Food intolerance of faddy eating? ...India Knight in the Sunday Times

[Upwind]

It winds me up more and more these days that having friends over for dinner involves getting the list of the things they can't or won't eat and then working out how to cater for them. Particularly, this is a problem with my DH's friends' WAGs who all have either a wheat, dairy or red meat "intolerance".

So I enjoyed India Knight's column today That?s no food allergy, just bad manners

On the other hand I don't mind at all catering for friends who seem to have a genuine problem or religious/moral stance - one of my best friends is a coeliac, one halal, another is a vegetarian for moral reasons.

Isn't that a form of synaesthesia (sp?) when you experience one sense (ie smell) as another (ie taste)? I experience something similar when I get migraine. Wondering out loud if that is related to food, in way...

That's right Roskva - my dd1 is synaesthetic but not with food - she sees days and months as colours (so does my mum too).

Although I would never describe dd1 and dd2 as "fussy" eaters, ds1 is far more enthusiastic about food than they were at his age. He will happily dig into curry and other strong tastes and will chew meat (something the dds still struggle with!). Neither dh or I are fussy eaters (though I share Hunkers dislike of mushrooms and that is deffo a texture thing!) and we have treated them all the same, but still, their behaviour around food has varied quite a bit.

Funny thing... here up north I have never ever ever had anyone claiming intolerances.
Except my DH who has an aversion to chicken following from eating dodgy ready meal. But he's a southerner .

I did ask my cousin for a list of his family's allergies when they came for dinner because I know that between him and his DDs they really do have a whole range of issues.
We ended up with roast beef and all the trimmings ... which they scoffed.

Perhaps thats the test. If you provide loads of what they say they can eat and see if they chow or pick at it?

Roskva, yes, think so. I think my brain's wired slightly different from lots of people's, really