People think it's weird that I take my candy bars all the way out of the wrapper to eat them!

It's weird to me that you're considered weird. Why take the extra step to warm it? Like you said, it just gets runny. It's delicious as is and the heat of the pancake warms it plenty. I don't think I've ever eaten warm syrup. How odd.

Lol. Guess that's the point.

I can only eat most foods at room temperature. I don't like ice or boiling things. People are always asking me if I need something warmed up or if I need ice in my drink.

Hm. I've never had warm syrup. That's an odd idea to me.

That said, I also grew up eating peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches, and insist that my homefries be so hot that they cannot be reasonably consumed right away.

Cold cauliflower on pizza -- it's a requirement!

I like to eat little things in pairs. if you hand me three m&ms I might give one back [or ask for another]. I'm working on it!

I agree about the cold syrup! I am ok w/ it being room temp or a little warm- but I am happiest when it's cold! My mom always kept the syrup in the fridge when I was growing up, and I do the same now. I also really like cold ketchup with french fries for the same reason.

I grew up in a household that served bread and butter with every meal. As a kid I would put whatever we were eating ON the bread and butter, one bite at a time. Now everytime I eat potroast with veggies, spaghetti, or any kind of cassarole I fight the urge to make a bread'n'butter sandwich with it. Also as a kid I ate coolwhip sandwiches, the thought of which now makes me gag. One starange thing I still allow myself, is that I have to have chips with a sandwich, and in the proper ratio. One chip per bite of sandwich. I will even put the chips ON the sandwich, even PB and J. Good thing we don't eat many sandwiches!

@susanna37 I do that too... what's so weird about it?

I love this topic. Food habits are so fascinating :)
I have two. One, I fold wrappers. Candy wrappers or especially gum wrappers, I like to fold them into very small, very crisp little rectangles. Been known to fold napkins up, too. I can't stand crumpling them!
Two, I eat my Oreos like cereal, in a bowl. They get more milk that way, and a nice half crisp, half soggy texture if you time it just right.

I like to dip Lays sour cream n onion potato chips in my egg salad. Also, if I make a sandwich, the chips have to be in there, like aimeeang.

I like to salt my tomatoes and cucumbers.

Room temp water, from the tap. Even in restaurants I request water without ice.

I also use cold syrup...what makes me different is that I put the syrup in a small bowl to the side and dip the pancakes into the bowl rather than pour the syrup over the pancakes. I don't like how they get soggy when you pour syrup over them and I like the option of eating them without syrup if I get tired of the sugar.

BTW, love the idea of eating oreos like cereal!

Ooo! How fun, when it comes to pancakes and syrup, I drizzle a little bit of room temp syrup over my pancakes edge, consume that portion, and then pour syrup over the next one inch portion, and keep going until Im out of pancake. I hate pouring all of the syrup on at once and having soggy breakfast:) I also LOVE dipping chips and crackers in sour cream, as well as strategically planning out bites so that I finish with the thing I love most.

butter @ room temp. refrigeration of butter seriously bums me out. i am sure i've got company on this one here, but many friends who come over are sure i'm serving rancid butter b'c i leave it out all of the time. there are those few days of summer where i have to give up on soft butter, but probably only 3 days/year.

when i eat an orange, nothing remains, no skin, pith, seeds, nada.

This might be super gross but when I was younger and my family had spaghetti I also had applesauce with it. I would dip my french bread in the applesauce, then pile on some spaghetti and eat it like that! I still do this day MUST have applesauce with my spaghetti :)

I also eat my oreos like cereal! Growing up, my dad called it Cookie Soup and it was my favorite bed time snack!

I eat my granola dry, and my ritual is to sprinkle it with cinnamon, zap it in the microwave for 20 seconds, and then top it with fresh berries.

I also love black pepper and am constantly seasoning my food with it.

As for food qualms, cottage cheese terrifies me, and I can't stand bacon.

I am completely temperature apathetic when it comes to beverages. I'll drink warm water, cold coffee and tea, etc. The only thing I'm particular about is beer. It MUST be super cold.
I also love leftover fried chicken served cold straight out of the fridge. With a pinch of salt. I've been told that's pretty odd.

I used to eat ketchup sandwiches and mayo sandwiches...ugh. The ketchup had to be on hot dog buns.

Also, listen to this!...My mom's salad she used to serve us when I was growing up was a lettuce leaf topped with a canned-peach half dolloped with mayo topped with foldings of Kraft American cheese slices topped with a maraschino cherry! Ugh. Such a healthy salad.

Fun post! I don't care about the temperature of syrup for my

pancakes... But when I eat eggs (cooked any way) they must be eaten on or in something else, like on toast, mixed with hash browns, or in a tortilla. By themselves I'm just not interested!

I don't like syrup on my pancakes at all, but I love syrup in other things. Does that make me weird? I like lemon curd or jam on my pancakes, then I roll em' up. I eat my apples like your aunt, with a knife in slices, too.

I like food cold. Not always, but some things taste so good to me cold, especially pasta based dishes, casseroles, etc. Mmmm, leftover lasagna sans microwave.

People think I'm nuts that I eat chips and dip for dinner on a regular basis. But then I went home and the whole family had chips and guacamole for dinner the night before thanksgiving. And no one thought it was nuts or felt the need to serve anything else with it. :)

me too! i much much much prefer cold pancake syrup on my pancakes, waffles, french toast, etc. than warm or room-temp!

When I was little I used to eat mustard/lettuce and mayo/pepperocini sandwiches. I can't stand the idea now.

Also, whenever I eat pretzels I have to also eat a vegetable at the same time usually radishes (they're my favorite).

My in-laws think I'm crazy for eating jelly with my scrambled eggs as a child. But I think they're weird for putting ketchup on their ham steaks. You wouldn't put ketchup on a ham sandwich, so how is this any different?!

I'm very sensitive to temperature. I can't have anything hot as I BURN. I'm forever envious of my family who can sit drinking scalding cups of tea while I have to sit with my cup for 10 minutes till it's just above luke warm temperature.The worst part of it is it usually means I have to have my food cold or keep reheating to only let it cool to the 'right' temperature. Ironically I don't enjoy cold beverages.

Oh and I'm practically OCD when it comes to food and 'abnormalities'. If there's a speck in my egg, a spot on my apricot, a hole in my apple.. I will eye it suspiciously. This causes a 'Diva Supreme' versus 'Shut up and eat- it's nature' battle. If I remove the offending article it usually works with me pleasing both sides.

Although I wouldn't consider either of them quirks, to answer the questions at the end of the post:

1. My soup does have to be scalding. (And then I let it cool. All (hot) food has to be scalding and then let cool. I don't know why. It just is.)

2. My tomatoes do have to be salted. (People eat tomatoes without salt?)

I too eat pancakes with cold syrup because my mother always put the syrup in the fridge.
I dislike eating hot things. I prefer everything cold. I especially love eating leftover fried food straight from the fridge. Guess that's pretty weird.

My boyfriend's family eat watermelon sprinkled with salt. They say that salt brings out the sweetness. I thought that was kind of gross...

I eat bananas with a spoon (I usually only eat them when alone), I used to always eat a slice of pizza backwards after removing the crust (and still do if I'm alone), I only eat one piece at a time (popcorn, cereal, etc.)

I hate most creamy white things if they're not very well mixed into something that disguises their texture, like cottage cheese, sour cream in most applications, and I have only just trained myself to enjoy homemade ricotta cheese and mayonnaise (still iffy on store-bought).

When I was little, I didn't like tomato sauce either. When I ate pizza I would peel off the cheese, scrape off the sauce, and then replace the cheese and eat it. When mom made spaghetti and meatballs she would make some meatballs without sauce and I would eat my spaghetti and meatballs covered in ketchup...

Yeah, I don't know either.

I like my pancakes PLAIN! And eaten with my hands. Apparently I was raised by wolves, because I much prefer eating certain things with my hands, like corned beef. Instead of cutting the meat off the turkey wing this weekend, I tore it with my hands. Gross, but I wash them a lot!

One more - PB&J sandwiches are so much better with a couple leaves of iceberg lettuce tucked inside.

Caralovesyou, why do you wash turkey wings a lot?*

When I was a kid, my friend ate his pie in a bowl with milk.

For some reason, my sister doesn't care for mashed potatoes, but will mash boiled potatoes on her plate with her fork.

Peanut butter sandwiches with lettuce are great!

*just kidding

You're not weird at all! I HATE warm syrup on pancakes. My only other "weird" thing is eating regular Lay's potato chips dipped in Fancy Sauce (aka Ketchup and Mayo mixed together).

Oh boy well here are some of my food eating oddities -

I only eat cereal dry. I have always done it this way. I think I might've tried cereal with milk once, but never again. Which brings me to...

I hate milk. I can't drink it. I'm not lactose intolerant, I just can't stand it. Blah blah calcium, you say? One word - vitamins.

I can only eat eggs scrambled. Otherwise I always detect a strong sulfur smell that makes me nauseous.

I think every single commenter here has, at one time or another, eaten at a restaurant I worked at.

At least, that would explain all the weird requests I've heard.

Woah @Jen- I think you are my long lost twin. I do BOTH of those things. And for the same EXACT reason!

caralovesyou, I think we must have been rasied by the same pack. I'm always getting stick for tearing lumps off roasts and walking away with them. I'll tear cheese, bread, sliced of smoked fish, sausage and cake and just walk away. I am so hated in my mother's kitchen.

My husband has an aunt who, when eating a finger-food item, will eat the entire item except for the part where her fingers were. So, she would eat a stick of celery with dip except for the part where her fingers held the celery. She makes a little pile in the corner of her plate (at home, restaurants, wherever).

I hate the smell of sizzling fajitas. And I'll be damned if every time I go to a Mexican restaurant the table right next to us gets a giant order of sizzling fajitas. I hate when I leave somewhere and can still smell the fajita smell in my hair/clothes. I've had this "thing" about sizzling fajitas since I was 8 years old.

Whenever I make ramen noodles (shhh!) I can't eat the broth (gross) and just go for the squiggly noodles.

I used to have a very specific list of foods that skeeved me out, but most have been replaced or retired over the years. On a related note: always avoid telling your nearest and dearest which foods skeeve you out, as they will always find a way to bring that food around. Ugh.

Update: I love the *taste* of fajitas, just not the smell. I can't explain it.

-I CAN'T eat cold ketchup. We keep it in the fridge and did growing up too but cold ketchup with hot food- yuck.

-I don't like syrup soaking into my food, so I tear pieces of waffle and dip it into syrup instead of pouring it on a whole one.

-Burgers. I get so made fun of for how I like my burgers- tons of lettuce, enough mayo on top and bottom bun to make a doctor cringe and then I'll sit there shaking black pepper on it til you can't see the mayo anymore! SO good.

I eat fried rice with pickles.

cottage cheese with ketchup on it. delicious. I can't eat it any other way.

except if it is mixed in tuna salad instead of mayo....

i like honey on my pizza.

eating pretzels after swimming

and cold syrup and un-soggy pancakes for me please :)

It's awesome to see so many interesting quirks.

Personally, I can't eat meat (except roast turkey or chicken) on it's own. A bite has to include veggies (usually mashed potato or rutabaga), or the smell and texture make me nauseated.

My ex-stepdad used to dip fishsticks in raspberry yogurt, and my fiance won't eat white sauces, eggs, or cheese - a restriction that seriously limits what I cook for dinner!

I think I have a lot of unusual food preferences...
- I HATE Bananas. Or anything with banana in it. I hate even being in the room when someone else eats a banana, the smell is the worst part.
- I used to be really wierd about my food touching on the plate, but I have let this go for the most part. Now only foods that "go together" in my head can touch. If I am having salad it absolutely MUST be on a seperate plate. If salad touches warm food it gets wilty and soggy, gross. And if salad dressing gets on the other foods thats gross too.
- I love a mix of maple syrup and ketchup on my bacon, sometimes even on my eggs (canadian thing?).
- I go crazy with condiments. I won't eat things like macaroni or scrambled eggs without ketchup, chips without dip/ salsa, chicken or turkey without loads of sauce/ gravy/ cranberry. I load my sandwhiches/ burgers up with mayo and drown my pasta in sauce. I just find a lot of foods dry and tasteless without any help. Its funny because my boyfriend is the exact opposite and I am always surprised at how he can eat things so plain.
- Like a lot of people I like my water room temperature (not too cold) and my tea luke warm (not too hot). But I blame this one on sensitive teeth.
- One more! I drink everything through a straw. If I have a glass of water without a straw it will not get drunk. Don't know why that is, habit I guess. Except for wine. No straws in my wine please.

@fennpepper / I eat EVERYTHING in pairs :) I divide my food in pairs, all of it. Because I switch sides to chew (don´t ask me why, who knows) and always end with the same side :D

@Jen @ Put a spork in it / I fold all my wrappers and napkins. Is really weird otherwise in my case.

Why would people like hot syrup? Yuck.

Where do my food abnormalities start?

- I can't eat tomatoes. I'll eat tomato sauce or ketchup. I think it's the texture.
-I hate the taste of cold french fries. They get all soggy and gross.

I have a friend that used to fill up a cup with milk and crush and mix enough Chips Ahoy in it until it turned to a consistency of a paste and ate it like that.

I meant reheated french fries.

Don't worry. I'm a cold-syrup person, too! Warm syrup just...isn't right.

Peanut butter (with syrup, of course) on pancakes and french toast. SO good.

i didn't like side dishes to touch the main dish. especially if there was some sort of sauce, or the main dish might bleed into a vegetable.

i also needed salt on watermelon. my mom ate it that way.

My oddities:

-I much prefer mustard over ketchup for dipping French fries.

-I happen to like dipping potato chips and/or pretzels in applesauce.

-I'll still drink piping hot coffee on insanely hot days.

-I actually prefer percolated coffee to coffee made by any other method, though many tell me it's such an inferior method. So be it, I like it.

-I like to eat off the outer layer of a creamsicle first, then eat all the cream at one time.

-I love dunking cookies in coffee or milk for so long that sodden parts fall into the beverage, requiring me to chase after them with a spoon.

-I use the last few sips of milk left in my cereal bowl to swallow my morning vitamins.

When I was young, my favorite after school snack was a baby dill pickle wrapped in a slice of American cheese. Can't stand American cheese now, but I still love pickles.

I can only eat macaroni and cheese if it is topped with sugar.

dipping french fries into my Frosty at Wendy's always garners some strange looks.....

I also salt my watermelon (and canteloupe)

1. I don't eat the crispier ends of my french fries.
2. I can only eat one color of an assorted candy at a time. And I eat the color that there is the least of first. Or, if it is one that I have a flavor preference for, I'll eat all of the worst colors/flavors first, leaving me with the best for last.
3. I massacre napkins. They end up in a crumply wad at the end of a meal. Sometimes I go through quite a few.

jennipearl, I thought there were entire clubs devoted to dipping the fries in the Wendy's frosty. (I'm not in one...)

No syrup at all on the pancakes for me at home.

I consider mayonnaise and mustard to be twin sources of evil.

Pizza, like revenge, is best served cold. So are a surprising variety of Chinese foods.

In moments of tiredness, when eating alone, I've been known to make the refrigerator ravioli without bothering with sauce.

Also, recent discovery: miniature marshmallows can be eaten straight from the bag. Indeed, I'm not sure they have any other purpose.

I only eat pancakes with sweetened condensed milk (like the one used to make Flan) instead of syrup. If I don't have sweetened condensed milk I use real honey. I hate syrup, it grosses me out.

I used to put ketchup on just about everything when I was a kid. I grew out of that.

I hate cold water, it has to be room temp. However juices, milk and such have to be cold it grosses me out when they are room temp especially oj. I like my coffee really hot and will only drink it in the morning. I can only drink tea and hot chocolate at night.

I only eat eggs on top of toast, french toast, or waffle or with a tortilla.

Pork and chicken gross me out even though I still eat pork chops, sliced sandwich ham and the traditional xmas ham and chicken depending on how and who cooks it. I hate turkey. You can't pay me enough money to eat duck or venison.

There is a small list of foods that I don't eat unless my mum or I make them.

I hate the wheat tortillas they sell at grocery stores, if you have ever had a homemade tortilla whether wheat or corn (by someone who KNOWS how to make them) you would hate them as well.

In my parent's home country, Honduras, they have this bread/pastry thing called "semita" supposedly in english it's "sweet and wild bun", some people eat it with soda in the afternoon or in the morning with coffee, they dunk it in the coffee (not done with the soda). This semita is usually at room temp but for the life of me I cannot eat it like that, I put it inside the oven so it gets a bit toasty. And I can only eat the ones made at a pastry shop not the grocery store ones.

These are hilarious!!

I can't eat meat off the bone. Fried chicken uh uh. Chicken fingers okay.

i'm fairly certain i could start an entire blog with all of my food quirks and oddities. part of the reason why i learned how to cook is because i'm so particular with how the majority of the foods i eat are prepared it's just easier to cook it myself. the worst part is they are often contradictory, which is probably why my exasperated father has given up trying to remember all of them. (like... not eating any meat off of the bone, except for when i steal the wings off of a freshly roasted chicken; hating onions, yet loving leeks and shallots; refusing to eat mashed potatoes with the skins in them or the skin from a baked potato, but i love potato skins with cheese and bacon...i could go on forever).

however, my all time weirdest habit that i can think of also has to do with pancake syrup. if i go to IHOP and get more than one pancake, i have to get a separate plate and eat each pancake separately, with a different syrup, wiping off all traces of the previous syrup from the plate and utensils before moving on to the next pancake. no syrup mixing!

I eat my cereal dry and my pancakes are dipped, bite by bite, into syrup in a separate dish. Both of these measures avoid soggy food.

Also, I loathe ice cream on hot desserts. I don't like melted ice cream at all and cold patches and soggy bits on a perfectly nice hot dessert is just unpalatable.

I prefer my pancakes with butter only. I'll eat them with syrup occasionally though but it's room temp not cold or hot.

I eat most leftovers cold and I like them just as well cold as reheated.

I also found after I started cycling that I really love the combination of bananas and oreos washed down with red gatorade.

Cold
Fried
Chicken

I don't like mashed potatoes, but I'll eat them at Thanksgiving if I can mix cranberries in. That's probably the weirdest habit I have.
The others are probably more common, like eating M&Ms and Skittles by color, I won't just eat a handful.

I also have a problem with hot liquids. They have to cool down before I can taste them. I don't like cereal without evaporated milk. I butter my crackers before dunking them in soup or chili. I LOVE eating the crispy fat off of bacon and steaks. Peanut butter and bacon on buttered toast is to die for. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are another of my faves. My brother used to eat cottage cheese only with french dressing. He also liked bologna and pickle sandwiches.
Most peeps think all of these are weird but I don't!

i love this thread :)

@teadosia - ME TOO re: honey on pizza! i love saving the crusts for "dessert" with honey drizzled on them.

@eilonwy - i try to avoid keeping bags of mini-marshmallows in the house, b/c if they're there, i'll eat them by the handful, straight from the bag. my husband looks at me like i'm weird. but they're so good!

also...i like to eat all of the ice cream out of the cone before eating the cone itself. this works best with cake cones, where that little cross-hatched area at the bottom of the cone gets all smushy from the ice cream that's melted into it.

Yes yes yes! Cold syrup FTW! It is so much less soggy. Also: having it in a small dipping bowl is crucial too.

I prefer honey on my pancakes. Also, I need to put pepper on before salt. I don't need pepper on everything, but if I put pepper on it, it must need salt, and the pepper must go on first.

Being hypoglycemic I have trouble with too much syrup, so I picked up a pancake habit from serving them to my kids: using a pizza cutter to portion them into wedges and dipping them into syrup as needed.

i eat hard boiled eggs with soy sauce. my roommates used to think it was disgusting, but to me it was just another form of salt.

i already commented but i thought a lot about food while i was on the rowing machine at the gym/dying of starvation.

- hot sauce makes everything better
- butter and gerkin pickle sandwiches are great
- seafood and dairy is gross
- i like to dip my chips in mustard

warm syrup is so sickeningly sweet!!!
what about dry granola/cereal with a cup of milk next to it separately? it's the best :)

also, adding korean side dishes (the nonspicy ones like seasoned soybean sprouts) in sandwiches are soooo good

Strawberries with black pepper and mayo. Mmmm....

I hate maple syrup. I eat my pancakes with powdered sugar. Or regular granulated sugar, if there's no powdered sugar around. No butter, even. The two times a year I eat eggs, they must be scrambled and they must be nearly burned with brown, crispy edges.

Diet, caffeine-free Coke is my favorite soda, especially if it's a little watered-down. My friends all ask me what the point is, if there's no sugar, no caffeine, no calories, no flavor, etc., but it's just best that way! Sometimes I add water to soda and iced tea.

When I was a kid, I ate ketchup on macaroni and cheese and ranch dressing on everything else. Yuck.

If I'm eating M&Ms or other multi-colored candy, I have to eat them in a certain color order.

If I use canned pasta sauce, I strain it first, to remove all the little specks of onion. I hate onions! My family makes fun of me, but you'd be surprised how many onion specks are in there.

I have a lot of food quirks. I'm also really picky.

I also eat cereal with no more than two teaspoons of milk.

And another thing I ate as a kid... I used to take pickle slices, sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on them, fold them up, and eat them. Everyone was grossed out by it, but it's no worse than eating a cheeseburger with pickles on it (in fact, I don't even eat burgers--no beef ever).

When I was younger and my grandfather was very old, he couldnt eat very quickly due to Parkinsons and varying other age related ills. So when my grandparents came over for dinner (usually a Sunday roast) he'd be served his food first to give him a head start. Despite this he'd still only be barely half way through his dinner by the time the rest of the table had finished and he would usually just give up because he felt awkward at being the only one still eating. I always felt quite bad about this so I did two things. I ate my food equally slowly and started eating my peas one at a time, stabbing them with a fork. If I still finished before he'd had a chance to enjoy his meal I'd have a second helping of peas. Eaten one by one.
Anyway, my Grandpa died years ago and I still do this. My whole family thinks I'm nuts with a seriously weird pea addiction.

Strawberry shortcake (but made with a hot milk sponge cake instead of shortcake) served in a bowl with milk. Just like my dad:)

When we lack a vegetable for dinner, sometimes we just throw two cans of corn in the micro. Mine, however never makes it there. I really dislike canned corn when it's been heated. Go figure.

and I have an uncle who loves peanut butter and Kraft Singles sandwiches.

I love my syrup cold or room temp, as long as the pancakes are hot. If it's been sitting for more than ten minutes, I'd just pick it up and eat it with my hands.

I like eating bananas with ketchup, bananas with baguette, and bananas with any type of soft cheese (loved wrapping half a banana in Kraft singles as a kid).

Also, I can only eat Tic-Tacs, M&Ms, and Skittles in pairs.

i sometimes pour milk on my ice cream... i don't know why or how i discovered that!

salami and butter sandwiches are tasty. and peanut butter and butter sandwiches are really good. also, peanut butter and mustard. wow, i'm just realizing what weird habits i have after only thinking for a minute! food is just delicious!

I <3 cold syrup too.

I put twist ties on backwards. When I visit my parents, they can always tell which bags/bread loves/etc. I've been into because the twist ties are twisted the opposite direction from the rest of the planet.

I just don't like chewing.. if I can drink all my food I'm happy... latte for breakfast, smoothie for lunch, soup for dinner.... I will chew foods but if it's too much work (like bagels.. omg).. I'm over it..

I put my room temp syrup on my pancakes one-bite-at-a-time!! They are usually smothered in peanut butter and bacon also!
And like bestbr, I also leave my butter out, all the time!! The temperature in my house is gaged by the butter needs. If it is hot out, and it usually is in OK, then I lower the temp on ac. And if it is cold out then the heater cannot be raised above 65 degrees, I tell everyone to put more clothes on. LOL
I also like cold leftovers like fried chicken and fried pork chops and meatloaf on bread & covered in hot sauce, and cheeseburger's! With Lays and bbq sauce for dipping!

The thing I do that people told me was weird my whole life: pickle sandwiches. Nice crusty white bread (Portuguese rolls were always good), and bread and butter pickles.

I was in HEAVEN in England when I discovered the cheese and pickle sandwich. My people!

I love to eat full size tomatoes whole (like an apple). I also like to snack on just sprouts (alfalfa, radish, bean). My weirdest food quirk is my affinity for peanut butter, red pepper and hummus sandwiches. I first made this sandwich while on a weeklong field trip far from home. The group I was with would all eat McDonalds for every meal and out of desperation I gathered any groceries I could readily eat. It stuck with me.

I love pairing sweet breakfast items with orange juice...My husband thinks this is just bizarre. But I love it!

I am so glad all of us are a little weird!

Here's mine:
-dry cereal followed by a swallow of milk
-meat and potato on fork eaten in same bite (a Midwest thing?)
-cannot drink hot drinks until they are room temp, so just avoid them (burn my lip or tongue every time)
-peanut butter sandwiches MUST contain apple & raisins
-everything dippable must be on the side -- don't even think about putting salad dressing on a salad
-no mayo, ever

Oh and @chrisdy, I may have to try peanut butter, red pepper and hummus. It does sound good.

Forgot one: I will never, ever eat a Chee-to.

This may be a bit weird to most people but I suspect it won't be in this crowd.

I add cream to my milk before I drink it. Or sometimes, I just drink the cream straight. I do that when I feel that the milk is not creamy enough :P

I like to eat butter. By itself. Mmmm... Yummae.

*I won't eat the "butts" of some foods like whole pickles or cucumbers, radishes, bread, & bananas.

*When I eat out, I always inspect my sandwich. I think was due to a green cheeseburger years ago in school.

*Which led me to another quirk I've just recently gotten over: eating cheeseburgers.

*I don't entirely dislike, but will boycott raisins.
However, I do like Raisin Bran.

*I don't like the stalks from leaves of lettuce and will eat around them.

*I still love to eat plain saltines. I could eat a sleeve in one sitting.

Thats not weird at all, in any warm climate country cold syrup is a basic standard. Warm is unusual...where I come from.

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It sure makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps 'em on the knife!

Cold syrup all the way. Although I warmed the bottle up a bit in the microwave the last time we had french toast because it was starting to granulate on the bottom.

The boyfriend has gotten me eating milk on cake. As in, I put the cake in a bowl and top it with milk. Or heavy cream. Sometimes I mash it up and eat it. With a spoon, of course. It's getting to the point where I almost can't eat plain cake anymore. I also love a ton of milk on my cereal or oatmeal.

His family (and he) thinks peanut butter and banana toast is super weird - my family loves it.

He only eats cold leftover pizza and prefers it to warm. I have to reheat my pizza.

We adore pretzels with T. Marzetti's vegetable ranch dip. Had some last night in fact. Everyone we've ever had try it is a complete convert, but it is a little weird.

I also salt my tomatoes. They're so much better that way!

@abcornwell - great poem! I remember my grandfather reciting that one.

Single serving potato chip bags-I cut them open so that the bag lays open and flat and all the chips are easy to get to.

Pancakes - no syrup please. I'll take mine spread with peanut butter & jelly.

Fish sticks and tinned ravioli. This is a pairing made in heaven.

Mustard - the best condiment on any protein. Fish, chicken, any cut of beef - even beans and tofu! Fancy mustard are fine, but basic yellow is my preference.

Now I'm not sure if this is weird--but here it goes: chopped liver wrapped around a corn tortilla. My husband tells me this is so wrong.

When I was little, I liked to dip plain potato chips with ruffles into chocolate pudding...Ok, I still like to do that...

With a bowl of dry-roasted peanuts, I eat all the halves first, then eat the whole ones. Feels neater to me somehow.

I always mix my mashed potatoes and peas. Almost every time I make mashed potatoes (one of my favorites) I have to make peas to mix in.

We always stored the ketchup in the cabinet, not the fridge. I don't much care either way, but my hubby likes it cold and my mother considered it base treachery that I changed haha And I like mushy fries much better than crispy ones.

I don't like my foods touching (except for the mashed potato/peas thing), but I'm working on it. Salad needs its own plate or bowl.

I only like stuffing when it's drenched in gravy.

No mushrooms, ever. I keep trying them, though, just to see if I can trick myself into liking them. I get the sense I'm really missing out on something great, but I can't get past the texture!

My brother's friend used to put American cheese on his Cheerios and chocolate syrup on his pancakes. ::shudder::

Ooooh! And chips on a PB&J or tuna sandwich. YUM. Bonus points for ruffles.

Apple sauce with mac and cheese. Lima beans with tomato sauce (like Ragu). And ketchup on breakfast tacos.

All delicious and all garner odd looks.

I only eat leftovers cold. I don't heat anything back up, chinese food, pizza, quiche. I like it all cold. My loved ones and roommates think I'm nuts.

I'm another one who prefers room temperature water. I don't drink much soda but when I do, I prefer it room temperature as well (but very fizzy).

I also love salad but for the most part don't like salad dressing. The no salad dressing preference mostly applies salads that come with lots of dressing options (like ranch or italian) - if the dressing is integral to the salad I'm usually OK with it but I'm perfectly happy munching on a pile of unadorned lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes like a rabbit.

I am ambivalent about the temperature of my syrup.

I used to eat mayo sandwiches. Any kind of bread or bagel but only Hellmann's mayo. I still love 'em. I also preferred strawberry jam on my pancakes instead of syrup. Temperature didn't matter, only that it was thickly applied to said pancakes.

Sometimes I like to cut a chunk off a head of iceburg lettuce and slather it in Miracle Whip (NOT MAYO) I also ONLY eat peanut butter out of the jar.

I prefer day old Cheetos (the poofy ones only)

Growing up we would have Rogers Golden Syrup sandwiches. (Warm)

Also, a friend of mine insists on dipping almost everything in his lunch in apple sauce.

I prefer cold meatloaf sandwiches. Mayo only, never miracle whip. Bananas and oreos are the best combo ever. I also like chocolate graham crackers with peanut butter on them, eaten with a banana. Black pepper on cottage cheese. Salt on grapefruit. Eat saltines with chili by dipping them, maybe putting a bite of the chili on the cracker--never actually put a saltine in the bowl of chili.

I'm with those who prefer leftovers and water at room temperature, and keep a small amount of spreading butter out at room temperature as well. Usually whatever I make for dinner gets left out until I get a chance to eat it the next day or the day after, and the only thing I ever reheat is soup. My food chemist mother-in-law would have a heart attack if she knew what I was up to, but I've never contracted a food-bourne illness (except when I was in India, but it's hard to avoid food poisoning there).

I prefer my syrup cold.

I am the same way with butter! I like COLD, out of the fridge butter on my bread, pancakes, toast. I love the contrast between the cold butter and the warm food.

@Amanda0730: Reading your #2 made me physically anxious. I must eat the most abundant color first, just until it's even with the next. Then I eat those two until even with a third, etc, until I have an even number of each color. Then I eat one of each, keeping the established order. My husband thinks it's so werid.

@hopperodyssey: You are very sweet. Thanks for the smile.

When I was a kid, I used to LOVE sandwiches of kraft singles with yellow mustard on white bread. I can't stand it anymore, so that's probably the only reason I know it's weird. I do lots of the things people have listed without realizing they were unusual. :)

What a fascinating thread!

I like Eggo fruit flavored Waffles microwaved just until thawed not toasted and no syrup just rolled up (around a sausage link if have one )

Def. cold syrup with pancakes or waffles; Mom kept the syrup in the fridge, too. For me, a tiny puddle to last 3 or so bites, then another tiny puddle, repeat, repeat. It's the hot meeting cold that seems better to me than hot meeting warm.

ObsessiveCompulsiveBaker: I'm with you on the tomatoes. The look of sliced tomatoes grosses me out, as does the taste of them or even tomato sauces, pasta sauces with chunks of tomato. BUT I like Heinz ketchup. Must be all the extra stuff in it -- like corn syrup? -- that pushes it out of the "tomato" category for me.

(The tomato deal was sealed for me when as a kid I was at a fast-food place with my Dad. I took the tomato off the burger and put it on the side. After a while, I made a visit to the little girl's room. When we were ready to leave, I noticed that the tomato was gone. Asked my Dad, "You ate it?" He replied: "No, I put it back on your burger when you were gone." He went to his grave never telling me whether that was the truth or he was trying some psychology on me to make me think tomatoes weren't so bad after all!)

So glad that I’m not alone in this madness! ;-)
~ adore the crunch of potato chips on cold sandwiches (loaded with tomato & lettuce); but, timing is everything … must insert chips as I munch to avoid sogginess
~ make my sandwiches so that the tomato slices are against the mayo on the bread … love the taste
~ love hot eight-grain toast (spread with a little coconut oil) topped with Nutella or almond butter, thin banana slices & a sprinkle of flaxseed meal
~ chopped nuts on almost everything
~ Avocado, onion & cheese quesadillas are yummy
~ adore cheese-toast made with honey (drizzle honey on bread, add thin slices of sharp cheddar cheese & toast)
~ If I crave chocolate … chocolate almond milk over my favorite cereal (Quaker Oat Squares) with chopped pecans is a good snack

forgot to mention ...
Strawberry-Buttermilk Shake … I’m hooked & Lucinda Scala Quinn is to blame. I love her Mad Hungry show; but, this recipe made me shudder. I decided to try it when her kitchen full of teenagers loved it. Yu-ummm! http://blog.madhungry.com/2011/10/recipes-from-todays-show-healthy-burger-shack.html

funny that I saw that episode the same day that I read this post http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/good-questions/what-can-i-do-with-leftover-buttermilk-good-questions-159274

I whisk an egg in my Oodle of Noodles at the very end.

I like to drink milk w/ steamed crabs and spaghetti (not together of course)

When nobody is looking I will eat A1 sauce (alone) and chase it with a big swig of milk.

I don't think I've ever had warm syrup actually... only cold or room temp.
One weird preference I have is cold salsa. I find salsa tastes much better cold, when I've just taken it out of the fridge. I don't know why but I like it much better than room temp.

Cold syrup.

Cold ketchup.

I love jelly on my egg and cheese sandwiches.

I always ask for a side of maple syrup when I get a bacon egg and cheese biscuit.

I like bagels with lox spread and bacon (ordering this always gets me a weird look).

I let my tea cool to warm or room temp before I drink it. I hate super hot tea!!

I fold my napkin. Crumpled napkins gross me out.

If I could, I would eat everything out of a bowl, with a spoon. I like to scoop up a little bit of everything into one bite. I'm not a main and sides type of gal.

1. Wonder bread all torn up, smashed into a cup with milk poured on top, eaten with a spoon.

2. Ketchup on mac n' cheese.

3. Room temp everything

4. French and BBQ sauce "soup"

My soup and my coffee have to be scalding, almost to the point where, if I'm not careful, I can burn the roof of my mouth. This is a control thing, because then I can enjoy it slowly before it gets cold.
I've been known to return coffee at restaurants when it's not at my required temperature, so now I just order it extra hot. I also get insanely mad when they serve me coffee BEFORE my dessert!

I fill my cereal bowl with milk, and then add in a few bites of cereal at a time. Always crunchy!

I also prefer cold syrup on my pancakes!

Sandwiches, especially grilled cheeses, must be cut in triangles or they don't taste as good.

I had all sorts of weird habits of a child (A1 sandwiches and bologna wrapped around Miracle Whip come to mind) and syrup on everything. But I have, thankfully, outgrown them all. In fact, I wouldn't buy any or those foods now. Bleck.

I very much enjoy dark toast, peanut butter and maple syrup. You have to make sure there is an even layer of maple syrup across the entire slice of toast as well! Double points for bananas on top.

Other than that, I agree with the chips in the sandwich. I also dip chips in ketchup, and enjoy eating hot dogs without the bun dipped in a mixture of ketchup and mustard. People seem to find that weird.

I salt watermelon and grapefruit. The taste is totally off to me if they don't have salt.

And the best sandwich in the world is white bread with bologna, American cheese, and ranch dressing, although I haven't indulged in one in years and would never let my kids eat that today. LOL

And, my kids both put soy sauce on their mac n cheese and also their buttered noodles.

I spread yogurt on my toast instead of butter.

I've never seen anyone warm up syrup in my life! You're normal, not weird.

I used mine right outta the fridge and the local breakfast joints are serving at room temp.

I like grilled cheese sandwiches with guava jelly :-) I also love a side of ketchup mixed with sriracha with just about anything.

For someone who eats everything, I have a lot of eating oddities.

- I don't like maple syrup. I eat my pancakes with butter and brown sugar.

- I eat my cereal either dry or with orange juice.

- I salt my watermelon (and sometimes peaches)

- I love plain bananas but hate anything with banana in it.

- I love chips in my sandwiches, Fries dipped in chocolate shakes, and onion rings dipped in strawberry shakes.

- I like buttered noodles topped with granulated sugar.

- I only eat the crunchy fries. I order my in-n-out Extra Extra well done.

- I don't eat the blue m&ms. I can't think of anything blue that goes well with chocolate.

the list could go on. but i won't make you read it all.

i love syrup on my scrambled eggs. and frozen peas in my annie's white cheddar mac & cheese. but only the white cheddar kind.

i can't drink a cup of coffee to the end, for some unconscious reason. i always leave at least an inch left in the cup and then toss it/dump down drain.

i also like to eat with a napkin (or paper towel) crumpled in one hand, in addition to one on my lap and it's usually a paper napkin since you don't get multiple cloth napkins at a restaurant.

Let's see...
- I love eating cold lentils. I put them on soda crackers and sprinkle them with white pepper. Just white.
- I love eating oreos after I swim in the ocean.
- I hate chopped ice.
- I don't drink bottled water with a straw.
- I can't make my own coffee. I can make coffee, good one too, but I always get mine away from home or I drink it if my husband makes it.
- I am absolutely grossed out by runny egg yolks. I think I'll catch salmonella or something.
- I H A T E fried chicken. Specially if it drips liquid because I don't know what it is. All other forms of chicken are OK, including nuggets and similar.

I am constantly told I eat weird things.
* I grew up eating peanut butter & mayo sandwiches
* I don't like syrup or jelly, so I put peanut butter on my pancakes
* I put ketchup on almost everything...eggs, mac & cheese, subs, potato chips

....its called personal preference people :-)...lol.

This is such a strange thread...some of these food combinations sound crazy! But, to add my own weirdness to the group:

-My grandma used to serve us Mac and Cheese, Peas and Applesauce regularly. I mixed the peas and applesauce together.

-I almost never eat potato chips, except the crunchy kettle cooked kind with plain cream cheese (my Dad does this).

OK! My boyfriend makes the BEST pancakes in the world. Definitely need warm syrup, however I cut my pancakes before I pore on the warm syrup to make sure all pieces are soaked! Also, I take Smuckers fudge topping, put it in a little bowl, nuke it for 15 seconds - i dip the tip of my banana into it before each bite. But hey, I loved mustard sandwiches as a kid, soooo.....

Artificial sweeteners, sugary yogurt, and bottled water send me into fits of rage.

Parmesan cheese on tomato sauce grosses me out. I think it tastes like barf.

No drinks with ice in them. Freezes my upper lip, whacks me in the nose, waters down the drink. (I am not a big fan of straws.)

Slices of pizza are usually eaten sideways, with the object being to end up with one bite of pizza with topping plus just enough crust to hold on to.

Ham sandwiches with mayo + horseradish on one side, mustard + brown sugar on the other.

Baked beans are best with ridgy potato chips crunched up in them (the greasier and saltier, the better.)

Pancake batter (milk + Bisquick) as a snack. Fizzy and delicious.

Anything with different colors (M&Ms, Skittles, and Lucky Charms marshmallows) is eaten until there is one of each color remaining. Then the whole rainbow is eaten together.

Butter goes with peanut butter. Always. While I am aware that many of my other habits are unusual, this is the one that's so ingrained that it really baffles me when people think it's weird.

i like to dip my pizza crust in diet coke...but it's pretty embarrassing, so i usually leave the crusts till the end. and as I go to the garbage to throw them out, I quickly dip them in my diet coke before so no one can see. the combination of the greasy crust with the sweet carbonated beverage are the perfect combination.

This is such a great thread.
- I love really cold milk, so I always put ice cubes in a glass of milk a few minutes before drinking.
- Favorite pancake topping: plain yogurt and (real) (cold) syrup.
- Comfort food: toast with jam and heaps of cottage cheese.
- Also: frozen blueberries with milk. The milk forms an icy slush around the blueberries, and it's really fun to eat.
- Husband: loves carbonated drinks, but he swirls them and lets them sit so the carbonation dissipates before drinking. Even with beer. Really gross.

I love canned fruit in my cottage cheese.That's the only way I eat either of them.Never separate.Apparently that's very weird...why?I l always eat my veg first,then potatoe and finish with my meat.I can also eat anything on or in bread.My Mom called that 'bread and point'l.LOL!I will not touch whipped potatoes or anything else hot and whipped because I like to chew my food.I love cheese wiz and cooking onion sandwiches.Who doesn't?Everybody I hear!I'll second butter with peanut butter.I make mine like that too.I love fountain pop and never buy canned or bottled.I won't drink fruit juice.That's mix...darn it!I'd rather eat fresh fruit.I barely cook my veg.I like veg warmed through and crunchy.If I'm the only one home I will eat stuff out of the cooking pots.No dishes!My daughter says I have lived alone too long.I tell her it's all my version of fast food.I love sugary cereals dry with a glass of milk.I like salted soda crackers crushed up with warm milk and sugar.Why? 'Cause it's good!Pizza should be eaten any way that pleases you.I love pizza!

I forgot one.

I only drink tea brewed in a teapot.

I hate onions. Like, really HATE. And everyone's scolding me for it, saying I should grow out of it (or should've done years ago), but I don't think I ever will. I've grown out of a lot of "bad" food quirks, but I just can't stand the thought of having onion in my food, even if it's invisible and tasteless.
I do love garlic though.

I really dislike mayo too. Uncooked eggs in things disgust me. I also don't eat a lot of sauces, if I've not made them myself or know exactly what's in it (no mayo!), but I don't like dry food so I eat sour cream with everything instead. I love sour cream.

I've also been told I eat funny. Apparently it's weird that I try to avoid food touching my lips when I put a fork or spoon in my mouth? Several of my friends have told me it's funny, but I just don't see why! It's not something I've ever thought about, and why would you let the food touch your lips and get them all greasy if it can be avoided by just opening your mouth a little more anyway?

Another thing: I hate bacon. </unpopular opinion>

I'm a pescetarian so I don't eat meat anyway, but when I did, bacon was one of the meats I disliked the most.

I generally don't like condiments or sauces. If it comes on the plate it generally sits there. I don't put anything on my hot dogs or burgers. I actually tend to prefer most of my food plain.

I also eat one thing at a time. I eat the toppings off a slice of pizza with a fork, then the crust with my hands. And no holiday is complete without several cans of black olives for my dad and me.

The most perfect breakfast is cold leftover takeout pizza. The first slice goes into the refrigerator for tomorrow's breakfast. Perfect.

I have tryptophobia, so foods with lots of small clustery holes makes my skin crawl. Like when pancakes have lots of little holes on the underside after flipping. I'll still eat it, but I avoid looking at it. Heebie jeebies.

I have to have chips with sandwiches. Lay's salt and vinegar with tuna, White Cheddar Cheetos with peanut butter and jelly ... I feel so unsatisfied if I don't have chips. I get pretty whiny about it, it's shameful.

I dump out cartons of french fries and pick out all the crunchiest ones first.

I don't like thick pith, so I'll peel all of the white and eat just the juicy inside pulp of an orange. Only if the pith is thin (like with tangerines or clementines) will I eat the entire segment. I'll also sprinkle a little salt on oranges, grapefruit, and mangoes.

Mayo and mustard on hot dogs.

I can't eat soft, fluffy marshmallows out of the bag; the texture freaks me out a little. I worry that I will accidentally inhale it and choke or something. So they have to be roasted so the outside is nice and crisp and the inside is melted and gooey.

Obviously, I have an obsession with crunchy foods.

I prefer soda flat. I like the flavor but the carbonation makes my throat burn.

Toooootally initially read this as "cold syrup" as in like, Triaminic on your pancakes. That would have been actually weird.

@Hillary: hahahahahahahaa!

in new haven, where i grew up, we'd eat a sauceless pizza with clam and bacon. moved to chicago - everyone thinks i'm nuts. luckily, there's a new haven style pizza place in town that'll make the pie, but everyone still think i'm absolutely crazy for this being the best pizza ever.

I eat sliced cheese on my pancakes. Must be melted to be easten, then of course topped with cold maple syrup. If it's warmed it's way too runny.

Also when I was younger I used to eat peanut butter and salami sandwhiches. Decided to try it as an adult, YUCK.

most of the time when I eat my eggs over easy, I eat the egg whites first. I'm careful not to break the yolk. Then i stab the yolk a few times to pop it just on top, salt it and scoop it up and eat the whole thing so yolk doesn't fall out. mmmm.

OMG, I just ADORE this post. These are the best comments EVER!

*I just love to have one bite of salty and one bite of sweet - i.e. handful of Cheetos, then bite of Twix bar, repeat.

*Sometimes if the main course is extra tasty, I'd rather take seconds of that while everyone else has dessert.

*I haven't been able to stomach any kind of mayo since the 4th grade. We had a field trip and the teacher said not to pack food with mayo in case it went bad; couldn't bear it from that moment on.

*My favorite childhood comfort food was cold applesauce on hot white rice. SO delicious! And the temperature difference is like a party in my mouth! Also, applesauce on plain yogurt is pretty awesome.

*I like to eat salad with a spoon, especially towards the bottom of the bowl. That way you get spoonfuls of salad dressing with every bite (by salad dressing I mean lemon juice and olive oil - I won't eat any salad dressing that comes pre-mixed in a bottle).

Thinking about those was so much fun!

This post IS the greatest!
I love popcorn and hot cocoa. Just plop them right in the mug. Same thing with chocolate malts and french fries. Rip up the fries and dump them in and spoon them out again! The hot salty, cold chocolate combo is pretty rad.
Bologna and peanut butter rolled up into little meat wraps. Awesome.
Toast with jelly and an american cheese single on top. Excellent.
-My bf introduced me to his grandpa's favorite, cream cheese, mixed with beef bullion as a dip for potato chips. It's oddly addictive.
--Also, diet coke and orange juice. It's tangy!

Also, favorite pizza topping is pepperoni and pineapple. A little spicy, a little sweet...divine.

I like warmed syrup, but we're all different. I can't pour on top of my pancakes, though, I have to dunk it in a little bowl. I hate soggy pancakes, french toast, etc.

My Mother used to eat banana and mayonnaise sandwiches.

My Dad would often eat fried eggs with cantaloupe. The cantaloupe (or watermelon) had to be sprinkled with salt.

My husband eats cottage cheese and pickles. Together. Ick.

Oh, and my favorite snack are saltines, topped with a small square of Kraft single, topped with three mini marshmallows, then broiled until golden brown. YUM!

@therufs, I'm totally trying the ham sandwiches with mayo + horseradish on one side, mustard + brown sugar on the other. Tonight!

there is a snack cake that is called a May West (not found easily where I live now)......I had to eat all the chocolate off of it before I would eat the actual cake and custard. Not just that... I would have to eat the chocolate on the circumference first, the back second and the top part last. (Not because the chocolate was the best part but because I liked the cake on its own). I got away with it when I was a kid but as an adult.........

Love this post... Most of my weird eating preferences happened in my childhood, so please forgive the awful mix of prepackaged, really bad for you foods. :)

1. Lots of pepper on Velveeta shells-n-cheese.
2. Doritos or Lays potato chips ON a pb&j.
3. Those nasty American cheese singles tore up and wrapped around red grapes, in perfect proportion.

While I don't eat any of these on a regular basis/ever, posts like these make me want to bust out the old favs.

I used to eat cheese slices when I was a kid and now I can't stand it. I LOVE cold syrup on my pancakes PLUS the pancakes have to be super flat almost like a crepe. I hate fluffy pancakes because they get soggy too fast.

I'm loving these comments. :D I had a LOT of weird eating habits as a kid.

1) I used to eat the hell outta Miracle Whip sandwiches -- only Miracle Whip would do, and it had to be white bread, even though I remember primarily eating wheat bread otherwise.

2) I don't usually pour syrup on my pancakes, and if I do, I pour very very little because soggy pancakes are disgusting. I prefer to spread jam on them, or just eat them plain -- especially if they're full of nuts, fruit or other ingredients. Also, when I was younger, I refused to eat fully-cooked pancakes. They had to be runny/gooey inside (uncooked batter center). I have no idea how I didn't get sick.

3) I loved to sit in front of the TV while my mom made dinner and dip uncooked hard spaghetti strands into McDonald's Sweet and Sour nugget sauce. ...Yeah, I dunno either.

4) Foods could not touch each other when I was a kid, but nowadays I like to have a bite of everything on my plate at once, provided everything is hot and savory. In my mind, multiple foods can be eaten in one bite if they are of the same family: hot, cold, sweet, or savory.

5) Chocolate chip Teddy Graham cookies eaten in a bowl of milk like cereal are the best thing ever. Oh, and cookies like Oreos and Milanos must be dipped in milk one half at a time until they are just soggy enough for easy chewing but not soggy enough they fall apart.

Saltines with ketchup. Eat things in 3's or at least odd numbered. Pizza backwards. Only 3 ice cubes. If I share grapes or candy the recipient has to have at least 3. Love to eat while driving. Food eating contests while growing up. Whoever could eat their food in the least bites. Also eat fast or else you don't get seconds. (big family). I dip everything. Have to have ketchup, ranch dressing and sour cream in fridge at all times. Ice in my soup. Banana and milk with sugar. Straws in all beverages. Quirky quirky quirky. I'm sure I have more but can't think of anymore right now.

The only way I like to eat my pancakes is if they are small, like silver dollars, & cooked with lots of butter so they edges are crisp & then dusted w/ powdered sugar & NO syrup at all.
My weird quirk is that I cannot drink plain milk, but I HAVE to have it poured into my ice cream & then mashed. By itself, it makes me gag. I think I may have accidentally drank bad milk as a kid. I have memories of asking my sister to taste the milk for me before I used it.
My husband does not like hot coffee. He lets it sit & drinks when it's room temp, unless I make an iced coffee for him.

Here's my list of food quirks from the past (I have IC and it severely puts a damper on my food choices now sadly)

*food is usually a vehicle for sauce to be piled upon.
*loved eating butter by itself as a kid (don't know why)
*must have buttered toast with jam (bf thinks its weird)
*loved ranch dressing on pizza at school and got a bunch of other kids to follow that trend.
*love pineapple and sausage pizza
*I used to eat all the chocolate and caramel from the Twixt bars and savored the cookie last, I only do this in private as I realize the ramifications as well as jokes that would come.
*I used to drink Arby's 3 Pepper sauce cause I loved it so much.
*loved ketchup and macaroni and cheese together, especially if it wasn't that great.
*i dip my fries in my milk shake.
*when eating skittles, i separate by color and eat the red and purple first. then i eat the yellow, orange, and green one at time until its all gone.
*i used to eat a slice of orange and a Hershey kiss in an alternating fashion.
*i mixed my cheddar grits with eggs and bust the yolk, sausage, jelly and something spicy (or spicy pickles) or if I'm really lucky spicy jelly!
*I used to mix the Polynesian sauce with the Spicy dressing from Chickfila to dip both sandwich and fries and finally scrape it with my finger to clean the wrapper.
*I used to eat my breakfast sandwiches with grape jelly.
*I used to add sugar to my Korean spicy ramen to make sweet and spicy!
*I used to eat my fried chicken with a honey/hot sauce mixture.
*I loved milk and rootbeer mixed together! (hey it's a rootbeer float essentially)
*I used to dip my pbj sandwich in beef vegetable soup since elementary and still crave it today.
*if something was bland on my plate, i will mix it with whatever was heavily seasoned and eat it like that (this only occurs at restaurants or potlucks)
*I love eating things that are sweet and salty back to back and have to convince myself to end on a salty note or else i finish both items in one sitting.
*love syrup on my sausage!

Love love love this thread---stumbled on it searching AT for "guava."
My husband Must dip his grilled cheese sandwich into a glass of chocolate milk, a childhood habit. I used to have to leave the room when he did that but I'm ok with it now.
I can not tolerate fried eggs (gag gag gag) but I love scrambled. Go figure.

I don't have a strange food habit, but I have a friend who takes all the cheese off her pizza and eats it only after she has eaten the slice sans cheese. It grosses me out. I cannot eat pizza with her.

With layer cakes, I have to deconstruct the cake and frosting layers so that each bite of cake gets an equal amount of frosting. Otherwise, you reach the end of a slice of cake and then have just a big ole mouthful of icing.

I like to put syrup on my eggs. I also love putting grits, eggs, and sausage on a piece of buttery toast.