What are your weird food rules?

My last bite should be of my favorite part of the meal. Finish my least favorite part first.

The greatest compliment I can pay a meal is that I couldn’t choose which part to make my last bite.

Food should be finished at the same time. You work gradually around all of your sides and main dish so you have exactly one bite of each left, and then you finish your plate.

My SO drives me nuts because they can just eat the entirety of the main dish and then eat all of one side, and then all of another.

Always eat the pizza crust. If you don't, I will.

Food cannot touch on the plate. Each item must have a clearly defined DMZ between it and its neighbors.

A bite is not good unless it has a little of each thing on my plate. The flavors must all be in every bite.

Any time I buy chips and dip I have to always work from the top of the dip down, trying to keep it level all the way down. I have no idea why I do this, but it drives me crazy otherwise. If someone else takes a chip and digs straight down to the bottom of the tub I just don't want it anymore lol

I have an eating disorder and while I've gotten better...not that much better.

• A lot of foods are just dead to me. I miss bread.
• I weigh and log everything to .0 of a gram.
• At the end of the day I subtract the amount of calories I've eaten (to 0.01 kcals) from my calorie limit and those calories are banked in the form of egg whites so that I can always get bang on my calorie limit for the day.
• My main meal of the day has to take me over an hour to eat
• If I have to eat something that I can't log with certainty, or I'm bringing and purging that day, my calories for the day are halved
• I don't drink calories unless it's alcohol

You know, I hadn't actually written out these rules until now and like...oft.

Absolutely no digging in to the tub of butter, and no other food bits (usually bread crumbs) must be left inside.

If dug in to, it must be smoothed out before putting back in to the fridge. As for the crumbs, take them out and put them back on to the bread they came from. Now the butter can be put back in to the fridge.

How good pickles are is inversely proportional to how whole they are.

• Whole pickles: blegh
• Pickle wedges: no thanks
• Pickle strips: on a sandwich, sure
• Pickle chips: yum, on a sandwich or alone
• Diced pickles: oh yeah, please
• Pickle relish: hell yeah!

When I eat soft candies, I always have to bite them into pieces in a specific way. Like if I have a cola bottle gummy, I will bite off the "cap" first. If I have a gummy bear, I will bite the bottom legs off, separate the head from the arms and then split the legs and arms from each other. The gummy cherries, always bite the stem off first. Gummy bats, the wings separate from the body. Gummy coins I usually try to split down the circle, i.e. splitting in two thinner coins.

Most of the time it's just inside my mouth but sometimes I hold it in my hand and bite it off like that.

Also chocolate bars has to be eaten in the squares the bar is divided into. No splitting it across squares!

Corn on the cob must be eaten from left to right. You must eat all the way around the cob so that section is clean before moving on to the next section. I suppose I'd accept right to left in the same fashion; it's the people who take totally random bites with no rhyme or reason or uniformity that make me crazy.

There is no 5 second rule. If it touches the floor it's literally inedible.

I briefly microwave my ice cream before eating.

I don't want it to be soupy. I'm going for soft. And I am too impatient to let it sit on the counter a bit to reach that sweet spot of consistency.

Sandwiches are eaten like a typewriter. It drives my partner bonkers, she says I'm nuts....jokes on her, she's still hanging around 😂

I will eat all of the chocolatey edges of a Kit Kat before I start to eat the wafer bit that’s left with just two thin layers on top and bottom at that point.

I don't hate crust but I prefer the texture of a sandwich without the crust, so I eat most of the crust before eating the rest of the sandwich... I usually only do this when eating alone lol

The only weird one I have is that I can't do cereal and milk. 100% rate of vomiting resulted the two times I tried. I grew up on dry cereal and will, for all roughly two times a year I eat it, continue that. No, I'm not interested in adding water/ice/juice; that's just making wet bread with extra steps. Doesn't bother me that others do it.

Being poor and living out of a car in my early 20s for a bit rid me of any childish restrictions otherwise.

When it comes to things like chocolate bars, cookies, brownies, pop-tarts, ect., I almost always pop them in the freezer for a bit because it changes the texture.

Cookies/brownies with chocolate chips/m&ms are the best for this, because the chips get crunchy, while the cookie part is chewier.

Everything gets cut up before a pan gets turned on.

No plastic in the microwave. (Ceramics and glass only)

Range has to be clean before and after cooking.

Edit to add - can't believe I forgot this. I'll eat any leftovers cold and any fully cooked soup or chili cold too. I just don't care.

The 200-mile rule. Sushi is amazing but raw fish has to be trasnported somehow. If your eating seafood and are not within 200 miles of a body of water where it could have been caught... Probably best to pick something else.

Montana is not famous for its aquatic cusine.

And I too do the peanutbutter thing you mentioned.

I must eat from a small plate to make my little food seem big. NO BIG PLATES ALLOWED!

My wife pours the milk into an empty bowl then brings the cereal box to her seat and pours it in one spoonful at a time. She insists this makes sense to do, and it's the only way she'll eat cereal.

A colleague of mine cannot allow beans to touch some other foods on their plate. So in an English breakfast for example, they require some kind of bean barrier, such as a sausage, to prevent the beans from touching other elements of food on their plate. I find this weird.

Asparagus is finger food, no ifs or buts about it.

Soup is not food.

If I can't eat a combination of the main dish and a side, the side doesn't go with the main dish. Lucky for me, that is generally the case with most foods.

Desserts are the exception, but I don't count them as sides.

I like to eat green beans like french fries. I'll even dip them and catch up and/or barbecue sauce.

Nothing on my plate can touch, especially if they are different textures. Textures are almost as important as flavor. This is the main reason why I don't eat zucchini.

When I really like something I want it the same way every time. Don't try to dress it up with new stuff, it was perfect before, I want it the same way.

At school I always eat the salad first, drink water and then the main meal.

I always scrape my ice cream and cheese. If I get a nice piece of Gouda or cheddar and I'm feeling snacky then I will take a sharp knife and scrape it. I swear it's so much creamier and smoother in your mouth, eating it normally makes it look like cardboard in comparison. Same thing with ice cream, scrape it with my spoon while serving.

What drives me insane is that my mom will literally take a bite out of the block. Even with Parmesan.

I can't eat a sandwich if I don't have chips with it.

Some foods should not be touching other foods but I can't use one of those cafeteria trays because the texture makes me gag.

My solution to it is using glass or ceramic plates and bowls for each item. There are exceptions of course.

Silverware is another thing altogether.

A green salad should never contain anything sweet.

This probably doesn't count, but I am also firmly of the opinion that water chestnuts are not food.

No seed oils. No ultra processed food or drink, or to an utter minimum. I mean, I will always eat a pizza or a bag of chips or something at some point. So, it balances out. Little sugar, since it is already everywhere.

Make everything at home, if possible.

I only like yellow onions in cooked things, I'll tolerate cooked white ones but I won't buy them myself. No raw onions ever. Red onions are only acceptable when pickled, but they can fuck right off otherwise.

If prepping uncooked meat of any kind, wear disposable gloves.

Cooked meat is fine to handle without gloves if needed but touching raw meat with bare skin is right the fuck out.

I cannot eat cheese unless it is melted. I just hate cheese's taste

If you don't eat that chicken wing clean, we can't be friends.

You get one pass and that's if you only take 1 wing.

Once you grate a carrot, it's no longer food.

Leftover pizza needs to be heated up in a pan in medium heat. Its the only way for the pizza to not become soggy, to the crust have some crunch on it and to restore the cheese melt.

I will argue with anyone in my house that goes against this!

Sandwiches should have their contents rearranged so they each bite has exactly the same amount of filling. If that cannot be done, the bites with the least filling should be eaten first and those with the most should be saved for last.

I bristle on the inside when my kids want a slice of bread for breakfast. Toast is for breakfast, and bread is for other meals. I don't even actually care about this, but my dad did when I was a little kid and I clearly internalized that lesson.

Sides should ideally be eaten before the main - unless it annoys whoever I am eating with

There is one correct way to eat pop tarts or other toaster pastries. Nibble off the sides, then eat the non-iced side, then fold the iced side in half so you get a double filling, double iced pastry. Finally you can expericence nirvana, the effort is worth it.

If I'm having pasta, the bowl always have a flat plate beneath, even if I don't plan to eat another course after

My rule is there are no rules. I like to eat dangerously and without borders.

Peanut butter never expires. Ever.

Salads and sandwiches should be served room temperature, never right out of the fridge cold

Only sandwiches in the shower. Noodles are right out. Edit: nobody liked my joke, sad

Sort by color, then eat in order of worse to best. Only really applies to things like M&Ms and Skittles. It's basically edging for the blue ones.

I cut up pizza mozzarella so that each disk of mozzarella remains uncut. Sometimes it means extremely chaotic cuts. But the rationale is that cutting through molten cheese is extremely messy, so I avoid it if I can.

Also, Brussel sprouts are the best green vegetables.

Liquid dairy grosses me out, never puked but gagged a couple times. Cream, cream based sauces, melted ice cream (though if I eat it fast enough it doesn't melt!), queso, but melted cheese on pizza is somehow ok.

It's so dumb, I somehow conditioned myself.

I'm not drinking tap water or microwaving anything unless I'm about to die without doing it.

Meat should be cooked through when eaten by humans. People who eat rare/medium rare/medium steaks are basically dogs.

My weird rule is I don’t buy food…. Kidding not kidding

Everyone gets a minimum of one chance for BS. I don't like people giving me BS.