So life is good. :D

I love to share my stuff with people, that's the point of dining together. Just don't always want to share their stuff.

Okay, silly rules:

Fried eggs over easy must but cut bite-size and put directly on buttered toast, one bite at a time. No, you cannot put egg in mouth then bite off toast. Egg must be on top of toast. Rather tacky, but that's the way I do it.

Eggs, eh. You're a loon, but I've known that for a couple years now.

As far as sharing and stuff, I feel it almost mandatory, and if you don't
subscribe to this, tell me right away and I'll respect that, but if you hedge
and fudge that's a recipe for ridicule or disdain later on down the line!
I always slice off relatively good parts of my meal for the purpose of
giving or trading right at the beginning (I keep the fat to myself unless
someone else asks for it).

Personal food lunacies: I eat all the fat off a steak or roast that has
been served me, and if I get too full I'll leave meat behind rather than
fat and gristle. I won't eat zucchini unless it has been prepared or
served by someone I love. On a composed plate at a restaurant, I'll
eat all possible combinations. Say I have a sirloin, wild rice, spinach,
and a spiced peach. Round one is all singles. Round two is all parings,
i.e., bite of sirloin and bite of peach together. Et cetera, which can
mean a long evening. I feel all elements on a plate should be in harmony,
and any failure means wrath of me toward the restaurant.

40 years ago I started studying nutrition and healthy eating. I quickly discovered that all the books/articles I could find contradicted each other. Nowadays there are probably a few million books on those topics.

So, my one sentence guide to eating for the last forty years has been:

Listen to my body !

This may be due to my non-American childhood, but peanut butter and jelly (*ahem*, jam) never ever go together. I mean, what on earth! Who thought of that?! For the love of God, why??

Jelly and jam are not the same thing over here (while both are fruit products jelly is made with juice only; jam contains actual fruit solids); I'm inclined to agree about jam and peanut butter not going together. On the other hand, grape jelly is not good for much else BESIDES putting on peanut butter sandwiches if you don't have bananas at hand.

Jam goes very, very well with peanut butter as long as it is on fluffy white bread and the PB is not the crunchy kind, which is a true abomination. As is grape jelly.

I'm trying to visualize Nutella and jelly. It's not a pretty sight.

Just sounds too sweet to me.

Now Vegemite/Marmite + jelly ... UGH.

Red raspberry jam and chunky peanut butter on soft whole grain wheat bread is the way. Strawberry jam in a pinch. Must have a big glass of cold milk with either.

1) No hotdogs, burgers, sausages, etc. When I eat meat or fish I want to know exactly which part of which animal I'm eating.

2) You can never eat too many dropjes (dutch people know what I mean).

3) Fruit juice should be fruit juice made from fruit and nothing else.

4) Coffee needs to be made from freshly ground beans in an espresso machine, and ristretto is the only way. No drip brews, and coffee should never ever touch boiling water.

5) Coke is only tolerable if diluted with large amounts of rum.

6) Fish should be fresh and never frozen. Yes, I can tell the difference.

7) Pasta cooked beyond al dente is inedible.

8) Ice ruins whisky.

Ohmygod. Yes.

Jelly has been strained through a jelly bag. Jam has not been strained
through a jelly bag. If there are substantial chunks of fruit in the final
product, I was taught that this was called "preserves" (or "conserve");
jam has fruit solids but more finely processed and evenly dispersed
throughout.

PB & J is an oddity that I think goes best with the sauce of extreme
hunger, in which case it matters not whether there are shards in the
PB (which I don't mind, actually, and in fact the super chunk products
might have been formulated for the likes of me, except that I don't
buy PB at all except as a shortcut for peanut noodles).

Oh, yeah,

this being true of most soft drinks.

1. No raw tomatos...ever! Cooked are fine.
2. The guy who invented Miracle Whip should be whipped!
3. If a steak requires sauce, it requires tossing out.
4. Banana, Peanut Butter & Marshmallow Cream Sandwiches are almost as good as Banana & Mayo sandwiches.
5. No Organ Meats!
6. No Ketchup on Eggs...hot sauce is fine
7. Lima beans...yuck!

CV

I'm veggie and eating out can be a real pain. I embarrass people who are with me questioning the servers about what exactly is in the food they are passing off as vegetarian. Often sauces are beef or chicken based.

At least, I allow different foods to touch each other on my plate--as long as I haven't ordered a vegetarian meal and I'm served steak and told to just push it over. :mad:

Sauces? Don't forget the fish stomach sauce and lard. I've had shrimp and other sea things show up in veggie dishes in big pieces that obviously did not come from a plant. This is really irritating, because I'm not a vegetarian, but in certain locales order veggie dishes to avoid seafood.

I completely understand your reluctance to "just push the steak over." I could never do that with fish. Nor was I happy the day a server took back a pizza and removed the anchovies and re-served it.

Was once at a table with a very polite vegetarian whose table setting was missing a knife. Several were offered her, all of which had just been used to cut hamburgers in half, and the offerers couldn't understand her horror. She was so polite, and so relieved when I compared it to my not wanting to use a fish-flavored knife. The server was summoned, vomiting avoided.