Do you have food issues?

[RyanKCR]

. . . 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. as a child.

. . . The doctors tried to find out the cause and could not and decided that my mother was just babying me. Then my mother talked to other parents of tetralogy of Fallot patients and they had very similiar issues eating.

Hmmm. It's interesting that eating problems would be associated with the congenital heart defect that causes "blue baby" syndrome. Any known medical reason for that?

None that I am aware of. My thought is that it could be related to the irritation in the throat due to the breathing tubes during surgery and the boot shaped heart pressing on the diaphragm which presses on the stomach. Or failure to thrive issues could be a factor too. But that is just my uneducated guess. They did test me to try to find the cause and could not and I don't know if anything has been discovered yet.

 

[Holdfast]

^ Tetralogy of Fallot can be associated with other birth defects, some of which can affect digestive tract. But if you were checked over, and nothing was found...

 

[RoJoHen]

The last time I was at either field, they gave me both ketchup and mustard packets with my hotdogs. You'll be fine.

Important distinction, though: They won't put it on the hot dog. They'll give you the option to defile it in such a way, but they won't actually do it for you.

Alrighty then.

I still don't get it, though. I've heard time and again that they don't put ketchup on hotdogs down there, but I still don't know *why*. What IS it about ketchup that's so bad? Do Chicagoans just not like the taste? Is there anything they will eat ketchup with (like french fries or hamburgers)? If so, then why do they single out the hotdog?

Mustard enhances the flavor of the hotdog. Ketchup has a tendency to drown out that flavor. It's nothing more than that. We eat plenty of ketchup on other things, just not hotdogs.

Now, that said, I am a Chicagoan that sometimes puts ketchup on a hotdog anyway. Purity be damned!

 

[Timby]

The last time I was at either field, they gave me both ketchup and mustard packets with my hotdogs. You'll be fine.

Important distinction, though: They won't put it on the hot dog. They'll give you the option to defile it in such a way, but they won't actually do it for you.

Alrighty then.

I still don't get it, though. I've heard time and again that they don't put ketchup on hotdogs down there, but I still don't know *why*. What IS it about ketchup that's so bad? Do Chicagoans just not like the taste? Is there anything they will eat ketchup with (like french fries or hamburgers)? If so, then why do they single out the hotdog?

I've explained it about a hundred times here. Ketchup is basically tomato-flavored sugar goop. It's just loaded with sugar, which counter-acts the natural acidity of tomatoes. (This is why parents will put it on anything they put in front of their kids -- because of the sugar, it makes anything sweet enough that a kid will probably eat it.)

That sugar also drowns out the flavor of a beef hot dog. And, again, a Chicago-style hot dog is an all-beef dog -- no weird Oscar Mayer or Ballpark or whatever off-brand using pork and beef byproducts or whatever.

 

[Mary Ann]

Couldn't resist quickly mocking this up...

... yes, I may have had a drink or two tonight...

You, Sir, are a genius, and I am not worthy to iron your shirts.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'll just be at the ballparks all week anyway, so whatever they serve at Wrigley and the Cell is fine by me.

The last time I was at either field, they gave me both ketchup and mustard packets with my hotdogs. You'll be fine.

Important distinction, though: They won't put it on the hot dog. They'll give you the option to defile it in such a way, but they won't actually do it for you.

At Turner Field there are giant tubs of ketchup and mustard by the vendors. God Bless us hicks and our condiments.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I don't like my food to touch on a plate. I like sugar in my peas. I don't like eggs that much.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The best thing to eat peas with is lemon juice.

 

[Count Zero]

I have to try that some time.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Kind of.

I have extremely slow metabolism and ever since my first near successful pregnancy I haven't been as strong as I was after I lost 96 pounds before my senior year of high school.

So working out is a pain.

I've kind of given up and just try to jog for an hour. I eat whatever now, even if my husband complains about the food.

 

[MLJames]

I used to have a very specific one, but changing product lines eliminated it a long time ago. When I was in 7th grade I came down with a nasty stomach virus, and I spent 4 days in the bathroom vomiting up everything I had ever eaten in my entire life. The last meal I ate on the night that started was a Swanson Beans & Franks dinner. It was one of my favorites, but after that I could never eat one of them. I could eat any other kind of beans & franks, but not a Swanson dinner. The weird thing about it was I had no trouble eating Campbell's pork and beans, which was the exact kind of beans in the dinner. Swanson discontinued that dinner years ago, and since then I've had food dislikes, but no food issues.

 

[KJbushway]

Yeah its a fight between head and mouth, when it comes to losing food you like. Like for it was those round pizza pockets. never again, but I can eat the rectangular ones.