Picky eaters

**LowKey** · 08-18-2010, 07:33 PM

I won't eat anything moldy. It's too over-powering in taste. Can't eat bleu cheese (or its cousins) cuz all it tastes like is mold. I can cut bad spots out of produce and cut the fuzzies off cheddar cheese but not that stuff.

**your_comforting_company** · 08-18-2010, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Winter

I'll go to great lengths to remove sand from clams and seafood.

sand is not a wild edible! Good call!

**oldtrap59** · 08-18-2010, 10:46 PM

Oh oh. I just ate a bad spot on that banana. Bumps and bruises don't bother me at all. Even a worm just kicks up the protien level. We eat most of our veggies from the garden and very little of that is perfect. What you folks buy in the store may look better but I'm not into all those additives it takes to the soil and veggies to make them come out that way. My way of thinking and I'm gonna stick to it. ( As you guessed I'm not at all picky)

oldtrap

**rwc1969** · 08-18-2010, 11:39 PM

That's a fact! All the crap we spray and powder on our fruits and veggies probably makes em way more unsafe and less good for you. Vanity!

I never used that stuff on myveggies and always wash the piss outta all the storebought stuff, although it's probably right in the flesh.

**your_comforting_company** · 08-18-2010, 11:46 PM

If it's in the soil, you know good-and-well it's in the fruit... just sayin

in that respect, I'm a little picky in what I prefer but I don't complain. over the teeth, over the gums. look out tummy, here it comes!

what exactly is in Miracle Grow that makes tomatoes taste so much better?(sarcasm)

**Rick** · 08-19-2010, 07:51 AM

I don't use chemicals either. The little I give up to my insect friends is moot compared to eating clean foods. Besides, seeing a spider web in my blackberries or among my squash pretty much assures me the garden is healthy and watching after itself.

**NJHeart2Heart** · 07-19-2016, 05:17 PM

Hi all,
I'm brand new to this particular forum and am wondering if there are others who are interested in survival/preparedness/bushcraft but are extremely picky eaters? I loved watching Alone on TV, but I am a no-fish-at-all eater among other things. Just looking for anyone else who shares my challenge to survival preparation.

**hunter63** · 07-19-2016, 05:42 PM

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There is an intro section to say hello at :
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**Faiaoga** · 07-19-2016, 06:35 PM

Being a picky eater in a survival situation means you will not be a survivor. Those who hold on to concepts of EEEEWWWW when faced with new foods and cosmetically imperfect foods will not last very long.

Those who really do "live off the land" are not picky eaters and they also raise chickens and pigs from table scraps. Still, every place and every culture has food prejudices that are hard to overcome.

The New York Times article was pretty good. It also notes how much food that people waste could be put to use if composted.

**WalkingTree** · 07-19-2016, 09:34 PM

Maybe only slightly related...but this reminds me of a time when I had to listen to a (sober) guy in a bar jabbering about "normal" food - how people only eat stuff like bugs or lizards in other countries because they're poor, and "normal" food is stuff like hamburgers and potatoes. I made some points to him about how the majority of what he was talking about is considered delicacies, that he was just being ethnically chauvinistic in a shallow way culinarily-speaking, that people ate whatever they could because they needed to eat and one kind of food is not intrinsically "more cool" than another aesthetically, and these different kinds of foods just become the norm for their particular geography or culture, etc. But he didn't seem to get it. Seemed offended somehow.

**hunter63** · 07-19-2016, 10:01 PM

I'm too old to tell some one that he is full of crap in a saloon, these days.....never did it much in the old days, either.
Might just end up eating your teeth.

Guess I should have added......... Bazinga.........
The was a joke.

**NJHeart2Heart** · 07-19-2016, 11:24 PM

Hmm..thinking I'm sorry I asked...

**hunter63** · 07-19-2016, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by NJHeart2Heart

Hmm..thinking I'm sorry I asked...

You can go a long time with out food.......
Air
Water
Shelter
All come before food.....

I don't spend much time eating bugs, worms, and such.....
If I ever go in a situation where that was necessary, I sure I would do what was needed to stay alive.

In the mean time ....No interest in "practicing".....

**WalkingTree** · 07-20-2016, 06:14 AM

I'm too old to tell some one that he is full of crap in a saloon, these days.....never did it much in the old days, either.
Might just end up eating your teeth.

Well, it wasn't that kind of atmosphere. I've very rarely been in a bar that was like some wild west saloon where fights break out easily. Things have been mostly civil in my experiences.

Physically, that is. But conversationally...tis hard to find things to be civil and denoted by having-some-sense conversationally.

But concerning being picky about food -

- some imperfections in produce is no cause to waste it, in my opinion.

- the one place and time when I'm really picky...or rather, very hard to impress...is if I go into any kind of eating establishment. When I cook at home, which I prefer, the cost to what-you-get ratio is different, plus what kind of dish I conjure up is judged by me by different criteria. But if I go into any restaurant or fast-food place and am paying for something prepared for me to eat right there...what it costs, how much I get, and how "special" or "yummy" it supposedly is almost never measures up in my opinion. I even feel like most stuff is plain ole crap that they try to dress up with pretention of some sort or another and act like it's worth twice as much as it really is...and I almost always am still quite hungry after leaving a place having had one of it's full sized dishes.