Home » Forums » Miscellaneous
Food Deal Breakers
Posted: 1:04 pm, August 4th, 2009 in Miscellaneous
94 Comments | RSS comments feed for this topic
94 Comments
-
Anyone that isn't a true carnivore is a deal breaker.
Also if you eat your meat well done, you better move along.
I'd have to think long and hard about a chick that didn't like any spicy food but that may not be an immediate deal breaker.
-
Vegan, for sure. Vegetarian would be ok, but only if I wasn't living with them. I guess a big deal breaker would be someone who hates Mexican/latin food. Because that's pretty much all I cook and eat most of the time.
-
Shit like this is why there are so many single people out there.
-
Dealbreakers (in no particular order)
1) Vegan or Vegetarian
2) Going to a nice Sushi place and ordering chicken teriyaki
3) Getting steak well done (I like getting the porterhouse)
4) Doesn't like Korean food
5) Doesn't like Asian food
6) Won't eat fried foods
7) Orders salads wherever we go
8) Complains about carbs
9) Doesn't like seafood
10) Doesn't like sushi -
No spicy food is a dealbreaker.
Here's some particularly obnoxious other ones I've heard:
- Not liking meat that comes on a bone.
- Not being able to eat ground meat.
- No bleu or similar cheeses.Beginning of the end of western civilization.
-
everything sushiburger said plus doesnt drink alcohol
-
- Hates Street Food and hates authentic Chinese food (American take-out style doesn't count)
- If she's very close-minded on trying new types of foods
- If she forces her lifestyle and eating habits on me - cannibals, vegan or vegetarian. I'm an omnivore - need some sort of salad in my Street Meats. -
@rinda: can't believe I forgot that one... that's definitely up there.
-
Here are my top 2---my others are inappropriate for ML purposes.
1. Anyone who wanted to cook indian food where I live...if they get takeout, I would leave the dwelling for a few hrs and insist they febreeze the shit out of the place, but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker.
2. Vegans/Vegetarians--I generally despise them...and find them to be murderers of innocent weavels, worms, field mice etc.....
-
vegetarian & non-drinker
-
I've seen carnivores try to cope with being with a vegan. I don't know any that work.
That aside, I can't imagine food being a deal breaker. My wife hate's mayo, vinegar, mustard,breaded/fried, "grill marks" (the char taste), tomato sauce (the cloyingly sweet kind from a bottle or from far too many 'red sauce' italian joints) and cheese.
That still leaves plenty of common ground for dining together (indian food, chinese food, steakhouses, brasilian food, barbecue, etc).
-
After reading some of the comments I must withdraw my original comment. I could not stand anyone who eats middle eastern food (I cant stand the smell) and if you dont drink I wouldn't bother but I couldn't see breaking it off if someone liked there burgers well done or didnt like pizza. If it doesn't effect you why would you care??
-
gents ... when you hear such complaints... it's why god gave you the pimp hand
yvo will have to tell us what women call it
-
D - it does affect us though. Personally, as the cooking partner in my relationship, his eating habits (and no-no's) sincerely can make my life occasionally a headache.
As I mentioned, I am currently in a relationship with someone who has many food habits that don't jibe well with my lifestyle. For example, he doesn't eat fish and claims to dislike seafood (though he eats baked clams, fried calamari, and some other stuff, and I've seen him eat sushi/sashimi). He doesn't like or eat vegetables, he detested the way our apartment smelled the first time I made (Japanese) curry (though he wound up eating it and liking it very much), and going out to eat with him used to be a total pain because I have to accomodate his tastebuds.
However, either because he loves me that much or some weird twist of fate, he's actually quite good now about being openminded and trying things. He's also gotten where he says "It's okay, I'll be able to find something on the menu" for any place I want to try, and he usually winds up trying something different from his "usual" stuff anyway.
He did, however, order beef teriyaki at Nobu, which amused me to no end... but I was blissed out over my salted caramel mochi, so whatever.
-
beef teriyaki @ nobu? My friend ordered the california roll there... i'm sure the feeling I had was similar...
in any case.. I agree w/ Yvo.. If i love sushi and my S.O. won't eat it.. it's something we can't do together... and eating together is a huge part of dating.... so it affects the relationship significantly in my view.
-
what about if they don't read ML? is that a deal breaker or a deal sealer?
-
Haha BF (who works at the bottom of the boundaries - 1 Penn Plaza) doesn't even read MY food blog, if he read another one, I'd be kind of annoyed :P
PS Sushiburger- yep, exactly. That ties into being openminded - it's okay as long as they don't shriek "EWWW, you're eating RAW FISH!!!" or refuse to even set foot in the places I want to go. Compromise, s/he can eat something cooked if that's what's skeeving them.
-
@Yvo- if he read your blog(which i am a fan of by the way), then you wouldn't be able to talk about all of his food idiosyncrasies.
-
Agree with Yvo and Sushiburger, took me years to break down my boy into eating sushi.
Steve, He only reads ML because of me. Sadly, he's not a foodie.
-
i also had a college buddy come visit and he wanted to go back to a sushi place i took him on a previous visit. this time he brought his GF along, who never mentioned she didn't like sushi so that night she got really drunk(due to empty) stomach and almost got it a fight with a girl at a bar we went to.
it's a dealbreaker to go out with someone who doesn't speak up about what they don't eat just to try to please your SO and their friends. we would have been ok with going somewhere else if she spoke up.
-
Thanks Steve! Are you a fan on Facebook too? (God, I sound like an ad...) Shameless plug to fan my blog on Facebook!!!
Haha, he does know I talk about his food habits on there though. :)
Oh! I have a good dealbreaker. If he cares about food more than I do, I'd probably wind up punching him in the face the first time he criticizes my cooking... not sure I could handle dating someone who obsesses more than I do about food.
Also - locavores (those that take it to the extreme and talk shit about you like you murdered a baby when you buy a pineapple or an avocado) and organic-only.
Somehow many locavore/organic-only eating people that I've met seem to be snootier than other foodies...
-
Not a fan on Facebook, hehe.
I try to minimize my presence there as much as possible.
-
Shameless Facebook.
Organic only? Wow, those are some snooty RICH people then? But whatever if they can afford it.
Compromise is fine. Long as the other person doesn't force their food preferences onto the other and can't enjoy their foods. I love pizza but if she didn't, I wouldn't force her to skarf it down with me but she shouldn't stop me from enjoying it either.
I'm pretty open to eating all types of food too. I'll even try the liver sandwich that looked kinda gross. Maybe not the deadly maggot cheese though. -
heheh let's see... There's really only ONE a guy could refuse to eat that would cause me to kick him to the curb.... Other than that I'm not too picky....
-
someone who doesn't order dessert cuz it's fattening and wants a small piece of my dessert.
someone who takes out the dough of a bagel.
someone who doesn't know how to use chopsticks and refuse to learn.
and someone who doesn't drink. -
@ Sarah, it helps if it's prepared the right way. I hear the Brazilians have a great recipe.
-
mkim - I thought that said someone who doesn't think, and I thought "Hmmm that's not really food related" lol
I don't know how to use chopsticks... and I've given up learning... does that count?
Sarah - haha that made me snort out loud. Thanks for the laugh.
BTW, to everyone who said "someone who doesn't drink" what if it's someone who "can't" drink, ie... a recovering alcoholic? Or someone who has violent allergic reactions?
-
I can stand someone who has one or two weird food dislikes that I don't understand. But what really gets me is "plain eaters." The no sauce/no toppings/please give me something that tastes like chicken or mac and cheese kind of people who look sickened at the mere mention of something they might not have heard of before. Especially if they're not even willing to try.
Oh and also people who get all judgy about street food. It's good. It's cheap. Your loss.
-
Yvo, i don't like someone who doesn't think about what to order on the menu. so there!
I've got another one. Someone who eats fake shrimps.lol -
same difference Yvo.
-
@Yvo: Recovering alcoholic.. I'm not sure if I can handle that.. because I drink often, all my friends drink... to think about it.. i don't know if my S.O. would be able to handle that... If you are allergic... it really really blows. I'm not 100% sure how I would be able to handle that. I go out drinking around 2-3 times a week, and if I'm not drinking out, i have wine at home... I would hate to be the only constantly drunk one in the relationship......
come to think of it.. maybe i have a drinking problem...
OH! I met someone that thought I was disgusting for eating something w/ tongue and ear in it... and then raves about Babbo and how "everything" there is awesome... i'm pretty sure batali makes some crap w/ tongue and ear in it, no? (i've never been to Babbo.. yes.. kill me now)
-
yvo - good point about not being able/capable to drink.
i guess i could see a silver lining in that... i'd always have a designated driver, if i needed.
but even so, i doubt i'd have a lasting relationship with someone who was sober all the time.
-
Babo is overrated.
-
I can deal with the no drinking if it's her preference in life. I don't even drink very often so it wouldn't be a huge issue. Food is more important. The no-eating/ twig-girls/ anorexic/ bulimic are a bigger problem to me. I can't stand the girls who get full afetr a few tiny bites. I like a girl who can eat (not saying she should stay huge unless the lady will allow me to remain huge with her - doubtful). Alcoholics/booze-bags are bad too. Everything in moderation is fine.
-
I dated someone for 2 years who was gluten-free and a super picky eater (coughcougheatingdisordercough). She basically subsisted on a diet of corn flakes and chocolate soymilk. God that was annoying.
-
StreetMeatTumor.. you need to go get roaring drunk - and laid - immediately. I bet you come back to ML tomorrow more relaxed, less neurotic and with a deeper voice
-
I don't need to be drunk but laid is certainly a wonderful option.
More relaxed and less neurotic? I guess if you can do it, then anyone can!
-
Well, the girl will definitely need to be drunk.
;-) -
ZING!
So, what are your food-related deal breakers when you meet someone that you may potentially be interested in?
I'm already dating someone who basically encompasses nearly every single one of my potential dealbreakers, and admittedly, I didn't think of most of these until after we already started dating... but here's one:
I couldn't date a vegan. Honestly, I don't think a vegan would date ME. But I guess that's besides the point! :)