. It's the goopy part with the seeds that tends to get me. But there is hope! I do eat and sometimes even enjoy raw tomatoes now.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:31
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The list of foods I'll never eat no matter how they're prepared is pretty small. I don't like raw tomatoes or ketchup, but I love marinara sauce and stuff like curry ketchup from currywurst or chutney.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:31
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My list is pretty much just "stinky cheese." And even that used to be "cheese" until I actually came across good cheese. Give me a few years and you'll probably find me chowing down on the funkiest fromage I can find.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:38
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Dixville posted:Lol I actually know exactly what you're going through. I absolutely could not eat raw tomato when I was a kid and into early adulthood. I was fine with it if it was cooked but the texture of raw tomato was extremely unappealing to me, and I didn't like the flavor enough for it to be worth it. I think I first started giving it a chance with fresh tomatoes from a garden. It really makes a huge difference. Also grape tomatoes cut in half were one of the earlier ones I could tolerate. I still get kinda grossed out by the crappier tomatoes you get sometimes on a sandwich or whatever and I may pick them out. It's the goopy part with the seeds that tends to get me. But there is hope! I do eat and sometimes even enjoy raw tomatoes now. A lot of stuff I hated as a kid was due to the kind I got as a kid, or how it was prepared. Apples and tomatoes were always these crappy flavorless mealy kinds (grandma had a red delicious apple tree and grew tomatoes). Broccoli and other veggies were always boiled to Hell and back and doused in butter. Lots of things were under seasoned or not seasoned at all. I eat those little multi-colored tomatoes like candy nowadays.
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Aug 29, 2018 18:51
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Wait, is dousing vegetables in butter supposed to be a bad thing?
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Aug 29, 2018 18:56
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My Lovely Horse posted:My list is pretty much just "stinky cheese." And even that used to be "cheese" until I actually came across good cheese. Give me a few years and you'll probably find me chowing down on the funkiest fromage I can find. Wait‽ You didn't like cheese?
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Aug 29, 2018 19:03
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Wait, is dousing vegetables in butter supposed to be a bad thing? I mean, it tastes good. It's not exactly good for you if that's the only way you eat vegetables
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Aug 29, 2018 19:04
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Data Graham posted:Depending on how important this is to you as a person, it's super nice to never have to be the limiting factor in what a group decides to eat. That's me. I eat anything. Having a grandfather that picked up worldly tastes travelling in the military helped, and my mom dated a chinese man long-term when I was a kid so we ate with his family a lot. I got to try things like fish eyeballs and jellyfish when I was a kid. I'll try anything! ( I am a little afraid of natto, though.)
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Aug 29, 2018 19:04
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The Bloop posted:I mean, it tastes good. It's not exactly good for you if that's the only way you eat vegetables Well, sure. When my dad's doctor told him he has to stop cooking all his vegetables in butter and everything else in lard he was devastated. He still does it, he just cooks two batches, one "so I don't die" batch and another "for everyone else".
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Aug 29, 2018 19:09
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One of the (actually probably the only) good things about having two of the world's worst cooks for parents is that I can eat pretty much anything with barely a grimace
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Aug 29, 2018 19:10
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I got to the point with a bunch of stuff like raw tomatoes where I can eat it even if I don't like the taste, and I figure that's good enough. And I'll generally still try any foods I didn't like previously at least once a year or so in case I develop a taste for it, especially fruits and vegetables.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:24
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The Bloop posted:I mean, it tastes good. It's not exactly good for you if that's the only way you eat vegetables Exactly. Sometimes you should use cheese instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzFFnmBWGU Facebook Aunt has a new favorite as of 19:44 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 19:42
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Facebook Aunt posted:Kids will happily scarf down giant platefulls of broccoli if you douse it in cheese.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:43
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My Lovely Horse posted:Incorrect where I was concerned, as we have established. Well, yeah, but you're a horse.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:46
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Wait, is dousing vegetables in butter supposed to be a bad thing? I’m talking half a stick of butter worth on a bowl of veggies. I got flak for ‘hating flavor’ when I asked for a little separate dish without butter on it. A reasonable amount of butter is nice though.
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Aug 29, 2018 20:29
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"Picky eater" definitely means something different in the U.S. than in some other places. We're the world leader in kids who ate literally nothing but chicken fingers and french fries for multiple decades because they refused to eat anything else and their parents didn't force the issue. It really is a failure of parenting imo. If you have a kid who's shut down to the idea of eating anything but that one thing he likes from the school cafeteria or whatever, you better do whatever you have to in order to nip that in the bud. Fully grown adults who literally can't eat off the average restaurant menu are an embarrassment, don't let your kid turn into one of those people.
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Aug 29, 2018 20:46
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Basebf555 posted:"Picky eater" definitely means something different in the U.S. than in some other places. We're the world leader in kids who ate literally nothing but chicken fingers and french fries for multiple decades because they refused to eat anything else and their parents didn't force the issue. I wonder if there are adults that refuse to eat anything but that lovely elementary school "pizza"
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Aug 29, 2018 20:59
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Iron Crowned posted:I wonder if there are adults that refuse to eat anything but that lovely elementary school "pizza" There are certainly adults in America who subsist totally on lovely frozen pizzas(like not even the decent brands)and various forms of breaded and fried chicken. It stems from childhood, the longer your taste buds are locked into that rut the harder it is to get out as an adult.
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Aug 29, 2018 21:02
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Iron Crowned posted:I wonder if there are adults that refuse to eat anything but that lovely elementary school "pizza" I was friends with twins who were like this until their early 20s. Literally lived on chicken nuggets, French fries, pizza, goldfish crackers, etc. It was 100% a failure of parenting- early on their mother decided it was easier to just appease them than try to make them try anything. The twin that moved away from home successfully integrated herself to a diet that is now less picky than I am (not very), and has a 3 year old who tries everything and loves fruits and veggies, and is a great cook. The one who stayed codependent and close to home eats the same way she always did with the addition of liquor.
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Aug 29, 2018 21:53
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Ugh you're kirin me Krillin? e Perry Mason Jar posted:I'm training myself to like raw tomato now because it's honestly bullshit I don't like raw tomato. It's taking a long time but it's fine. Beefsteak average grocery and fast food tomatoes will forever be bullshit. Mercedes Colomar has a new favorite as of 22:22 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 22:15
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subpar anachronism posted:The one who stayed codependent and close to home eats the same way she always did with the addition of liquor. See now, she tried something new and liked it.
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Aug 29, 2018 22:16
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subpar anachronism posted:I was friends with twins who were like this until their early 20s. Literally lived on chicken nuggets, French fries, pizza, goldfish crackers, etc. It was 100% a failure of parenting- early on their mother decided it was easier to just appease them than try to make them try anything. The twin that moved away from home successfully integrated herself to a diet that is now less picky than I am (not very), and has a 3 year old who tries everything and loves fruits and veggies, and is a great cook. The one who stayed codependent and close to home eats the same way she always did with the addition of liquor. Sounds like me and my brother, except it's my parents who are stuck eating "convenience food"
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Aug 29, 2018 22:48
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Manuel Calavera posted:Krillin? Kirin Ichiban is a Japanese beer.
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Aug 29, 2018 22:52
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Basebf555 posted:"Picky eater" definitely means something different in the U.S. than in some other places. We're the world leader in kids who ate literally nothing but chicken fingers and french fries for multiple decades because they refused to eat anything else and their parents didn't force the issue. You obviously don't have kids. Some kids will literally starve themselves rather than eat something that they "don't like". And I put that in quotes because the more you force the issue the more stubborn they'll be about not liking it even when you loving know that they do like it. You cannot force kids to eat or like things. What you can do is regularly present them with a variety of foods from an early age, and model good eating habits yourself, and also make sure you actually know how to cook. But you can't "force the issue" at all.
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Aug 29, 2018 22:53
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subpar anachronism posted:I was friends with twins who were like this until their early 20s. Literally lived on chicken nuggets, French fries, pizza, goldfish crackers, etc. It was 100% a failure of parenting- early on their mother decided it was easier to just appease them than try to make them try anything. The twin that moved away from home successfully integrated herself to a diet that is now less picky than I am (not very), and has a 3 year old who tries everything and loves fruits and veggies, and is a great cook. The one who stayed codependent and close to home eats the same way she always did with the addition of liquor. drat, if that kid is a great cook at three, they're gonna be amazing when they're older.
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Aug 29, 2018 22:57
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bike tory posted:You obviously don't have kids. Some kids will literally starve themselves rather than eat something that they "don't like". And I put that in quotes because the more you force the issue the more stubborn they'll be about not liking it even when you loving know that they do like it. You cannot force kids to eat or like things. So much this. Forcing kids to eat things is how you end up literally traumatizing them into never being able to eat it again. To this day, the moment a chunk of tomato hits the back of my throat it triggers my gag reflex.
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Aug 30, 2018 00:08
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Manuel Calavera posted:Beefsteak average grocery and fast food tomatoes will forever be bullshit. One time I was very drunk and high and seriously misunderstood what "Beefsteak Burger" meant. Don't know how this would've played out if I wasn't drunk and stoned but I ate the whole thing. Perry Mason Jar has a new favorite as of 00:13 on Aug 30, 2018 |
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Aug 30, 2018 00:09
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NinjaDebugger posted:So much this. Forcing kids to eat things is how you end up literally traumatizing them into never being able to eat it again. To this day, the moment a chunk of tomato hits the back of my throat it triggers my gag reflex. I'm like this with honey and butter together. Had a sandwich that was made with this when I had a stomach flu. I was forced to eat it and I ended up throwing up and even the idea of it disgusts me to this day. Any sandwich with cold butter or honey, actually.
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