Does anyone like to eat things just for the texture

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crunchy or crusty things (pancakes, hard bread, etc). I used to chew on aluminum foil when I was a kid...but that's about it.

I love the burst-in-your-mouth characteristics of steel-cut oatmeal & caviar. Obviously, one is on my table more often than the other.

What I can't/wont eat are foods that are goopy, creamy, pebbly or gelatinous. The worst offender was a bowl of beef and barley soup - the barley was gelatinous on the outside and the ground beef was pebbly. Other foods on the "No" list are cucumbers with seeds, runny oatmeal, most puddings and custards, and salads with more mayo than actual ingredients.

I eat everything, except for items not meant for human consumption.

I used to eat "Frosties" - not the cereal but the sweets covered in sugar. They didn't taste particularly nice and they actually made your tongue bleed because they were so rough but I'd eat them for hours just because I like having sweets in my mouth. I used to get through a big bag of mint imperials in a day too. Consequently, my mouth is mainly metal. I try not to eat any sweets now.

Like many people it's more food textures that I can't eat without retching than textures that i particularly like.

I can't eat bananas either, even though i love banana yoghurt. Weetabix after about 15mins, porridge, soup of any kind, rice pudding, custard. There used to be hundreds more when I was younger but I forced myself to eat more foods.

growing up I used to stand at the table, swing one leg back-and-forth, while eating a loaf of white bread and drinking milk from the carton... my mom used to yell at me for doing that.
I really like squishing the white doughy bread into little hard balls and biting them. I swear I could eat a whole loaf in one setting... everyone used to joke about me standing like that and eating... said that was the reason my feet were so big because everything just went straight down to my feet!

We had this old hand-crank ice crusher fixed on the door frame to the kitchen. It had a plastic cup that hooked onto the bottom.
We would drop in ice cubes into the top, rotate the handle until we had crushed a cup full of ice... then I'd pour white sugar all over mine and eat it... I loved the crunchiness and the sweetness.

I hated when I would get a glob of white bread stuck to the root of my mouth while eating a sandwhich!
I would almost freeze when it happened... I didn't know how to get it all off my palate.
It was just too weird to reach up and scrape it off the roof of my mouth.

Today, I still love APPLESAUCE. It is smooth but has that sorta grainy texture from the pulp which I like.
I also love to eat yogurt... Vanilla... I can eat the 2lb (907g) container in one setting.

Most of my eating is not about being hungry or even the taste (at times)... it's either about emotional feelings or the feeling of the food as I eat it.
I have always been prone to eat until I am over stuffed.

Things I can't tolerate.... for texture and taste.... Yams, Sweet Potatos, Cantelope, Cream Corn... to name a few

Absolutely! I love crunchy food! I don't otherwise stim, but munching on tortilla chips & salsa when I get home from work is sooooo relaxing.

I get the urge to munch on snacks now and then.
I usually am not really hungry and don't want to eat anything that isn't crunchy.
Often I end up wandering around the house going from the basement pantry up to the kitchen over and over again looking for munchies for at least half an hour. I get frustrated when I can't find any.
I wonder if it is just that crunch sensation that I want.

I don't know of anything I eat for the texture.... but there are things I can't STAND to eat because of that. Fat off of meat or shrimp.... too much like chewing on a rubber hose... shredded coconut, I cannot stand to have that in my mouth, and I think shredded wheat does the same thing to me but less intensely....

this isn't uncommon, one of the aspects a of food is texture, and in professional cooking that makes or breaks a dish. If you like crunchy stuff, go on ahead and eat it. ^_^ There's a reason why a lot of junk food is crunchy.

As for me, there are times I want a certain texture, crunchy, squishy, gummy, and I'll look for it. There are also textures I avoid, like liver.

I like the feel of spinach. It actually does have a certain feel to it. But I will not eat okra--- slimy!
I like things now that I hated as a kid--- mostly probably the way some of them felt, but others i did not like the taste. I like cottage cheese now, but as a kid i wouldn't touch it because it felt weird.

My entire diet is based on texture, really.

I don't like food in general. I am a vegetarian and I don't like to eat vegetables. The people I know all enjoy food and like rich food. They enjoy eating experimental foods at exotic and new restaurants. I order grilled cheese sandwiches. They tease me because I once stated that I've had grilled cheese sandwiches at all of the finest restaurants in Baltimore. I'm disgusted when the grilled sandwich arrives leaning against a pickle. For one thing, vinegar turns my stomach at the first smell of it and secondly I absolutely cannot stand my foods mingling with each other on my plate.

I eat only about 20 basic food products anyway. But I especially like dry and crunchy foods. I eat little else. I'm absolutely disgusted by wet condiments. ...catsup, mayonase, mustard, salad dressings, soups, sauces, dips, etc.

When I cook food, I insist that it be burned. Literally. Once, when I first moved in with my boyfriend, I was making toast in the toaster oven. He began questioning me as to why I was leaving it in the toaster so long. The two slices of bread suddenly burst into flames. He grabbed the tray with a towel and tossed it into the kitchen sink and ran the water over it. I got really upset because I still wanted to eat it. It only needed to be blown out. He ruined it by soaking it with water. Needless to say, he got rid of the toaster oven and he dissaproves of me cooking in general and certainly not alone or after he has gone to bed (unsupervised). Once when I was hospitalized, I set off the hospital's fire alarm when I tried to toast a dinner roll in a microwave oven, setting it on fire.

As for wet textures, there are a few exceptions,... I'll eat sweet things like corn syrup, pancake syrup, and so forth. I also like eggs and cheese. Also I usually eat 2 jars of peanut butter a week...directly from the jar.

I usually am offended by strong flavors, but sometimes I do enjoy heavy amounts of dry spices.

I have a collection of about 20 different kinds of salt which all have their own appropriate uses (not all dietary) and some of them sometimes substitute for each other if I'm out of another. I eat so much salt that a few years ago I went to my parent's house for christmas and my parents put before me a 2 foot tall cube wrapped in colored paper. I opened it. It was a gigantic cattle salt lick from my father. He thought it was very funny and whenever I'm with my family they love to retell the story.

Texture wise, I developed a real taste for steamed tortillas. oh, yeah... they have the same or similar 'al-dente' texture as pasta. I love pasta mostly for the chewy, slightly stick-to -your-teeth-then-pull- away clean feel. The aroma of sticky-starchy food is a real favorite for me. i dont indulge in them very often, though. They are not very healthy. I hate carrots for their horrible mushy and stringy texture. ugh. THe only way i would eat cooked carrots is in chicken soup, if they are cooked down to nothing. it adds such a different taste dimension to chicken noodle soup. i realy dont like sugary things, because of the way they feel between my tongue and teeth. Texture is definitely an issue for me. I really love the pop crunch when you bite into ripe watermelon flesh. each little melonwater filled cell goes pop pop pop.

I've always liked crunchy food. Smiths Square crisps - cheese & onion especially - are my favourite. Used to much through many bags of them while playing chess. I can't get them in the USA though. Darn I miss those!

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