Food

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Someone started a breakfast discussion.

For chit chat purposes, what are your preferences in food? Why?
This can go in different ways.

When I was younger, much younger, I used to eat crackers, potato chips, peanut brittle, and such foods with crunchy textures.
But as I got older I have come to dislike certain food, or at least not-prefer to eat them because of crunchy texture. Crackers tend to slowly turn into something like "wet dust" as you chew it and sticks between your teeth and way in back of your wisdom teeth. I used to eat potato chips without much problem but I learned that if you don't chew a potato chip carefully you can cut your tongue or your inner cheek or the roof of your mouth. Those kinds of mouth injuries are horrible because it makes it hard to eat anything else but very soft food, perhaps only soup. until your mouth heals.
I really dislike "crisp bread" because it is not only crunchy but extremely hard, like coarse sandpaper, and if you scrape the roof of your mouth with crisp bread (and it is extremely likely) it will take a long time to heal and just touching the roof of your mouth with your tongue is painful.
I also used to like raisins a lot but though I still like the taste, I still don't care for them as much as I used to and I don't like the way that the raisins in most raisin bran cereals tend to be hard and sticky and of course, stick to your teeth.

I like carrots but it is also one of the foods I learned you have to eat carefully.
If you bite into a very hard carrot (one with a pretty large circumference) as your teeth go through the carrot, the part of the carrot that is not inside your mouth but is pressing against the outside of your teeth, goes upward and close enough to your gums to push your gums upward. I believe there must be people who really understand what I mean by having had experienced this.
Still when carrots are shredded and put into wraps or pita bread or a salad it can make it easier to eat but also what happens is that the shreds are so thin and short that they can spill out easily and it is hard to get each shred and you don't get to eat everything you paid for. I wonder why carrots are not instead cut into thin circles to put in salads and pita bread and wraps.

I really like avocados but it is hard to know which ones will riper properly. I pick them while they are still hard and then allow them to ripen. Sometimes I am lucky and they turn out to ripen well, other times they just are hard on the inside and have a rubbery texture.

I have a boss who hates all kinds of cereal because he thinks cereal is strictly for kids. I think it has nothing to do with the taste. He just feels it is not macho (so to speak).
There are so many flavors and varieties and textures and flavor combinations in cereal.
I like cereal but not the crunchy kind. I don't prefer granola. I prefer muesli.
I might not dislike the taste but the texture of the cereal.
I love corn flakes but avoid the common kind that has BHA/BHT in it (preservatives that originally were meant to preserve the color in motion-picture film). But sometimes the more "natural" brands tend to make me feel nauseated if I eat more than one bowl of it.
I really like oatmeal but am not good at making a decent portion of oatmeal that is not too lumpy or too liquid-y.
I try to eat vegan for humanitarian reasons ( and also because factory farmed meat is not healthy anyway) but admittedly a lot of "substitute" cheeses, dairy, eggs, and meat tastes awful.
Tofu that has been prepared a certain way tastes like plaster.

I like salads but I have been trying to avoid tomatoes because they can sometimes aggravate arthritis. Same with potatoes ( the kind that are white on the inside). I always loved potatoes, especially boiled or mashed, but am trying to cut down.
But also I notice a lot of fruit and vegetables just don't taste like they used to.
Decades ago avocados were easier to find that will ripen properly. Bananas too. I notice that bananas often don't taste like they used to decades ago. I heard that bananas are eventually going to go extinct because there is a fungus that is destroying banana plants.

I like soup (certain flavors) but almost always the kind that comes packaged or in cans. I cannot make good soup.

Mostly I skip breakfast. My sister has a friend who is approximately 60 and she said that she never ate breakfast in her life and never had ill effects.
I have come across people who say they feel they would faint if don't eat every few hours. I know sometimes people have high blood sugar and need to eat every few hours, but sometimes I think that certain people have been taught to believe that they would pass out if they don't eat breakfast that they feel faint out of the power of suggestion.

I have heard that it is actually not true that everyone should eat breakfast.
I have also heard that it is actually not true that you should not eat before swimming. I would be more cautious of the latter but it can be an individual thing.

However I tend to like the kinds of food that is served at breakfast.

Anyone like Linburger cheese?

[MA]

I like a little bit of everything I guess.

[um]

Originally Posted by MikaelaArsenault

I like a little bit of everything I guess.

Perhaps you are lucky. No food tastes really bad to you.
Have you tried really exotic food? Durian fruit? .







https://listaka.com/top-10-exotic-fo...und-the-world/

[MISST3]

Yes, Durian Fruit, smells like old sweaty gym socks! I saw some years ago
in Honolulu, I don't know how anybody could eat it!

[um]

Originally Posted by MISST3

Yes, Durian Fruit, smells like old sweaty gym socks! I saw some years ago
in Honolulu, I don't know how anybody could eat it!

A lot of people hate beets because they have a certain taste like the dirt they grew in . I have heard some people call it an " Earthy" taste.
I like beets.

I notice that durian fruit is often sold in locations such as in Chinatown New York where there are other foods that only certain cultures are used to.

[MA]

Originally Posted by um

Perhaps you are lucky. No food tastes really bad to you.
Have you tried really exotic food? Durian fruit? .







https://listaka.com/top-10-exotic-fo...und-the-world/

I’ve heard of it, never had it before though.

What I meant to say was that I like a little bit of everything in each food group.