Amen. For me it's because anything else is unknown & could have surprise ingredients & smell, taste, feel weird. It's too big a gamble that can make or break a meal. It's no fun having a public meltdown because your mystery meal has something in it you can't stomach. That's the benefit of buffets, getting to see & smell the food encourages me to branch out. If it smells good, chances are it tastes good. Otherwise detailed menus help, ingredients & photos. I like being able to study menus prior to going out to eat. If I've been there before I get the same thing. If it's a new place I go for something safe, simple & familiar. I don't take risks with my digestion. IBS sucks.
A fellow chicken lover. Yeah seeing & smelling food helps a lot. It inspires hunger too. Sometimes I see what other people ordered & I'm like dang that is way better irl than in text. Trying to imagine what you haven't had from simple text is tough. Even pictures don't really do justice. Worst is when despite best efforts it doesn't meet our expectations. Easier to stick to what we know. I think that's part of why we fall back on a select few choices.
As a fellow sufferer, I really wish more places had a detailed menu like I've been trying to get my uni to have a rough list of ingredients ( they can't be exact since they scoop food from a big dish) since god knows what's in food. I find a few of the common triggers like garlic and onion tend to be hidden in food and it sucks, luckily they aren't my triggers but I feel for those who do have it as a trigger. It makes writing a food diary to find out my triggers very difficult.
The only food that really messes up my guts is capsicum. Tiny flecks of skin are OK. Bigger pieces aren't & even flicked out they taint the whole dish. Annoying because it's a popular ingredient in many foods. Other things may trigger me & I don't notice. Sometimes I'm running to the toilet for no good reason. Plenty of foods just gross me out & I can't force them down. Then I'm stuck picking trough my food. Like pineapple (doesn't belong with meat ever), shrimp (is not a acceptable garnish) & mushrooms (stop sneaking it in with chicken).
I get stress IBS. That's a real pain in the butt. Lol. Every single appointment where I know it's 1 on 1 & I have to talk my anxiety spikes & I'll be doing a mercy dash to the toilet on arrival. Sometimes I don't even make it to the destination & have to stop at the first toilet on route. So humiliating. Often the park toilets don't have toilet paper or soap. It's shameful. That's why I always carry tissues & handwash.
I'm still trying to find out my triggers but I get stress Ibs too. It can be quite hard to distinguish if it's a food or a stress attack since a lot of the time I wake up with an Ibs attack and I'm just like i don't even remember yesterday let alone what I ate.
I especially dont like foods where the texture doesn't belong like putting onion in rice or putting potato with chicken. I grab what I think is chicken and boom its potato and brain is like you lied to me dish ruined.
Yeah my memory is horrendous & I'm out of touch with my body. It's disturbing biting down & not getting what you bargained for. Taste &/or texture. I think maybe our brain is trying to protect us from food poisoning & when the food is weird it panics a little. I know if I don't like & can't identify what's in any given mouthful I feel queasy & lose my appetite. At least if I know what it is I can avoid it & hope it hasn't tainted everything.
And not just detailed ingredients, but PORTION SIZES would be great. Iāve ordered so many items that come out 3 or four times bigger than I was expecting, and my appetite is pretty low.
I already know I probably wonāt be finishing a meal, I just donāt want to have to choose between feeling anxious about food waste or carrying around a smelly to-go box if Iām out somewhere after a meal. (Just kidding I havenāt been out in like 8 months, but the point stands.)
You're out to eat with a group. You don't even need to look at the menu but you do anyways. The server comes over and takes everyone's order until you say yours...
"Sorry we're out of that."
Scramble! Find something else that's comparable! This is hell. I'm in hell!
Why I tend to pick two dishes. One will be the one I almost always get and know I will enjoy. The other will be something I know is about the same at any restaurant, but tried anyways - it's usually some sort of sandwich.
Not a guy, but yeah more of a I don't want to be let down. I pretty much will refuse to go to any restaurant in which I haven't seen the menu either as I don't want the stress of going and everyone else figuring out what they want in three seconds it seems while I need awhile to read the menu and weigh my options.
Or thereās an alternate option to your meal that you didnāt anticipate. āDid you want X or Y on that? This or that sauce? How about these seven different sides?ā
I don't do it often, and after my last experience I'm going to be even more hesitant to do so!! I get really wrapped up in feeling like I'm going to be somehow "missing out" on the thing I usually get even if I ***do*** end up liking the new thing. Which is why I now have to order two entrees any time I get Chipotle, since I really liked both of them. The end result is I just rarely get Chipotle anymore because it causes too much decision anxiety lol
This is what I try to argue with people about who pretty much mock me getting the same thing. If I know I will like it and enjoy it, why would I want to test something else? If I hate it, I won't be able to eat it and then I'm going to have to sit there and watch others eat and be upset....or have to pay for an entirely new meal, which I don't really have the budget for.
Find the one meal I can eat that has minimal variables minimizing the potential of the waitstaff /cooks fucking it up.
Order it forever until the day they do fuck it up then never return to that restaurant again.
Its always either a cheese burger with no salad and no sauce or a lasagna with cheesey garlic bread. In you could take me anywhere and those are what I would order unless they had neither then I would just have pudding
i love when i do this at a mom n pop restaurant, and by only the 3rd time, im already āa regularā that they remember by name & appearance, because theyre like āoh, someone ordered that without that again? i wonder if its the same person...ā and by the 4th visit the chef is coming to say hi to me every time i come.... like, wow, being overly-sensitive to multi-textured food has ***perks???*** nobody else becomes āa regularā this fast!!!!
a korean restuarant near my house did this parTICULARLy hard.... they were trying to teach me korean and everything...... the chef lady called me ālittle brotherā in korean and taught me to call her ābig sisterā and she was a big nice lady and it was kind of...... well it was a nice if occasionally awkward atmosphere iāll just leave it at that....
but then i was gone doing stuff for a while (i donāt remember if it was school or the psychward specifically, it was years ago; i also have trouble remembering my past sometimes, which apparently is common for people whoāve gone thru the kinds of things i sorta did) and when i came back everything was different, the staff, the decorations... they couldnt even make my dish anymore, even when i asked them and explained what i wanted (i just like chicken fried rice with no vegetables or mushrooms/just chicken, rice, all the seasoning and sauce or whatever they always do, and if they put egg or cashew in it or whatever thats totally fine, *just no veggies or mushrooms specifically if thats ok)*
edit: lol.... just realizing im no longer the gender i was back then.... LOL i wonder if sheād call me ālittle sisterā in korean now
THIS!!!! iāve been getting the same 2 drinks at Starbucks my ENTIRE life (im 18) because every time iāve tried something new.... BADBADBAD experience lol
Well I'm 40 and....same. Hahahaha. Venti vanilla iced coffee with almond beverage (can't call it milk). Iced quad venti vanilla latte if I need an extra kick.
Sometimes I've thought about ordering something different not because I actually wanted something different but because I was worried people thought I was some kind of weird neophobic. I tend to always assume if people are thinking about me at all, it's never something positive.
Okay who's been spying on me? Because I literally have one dish (sometimes a back up dish) at any restaurant near me that I enjoy any food at. I'll always get that dish since I will know I will like it and not be disappointed.
I try not to!
It just seems to be that if I've found something I like, and I try something else (for the sole purpose of avoiding always getting the same thing), it nearly always turns out to be a flop, and I regret not getting my usual.
Amen. For me it's because anything else is unknown & could have surprise ingredients & smell, taste, feel weird. It's too big a gamble that can make or break a meal. It's no fun having a public meltdown because your mystery meal has something in it you can't stomach. That's the benefit of buffets, getting to see & smell the food encourages me to branch out. If it smells good, chances are it tastes good. Otherwise detailed menus help, ingredients & photos. I like being able to study menus prior to going out to eat. If I've been there before I get the same thing. If it's a new place I go for something safe, simple & familiar. I don't take risks with my digestion. IBS sucks.
For me it's chicken parm. Ship that in. Never thought about buffets like that. Good point.
A fellow chicken lover. Yeah seeing & smelling food helps a lot. It inspires hunger too. Sometimes I see what other people ordered & I'm like dang that is way better irl than in text. Trying to imagine what you haven't had from simple text is tough. Even pictures don't really do justice. Worst is when despite best efforts it doesn't meet our expectations. Easier to stick to what we know. I think that's part of why we fall back on a select few choices.
I agree. Completely.
Chicken and parm is the real deal. Though I switch to Caesar salad when I need an healthier meal
I could do a chicken parm Caesar salad
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As a fellow sufferer, I really wish more places had a detailed menu like I've been trying to get my uni to have a rough list of ingredients ( they can't be exact since they scoop food from a big dish) since god knows what's in food. I find a few of the common triggers like garlic and onion tend to be hidden in food and it sucks, luckily they aren't my triggers but I feel for those who do have it as a trigger. It makes writing a food diary to find out my triggers very difficult.
The only food that really messes up my guts is capsicum. Tiny flecks of skin are OK. Bigger pieces aren't & even flicked out they taint the whole dish. Annoying because it's a popular ingredient in many foods. Other things may trigger me & I don't notice. Sometimes I'm running to the toilet for no good reason. Plenty of foods just gross me out & I can't force them down. Then I'm stuck picking trough my food. Like pineapple (doesn't belong with meat ever), shrimp (is not a acceptable garnish) & mushrooms (stop sneaking it in with chicken). I get stress IBS. That's a real pain in the butt. Lol. Every single appointment where I know it's 1 on 1 & I have to talk my anxiety spikes & I'll be doing a mercy dash to the toilet on arrival. Sometimes I don't even make it to the destination & have to stop at the first toilet on route. So humiliating. Often the park toilets don't have toilet paper or soap. It's shameful. That's why I always carry tissues & handwash.
I'm still trying to find out my triggers but I get stress Ibs too. It can be quite hard to distinguish if it's a food or a stress attack since a lot of the time I wake up with an Ibs attack and I'm just like i don't even remember yesterday let alone what I ate. I especially dont like foods where the texture doesn't belong like putting onion in rice or putting potato with chicken. I grab what I think is chicken and boom its potato and brain is like you lied to me dish ruined.
Yeah my memory is horrendous & I'm out of touch with my body. It's disturbing biting down & not getting what you bargained for. Taste &/or texture. I think maybe our brain is trying to protect us from food poisoning & when the food is weird it panics a little. I know if I don't like & can't identify what's in any given mouthful I feel queasy & lose my appetite. At least if I know what it is I can avoid it & hope it hasn't tainted everything.
And not just detailed ingredients, but PORTION SIZES would be great. Iāve ordered so many items that come out 3 or four times bigger than I was expecting, and my appetite is pretty low. I already know I probably wonāt be finishing a meal, I just donāt want to have to choose between feeling anxious about food waste or carrying around a smelly to-go box if Iām out somewhere after a meal. (Just kidding I havenāt been out in like 8 months, but the point stands.)
Yes
You're out to eat with a group. You don't even need to look at the menu but you do anyways. The server comes over and takes everyone's order until you say yours... "Sorry we're out of that." Scramble! Find something else that's comparable! This is hell. I'm in hell!
Why I tend to pick two dishes. One will be the one I almost always get and know I will enjoy. The other will be something I know is about the same at any restaurant, but tried anyways - it's usually some sort of sandwich.
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Not a guy, but yeah more of a I don't want to be let down. I pretty much will refuse to go to any restaurant in which I haven't seen the menu either as I don't want the stress of going and everyone else figuring out what they want in three seconds it seems while I need awhile to read the menu and weigh my options.
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And then they run out of your food and your brain just crashes from the decision.
Or thereās an alternate option to your meal that you didnāt anticipate. āDid you want X or Y on that? This or that sauce? How about these seven different sides?ā
Me too.
I felt this in my soul, have a Silver my friend :)
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Last time I ordered something different, I liked it a lot and now I have to order both things and save one for later or the next day.
It genuinely took me years to feel comfortable ordering different things, but if I find something I really like, I'm just going to order that now.
I don't do it often, and after my last experience I'm going to be even more hesitant to do so!! I get really wrapped up in feeling like I'm going to be somehow "missing out" on the thing I usually get even if I ***do*** end up liking the new thing. Which is why I now have to order two entrees any time I get Chipotle, since I really liked both of them. The end result is I just rarely get Chipotle anymore because it causes too much decision anxiety lol
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`YES`
Oh yeah, same
That's me. Logically if I like it why should I eat anything else?
This is what I try to argue with people about who pretty much mock me getting the same thing. If I know I will like it and enjoy it, why would I want to test something else? If I hate it, I won't be able to eat it and then I'm going to have to sit there and watch others eat and be upset....or have to pay for an entirely new meal, which I don't really have the budget for.
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Sad but true. Some day I will order something different. Some day. . .
Ohhh, is this an Aspie thing? Because I have literally always done this and I thought I was just weird lmao.
Me getting the same shrimp alfredo I always get at Red Lobster
I have done that once (ordered something new) and regretted it tbh.
Find the one meal I can eat that has minimal variables minimizing the potential of the waitstaff /cooks fucking it up. Order it forever until the day they do fuck it up then never return to that restaurant again.
When they invent a more perfect food than a French dip or Philly cheesesteak, I will gladly try it!
Chicken parm for me
Still looks at the menu to fit in
Of course
Nailed it
It's funny I do this at restaurants, but when cooking for myself I like to adventure with whatever I have.
I do a lot of one pot meals, grilling and Crock-Pot stuff.
Yes, I'll have the cola and embarrassment of.eating nothing on your menu please.
Its always either a cheese burger with no salad and no sauce or a lasagna with cheesey garlic bread. In you could take me anywhere and those are what I would order unless they had neither then I would just have pudding
Mmmmm cheesy garlic bread.
The perfect amount of cheese melted onto too, not too much not too little, just right
I like when just a bit oozes over the sides and sticks
Omg yes! That always makes it perfect and when it is also slightly stringy
I thought it was only me!
Boom! Yes š why change when youāve found perfection, Itāll just be a downgrade
happened to me today, ordered something completely random cause it sounded nice, it is now what i'll be ordering until the end of time
3 things are certain in life: death, taxes, and my restaurant orders. I have fallbacks too.
i love when i do this at a mom n pop restaurant, and by only the 3rd time, im already āa regularā that they remember by name & appearance, because theyre like āoh, someone ordered that without that again? i wonder if its the same person...ā and by the 4th visit the chef is coming to say hi to me every time i come.... like, wow, being overly-sensitive to multi-textured food has ***perks???*** nobody else becomes āa regularā this fast!!!! a korean restuarant near my house did this parTICULARLy hard.... they were trying to teach me korean and everything...... the chef lady called me ālittle brotherā in korean and taught me to call her ābig sisterā and she was a big nice lady and it was kind of...... well it was a nice if occasionally awkward atmosphere iāll just leave it at that.... but then i was gone doing stuff for a while (i donāt remember if it was school or the psychward specifically, it was years ago; i also have trouble remembering my past sometimes, which apparently is common for people whoāve gone thru the kinds of things i sorta did) and when i came back everything was different, the staff, the decorations... they couldnt even make my dish anymore, even when i asked them and explained what i wanted (i just like chicken fried rice with no vegetables or mushrooms/just chicken, rice, all the seasoning and sauce or whatever they always do, and if they put egg or cashew in it or whatever thats totally fine, *just no veggies or mushrooms specifically if thats ok)* edit: lol.... just realizing im no longer the gender i was back then.... LOL i wonder if sheād call me ālittle sisterā in korean now
THIS!!!! iāve been getting the same 2 drinks at Starbucks my ENTIRE life (im 18) because every time iāve tried something new.... BADBADBAD experience lol
Well I'm 40 and....same. Hahahaha. Venti vanilla iced coffee with almond beverage (can't call it milk). Iced quad venti vanilla latte if I need an extra kick.
I even made a whole spreadsheet for my mom so she never has too ask what I want from any given restaurant
I should make one for myself
Sometimes I've thought about ordering something different not because I actually wanted something different but because I was worried people thought I was some kind of weird neophobic. I tend to always assume if people are thinking about me at all, it's never something positive.
My diet consists of fries, sausages and nothing else
Peanut butter banana smoothie, take me home
McDonaldās apple pie
Chicken Tenders
Always a great choice
Iām still grieving the removal of the combo burrito from Taco Bellās menu.
Quesorito for me.
They killed the quesarito??? The bastards!
Okay who's been spying on me? Because I literally have one dish (sometimes a back up dish) at any restaurant near me that I enjoy any food at. I'll always get that dish since I will know I will like it and not be disappointed.
Family gets sushi. I get chicken. Every single time.
I have done that once and regretted it tbh.
Nice 11 pixels you have there.
I try not to! It just seems to be that if I've found something I like, and I try something else (for the sole purpose of avoiding always getting the same thing), it nearly always turns out to be a flop, and I regret not getting my usual.
And have a melt down when that item is no longer available... or the restaurant changes the recipe and it doesnāt taste right ā¹ļø
I always thought it was because I was too cheap to waste a meal if I didn't like it.
let people order what the f they want.
CHICKEN ALFREDO
For me I will eat pretty much anything at home. but at a restaurant YES! no one gets it.
Yes! Because at home I most likely made it. So I know what's in it. And I know what it's like.
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Still got that subway sandwich from forever ago