Me - very.
I don't like cold peanut butter or pizza. I like bread products to be on the crispy side. I like cheese enchiladas and quesidillas overcooked so the cheese makes a crispy brown crust. I prefer my steak and hamburgers to be somewhat burnt on the edges but a bit pink in the middle (can be hard to achieve). I can't stand mushy pasta or tomatoes or wilted lettuce. etc.
I love all nuts but don't like peanut butter - warm or cold, especially the smooth version. (Sorry, sashac!)
I like cheese enchiladas and quesidillas overcooked so the cheese makes a crispy brown crust. I'm with ye on that.
steak and hamburgers to be somewhat burnt on the edges but a bit pink in the middle
I agree. Steak very pink (rare) is my preference; and hamburgers - if I make them myself, which are the only burgers I'll eat - done medium.
Pasta which is not al dente is only worthy of the bin.
I do prefer cruncy peanut butter. I usually don't eat it but the last few days I've been in the mood. It's okay tony, we can still be friends.
I will eat steak rare and do like steak tartar (but only when I travel, I don't trust American beef), but I prefer steak more medium than rare, same with burgers. I will eat burgers at pubs cause they do a pretty good job.
As I said on the mac&cheese thread - it's the reason I don't eat m&c out - every time I've seen it made by someone else it looks mushy.
In terms of food, I'm not picky, but I do have one bit of mealtime pickiness. I hate looking at my empty plate when I am done. I don't care if the canons of etiquette suggest that waitstaff or hosts not remove plates until everyone is finished. I want mine gone NOW, dagnabbit!
In my own house, I will get up & take my plate to the kitchen as soon as I'm done, which puzzles some people. In restaurants or other people's homes, I suffer in silence.
Nutrax,
An empty plate syndrom? I'm a bit like that too, but not exactly the same way. I just don't like sitting at a table with empty/dirty plates after a finished meal. I'd rather have them all removed at once, which drives some pleople crazy. They think I'm too nervous.
(That's the kind of service I like at restaurants, when they remove your plate just when you're finished, and you don't need to ask for it.)
sashac
peanut butter on pizza? Never heard of it. Some sort of pizza dessert?
I'm picky in different ways. If I am eating food at a friend' s or family member's place I will generally eat what I am given. The exception to that is Tuna Quiche. Why wreck a nice quiche by adding cat food? Anywhoo, otherwise I eat what I am given.
At home I like a few crappy foods but I also don't eat certain things and will never buy it - certain fishes, certain shellfishes depending on where they are sourced etc.
If out for dinner I try really hard not to be picky. I have a gluten intolerance and a wheat allergy but most people shouldn't notice that when I am dining as I don't make a big deal of it. But, I am incredibly picky if something is wrong with the meal. Although I don't like blue or rare meats and will always ask for them done 'medium'. Two of my closest friends are chefs and I used to say to them that I was worried going out and ordering that as apparently every chef hates it when people order medium or well done meat. My lovely chef friend (who btw is fantastic and keeps appearing in bloody magazines and articles) told me after that that if the chef can't cook a piece of meat to 'medium' or even 'well done' without getting annoyed and overdoing it then they should - wait for it - get out of the kitchen. No doubt for them it's nicer when it's closer to Mooing but I prefer my steak dead and dusted.
Basically, I'm location appropriate picky!
Oh, and I am a terrible cook. So I can't be too picky or I would never eat.
No fieldgate, 2 different things, I don't like either cold. Peanut butter on pizza belongs on the gross food threads.
Sneaker - I also try to be less picky when eating out. I pretty much have to be or lose all my friends.
I also used to order my steaks well done. Then I read that, not only don't chefs like doing it, they often give you the worst cuts of beef cause they figure you're not going to really taste the meat anyway. So I started ordering them medium. One day my mother and I shared a filet mignon. She asked if it was okay if we got it rare. It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be but I'll stick to medium.
I tend to be pickiest about my own cooking. I will eat pretty trashy food when that is what I want, but if I am eating out and it is a good place with higher prices I expect good food.
Sasha, I have to say I am not sure why you don't trust American beef for steak tartar? If it was at a descent restaurant I would feel more comfortable with American beef than with that of many other countries. That said, I wouldn't order it at McDonalds. Of course, I probably wouldn't order it anyway. I had it once when traveling and while it was ok I couldn't help thinking, "four minutes on each side over charcoal and this would make a really good buger"