I got one of those ‘is it most people or just me’ questions.
If you’re eating something you don’t really like, is it fairly easy to push through it, or does it make you feel like you’re going to puke if you keep trying to eat? I kind of assumed this was a normal person thing, but people treat eating food you don’t like as a normal thing, especially in the context of ‘getting used to it’ or ‘learning to like it.’
So, normal or not?
Depends on how much I don’t like it? Some foods just make me gag on sight, or I can’t handle their smell or texture. Some just aren’t tasty, and I can eat them but without enjoyment, and it gets more difficult with every mouthtful.
I was a picky eater as a child (I was known as the ‘bread and cheese’ kid cuz I wouldn’t eat anything else) and still am, and my parents always gave me that ‘learn to like it’ spiel. Never understood that. Why should I learn to like something I don’t like?
Probably so I can eat it without making other people feel bad. But also perhaps because my parents both remember a time when you couldn’t just pick what you liked, you got what was available and made do. No fully stocked supermarkets, no multitude of restaurants to choose from. That was my childhood, too, which doesn’t explain how I turned out to be so picky? but hey.
I dunno, I wondered too if it’s just people accepting this social norm of eating everything because you’re an adult, or if most folks just have an easier time with it physically. It’s cool to discover new tastes but why force yourself?
I’ve always been picky myself. The biggest problem now and the reason I hear ‘try it till you like it’ most is because I don’t like healthy food. I don’t know what it is. Maybe something about growing up on cheap food due to my parents being poor when I was young. Just about any vegetable is gross and anything fancy is generally gross to me too.
There are foods that I find bland and can handle, but if I find it gross—doesn’t matter if it’s because of the taste or the texture—continuing to eat it makes me feel like vomiting.
But one of my sisters today made a comment about having to like something because someone else she really likes liked it, and it just boggled my mind. I can’t just decide to like something. I’ve tried. It just doesn’t work. I’ll just feel like I’m going to vomit. Luckily it hasn’t Actually ever made me vomit, but that doesn’t make the feeling less pleasant. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Glad to know others feel it too though. Haha
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