Do you let different foods touch?

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My grandpa used to tell me this all the time. It used to make me so mad, too! When i was a kid I never let things touch on my plate, nor did I mix things together, or use any kind of condiments, like ketchup with my fries. Now, I'm able to let certain things touch, but very few. If anything is kinda runny, ie pork n beans, it needs to be on a separate plate, or very far away from anything on my plate. If my bread gets wet by any other food, it's over, I'm not eating it.

I always eat everything in the same order, too. First meat, then side dish, then vegetables. I've never changed, and I only eat one thing at a time on my plate.

That's one of the great things about being older, we can eat our desert first or just eat desert and the hell with the rest.

I don't mind if they touch, but I do keep them seperate on the plate in their own piles. And they usually end up being in the right place - if they aren't, I get a little edgy or turn the plate around to fix it as best I can. I don't do consciously, it's just how it ends up.

When I was younger if I had something that needed 'mashing up' my mother would have to ask me about 8 times before I'd do it, and then I'd keep mashing it until it was all so well mixed it looked like a stew or soup or cream or something, and THEN eat it. There is no in between.

i'm just like that...some foods are okay but others....no way.

and i always eat everything i don't like first, saving the best for last...ever since i can remember, i have always done this.

and everything has to be in a certain position on the plate or it just feels wrong. and then i have to rearrange it all. this is especially bad in a restaurant. it can also be messy...and tempt a food fight...lol!

I don't like different things on my plate touching, it's just... not right!

I can't stand it when foods touch, although if, say, a little bit of sweet potato casserole gets on my roll at Thanksgiving, I will go ahead and eat it, because sweet potatoes + roll is actually a good combo... 99% of the time, though, I don't eat the part that has run up against the other food.

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This is all getting me really hungry!

This was the case more when I was a kid. I absolutely despised the yucky taste of mashed turnips or parsnips and I hated it when they touched the delicious food on my plate but I knew if I refused to eat there would be no meal for me! Now I just hate the taste of mustard or gravy with soggy lettuce on the same plate, which happens when they touch.

In space I guess the astronauts do not have too much of this problem, as the food floats or is squeezed out of a tube right into the mouth, eliminating, I guess, this problem.

By the way, this post is Post 1113113 in on Wrong Planet.

No I don't. But I will let macaroni touch my steak.

I usally don't let my foods touch but I am getting better about it.

I don't let foods touch because the flavors get mixed and that's what I call "bad taste"

I voted yes, but the question is too broad. The majority of foods I have no problems with being in contact. But there are a few exceptions.

For instance, baked beans coming in contact with things like mashed potato, or bread, or sausage, etc. I can't stand, so in that situatuon no.

I think there is misunderstanding reguarding this area. It's not that we dislike certain foods to touch, it's that we dislike the texture produced of two food types touching. As a kid I'd avoid this if at all possible. As an adult I've trained myself not to think too much about it.

So most likely it's an issue of textures produced.

Yes I let different foods touch but my NT brother hated it when he was little. He always complain so my mother always had to make sure the food wasn't too close together on his plate. I think he outgrew it though because I haven't seen him complain about it in over ten years.

Never used to. If they touched or mixed in any way I wasn't touching them.
These days I don't care. I've calmed down a lot.

I've never liked it when my food touched on my plate. I don't get upset about it if it actually happens, but I'd really prefer that it didn't and it grosses me out pretty badly when it does. My ex used to make fun of the way I eat, I guess he thought the fact that I eat my food one by one(Say I had chicken, peas, and mash potatoes. I would eat the chicken, the peas, then the potatoes. Not take bites at random), keep them seperate and eat kind of slowly(I didn't think I was eating that slowly, but whatever)
Watching my Dad eat always made me want to vomit. The way he would take his french toast, eggs, bacon, and what every else. Pile them onto eachother and chow down. Ughh. It was painful just watching. haha
My Mother has always been the same way as me, maybe even a little more so.

Absolutely. There should be more options. I try to keep my foods as separately as possible except for complimentary foods (steak and potatoes, eggs and potatoes, eggs and toast). I like to pour my gravy on as I eat it or even dip my food in the gravy in a separate bowl, I don't like gravy sitting on the food, it gets cold really fast.

I also never flavored my food with condiments once it was cooked, I don't salt food or pour extra steak sauce. I used to eat potatoes plain or with a pat of butter. I season food a lot while I cook so I get mad when my husband pours more stuff on it.

I usually eat one thing at a time, unless I'm eating complimentary foods (see above).

I generally don't like traditionally hot food served cold and vice versa. Salads; don't like cold pasta salads, cold rice salads, cold meats.

I've never had this problem... rather, quite the opposite! I enjoy mixing the foods to create more balance or variety. To make a meal more interesting, I'll switch from the burger to the fries every so often - or mix a bite of steak with some potatoes one time and the next bite will be with a veggie, the next with all three, and the next just the steak alone. Variety, experimenting... using the bread to reclaim some of the juices or gravies left behind is nice too (provided the bread isn't sitting in something long enough to get soggy... texture is critical!)

One thing bugs me about vegetarian cuisine... and that's the name-changes. If something is a "cheese sauce" I expect my brain/tongue to register "cheese" when I taste/feel it. When I put in a bite and taste something else (like the carrots and cashews the sauce is really made of) it seems very, very wrong. If you're going to make a carrot-and-potato sauce, CALL IT THAT! Don't call it cheese if it's not cheese!
My in-laws are Raw-eaters and make what they call "lasagna". It's layers of spinach leaves with different veggies between them, along with the sauce above. IT'S NOT BLOODY LASAGNA!! ! It's a SALAD! "But it has layers!" they say... Then call it a Layered Salad then... even Lasagna Salad! But if you look at the recipes for typical lasagnas, you won't find even one traditional ingredient carried over. NOT ONE! So don't call it the same thing!!

That's my oddity... my brain refuses to enjoy something that "isn't right". I enjoy the lasagna salad if my brain is expecting what's going into my mouth - salad! It refuses it if it's expecting lasagna but gets salad!