More annoying eating habits

[Pete]

following on from the tedium of the how do you spread butter thread, what other ridiculous food related habits do you have?

I can't eat soup from the same bowl I microwaved it in, I must transfer it to another bowl. I also refuse to pour my beans onto the toast and must scoop exactly a mouthful onto the slice for each bite.

[Stuart*]

I can't eat soup from the same bowl I microwaved it in, I must transfer it to another bowl.

I agree, but perhaps for a different reason. To avoid splashing from the soup as it's being microwaved, it's sensible to put cling-film over the bowl. This does, however, create a mess down the side of the bowl where the soup has 'leaked' through the cling-film. Although the soup cools quicker in a fresh bowl it is more aesthetically pleasing that way.

I also refuse to pour my beans onto the toast and must scoop exactly a mouthful onto the slice for each bite.

I concur. It avoids an incorrect bean:sauce ratio.

MY GRIPE:
People who leave the teaspoon on the worktop after they have made their cup of tea are sub-primate animals. I've nearly come to blows with previous housemates over this. I even have a small bowl next to the kettle for the used teabag (the leaves go in the plant pots) and the teaspoon should either go in there or in the washing-up bowl in the sink - never left on the worktop!

[all new Phil]

Oh yes I share your teaspoon-related annoyances. I keep shouting at my dad for leaving teaspoons on the side next to the kettle, as it stains the worktop. So instead, he's started leaving them on top of a (usually clean) teatowel, thus staining them instead. NO amount of shouting will make him turn around and put them into the sink.

[Alexia]

In work I have my own mug and my own teaspoon on the side. Usually when I go in at 11pm I have a pot of coffee (being a hotel it's even a cafetiere! how swish...except one day when i pushed it down slightly too quickly and ended up spraying the pigeon holes with micro coffee granules - eugh) that lasts me until 3am...and then I usually have a cup of tea with the breakfast girls at 6am. I use the same cup for both, rinsing it with boiling hot water afterwards and keeping the teaspoon in it when I'm at home... i.e. right now.

I have soup bowls (they have handles and soup recipies printed on the side... think we found them in an open air market once) so I microwave soup in the soup bowl, cling-film-less. I always have bread and butter with my soup so once you've done dipping all that in the soup, it's usually cool. I'm a big fan mind you of packet soup, except when you get a big lump of un-mixed powder in the bottom afterwards.

I also ALWAYS put a bit of Lo-salt and pepper in my soup to spice it up a bit.

I prefer spaghetti hoops to beanz on my toast - but usually I just pour it all on in one go, and put a dollop of red sauce on one side and brown on the other, for variety.

A favourite five-minute dish of mine is pizza-toast - that is grated cheese on tomato puree on toast. Simply toast one half of your bread, then toast the other half lightly, take it out of the grill, spread some puree and sprinkle (lots) of cheese on top, then slide under grill once more till cheese melted sufficiently. Serve with brown sauce.

If you're ever in a mood to pig out and your chosen pizzeria and Chinese are close together, get pizza and chips with sweet and sour sauce; I used to order the pizza, pop to the chinese while it was being made, then go back and collect it after. I used to have some strange looks.

I also like cheese-and-marmite crumpets. When I mention that in work people look at me like I'm a Martian.


PS... If anyone quotes me saying "i pushed it down slightly too quickly and ended up spraying the pigeon holes" I'll send Tumble Tower round.

[Pete]

i pushed it down slightly too quickly and ended up spraying the pigeon holes

I bet you did.

I use the half bake baguettes from sainsburys to make pizzas using tomato puree, cheese, peppers and ham

Oh yes I share your teaspoon-related annoyances. I keep shouting at my dad for leaving teaspoons on the side next to the kettle, as it stains the worktop. So instead, he's started leaving them on top of a (usually clean) teatowel, thus staining them instead. NO amount of shouting will make him turn around and put them into the sink.

If you visit your local branch of morrisons you should be able to pick up a rather nice little teaspoon / teabag resting device in the shape of a flat teapot. They're usually hanging on those "look at the tat" hook things with the turkey basters and the icecube bags.

Oh yes, and I only eat weetabix one at a time. I can't stand having more than one in a bowl as they end up on a slant and therefore have one soggy end and one hard end. They must have uniform sogginess. I push my rice krispies, and all other cereals, under the milk before eating for the same reason

[rob]

I refuse to eat anything fish-based or anything with nuts and raisins in. I'm allergic to nuts, and raisins are just awful.

[Pete]

Rob I don't think "refusing to eat nuts because i'm allergic to them" can't be counted as an annoying quirk. That's like saying breathing is an annoying habit.

[Gavin Scott]

Strangely I also don't eat anything fish based. I had a bit of an odd reaction to nuts years ago so avoid them.

Nota Bene: Nuts not balls.

[ashley b]

This may surprise you, but I too don't eat anything fish based either.

[lukey]

I'm far too sequential with food. I could have before me a balanced meal, a seperate bowl of salad, and a basket of sliced bread, and would sit and eat any meat, then any rice, then a load of salad, then slice after slice of bread. Wow, that was interesting.

[Gavin Scott]

This may surprise you, but I too don't eat anything fish based either.

That does surprise me somewhat, what with your web address and all.