As someone who will try something at least once, I will never understand picky eaters, or people who are too afraid to even taste something because they think it looks gross.
I don't mean children, I mean full-grown adults that can be like this too.
>"Mom, would you like some guacamole?"
>"no, that looks like green vomit to me"
>"hey user, would you like a pickle?"
>"no thanks, I don't like pickles. They look and smell gross"
Experiences with picky eaters?
>"I'll have a plain burger with nothing on it please"
This pisses me off so much.
What's wrong with someone just wanting to enjoy the taste of the meat?
I eat everything within reason, but the mentality of a picky eater isn't exactly difficult to comprehend. We live in a time when you can pick and choose what you want to eat. If the very thought or smell of a food item makes you gag, why would you elect to eat it? If its texture makes you squirm, why would you put it in your mouth?
I find this is only an American thing
I know a couple of picky eaters but they just pick aside what they don't like and resume eating
They don't overreact at all
my mom is the worst.
won't ever try hummus for some reason.
very averse to pork. she might she spiral honey ham.
and very averse to fish and seafood. she might eat battered and fried halibut in fish and chips.
Texture.
Reputation.
Smell, reputation.
These are common dislikes.
>he doesn't just wanna stuff his face with plain meat
Only if you're autistic
Then I would eat the meat with no bread.
When you're having a sandwich, I like to put at least lettuce or some cheese or tomato, pickles, onions, etc.
If a child is a very picky eater, like not wanting to touch any vegetable, is the blame in the child, or the parents?
It's annoying when the family gets together at the house for a home cooked meal, but because their picky children don't want to try anything, they decide to do a McDonald's run.
Pickiness is not uncommon. A fully-functioning individual may dislike tomato. It's far more autistic to get worked up over someone else's preferences when they don't affect you.
What fucking autistic flyover state do you live in where pork is a common dislike? Only fucking Muslim and Jews don't like pork.
Being willing to try anything was an easy death sentence in the past when almost everything was a gamble. People like you and OP did a service in finding edible foods but you were also very likely to just poison yourself and die.
I eat pork pretty often and I really don't like it. Pork is a pretty shitty meat. I have bacon and sausages and asian food does a good job with it but on it's own it's shit.
former picky eater here. the big reason i did not want to try new things was i thought if i didn't like it i would go hungry. my parents also weren't the best cooks. a lot of stuff, especially vegetables, was overcooked. bad experiences with food can make you not want to eat that food again. as i got older, i had opportunities, usually at buffets, to try new things while still having access to the things i knew i liked. i also had a desire to not be a picky eater anymore. i eat pretty much everything now.
The worst ones are adults who fake allergies to foods they dislike so they don't seem immature.
This pic is hilarious, but enjoy your b&
There's a difference between not eating something because of a fear of being poisoned, to not eating something just because you think it looks gross.
I have a nephew who ate a grilled chicken sandwich with nothing in it, but was still afraid to eat it because of the grill marks on the chicken.
This kid, who also loves penguins and everything penguin related, freaked out when my mom gave him chocolates that looked like cartoon penguins because he was disturbed by the idea of eating something that looked like a penguin.
Those aren't picky eater issues. Thats a kid who isnt old enough to understand shit and doesnt want to eat his favourite animal. A kid not wanting to eat his favourite animal is an empathetic issue and forcing him to eat it is just going to cause him mental trauma.
A REAL weird ass picky eater problem is my nephew who would only eat beef if it was on a bun and would only eat pasta plain with kraft parmesan on it.
The fear of poisoning is on a subconscious level that you have zero control or recognition of, and is a standard reaction to anything you haven't experienced before. Foods your body thinks made it sick it will develop a strong aversion to, and it's been scientifically proven you can "get a taste" for things you don't like by eating it enough times because your body realizes that it's harmless. I did it with mushrooms (which used to make me gag) and it works
Son of a chef here, also I am a picky eater. European too. I grew up eating many things such as pork and lamb brain, snails, ostrich, raw seafood (urchins straight from the sea)... But my biggest issue is onion and garlic in general, if they're not cooked to almost disintegration state.
I usually avoid anything with a main ingredient is something I really hate.
I have asthma-like reaction (sudden short breath) when I eat something I severely dislike. It's fucking annoying. But usually when I order something it goes well because I am very careful with my picks.
So basically try it enough times and you'll like it?
How do you get that through to people who say they don't like something they only tried once?
That elbow looks like a nipple
kys
My entire family is like this. Sometimes I will have them over at my place for dinner and they are ridiculously picky. Like they'll want fish but no citrus anywhere near it.
The fuck are you talking about? I must've had onions or something onion-flavored at least a hundred times and they still taste like complete shit and make me gag.
Taste is subjective, faggot.
Remember to tell them that they are misusing a survival response !!!
Where those hundred times accidental or prank, or did you go for getting used to onion taste?
The latter is only negative and traumatic. If you go for tasting a small amount at a time, and do that after a period of 2-4 weeks, it will help you tolerate it, and perhaps in the future be neutral or like it.
I love the taste of fried pig skin, I gag if I see it in front of me.
It was introduced to me as an alternative to regular potato chips, and I thought it was meat ....then one day I noticed a burn mark on my chip, I took it to my school and asked my teacher about it, he explained that it was pig-skin and not meat - I can't eat that tasty shit again lol
People like to celebrate and enjoy a dinner, not throw up - this is why they don't eat what makes them gag and sick.
>I find this is only an American thing
You've never hung around with Irish people. They're just as bad or worse than Americans.
>only
This thread has already proven wrong. Read before you post next time.
>tfw my sister and brother in law are major picky eater enablers
>their kids got to the point where they won't eat anything except chips, crackers, cookies, candy, and cereal
>every family get together their kids turn their noses up at all the delicious homemade food that my mom makes
>then they bring out the crackers and cereal for them
This shit enrages me so much. I didn't even know it was this bad until one day I cooked dinner for them and the kids refused to eat chicken alfredo. They wouldn't even accept just noodles or just chicken. They ended up having cereal.
Sometimes it's not the taste. It's the texture.
The best way to help a child that is a picky eater is to involve them in cooking meals. They are more likely to try it and eat it if they helped make it.
The way I see it, food is a pathway to connect through shared experience. If you're going to be that guy picking apart the dish everyone else is sharing, it's the same as putting in earbuds while we're all listening to a piece of music. Just fundamentally antisocial and rude.
I have a friend who eats pretty much every meat available to us but they flat out refuse to eat meat on the bone. Because bones are gross and reminds them too much of a dead animal.
Thoughts?
>make curry for family
>mom looks at it and gets white bread and ketchup out
>eats that while watching Judge Judy
>gf makes bibimbap for first dinner with my parents
>mom looks at it, pokes at it, then asks why all the food has to be touching
>dad destroys it, mom picks at bottom-bowl rice doesn't eat any meat or vegetables
>gf in process of prepping some kimchi while mom is visiting
>mom makes a scene of constantly gagging whenever she walks past kitchen
>asks why I like that weird food while she's eating ketchup flavored chips dipped in blue cheese dressing
I love my mom but holy fuck. I don't know how she managed to balloon with all the things she refuses to eat.
Is your mom mentally challenged or something? She sounds a bit retarded.
>he gets more than cheese + condiment of course choice on his burger
I'm not big on the whole genocide thing but picky eaters really ought to be gassed. Picky eating is probably part of a whole cluster of character traits that the world would be better without. Seriously, if you are ever on a date with somebody and it comes out that they're picky eaters, do not marry them and reproduce with them. There is probably something wrong with them genetically.
I have encountered people like this. They can't stomach the sight of a carcass, like a whole roasted chicken. These people are simply so disconnected from nature and so sheltered that they probably think that the supermarket conjures boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the back.
Sound like a typical American suburban housewife to me
If you're a picky eater I automatically assume your are a man-child, or a Veeky Forums browser, but they are really two in the same most of the time.
>I can't do x!
>It's a texture thing...
>f the very thought or smell of a food item makes you gag, why would you elect to eat it? If its texture makes you squirm, why would you put it in your mouth?
because most of that is mental. if you don,t like something, I can understand choosing not to eat it. But having such a visceral reaction to it that it makes you squirm is a tell tale sign of someone being childish and psyching themselves out to think they hate it. if bad food is bad you just calmly spit it out into a napkin, not fucking throw a shitfit like some fucking manchild.
>eaters really ought to be gassed.
That's extremist, but I have a rational solution at least for 'murrica which has the largest # of offenders. At the age of 18, everyone, no exceptions except for chronic medical conditions, is placed in isolation and given only water for 7 days. Wala - no more picky eaters.
what ban?
> I lack empathy so I'm better than everyone else that don't like things I like!
KYS.
So yes?
Certain tastes trigger my gag reflex and make me vomit.
Somebody told me I probably had too many taste buds or something.
I'm slowly getting better though.
>Veeky Forums complains about picky eaters all the time but they're afraid of anything even remotely sweet
I'm an extremely picky eater. But, I'm getting better thanks to learning cooking. Something g about knowing how the dish is made makes it less scary. Just the other day, I made spinach and like it! I liked it!!! It made me so happy because I struggled so hard with spinach all my life.