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Strange Eating Habits
Not sure what made me think of this but I figured I'd throw it out there. I'm a salt-a-holic. And by that I mean that I salt things that most people would never do. I salt buttermilk, tomato juice, peanut butter sammiches, bananas, pizza, ice cream and the list goes on. I use alot of pepper too. I was in a diner one time a few years ago and the waitress came back to see if everything was ok, she looked at my eggs and said "Oh my God, let me get you some new ones". She thought the lid came off of the pepper shaker on me, but I assured her that it wasn't an accident. Hot sauce and lemon juice are 2 other weaknesses also. A favorite snack is salt and vinegar potato chips doused with cayenne pepper sauce. I'm probably grossing some folks out, so I'll stop there, but I'm sure that I'm not the only one with palate idiosyncrasies.
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| June 6, 2011, 17:45 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
Ummm, I gave up using salt in my 20's. I do love salt and vinegar tator chips. Hot sauce is good, but not on everything which is how I have heard people say Southerns eat. Well, BULLTSHIT! The only foods I season... (and you know what a great cook I am!!!) are meats, like steaks, chops, and burgers, I do so with garlic salt, pepper, or cajun seasoning.. oh, or my Seminole seasoning.
Eggs, scrambled eggs, I eat with ketchup. Now some might be grossed out!
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| June 6, 2011, 17:53 |
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Re: Re: Strange Eating Habits
QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ June 6, 2011, 17:53)
(and you know what a great cook I am!!!)
Yeah, I KNOW what a good cook you are!!!! LOL!
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| June 6, 2011, 18:21 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
peanut butter and cheese whiz sandwiches (or just a slice of American cheese in a peanut butter samwich)..best thing ever.
oh, and then there's mustard. i eat mustard like most people eat ketchup, on burgers, fries, steaks, hot dogs, brats, on any kind of sandwich that has meat in it....even on a pretzel!
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| June 6, 2011, 18:50 |
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GG317
60 / male
Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
You asked for it!... I can not eat Chinese without chopsticks. If there isn't a set around, I will pass it up every time...  
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| June 6, 2011, 23:15 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
other than raw oysters, probably nothing too weird on my plate
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| June 6, 2011, 23:39 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
I am the most boring eater there is but its funny you bring this up now. I have been doing a bit of research on this because of two things. One is I watched a show about "super taste buds" I think that's what they called it. It seems I might have them. I never could stand anything like liquor and even the smallest amount that most people wouldn't taste the alcohol I do. I do big time!Just tasted a jello shot for the first time and gagged from the taste. I also don't tolerate anything bitter or strong like raw onions or any bitter foods. Most vegetables taste horribly bitter to me. I have never been able to "acquire a taste" for things like that . Grapefruit will make me throw up.Texture is another issue I have with foods but I noticed through the years 2 of my kids have it as well one especially bad. Can't eat anything that feels to weird like slimy foods or stringy vegetables.
Ok here is the strangest and very few people know this about me . I've had it for years.When I first got pregnant with my oldest son I developed an unbelievable craving to smell rubber and chew rubber bands.I always liked the smell but this was different it was to the point I would love walking through the tire department of costco! I would keep tennis balls in a can next to my bed so I could smell them. It was uncontrollable.It seemed to subside a bit when I had my son so although it didn't go away it was tolerable. and my 2nd pregnancy same thing but it never went away all through to my third and final pregnancy.It seems better sometimes but never really goes away any more. Some think its PICA. Some doctors think its a vitamin deficiency especially iron and vitamin D which is also attributed to PICA. But all my levels are fine (Except when I had my heart attack last year) And PICA is when you actually EAT things that are not food like chalk, soap. glass, etc... But I never eat it I just like to chew it like gum.It turns out that many people develop this weird thing especially women when they get pregnant. But they really don't know why or what to do about it. I was shocked to see how many people do the same thing. To this day I would rather smell a tire than flowers. I would rather chew a rubber band than a piece of gum. But no one really knows why it starts and how to stop it they only have theories and it seems they don't work for most people that do this.I guess its better than craving ice cream I would be 500 pounds by now.lol
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| June 7, 2011, 15:30 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
So cute, I have a female cat that when she was carrying her litter, she devoloped pepperoni cravings, she would go crazy when a pizza was round, I found it adorable that a pregnant animal could also develope strong cravings just as a human. She still has a thing for pepperoni.
My family always salted their watermelon, I did not take on that habit of it myself, thought it an odd tates.
I do love peanut butter on apple slices
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| June 7, 2011, 17:45 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
Salting food although not in extreme amounts is done by many people. EVEN what some might consider strange. It brings out the flavor of most foods.
Some strong seasoning or saucing hides the flavor of foods so I don't really get the reason for that.
It's smell thing many times as well. Our smell has a lot to do with taste.
Actually I just saw an experiment that proved even site can effect our taste. They took 3 identically flavored Jello sample. One red, one green and I think one yellow. It was amazing the reaction people had after tasting them swearing they all tasted different. When in fact they were all cherry flavored the exact recipe except for the food coloring.The adults at the tasting still didn't believe them after they were told the truth. The children all excepted it.
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| June 7, 2011, 21:56 |
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kamarel
60 / male
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
Some of the best things that I've ever tried were hot enough to make me cry.
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| June 8, 2011, 01:20 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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QUOTE (kamarel @ June 8, 2011, 01:20)Some of the best things that I've ever tried were hot enough to make me cry.
Women can make you do that!
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| June 8, 2011, 01:42 |
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QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ June 8, 2011, 01:42) QUOTE (kamarel @ June 8, 2011, 01:20)Some of the best things that I've ever tried were hot enough to make me cry.
Women can make you do that!
and like the hot foods, some women can give you an ulcer or heartburn.... 
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| June 8, 2011, 01:49 |
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GG317
60 / male
Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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Re: Re: Strange Eating Habits
QUOTE (NRG4U @ June 6, 2011, 23:39)other than raw oysters, probably nothing too weird on my plate
On the half shell with Tabasco sauce and a dot of sour cream....yummm. 
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| June 8, 2011, 04:13 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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QUOTE (GentleGiant388 @ June 8, 2011, 04:13) QUOTE (NRG4U @ June 6, 2011, 23:39)other than raw oysters, probably nothing too weird on my plate
On the half shell with Tabasco sauce and a dot of sour cream....yummm.
MMMmm, never tried them with sour cream. Only Tabasco, or mustard and a cracker. I sure do love them!!
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| June 8, 2011, 05:34 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ June 8, 2011, 05:34) QUOTE (GentleGiant388 @ June 8, 2011, 04:13) QUOTE (NRG4U @ June 6, 2011, 23:39)other than raw oysters, probably nothing too weird on my plate
On the half shell with Tabasco sauce and a dot of sour cream....yummm.
MMMmm, never tried them with sour cream. Only Tabasco, or mustard and a cracker. I sure do love them!!
never tried the sour cream, but love em with mustard, tabasco, or with garlic salt & butter
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| June 9, 2011, 01:22 |
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GG317
60 / male
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
I used to go to this place in Gloucester called, "The Outrigger" where they had an outdoor summer raw bar. You pick the ones you want and they shuck them right in front of you and add the ingredients right there. I once took a buddy who was so drunk that day, he couldn't figure out why he was so sick the next. He thought it was the motion sickness he still had from being out in the boat all day. I had to tell him, to his now turning two shade of green, face that he was eating raw oysters, muscles, and cherrystones while drinking his White Russians. It wasn't the brightest of combinations... 
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| June 9, 2011, 13:28 |
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QUOTE (GentleGiant388 @ June 9, 2011, 13:28)I used to go to this place in Gloucester called, "The Outrigger" where they had an outdoor summer raw bar. You pick the ones you want and they shuck them right in front of you and add the ingredients right there. I once took a buddy who was so drunk that day, he couldn't figure out why he was so sick the next. He thought it was the motion sickness he still had from being out in the boat all day. I had to tell him, to his now turning two shade of green, face that he was eating raw oysters, muscles, and cherrystones while drinking his White Russians. It wasn't the brightest of combinations...
  
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| June 9, 2011, 13:39 |
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Aw geez....from my bartending days, I'm so sure whoever came up with the White Russian, had to be doing it as a practical joke. (must have hated the person who had to mop up the bar and it's bathrooms) Seriously, milk and alcohol, 'nuff said.
Now Black Russians....awwwwwwww genius!
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| June 9, 2011, 15:28 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
This is a local thing, but I love a beef on weck (its a Buffalo thing). Thinly slice choice roast beef piled high on a kimmelweck roll. Kimmelweck is a hard roll with Kosher salt and caraway seeds on top of it. Cover the beef with Millers Horseradish (hot enough to make your scalp sweat) and have it with a dill pickle and a cold beer and you'd think you died and went to Heaven. Like I said, its a Buffalo thing.
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| June 14, 2011, 13:31 |
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QUOTE (freensleazy @ June 14, 2011, 13:31)This is a local thing, but I love a beef on weck (its a Buffalo thing). Thinly slice choice roast beef piled high on a kimmelweck roll. Kimmelweck is a hard roll with Kosher salt and caraway seeds on top of it. Cover the beef with Millers Horseradish (hot enough to make your scalp sweat) and have it with a dill pickle and a cold beer and you'd think you died and went to Heaven. Like I said, its a Buffalo thing.
sounds like my kinda grub.
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| June 14, 2011, 22:53 |
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Rumaki....hubs grosses out over the thought of it, I love the stuff.
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| June 15, 2011, 01:47 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
its those Minnesota ppl with weird food..., come on, fish soaked in Lye... 
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| June 15, 2011, 02:25 |
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QUOTE (NRG4U @ June 15, 2011, 02:25)its those Minnesota ppl with weird food..., come on, fish soaked in Lye...
i've lived here all my 41 years, and NEVER tried that...try those Texans, they eat snakes...
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| June 15, 2011, 05:26 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
I know there is someone here who has stranger eating habits than I do, however, some find mine a bit different.
I know they are not, but not everyone has tried them.
They include the swamp cabbage Chazzy googled, gator, and frog legs. And, again except for one person here, I have had to go out and catch my dinner.
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| June 15, 2011, 06:16 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
i deep fry just about anything. i've even deep fried a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...
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| June 15, 2011, 06:23 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
There a segment on a show on the Travel Channel about strange things that various restaurants Deep Fry, things you would never think of. I could feel my cholesterol going up just from watching it.
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| June 15, 2011, 13:40 |
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Re: Strange Eating Habits
i've learned that pancake batter works well for frying certain things. i've dipped whole strawberries in batter, fried them, and drizzled then with chocolate.
i've also learned that certain things just should not be fried. watermelon and pineapple, for example, tend to lose their flavor.
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| June 15, 2011, 13:52 |
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