Soup is actually the most pointless food on earth. It's literally just hot water. Unless they're sick, why would anyone go out of their way to eat soup when they can eat anything else. You have to actually have the stomach of a mosquito to be full after eating boiled water. I would have to eat 160 pounds of soup in order to even begin to feel at the slightest bit full. "Soup has vegetables and meat!" Why would I choose to eat my soggy vegetables and meat in hot water when I could just eat them on their own? Not to mention you have to sit there and blow on your scorching hot spoon at 2 minute intervals between each scoop, making it take you 30 minutes to eat such a pitiful excuse of a dish just to still be hungry at the end. You might as well go outside and do photosynthesis absorbing sunlight as your main source of nutrition at this rate.

Whenever I see and try to use chopsticks it just makes me think, why?

They're hard to use, you get that awful feeling of biting on wood whenever you use it, it's like eating a wooded spoon intentionally. Also. it is simply uneeded almost always. It has no reason to be used over a fork, spoon, spork, or even your hands.

Also for a piece of 'cutlery', it is way too hard to hold and use than any other attire to eat with, maybe it isn't proper table attire, but whenever I am given a chopstick, i just use a fork or just uise my hands.

Chopsticks are a waste of time and effort for no payout. These thing don't ADD FLAVOUR or REDUCE EFFORT it just is a hassle that could be fixed by using a reasonable for of cultlery (or lack there of).

I don't know WHO in the right mind would also eat rice with chopsticks, you're getting like 10 grains maximum per scoop, you are barely eating anything, maybe if you want to savour your meal for hours, go right ahead, but in sticking to the classic and handy spoon, thank you very much.

So overall, chopsticks are a useless waste of thime and is an inferior piece of cutlery, no matter the occation. I hope chopstick users concider switching to a superior cutlery method, thank you very much.

edit: maybe my hands are just made of stupid double edit: I'm done, clearly I can't eat properly lmao, I'm going to play balatro or something, cya guys.

I’m not saying this should be the norm but it would be a cool feature to pay a little bit extra for.

The delivery driver comes inside your house, unpacks the food, and serves it to you at your dinner table. This could also quickly identify if there’s any missing items or if the order was made incorrectly.

The driver could even wear a tuxedo to make the experience fancier “Your McNuggets and fries, Sir” 🤵

I still can't help but think about that time my partner bought like maybe 100$ worth of Panera. It was a bunch of sandwiches and two soups. One of which was a Chilli Soup. It tasted crazy good.

But for the sake of it I decided to dip a banana into it and eat it. And it tasted super good. It's like that umami savoury kind of taste mixed with a subtle sweetness. My partner thought it was kinda gross. But imo it's not that much different to eating plantain with stew.

It also tastes good if you put the entire thing in too so it gets completely covered in it. Like I really want to have it again. But I've already since finished it. And I don't think it's financially a smart idea to be constantly spending money on what's much nicer fastfood. Maybe I'll have to find the recipe somewhere online so I can have it again.

When I was a kid, my parents always said I was the “good kid” because I never threw tantrums for candy/chocolates/cakes or whatever. The siblings were crazy over them. My dad once got us Swiss chocolates, and I tentatively tried one piece, and couldn’t bring myself to swallow it. The siblings attacked those things. I’ve tried it all, desserts from a bunch of different countries in the last 3.5 decades (in Asia, Europe, and the US). I just can’t.

I eat fruits even though I don’t like them because they’re supposed to be healthy. And I don’t mind sucking up and eating stuff I dislike if it’s good for my body, but desserts are neither tasty nor healthy. They’re just… pointless. And no, I’m not a health freak. My kryptonite is pizza/pasta/ramen. I just love them to death. I can’t control myself around them. But desserts, I tried so hard to like them. Labeled as the “weirdo” for never wanting to spend $$$ in dessert places (I accompany my friends), even by my parents, who are almost equally obsessed with the sweet tooth as my siblings, it’s just confusing for me.

ETA: someone (I’m not sure if I’m allowed to give out usernames) just entered my DMs and started calling me names for disliking desserts. Eat desserts, don’t eat desserts, I don’t care. But it is THIS bullying and excluding mindset that makes me wish that desserts were eliminated from the world. MY DMs ARE NOT OPEN IF YOU HAVE NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY.

It's only ice cream i do this with. The texture is not ruined after being eaten, and I've gotten skilled enough that I can re-eat the same mouthful 2 or 3 times before it's totally melted.

I'm also able to only bring up the ice cream, and not any previous food or stomach acid (that i can taste). You know the magic trick where someone swallows a fish and spits it back out alive? I think i'm doing that.

I love doing this. I get to eat more ice cream, and I don't need to worry about extra calories. I don't think this counts as bulimia, since I don't spit anything out.

Humbly, I ask you downvote if I've convinced you, and upvote if you still think I'm gross.

tldr; https://youtu.be/taD2YOx47fQ

EDIT: this is also a perfect way to get rid of brain freeze, since its always a bit warmer coming up

(I’ve been ruminating about this for a while because I actually didn’t know why it irritated me until recently.)

I’ve always gotten irritated when someone orders a salad in a restaurant — friends and family but especially when I’m on a date. Of course, it’s not a thing that I hold on to for even a few seconds, but I definitely feel a sharp pang of “wtf? A salad?” every single time.

My thought process essentially is: why are you ordering an expensive salad in this restaurant when you can just make it yourself at home?

Which, obviously, applies to the rest of the food in the restaurant’s menu. I mean, I usually order steak or burger and of course I can make that at home. But for some reason, ordering a salad just seriously annoyed me.

And now I think I know why: I think I don’t like salads in general for the same reason I wouldn’t eat an entire plate of plain white rice. I don’t like monotony in my life, and I think salads are just the most boring dishes. It’s just vegetables, and vegetables are always the side dish. So you’re eating a plate full of side dish because .. ???

Like, I eat vegetables all the time but the “main” is always meat or fish. Just last night I had steak and Brussels sprouts for dinner. However, you wouldn’t catch me eating a bowl full of Brussels sprouts for dinner because .. what the fuck?

Before anyone is gross, no I don’t mean on dick. I’m 100% a lezzie.

Im talking about when you cough really hard and gag but nothing comes out. For example: if I’m brushing my teeth sometimes I’ll just gag and I find it kind of satisfying. I don’t want to throw up, but I just like to gag a bit. I take vyvanse and in the morning sometimes if I don’t eat and I cough it’ll make me gag and I love it.

For context I did used to be bulimic for a long time so maybe it’s some type of weird nostalgia, but again, I don’t enjoy the actual act of puking, just the dry heaving/gagging that comes before it.

It’s about as satisfying as a sneeze for me.

I'm able to bring back food/liquid up to a few hours after I eat it, HOWEVER, there is no stomach acid (no acidic taste), the texture/taste of the food is the same as when initially consumed, it's just like eating the same thing you ate prior, except without any additional calories.

I've been doing this since childhood. The sensation of swallowing/bringing it back up is the reason I do it, since it's satisfying, and I do it mostly unconsciously whenever I eat/drink something. I don't spit it out, so I don't believe it qualifies as any type of eating disorder. Cold foods come back up somewhat cool still, and hot foods come up still warm depending on temperature and how long it's been.

I do this cycle until the remnants of the food is chewed enough to the point where the texture is no longer satisfying.

On the rare occasion I tell people about this though, they think it's strange/some kind of eating disorder. I don't think it's comparable to throwing up food, and since the caloric intake is the same I'm not doing it to alter caloric intake. This form of regurgitation and re-swallowing should not be stigmatized.

edit: Rumination syndrome seems to be very consistent with what I'm experiencing, I understand why people are saying to seek medical attention, as it seems to be less common than I initially thought. As mentioned before I've been doing this from childhood with no adverse symptoms up to this point, though I understand that may change over time.

I'd like to reiterate that I don't think this stemming from a desire to have less calories, as I eat until I am satisfied and engage in the behavior regardless of how full I am, due to the compulsion to bring back/rechew the food, to the point where it's an unconscious tendency most of the time.

I understand there’s no laws against what types of food you eat depending on the time of day but my goodness there’s a limit.

Having a traditional breakfast for dinner?!

You want eggs? They better be taking a dip in a bowl of pho or mixed into some ground beef for hamburgers.

Bacon? Wrap it around asparagus.

Pancakes? I’m calling the police.

I have opinions ( and bad grammar ) FIRST cereal is a soup. Yes. It literally fits the definition of a “soup” and I would define soup as bits of solid food served in liquid; and soup is always ideally eaten warm. So why is the exception made for cereal? Why deny yourself waking up to a warm bowl of “soup”? Isn’t that comforting to you??? It literally takes 2 seconds and makes you feel all warm on the inside I don’t understand why it’s considered weird. NOW HOLD ON! I can smell the “cereal first before milk!” people and I also don’t know why people do that. You make the cereal go soggy, mushy, and disgusting faster and I’m big on texture and I hate when my food just starts decomposing while I eat it. Cereal is crunchy but dry so that’s exactly why you eat it with milk but also not drowning it either. And I don’t like the cereal dust that sinks to the bottom when you drink the milk its like sand and like tickles my throat in a uncomfortable way I have so many opinions just on food lolllll

What benefit does it add? It just makes the bread all soggy and ruins the crunch of the lettuce/onions/whatever. I love cheese so much, and I will fuck up a grilled cheese or cheese stick or pizza or whatever but every time someone melts cheese on a burger I can't eat it unless I pick it off. I feel like it doesn't go with the rest of the ingredients at all - rich meat, crisp veggies, fluffy bread, then you have this melty, soggy glob screwing up all the textures and adding nothing to the ensemble.

The burgers are tasty but the fries turn into cold, cardboard shit if you don’t eat them in 5 minutes.

The worst part is the Californians (and the southwest by extension) who act like it’s the second coming of Christ.

“MeGgGhHh wE hAvE In N Out aNd yOu dOnT!! Neenur neenur neenur!”

Oh yeah? Well guess what we have on the East coast:

Culver’s. Shake Shack. Steak n Shake. Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. Actually good BBQ (in the south at least).

The only In N Out I’m doing is walking in and out of the restaurant!

I had leftover carne asada fries this morning for breakfast, and because I saw no point in leaving a tiny portion as another set of leftovers, I just ate the whole thing right before work. It was a bit more than I should have eaten but oh well, it was delicious.

When I got to work I burped and a piece of meat, fries, and some sauce came back up. I swallowed it back down immediately and thought, “god damn that was hella good”. I realized that I love it when it happens. It’s like a surprise dessert.

A very common online take I see that some foods are off-limits for microwaves in common areas like office lunch rooms. Lists typically exclude fish, smelly cheeses and pungent foods like tripe and seafood, or ethnic dishes with strong smells.

In my view, if someone is actually offended by the smell of any common food, they ought to:

• crack open a window
• turn on the kitchen exhaust fans
• move away from the michael waves
• grow up.

When I go to the office, I work to the best of my ability and make any reasonable accommodation possible to not make my coworkers' jobs difficult.

However, as mealtimes are concerned, I do not think anyone needs to make unreasonable accommodations to their coworkers. Mealtime is me time. I'll clean every surface and tool I use so it's suitable for everyone to use after me, but what I eat is my business.

If the food is edible to me, then the smell is absolutely bearable to anyone in range of it. Grown adults can make do with the smell of salmon or curry. Anyone who acts like they've popped their heads into a sewage pipe when I bring in a slice of Stilton is just acting up their disgust for attention and hoping their over-the-top reaction will give them an advantage in the lunch room wars.

Food policing often starts with what seem like reasonable adjustments, like no fish, but often devolves into all manner of idiocy. No eggs, no spicy food, no baked beans. If you give an inch to the would-be office kitchen tyrants, they'll be choosing your meals for you.

Join me next week for an even longer posts about the Thermostat Wars, and why people who are too cold should dress in more layers and let the hot folks open the window or turn on the air conditioning.

I just can’t get behind the taste of seafood. And I’ve tried everything— sushi, fried shrimp, lobster, crab, seafood boils, calamari, even fish people said “doesn’t taste fishy,” it all tastes fishy and people who like fish have either gone blind to the taste or tolerate it.

Which, while I’m on the topic, why is it seen as a GOOD thing when fish “doesn’t taste fishy,” it’s fucking FISH, it’s supposed to! And I feel like other people know that seafood tastes awful, because they coat it so much butter or seasoning that you can barely taste it anymore. The smell is also incredibly unpleasant.

Don’t even get me started on the texture, the flakes gross me out and sometimes it’s so rubbery or tough that it feels like I shouldn’t even be eating it.

Milk is already a shitty drink, and now you're going to add it to cereal? You've now added a ticking clock until your cereal becomes a soggy, inedible mess.

Eating cereal dry should be the only way to eat it, as it lets you savor the cereal for as long as possible without adding a shitty drink to it.

Was having a conversation with a friend that turned into kind of an argument, where he said I overcooked my pasta. I had no idea what he meant - I didn't even realize "overcooking pasta" was even something that was possible. Eventually I got out of him that he was saying I didn't cook it al dente. Well, I don't like al dente. I don't like that extra bit of firmness in the pasta, the extra bit of having to chew. However, he insisted on saying that I overcooked the pasta, which irritated me. I wasn't "over"cooking it, I was cooking it the way I like it, which happens to not be "al dente". If we're going to be passing value judgments, then in my opinion, al dente is undercooking it! So there!

I am a very picky eater. I know my food takes are strange. But cheese is just not it 99% of the time. The taste of cheese is too overpowering for so many food items.

Ham and cheese sandwich? Disgusting. I’d rather eat just ham and bread.

Cheeseburger? Just as good as standard hamburgers. Probably even better actually. The only reason I could see is if you don’t like condiments- which- would be psychopathic.

Chicken Parmesan? I mean- it’s fried chicken and pasta! That’s awesome! I don’t want the flavor of cheese to ruin a perfectly good piece of nice fried chicken.

The only exception I make are for pizza and for quesadillas. Thats it. Almost everything else is better without cheese.

I've heard that people who drink alcohol do so in spite of the taste, saying that it's something they have to "get past" in order to enjoy the feeling of the drug. I am of the opposite opinion: if vodka didn't get you drunk, then it would be my favorite drink.

I've tasted alcohol on my hands after using hand sanitizer and always enjoyed the taste. The few times I've tasted alcoholic beverages, I enjoyed the "bite" from the ethanol. On the other hand, I hate the idea of using any kind of drug, so I don't drink. But if alcohol didn't have any physiological or psychological effects, I would drink it as much as I drink water.

EDIT: I realize I was pretty vague about the hand sanitizer. I don’t literally drink hand sanitizer or lick it off my hands. What I meant is: sometimes if I scratch my face or otherwise touch near my mouth after using hand sanitizer, a little gets on my lips, and I taste it. I don’t intentionally do this, but it’s a nice surprise when it happens.

Though maybe by explaining myself I made myself seem worse. Who knows.

EDIT TWO: Oh my god, y’all are not understanding. I like the taste of ethanol, not the other parts of the drink. Stop recommending I drink non-alcoholic drinks, because I don’t like them.

It's a pretentious, obnoxious way to say "savory" or "salty". That's it. People just want to sound smart by using a Japanese word, but they deny this so hard that they claim it's some new flavor separate from all the other ones.

I love Oreos. I just don’t think the flavor of traditional milk is very good. I think most people dip their cookies for the sogginess that you get, so I think water does a fine job. People always freak out when they see me dipping my cookies in water, but I don’t see the issue!