Do you have food issues?
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Ketchup on hot dogs? Sacrilege and heresy!
I absolutely do NOT understand what is the big fucking deal about this, but while I'm in Chicago I will respect it.
Hmm...no, I don´t have food issues. I mean I am an ovo-lacto-vegetarian, can be quite picky and at the moment I try to eat more healthy than before, which works fine, I do look at what is inside food (E-substances and artifical colour and such) and look where the food comes from too (though I do not have the money to always buy everything biological pittyfully), but I would not call that food issues.
Am just conscious about what I eat.
As for hot dogs... I am with Mr. Laser Beam. Why not ketchup? If I eat a hot dog, which is not very often, I have in the bread-thing a vegetarian sausage, ketchup, medium-strengh mustard, danish majonaise, rosted onions and pickled cucumber.
TerokNor
Am just conscious about what I eat.
As for hot dogs... I am with Mr. Laser Beam. Why not ketchup? If I eat a hot dog, which is not very often, I have in the bread-thing a vegetarian sausage, ketchup, medium-strengh mustard, danish majonaise, rosted onions and pickled cucumber.
TerokNor
That sound AWESOME. Except the vegetarian part. But who cares right, the dog is just a vehicle for all that other great stuff.
Moi aussi.
I've struggled with eating disorders all my life. Over the years, I've developed lots of tics and tricks to help fool myself into eating more sensibly, but I don't think I'll ever not have hang-ups about food. For some reason, food and guilt are completely hardwired together in my head.
(One summer my disordered eating got really severe. I was restricting to >300 calories a day and dropped 25 lbs in a few months. Everybody kept stopping me to compliment me on my weightloss and tell me how jealous they were. I'd be lying if I said there weren't times that I have to work quite hard to remind myself that how good that felt isn't worth the, y'know, potential organ failure and stuff.)
I'm borderline obese, so I definitely have issues. Specifically, I'm a lifelong comfort eater, and I find it very, very hard to break that habit. I enjoy cooking, will try anything culinary and am lucky to have no allergies or sensitivities.
On the other end of the scale is my youngest child, who eats about a dozen foods, if that (I stopped counting a few years ago because it was too depressing). Bread, fish fingers/sticks, and peanut butter have been the only constants of those foods, and if he starts eating a new food he tends to stop eating something else. Huzzah for sensory issues.
The good thing is that those very few foods cover all the food groups, so his developmental paediatrician signed him off a few years ago and said there were no issues to worry about.
On the other end of the scale is my youngest child, who eats about a dozen foods, if that (I stopped counting a few years ago because it was too depressing). Bread, fish fingers/sticks, and peanut butter have been the only constants of those foods, and if he starts eating a new food he tends to stop eating something else. Huzzah for sensory issues.
The good thing is that those very few foods cover all the food groups, so his developmental paediatrician signed him off a few years ago and said there were no issues to worry about.
I guess I have food issues* in as much as I'm very particular about the sources of my food. I'll eat most things but only if I make them myself - so nothing processed. Also things that were stables in my diet such as bread I barely have any more and other stuff like soda I never touch.
After a few years of doing that, beyond the health benefits I've found that most processed foods taste way too sweet or salty to my tastes.
* Oh and I don't like cheese.
After a few years of doing that, beyond the health benefits I've found that most processed foods taste way too sweet or salty to my tastes.
* Oh and I don't like cheese.
Ketchup on hot dogs? Sacrilege and heresy!
I absolutely do NOT understand what is the big fucking deal about this, but while I'm in Chicago I will respect it.
It's not a big fucking deal. You can eat a hot dog with ketchup. We won't kill you or put you in jail or something.
Yeah. We might talk big about it, but we honestly don't care. We're just messing around.Ketchup on hot dogs? Sacrilege and heresy!
I absolutely do NOT understand what is the big fucking deal about this, but while I'm in Chicago I will respect it.
It's not a big fucking deal. You can eat a hot dog with ketchup. We won't kill you or put you in jail or something.
The only "food issue" I have, outside of not being a terribly huge fan of Indian cuisine, is that I absolutely cannot stand the taste or texture of celery. I'll use celery salt (and it's an essential component of a Chicago-style hot dog), but actual celery is something that just repels me, like garlic to a vampire.
That said, if anyone is trying to improve their knife skills in the kitchen, celery is a great vegetable to use to practice chopping, dicing, mincing, etc., as it's dirt cheap and has enough toughness to it that you can learn good technique.
That said, if anyone is trying to improve their knife skills in the kitchen, celery is a great vegetable to use to practice chopping, dicing, mincing, etc., as it's dirt cheap and has enough toughness to it that you can learn good technique.
Ketchup on hot dogs? Sacrilege and heresy!
I absolutely do NOT understand what is the big fucking deal about this, but while I'm in Chicago I will respect it.
It's not a big fucking deal. You can eat a hot dog with ketchup. We won't kill you or put you in jail or something.
You're from Chicago? Hmm. Well, I know people from big cities like yours probably hate tourists anyway so I will try not to look like one. Including this way.
Oh. Well in that case I change my answer to "no I don't".
Christ, got a little persecution complex going?
I mean, hell, I work in destination marketing. Tourism is a fundamental component of cities' economies. Sure, some people (we call them jerks) will joke about tourists, and here in Wisconsin there's the whole "FIB" thing, but it's just that -- joking. It's not like Chicago residents walk down Michigan Avenue with a crowbar, waiting to spot tourists and then kneecap them.
Oh then I'm a "no" as well.
I don't know if this counts but some tell me this is all in my head but:
I have some food issues but not the normal kind. I'm a very picky eater and it is because I have issues with the texture of food. Most things that have a grainy/gritty texture or like I have a lot of trouble with. It sets off my gag reflex which is sensitive to begin with. My mother indicated that it started after some procedure I had has a child. Up till then I was eating cookies, cackers, etc but afterwards anything like that I couldn't keep down. Everything had to be pureed in order for me to eat. I've been that way since, except I'm a little less sensitive but still have issues. I eat a lot more different things then I did as a child.
The doctors tried to find out the cause and could not and decided that my mother was just babing me. Then my mother talked to other parents of tetralogy of Fallot patients and they had very similiar issues eating.
I have some food issues but not the normal kind. I'm a very picky eater and it is because I have issues with the texture of food. Most things that have a grainy/gritty texture or like I have a lot of trouble with. It sets off my gag reflex which is sensitive to begin with. My mother indicated that it started after some procedure I had has a child. Up till then I was eating cookies, cackers, etc but afterwards anything like that I couldn't keep down. Everything had to be pureed in order for me to eat. I've been that way since, except I'm a little less sensitive but still have issues. I eat a lot more different things then I did as a child.
The doctors tried to find out the cause and could not and decided that my mother was just babing me. Then my mother talked to other parents of tetralogy of Fallot patients and they had very similiar issues eating.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM[/yt]Ketchup on hot dogs? Sacrilege and heresy!
I absolutely do NOT understand what is the big fucking deal about this, but while I'm in Chicago I will respect it.
