I'm wondering if any of you, or your family members, have eating quirks. Of course if you do it, you do not condier it a quirk, probably. But, if not many other folks do it, it's proibably a quirk anyway!

My wife has several. She MUST (it is not an option) have a desrt with her dinner. Not required for lunch. But, she insists on a dessert for dinner. If I do not make one, she will call an eatery with a delivery service that has desserts and have one delivered. It is a REQUIREMENT...not a preference. Personally, if I never had another dessert again, I would be fine. I like one occasioanlly but never NEED one. I'm not much of a sweets persons. I rather haver something with way too much salt than anything with a lot of sugar.

Also, my wife refuses to eat chili unless she has both cornbread and cole salw. I made a 5-quart pot of chili several weeks ago but didn't have any cabbage to make cole slaw. She wouldn't touch the chili until I went to the store and got cabbage for the cole slaw. She then ate it (I had cornbread already) said it was some fo the best chili she had ever eaten. But reiterated that she would not have taken a single bit without the cole slaw.

Personally, each food item stand on its own. I don;t need this in order to also eat that. I might lke it better with the other item and prefer to have the other item; but I won't refuse to eat something I like just because I don't have something else I like. I don't need beer for pizza. It;'s fine, but I don't NEED it!


Before my wife became severely disabled, she was the General Manager of a Plastic Extrusion and Injection Molding plant in California. One of her employees put mustard on EVERYTHING!!!! And I do mean everything. Whatever was one her plate got mustard...meat, veggies, salad, cookies, pudding, pie, cake...it ALL got mustard. She said the only thing she didn't put mustard on was fresh strawberries. other than that...it got mustard.

The wife of one of my freinds has an odd eating quirk. She puts ketchup on her ice cream. Flavor is inconsequential. If it's ice cream or sherbert, it gets ketchup...strawberry, peach, vanilla, chocolate, butter pecan, etc. They all got ketchup.

My aunt and uncle, both deceased, put both ketcup and mustard on their mashed potatoes. All other potatoes got ketchup...yes, even potaotoes au gratin and scalloped potatoes!

My brother and his wife do not use salad dressings, such as Thousand island, Ranch, etc. They put different flavors of jelly on their green salads. I'll pass!

My step-daughter from my previous marriage made Rainbow Mashed Potatoes. She put three or four drops of each color of food coloring in the mashed potatoes when they were otherwise ready to eat. She whipped them six or eight times with a wooden spoon and ended up with the colors of the rainbow streaked throughout the potaties. They were a HUGE hit with her friends. Food coloring has no taste, so I didn't mind. My ex-wife, however, could not bring herself to eat them...or blue peas, or red green beans! Again, they were fine with me.


Here's a snadwich my mother eats regularly:

Thick helping of creamy peanut butter on the bread, squirt ketchup over the peanut butter, add a slice of tomato and top it off with a teaspoon of horseradish. When Mom asks if I'm hungry when visiting her, the answer is ALWAYS "NO!!!!!!!"

How about you? Anything intetresting or unusual. Just wondering.

Alan