I like most foods, except for perhaps mayonnaise, organ meats, mustard, and old people (I like them young and plump.

This troper will eat pretty much anything, Except babies. What is more noteworthy is the specific way in which I will eat them. In a full meal, any and all vegetables have to be eaten before the meat, or after half of the meat, but before the other half. If there are different kinds of vegetables, the greener ones are first. Out of all fruits or sweets, 10% needs to be taken in before the meats, and the remaining 90% is to be taken in after the whole meal is done. The meat is to be either cut right before being put in the mouth, or all at once. Onions are always to be eaten with meat of some kind... I never thought of the rules before, it's just these consistencies or OCD I have.

This tropette won't touch beef, lamb or any kind of fish. She also refuses to eat most vegetables.

Tropers/GuesssWho: I will eat ham and Kraft cheese sandwiches without the crusts, [=DiGiorno=] pepperoni pizza, strawberry and orange flavored candies, and chocolate with almonds. That's about it.

This little troper just cannot stand mayonnaise at all, in fact, from this troper's POV, mayonnaise might as well have been Made Of Spewtonium.

Ditto, friend.

It's worse after you've worked restaurants enough to get a tub of the stuff on your hands. I didn't care for it before, now I can't stand the sight/smell/texture of the stuff. Many servers get the same revulsion for ketchup.

Work at Subway - there are people who order pretty much nothing on their sandwiches except copious amounts of Mayonnaise, some people even order ''just'' a Mayonnaise Sandwich, and people frequently put like $10 worth of Mayonnaise after $15 worth of veggies.

Not me, my brother. Example: as a young lad, he was at our cousin's house. My aunt offered him a (yellow) grapefruit. He said, "No thank you, I only like the pink ones." Next time he was there, she offered him a pink grapefruit. "No thank you, I only like the yellow ones." Next time, she had both on hand. "No thank you, I don't like grapefruit." Why not? "They get in my mouth." He also had an aversion to foods containing "ingredients." The first time my mother visited him after he moved to New York she saw him preparing creamed broccoli. Almost gave her a heart attack. (I wish I was more of a picky eater. Then I wouldn't be so obese.)

Until I was 15 or so, I was so picky an inside joke within my family was "when child services takes you away..." Then when puberty hit, everything became ''delicious''. I'm probably one of the few people who ''enjoyed'' puberty. Anyway, now my sister is the picky one.

This troper is, herself, an ExtremeOmnivore (unless it's green beans), but her younger sister is a shining example of this trope. Her main food group is cheese. Mind you, her pickiness is more the refusing to try new things kind than the limited diet kind.

Additional comments from the same troper: Even though I'll try anything once provided it doesn't smell awful, I probably count as a PickyEater anyways by the letter of the trope, since I dislike most vegetables, and also most pseudo-vegetables like mushrooms and beans. Usually due to texture, though, not taste; I don't like peppers or onions because of how it feels to bite into a piece, rather than anything to do with the flavor. I'm usually okay with the taste. Also I avoid soy milk because it falls in some sort of bizarre milk UncannyValley; it's just similar enough to actual milk that all this does is highlight the differences.

I'm not THAT picky, but my brother is. He lives off Crackers, and mac and cheese. That is it. He doesn't even eat much of the things he DOES eat! We have to give him vitamins and adult sized ensures to keep him alive. Did I mention that if you change any ingrediants, he won't eat it. No? Well, I just did.

This troper and her brother (and to a small extent their mother) are incredibly picky eaters. The list of things we like and don't like at various times is too long to even begin. Examples, however include: both kids hate all kinds of fish/seafood, regardless of whether they're cooked or not. Both only eat broccoli raw. Troper hates tomatoes, but eats ketchup, tomato sauce and tomato soup. Brother likes fruit and chocolate, but doesn't like chocolate fondue. The list continues.

The troper known as Scrounge is an ''insanely'' picky eater. Hates vegetables, has a weird thing about the texture of foods, loves cheese, likes something one day and hates it the next; a full list of dietary oddities would take up too much room. Was once described as a "meat and potatoes man", to which he responded "I don't like potatoes."

I'm a picky eater, I won't eat ice cream and cake. I am picky about more normal things though, for instance, I only ever have cheese, ham, and maybe bacon on sandwiches.

Ice cream and cake...? BLASPHEMER!

This troper cannot stand bell peppers or peanut butter (though he does like Thai peanut sauce) and will consume carbonated beverages when HELL FREEZES OVER!

So you'll start drinking sodas at roughly the same time I stop drinking them? Convenient.

This troper doesn't eat much vegetables and doesn't drink any carbonated beverages. He also doesn't eat fish and rarely eats chicken. He will also remove pickles from hamburgers and gets very angry when somebody puts mayonnaise into anything he's supposed to eat. Some of this stems from childhood allergies, the rest from just disliking the taste (in case of carbonated beverages from disliking the stinging on his tongue).

I hate raw onions, but don't mind them cooked, can't stand chunks of raw tomato, but have no problem with ketchup, spaghetti sauce, etc., gag at the smell of some foods, and cannot stand certain textures in my food (for example, soggy bread/pastry triggers my gag reflex). My husband is even weirder (he swears strawberries taste like solvent).

This troper will not eat vegetables. At all. It's the texture.

Oh my ''god''. Are you my long-lost sibling?! I can't eat most vegetables without triggering my gag reflex.

This troper as well. Sorry, but I don't like eating plants.

This troper is picky in general, but has an actual soul-sucking ''fear'' of tomatoes. His fiancee finds it incredibly amusing to gently toss cherry tomatoes at him just to make him freak out.

This editor has a damaged sense of smell (Anosmia helps) so he has odd tastes in food. Pretty much anything with too many flavors ends up tasting like dirt. If that wasn't enough, he was once in the hospital and on about 30 different medications to keep him from dying. Nothing tasted right anymore, so the scrambled eggs he got for breakfast tasted kinda like blueberry yogurt. The only thing that tasted kinda like it originally did was one specific brand of fast-food french fries.

This troper is very picky. The kicker? I get tired of foods after a short while, and can never eat them again afterward. Luckily, it works in reverse, too; if I didn't like the food originally, it will grow on me until it peaks, and then descend into "Ughh, no", meaning that I get twice the mileage. Yay.

Sweet potato. Pumpkin. Egg. These are all foods that, if given to this troper, can cause severe injury to the gifter. The more you know.

This troper always was picky as a kid; everything had to be almost completely plain, very few spices (except garlic), and vegetables were nearly anathema. My mom always assumed I'd marry a gourmet chef just to give her an aneurysm; I came close, though, having become a vegetarian last year.

This troper of so much. I used to joke that it would be easier to say what I like to eat than what I don't. For example, I only ate minced meat. If it was whole, I wouldn't touch it. Well, I still don't touch meat, but that is because I'm a vegetarian and I have begun to expand my tastes one food at a time.

This troper hates peas. As in, will not be in the same room with them if he can help it. Also, any sort of meat patty should be meat and meat only. None of this "lets put onions in it!" crap. Seasoning is ok, but no vegetable chunks.

You're right to think this way. Burgers are meant to be meat and any vegetable matter that isn't seasoning is an affront to all that's good and right with the world.

This troper isn't really a big fan of chicken. Except, sometimes, fried chicken. If I could live on cow meat for the rest of my life, I totally would. Oh, and ever since my mother fed me some evil concoction that was some kind of ham with cheese and sauce in the middle of it and almost made me throw up, I can't eat ham anymore either.

This troper is known to her friends and family as an extremely picky eater, refusing to eat vegetables (except for potatoes), seafood, oranges, mustard, beans, ham, and turkey. I also have a deadly fear of anything involving fungus (up to and including bleu cheese).

This troper is forbidden from meals with certain cousins, due to setting a bad example for their kids. Doubtless when my sister and her husband decide to have kids of their own, I'll be banned there too.

No strange fungi, no chunky red sauces, no mysterious dark or milky drinks of possibly fizzly nature, and no suspicious meaty lumps for this troper. Final Destination.

After reading about poisonous toadstools, this troper spent the best part of a decade refusing to touch mushrooms out of paranoia.

Also ''really'' not a fan of fish...

This troper's diet consists of sunflower seeds, fish, chicken, fruit/fruit juice, chocolate, bread, cheese, and milk. There's pretty much nothing else.

This troper's diet is pretty well-rounded except when it comes to two things: Cole slaw and potato salad. I've tried it twice in my life that I can remember, at approximately ages 7 and 25, and the result was the same both times: One bite barely choked down, alot of shuffling around the plate hoping that another angle would make it seem more appealing (it didn't), and finally blessed relief when the meal was over. I'm sorry if there are people who swear by these foods, but I think if they were meant to be eaten, they would not have the consistency of snot.

This troper hates peas. If he sees a pea on any food, he ''will'' pick them all out. He also hates anything remotely related to tomatoes (except ketchup). I don't eat any vegetable except carrots either. If you ever give me a sandwich, I want MEAT. No tomato, no lettuce, just the meat (and cheese and BBQ sauce). I also hate onions (unless they are fried), but like the onion flavor in stews and stuff. But the actual onion is nasty. Any seafood is also out, except shrimp and lobster.

An old classmate of mine was (and is) ''extremely'' picky with his food. No veggies, no fruit, no seafood. And his mother & grandmother let him. He's 19 now and still that way.

Most of this troper's meals are self-prepared microwavable pizzas. I like several other things - In'n'Out hamburgers, sliced apples, bread, toast, bacon, peas (yes, I like peas. I LIKE PEAS!), broccoli (I'm going to be flamed, aren't I?), and, in fact, lots of meat and vegeteables... but nothing else. No mashed potatoes. Not a lot of soups. No beans. Essentially, nothing really ''mashed'' or in a... ''paste''. That stuff's disgusting.

This troper doesn't just hate eggs. This troper can under no circumstances be anywhere ''near'' eggs. That taste, that ''smell.'' She will obsessively pick the bits of egg out of her pad thai... whereupon they'll be inhaled by her fiance, who adores them.

This troper cannot eat eggs. They make her feel ill, which is somewhat ironic considering that egg sandwiches were her favourite thing ever when she was little.

Scrambled eggs make me feel ill. Only scrambled. I'll never understand it.

This troper only eats very plain food, and will never understand why anyone would want to despoil a perfectly good cheese pizza by adding pepporoni.

This troper will never understand why anyone would want to despoil a perfectly good round loaf of bread by adding sauce and cheese.

Unless it's meat, a dairy product, bread and/or made with sugar, ThisTroper won't eat it, and even ''then'' there's still a chance that she won't want to take a bite.

While this troper likes Sour Cream & Onion flavoured potato chips, he hates Sour Cream in it's natural form.

This troper will eat just about any meat (And considers himself a connoisseur of flesh. Hahah.), fruit, or vegetable that isn't a fungus, but that's about it. He cannot stand, among other things, any kind of water animal (Fresh or sea), any and all mushrooms, eggs, milk, most cheese, and a little less specifically, most sweet foods.

This troper's sister refuses to eat fish, nor will she eat eggs, but she is not a vegetarian. Considering her behavior and apparent mental disorder symptoms, he repeatedly suggests that she very likely has an Omega-3 deficiency.

This troper is physically incapable of eating meat. In fact, seeing a turkey being prepared often make me vomit. I'm not against meat, you understand, it just makes me unbearably sick. Other then that, I'll eat anything.

This troper hates Chinese food and the twist? I'm half Chinese.(I'm considered crazy in my family) I also hate mayonnaise, broccoli in all forms, iceberg lettuce, raw tomatoes, seafood, and cucumbers. I will eat others forms of lettuce and I love spinach but I hate the stemy part and I usually cut it off. About the Chinese food I will die before I eat and thats final.

This troper will eat meat and vegetables without complaint, but dislikes fruit. I just don't like fruit

Darkdata Ugh, boiled eggs in potato salad is the devil, it SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN DONE. Who cares killing some past tyrant, if I get time travel, I am stopping eggs from ever being added to potato salad.

And don't you dare get me started about mushrooms.

This Troper is one of the few persons in the world who HATES chicken and poultry in general. She and her younger sisters also have an aversion to raisins and seafood. Recently, her father brought home some ''very'' expensive and rare seafood that a friend handed to him... and he and the troper's mom were the only ones who ate them. OTOH, the troper herself is a bit of a subversion: much as she complains about the food she dislikes, if there's no real way to escape them, she'll suck it up and eat them anyway.

This troper's father hates onions, garlic and cucumbers, the last one because he worked on a cucumber farm as a teenager. He'll eat pickles, however, which is an inverse of said troper, who likes all of those but hates pickles.

This troper has a whole family who won't eat seafood (other than a father who is normally on a diet), while she loves it. It makes this troper sad that she has to go out by herself for sushi. Her revenge is a complete disgust for hamburgers.

This troper can't stand onions or cucumbers unless they've been prepared a certain way (i.e., fried and battered to hell and back or minced beyond recognition for onions, and converted to pickles for cucumbers). It's especially bad with onions; non-fried and large enough pieces of onion actually trigger this troper's ''gag reflex'', when he's surprised by onions at a restaurant he has to struggle not to make a scene. While he learned to enjoy carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower, and tomatoes, he will ''always'' have a problem with onions.

This troper is rather a subversion, being blessed/Cursed with no taste at all through an accident. Now can he eat anything without any real problems, no matter how it smells or tastes.

Had an accident involving anhydrous ammonia and phosphoric acid, thus my senses of taste and smell are warped. White bread tastes like marshmallows, some ketchup tastes like grape jelly, ham smells like pineapple. So my food tastes are erratic. Depending on brand and ingredients things I like may taste awful. One constant, green peppers. UGH!

This troper is a real piece of work:

Seafood - Likes fish, crab, and lobster. Hates shrimp (and don't even start with the "lobster and shrimp taste the same" argument...my tongue says they clearly do not). Allergic to all other surf.

Hates pickles. Loves relish.

Hates yellow mustard. Loves dijon or honey mustard.

That's perfectly normal. Yellow mustard is processed to the point that is loses all resemblance to actual food.

Only eats tomatoes if they're sliced and placed on a burger.

Hates bean sprouts to the point where he'd pick out every single one from his rice or noodle dish if necessary.

Has GERD, and thus has a list of foods he cannot eat without getting Acid Reflux Daymare/Nightmare. Not on this list, however, but inducing the same symptoms...is White Rice. Yes, this troper is Asian. Yes, eating Asian food is...difficult.

This troper is, for the most part, an ExtremeOmnivore-but vegetables are a point of contention. Raw carrots okay, certain ''ways'' of preparing vegetables (mostly Asian) okay, otherwise vegetables are consumed in small doses or not at all. Fruits are only a problem because I just don't eat them regularly, not because I consciously decide not to. Squashes of all kinds (save acorn squash, to be eaten mashed with sugar) are the only food that I won't touch under any circumstances; dates back to a bad experience I had with them in childhood. Long story short, I asserted I wasn't going to eat the summer squash. My parents asserted that I was going to eat the damn squash if I knew what was good for me. I eat a generous bite of the vile sludge. Cue unfortunate and disgusting reaction. My parents, certain I'd done it on purpose, actually punished me for it.

Are you me? Because this Troper is also an ExtremeOmnivore, but does not like vegetables unless they're raw or stir-fried, and cannot stand squash.

I have not willingly consumed a vegetable since I was around five years old. The only exception is broccoli, which is only good sometimes. Also, I can be very easily put off by the way food SMELLS. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but some foods give me a headache just by smelling them. Also, if something makes me too thirsty, there's a good chance I don't like it. Oh, and energy drinks make me sick to my stomach. One sip and I'm likely to feel like barfing for a few hours.

This tropers little cousin will only eat the following food, chicken nuggets, bread (often with nothing on it), chips, popcorn, pretzels, candy, and deserts, he's been eating like that since he was four.

This troper will eat anything but the following tomatoes (but I like everything it's made into), beets, boiled cabbage, chow mein, cauliflower unless it has cheese (but I like broccoli even stranger I loved it as a kid), squash, sauerkraut, cucumbers (unless they are prepared a certain way), and certain beans.

This troper is an inversion, or maybe a subversion. She only eats fruit and vegetables, except if they've got some kind of dressing or sauce on them. Also, the only "snacks" she has are caffeinated beverages: dark, sugarless coffee and Coke Zero.

This troper (Tropers/KurtmanJP) is an incredibly picky eater. He hates vegetables, all sauces except ketchup and bones in his food. He also hates almonds, marshmallows and gets grossed out if garnish or BBQ sauce is on his plate.

This troper's little brother used to refuse to eat mixed foods (I suspect his main objection was to having more than one texture in his mouth at a time). He was in his teens before the first time he willingly ate a sandwich without disassembling it first.

When she met him troper's boyfriend would only eat monochrome brown or white food (with the exception of yellow cheddar cheese, spinach, and green bell peppers), though he will now eat a greater variety of things. Apparently, when he was a child, he and his cousin would eat exclusively grilled cheese sandwiches and PB&Js.

This troper used to force himself to eat salads on his doctor's advice, but figured he was doing himself more harm by vomiting the salad back up than by not eating the stuff in the first place.

This Troper I'm pretty much ExtremeOmnivore (except meat. Me my mum, dad & brother are all vegitarian) and have exactly ''six'' things I don't eat (mushrooms, avacado, courgette,sprouts, beansprouts and dark chocolate) while brother seems to have six things he ''will'' eat.

I've been a picky eater all my life. I'm now 23. I hate tomatoes (unless it comes in the form of ketchup) and olives, among many others. I don't like anything spicy. I'm still afraid to try new things because I fear I'll hate them.

This troper is extremely similar to the troper above her, in that she hates tomatoes (except as ketchup), olives, and spicy food. This hatred of tomatoes and spice have made her hate most Italian and all Spanish foods. She can barely stand pizza. She also doesn't like pies, most flavors of ice cream, peas, most pastas, anything au gratin, most sauces, and a variety of other things.

I have a friend (no really!) who's diet consists of pepperoni pizza, french fries, and coke. And that's it.

This Troper hates peppers (except in curry), her uncle seemed surprised by this fact. Also, this Troper's parents hate egg salad (or anything with mayonnaise) so this troper and her siblings never had to eat any of that!

This Troper is either allergic to or nauseated by 90% of all existent food, ever. She basically lives off chicken, eggs, noodles, potatoes and mushrooms.

I will never eat Sweetcorn or Peas as a portion, I only eat peas in fried rice. I also cannot stand fruits, the texture is just wrong, plus I hate very sweet things but I like fruit juices and smoothies.

This troper loves most vegetables raw(carrots, green peppers, tomatoes, string beans), with the exception of radishes and squash. Cooking tends to leech the flavor, and he absolutely hates -cooked- green pepper. Among meats, he has a low tolerance for pork and seafood, with the exception of fish.

Yeah, cooking vegetables tends to destroy the flavour, sometimes make it even worse. If one cooks Carrots, they become slimy and lose a lot of the flavour that makes them good in the first place. Celery becomes extremely bland, and Spinach, on the other hand...ugh. Cooking Spinach is perhaps the ''worst'' thing you could ''possibly'' do to it. The resulting pasty slime smells and tastes like sweatsocks. The only way Popeye could have ''possibly'' devoured it all with such haste indicates that he has absolutely no taste buds or sense of smell.

Two of my cousins are the pickiest eaters on the planet- because their mother is and continually told them, "Oh, you won't like that," when they were younger. By the time their sister was born, their parents were both working, so she spent a lot of time at her grandparents'. She'll try just about anything- except when her mother is around.

This troper doesn't like eating curry unless it's Japanese. Then again he's a total moron who thinks Japanese curry is any different from Indian curry.

This troper can't stand bananas. She can't even be near people eating them because they smell horrible. Also plain milk grosses me out. Chocolate milk is fine.

This troper doesn't like most fruits and vegetables (She only likes carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, green beans, bell peppers and peas) and she also doesn't like them raw. Also seafood, mostly because of the smell; although fish sticks are A-okay in her book.

For over 25 years, people have been informing me that raspberries are delicious. They can have mine; to me, raspberries are too sweet, too bitter AND too sour. It has been dificult to get a chocolate dessert in a decent restaurant, or find a fruit salad or berry-flavored anything that does not include raspberries (a certain mixed-berry yogurt is delectable strawberries and delicious blueberries and not a raspberry to be found). Even iced tea defaults to raspberry iced tea. I have noticed that the fashion for raspberries seems to be on the decline, just as it's getting impossible to find ANYTHING that doesn't have artificial sweetener in it. No, it doesn't taste the same.

This troper is pretty sure that of those three tastes, at least two of them are polar opposites in terms of physical reaction. :O

This lurker will not eat: any nuts, dark, white, or fruited chocolate, fudge, dairy with chocolate, any beans minus green beans, anything spicy at all (cutting out Mexican food and some Chinese and Indian), anything extremely crunchy, anything paste-like, potato salad, anything with mushrooms, any kind of non-stereotypical cheese, squash, broccoli in large amounts, any kind of rice other than white, and peas. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

This Troper, through and through. I loathe foods that are combination of other food items (like hamburgers, salads, lasagna, pretty much everything regarding Asian cuisine, etc.) I like cheese pizza, but any more toppings than that is a no-no. I also have a problem of being very sensitive to texture in addition to a strong gag reflex. If I have to chew something for too long, I am unable to swallow it with gagging, so I have no choice but to spit it out. Most people would find my tastes rather bland, as I tend to be big on grain products (bread, crispbread, oatmeal, cereal) while I almost totally avoid vegetables. I also eat very few meats, save for bacon and some other pork products. Chicken and turkey I loathe (they taste like styrofoam). Naturally this causes a lot of problems in social environments, as I simply cannot find anything to eat in restaurants.

This troper is unable to stand any red meat or seafood. Also, he will spend hours in order to remove peas from anything he might need to eat, and will NOT drink milk (but is OK eating other dairy products).

This Troper will eat anything, to the point that he could probably sustain a balanced diet in any foreign country he might be dropped in. The lone exception is strawberries, which he absolutely cannot stand in any form. It doesn't matter if he has family members who haven't touched a vegetable in years, he will forever be mocked as "the guy who doesn't like strawberries. Who doesn't like strawberries?"

This Troper is a picky eater ''and'' has a bad appetite. On some days (or weeks), even the food I like tastes terrible, and I have to force myself to eat or my body (naturally) gets very tired. Someone needs to invent tasteless cube nutrients.

Vitamin-fortified tofu might come close.

Miso is an INCREDIBLY picky eater, mostly towards vegetables. She hates tomatoes, but loves ketchup, hates potato unless it is mashed up and slathered in gravy or put in the form of a french fry, and used to hate all nuts until a few months ago. The only vegetables she seems to be able to choke down is corn and green beans. She ''used'' to like carrots, but after eating them recently, they tasted like dirt instead of something strangely sweet.

This troper's sister and three of his cousins are picky eaters. His sister has mellowed out over the years, as did one of them, but two of his cousins are incredibly odd. one of them was at a family wedding and wouldn't really touch anything but the cake because it was mexican food. (Even my sister would eat the Quesadillas - she turned out to ''love'' those things and was thinking about them months later.) The one who wouldn't touch any of the food and would only eat chips or pizza, or at least that's all we knew she ate.

Meanwhile this troper on the other hand...Alcohol is an insult to beverages. Beverages are supposed to taste ''good''. If you drink something that makes you want to vomit, then it shouldn't be drank, it should be thrown in the trash because it's expired, or KillItWithFire. Pickles are also ''disgusting''.

Oh god yes death to pickles. And I don't have a lot of experience with alcohol, but I can back you up from what I ''have'' personally run across; beer tastes disgusting, wine tastes inky, the cocktails I've tried all had a gross alcohol undertaste, and I refused to even try tequila when it was offered to me because it smelled like nail polish remover.

Meals were a true test of will when this troper was young. He basically ate nothing but pancakes or pizza; if anything else was served, especially mushy green things, he had to sit at the table until it was eaten, usually for several hours. Almost every meal ended with him being half starved and effectively incarcerated, just trying to survive until Saturday morning when pancakes would be served. Then he would eat a dozen plate-sized pancakes and nothing else. It wasn't that he was just picky, it was that most foods actually tasted awful to him. He tried eating some broccoli rice casserole once, and almost literally threw up. This troper now realizes that this pickiness was the only thing keeping him skinny as now he eats almost anything, weighing almost twice what he did in high school. Stupid, good-tasting food, . . . mmm, pancakes.

This troper is an extremely picky eater, despite having gotten better since childhood. However, she tends to like the foods opposite of the typical picky eater's fare. She adores almost all vegetables (excluding only tomatos, potatos, cooked green beans and cooked squash), all fruits without exception (admittedly never tried a durian), but despises almost all meat that isn't seafood, and even then it has to be good. She'll eat turkey when it is exquisitely prepared for thanksgiving using a turkey fresh off of my aunt's farm or as deli meat on a simple sub. She loves peanut butter but refuses to swallow a PB&J. She'll tolerate noodles, but only plain, never with butter and especially not cheese. Don't get her started on soup- if it's a liquid, you're supposed to be drinking it, not plopping gross meat chunks into it. Never give me sauce on anything, particularly mayonaise. Any sort of alleged "salad" that does not deliver on lettuce and non-sliminess also fails the test. Add in her small apetite and it's only her addiction to energy bars keeps her from appearing anorexic.

I swear this troper is the ''only'' person ''in the world'' who knows that Beer is like Vanilla Extract...something you really really ''should not, under'' '''''ANY''''' circumstances beyond dehydration, put in your mouth and swallow. But then again though, I can not see what is supposed to be so drinkable about Beer...it looks ''and smells'' like someone with a bladder infection and ate a bunch of asparagus and then peed in the mug. If it looks ''and smells'' like bodily waste, then one probably shouldn't do anything but dump it.

Oh sweet jesus, do I ever agree with this. It tastes like a poor man's ginger ale. I don't mind other people's consumption of it, but I myself can't ''stand'' it.

This troper despises grapefruit and some strong smelling tropical fruit that are is not a citrus. This troper remember getting sick from a Procuri sweat which tasted distressingly of said fruit. Not a fan of boiled greens either. My family however winces at smell of spice filled foods.

This troper thinks about food 24/7, loves food, dreams about food and must have a fast metabolism not to be 400 lbs of everything she eats. BUT... she is really picky about certain kinds of food. She picks peas out of everything except fried rice because that has other stuff in it. She also used to absolutely HATE eggs but now she only hates omelets, cannot eat green beans or anything (they just taste SO bad). And she absolutely despises chocolate syrup and chocolate ice cream (that is NOT chocolate flavor...) She hates nuts of all kind, and refuses to eat a lot of things. But the things she doesn't hate, she loves.

I was extremely picky when I was little. I wouldn't eat anything other than pancakes, hot dogs, whipped cream, milk chocolate, Falukorv with macaroni, sandwiches (but only with cheese) or french fries. I'd only drink certain kinds of milk or water. I'd always taste what the rest of my family were having, but more likely than not I'd make a face and keep eating my own food. You can imagine what vacations were like. It didn't help that some people couldn't get that it had nothing to do with obedience. However, on a vacation to Austria I tasted a bit of Wiener Schnitzel... and everything changed. We're still not sure if it was puberty (I was twelve) or if the food was that good, but either way I started to slowly but surely eat more things. I'm still picky though:

I love meat and chicken, but not if they're barbecued. Anything else goes.

I hate anything from the sea aside from salmon, and even then I'm picky with it. If it's not fried or grilled I don't want it.

No nuts, almonds or peanuts. I can accept almond of it's ground up so I don't taste it, but that's it.

No alcohol. I can tolerate it in sauces and some desserts, but too much and I refuse to have it. Obviously this also means I never drink beer, wine, drinks or cocktails either. No, it doesn't matter how much other stuff you mix with it, I'll still taste it.

No coffee in any form. Tea needs to have lots of sugar. I'll drink most sodas.

I dislike most vegetables aside from tomatoes and cucumbers, and only apples or bananas when it comes to fruit. Potatoe is tolerable, but I prefer if it's mashed. No mushrooms.

I HATE soy. This along with the above is why I can never become a vegetarian - I'd starve to death.

My eating habits could cause an aneurysm to some people. There's foods I DEFINITELY don't like, but I will eat them if they're used "correctly":

I used to LOVE eating boiled eggs and sometimes omelets, but I lost my taste for them (except for custard, eggnog, oddly mayonnaise and yes...FRIED RICE). Why? Cartoons. Seeing cartoon characters getting splattered with egg on their face and the way animators drew them made it look disgusting. I grew to hate scrambled eggs and omelets due to their texture and while I didn't mind boiled eggs I just stopped eating them because they can smell like farts...which makes mayonnaise's safety status all the more boggling.

I don't put Hot Sauce on things my family generally does (this troper is black BTW). Technically that's more on the lines of being dogmatic with one's eating habits than being a picky eater. Still, when you have family members pushing you and insisting that you're being "shy", modest or delusional for wanting to savor the actual taste of the food, I think it's a special case.

Tomatoes, don't like 'em. Hate ketchup too. Will happily eat tomato sauce, cocktail sauce (for Shrimp) and use Tomato paste as a base. Admittedly will put Sun-dried Tomatoes on a pizza, pasta or even a Sandwich. Plus I don't mind V8 Splash blends that have tomato juice in it. Will sometimes stomach salsa on a Burrito, but at times I can find the taste detracting.

I have my hotdogs plain and my French Fries without ketchup, though Barbecue Sauce is a fine substitute on bad steak fries.

Cheese. Oh man, this is where things get hairy. I won't eat it on a burger unless it's an American slice and even then that's not unless it's topped with BBQ sauce and bacon OR some chili. It has to be HALF a slice for a Fish sandwich (a la [=McDonald's=] Filet-O-Fish). Italian food is generally okay with cheese, not so much Mexican food. That's right, NO CHEESE IN MY BURRITOS. Get that Quesadilla away from me. Broccoli and Potatoes get a free pass. I'll also eat Macaroni and Cheese if it's Kraft Dinner OR if the person making it is REALLY good at it. Can't go wrong with any Spray Cheese or Frito Lay Jalapeno Cheese Dip though.

Some vegetables. Onions have to be in RING (as in DEEP FRIED) form for a burger or "cheese"(see above)steak, grilled is okay in certain cases. Generally onion soup powder or onion powder will be used more than chopped onions. I have no problem with corn but put that in my Beef Stew and you're a dead man. BLT? Just leave the "B". I can choke down lettuce in a chicken sandwich AT BEST, don't expect me to take down a salad without some sort of gag reflex. In general, sandwiches and burgers are just meat and bread affairs with the occasional condiment.

I avoid putting butter the things people generally do. Muffins, Pancakes, Oatmeal (what?). Not a big deal, except for that one time my aunt buttered store bought pastries and put them in the oven. Crap.

Walnuts, not a fan of them in pastries (Banana Nut Muffins and POSSIBLY Nut Bread are the exceptions to the rule). Nor raisins. The person that puts either in a Cinnamon roll is a DEAD MAN.

German Chocolate Cake is pure tantalizing torture. Chocolate cake? Oh boy! Wait...Walnuts? Glaze? Shredded Coconut? WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS?!?!

Oddly enough, there are foods I general have no problem with eating happily but either someone's a Lethal Chef or they simply prepared with a few mistakes. I loved my mom's Spaghetti but for a barbecue or birthday outing she would grate bits of American and Jack cheese (which would melt on top) for everyone else to enjoy. My dad (or his current wife) would make it SO bad, they'd insist we put salsa and ketchup on it to make it palatable. My late stepdad had NO sense of using herbs/spices meaning meat that tasted like wet newspaper. On another occasion he tried to prepare Beef Stew like my mom EXCELLED at doing. What did he do wrong? He used frozen vegetables (including beans), had NO potatoes, used a Mushroom based gravy instead of a beef/onion mix...so I guess, EVERYTHING. Also, I don't much enjoy stuffing/dressing from anyone NOT on my mom's side of the family as the record shows.

I am a very picky eater, and I go off foods that I like very easily. Some foods I cant even bear to touch or smell. I dont ever think about what is in my food, or I feel sick.

I guess I'm not as picky as I'm being told I am, but that's because my husband's a vaccuum cleaner when it comes to food, if it's food, he'll eat it. I don't eat beans (save green, those are good), peas, cooked tomatoes, or onions when they're fresh (cooked, I'm alright with). I think the big problem with him thinking I'm picky is because I won't eat his "awesome" chili, which, due to a childhood hospital visit involving chili (I burnt my esophogus with stomach acid), the smell of it just makes my chest hurt.

When one of my cousins was little the only things she ever seemed to eat was macaroni and cheese (we had that every time we babysat and I got so sick of it I refused to eat it for a while) and grilled cheese sandwiches she refused anything else.

This Troper is sadly a picky eater beyond comprehension. It's not exactly like I like being picky, but a lot of food just makes me want to puke. Any extreme omnivore wanna switch their palate with mine? :P

I won't eat mushrooms, onions, peppers, chillis, food that has touched other food items, food that was cooked in the same pan as other food items, food which has been touched by a sauce belonging to other food, eggs, anything that has touched eggs, anything that is a liquid of a thiker consistancy than milk, anything that is of intermediate states (cream, jelly, jam etc) anything with fat attached, any large quanity of meat just served as a chop/steak, any fruit, or anything with a fruit like texture, salad vegetables...I could go on..but this is making me feel ill

This troper's ex-best friend in her early childhood consumed milk, chicken nuggets, macaroni, and carrot sticks, and literally NOTHING else. Drove me crazy because everyone came down on ME for being picky.

This Troper. Full stop. I refuse to ingest:

Cold vegetables.

Any vegetables that aren't corn, carrots or broccoli.

Anything that smells bad.

Cold pasta.

Mayonnaise.

Sushi.

Any meat that didn't come from a farm animal, for example I'll eat cow, pork, chicken and fish but not lamb, deer, moose or caribou.

Since when were lambs/sheep not farm animals?

Oh, and I can't eat burgers. I used to love them but about six months ago my body just started rejecting them.

I am a picky eater, and some foods I cant eat because I ate them too often and got sick of them, or had a bad experience with...

I do not eat most vegetables and dont like bananas

I will not drink milk or eat cheese unless that cheese is in a cheeseburger

I will not eat chicken except for ones from our local takeaway

I do not drink alcohol, orange juice makes me feel sick and I will only drink apple juice if it is a certain brand

I do not eat sausages as we had them at least twice or three times a week through my mum's last pregnancy

I don't eat mushrooms because they taste slimy

I don't like fish, except for tuna

This troper knows a girl who is so picky that, in grade school, she never ate one thing off the school menu. Instead, the girl's mother would make her one of two things for lunch: mashed potatoes or toast. That's it. There are very few things she does eat, and she balks at the request to try something new. As my friend once said, "no wonder she's so goddamn small! She doesn't eat ''anything!''"

This troper herself, however, can be kind of a picky eater as well, but not to the above extent. For example, I hate eating ''anything'' with a slimy texture, and for some reason anything I've ever thrown up when I had the flu I refuse to eat any longer. There are plenty of other examples, but I'm probably so used to them by now that they don't come to mind.

My older sister has always been like this, in that she like no type of vegitables. NONE. I'll eat sweetcorn or carrots or beans no problem, but she can't stand any veggies. Because of this, her plates of food always seem quite small in comparison to the rest of the family.

This troper won't eat most vegetables, won't touch fish/seafood, hates cheese, can't stand whipped cream, maple syrup or custard, and won't touch most dual-flavoured drinks (as in, mango/peach, apple/blackcurrant and so on.)

This troper is the only troper in the world who doesn't like Sandwiches...I feel like I'm the only one.

You may be, since "sandwich" has a ''very'' broad definition.

I always thought I was a picky eater, but my cousin pretty much takes the cake. ''No'' vegetables (except potatoes and corn (plain)), ''no'' fruit (except apple juice), ''no'' sauces (except ketchup). His diet basically consists of meat (plain), bread, ketchup, and junk food (and somehow, he's taller than I am - I'm still baffled by that fact). Mark my words, if he ever set foot in a 5-star restaurant, he would have a stroke.

For this troper, it's texture. I cannot stand anything ''mushy''. Soggy is okay, chewy or rubbery is okay, crispy is great. Oddly enough, this has resulted in a love of vegetables and a hatred of meat. The reason being that in this troper's culture, vegetables are usually fried (i.e. crispy), while meat is...''slurried'' (there is no other word to describe it). The only time I can stand eating meat is at fast food restaurants, because the texture is easier on breaded chicken. I also don't like things that are heavily sweetened: fructose is my #1 enemy. The only exception is soft drinks, because the bitterness of carbonated water cancels out the sugar. For the same reason, I can't stand ketchup but will happily eat mayo or mustard. This aversion to sweet causes problems when I have to drink panchamrutham at religious occasions (panchamrutham is an ultra-sweet combo of milk, honey, and coconut). And gagging during rituals is not the most respectful thing to do in front of God.

Reading these anecdotes, I'm surprised you all haven't starved half to death! Then again, I am an ExtremeOmnivore (with a PickyEater father and older brother, and a mother with normal eating habits), so I may be a little biased...

Glad Im not the only ExtremeOmnivore. The closet I come to being 'picky' is not eating balut, lutefisk, boiled spinach and brussel sprouts. Everything else, be it animal vegetable or mineral is not only fair game but actively hunted down and consumed. Fear the opposeable thumb! Try stir-fried mealworms or some seasoned raw beef, its great!

A certain me HATES PIG. For example, Bacon makes me feel queasy from the smell alone. I'm not a vegetarian, mind you. Try to take my beef and you will DIE.

Keep. Licorice. Away. From. Me. That stuff was meant to improve the taste of medicine? Talk about a cure worse than the disease...And let's not get into Maraschino cherries (ordinary cherries, MAYBE, but THOSE? {grimace}). Texture is also a concern; for that reason, I keep away from button mushrooms (I can take porcini just fine, though) and shrimp. Interestingly, when I was a young child, I think the only vegetables I wanted nothing to do with were squash (and except for pumpkin, I've come to grow fond of squash) and cooked carrots; all other vegetables, including raw carrots, and especially broccoli...YUM.

I eat very few things and even fewer healthy things. As a child when I was told I couldn't leave the table until I ate everything on my plate I would sit at the table for three-four hours and refuse to eat. When I was visiting a friend and ended up staying for dinner I would experience anxiety attacks from having to eat other people's cooking. And when it actually came time to eat I had to try my hardest not to gag. This includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners, which ended up alienating me from my extended family and left me hating those holidays. I am still like this. I haven't changed a bit. I still refuse to eat at Christmas Dinner. Thankfully I've been able to skip out on the other dinners. Its all I can do to not throw up when I have to eat food I don't like. One Christmas dinner I even ended up swallowing cooked carrots whole because I wouldn't taste them that way. I hate being a picky eater.

Have you tried therapy or talking to a doctor? Most of the picky eaters on here simply don't like certain foods, but it sounds like you want to eat these things, but your body and/or your mind are rejecting them.

I was thinking today about why I can eat bread ''rolls'' easy enough but hate actual bread.

This troper refuses to eat most fruits or vegetables, and that includes juice. No fish either. Not to mention that I cannot stand certain types of food even touching each other, so things like soup or stews or chili are inedible, much less if a bit of salad dressing happened to touch a bit of chicken.

This troper is a very strange case, possibly due to AspergerSyndrome or the hyper-acute senses that come with it. Pretty much anything outside this list he will not eat. The list of things he will eat:

Pasta with no "toppings" other than butter or salt.

Mori soba/udon (i.e. just the noodles in a pile with a dipping sauce). He's amazed he even got himself to like the sauce.

As for meat, only chicken (either fried [and with no bones] or skinless) and fried cod.

French fries, but no ketchup dammit. Definitely not burgers as there are way too many things mixed together at once.

Cheese pizza. Like some tropers above, he does not understand why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good one by adding any toppings. Come to think of it, most kinds of cheese and bread in general; he also likes toasted cheese sandwiches.

Breakfast cereals. He can barely tolerate oatmeal.

Luckily, several kinds of fruit (probably the only reason he's not dead) including apples, bananas, grapes, oranges, strawberries, cherries, and peaches. Almost no vegetables though, unless mixed with fruits in a juice form.

White rice. Definitely not with nattou, as even people who don't fit this trope seem to detest it.

As for drinks, almost anything goes. Milk, juice, green tea, soda, even beer.

This troper (in his mid-teens at the time of this writing) will not eat or drink anything on the following list:

Caramel

Vanilla yogurt

Any manner of soft drink (or any caffeinated beverage)

Eggs (unless baked into a dessert)

Most kinds of fish

Anything with the word "teriyaki" in it

Et cetera, et cetera

Conversely, if steak is omitted from the menu, then you and me are going to have a problem.

Though this Troper is otherwise kind of a BigEater, she won't eat/drink the following:

Cauliflower

Broccoli

Eggs(when served as eggs, not when put into anything else. She liked them as a kid, though, and smaller, boiled pieces are slightly tolerable, but still not good)

Marzipan

Diet soda

Coffee. Also, most teas(except green tea) without sugar.

Mayonnaise

Corn

Overcooked carrots or potatoes. Or any other overcooked vegetable.

Avocado

Potato chips. Yes, really. Never liked them.

Pineapples in almost anything, such as pizzas. They're tolerable, but not desirable, in fruit salad. They're okay when eaten by themselves, though.

Walnuts, though this is partly because she is allergic to them.

Most things with raisins in them. Such as chocolate. Ugh, raisin chocolate...

(The below items are more in the category of "will eat if served to her, but would preferably be without")

Some cola-flavoured candy. It can be hard to get right.

Big pieces of onion. (Cut into tiny pieces is okay)

Hamburgers from McDonalds, or other fast food places. (Though this is the only kind: she loves home-made burgers.)

Various kinds of soups.

Corn Flakes. Mostly because they get soggy after a while in milk, and she found out at an early age that soggy corn flakes are not good at all.

This Troper, while otherwise an ExtremeOmnivore, takes... serious issue when things that aren't supposed to be sweet are sweet. Pretty much anything that combines the taste of sugar and tomato, really. Especially ketchup, even the thought of ketchup ruins my appetite and the sight of it makes me nauseous. Or the taste of sugar and vinegar. Go to hell, pickle relish. Oh, and Thai green curry is supposed to have ''a hint of sweetness''. '''A HINT'''. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SERVED IN CURRY FLAVORED SYRUP.

I used to love black beans when I was practically a toddler. I used to eat them each and every meal, no matter what was the dish being served...until one day, when I ate too many and got sick (spent all night vomiting). Ever since then, the very smell of black beans gets me bad memories...and that's not the only food I have a story with...

I'm the only person I know who absolutely HATES cheese. I absolutely cannot stand it - the look, the taste, the color, the feel of it in my hands, the texture, the film it leaves in your mouth, I hate everything about it. I could go on and on about it. But I LOVE Cheez Its. Also on my hate list are fish, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic, ice cream, pie, cake, and pretty much anything else that isn't steamed rice, pepperoni pizzas, Ramen noodles and Chinese food. My parents always say if it weren't for the microwave I would have starved to death by now.

This troper, oh so much. She can only imagine it's a nightmare when going to restaurants or to other people's houses for dinner because she barely likes anything. The most notable examples being that she refuses to eat almost anything with sauce or dressing on it (too messy and the flavour from the sauce often overpowers the flavour from the actual meal) and when consuming fruit, it has to be in juice form most of the time, because she hates the texture of most actual fruit (so for example, she dislikes solid apples. But put those apples in a juicer and she'll happily drink it up). The mere sight or smell of chilli make her feel physically nauseous. For years she'd refuse to eat bread slices (unless toasted) but enjoyed bread rolls (kind of justified in the fact that a magazine she used to read once published an article on how a dead mouse was found inside a loaf of bread. Complete with a rather graphic photograph of a decepitated mouse head on a slice of bread. Kind of traumatised her). Thankfully, she's beginning to expand on what foods she's able to eat, though still extremely picky about it.

This troper HATES animal products like meat and dairy (main reason for a semi-vegan diet), he however LOVES honey. This troper loves most veggies, but can't stand Brussel Sprouts or cauliflower. He aslo loathes bananas, milk chocolate, and avocados.

This troper is not much of a picky eater, but since everyone's listing their dislikes either way... raisins. They're nice. Apples, strawberries, otherberries... those are fine too. But put any of those anywhere near a cake or ice cream, and you've ruined both. Chewy bits just don't go well with a creamy/spongy texture. Apple pie is fine, as the apples are turned into an uniform mush. Orange juice is fine either by itself, or together with like ten other exotic juices - but when mixed with just a single other flavour, unpalatable. Non-red or forest fruit tends to be unpleasant in general, as well as cucumbers and tomatoes, unlike most other vegetables. Fish, too - if it's not salmon or possibly tuna, it'd better be fried beyond all recognition, preferably in a lot of batter. The fact that sauce/batter with a hint of an actual dish underneath is delicious due to the creamy/crispy texture is possibly what keeps this troper from being a picky eater, makes McDonalds food so good and pizza toppings irrelevant, as it's impossible to feel the taste of the separate ones from underneath the sauce and cheese. The other reason is this troper's attitude towards Fun tastes - if something has 'garlic' or 'honey' in its name, it goes onto a 'to try' list, he's had tripe-based soup and it was good...

Sweets are great, especially chocolate. Black licorice is atrocious, and taffy and gum are torture. Then there's a whole long list of things I refuse to eat, from never to maybe: Celery, cardamom (a spice very commonly used in traditional Persian Jewish cooking), cauliflower, most squashes, anything overly greasy (any Russian dish other than borscht can be this depending on the cook), really hot salsa, tuna salad, stewed tomatoes, broccoli, and so on ad nauseam. Guess what some of my parents' favorite foods are? On that note, this troper likes Mexican foods (yum, quesadillas), but mother dearest always wants Chinese takeout, and Chinese food is the only way I can eat zucchini. Each to their own.

This troper dislikes mustard and mayo (he only leaves them on burgers because washing the patty is rarely feasible), and often jokes that asparagus and zucchini are proof enough for him that God is evil.

This troper. I refuse to eat anything that doesn't appeal to my eyes. I also hate things with slimey textures. I also will not eat ANY type of sandwitch. I'm also a vegetarian. I also hate hotdogs, and any other fast food. Soda is another thing I hate.

Also, eggs, beats, sauce, peanut butter, burgers, carrots, oranges, prezels, doritos, cheetos, mayo, fish, baked beans, salad dresssing, meatloaf,...

This troper dislikes many kinds of vegetables (gourd, unripe papaya, belinjo, tomato, eggplant, pumpkin, avocado, pea, asparagus, cassava, ginger, just to name a few), meat (cow, sheep, goat, horse, pig (absolutely don't eat pig)), fruits (jackfruit, blueberry, date, pomegranate, guava, chempedak, coconut, duku, durian, tamarind), scallop, oyster, jellyfish, cuttlefish, carp (especially because sea foods make me itchy; though I like some sea foods like shrimp and tuna), sweet foods (although I like some sweet food, but I generally despise sweet foods in general), raisins, salty foods, creamy-and-sweet foods like profiterole/cream puff, and jelly candies. This troper's friend also absolutely refuses to eat anything with vegetables. Any vegetables.