Posted by unregistered user at 7/22/08 10:49 a.m.

I would eat bologna like this: first, I would nibble around the edges, removing the little strip of skin. Then I would bite it in four places to make a + shape. Then I would bite off each of the arms of the +. Then I would eat the middle.

I would eat slices of white bread in exactly the same way.

I don't do this with bread anymore, but I don't eat bologna, so I can't say if I would do it there.

I do, however, have a childhood ritualized way of eating McDonald's hotcakes 'n' sausage which I still follow. Every new person who sees me do it has to comment on it. I don't even think about it, it's just how McDonald's hotcakes are to be eaten. I do not eat any other pancakes like this, only McDonald's hotcakes. I'll show you sometime; it would take to long to describe here :-).

--Margaret

Posted by unregistered user at 7/22/08 11:20 a.m.

I used to bite holes in my bologna, too. I also used to dump my bag of M&Ms out onto the table or a hard cover book, separate them into color piles, and then eat them in order of which colors I liked the least starting with brown and ending with green. :)

My husband makes fun of my sandwich eating ritual. I don't always do this, but most of the time and especially when I am dipping my sandwich into soup. I will pull it apart into pieces. I especially like doing this with grilled cheese and tuna sandwiches. Yum!!

Posted by markira at 7/22/08 6:39 p.m.

I totally bit faces into bologna like that! I had forgotten about that, as I no longer eat the stuff.

I also sorted (oh heck, still do) my M&M's by color and ate the least favorite colors first. I also did/do that with Skittles. An alternate possibility to the least-to-most-favorite-color decision was to eat the color that I had the *most* of, and even them all out in number, then eat in rainbow order (brown last).

I have a preferred method to eat pizza, too. First I pick off the toppings and eat them. Then I pick off the cheese and eat *that*. Then I lick off as much of the sauce as possible and finally I eat the crust. I *can* eat it the "regular" way and will usually do so in public or around people I think might point and stare. ;)

Do we need to mention I have a system for cheese and crackers regarding the direction of the "grain" and the stacking of the assembled "sandwiches"? And, and, and....

Hi, my name is Tracy, I'm obsessive-compulsive with my food. :D

Posted by Christina Hyun at 7/22/08 6:56 p.m.

Margaret,
YES. I do want to see the hotcakes ritual. :)
I have never eaten bologna into the shape of a +. But I like design concept.

153789,
Wondering if you sort all your Halloween candy too? Bet you do... :)

T,
So why does everyone dislike the brown color most? As a kid I remember thinking that too.
And your cheese and cracker system is fascinating. ;)

-bm

Posted by Logan's Mommy at 7/22/08 7:22 p.m.

Ok - one thing I remember always doing (to this day) is when I buy the twizzler's pull n peel licorice I have to eat it one strand at a time (9 strands are attached/piece). Every once in awhile I will be daring and eat three strips at once, BUT they have to lay flat to one another!

Posted by Christina Hyun at 7/23/08 7:54 p.m.

Tanya,
That's too funny! I can picture you doing this...
:) bm

Posted by unregistered user at 7/24/08 4:38 a.m.

Reading this and then reading other peoples comments makes me remember when I used to do those things too. I used to do the whole cheese thing, and try to make the cheese into a tall stack and then eat one piece at a time. But one thing that my family did hate was when I used to eat pizza like markia. I don't think it is that weird to eat everything off the pizza and then the crust. The crust (bread) is my favorite. So, I would do the same for things that I actually do like. I would eat all the gross part of stuff like sandwich crust first. I would eat around the whole sandwich and then eat the inner area because I liked it better than the crust. But it is weird, it's not like someone taught me to do it or showed me those things. I don't know how it started but I don't know how it stopped either. =/

Posted by Christina Hyun at 7/24/08 9:48 p.m.

154790,
This makes me feel better somehow that other people eat cheese like I do. ;) Some people around me thought it was kind of gross to be touching every cheese sq with my fingers. But I didn't think it was gross.

:) bm

Posted by Logan's Mommy at 7/25/08 10:06 a.m.

Saw this today and instantly thought of you - http://www.mcphee.com/resources/april/items/bacontux.html

You gotta love Archie McPhee's :)

Posted by Christina Hyun at 7/25/08 9:15 p.m.

Tanya,
That is hilarious! I wonder if anyone's bought one...

-bm

Posted by Susan Metters at 7/28/08 12:04 p.m.

Anyone else eat black olives by putting one on the end of every finger, giggling about your funny olive hands, and then eating them off one by one? I used to love eating olives like that. I *think* it's pretty common for kids to do that. It's like those little holes in the olives were made specifically as finger holes. ;)

Posted by Christina Hyun at 7/28/08 1:55 p.m.

Susan,
I've seen other people do this. You are definitely not alone. :)

-bm