Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

I absolutely adore food, bland and plain or adventurous and spicy. I could eat beans on toast everyday, for every meal for a year and not get bored. (My body wouldn't thank me for it though!!)

I think it's more the texture of food I love. I love chewing crunchy biscuits and feeling the transition to it going 'gooey'. I sometimes ephasise this feeling by eating a biscuit and then half way through chuck something soft in like a jaffa cake! I like a consistent volume of food in my mouth at any given time when I'm eating meals which is why I eat far too fast... 

Since I was a child I put tomato sauce on EVERYTHING! It brings familiarity to every meal and a meal isn't the same without it. I've been known to go to very fancy restaurants, have an amazing steak (blue of course), and then request tomato sauce to dip it in! 

Textures can also cause me intense displeasure and are one of the few things I cannot control in public. One of the worst offenders for me is pineapple. If I sink my front teeth into raw pineapple I will stand up, I will flap my hands and I will tell it to **** off!

I also love food! I'd have to add a good helping of sweet chilli sauce to that beans on toast though :-)

I keep saying  that I don't have a thing about textures but I've been reading through my own replies and it would seem that I do have a thing about mashed/smooth food with unexplained lumps in it! Well there's no telling what the lump might be right? That's interesting that you like the contrast of different food textures, are there any other good food texture combinations? 

I've never really been one for tomato sauce, except with burgers or sausages. I am making up for it with the sweet chilli sauce though!

I wonder what it is about the texture of pineapple that causes you to react like that, the crunchiness perhaps?

Kitsune said:

are there any other good food texture combinations? 

I've done this a lot in the past without ever realising why! I don't really conform to what foods should be eaten with what etc. For lunch, as an adult, I used to have cheese spread on white soft bread with salt and vinegar crisps on - either walkers squares or chip sticks. The contrast in flavours and textures is amazing! So simple to make as well! Sometimes this is what life's all about! I also enjoy a nice ice cold glass of full sugar coke with this one. Wash a mouthful down with coke and it pleasantly fizzes in your mouth.

I mix a variety of cereals in my bowl sometimes. Coco pops, crunchy nut corn flakes and cheerios is nice.

Chips dipped in ice cream is a good one too. This has a difference in temperatures too.

And also whilst on a contrast of temperatures: hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream! (Not that there's anything odd about that one!)

I'm suddenly very hungry!

Kitsune said:

I wonder what it is about the texture of pineapple that causes you to react like that, the crunchiness perhaps?

I honestly can't put it into words. It's just an unbearable feeling that shoots from my teeth throughout my body. I think it's the way my teeth slide through it, almost with a squeak... makes me shiver. 

It was more my mum persuading me and checking with the school.really

That's bad that you had such bad experience with school dinners but good that they eventually decided to be reasonable about it. Shame it took them so long though!

I can understand the bad association with the chicken balls! Port is a bad thing to develop an aversion to though, I love a bit of port at Christmas time!

I also remember my eldest daughter has an aversion to apple and blackcurrant juice for the same reason, association between drinking it and having a stomach upset during the following night. These stomach bugs have a lot to answer for!

I could imagine that fizzy drinks wouldn't be good for silent reflux. Limes are good, not as good as lemons though :-)

1. I just find Pepsi way to gassy anyway. I don't like fizzy drinks that much and the doctor warned me they are not good if may have silent reflux. Limes are fine

We've still got Easter Eggs sitting in the kitchen cupboard. Nothing to do with stomach bugs, they just haven't been eaten yet! Good thing that you didn't generalise your aversion to all chocolate!!

I has gastroenteritis as a kid at Easter. The eggs just sat there, and I didn't want them when I was well. Never ate an Easter Egg since.

I used to love sweet and sour balls from the Chinese takeaway, until one time when they made me horrendously sick. It was definitely dodgy chicken! The association has stuck with me, I won't have it again!

It's the same with port! I got drunk on it before I was 18 and was really ill (serves me right!!) but to this day I cannot even stand the smell of it, yet alone try a taste. 

It's interesting how we make these associations in our head and can't undo them in our heads even though we know they're not rational! Are you able to drink fizzy drinks now?

That can be common enough. I once caught some noro bug and had spectacular gastritis the whole night and well into the next day, until the doctor gave me a little blue pill to stop it. The day before I was at a school event and there were drinks to be had, fizzy lime juice and pepsi; I definitely did not want to go near either after that

Oh Yeah! Primary school custard was always lumpy and usually cold by the time it got onto my plate! I'm sure the school dinner ladies of the 1980's have been responsible for creating a lot of custard averse adults!!! My 5 year old daughter loves the different flavoured pots of custard by Ambrosia though, they're smooth, I've checked!

Yes I have. I think I said this somewhere else on this thread. When I was a child, every Friday evening we used to have fish and chips, well I had a cheeseburger and chips from the local fish and chip shop. I used to love loads of vinegar all over my chips. But this one particular weekend, when I was 6,, I woke up with a rather unpleasant sickness bug in the early hours of Saturday morning. Somehow, I made an association between the vinegar that I had ingested on the Friday night and the sickness bug that showed itself on the Saturday morning. I haven't had vinegar on anything since then, even though I like the taste of vinegar. I know rationally that the sickness bug had nothing to do with the vinegar but I just can't break that association in my head!

I used to hate the skin on custard too! It all reminds me of a superb trauma when I tried school dinners, everything was awful. The neat was tough, the mashed potatoes had lumps in it and the custard had a skin and the stewed apricots were hairy! When I took my pudding back as well as the dinner, the dinner lady yelled at me 'Ooooh you naughty girl!'

I ran away and a school ate chased me to tell me about what I should have done. After a couple of years I was persuaded to try school dinners again and was lucky, the dinner the next time was good, with chocolate crunch as a pudding! I was td I could turn down one item for each meal and I would not get into trouble again 

I used to hate the skin on custard too! It all reminds me of a superb trauma when I tried school dinners, everything was awful. The neat was tough, the mashed potatoes had lumps in it and the custard had a skin and the stewed apricots were hairy! When I took my pudding back as well as the dinner, the dinner lady yelled at me 'Ooooh you naughty girl!'

I ran away and a school ate chased me to tell me about what I should have done. After a couple of years I was persuaded to try school dinners again and was lucky, the dinner the next time was good, with chocolate crunch as a pudding! I was td I could turn down one item for each meal and I would not get into trouble again 

It was more my mum persuading me and checking with the school.really

That's bad that you had such bad experience with school dinners but good that they eventually decided to be reasonable about it. Shame it took them so long though!