Well, that's a worry less next time I puke blood.

Oh, I'm not saying she isn't an asshole. She certainly sounds like one.

I'm afraid to tell you that from an environmentalist standpoint, your friend is most definitely right. Eating meat is just bad for the environment. I try to eat only humanely raised animals but while that is better for the individual animal, often it's worse for the environment as a whole.

I absolutely get that texture is a huge part of this. I'm just about the opposite of a picky eater, but I can't eat cold, soft meat products. They make me gag, even when I can determine that the taste is actually okay.

Yes and frozen ones are the worst. Stuff like peas or green beans stand the freezing pretty well, but Brussels sprouts absolutely deteriorate.

I make something like that regularly and it's great.

There is something extremely weird to me about how American recipes, especially from that time, use end products as ingredients.

Wait, what? Marshmallows?!? In a salad?

I have nothing against eating vegetarian or vegan and have done volunteer work as a chef at a vegetarian place for years. But I don't like food that pretends to be other food or heavily processed foods. And stuff like vegan cheese or soy milk or whatever are just that.

Can someone explain to me what Miracle Whip is? Judging by the name alone I'd assumed it was some sort of instant whipped cream, but apparently it is some kind of mayo substitute?

Italy is weird with bread. In some regions you get focaccia, the most tasty bread of all, brimming with olive oil and salt. In others you can only get tasteless pieces of white fluff in a shelllike crust.

Actually, I always found it strange that most people, myself included, will happily eat aquatic arthropods while recoiling at the thought of their terrestrial cousins. So maybe you're on to something. Or I should start eating crickets and scorpions.

I like strong cheeses. Like a strong Gorgonzola or a runny, ripe French goats cheese. But some cheeses go too far for me. I'm not sure whether Limburger false just before or after that cutoff point, but it is somewhere around it.

Typical reaction of an Aspergersy type.

So also no shrimp, lobster, crab, langoustines or other delicious crustaceans? That's a lot of corpses you're not eating.

Hmmm! Delicious, creamy fat!

I understand where you're coming from and I'm really against what I see as a long going trend towards over diagnosing and over medicating all kinds of behavior.
But read the accounts of the people in this article and some of the comments here. Some of these people really suffer and feel pretty impaired by their food…

I like my food saltier than most, especially meat, so when there's no salt on the table, I worry a little. But most of the time the food at high end places is seasoned well enough that I don't miss it.
Still, when the meal starts with some bread, butter and olive oil on the table, I always hope they leave the dish of…

If your diarrhea is hard and gritty, you don't know what diarrhea is. But still see a doctor.

Every time someone makes a Poochie reference, I throw a brick at my hearth. Don't you?