Comments on: Food quirks https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Savannah https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:33:32 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-626 First of all…
The instant that I read the name of this blog-note, “food-quirks” I thought of Grandpa Sooter. I also thought of my dad, because his food habits are getting to be very similar to Grandpa’s. Dad loves peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, and he makes a glass, full of crumbled saltines with milk poured over it, as a snack. He also likes the oatmeal with bacon, eggs, and chili over it. He has it once a year for his birthday.

I have a couple weird food quirks, but I know of several people that are even more weird than I.

When I eat McDonalds Chicken Nuggets… I dissect them. I eat all the fried stuff off, then dip the little white piece of chicken in ranch and eat it. Weird, I know.

I really really really like to put a huge mound of cottage cheese in my salad, instead of salad dressing. MMM!!! So good!

I only eat one thing at a time on my plate. I will eat all of my green beans before my chicken. Always one thing at a time. And I NEVER mix anything!!!!

I put basil on everything. I love basil.

Ok, now for the best stuff.
My friend Abby won’t eat a grilled cheese sandwich unless she has melted chocolate chips into the cheese. Isn’t that disgusting?

My roomie, Chrissy, dips her graham crackers into Blue Gatorade. She made me try it one time and I loved it! It’s really good!

A little girl that goes to the daycare that I used to work at would only eat Apples if she could dip them in ranch.

And when my friend, Danni, went to Poland, anywhere you ate they served bread with a bowl of lard. Not butter, lard.

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By: Jessica https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:40:44 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-622 Julie-

Well, I have nothing to say as horrifying as Jenna Dean or Ronda! YIKES!!!!! I would have to wonder if any therapy was required after those incidents!!

And get this, just two days ago, my good friend talked me into trying a peanut butter and pickle sandwich!!! I thought she was crazy but it was actually pretty tasty!!

Probably the most “exotic” thing I’ve eaten is escargot that my dad made me try. It was prepared in some type of wonton shell thing and was actually pretty good.

I am generally somewhat averse to meat. I do eat it in small quantities but if I lived alone I would never make it. I tried being a total vegetarian for a number of years but fell off the wagon when a piece of beef jerky called my name.

There’s also a story behind me eating a jelly bean sandwich one time, which I would not recommend. Ick. Bread is good. Jelly beans are good. Together they are not good.

I do like saltine crackers with margarine spread on them.

A special treat that we used to get as kids when we stayed with our grandparents was “toast, cream and sugar” which was a piece of toast with half and half poured over it and covered in brown sugar. It was SOOOOO good and we weren’t allowed to have it anywhere but there.

And in college I used to make “cream cheese, cheddar cheese and pickle” sandwiches. There was a process of toasting, refrigeration and other steps before it could be consumed. Yummy.

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By: Ronda B https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-621 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:29:42 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-621 I really can’t think of any food quirks I have because I have always been a picky eater. As I have aged, so have my tastebuds, thankfully, and I have eaten so many more things than I ever used too. However, when I was in college my boyfriend at the time, now my husband, his roommate would go squirrel hunting. One day he invited me over for dinner and made squirrel. It wasn’t bad much to my surprise. Tasted a lot like chicken. When he opened the freezer door where he had been keeping them I was horrified to see them all perched in the door!

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By: Jenna Dean https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:04:56 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-618 Hmmm… I have eaten many strange things. The most horrifying thing I have ever eaten is an iguana that I named Pedro. After hours of playing with Pedro, the Nicaraguan men came, bound him up, shoved a stick through him, and roasted him over the fire. He was then served as my dinner. Extremely traumatic for an 11 year old. As to the chocolate/peanut butter fixation, I wholeheartedly agree! Oreos with peanut butter spread atop is one of my favs! I also love pretzels dipped in cream cheese. Yummy.

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By: Carey https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:55:48 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-617 Hi Julie! I remember that my dad had the strangest food quirks. He loved to eat sandwiches made from peanut butter, cheddar cheese and mustard. I tried it once, just to see what the hoopla was all about. It was truly wretched! On occasion, he’d unwrap an 8oz. bar of cream cheese and eat it like a candy bar. Just thinking of it makes me shudder! Even worse, was watching him drink a full glass of buttermilk. He’d just chug it right down and smack his lips afterwards. Ugh!

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By: Deb https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-616 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:53:46 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-616 Good morning Julie! I love a big scoop of fresh salsa on top of a mound of low fat, small curd cottage cheese along with a side of tortilla chips. The first time I was seen eating this in public (it was in the hospital cafeteria), I didn’t get rave reviews based solely on appearance but it caught on with a few people. I also love, and have loved since I was a young girl, Cheez It crackers alone, dipped in Jif or eaten with baby dill pickles.

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By: Tauni https://www.justjulieb.com/food-quirks/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:43:23 +0000 http://www.justjulieb.com/?p=3829#comment-615 I haven’t posted in a long time ~ so busy ~ but I can share in this one! My mom used to make us peanut butter, mayo, and sliced dill pickle sandwiches for a treat! We once had a Brazilian visitor who tasted peanut butter for the first time here in the states. He also loved fried eggs. Want to know what he really liked? You may have guessed, eggs fried in peanut butter! One of my very favorite desserts tho was one my friend Jodi and I were introduced to when we were visiting the Netherlands in 1973. It was white bread spread thickly with REAL butter (we always used margarine at home) and chocolate sprinkles sprinkled equally as thick as the butter. These sprinkles were very different than the ones found in our grocery stores for a cake/cookie topping. Not sure how, but they were. I have only had it once after returning to the states and a friend of mine who was Dutch-Indonesian knew where to buy the sprinkles. She bought me some and even though the taste was a little different (my adult tastebuds I suppose) it was still wonderful and transported me right back to Amsterdam. What a fun treat!

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