To need a bit of wet with my dry (food)

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I love pizza. I would say it's my favourite food but only with mayo or garlic sauce. I would rather not eat most food if there is no wet with it. Even an omelette I would need mayo or cream cheese.

Chips need ketchup, Tuna needs salad cream or mayo.

We are away on holiday and my husband thinks it's unreasonable that I checked if a pizza shop had sauce or otherwise I just would not enjoy it.

Also I used to live in Berkshire for a few years they didn't sell the pots of garlic sauce from the takeaway that they do in County Durham. I don't know if this has since changed.

Even salad I need some sort of liquid on it or any meat . Not chicken I don't really eat it.

Am I just weird. My husband think so.

Yanbu. I had cheesy chips the other day only to discover we were out of ketchup! It was nowhere near as enjoyable.

I always slightly sneer at DH for this. I don't get it. He puts tomato sauce on things and then that's all you can taste!

YABU pizza has cheese and sauce on it. Therefore it has its own “wet” and does not need sauce. Omelette is also slightly wet (trying not to say moist 😂) and doesn’t need sauce

Chips need sauce though. Or cheese. But not both

I never put sauce on anything. Surely salad is wet anyway so don't understand why you would need sauce to wet a salad.

Context is everything here. With something like chips or a bacon sandwich, sauce is effectively essential to the final ensemble. But insisting that a food like omelette or tuna has to have an accompanying condiment is straying into fussy wanker territory.

I don’t really see what the issue is. If you want sauce, have sauce.

The title of this thread made me think of my dog who always needs a bit of wet food with her dry.
In the case of the OP I think its fine to prefer your food a certain way but you should try to be a bit more flexible really. Pizza without sauce would be OK and certainly not worth making a fuss over. Although ywnbu to have a preference for a certain restaurant or takeaway that serves food just as you like it.

Perhaps consider keeping a bottle of sauce (or little sachets) in your handbag,so wherever you end up eating,you (and your food!) are covered.

I'm with you OP. Need some form of wet/sauce with most foods.
Pizza plus either garlic mayo or coleslaw
Chips and ketchup or mayo
Crisps with salsa, guacamole or hummus etc...
Lasagne with coleslaw
Shepherd's pie with baked beans

Hmm trying to think if there's anything I eat without a 'wet' accompaniment.... I can't.

I need "sloppy" food too. I think it's a learnt behaviour as I find I choke really easily. I suspect that from early childhood I found it easier to swallow food that is "wet".

It doesn't have to be a condiment. Lots of butter or filling in a baked potato for example. Lots of sauce with pasta or rice. A moist sandwich.

I'm with you op.

Perhaps consider keeping a bottle of sauce (or little sachets) in your handbag,so wherever you end up eating,you (and your food!) are covered.

I used to do this until one exploded all over my bag. Also I couldn't take them in the flight. 🤣

No you're not weird. I do not eat a meal without a condiment 😂

I'm with you OP, sauce improves any kind of food.
However salad cream is the only wet to have with pizza.

Yep, I'm totally the same. I never understood how people can eat dry toast or dry cereal!

The only "dry" food I can eat is crisps, but even then I need a drink at the same time.

I'm with you on this
I prefer wet food
Salmon with leek sauce/parsley sauce
Cottage pies etc
Casseroles etc

My husband loves steak and lamb chops - SO boring! - so I leave him those to cook when I'm out

A moist sandwich.

Dry. I like dry food. Nothing soggy and no sauce that's not supposed to be there.

"Red sauce or brown sauce?"

No sauce.
It's a bacon sandwich, I want to taste the delicious bacon and buttery bread not disgusting sugary ketchup or whatever the spicy hell brown sauce consists of.

Salad cream is very oily. I think my concern would be that 'sauce with everything' = oil/fat with everything. When the main dish is something that is quite high fat anyway, I reckon it's not a very well-balanced way of eating. Also salty/sugary sauces do interfere with the taste of the dish itself. Most commercial pizzas will be quite salty too. So it seems a not very healthy way of eating. There's nothing wrong with having a glass of water to hand when eating if food is on the dry side...

Op, I'm
Exactly the same and my DS has picked it up too. There are sachets if mayo and ketchup in our glove box for those emergencies when you get chips and they have no sauce...

So he is pulling you up on just asking if they have it? Why is it up to him how you eat your own food not even prepared by him?

My opinion is of course it's ok to ask but as long as you are flexible enough to not have it ruin whole meals if it's not available or at least be organised enough have your own if you know you can't eat without it.

DH once bought me scampi without tartar sauce and I cried

That's LTB territory

That’s nothing! DD1 eats chips and does not add salt, vinegar or ketchup/mayo! . Just unadulterated, virgin chip. Where did I go wrong with her?

I have salad with everything, that’s the wet bit.

We went to a party once and they had no salad, no hummus, no sauces, just breaded chicken and mushrooms, crisps, meat and crackers. It was like the Sahara desert had catered for the event!!!

I agree OP! Pizza crusts always need something even if the middle is nice. I dip mine in hummus or mayonnaise 🍕

Not weird at all. I hate dry food as well.