To get a bit impatient with really fussy eaters (adults)

[atthewelles]

I'm not talking about people with medical conditions which preclude certain foods from their diet or people who have anxiety issues re certain types of food/ different foods touching each other on the plate etc

But adults who just turn their noses up at anything other than plain meat and potatoes and act as if vegetables, pasta, fish, anything containing spices or garlic or cooked in a sauces is on a par with serving up roasted worms are a bit irritating - difficult to cook for and impossible to please when trying to meet up in a restaurant.

AIBU to think grown ups should at least try a few different foodstuffs and be a little bit open minded about what they're prepared to eat?

Yum, moutabal

Bleuuurrrggghhhh

You'll be pleased to know that I was very stoic and understated about the moutabal, Light.
I thought it might have been the answer....it wasn't.

lightthelampnottherat When I cook for friends and their partners/spouses/plusones I always ask what people will eat and what they won't... I enjoy building the meal around those likes, it makes me a little more creative. Too many people cook what THEY like and think people who don't share that view are weird.

Sometimes the meals I cook are one pot wonders where everyone is happy, other times it's more tapas style... I don't mind. I don't want to feed people what they won't like.

I suppose because I adore food and always have I just don't understand how other people can have such a limited diet, which fussy eaters inevitably do? I love trying new things, I love going out for meals and I will always find something on a menu that I will eat.

My brother was the worlds fussiest eater as a child. He wouldn't eat any veg at all apart from potatoes. If we went out and his meal came with peas or something like that then he just wouldn't eat anything on the plate because it had touched the peas. He was a nightmare. All he ate was fish fingers, chips, bread, burgers, chicken, crisps, crackers, turkey drumsticks and garlic bread. He has thankfully grown out of this.

Because they love it and therefore you must too Aldi.

Eat what you like, let everyone else eat what they like. It's only food.

There are things I don't like too! (I'm sure there must be if I think hard enough - yes, fruit with meat or fish.) But I don't think I've ever not tried something that someone cooked for me. Even the weird chicken thing with a sauce made from a tin of evaporated milk and a tin of mandarin segments, eek.

I have just decided. I will NEVER try SeaUrchin. Ever. Even if a friend has caught it herself.

Try it, you will love it

Oh god....the sea urchin.
Six years on, the convo turns my stomach.

Hmm yes, sea urchin not appealing, not at all. But I still wouldn't say I don't like it - just that I'm too much of a wuss to try. Happily I don't go to the kind of dinner parties or indeed any dinner parties at all these days where sea urchin is likely to be on the menu.

Ooh yum

Oh god....I knew what it would be.....still had to look.

I've just gone all Cthulu.....and green....

I was going to say yanbu but I thought crapbag's story was sad so YABU as some people may be 'fussy' for a reason they can't help.

I am cooking that for everyone tomorrow minou. I am sure they will like it once they have tried it.

What, this?
Good luck with that.....

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My MIL constantly complains about garlic and how she HATES garlic with its pungent smell and revolting after taste blah blah... Little does she know I use it in almost everything I cook and she always has second helpings!

My dad is the same about celery, mumstonic - swears blind he can't stand it and can always tell when it's in something. Except he can't tell at all, and has happily eaten many a thing I've made that contains celery.

Btw aldiwhore I don't deliberately cook things that I think people won't like. If I have people coming round, I always check if there are allergies or particular dislikes. Having various members of DH's family over at the same time is a huge culinary challenge - vegetarians who eat fish, non-vegetarians who don't eat fish, people who sometimes don't eat red meat 'for health reasons' but sometimes do, people who always eat red meat but not lamb, and on and on. Makes my head spin, as I can't cope with restaurant-type cooking in my own kitchen.

Okay one last comment on the whole subject of 'trying' food, then I'll leave it alone. I don't mean that anyone should be harassed by an overbearing friend or relative to try something just because that person thinks they should. Just that if you find yourself eating in someone's house and they put something unfamiliar in front of you, do people honestly say 'no I won't eat even a bit of that'? (Well, my SIL does, so I know there are some people who do. But most people don't do this, do they?)

What I dislike most about fussy eaters is their very vocal "Oh God x tastes of shit/I hate y/don't give me z or I'll heave" - as seen all over this thread.