I Can’t Understand Adults Who Don’t Like Certain Foods

11/29/2024

I’m sitting in an Uber having random thoughts about food because I’m hungry. I’m thinking about Thanksgiving and about how turkey is low on my lists of favorites meats (I highly prefer having steak or lamb for Christmas), but still like it. It’s just very hard me to understand how there are grown adults out there who look at common food and just go “no, I refuse to eat that”.

I was a famously picky eater as a kid. So I can maybe understand where some of it is coming from. But, like breast feeding and shitting myself, I eventually grew out of it. Nowadays, I just can’t respect it when a grown adult refuses something like sushi. “Oh you can’t do Nigiri? Let’s see if Nobu has some chicken nuggets in the back.” Are you serious?

There are exceptions. For example: spice. Now if you can’t even handle like cocktail sauce, we may have some issues. But I can completely understand someone doesn’t want to burn their mouth off eating certain flavors of wings or whatever.

Preference or not favoring certain types of foods is completely okay too. It’s just people who outright refuse to eat certain foods appall me. I would urge anyone like this to please make it a New Year’s resolution to at least tolerate all types of food. Could you imagine going to lunch with your boss and not eating because there are pickles on your sandwich? FIO.

One response to “I Can’t Understand Adults Who Don’t Like Certain Foods”

Ben

April 19, 2025 at 7:34 pm

Your post reeks of smug superiority, dismissing adults with specific food preferences as immature or defective without a shred of empathy or curiosity. You proudly admit to being a picky eater as a kid but pat yourself on the back for “growing out of it,” as if everyone else’s journey should mirror yours. Newsflash: people aren’t obligated to like sushi, nigiri, or any food just because you’ve deemed it acceptable. Your sarcastic jab about Nobu’s chicken nuggets isn’t clever—it’s condescending.

You vaguely acknowledge exceptions like spice tolerance but brush off the complexity of why someone might avoid certain foods. Sensory issues, cultural differences, allergies, or even traumatic associations with specific flavors or textures—none of these cross your mind. Instead, you frame food refusal as a character flaw, urging people to “tolerate all types of food” like it’s a moral failing to have boundaries. Could you imagine going to lunch with your boss and respecting their choices instead of judging them for dodging pickles?

Your argument hinges on a flimsy appeal to social optics—fear of looking bad in front of a boss—rather than any substantive reasoning. It’s shallow and reeks of performative adulthood, as if eating everything proves maturity. True maturity would be recognizing that people’s food preferences are their own, shaped by factors you clearly haven’t bothered to consider. Your call for a New Year’s resolution to erase personal tastes is as absurd as demanding everyone like the same music or movies. Grow out of your need to control others’ plates. FIO.

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