Comments | mathnerd: Pontification on picky eating

mathnerd

Pontification on picky eating

Jan 11, 2009 11:44

For most people*, a picky eater is a person who has a long list of foods she won't** eat and another long list about how, when, where she'll eat them. Often this includes food separation, rules about food preparation, and it goes on and on and on and onBased on this definition, I have never considered myself a picky eater. There are very few foods ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

ellixis January 11 2009, 22:13:55 UTC

That's not picky. Some brands just don't taste right.

mathnerd January 11 2009, 22:17:09 UTC

EXACTLY!

I thought everyone thought like I (and you) do, so this discussion was amusing enough to share. I also wanted to see if anyone would agree with L over me. ;)

rightsaidred January 11 2009, 22:29:25 UTC

You like what you like. You can't help it. I fully admit to being a picky eater. Big deal.

mathnerd January 11 2009, 22:34:35 UTC

Now I want to throw a picky eater party. I think that would be awesome.

captdeaf January 12 2009, 03:05:27 UTC

Aren't you a vegetarian? Or vegan?

I call *that* picky. :D.

Though I'm a picky eater, myself. It's not that I limit myself in what I eat, it's that I generally require high quality in what I eat. I won't eat McDonalds because they just plain taste bad. So do most diners.

I'll eat anything, as long as it's good quality. :D.

mathnerd January 12 2009, 03:36:21 UTC

*laughs* I'm not technically a veg*n, though I can't eat most dairy and have a lot of trouble digesting meat due to the medical issues. So I end up eating a lot of vegan food, but officially.... ;)

bychoice January 12 2009, 16:42:19 UTC

I have always thought that being a picky eater is about one's emotional relationship to food. A picky eater is afraid of foods that he or she has never had before, doesn't like green beans because grandma made him eat them, or won't eat soup because he had to when he got his wisdom teeth out. Perhaps also vegetarians who won't eat 98% of all vegetables fall in this category too. Toddlers are often picky eaters. Health issues aren't the same because you aren't "picky". It isn't some random or fussy decision you have made. It is a decision that your doctor made based on facts. Likewise, issues related to cost, content, and even taste aren't signs of being a picky eater if they are rational and realistic. I guess that what it comes down to for me is that picky eaters are generally not rational in their pickiness ( ... )

meredithcecile January 17 2009, 00:58:43 UTC

I agree with you. Some people think I'm a picky eater, but I don't. I'll eat most anything, just not crap. So since I won't eat fast food my co-workers and classmates think I'm a crazy picky eater (this morning I declined the fast-food fried chicken biscuits our boss brought in, they smelled nasty and everyone kept saying how good they were, bleh). I think we should be called "refined eaters" rather then picky. Toddlers are the definition of picky, but there is some good basic survival instinct in that, so it's allowed.