Food Likes and Dislikes

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Like: Curry, eggs, apples, strawberries, FISH!! !

Dislike: Pears, ketchup, hamburgers.

My father is like that, kind of. He will eat and prefer the same things for years. It never seems to get old to him, and he likes it quite routine to. He prefers very little spiceiness, because he can taste it much easier than the rest of my family, most of whome like spicey.
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(dang that coffie image. It makes me want a cup every time) As for me, I am more of a plant eater than a meat eater. Meat is really kind of boring to me. I taste less in meats than plants. I like spice though.

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If I lived by myself, I would eat rice, black beans, and veggies everyday. But my husband likes variety and he is the cook, so I eat what he fixes. Nothing spicy. I've grown to love or accept most veggies over the years, but lima beans just aren't edible. I don't like my food to be too flavorful. Usually my husband makes a meal for both of us and then adds extra sauces or spices to his plate. Nothing oily (fried food makes me sick) and I don't have much of a sweet tooth. I don't get the world's love of chocolate.

I'm vegan, so there are a lot of foods I won't eat, but I already disliked most of them any way so I didn't have to change much of my diet. The night I decided I was vegetarian we were having tuna noodle casserole. Yuck! I knew I couldn't eat it, so I declared myself vegetarian. I was 13 at the time.

I have an unusual penchant for vinegar and vinegar based foods and I detest all shredded food.

the ketchup website is a damned smart idea! make it so, por favor
what do you think about onion-flavored ketchup? that is my favorite.



the only type of mayo which makes me physically ill is the fat-free kind, which is quite vile.

I like Chinese,Japanese,Indian,Italian,Turkish,Mexican,Greek food but, there are some foods from various nationalities that tend to give my stomach trouble though, I mean no offense though sincerely stated..

I third the ketchup website idea...guaranteed it will get tons of views! It is amazing condiment. I put loads of it on everything and always ask for extra packets. I didn't know there was onion ketchup though! Sounds delicious.

yea, i discovered hunts onion ketchup decades ago. it also differed from regular ketchup in that they used far less sugar, so it had a more organic tomato-ey flavor.
jackie-o once torqued-off a hifalutin' european chef by dumping a glop of ketchup on her steak that the chef meticulously prepared for her.

I tend to rule out full categories of food. I won't eat meat -- I don't like the texture and the taste (with the exception of some pork) bothers me a lot. I won't eat fish that's made into a steak or has a similar texture to a traditional meat. When I get my hands on meat, I will "dissect" it and pull apart the visibly 'animal' parts, often getting other people upset at me -.-

I don't eat dairy with the exception of cheese and even then I prefer goat cheese to cows milk cheese. Nor will I eat eggs unless it's cooked a very particular way and even then half the time I can't stomach them. All I can think about are the fact that they're chicken embryos...not appetizing.

I don't like chocolate, ice cream, cake or frosting. I can deal with some cake on occasion but I can't ever remember finishing more than a few bites of a piece.

I'll eat most every type of fruit (minus some melon and bananas which have strange textures) and vegetables (minus tomato and cucumber which bother me, I think, because of texture and how sweet they are).



I don't have any problem if food touches and will frequently mix everything on a plate up to play with it and then end up eating it afterwards. I do, though NEED to know what's in my food (and I mean pretty much everything). If I find something I can't identify I'll immediately stop. (this happened today )

I've found that, since living away from my mothers house, I tend to eat the same thing, every day at the same times. I love particular foods and given the option I could very easily live on Naked (the drink), Grilled Cheese, (certain types of) Cereal, String Cheese, Icees, Soup (Tomato and Tortellini in particular) and Pasta.

Sadly, I have to eat what is available when at my mothers house over holiday and tend to loose quite a bit of weight as if I don't like the food I wont' eat anything.

I have a very limited diet and also fears about contamination. Food is a huge issue. I couldnt eat at someone elses house. When you keep your food separate, say you had potatoes, vegetables and meat on a plate, do you eat them one by one or do you mix them - i mean put say meat and potato on your fork at the same time and eat them together.

I sometimes eat fish but I can't eat chips that have been fried with fish they have to fried separately - have a whole lot of rules like this.

Chicken, pastas, pizza, burgers, submarine sandwiches, fish and chips, cereal, soup, sausuages and most vegetables are what I eat.

Everything else; especially mushrooms, bananas, and onions are things I just can't eat. I actually don't know what onions even taste like, they moment they go into my mouth I gag automatically. It's a very peculiar reflex!

Foods I dislike the most (texture-wise) are mushrooms, tofu, eggs, bananas, soft cheeses and eggplant. It's that in between texture of firm and soft that really grosses me out.

I can't eat ANY condiments. Just disgusting.

And sushi makes me gag and wanna vomit. Unless it's inari-zushi cuz that is sweet. Pickled vegetables too are absolutely vomit-inducing.

I'm a vegetarian so I mostly eat fruit and veg, whole-grain bread and whole-grain pasta, curry, and rice and beans.

Me too! I can't ever have two things touching each other on the plate and I eat each food separately. Like I finish all of one thing before moving on to the next. My mom said my grandfather used to do this too. Is this an OCD thing or an Aspie thing?

Either way I am INCREDIBLY picky about food and will run all over town to get "my" foods. I get some anxiety if I can't get my usual items so I tend to hoard. For example my freezer is now jam-packed of these lil chocolate soymilks cuz they stopped selling them at a store I used to go to. I worry so much that other places will stop selling them too.

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Reading about all these food abhorrences makes me sad because I am such a foodie, and different tastes and the ability to make whatever it is that I like is a real joy. That said, as a child, I liked only bland food... no salt, pepper, spices. My taco shells were loaded with lettuce and tomato and little else. I ate one thing at a time, no mixing allowed. I ate the gristle of meat, not the muscle. I loved calves' liver and hated hot dogs.

All that changed, though, and now I am a COOK. Very few processed foods. I like meat very much, but can't eat much; I am a carb hound. Whole grains, starchy vegetables, legumes primarily, with meat and dairy and veggies worked in so that it sings and has some kick. And I am now big on mixing my foods and combining flavors and textures. BUT... as appetizing as the olive bars look, I cannot tolerate the smell or taste of olives or beets, since I am horribly sensitive to the very smell of them, which gags me. I am very sorry for that because I think I am missing out on something I would very much appreciate if I were less sensitive.

I am a big fan of Top Chef, the reality cooking competition on Bravo, because I know that if I didn't have a social phobia or an inability to multitask, I would absolutely want to be a contestant. I don't know, but I've noticed at least several others on this board who share things with me like type 1 diabetes, atheism, height, and other things, but I think I've yet to read about an autistic foodie here, which is interesting. A lot of my interest was inspired, though, so maybe that accounts for it, especially since I don't think my palate is particularly sensitive, with the exception of the foods I mentioned. Funny.

I don't have a diagnosis, but at the very least I have a TON of aspie traits, and I am most definitely a foodie. On occassion, if the food is juuuuuuuuust perfect, I can actually get a buzz from eating.

My boyfriend is a VERY social person and we tend to have a lot of parties here. He thinks he's asking a lot when he asks me to cook something for 40 people, but I love it. Not only does it give me a chance to show off something I do well, it gives me a buffer and a connection to the people at the party: since I'm busy in the kitchen, I can use that as an excuse to ignore the people if it gets overwhelming, but it's an automatic icebreaker/conversation starter to shape interactions. On more than one occasion I've had professional chefs ask if I'd mind sharing a recipe with them.

I am pretty close to fearless in the kitchen. Tell me what you want, and I'll give it a try - lobster-stuffed beef tenderloin, lobster thermidor, scratch hollandaise or bernaise sauce, unusual cold soups . . . .? Sure. This leads to pretty impressive results when it works, but it also makes my failures somewhat spectacular when it doesn't. I do find myself to be very recipe-dependent, though. I'm quite happy to make substitutions/modifications to a recipe, even the first time I make it, but I pretty much need to have a recipe to work from. I find it extremely difficult to look in the fridge and just . . . put something together. Do you have a problem here, as well?

I eat most anything except broccoli,mushrooms,spinach,I love the smell of coffee but cannot stomach it nor can I stomach alcohol-I have to find non alcoholic liquid medicines.

Yes, I do. I mean, yes, I can reach into the fridge and whomp up something delicious, but carefully planned instructions are my comfort zone, because I don't multi-task effectively at all. I change recipes all the time, but I do it ahead, and write everything down in steps so that I can focus on just one thing at a time. I avoid putting together a lot of last-minute attention-sucking things like sauteing a veggie AND a piece of meat AND minding a sauce, and don't even think about asking me to boil pasta to perfection while all that is going on, although I've gotten pretty good at doing two things at once. Also, I must absolutely prep everything and have all my ingredients at hand before I start, since prepping things on the fly is too much to concentrate on, not to mention unnecessary. People tell me I look like I'm doing a cooking show because I have neat little dishes of all my ingredients right at hand. Ok, so there's another reason not to do Top Chef.

Cooking with other people is the only thing I really like doing with others. I suppose it's because I'm busy and don't need to say much. And I really do like to cook with other people. But not eat with them. No no no. I can't handle table conversation. When I was married (to a Middle Eastern guy) I would cook, and then go out on the patio to daydream while everyone else ate. They probably thought it was weird at first, but they got used to it.

Yeah, cooking is a real joy in my life, as well as watching food movies, picking out the fake food in non-food movies (Sleeping With the Enemy is a real doozie as far as fake food goes), and just watching out for things that I (and others) might like to eat, so it's nice to hear that you're an Aspie Foodie too.