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Food Deal Breakers
Posted: 1:04 pm, August 4th, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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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.
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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.
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what about if they don't read ML? is that a deal breaker or a deal sealer?
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Not a fan on Facebook, hehe.
I try to minimize my presence there as much as possible.
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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....
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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.
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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?
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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! :)