I put KD Shakers into my salad (Also, I put mayo on my salad, though only if the dressing packet that the salad comes with is gone)
Everyone's got at least one. Maybe you cut your sandwiches a VERY specific way, maybe you bite into a candy bar instead of breaking it apart, maybe you like an unholy amount of a condiment, maybe you dip fries in apple juice, maybe you demand exactly X slices of lunchmeat on your sandwich, maybe you only like a certain food if it's of a specific brand, or maybe you really like two foods together that don't seem to get along. Whatever it is, you're probably thinking about it right now. Well, here's the place to share it! Maybe you'll even find someone else who has your weird food habit and finally feel validated! And, who knows, maybe you'll pick up someone's weird habit you think sounds kinda good!
The only real rule here is plz no foodshame, if I have to lock this thread bc people get into a heated debate over whether pineapple on pizza is valid I will age 70 years instantly and die, doomed to haunt this thread forevermore. Spoilers: it's totally valid. All food is valid. Even the stuff you don't like. It's just food!! You're welcome to ask people why they like a certain thing or how they got into it provided it's clearly just curiosity instead of "OMG how can you LIKE THAT!!!!!" or whatever, and likewise you're welcome to discuss with people how you relate or about other people you know who do something similar!
I guess I'll also mention it doesn't really matter how minor or major you think your quirk is - I'm not gonna hunt you down because I didn't think the specific way you eat an Oreo wasn't abnormal enough! You're also free to talk about things you're done in the past but don't do anymore, things you just picked up recently, etc.!
Here's a couple of mine, honestly I'll probably post in here more at some point bc I do a lot of weird things:
- I put sugar in my spaghetti. My mom's always put a little bit of sugar in her pasta sauce since it helps balance out the acidity of all the tomatoes and whatnot a little, but my sister liked to put more on after the fact during dinner proper. I followed suit bc I thought it was tasty and I only found out later in life that this isn't a thing everyone does?! It's like... not even a thing people consider a possibility or see the appeal of?!?! But I can never just have tomato sauce plain now bc it doesn't taste right to me without some sugar in it... I can never go to Italy they would throw me out instantly...
- Whenever I make PB&J I always specifically cut it into fours - and in squares, not triangles. I remember I did a poll on DA once to see how people cut their sandwiches and my world changed forever when nearly everyone always cut sandwiches in half diagonally?! Once again I was shaken by the revelation that the way I do food things is apparently strange and alien... I also eat said squares in a specific way, too. Take a bite into the corner, bite off one side of the resulting L shape, peel the remainder apart, eat the peanut butter side, and then eat the jelly side. Fear me.
- Whenever I put ketchup on a burger I always draw a smiley face on both sides first. I don't even do it consciously at this point, it just... happens. I saw it on SpongeBob once (well he drew smiley faces on the pickles but WHATEVER) as a kid and I've been doing it ever since. Also anything I put ketchup on I also dip into ketchup bc I crave the texture and contrast of a condiment... even if it's already on it it doesn't matter, I have to have that extra feeling on the outside, too. I use less the older I get, but needless to say I was kind of a mess as a kid. Also, note: this doesn't apply to other condiments. If I feel like having mustard on a burger I just make a little swirl and call it a day. Only ketchup gets the elusive smiley face.
- I was talking about mac & cheese with friends recently and they were all baffled by the fact that I love putting corn in mine?! Like we always had corn as a side to mac & cheese, and as I get older I increasingly care about stuff like contrast; I can't just eat a straight bowl of mac & cheese because I feel too overwhelmed by all the cheesiness. Cutting out the middleman of taking a bite of mac and then one of corn is amazing, though, now I have a dish where each bite is perfectly balanced!! You got the soft, savory, salty gooeyness of the mac & cheese... and then you also have the crisp, sweet moisture from the corn. It's SO good I swear, I can't even eat mac & cheese alone anymore... it's just too much...
This is a mere fraction of my food weirdness but if I listed everything at once I'd never get this dang thread posted SO, without further ado, post away!
Idk if this is weird but, I just can't eat rice dry; I need to drown it in sauce XD Even with fried rice, I usually put some soy sauce in it (I think my mom started this"trend"lol) . It just tastes better that way lol
And sometimes I would eat cupcakes upside down and save the top for last XD
On those haagen dazs ice cream bars, I eat the whole chocolate shell first then the ice cream inside. But, I tend to bite the ice cream part. My bro calls this a "cursed image" lmao xD
Lastly, I eat everything with a fork. E v e r y t h i n g. What is spoon??? Idk her lmao
I love doritos with ketchup.
I cant stand toasted bread. The most I'll accept is a very very very light brown toasting but usually i only ever put it in the toaster to warm up lol
I eat the chocolate part off a 3 Musketeers then eat the fluffy chocolate stuff
I always eat the bottom part of a muffin first
Bakugo_ One of my many Weird Picky Things(tm) is that I don't like carbonated beverages bc they feel like a bunch of tiny punches upon my baby tongue, but honestly that sounds like a super tasty combo! Cherry anything... Good. Except actual cherries for some reason listen I can make a whole post about my weird fruit pickiness some other time ok.
Kirbygal I FEEL A LOT OF THIS, it's so hard for me to get into rice as a side because by itself it's just so... dry? I can't deal with dry food because, as mentioned, I'm kind of a sauce fiend. I gotta have some kind of vegetable in there and some form of sauce, though I got probably eat rice alone if it was sufficiently saucy...
I also bite ice cream which is so weird that people think it's weird?! Like if you only ever lick it you'll never finish it before it melts all over you... I don't exclusively bite it or anything, but with any frozen treat I feel like you gotta get a couple bites in there at least for Maximum Efficiency. Or something.
iinasmuch THIS REMINDS ME OF HOW I EAT KIT-KATS, especially the ones that are just the massive single wafer. I'll bite off all of the chocolate coating, then enjoy the wafer within since that's my real favorite part. I have done this in public multiple times bc those things were in the vending machine in college. I have no shame. Honestly I wish I could just buy a pack of Kit-Kat wafers bc those things are magical... the chocolate isn't bad or anything but the heavenly jackpot lies within... the chocolate is a mere distraction...
edit: ninja'd but glad the person above me also relates to my bizarre candy-bar-eating habits
Also @ muffin and cupcake talk (well, mostly the latter) I'm kind of the opposite; I'm not a huge fan of most frostings and cupcakes in particular tend to be half frosting, so I'll lick most of that off first or sort of eat it from the top down.