/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I was really picky as a child. Fucking hell it is embarrassing looking back.

Wait until he's 15 or so and he'll grow out of being a fussy little shit.

Picky eating is kind of dumb but:

>>5171521
>I have so far tricked him into eating

is fucked up.

This used to happen once a month or so:
>be a server at Olive Garden when I was in college
> in a small-ish midwestern town
> 30 year old obese woman comes in, orders fettucine alfredo
> we put a sprinkle of chopped fresh parsley on top for dat color
> sends it back "muh al-frayduh isn't suppose to have nunna dat green stuff"
> ma'am, it's parsley
> "I NEED TO SEE A MANAGER"

So we throw out a whole plate of food since the hambeasts don't want any parsley.

>>5171535

>>5171535
Well did it mention any parsley on the menu?

>>5171544
I'm sure it didn't list every ingredient.

>>5171544
Do you seriously expect establishments to list their garnish?

>>5171544
I can't believe you're trying to justify this bitching over parsley

>>5171556

what if he's allergic, YOU'LL KILL SOMEONE

>>5171568
How old are you?

>>5171568
Pick it out. Takes a lot less time than sending it back and getting another.

>>5171571

Old enough to read a menu that didn't say shit about no damn parsley.

Stop feeding the troll, guys.

>>5171621
There hadn't been a post in 20 minutes, but thanks for letting us know.

I, like most kids, went through a bread and butter stage of childhood. My parents didn't care as long as I was eating something.

As I got older, my dad did the whole "eat it or starve" routine at dinner time. Not a picky eater now.

>>5171521
>How to Cure a Picky Eater

The usual solution would be for the parents to not stress out over food and prepare stuff in a variety of ways.

>>5171521
IDK how my mom magically made us want to eat anything, but she did. Well, first off, she didn't suffer picky eating at all. It was "eat what's being served or don't eat". Although, if there was some part of what was being served that we especially didn't like, she wouldn't bitch if we picked it out. But that was the thing, we had to pick it out ourselves, there was no catering to our tastes. Also, she and my father took us to exotic restaurants as much as possible, which usually meant driving to a neighboring city, because I grew up in a small town. But I have awesome memories of eating exotic (or so it felt to me) foods as a kid. Anyway, she made food interesting and fun. Like for certain holidays, she would let us help pick the menu, but we had to pick things we'd never eaten before. I remember one New Year's Eve, when I was maybe 7 or 8, I picked caviar as the thing I wanted to try. And we did. She made blinis and we ate them with the caviar. I remember being really surprised at the taste, but liking it. Fried frog legs, that's another distinct memory from when I was really young. Good stuff.

>>5171521

The very nature of 4chan is ephemeral. I suggest you rely on yourself to achieve your objective or meet your ends, and I offer the insight that if your boyfriend, in himself, isn't appropriate for you, you should seek someone who is.

Otherwise you might end-up with a pet robot.

On a personal note, you sicken me.

>>5171527
no it's really not

>>5171661
I can't believe you still post here.
Doesn't this entire board hate you?

>>5171708
He was gone for a bit but is now telling us all about his recent crisis.

It was funny when he was trying so hard to push Bachelor Chow and everyone basically ignored it.

>>5171642
>my dad did the whole "eat it or starve" routine at dinner time. Not a picky eater now.
This. My parents did this to me when I refused to try something and 9/10 times I wound up liking it. Now I'll try anything. I have a half sister who's 9 though, and she won't eat anything except for bread, butter and meat. And she's morbidly obese (go figure). But for some reason my dad doesn't force her to eat veggies like he did for me, so she's never going to get over it. ;_;

>>5171521

the reddit is strong with this one

>>5171811
He doesn't love her as much as he does you anon.

>>5171817

bitching about anything remotely related to reddit (and how the OP has anything to do with it, I don't know) is far more detrimental to discussion than the original issue

>>5171521

As a man who doesn't like crustaceans or seafood, let me tell you this.

If you mask fish taste, it's okay. People are like "OOOOH SALMON! Try it! you'll love it!" I take one bite of it and taste fish. all i taste is fish, and it sucks. Raw salmon dunked in soy sauce and wasabi? totally fine. It has a good texture, and I cant taste fish.

Most crab cakes? Taste like donkey ass. Crab cakes in a 4 star restaurant? Fucking amazing.

I still cant handle Mollusks though. Also, to me, Lobster tastes like a lump of protein.

If its prepared well, I'll try it. But by default, if any pleb tries to offer me seafood, I turn that shit down politely.

>>5171521
jumbo shrimp are marinated in chile-garlic oil, then wrapped with bacon and grilled. They're served with a house-made cocktail sauce that's spiked with a horseradish.

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/bacon-wrapped-shrimp-with-cocktail-sauce

>>5171527
Unless you're tricking people into eating something they're allergic to, or that they're ideologically opposed to, it really doesn't matter.

When I was a kid we got ourselves some chickens as a hobby, and so for a few years I absolutely refused to eat chicken. Seeing how I didn't know anything about food back then, though, I never really caught on how lean some of the "pork" dinners were.

>>5171856
Oooh, thank you.

Shrimp is kind of obviously shrimp, though. I was thinking of making something using tuna steak and disguising it as beef or pork.

Wait, I've got it! I'm going to make ceviche and disguise it as salsa! Yess.

bump, I'm a picky eater at 22 and shits embarrassing, not to mention unhealthy.

>>5171838
This.

>>5172185

hey hey haven't seen you in forever and I deleted my fap folder of your pics. can you repost some?

OP you should take some fresh oysters and slip them into your kitten before he gives you oral pleasure.
When he is really going for it , beavpoop them into his mouth.
He now loves oysters.

>>5173315
well, stop, simple as it comes

>>5173315
You should be embarrassed. Just stop it. Try new things. Try them again. Consider the flavours and don't discount them until you've actually tasted them. What's the worst that can happen?

>>5171521
Your dad sounds cool.

Uh, other than that, lol I dunno.

I've actually had a lot of success with curing picky eaters. It's about understanding a few things:

>Parents/Past Experiences:
My dad was the kind of guy that would buy "discount meat" and then cook it horribly. Think partially spoiled lamb overcooked.
I grew up a long time thinking I just "didn't like lamb" until I found out that "I didn't like my father's cooking".
For a picky eater who had a bad cook in the family: eating to them, is like what sex is to someone who was molested.

>We're designed to be on high alert to anything we ingest.
If it's foreign, or not yet proven to do no harm, it can be off putting/scary.
This just becomes a matter of exposure to overcome. Going with people to different restaruants and seeing them eat, and survive.
I took someone out who was a picky, we got food before at a place they liked. Then we went out to dinner a couple times to different places with friends. They got to say "I've already eaten, I'm just here to hang out" and still enjoy the experience of going out, unalienated. Eventually enough times seeing that we still somehow survived, they started to try things.

>Some people just have a different spectrum.
>Note: Sometimes it's not subjective.
For instance, think of the taste equivalent of 'colourblindness'. Sometimes it's the exact opposite, they can taste things your blind tongue cannot. For instance, I'm personally sensitive to a chemical associated with fermentation/rot. (Vinegars, pickled foods, etc...) "Earthy" foods turn me off. But to my coworker, all of the above is godly to her. She likes earthy/sour/woody. Earthy coffee, bleu cheese, pickled foods, Romanian food. I'm more in the spectrum of fresh/spicy/sweet: Thai, Italian.

And finally:

>Some people just are dumb.
It's a fact. You can't fix em all.

Try the Vagoysters

>f it's foreign, or not yet proven to do no harm, it can be off putting/scary. This just becomes a matter of exposure to overcome. Going with people to different restaruants and seeing them eat, and survive.I took someone out who was a picky, we got food before at a place they liked. Then we went out to dinner a couple times to different places with friends. They got to say "I've already eaten, I'm just here to hang out" and still enjoy the experience of going out, unalienated. Eventually enough times seeing that we still somehow survived, they started to try things.

This just seems retarded to me and why I don't understand picky eaters who won't try things (those who do and still dislike everything are another story).

Clearly people eat [whatever food in question] all the time and manage to survive and thrive. It's utterly stupid for any adult (and hey, child) to expect that they are so special as to be damaged by whatever food is put in front of them. That sort of mental deficiency must indicate some incredibly deep selfishness close to mental illness for them to need to see, in person, that yes, popular foods that everyone else is eating are fine to eat. It speaks volumes of their personality.

Stop dating a bitch.

>>5171708
yes and we hate you too

I was a horribly picky eater as a kid.
I had pneumonia/tuberculosis/huge asthma attack at the same time as a 2yo and associated food psychologically to pain. I used to eat only rice, eggs, and soup/sauces on rice. Eventually I branched out to sausages and burgers in my teens. No fruits except bananas and apples and no vegetables ever. My grandfather who cooked like a god was horrified everytime we ate together, he tried forcing me to eat peaches and I vomited on the table.

Thankfully after living alone at 18, I started to learn how to cook. Controlling the ingredients and cooking everything myself helped ease my picky eating, that and curiosity, and after 2 years of living alone i'll eat anything.

You just need to be drunk/buzzed and hungry and you can eat anything

>tuna fish
As opposed to what other kind of tuna?

Sounds like my mother, she's bit picky when it comes to chicken. She doesnt like the way chicken tastes? I dont understand it much myself. Her explanation " I dont like chicken that taste like chicken."

>>5171723

I wasn't trying to push it, people were asking for cheap food. It's food, it's cheap, it's easy to make, it can be educational, it's nutritive, balanced, tested, unhyped, etc.

Reddit can guzzle Soylent cum all they want and rave about it all they like. I came-up with Bachelor Chow first, it's cheaper, and it's food.

>>5171524
you were a kid. who gives a shit?

Ate some meat my dad cooked

Find out later it was a fox he ran over

Never again cared about roadkill

College made me realize how ridiculously picky people are.

Fucking faggots asking what's in the thing for every goddamn item. I don't know how these people aren't dying of malnutrition sometimes.

>>5171521
>"so far I tricked him into eating stuff!"

if he was allergic you would be in jail right now.

stop forcing things on people, I used to be picky because everyone wouldn't stop trying to force different foods on me, it felt horrible and I actually regressed and ate even less of a variety of foods because of the anxiety they caused me, so one day they wouldn't stop bothering me to "try this anon try this" and I told them to screw off and made a huge scene. they left me alone after that, and I was able to chill out and try foods on my own and now I love so many foods I can't count them

OP, people like you are making these picky people even more picky, and then you say "HAHA GUESS WHAT YOU TRIED THIS THING YOU DIDN'T LIKE BUT I TRICKED YOU INTO EATING IT HUEHUEHUE" and you make them feel betrayed.

you didn't respect their decisions and you should expect to have no friends eventually if you keep this crap up.

>>5171527
this, OP is being a huge friend betrayer.

you just don't do that to people.

>>5183032
> it felt horrible and I actually regressed and ate even less of a variety of foods because of the anxiety they caused me
what kind of pussy-ass bullshit is this?

>>5171535
I honestly get remember being really little and being forced to go to a restaurant with my parents.

>"anon what do you want"
>look at menu
>"uhhh pizza" because everything else looked like crap (used to be picky)
>all food comes
>look at pizza
>"HUE HUE lololol we garnished you pizza with a giant load of stuff that you had NO idea was going to be on your pizza!"
>no not eating it, how dare you
>"cmon anon you will like it cmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"
>make it very clear I wont eat it
>they send it back
>pizza comes back literally 5 seconds later with all the toppings smeared off
>"whoa whoa excuse me you think your going to trick me?"
>refused to eat it.
>the end

>>5171544
exactly, if it didn't mention it on the menu, then they were right.

>>5171575
some people are allergic to things even if they just touched the food, picking them out wouldn't work. this is terrible advice.

>>5171621
I know this is a troll thread but I just feel like unleashing my rage, like warning OP that he is a dishonest jerk that will lose their friends by tricking them and being a sneaky douche.

>>5171642
>>5171811
wow your tough authoritarian father sure taught you a lesson!!! instead of letting you learn at your own speed and comfortably expand your horizons he just forced you to eat stuff that made you unhappy, Wowwww *clap clap clap* your so tough because your dad was tough on youuuuuu wowwwww *CLAP CLAP CLAP*

nobody likes your dads and nobody likes people like you because people like you turn into those douche dads.

do the world a favor and be less of a jerk to your kids if you ever have any so that the cycle of suffering doesn't continue.

kids shouldn't have disgusting food they can't handle shoved down their throats as threats are yelled at them if they don't finish everything on the plate, just screaming at their faces as they vomit all over the floor.

NOT COOL. yes projecting

>>5171643
10/10 most logical post in the thread

>>5174933
>hey anon try this
>no dad I already tried it
>no you didnt
>yes i did
>no you didnt
>yes i did
>yes you didn't
>no i dont
>DAD LEAVE ME ALONE
>cmonnnnnnnnnnn try it
>I ALREADY TRIED IT AND I HATE IT *******OFFFFFFFFFFFFf

>tfw you have tried more new foods when with your friends than with your parents

I don't get it. Is is a subconscious "FUCK YOU!" to your parents?

>>5171521
>be 5
>go to florida to visit uncle and disney world
>enter to seafood restaurant
>immediately begin vomiting while dad rushes me to restroom

>>5183060
yes probably because the parents were being jerks all the time.

for some reason I notice that lots of people have horrible relationships with their parents because as parents try to control their kids more and more, their kids hate them more and more, so they just simply, do not like their parents.

parents need to be the first best friend someone has. don't listen to these jerks that say otherwise.

>>5183060
no, maybe it's the fact that you have no pressure to ruin entire dinners by eating stupid shit when you are friends with people who have their own money and choices to eat whatever.

>be 5
>go to bathroom to visit uncle in florida
>enter the toilet
>now in florida
>immediately begin vomiting while dad rushes me to the seafood
>lobsters get pissed off and snibbety snab everyone
>go to monsoon lagoon and ride the wavepool

>Family reunion
>someone bought a bag of oysters
>cooking the ones that are too much pain in the ass to shuck
>no one actually tries to eat them
>everyone thinks they look disgusting and it's nasty because you don't "clean" the meat
>why did you guys even buy this?
>spent entire night eating a full bag of expensive oysters by myself.

that was a good day.

My dad's favourite line when I was a kid was "You don't have to like it, but you have to try it." and Im glad it was because I he made a bunch of dank ass food that I probably wouldn't have eaten otherwise.

>>5183059
You need to try something at least three times to be able to tell if you like it or not. That's what my mother always nagged about when I was a kid, and if I didn't like it after three honest tries she usually let it go. And by honest try I mean actually eating it, not just taking a tiny bite and spit it out. It might help if you pretend to yourself that you don't hate it when you try it, you can go a long way by simply fooling yourself on purpose.

>>5172161
Ahi Tuna. Cook it all the way through in the right sauce and it dank as fuck

>>5183044
no, there aren't ingredient lists on menu you fuckin idiot. It is the responsibility of the customer to indicate if they are averse to any ingredients while ordering

>>5183052
You are an enormous faggot, and your kids are also going to be enormous faggots.

>>5183069
>go to bathroom to visit uncle in florida

>>5183098
It's OK to use the abbreviation “PC” to refer to a certain kind of computer hardware, but please don't use it with the implication that the computer is running Microsoft Windows. If you install GNU/Linux on the same computer, it is still a PC.

The term “WC” has been suggested for a computer running Windows.

>>5183105
WHAAAAT

>>5183088
I totally understand what you are saying, but I did try it. sometimes once, sometimes 4 times, didn't matter. "hey annnoooonnnn try thisssssss"

Now, I eat lots of things. if you look at it a certain way, lots of people that are very picky also have a very complex way of eating.

I simply refuse to touch high fructose corn syrup.

>>5183093
>order pasta with white sauce
>its probably pasta with white sauce because thats what it said
>its not pasta with white sauce
>YOU SHOLD HAVE NOWNNNNNNN

>>5183105
did you accidentally /g/ and /ck/

>somewhere on /g/ there is a post about picky eaters vomiting in the bathroom

Used to get a chicken pie sent down by my Gran for Sunday lunch every 2 weeks or so. She used chicken on the bone to make it taste superb.

Had been eating this for as long as I can remember then 1 sunday when I was close to sitting my A levels (britbong) including biology, I was sucking some chicken off the bone when I thought 'this is a scapula - chickens don't have scapulas!' It was rabbit of course. My family were pissing themselves over the look on my face but I just thought for a few minutes, meh and carried on eating - it was bloody good food so who cared.

Pretty much try anything once now. Also tastebuds change as you age - now think honet roasted parsnips are heavenly but used to nearly vomit over the smell.

>>5183132
honey*

>>5183124
but it is pasta with white sauce. on top of that is a thing called garnish which your pleb ass have clearly never heard of

>>5183052
The reason you never made it out of your mother's basement is because your parents didn't push you out of your comfort zone.

>>5183139
then it should mention

>"pasta with sauce + garnish"

then you can ask "what is the garnish?"

but if you didn't even know they were going to go to you know you thing

>>5183152
my comfort zone is bed when I go to sleep, other than that, there are rarely comfort zones.

you need to forget this stupid way of thinking, treating other people with hatred because its the "right thing" just because someone else taught you that way.

your so butthurt you don't even know it, your parents parents parents parents parents are responsible for the treatment you got, your actually suffering from what is known as "spanking from the past" syndrome, because your family treated their kids with hatred and when they had kids they used them as scapegoats. the only way to break the cycle is to be a loving parent and not an evil one.

>>5183161
if it was possible, his parents would have done it though

>>5171578
Have you seen a menu with ALL ingredients?

>>5171846

So what you mean is you only like FRESH seafood.

Seafood like salmon and crab (and most other foods from the water) only taste fishy when no longer fresh.

4 star restaurants won't use anything that is obviously beginning to turn, hence the fresher flavor.

>>5171521

i have a 26 year old friend, just came back from the army.

won't eat anything he doesn't already know he eats and likes.

went to sushi place, all you can eat sushi restaraunts. there was like 70 choices.

he ordered a spicy tuna roll, a california roll, and 2 avacado rolls.

wouldn't try any of my nigiri shit. drinks craft beer out of the bottle.

stubborn

>>5183121

you're such a fucking child, its hilarious.

the reason you need to try it 3 times is because MAYBE just MAYBE you'll let go of the preconceived notions that this food is nasty and tune into the flavor.

taste is all mental! it's not like you're expecting the taste of something you don't like to change - you expect to change your opinion of it... it's how you aquire tastes! Olives taste like shit and i hated them. They still taste exactly the same and now I love them.

> Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

>>5183161
>>5183052
I'm fairly certain you're a troll, but just in case you aren't:
As parents, you are obligated to provide nutritious food that is safe to eat. That is it. Indulging a poorly nutritious diet and going out of the way to indulge excess choosiness while providing all the food and doing all the work yourself is hardly fair, or beneficial to the child in the long run. Until the child funds and runs the kitchen then whatever comes out is what is available. Humans have evolved to deal with this kind of situation and actually, beyond the initial change, not even notice it, or even enjoy it long as the food is safe and nutritious.

If what comes out of the kitchen is poorly prepared to the extent that it loses nutritional value or biological rejection responses kick in (i.e. burned, rotten or off, or has had its nutritional value removed through being boiled to within an inch of structural annihilation) then that is another matter.

>>5183065
kill yourself

>>5178891

Tuna piano

>>5171649
>caviar
>frog legs
>exotic restaurants
Not every household is stinking rich like yours was, y'know

>>5183360
cheapest items on the menu

>>5183041
>>5183059
So you're a whiny cunt.

Being picky has nothing to do with it.

I was somewhat picky as a child, but I ate things other children usually hated. Like olives and capers, I'd fucking grab that olive jar and go crazy.

I think I stopped being picky because I took up an interest in food and cooking, and actively wanted to try new things and combinations. Guess I just grew up.

It kinda sucks, I'm now really in to food, I attend gourmet events every now and then because I'm good friends with the chef and sometimes do photos for them, and I get really inspired as to what I cook myself. Now I recently met a pretty amazing girl but MY GOD is she picky. Like seriously picky. She only eats beef and poultry, and usually only beef when in the form of bolognese, and even then, she only eats it if it doesn't have visible vegetables. She can't eat cooked onions and carrots, what the actual fuck she's an adult.

Guess that's what you get for being an only-child with somewhat pampering parents.

It sucks, because I usually swoon girls with cooking..
Considering just force feeding her.

My brother is one of the pickiest eaters I know. He will eat anything processed and his diet mainly consists of mc Donald's, pizza, and chicken wings. He hates seafood but will eat fried halibut as in fish and chips, anything else he won't touch. The only salad I have seen him eat is a chicken ceaser salad covered in dressing.

>>5186195
>cooked carrots being edible
>take a crispy delicious veggie
>cook it to mushy shit
>YUM

I cant stand most cooked veggies, just ruins them. There are a few that are ok, and carrots can be ok if just tossed in very late to a stir fry so they arent really "cooked" just warmed up...but fuck most actual cooked veggies.

(This MAY be because I grew up with scottish grandparents who's idea of cooking is to boil everything for several hours into a nasty mush)

>move into house
>friend of friend lives with us
>Only eats bread, fries, nuggets and sausage links
>no sauces

Fucking manchild.

>be in asia
>weird shit everywhere
>will starve to death if won't try new things

Choice 1:
>subsist on McDonald's and candy bars

Choice 2:
>give up and die

Choice 3:
>try the weird shit

>>5186195
You don't swoon girls you woo them. If you are an amazing pitcher of woo then they may swoon.

>>5171521
>My boyfriend claims he hates any kind of fish or crustacean. I have so far tricked him into eating (and enjoying) clam chowder and pad thai made with fish sauce. Any ideas on what I can do next?
You're a disrespectful prick. Clam chowder is 100% cream flavor. Big deal. Fish sauce isn't even fishy. But, people who have an aversion to fish, will in fact not be tricked out of it. Knock it off.

Just wait until he tricks you into thinking he isn't banging better women on the side.

>>5183132
>I was sucking some chicken off the bone
>scapula
stay classy.

>>5183357
>Seafood like salmon and crab (and most other foods from the water) only taste fishy when no longer fresh.
Not exactly true. Every fish has a flavor, and the red meat fish, like swordfish will have that flavor, and the high fat fish, like salmon will have that flavor, and crustaceans have a differing degree of fishiness or buttery-sweetness. Varies by diet, as well.

Though it's true fish that is unfresh has a strong flavor, it's more that they lose their good flavor seawater flavor and tender texture. The rest is simply what kind of fish, so it's not a rule.

>>5171568
>>5183124
You don't eat out much, do you?


.

>>5178893
She probably dislikes the taste of boiled chicken; the kind of taste you get from chicken broth. I can't say I understand that though.

I am not exactly picky, but if something smells off to me, I try it, and if I don't like it I don't eat it. Life is too short to eat food you don't like. That said, I like a lot of things.

>>5186684
Yes, thats the word i was looking for. Thanks anon.