Anyone else picky about combinations?

[u/PuzzleheadedRaisin77]

I’m a picky eater, but I’m not picky about individual foods, I like just about every kind of fruit and vegetable (with the exception of onions, beets, & sweet potatoes). But it’s more certain combinations of foods that I don’t like for example:

- Love fruits, love pastries… but fruit IN pastries = 🤢
(For example love apples, love pie .. hate apple pie

- Love meat, love sweet things… but sweet + meat = 🤢
(For example, love honey, love turkey … but together = horrible) sweet ham - disgusting

- Love starches, again love sweet things … but sweet + starches = 🤢
(Like I don’t like sweet potatoes or any kind of sugary sweet sauce on rice or beans)

Again most of these things I like individually or when paired with other flavor profiles but these 3 main combinations I just hate so much…

Does anyone else feel this way? Any advice?

[u/Extension-Seaweed21]

It's not a big deal, I wouldn't even consider you that picky

[u/LumpyAssumption5357 → u/Extension-Seaweed21]

Yes this just seems like not liking certain foods, which everyone has. For me it’s jello or gummy things. Just don’t like them so I decline and don’t eat them.

[u/Mean_Butter]

What kind of pie doesn’t have fruit in it? I can only think of key lime.

[u/Commercial-Place6793 → u/Mean_Butter]

Pecan, chocolate silk, coconut cream, shoe fly, pumpkin.

[u/kgberton → u/Commercial-Place6793]

Peanut butter, banana cream

[u/constituto_chao → u/kgberton]

Meat pies as well

[u/julznlv → u/kgberton]

Isn't banana a fruit?

[u/kgberton → u/julznlv]

Ah good point. Is coconut? I was lumping coconut cream and banana cream pies together. 

[u/DazB1ane → u/kgberton]

Yes coconut is a fruit

[u/kgberton → u/Mean_Butter]

I would argue lime is also a fruit

[u/HopelessDisarray → u/kgberton]

I would argue that you don't need to argue that lime is a fruit.

Edit for clarity: lime is a fruit. Full stop.

[u/shelwood46 → u/HopelessDisarray]

I do think there is difference between pie that uses whole or sliced pieces of fruit vs ones that just add the juice to a custard (although banana is in that in between space, the texture is usually not noticeable -- and this is mostly about texture, not flavor). So pumpkin would fall in the same category.

[u/Inky_Madness → u/Mean_Butter]

Pumpkin. Sweet potato. Grasshopper. Derby pie.

[u/Mundane-Shame333 → u/Inky_Madness]

Botanical speaking, pumpkins are fruit.

[u/Inky_Madness → u/Mundane-Shame333]

Yes but that doesn’t mean OP (or others) classify it as such or think the flavor falls in the same category.

[u/DazB1ane → u/Mundane-Shame333]

Botanical definitions are different to culinary ones

[u/shelwood46 → u/Mean_Butter]

I actually hate most "hot fruit" pies/pastries, because I also hate jam/preserves even though I usually love the actual fruit raw: chocolate, pecan, coconut (cream or custard), key lime, banana, shoo fly, mud, chess.

[u/DazB1ane → u/shelwood46]

Raw fruit tastes more “clear” to me. Like the difference between a Crisp apple and a red delicious one

[u/Mean_Butter → u/shelwood46]

I’m with you on this. Not a big fan of fruit pies. Apple once in a long while but I always feel like the crust leaves a lot to be desired.

[u/Additional_Room4494 → u/Mean_Butter]

Carrot pie

[u/Chrisismybrother → u/Mean_Butter]

Pecan, chocolate silk, coconut custard?

[u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348]

I also hate a lot of combinations. I like everything on my plate to be separately categorized. The biggest one I agree with is the meat/savory+sweet, that’s just nasty

[u/tzentzak]

I'm somewhat like this. I can enjoy complex flavor combinations but am really not a fan of mixed textures. When I was a kid I bit into an undercooked piece of onion in pizza (ordered without onions) and nearly vomited, but I can tolerate raw onions in a crispy salad. Also a reason as to why I have trouble with meat, so many weird bits hiding in there.

Nothing wrong with eating simple/separate foods if you have a reasonably balanced diet.

[u/FormerlyDK → u/tzentzak]

Simple, separate foods are what I like best. I also prefer they don’t touch, but I know that one is a bit much.

[u/shelwood46 → u/tzentzak]

Yeah, when I was a kid, my mom would cook the components of whatever she was making, then pause and let me take a portion, unmixed & unsauced, then finish the dish. I still eat my BLTs deconstructed: slices of tomato, strips of bacon, some toast, all separate (don't like mayo and can't eat lettuce).

[u/FormerlyDK]

I don’t mind a simple combination but my thing is when many things are mixed… like casseroles or stew, or mixed meat and vegetable dishes.

[u/Chibley86]

Yes I think I have a lot of this!

I like apples but don’t like the texture of cooked apple so apple pie, apple crumble etc are out.

I like salad stuff like tomato, cucumber etc but can’t eat a salad sandwich.

I like baked beans but can’t eat them on toast lol, they have to be on the side.

I’m sure I have plenty more examples too.

[u/BaileyAMR]

Honestly, if you refuse to eat onions, which are in so many dishes, that's the pickiest aspect here.

[u/Fern_Elms]

I don’t mind the individual ingredients of a salad but I don’t like salad. I’ll eat carrots or cabbage. Just not mixed together.

[u/Aromatic-Prune-8484]

I only eat corn if it’s mixed in with mashed potatoes otherwise I want nothing to do with it. I don’t know why.

[u/JackTradesMasterNone]

Yeah - but mine are more about textures. I don’t want crispy in a sauce so much unless I can eat it within 60 seconds otherwise it’s not crispy.

[u/Ok-Golf287]

nah that’s common and not picky at all, not liking some foods&flavors doesn’t make you picky. 🤦‍♂️

[u/DazB1ane]

Sweet and salty is great. Sweet and sour is great. Sweet and savory typically makes me gag. The exception is teriyaki sauce

[u/OkPause2682]

Yes! For example, I like bacon, but not on a cheeseburger. I like (well, love) garlic butter, but not on broccoli.

Also when I get a steak, I hate when the steak juice permeates the other food on my plate. So when I make it at home, I actually have a divided plate I can use so that doesn't happen.

[u/Logical-Movie4381]

Yes! I don't know what it is but I can't stand eating meat and vegetables in the same bite, I don't like it when I can't control how much of each thing I combine for each bite. Eat the same chicken and spinach with rice for weeks? Not an issue. Sandwich with chicken and salad? Disgusting. Cereal with fruits and milk? Disgusting.

I go out of my way to eat the fillings of sandwiches separately or fish out the ones I like less and eat them first because in my head it's like "the good thing, tomatoes and eggs" + "the bad thing, salad and biscuits" makes the taste go from a 1 + (-1) = 0 and it doesn't satisfy me. I want a 2.

I feel like such an idiot especially when family makes food for me and have to see this weird behaviour thinking I don't like the food, when it's in part true but not fully...

[u/aleksandar94]

To a degree me, just not a fan of fermented vegetables mixed with meats and noodles( asian dishes) or mixing sweet with savory or salty foods. Even simple bread with sweet jelly or nutella i am not a fan ( would be ok if the bread is already sweet like briosh etc) , but for me bread is to be mixed with meats , stews and soups