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    Food dealbreakers

    Have you ever been at a table where you have been repulsed by what the rest of your table has been eating? I can't say that I have, except that I just read a Facebook status where some of Spuuky's family reported eating Minke whale. I am from a very anti-whaling country, and have spent quite some time campaigning against whaling, including specifically against the whaling of the Minke whale. I can't really wrap my head around why someone would go out of their way to eat it in a tourist capacity. People generally have different taste levels and dietary requirements from each other, but this is stretching it a bit much for me, even as someone who has endured a decade of dead animal in your food/tofu is bad jokes from everyone. There isn't much topic here other than I'm just a bit shocked, and have you ever been really grossed out/morally opposed by those you were eating with/people who were telling you of their dining experiences?

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    Pineapple on pizza
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    I'm not really a picky eater, so I'll pull things out of food if I don't like it. And I was raised in house where if I didn't like what was on the table, I went without dinner. So while I have many dishes I don't care for/don't like, I can usually manage or now that I'm an adult, cook my own food. But anything with an OVERWHELMING amount of onion taste will make me puke.

    Ethically, I have no qualms about anything I do/would eat.
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    I will never understand what people have against pineapple on pizza.

    I've never had a problem with what other people are eating. But if someone sticks a tomato on what I'm eating that tomato is getting tossed out and I'm having a word with whoever prepared the food.

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    To actually answer the thread topic as long as they are sure to keep the animals in good supply I dont have any moral objections to eating any type of animal except maybe human.
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    I've never been at a table where someone was eating something that repulsed me, but I imagine I'd have a hard time with it if someone were eating an endangered species purely for no other reason than the "novelty" of eating it. I don't know what I would do. Depending on my mood I would either pretend it wasn't happening, or I'd engage them and tell them that they were a smurfing idiot.

    Shark fin soup is also incredibly bothersome to me, as are other unnecessary cruel forms of preparing a meal (outside the norm of like, you know, slaughtering the animal for food).

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    Uh well I was coming in here to say "Anything with ketchup on it" but that seems super petty after reading the OP.

    Gluten, I guess, cause it does bad things to my intestines. Same with High Fructose Corn Syrup (RIP soda pop )

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    ugh. This stupid smurfing bitch of a teacher I worked with was way beyond grossed out by pickles. The ESL teachers and EAs got together for lunch one day in my sister's classroom and ordered food to be delievered. 2 of us had pickles with our meals, and she was sitting beside me... She moved all the way to the opposite side of the round table because "the smell grossed her out too much". I wanted to punch her so bad.

    Nothing really grosses me out though or offends me. If I don't like something, I won't eat it or try it. Simple.


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    How do you know you don't like something if you don't ever try it?
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    I think this thread is more about the moral qualms of certain dishes than personal preferences.

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    Not necessarily a qualm about eating certain types of food (you would have to be eating something very strange like bugs or something to get me squeamish) but when I was a server for a restaurant, I was always infuriated by customers that wasted food. I got annoyed when kids barely ate their food and their parents were okay with and let me throw it away. I disliked old guys who would order a steak dinner, barely touched the salad, ignored the potatoes and just ate the damn steak and here I am throwing away all of this food. It bothered a lot of the servers so please for the love of all that is good, get a take out box and don't waste food.

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    I can't deal if people start eating shark.


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    Quote Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine View Post
    ugh. This stupid smurfing bitch of a teacher I worked with was way beyond grossed out by pickles. The ESL teachers and EAs got together for lunch one day in my sister's classroom and ordered food to be delievered. 2 of us had pickles with our meals, and she was sitting beside me... She moved all the way to the opposite side of the round table because "the smell grossed her out too much". I wanted to punch her so bad.
    I dont know why you're so angry about this. It's not like she knocked the meal out of your hand or told you you were a filthy pickle eating bastard. She moved because the smell of pickles makes her sick. I have a similar problem with ginger, though Im not effected by the smell, if I eat a small amount, it makes me literally feel like throwing up and i mean literally in the literal sense, it's not even that I dont like the taste, it's just a phyiscal reaction i cant control. Would you rather she was polite, kept her mouth shut, and sat next to you and then proceeded to vomit everywhere?

    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
    Not necessarily a qualm about eating certain types of food (you would have to be eating something very strange like bugs or something to get me squeamish) but when I was a server for a restaurant, I was always infuriated by customers that wasted food. I got annoyed when kids barely ate their food and their parents were okay with and let me throw it away. I disliked old guys who would order a steak dinner, barely touched the salad, ignored the potatoes and just ate the damn steak and here I am throwing away all of this food. It bothered a lot of the servers so please for the love of all that is good, get a take out box and don't waste food.
    Whenever I see someone hasnt finished their food I want to ask them if I can eat it but that seems like bad manners.
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    Same with High Fructose Corn Syrup (RIP soda pop )
    You know that it exists with real sugar also, right? And is far superior?

    Putting mayonnaise on fries is a dealbreaker. Sorry, Canadians, but you're wrong.

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    Anything with dill repulses me, particularly pickles. I think that's the only thing other than the super gross stuff like live bugs or raw intestines or anything like that. I have pretty high food tolerances.

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