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Is dating a picky eater a dealbreaker for anyone?!
I think the OP needs to stop with some passive agressive food behavior. If you are continuing to make dishes with ingredients he doesn't like, and expecting him to love it just because you want him to, it's never going to work!
So, BF doesn't like mushrooms, but OP loves mushroom risotto, so she's going to make it for dinner. BF's got 3 choices:
1) Refuse to eat it - OP gets angry because she put the work into dinner and he won't give it a chance, gets offended when/if he makes something else
2) Eat it, but pick out the mushrooms - OP gets angry because this is a pet peeve of hers
3) Take a serving, not like it, and not finish it - OP gets angry over wasting food.
There's no way he can win.
I can understand that OP's annoyed because she has to change her cooking behavior due to the relationship. but LOTS of things change for relationships. I don't like America's Next Top Model, my girlfriend loves it. I can deal with watching it because i love her. I like Filk music, my girlfried doesn't... she puts up with it in the car because she loves me.
I hate mayo and ketchup. My GF likes mayo and buys ketchup in those big pump-containers. She likes meatloaf, i think it's a conspiracy. I love mushrooms and could eat them by the pound while she can't even put her revulsion into words. If you love a person, you deal with their preferences, be it entertainment or Food.
Relationships are a give and take
Dear Whole Foods,
Dear WF:
I love shopping with you. I like being able to find things like Israeli Couscous for that rocking soup I love. Thank you for having fresh fish which has never made me sick the next day (unlike Pathmark and Acme). Sometimes I don't like certain things about you, like getting rid of your bulk bins. But, I've heard about the mice problems that go along with bulk, so I guess I understand.
Thank you for carrying Lichees because the only other places I've found them in Philadelphia are 1) at the 69th street H-Mart where they were half-spoiled already and only came in a huge gigantic box that was way too much for one person and 2) Reading Terminal Market, where I either have to pay $10 to take the train in and out of the city, or pay even more in gas and parking.
Most of all, thank you for paying my fiancee a living wage, with benefits and profit-sharing included. Yes, she grumbles when she has to go to a 10pm store meeting to listen to people from a union she doesn't want (but at least you paid her for that lost hour of her life), but we appreciate her not having to pay a percentage of her wages to the union who really doesn't have anything additional to offer her.
I'm going to go eat some lichees now.
Should Picky Eaters Fake Allergies?
I'm allergic to raw tomatoes, potatoes, and peanuts. (evidently it has something to do with being allergic to grass.) Since almost all peanut and potato foods are cooked (or roasted) before eating, I generally have no problems with them (it just means I need to stay aware from all-natural peanut butter). But you'd think I was the biggest liar in the world when I tell wait-staff that I'm allergic to raw tomatoes only.
I regularly request a salad with no tomatoes then order an entree with red sauce. And almost invariably, the salad will come with tomatoes. If they're cherry or grape, I can just pick them off, no contamination, no problem. But sliced tomatoes mean that even if I pick out all the bits, the juices are still there, which means blisters in my mouth and itchy throat. The worst is when the salads are pre-made and the server just plucks the sliced tomato out before bringing it to the table. Then, I have no clue what's coming!
I know it sucks to try to explain that you just don't like something. I don't like Mayo - and I've learned to check my sandwich in the drive-through before leaving. But please don't lie about it being an allergy rather than a preference! On the other side, restaurant staff shouldn't assume that because you can eat a cooked version of something, you can also eat the raw version.
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@WannabeTVchef - Food allergies are hardly rare. According to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, approximately 12 million people (or about 1 in 25) have food allergies. And that's allergies alone, not sensitivities or intolerances (like lactose intolerance). While a list of 8 foods cause about 90% of food allergies, who are you to judge what is a 'real' allergy. Obviously not a medical professional with the training to diagnose someone's immune disorder.
I've seen someone swell up like a balloon when a server didn't know the correct answer to if there was garlic in a dish. And personally, I'd love to eat raw tomatoes, but paying for that fantastic salsa with a blistered tongue is not a price I'm ok with.