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Most restaurants serve a fairly wide range of foods, but of course it gets difficult when you eat with a bunch of NTs and they insist that everybody pick the same menu. I once tried skipping the soup, and they treated me like a traitor! Also, I suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and have to have regular meals, so on trips I will usually take some snack with me that I know agrees with me. For a while, when I was seven or eight, I used to carry a small shaker with Knorr Aromat (a kind of spice based on monosodium glutamate) with me that I put on all restaurant foods because I didn't like unfamiliar tastes.

I have some strange eating habits... and I always eat the same thing from whatever particular restaurant. ( since kit000003 mentioned waffle house... All-Star with scrambled eggs, bacon, and grits, buttermilk waffle, and a coke please)

With a plate of food, I finish one item before eating the next, and in order of "favoriteness", saving the best for last.

I dissect food like pizza(eat the toppings, then the crust) or a burger (in layers)

Whenever i go to a reseraunt i usually order really plain food like spaghetti bolognese, lasagna, pizza or fish and chips, people sometimes ask me why i dont try something different. I love take away food bacuase its so plain like Maccas and KFC, those new chrispy chicken burger deluxe at maccas are great

When I'm at a restaurant I often do try something different. Granted, it doesn't always come off but the experience is a nice thing to have. I experienced rabbit while quite drunk this way.

I'm generally not picky about food.

I hate cow's milk, and I'm probably somewhat lactose-intolerant. If I must drink it, it has to be ice cold.

I also dislike olives, most peppers, eggplants (no matter how it's prepared), most cheeses, and almost all vanilla- or butter-flavored foods.

Just an interesting anecdote: when I was really young, I refused to eat ice cream. My parents once pried my mouth open to give me a spoonful of ice cream, and as it turns out, I actually loved ice cream. LOL!

I am omnivorous. Internal organs and insects are among the very few things I will not eat again.

I can't eat raw fruits or vegetables. It has nothing to do with the flavor, but something about the crunch/texture of those foods on my teeth makes me gag. I'll eat almost anything if it's cooked...but some things maintain that texture (onions, carrots), so they have to be cooked to near-mush consistency. I can manage to choke back raw apple, in tiny little bird-bites, but everything else is out of the question. People say it's the weirdest thing...but I'll bet other people are like this too. I can eat raw fish, rare beef, just not a salad! Other crunchy things (like chips, nuts) don't bother me either.

Can I get over this? Gagging after biting a chunk of rogue lettuce when out to dinner with people is really embarrassing.

I had duck yesterday for dinner. Quite a strange-tasting meat and not one I particularly wish to try again.

I'm starting to get better with food, but I'm still what would be called a fussy eater : if we have a work team outing, the first thought everyone has 'is will Dan eat there?'
I still remember having my face pushed into my dinner by my exasperated father as I sat there picking at food whilst everyone else had finished..or being the last kid in the dinner hall at school because I didn't like what I HAD to eat.

Mostly it is fear of the unknown: it isn't because I don't like the taste, because I've never even tried the stuff before! I'm slowly getting better...I tried pizza for the first time last year and I'm 32...

As some others have mentioned, texture is a big part of it: for example, sea food makes me feel ill just touching it : I nearly gagged trying to eat a prawn!