Eating One Thing at a Time

[maskedmelon]

So, i recently noticed that I've started eating parts of my meals one at a time. normally I'd liek to mix everything all up in my mouth with little bites of lots of things on my plate, but find myself attacking the food items in my meal one at a time more often then not. it's not wiiggn, me out of nothing, just thought I'd share this curiosity with my pals and see how everyone else feels about the mixing of foodstuffs in their mouths. does this recent adaptation belie some sorta mental collapse or a budding aversion to change, novelty or fun?

[America]

i use to do this when i was a little kiddo. maybe in the course of you're personal growth your regaining "young at heart"? or maybe you are regressing to a childlike mental state? can you please give some feedback on any sensations in these areas so i can analize deeper??

i have voted this thread 2 stars pending you're answers, because its a incomplete thread. this can be updated.

[maskedmelon]

no particular sensations or thought behind it. just occurred to me recently that I was doing it. it's liek i am less engaged in my meals. Ooo, could also actually be because I was prioritizing protein. hadn't thought about that. that may be what gave rise to the condition.

*sits up from the couch*

That sounds pretty innocuous don't it?

[Irulan]

I always ate stuff individually. Now I am more adventurous and will try a bite of something else.

Eating is generally methodical for me. But I am trying to practice better habits and that includes sensing the food. Slowing down. It does increase saity. And my body is very pleased. It often leads me to not eat something just because it is there.

I think being overly singular could one day lead to a poor habit of shoveling without taste. Depression lately? Tired?

[maskedmelon]

Been tired, but overall feeling pretty good.

[loramin]

i use to do this when i was a little kiddo. maybe in the course of you're personal growth your regaining "young at heart"? or maybe you are regressing to a childlike mental state? can you please give some feedback on any sensations in these areas so i can analize deeper??

This. I used to eat this way as a kid, and I also had a cousin who kind of took it to the extreme: he would literally eat all of one type of food, rotate his plate 90 degrees, eat all of the next type of food, rotate :) But we both grew out of it.

In general children like simpler foods (and dislike complex ones, especially spicy foods) because they have more taste buds. As you grow up and drink hot liquids, you slowly damage your taste buds, making complex/spicy flavors less so, and that's why adults tend to prefer those flavors while kids don't.

Not sure if that's the only factor involved (probably not, I'm no tongue doctor), and it certainly doesn't explain Melon's behavior, but /shrug.

[Cecily]

Pretty sure it’s an indicator of severe OCD/communist sympathizer. Not shoveling your food into your mouth is unamerican. Watching a girl I worked with eat one piece of popcorn at a time drove me crazy.

If you’re just talking about individually enjoying things you’re eating instead of mixing them up, that’s pretty normal. OCD kicks in when you freak about food touching like my aunt does. And this is why she has a kid who rejects any perceived flaw in her made in China toys. Which is precisely how I got a sweet stuffed pikachu last year, so I’m cool with it.

[Irulan]

I honestly struggle to eat protein. Most good sources have awful texture so if I must I shovel it in first or try to micronize it and hide it in other stuff.

[Wonkie]

segregation is wrong OP

[Cecily]

Chicken tastes like delicious to masticate imo.

[America]

Pretty sure it’s an indicator of severe OCD/communist sympathizer. Not shoveling your food into your mouth is unamerican. Watching a girl I worked with eat one piece of popcorn at a time drove me crazy.

If you’re just talking about individually enjoying things you’re eating instead of mixing them up, that’s pretty normal. OCD kicks in when you freak about food touching like my aunt does. And this is why she has a kid who rejects any perceived flaw in her made in China toys. Which is precisely how I got a sweet stuffed pikachu last year, so I’m cool with it.

grats on the shitty one-eared flat-tailed stuffie

[Irulan]

Chicken tastes like delicious to masticate imo.

Livers sure. Breasts ehhhh. Ill eat all the fat and skin tho.

[JurisDictum]

In the old days, people mixed their food. They collected everything there was to eat and mixed it together for meals. But IDK if you eat the various portions one at a time it makes much difference health-wise...as long as you eat all the various portions within a 20 minute window or so.

One of the various step dads I had in my life was big on this idea of eating one bite of every portion clockwise around your plate. He was very particular about how people eat. He allowed me to eat all my vegetables at once though because I didn't like them and wanted to get it over with first.

I always eat all my vegetables and got dessert. My brother around my age, always refused and sat at the table for hours sulking. When my mom came home from work and caught my stepdad trying to force a spoon of spinach in my brothers mouth -- she put a stop to all that. She was only with him like 5 minutes.

[JurisDictum]

It's also worth noting that sometimes people get weird about what they eat, how they eat etc. when they lack control over their lives. They do this as a way to kind of have control over their own behaviors. Especially kids.

[Irulan]

It's also worth noting that sometimes people get weird about what they eat, how they eat etc. when they lack control over their lives. They do this as a way to kind of have control over their own behaviors. Especially kids.

Yep. That's probably why I was really weird about it.

[DinoTriz2]

segregation is wrong OP

See, I disagree.

Let's say you're eating a luscious dinner. Straight from a melting pot.

You have sweet, pristine white corn at one corner, black olives at another, and then a glob of refried beans (who somehow found it's way on your plate, even though they don't even belong with the dish)

When you mix them all together, it creates stomach aches. The white corn uses the tongue to prevent the black olives from blending well in your mouth. They used to be a lot better at this but they're slowly becoming replaced. They could maintain their numbers if each kernel had at least two baby kernels.

Also, despite the fact that black olives make up 13% of your plate, they cause over 50% of indigestion. And don't get me started on refried beans. Every year the plate gets more beanier. It's like someone is using a spoon to catapult beans onto our plate.

[Wonkie]

See, I disagree.

Let's say you're eating a luscious dinner. Straight from a melting pot.

You have sweet, pristine white corn at one corner, black olives at another, and then a glob of refried beans (who somehow found it's way on your plate, even though they don't even belong with the dish)

When you mix them all together, it creates stomach aches. The white corn uses the tongue to prevent the black olives from blending well in your mouth. They used to be a lot better at this but they're slowly becoming replaced. They could maintain their numbers if each kernel had at least two baby kernels.

Also, despite the fact that black olives make up 13% of your plate, they cause over 50% of indigestion. And don't get me started on refried beans. Every year the plate gets more beanier. It's like someone is using a spoon to catapult beans onto our plate.

*gives Pupperoni* nice trick boy

[JurisDictum]

See, I disagree.

Let's say you're eating a luscious dinner. Straight from a melting pot.

You have sweet, pristine white corn at one corner, black olives at another, and then a glob of refried beans (who somehow found it's way on your plate, even though they don't even belong with the dish)

When you mix them all together, it creates stomach aches. The white corn uses the tongue to prevent the black olives from blending well in your mouth. They used to be a lot better at this but they're slowly becoming replaced. They could maintain their numbers if each kernel had at least two baby kernels.

Also, despite the fact that black olives make up 13% of your plate, they cause over 50% of indigestion. And don't get me started on refried beans. Every year the plate gets more beanier. It's like someone is using a spoon to catapult beans onto our plate.

Olives are pure fat. There are better ways to get healthy fat.

Some beans here and there are quite healthy for you -- but you wouldn't want to overdo it. Especially shitty refried beans. Just a spoonful of healthier beans or two is all you need. Otherwise you get fat and gassy.

[maskedmelon]

This. I used to eat this way as a kid, and I also had a cousin who kind of took it to the extreme: he would literally eat all of one type of food, rotate his plate 90 degrees, eat all of the next type of food, rotate :) But we both grew out of it.

In general children like simpler foods (and dislike complex ones, especially spicy foods) because they have more taste buds. As you grow up and drink hot liquids, you slowly damage your taste buds, making complex/spicy flavors less so, and that's why adults tend to prefer those flavors while kids don't.

Not sure if that's the only factor involved (probably not, I'm no tongue doctor), and it certainly doesn't explain Melon's behavior, but /shrug.

Interesting! Do you liek spicy foods? I hadn't thought how other preferences have changed alongside this, but realized it also happens to coincide with greatly increased affinity for bitterness and comparably reduced tolerance for sweets. prefer my coffee black.

Pretty sure it’s an indicator of severe OCD/communist sympathizer. Not shoveling your food into your mouth is unamerican. Watching a girl I worked with eat one piece of popcorn at a time drove me crazy.

that was my fear ;n;

If you’re just talking about individually enjoying things you’re eating instead of mixing them up, that’s pretty normal. OCD kicks in when you freak about food touching like my aunt does. And this is why she has a kid who rejects any perceived flaw in her made in China toys. Which is precisely how I got a sweet stuffed pikachu last year, so I’m cool with it.

yeah, it's been an unconcious change from the intentional mixing that had defined my previous eating habits.

[maskedmelon]

Olives are pure fat. There are better ways to get healthy fat.

Some beans here and there are quite healthy for you -- but you wouldn't want to overdo it. Especially shitty refried beans. Just a spoonful of healthier beans or two is all you need. Otherwise you get fat and gassy.

shout out to healthy beans:

natto


eat it.

[maskedmelon]

where does cheese fit into all this? i liek cheese a lot.

[America]

where does cheese fit into all this? i liek cheese a lot.

lactose is for grody smelling masc bodies. im purer

[maskedmelon]

lactose is for grody smelling masc bodies. im purer

the best cheeses, liek Jarlsberg, don't have lactose though. also, cheese is delicious. also++, eating rotten smelly things is good for you.

[America]

if it comes out of the cow, and it dont have lactose, it can only be spit pee or doody.

[maskedmelon]

if it comes out of the cow, and it dont have lactose, it can only be spit pee or doody.

omgosh lol, yes, but cheese does not come outta cows. the lactose gets eaten/destroyed (to varying degrees depending on the cheese) when the milk is fermentified into cheese. It's true ^^

[Irulan]

Cheese makes me really sick. But I am ok with yogurt n cottage. I believe it's more the fat content.

It does taste good though.

[loramin]

Interesting! Do you liek spicy foods? I hadn't thought how other preferences have changed alongside this, but realized it also happens to coincide with greatly increased affinity for bitterness and comparably reduced tolerance for sweets. prefer my coffee black.


I do. An interestingly enough there's a separate mechanism that also explains why people like really spicy or bitter foods (or beer), even though objectively those flavors start out tasting "bad" to us. Essentially there's a Stockholm syndrome-like thing built in to our brains, where when we eat foods that taste "bad" a few times we actually grow to like that flavor. I forget the name for this mechanism, but I'm sure you can find it on Google if you're interested.

[Irulan]

Currently destroying a jar of Jalapeño. This is also abnormal. I've been craving them all day today to.

[America]

I like my coffee how I like my women....

Without some other guys dick in it.

Agrippina the Younger (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59) poisoned the Emperor Claudius (1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) to put her son by another man (Nero [15 December 37 – 9 June 68 AD]) on the throne. Cuckoldry will kill you from any position. I am just saying

[maskedmelon]

I do. An interestingly enough there's a separate mechanism that also explains why people like really spicy or bitter foods (or beer), even though objectively those flavors start out tasting "bad" to us. Essentially there's a Stockholm syndrome-like thing built in to our brains, where when we eat foods that taste "bad" a few times we actually grow to like that flavor. I forget the name for this mechanism, but I'm sure you can find it on Google if you're interested.

my brain does that with a lotta stuff, unless it is traumatized, then it becomes super difficult to make amends with the offending agent. google couldn't find anything on this for me though. it just said that psychopaths like bitter more and agreeable people like sweets more and sugar triggers dopamine (surprise!). I've lieked spicy stuff since I was little though. anyway, thanks!

[Patriam1066]

The “mixture on your plate” was weak grip strength, lead paint, and atheism

My generation didn’t have crises over eating food. Sending you in first melon

[DinoTriz2]

The “mixture on your plate” was weak grip strength, lead paint, and atheism

My generation didn’t have crises over eating food. Sending you in first melon

Your generation also can't figure out how to send a text message.

I SHOWED YOU THREE TIMES, MOM!!

[misterbonkers]

unless it's something meant to be mixed (ex: something like beans or curry to mix into rice) i tend to just eat things individually. any potato or cheese thing is high priority because those are only tasty when hot/warm, so i tend to single those out and consume them first. cold/room temp cheese that hasn't been melted is a crime against humanity

[loramin]

my brain does that with a lotta stuff, unless it is traumatized, then it becomes super difficult to make amends with the offending agent. google couldn't find anything on this for me though. it just said that psychopaths like bitter more and agreeable people like sweets more and sugar triggers dopamine (surprise!). I've lieked spicy stuff since I was little though. anyway, thanks!

Huh, disappointed in Google. Here's more on "hedonic reversal" (as apparently it is called):

Clearly you have to be exposed to it a lot of times. But normally you would never be exposed [to hot chilies] more than once. And the reason you're exposed to it a lot is because that's what the family's serving, so you just eat it. The experience of eating it a lot somehow converts what was an aversion to a preference.

What's going to the brain is the same; there's no change in the tongue or the mouth, so it's what we call a "hedonic reversal."

It's not just in food, but coffee is bitter, and there's a lot of foods that we eat that little kids don't like — beer, etc. But we also like amusement park rides, we like to be scared, we like to cry at movies. This is an example of a very common thing in humans.

I call it "benign masochism," which is to say that we learn to like things that our body rejects. And it's benign because it doesn't hurt us.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/01/13/376963730/how-do-we-grow-to-like-the-foods-we-once-hated

[America]

capsaicin doesnt hurt u and does release endorphins.

probably why i find coffee so irresistably tasty. RUSH

[Irulan]

Lol nice

I had some wiiild graphic sex dreams involving sweets while locked up btw.

[maskedmelon]

The “mixture on your plate” was weak grip strength, lead paint, and atheism

My generation didn’t have crises over eating food. Sending you in first melon

cool story bro. i don't have crises over discussions of food.

[Cecily]

grats on the shitty one-eared flat-tailed stuffie

There was the question of a black thread in his face being slightly misplaced. It was fine and it’s totally adorable, tyvm. I grew up watching Pokémon when it came out. We were 13yo weeb wannabes with a desperate need for anime at the time. Other regrettable things included listening to and enjoying korn. Still think Picachu is cute af.

[America]

i used to run around with my pal and roleplay pokemasters and we both had our pick of the best pokemons. by the time i was 13, tho, all card game players were bully target peasants for me n my droogs

[Cecily]

Fancy a bit of the ol’ ultra violence, did ya?

[America]

things never got "violent" but i was really really good at using a violin bow as a whipping instrument targeting exposed fingers. extremely painful. i know this because i had to let the "muscle" of my crew, the trailer park boy with the abusive father, do whipping sneak-attack combat with me to hone our skills. i was the "administrator". we two were the backbone. others were pretty much various funny-boys whom i would arbitrarily exile to solitude & recall on whim.

yeah come to think of it we were a couple little f@gg1ts whipping each other in public more than we were whipping our bull-ees. i even made friends with the flaming queer kid this way; he was super effete but he was an able opponent (I think he was better at it than me) and he didn't get mad, so we turned into bros.

[Patriam1066]

Your generation also can't figure out how to send a text message.

I SHOWED YOU THREE TIMES, MOM!!

Fair enough. I have never figured out to post a picture to these forums so your criticism is legitimate

[Wonkie]

found your perfect food OP

https://i.imgur.com/VIo8DSV.jpg

[America]

is that sourdough? looks delicious.

i thought wonderbread on first look. i just want to note here that wonderbread is a travesty which should be illegal. that "loaded with vitamins" angle caused harm to children via intellectually neglectful parents. pure libertarianism is trashola.

[maskedmelon]

found your perfect food OP

https://i.imgur.com/VIo8DSV.jpg

i liek the pattern. it looks liek corduroy.

[Wonkie]

i liek the pattern. it looks liek corduroy.

do you like the shape of the slices? ;)

[Irulan]

do you like the shape of the slices? ;)

They are imperfect.

[Zeush]

So, i recently noticed that I've started eating parts of my meals one at a time. normally I'd liek to mix everything all up in my mouth with little bites of lots of things on my plate, but find myself attacking the food items in my meal one at a time more often then not. it's not wiiggn, me out of nothing, just thought I'd share this curiosity with my pals and see how everyone else feels about the mixing of foodstuffs in their mouths. does this recent adaptation belie some sorta mental collapse or a budding aversion to change, novelty or fun?

Your mashed potato and corn will have separation anxiety at the plate level.....