YouAreWhatYouEatYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. So what does that make the contestants on Fear Factor? You know, it's a terrible thing to be cursed to seldom ever remember anything I've written, let alone said, so forgive me if most of this post is repetition. I've given my posts for the last five months a quick glance over and I can't quite find out whether I'm having deja vu or my usual poor memory. Sometimes what will happen is that I'll come up with a topic I want to post on, think it over for a while, and then never get round to writing it up, but still think I have. I hope that this is the case here. It's true what they say about as you get older your tastes change, and I'm not talking about the fact that you wouldn't be caught dead listening to Monster Hits 3 these days. I'm talking about actual taste. I've started to eat food I'd never have touched as a child or a teenager, and while I can't claim to enjoy everything I've started eating, it means that having friends and house-mates cook dinner for me isn't quite the agonising and embarrasing process it was before with me having to truck out this list as long as my arm of food I wouldn't touch. Oh, still don't expect me to go anywhere near brussel sprouts, asparagus, pumpkin, liver, avocado, mashed potatoe, beans, olives, tomatoes or eggs. But I can usually find a way to consume most of the things on my plate and politely refuse the now smaller list of the utterly loathsome. I can even eat most of the above provided I can smother them in enough 'something else' that they're not the dominant taste (or texture). Diet-wise I've always been a rather healthy eater. Having undergone five years of home economics - a course of which 60% of the syllabus dealt with food and nutrition - it's pretty much ingrained into my psyche. That is of course when I'm not failing to fight off the cravings for ice-cream, chocolate, cake and pizza. Over the last few years, especially since I heard that Dad has developed diabetes (of the minor variety), I've been been picking the 'healthy options'. Wholegrain bread, 2% milk, fat-free yoghurt, Special-K cereal. I'm also in the process of ridding myself of all my normal rice with the intention of only using Basmati rice from now on. I'm trying to follow a Low-GI diet since well, it makes sense, and it promises to stop me from craving all the sugary evil I love so. It hasn't been entirely successful, but I'm not dreadfully concerned, since it's still for the better in the long run. However, one thing I am starting to notice more and more is the effect of certain foods on my digestive system, which unfortunately, is a bit of a delicate one. It doesn't like chilli (that's a real revelation!), but what is strange is that it doesn't like apples. Yep, apples which I used to eat every morning of my life for what, 15 years or more? Too weird. And somewhat annoying since I like apples. Also it seems it's not always too comfortable with beef, especially when combined with something else acidic, like vinegar or soy sauce - although that I've known for years. It seems to be grand irony that just as I'm finding myself able to eat some food, I'm also finding it inadvisable eat others. The crying shame is that I seem to be losing some of my favourites, without having developed any new ones. :-( Comment: crunchy (by d@vid on 2005-02-24 17:19:48)your post answers itself - get onto fear factor and learn to appreciate bugs :-D Comment: Snap! (by MyrdemInggala on 2005-02-25 10:01:47)I know exactly what you mean (well, about being a picky eater, particularly at other people's dinner parties). I have also expanded the list of things I like since childhood. To include some vegetables, for example. The most recent addition to my repertoire of edible things is calamari. Fortunately, my stomach seems to be quite resilient, so I haven't had to stop eating anything I like. But what's wrong with mashed potatoes? Or beans? You're weird. ;-) I understand the egg thing to a certain extent. Eggs are grim if the white isn't completely set (snot!) or if the egg is fertilised and you can see the little chicken brain and spinal cord floating in the yolk (ewwww!). But as long as there are no disturbing visible signs to remind me of what I'm actually eating, I like eggs quite a lot. Comment: Oh poot (by WednesdayleFey? on 2005-02-25 13:51:21)I like apples too...I actually wish I had one right now:-( Comment: If it does down... (by OOPMan on 2005-02-26 13:27:42)...and stays down, well, who's to argue. And no, just in case you were wondering, deep-throat does NOT apply! |