Not necessarily a picky eating story but I'm autistic so I eat pretty much the same foods every day and I was a bit self conscious about it in college. I've had pasta for dinner almost every day for like 5 years now and I was worried my roommates would think I was weird for it but they were surprisingly delighted by my unwavering commitment. I distinctly remember being frustrated and studying in my room when one of my roommates knocked on the door and said "Are you ok? It's pasta time." - they were worried bc I'd missed the typical 10pm pasta feeding! It was so sweet and we're still friends to this day ❤
something thats always made me FURIOUS as an autistic person is the phrase "how do you know you dont like it if you won't try it". because I know my palette, and I know the textures and tastes associated with this food. how do you know I WOULD like it. what makes you think that, considering you have no experience in how I personally experience food, you know better than I do about my own tastes. tears you apart with my bare hands
glad you’re making a picky eaters safe space nisa 70% of my childhood trauma is rooted in falling asleep at the dinner table every night bc i couldnt eat the food and i wasn’t allowed to move till the plate was clear😭
My mom used to do that when I got back from school. I don't know how many times it took her to give up cause I'd be sitting there doing nothing for what felt like hours!! Such a bad practice, I stopped being so picky years after she stopped doing that
My parents did the same! They would turn off the lights and leave me in the dark, sitting and staring at my meal alone. Its nice not to be alone in this feeling thought, thank you all. I hope you’re doing well x
growing up a super picky eater with a family full of people who aren’t is wild. your parents think you’re always just being dramatic when it’s like, no you don’t understand i will literally puke if i eat this😭. every time as an adult now im surprised and grateful when people take my eating habits into consideration when they cook or order something!!
Yeah my parents called me a bitch once bc I didn't want to eat something they wanted to get at the mall food court. I think I've become pickier over time technically but I am lucky enough to enjoy most healthy foods and avoid most judgement
Having sensory issues with food is so exhausting sometimes, like I too would like to eat things and not wonder if they'll make me nauseous and make me lose my appetite or go to restaurants and not overanlyze the menu and ask the waiter a bunch of questions about the dish, but people will act like me not liking something is such a burden or insult to them! And more people have sensory issues than they realize, and you don't have to throw up bc of a food or be alergic to it to avoid it, people deserve to not be uncomfortable and don't have to force themselves to eat everything, as long as they can get all the nutrients they need.
For me there are so many things I will avoid bc they are so unplesant to me in most of their forms. No one can convince me leaf like foods, like cabbages and all salad bases taste as appealing as leaves off a random tree outside. Another one is alcohol, it doesn't matter how little you add and what other things you put in the thing, my tastebuds will know and make the whole thing inedible, you can swear up and down that "you can't even tell" but trust me I can tell and it's just gross. Also scrambles eggs become inedible the moment they get even slightly colder than fresh off the pan, you gotta eat that shit fast. Onions taste amazing but that cronchy texture is repulsive, as long as I can't feel that I'm good but god forbid there is a piece of not completely mushy onion in the dish.
Same! I dont reheat leftovers (unless its like soup or something like that) and people love giving me shit for it! Cold chicken is way better than reheated chicken.
This might be something you’ve already tried and disliked, but I found that I specifically disliked the way food gets when it’s microwaved, and heating it up on the stove (even though it takes a while) tastes a lot better and has helped me finish leftovers.
you're really blessing us with two videos so soon? we don't deserve you queen! also as an autistic girl who is sort of a picky eater im excited to see what you have to say!
The way you described your disgust towards drumsticks made me feel a warmth and kinship I have never known parasocially. Thank you for speaking your truth
I am the pickiest eater (autism). I’ve had my mom once tell me she was embarrassed to go to a restaurant with me and her friends because I wouldn’t eat what they were eating. Ultimately I don’t care about that because it’s true I wouldn’t have liked the restaurant food 😭. My favorite foods are white rice (jasmine) and black beans (with chili pepper and umami), dececco noodles with marina sauce (classic from newsman’s own), and oatmeal with frozen raspberries and almond butter. No joke, I eat these almost every single day.
I'm with you on that chicken meat with bones thing I'm autistic so textures in food have always been my enemy And to this day if I'm given a chicken wing or leg, I'm gonna pick like the 3 best bites and give the rest to somebody else If I bite into the weird parts, I WILL lose it 💀💀
THANK YOU YES i realised recently that i dont actually like the taste of chicken? i eat like EXCLUSIVELY the white meat and its just flavoured like whatever spices or sauce it has so yes the meat pickiness is so real
I also have weird hangups about meat. I'll eat chicken/turkey and ground beef and bacon, but if you try to serve me a SLAB of anything, like a steak or a pork chop? It's over gurl. I can't saw into a slab of anything, especially if the beef is still pink on the inside. I have this visceral aversion to chewing through it as well.
omg the chewinggg when it’s still pink i hate it!!! i also have a hard time swallowing well done meat for some weird reason, so i just avoid most meat these days. i really can’t win lol 😭
i was constantly shamed for being picky when i was younger and we didnt find out i was autistic until my early 20's. since finding out my particular picky nature is rooted with texture i eat so many things i thought i wouldnt like because i just needed to prepare them differently which is fun and nice! i have so many options now! however if someone gives me any kind of melon i simply cannot do it. why do they feel like that?? there are so many things i want to eat but cant but melons in particular are so upsetting to me because i want to like them So Bad. the flavor is nice! refreshing even! but the texture is a crime against me, personally. i see you eat a melon?? god i wish that were me
i’m so glad you brought up bell peppers bc all peppers taste like metal to some degree for me. it doesn’t matter how they’re prepared, there’s always a distinct metallic flavor that ruins the dish for me
Oh my god i wish i coule attach an image to this because Nisa using meows to cover a certain word has my husky on HIGH ALERT 😂😂 He is looking at me like "wheres the cat, pam????"
Nisaaa, I'm a Brazilian girlie and one time I saw blueberries at the supermarket and got soooooo excited to try it (and to live my American dream), but girl.... what a disappointment 🤧
@@analisaswann1039 they are awesome made into like a compote or syrup, or baked into treats. Also raw blueberries are only good if you can get them where they're local and seasonal. I also made a blueberry-balsamic reduction which was good over some cheeses and basil chicken. Would recommend not writing them off entirely!!
Oh, girl. Welcome to the family! When you described taking the sandwich apart so it could be reheated properly, I saw my mom. So… welcome to our family!
Props to my husband. He has the cilantro soap gene, but I love cilantro in certain dishes so much, he’s either become or somehow was indifferent to cilantro in food so I can have what I enjoy. For me, even though I’m a fan of cilantro, I get just not liking it because it tastes like grass. For me, it tastes like the freshest, most wonderful grass and I’m a cow that should be eating grass or something. Cilantro tastes like how grass smells and I’m a fan of things that do that. It’s one of the reasons I’m one of the only people in my family who was a fan of rose as a flavor- it tasted like roses smell.
I’ve been a huge picky eater my whole life. I only found out three years ago that it’s because of my OCD. It’s not just that I don’t like certain foods, it’s a genuine fear of certain foods. I know rationally that nothing bad is going to happen to me, but my OCD doesn’t know that. My biggest food fear is Pickles (which is funny because I’m Jewish and pickles are a staple in the Jewish diet). It’s a visceral whole body reaction when I see or smell pickles.
I’ve been loving these sit down and talk videos!!!! I simply do not eat fruit except for like two kinds….. always been a controversial thing in my life people don’t understand :( I think it’s overrated to NOT be picky I love being opinionated :)
yoo same!! i will only eat watermelons and drink orange juice lmao. i would get so much flack for it as a kid! now as an adult, i brace myself when telling people i don't like fruit, and people... don't make a big deal out of it?? maybe it's because now i'm more or less in charge of my own health and diet? who knows!
I love your videos because they remind me of my own conversations with myself lol In terms of pickiness, I'm very far to the un-picky side of the spectrum, I like everything depending on how it's prepared of course, and like you I've learned a lot about being respectful of other people's choices, as it's really none of my business. I've also become vegan 3 years ago and have had to explain to people several times that no, I won't "make an exception" just because they don't see the problem with it 😬 but that whole thing is another topic altogether...
my best tip for reheating is to start the cold food in a cold oven, the food and oven heat up at the same time and the food heats very evenly. for most things i wrap them in foil to be sure nothing gets to burnt.
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I love some more "disliked" foods such as artichoke and mushrooms, so most people don't notice how picky of an eater I am. There are plenty of foods I dislike, but these in particular make me want to hurl and I will avoid consuming even if impolite: shellfish, most fish, pork, turkey, duck, egg yolk, cashews, arugula and avocado. I've unintentionally been vegetarian for the majority of my life because while I tolerate beef and chicken, its just not my taste!
I remember when I was like 15, I was so committed to the bit of hating cilantro that I signed up for an account on a website called I Hate Cilantro. It was entirely devoted to people writing haikus about how much they hated cilantro, and it was one of the funniest sites I've ever encountered
Suuuuper same on cilantro, it's just not the kind of grassy taste I like. It makes getting good Mexican food such a pain too! Honestly crushing. The big thing I'm picky about is dressing. I feel like restaurants just cannot use a reasonable amount, it's always DROWNING in it. Like if I'm getting a salad, it's because I want to taste the veggies, not 12 gallons of vinegar.
I think the issue with reheated meat is that it was already dehydrating in your fridge for however long, and then the microwave sucks what little moisture was left out, so you’re left with a crusty mummy of your former meal
I used to think I wasn't that much of a fussy eater too but then i remembered I used to be super picky about desserts, and it's only as I've gotten older that I've become a little better with it - and I don't think it's because of "maturing" or whatever but like physically ageing. But there are some food textures I just cannot deal with. I also still reflexively cringe at the thought of eating foods I used to hate even though I know my tastebuds and stomach don't complain about them anymore. Bodies are just weird. It's good to try stuff (or retry a few things if it's been some years and you're feeling game) but no shame if you (still) hate it. p.s i learned how to make beets taste less like soil - making your own pickle (cause they taste super gross canned but when you make it yourself it's somehow ok??), and beetroot dip. if you can deal with the other ingredients involved in either case, you may find you like beets. but your mileage may vary
Textures, man!! So much of my picky eating habits are about the textures! Also, with the way you feel about certain spices and herbs, I'm very curious about your thoughts on fennel. I hate when food has too much fennel and the smell burns my nostrils. 🤢
I have celiac disease and when I worked as a server in a restaurant, the chef would let us take home some food that wasn’t eaten. I never took any and just said I couldn’t eat it. When they asked, I just said I’m allergic to gluten. Most people don’t have an understanding about cross-contamination, so they were trying to be helpful and tell me what stuff didn’t have flour in it (gluten can be in everything- I’d have to read the label on every single spice and seasoning). Since I’m a young sporty woman, they all assumed I had an eating disorder. It didn’t help that I would just pack snacks and not meals (cause I’m bad at planning) so I’d be munching on an apple and then go home and chow down 😅
I feel you. It's so hard when you have a medical reason and people don't understand, even the well-intentioned ones. I have friends with celiac, such a lot to deal with! I got tested for it years ago but turns out gluten is my friend and the real culprit was....dun dun dun...an inherited allium intolerance. So, onions, shallots, chives, leeks, etc.
I love the vulnerability in this episode- I’m on the spectrum and always had issues with fruit, the seeds and fleshy textures were a hard pass but I’ve since gotten into eating it frozen bc its always ripe and has a more popsicle bite. But worse, CHERRY TOMATOES in salads etc. boils my blood. Also honourable mention to the risks of room temp dairy/creamy stuff- potato salad types, cheese (thats not fridge fresh) and YOGURT gives me visceral elementary school snack lunchbag ickness - it all made me a better cook out of necessity though
23:12 I was about to be like omg wouldn't a babychef revival be so cute and fun and then remember people are weird and elitist about cooking on the internet. Also this is a very good discussion, because although I love cooking and all types of foods, I have many a loved one who are picky eaters and they walk through this world with people perceiving them as if they were war criminals. I also used to be a bit of a snob about picky eating but mostly because I confused it with xenophobia (as an Asian immigrant in a western country) which are not the same thing. We're all adults here, let's not be assholes about eating :))
Omg we are truly blessed these holidays for 2 nisapisa videos! Stan a queen. I would like to say praise black olives 🫒. Cilantro 🌿 is just fun edible stems haha. I used to pack washed raw romaine lettuce leaves 🥬 and then just snack on them in class 😂. Anyways have a nice day everyone!
There are people with sensory issues/discerning eaters vs. people who are completely disinterested in food as experience/culture (especially when there is a XENOPHOBIC undertone to it) I have been meeting a lot of people who don't seem to "engage" with food AND people who don't really listen to music and I'm like ???
When I was a child I was bullied by adults for the way that I ate. Yes I'm going to order chicken tenders and fries at a fancier restaurant BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I LIKE THEM! Why would I want to try something new and maybe end up with something that I didn't like. It always seemed like a waste of money and time. "Well what if you find something that you like more?" I scoff. Imagine finding something more scrumptious than chicken tendies and fries. (And yes I am a very picky eater and like to stick to familiar foods and textures)
the potential waste of time and money with trying new things is SO REAL. it's constantly what holds me back bc then i just feel extra shitty for not liking something
my picky eating is so bad (autism) i can’t even handle normal things like pizza, chicken, tacos, bacon, and so much more…the amount of times ive been called un-american specifically for not eating regular foods is oddly very high
The food I'm most weird about is probably eggplant. I think it looks absolutely disgusting, the purple on the inside feels wrong and the inside looks like a diseased, rotting zucchini. It smells gross and the texture is kinda iffy. Everything about it makes it seem like it would have like the most disgusting taste ever, but it just tastes kind of nice and inoffensive. Every time I'm about to put a piece of eggplant in my mouth I'm scared that everytime before when it tasted nice it was just a trick and the next bite it will actually taste as terrible as I expect. So I always cut the eggplant into tiny pieces when eating it so that when the reveal happens it won't be as bad.
It’s weird for me because I’ll try a lot of things but also I have no desire to try certain things. I have tried fish here and there but I really have no desire to go any further than the couple bites I’ve taken. Thank you for making this video I feel so seen
Nisi, you are so funny. I enjoyed hearing about your eating preferences. I can completely understand. I am against oysters, mushrooms, scallops, and mussels too. I pretty much like to eat the same thing or the same couple of things all the time. People always try to encourage me to try new things, but I don't ever want to. I like chicken. I love chicken..., chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken, chicken, chicken!
Picky Eater here! My picky eating has gotten alot better over the years but I still refuse to eat like 90% of fruits and vegetables, it's easier to name the ones I will eat vs the ones I won't. The ones I do like I'm also picky about how I eat them :') I like raw carrots, raw apple, onion, potatoes, garlic, jalapeños, cilantro, mashed avacado, and mushrooms in soups or pastas. Anything outside of that I avoid if I can if I'm served it at restaurants and omit at home. So many times my family has tried to get me to eat something new and give me surprised pikachu face when I start gagging lmao. I'm also picky about the way I eat certain foods like with sandwiches I eat the outside edge first and save the middle bite for last (which btw you should try it is elite, the middle bite has the best ratios)
i used to be an enigma to every lunch lady, teacher, parent, etc purely for the fact that i wouldnt eat cold meat or refrigerated leftovers. for refrigerated leftovers i am no longer like that but it took 18 years of my life to grow out of that, but for all of my childhood if something went into the fridge for the night after being cooked it was off limits for me --- i couldnt remember what set me off, but i always found the reheated-ness of it super disgusting and unpleasant. Some foods are still like this for me (mac'n cheese, rice, etc) but ive managed to finally enjoy other foods as ''leftovers'' finally (pizza, stir fry, etc). But it was a plague for myself as a kid, so if something was made that I love i tried to eat all there was of it before it went into the fridge, because I knew whence it became ''leftovers'' and sat in there it would no longer appetize me. I think it was just a combination of taste and texture, everything felt ''different'' once it had sat in a fridge. Even the smell would get to me, foods i can eat as leftovers now I still often have to plug my nose or try not to touch with my fingers until they get reheated because the stench and sensation of them make me gag :( Cold meat however I am still forever picky about. Ham and cheese sandwhiches served at lunch went into the garbage. I even got ''humiliated'' at the preschool under a church i went to when I wouldnt eat the ham between a burger bun lunch they served us, where they pulled my seat away from the lunch table and had me sit in the middle of the lunch room and watch everyone else eat. Little did they know thsat was a blessing cause looking at cold meat alone makes me nauseated. But i'm in my 20s now and still just cant eat cold meat. chicken, ham, turkey, cold pizza has to be reheated and cold sandwhiches for lunch is just a no-no for me. I find cold meat just disgusting and unpleasant, so I have to eat basically 3 hot meals a day (not weird outside of the US, but people here cant fathom cooking 3 meals every day and often mock me for it). I'm picky about other things (food thats touched mushrooms or pepperonis are considered tainted to my tongue, I can't drink most hot drinks, etc) but these were the two major ones that often had me scolded and belittled for how I ate, because they were ''abnormal''. However all that the adults mocking me for this did was make me an excellent cook because they were too up their own ass to learn to make anything besides cold meat sandwhiches for lunch, while i was in my kitchen age 12 busting up some omelettes on the stove i was allowed to operate way too young and vegan sandwhiches for me to eat. It also got me obsessed with ranch which made them PISSED cause they hated to see me enjoying what I called my ''walking salads'', like a walking taco but its where i make a salad and stick it between two slices of bread and eat it. Everyone hates me for my ingenuity but at least i dont have to act like i'm missing out on the joys of a kraft single slapped over a ham slice.
The way I gasped at the meow mix 😂 love this style of video, it feels like I’m listening to an older sister who’s so much cooler and more knowledgeable than me lol
im not picky when it comes to trying things, but im really picky about what meals i make for the week. like, just having a bite to try something new is easy and fun but having to make something new that im gonna eat for a week is not so much
I'm definitely a picky eater, I also am not good at trying new things at like, restaurants and such because if I'm paying for food, I want to be sure that I'll like it! It's too risky for me to buy a whole meal that I might not even like!
We’ve been communicating telepathically- I was just telling my bf yesterday that I needed to take back all the times I said I had the cilantro soap gene. It doesn’t taste like “soap” to me I just don’t like it!
I also aged into being kind of picky. As a kid I used to eat almost everything, I loved foods that a lot of other people hate (sharp cheeses, olives, all kinds of cured meats, seafood, especially mussels and clams and stuff like that). Now that I am an adult I gag when a bite feels a little weird while chewing
Just something to add to the sandwich reheating/general food reheating situation. Trust me on this, nothing beats a reheat in an air fryer, second day pizza has literally never been the same
Wow the way you describe eating meat makes me so incredibly grateful that I'm a vegetarian. I think if I weren't, I'd be considered a much more picky eater. 😅
Sometimes my body just physically rejects a food with bad texture. I’ll try to get something down like gristley meat and my mouth just spits it out by itself
first time hearing anyone explain my issues with chicken meat with bone so well :') im so picky about meat and veggies, going to a restaurant is a torture more often than not
Raw bell peppers: dis-GUS-ting Roasted red, orange, yellow bells: yessss Green bell peppers in any form are doomed, because they start off underbaked. Taste like burps. Thank you for coming to my bell pepper roast.
I'm autistic so I have some -weird- food preferences. I will literally start gagging if I touch anything that has touched a mushroom with my mouth. I used to take two slices of plain bread to school to eat instead of a sandwich cause I didn't like the texture of an hour's old sandwich but I could stand the texture of plain bread. My current food hyperfixation is plain 2 minute noodles (yes with literally nothing in it), maybe with a tea spoon of Lao gon ma if I'm feeling ✨spicy✨.
I've got weird food icks and allergies and the hell I go through to explain them when going out is just.... lamb taste like soap, can't have anything in the celery family, avocado is grass, most COOKED veg makes me gag
Oh man, I feel you with the peppers, it's not just bell peppers though I just hate the texture of all peppers, and bell peppers specifically taste like grass. Tomatoes and onion are also no no's, I've gotten slightly better as I've grown up but I used to scrape all the tomato sauce off of any pizza that wasn't home made (where I could just make it cheese bread). Tomatoes just overwhelm everything and if I get a bite of them it's the only thing I taste, same with onion. Onion powder I can deal with, an actual onion? No thanks, also hate the texture of them and that crunch fills me with dread, though I think it's only because I'm expecting gross onion flavour. Mushrooms I think I could eat if they were like, a paste? Or something? But again, texture is BAD. Non fried potatoes? Texture bad, it's grainy and no thank you. Fried potatoes all day every day, unless they're soggy and then no thanks. Also green beans and celery, they taste like grass and I am not a cow. That's 7 things that are in everything everywhere and it makes my life difficult.
I am also weird about meat texture, but I trust eating it off the bone more because I can gauge the texture in real time as I'm ripping it off. Compare that with, like, random cubed chicken in a pot pie and I think the random chicken is more dubious bc I have no clue where that piece came from and there's no way to ascertain the texture without putting it in my mouth or tearing it apart.
watching this while eating my risky reheated curry and naan and my hands are so gross and i fully put my palm up on the screen only to remember its a touchscreen and left a big oily handprint. worth it.
"Leftover chicken flavor tastes like an empty hallway. Leftover chicken tastes like Reaganomics."
you are a poet
Poe found dead
Not necessarily a picky eating story but I'm autistic so I eat pretty much the same foods every day and I was a bit self conscious about it in college. I've had pasta for dinner almost every day for like 5 years now and I was worried my roommates would think I was weird for it but they were surprisingly delighted by my unwavering commitment. I distinctly remember being frustrated and studying in my room when one of my roommates knocked on the door and said "Are you ok? It's pasta time." - they were worried bc I'd missed the typical 10pm pasta feeding! It was so sweet and we're still friends to this day ❤
i do the same thing with fried rice 😭😭
This is a delightful story that makes my heart happy. Thank you for sharing
Me with my semi-daily taco bowl (when I have all the ingredients)
Super wholesome story, glad you have folks like that in your life!
17:05 “leftover chicken tastes like reaganomics” is my new favorite way to describe reheated chicken
I'm glad thar carrots and potatoes are finally being recognized by the sexy factor
something thats always made me FURIOUS as an autistic person is the phrase "how do you know you dont like it if you won't try it". because I know my palette, and I know the textures and tastes associated with this food. how do you know I WOULD like it. what makes you think that, considering you have no experience in how I personally experience food, you know better than I do about my own tastes. tears you apart with my bare hands
also as if smells don't exist?? like if i think something smells disgusting why would that change when it's in my mouth
It's this assumption that they know better than you. Also, you're not under a moral obligation to try food.
glad you’re making a picky eaters safe space nisa 70% of my childhood trauma is rooted in falling asleep at the dinner table every night bc i couldnt eat the food and i wasn’t allowed to move till the plate was clear😭
I didn't know other people had that same experience. I was at the table for 4 hours at one point.
SAME my parents would shout at me until it was gone. I developed anorexia as a teenager but idk if it had anything to do with that 😂
My mom used to do that when I got back from school. I don't know how many times it took her to give up cause I'd be sitting there doing nothing for what felt like hours!! Such a bad practice, I stopped being so picky years after she stopped doing that
My parents did the same! They would turn off the lights and leave me in the dark, sitting and staring at my meal alone. Its nice not to be alone in this feeling thought, thank you all. I hope you’re doing well x
growing up a super picky eater with a family full of people who aren’t is wild. your parents think you’re always just being dramatic when it’s like, no you don’t understand i will literally puke if i eat this😭. every time as an adult now im surprised and grateful when people take my eating habits into consideration when they cook or order something!!
Yeah my parents called me a bitch once bc I didn't want to eat something they wanted to get at the mall food court. I think I've become pickier over time technically but I am lucky enough to enjoy most healthy foods and avoid most judgement
eating reheated chicken that i overcooked to hell and back to avoid salmonella rn.. i feel so seen
Having sensory issues with food is so exhausting sometimes, like I too would like to eat things and not wonder if they'll make me nauseous and make me lose my appetite or go to restaurants and not overanlyze the menu and ask the waiter a bunch of questions about the dish, but people will act like me not liking something is such a burden or insult to them! And more people have sensory issues than they realize, and you don't have to throw up bc of a food or be alergic to it to avoid it, people deserve to not be uncomfortable and don't have to force themselves to eat everything, as long as they can get all the nutrients they need.
For me there are so many things I will avoid bc they are so unplesant to me in most of their forms. No one can convince me leaf like foods, like cabbages and all salad bases taste as appealing as leaves off a random tree outside. Another one is alcohol, it doesn't matter how little you add and what other things you put in the thing, my tastebuds will know and make the whole thing inedible, you can swear up and down that "you can't even tell" but trust me I can tell and it's just gross. Also scrambles eggs become inedible the moment they get even slightly colder than fresh off the pan, you gotta eat that shit fast. Onions taste amazing but that cronchy texture is repulsive, as long as I can't feel that I'm good but god forbid there is a piece of not completely mushy onion in the dish.
The way you feel about Salmonella is how I feel about pork and worms. I'm not going out that way!
controversially i dont heat up any of my leftovers if it's coming home it's getting eaten cold right out of the container
Me with pizza. I love cold pizza leftovers
is that controversial?? i do this a fair bit :o especially pizza
Same! I dont reheat leftovers (unless its like soup or something like that) and people love giving me shit for it! Cold chicken is way better than reheated chicken.
This might be something you’ve already tried and disliked, but I found that I specifically disliked the way food gets when it’s microwaved, and heating it up on the stove (even though it takes a while) tastes a lot better and has helped me finish leftovers.
same, especially rice ... cold rice still in the takeout container hits DIFFERENT
that cat food story just casually being thrown in here 😮
i’m a simple woman. i see a nisa vid, i click on it
you're really blessing us with two videos so soon? we don't deserve you queen! also as an autistic girl who is sort of a picky eater im excited to see what you have to say!
The way you described your disgust towards drumsticks made me feel a warmth and kinship I have never known parasocially. Thank you for speaking your truth
its crazy how much we think alike bc the exact thing i think about when i hear “moist” is soft chocolate cake. you get me
I am the pickiest eater (autism). I’ve had my mom once tell me she was embarrassed to go to a restaurant with me and her friends because I wouldn’t eat what they were eating. Ultimately I don’t care about that because it’s true I wouldn’t have liked the restaurant food 😭. My favorite foods are white rice (jasmine) and black beans (with chili pepper and umami), dececco noodles with marina sauce (classic from newsman’s own), and oatmeal with frozen raspberries and almond butter. No joke, I eat these almost every single day.
Black beans are so delicious
You're so valid
Oatmeal with frozen raspberries is SO GOOD you're so real for that
Tbh I would eat this every day of my life too
thank you for giving me a reality check about the cilantro soap gene conversation. i didn’t know it was so widely understood and now i’m embarrassed
but recently i had vietnamese food with a friend and she acted fascinated like she never heard of it before D:
it's come up several times and i've mentioned it and have then had to explain but I'm in a lot of...less internetty groups haha
I feel like the only place cilantro belongs is in tacos and that’s it
@@scruffy-sageomg noo, in a big steaming bowl of pho, or birria, or in rice with lime it’s lovely
@@allywallyeffect That too, tbh all Mexican good
I'm with you on that chicken meat with bones thing
I'm autistic so textures in food have always been my enemy
And to this day if I'm given a chicken wing or leg, I'm gonna pick like the 3 best bites and give the rest to somebody else
If I bite into the weird parts, I WILL lose it 💀💀
I'm not autistic, but BIG SAME. Ugh... Fat, sinew, gristle... Blegh.
THANK YOU YES i realised recently that i dont actually like the taste of chicken? i eat like EXCLUSIVELY the white meat and its just flavoured like whatever spices or sauce it has so yes the meat pickiness is so real
This is why I don’t really like eating meat, I’m really picky with it because the textures in meat are soooooo gross
@@sarahplamer7922thoughts on tofu?
I also have weird hangups about meat. I'll eat chicken/turkey and ground beef and bacon, but if you try to serve me a SLAB of anything, like a steak or a pork chop? It's over gurl. I can't saw into a slab of anything, especially if the beef is still pink on the inside. I have this visceral aversion to chewing through it as well.
felt AND seen miss ma’am 🫵🏼
omg the chewinggg when it’s still pink i hate it!!! i also have a hard time swallowing well done meat for some weird reason, so i just avoid most meat these days. i really can’t win lol 😭
New England girlies who aren't obsessed with seafood rise up.
I screamed at, “Leftover chicken tastes like an empty hallway.” Sheer poetry. And too true.
i was constantly shamed for being picky when i was younger and we didnt find out i was autistic until my early 20's. since finding out my particular picky nature is rooted with texture i eat so many things i thought i wouldnt like because i just needed to prepare them differently which is fun and nice! i have so many options now! however if someone gives me any kind of melon i simply cannot do it. why do they feel like that?? there are so many things i want to eat but cant but melons in particular are so upsetting to me because i want to like them So Bad. the flavor is nice! refreshing even! but the texture is a crime against me, personally. i see you eat a melon?? god i wish that were me
i’m so glad you brought up bell peppers bc all peppers taste like metal to some degree for me. it doesn’t matter how they’re prepared, there’s always a distinct metallic flavor that ruins the dish for me
Oh my god i wish i coule attach an image to this because Nisa using meows to cover a certain word has my husky on HIGH ALERT 😂😂 He is looking at me like "wheres the cat, pam????"
Nisaaa, I'm a Brazilian girlie and one time I saw blueberries at the supermarket and got soooooo excited to try it (and to live my American dream), but girl.... what a disappointment 🤧
raw blueberries are SO nasty😭 they're only good when they're cooked
@@kkuudandere hmmmm 🤔 I'll try that!!
@@analisaswann1039 they are awesome made into like a compote or syrup, or baked into treats. Also raw blueberries are only good if you can get them where they're local and seasonal. I also made a blueberry-balsamic reduction which was good over some cheeses and basil chicken. Would recommend not writing them off entirely!!
Oh, girl. Welcome to the family! When you described taking the sandwich apart so it could be reheated properly, I saw my mom. So… welcome to our family!
“Good egg”? My grandmother used to call me that all the time. I rarely hear it now. But thanks for the memory!
The fact I said mushrooms with you at the same time was incredibly shocking yet satisfying
Props to my husband. He has the cilantro soap gene, but I love cilantro in certain dishes so much, he’s either become or somehow was indifferent to cilantro in food so I can have what I enjoy. For me, even though I’m a fan of cilantro, I get just not liking it because it tastes like grass. For me, it tastes like the freshest, most wonderful grass and I’m a cow that should be eating grass or something. Cilantro tastes like how grass smells and I’m a fan of things that do that. It’s one of the reasons I’m one of the only people in my family who was a fan of rose as a flavor- it tasted like roses smell.
tip for not letting leftover chicken go to waste: cat
works with all kinds of meat and fish
Nisa I cannot believe you ever thought you weren’t a picky eater this is some Advanced Picky Behavior!!!!
nisa looks so pretty in this video
I’ve been a huge picky eater my whole life. I only found out three years ago that it’s because of my OCD. It’s not just that I don’t like certain foods, it’s a genuine fear of certain foods. I know rationally that nothing bad is going to happen to me, but my OCD doesn’t know that. My biggest food fear is Pickles (which is funny because I’m Jewish and pickles are a staple in the Jewish diet). It’s a visceral whole body reaction when I see or smell pickles.
I’ve been loving these sit down and talk videos!!!! I simply do not eat fruit except for like two kinds….. always been a controversial thing in my life people don’t understand :( I think it’s overrated to NOT be picky I love being opinionated :)
Same! I only eat apples, most fruit grosses me out SOOO much
yoo same!! i will only eat watermelons and drink orange juice lmao. i would get so much flack for it as a kid! now as an adult, i brace myself when telling people i don't like fruit, and people... don't make a big deal out of it?? maybe it's because now i'm more or less in charge of my own health and diet? who knows!
I hate fruits too! everytime I say it people go ballistic , like it's my problem if i don't like them ok???
I love your videos because they remind me of my own conversations with myself lol
In terms of pickiness, I'm very far to the un-picky side of the spectrum, I like everything depending on how it's prepared of course, and like you I've learned a lot about being respectful of other people's choices, as it's really none of my business. I've also become vegan 3 years ago and have had to explain to people several times that no, I won't "make an exception" just because they don't see the problem with it 😬 but that whole thing is another topic altogether...
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS THE LEFTOVER CHICKEN FLAVOR. ITS SO GROSS THERE'S LITERALLY NO WAY TO AVOID IT. YOU GET ME
my best tip for reheating is to start the cold food in a cold oven, the food and oven heat up at the same time and the food heats very evenly. for most things i wrap them in foil to be sure nothing gets to burnt.
How dare this informative, educational, lifechanging, and entertaining video not have more views in the first hour of it being uploaded 🙄🙌🏻😤 give Nisa more views, YT! We love this content
I love some more "disliked" foods such as artichoke and mushrooms, so most people don't notice how picky of an eater I am. There are plenty of foods I dislike, but these in particular make me want to hurl and I will avoid consuming even if impolite: shellfish, most fish, pork, turkey, duck, egg yolk, cashews, arugula and avocado. I've unintentionally been vegetarian for the majority of my life because while I tolerate beef and chicken, its just not my taste!
cilantro is the goldendoodle of herbs
I’ve always been a picky eater and people take it soooo personally 😂
I remember when I was like 15, I was so committed to the bit of hating cilantro that I signed up for an account on a website called I Hate Cilantro. It was entirely devoted to people writing haikus about how much they hated cilantro, and it was one of the funniest sites I've ever encountered
I have autism and adhd and eosinophilic esophagitis (very narrow esophagus, frequent vomiting).
I don't even like eating anymore. It's a chore. :(
The Fannee Doolee reference brought me joy, Zoom was such a treasure
"people who like cilantro are right up there with dog owners" I FELT THAT IN MY SOUL
Suuuuper same on cilantro, it's just not the kind of grassy taste I like. It makes getting good Mexican food such a pain too! Honestly crushing.
The big thing I'm picky about is dressing. I feel like restaurants just cannot use a reasonable amount, it's always DROWNING in it. Like if I'm getting a salad, it's because I want to taste the veggies, not 12 gallons of vinegar.
Getting an ARFID diagnosis really helped me figure out helpful skills!
I think the issue with reheated meat is that it was already dehydrating in your fridge for however long, and then the microwave sucks what little moisture was left out, so you’re left with a crusty mummy of your former meal
Being a picky eat instills me with such a fear of trying new foods especially in front of people. It makes me nervous
i need more of this lmfao this video made me feel so seen!!!
I used to think I wasn't that much of a fussy eater too but then i remembered I used to be super picky about desserts, and it's only as I've gotten older that I've become a little better with it - and I don't think it's because of "maturing" or whatever but like physically ageing. But there are some food textures I just cannot deal with. I also still reflexively cringe at the thought of eating foods I used to hate even though I know my tastebuds and stomach don't complain about them anymore. Bodies are just weird. It's good to try stuff (or retry a few things if it's been some years and you're feeling game) but no shame if you (still) hate it.
p.s i learned how to make beets taste less like soil - making your own pickle (cause they taste super gross canned but when you make it yourself it's somehow ok??), and beetroot dip. if you can deal with the other ingredients involved in either case, you may find you like beets. but your mileage may vary
I never feel more like a dude who loves women til i watch a nisipisa video
Textures, man!! So much of my picky eating habits are about the textures! Also, with the way you feel about certain spices and herbs, I'm very curious about your thoughts on fennel. I hate when food has too much fennel and the smell burns my nostrils. 🤢
two in a week ! my tranquility has been refurbished
I have celiac disease and when I worked as a server in a restaurant, the chef would let us take home some food that wasn’t eaten. I never took any and just said I couldn’t eat it. When they asked, I just said I’m allergic to gluten. Most people don’t have an understanding about cross-contamination, so they were trying to be helpful and tell me what stuff didn’t have flour in it (gluten can be in everything- I’d have to read the label on every single spice and seasoning). Since I’m a young sporty woman, they all assumed I had an eating disorder. It didn’t help that I would just pack snacks and not meals (cause I’m bad at planning) so I’d be munching on an apple and then go home and chow down 😅
I feel you. It's so hard when you have a medical reason and people don't understand, even the well-intentioned ones. I have friends with celiac, such a lot to deal with! I got tested for it years ago but turns out gluten is my friend and the real culprit was....dun dun dun...an inherited allium intolerance. So, onions, shallots, chives, leeks, etc.
100% agree on the one bite drumstick situation
I love the vulnerability in this episode- I’m on the spectrum and always had issues with fruit, the seeds and fleshy textures were a hard pass but I’ve since gotten into eating it frozen bc its always ripe and has a more popsicle bite. But worse, CHERRY TOMATOES in salads etc. boils my blood. Also honourable mention to the risks of room temp dairy/creamy stuff- potato salad types, cheese (thats not fridge fresh) and YOGURT gives me visceral elementary school snack lunchbag ickness - it all made me a better cook out of necessity though
omg FUCK CHERRY TOMATOES DUDE
Tbh ban tomatoes from being in anything if they’re solid
23:12 I was about to be like omg wouldn't a babychef revival be so cute and fun and then remember people are weird and elitist about cooking on the internet.
Also this is a very good discussion, because although I love cooking and all types of foods, I have many a loved one who are picky eaters and they walk through this world with people perceiving them as if they were war criminals.
I also used to be a bit of a snob about picky eating but mostly because I confused it with xenophobia (as an Asian immigrant in a western country) which are not the same thing. We're all adults here, let's not be assholes about eating :))
Omg we are truly blessed these holidays for 2 nisapisa videos! Stan a queen. I would like to say praise black olives 🫒. Cilantro 🌿 is just fun edible stems haha. I used to pack washed raw romaine lettuce leaves 🥬 and then just snack on them in class 😂. Anyways have a nice day everyone!
There are people with sensory issues/discerning eaters vs. people who are completely disinterested in food as experience/culture (especially when there is a XENOPHOBIC undertone to it) I have been meeting a lot of people who don't seem to "engage" with food AND people who don't really listen to music and I'm like ???
When I was a child I was bullied by adults for the way that I ate. Yes I'm going to order chicken tenders and fries at a fancier restaurant BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I LIKE THEM! Why would I want to try something new and maybe end up with something that I didn't like. It always seemed like a waste of money and time.
"Well what if you find something that you like more?" I scoff. Imagine finding something more scrumptious than chicken tendies and fries. (And yes I am a very picky eater and like to stick to familiar foods and textures)
the potential waste of time and money with trying new things is SO REAL. it's constantly what holds me back bc then i just feel extra shitty for not liking something
I am dragging my corpse to the finish line of this semester of grad school and you posting twice is a supreme boost to morale
my picky eating is so bad (autism) i can’t even handle normal things like pizza, chicken, tacos, bacon, and so much more…the amount of times ive been called un-american specifically for not eating regular foods is oddly very high
The food I'm most weird about is probably eggplant. I think it looks absolutely disgusting, the purple on the inside feels wrong and the inside looks like a diseased, rotting zucchini. It smells gross and the texture is kinda iffy. Everything about it makes it seem like it would have like the most disgusting taste ever, but it just tastes kind of nice and inoffensive. Every time I'm about to put a piece of eggplant in my mouth I'm scared that everytime before when it tasted nice it was just a trick and the next bite it will actually taste as terrible as I expect. So I always cut the eggplant into tiny pieces when eating it so that when the reveal happens it won't be as bad.
omg i met you today! yall shes so mf nice and even more STUNNING in real life. 10/10 would recommend
It’s weird for me because I’ll try a lot of things but also I have no desire to try certain things. I have tried fish here and there but I really have no desire to go any further than the couple bites I’ve taken. Thank you for making this video I feel so seen
thank you for making this video and validating me specifically
Nisi, you are so funny. I enjoyed hearing about your eating preferences. I can completely understand. I am against oysters, mushrooms, scallops, and mussels too. I pretty much like to eat the same thing or the same couple of things all the time. People always try to encourage me to try new things, but I don't ever want to. I like chicken. I love chicken..., chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken, chicken, chicken!
Picky Eater here! My picky eating has gotten alot better over the years but I still refuse to eat like 90% of fruits and vegetables, it's easier to name the ones I will eat vs the ones I won't. The ones I do like I'm also picky about how I eat them :') I like raw carrots, raw apple, onion, potatoes, garlic, jalapeños, cilantro, mashed avacado, and mushrooms in soups or pastas. Anything outside of that I avoid if I can if I'm served it at restaurants and omit at home. So many times my family has tried to get me to eat something new and give me surprised pikachu face when I start gagging lmao. I'm also picky about the way I eat certain foods like with sandwiches I eat the outside edge first and save the middle bite for last (which btw you should try it is elite, the middle bite has the best ratios)
Good to know we have the exact same weird ass preferences
i used to be an enigma to every lunch lady, teacher, parent, etc purely for the fact that i wouldnt eat cold meat or refrigerated leftovers. for refrigerated leftovers i am no longer like that but it took 18 years of my life to grow out of that, but for all of my childhood if something went into the fridge for the night after being cooked it was off limits for me --- i couldnt remember what set me off, but i always found the reheated-ness of it super disgusting and unpleasant. Some foods are still like this for me (mac'n cheese, rice, etc) but ive managed to finally enjoy other foods as ''leftovers'' finally (pizza, stir fry, etc). But it was a plague for myself as a kid, so if something was made that I love i tried to eat all there was of it before it went into the fridge, because I knew whence it became ''leftovers'' and sat in there it would no longer appetize me. I think it was just a combination of taste and texture, everything felt ''different'' once it had sat in a fridge. Even the smell would get to me, foods i can eat as leftovers now I still often have to plug my nose or try not to touch with my fingers until they get reheated because the stench and sensation of them make me gag :(
Cold meat however I am still forever picky about. Ham and cheese sandwhiches served at lunch went into the garbage. I even got ''humiliated'' at the preschool under a church i went to when I wouldnt eat the ham between a burger bun lunch they served us, where they pulled my seat away from the lunch table and had me sit in the middle of the lunch room and watch everyone else eat. Little did they know thsat was a blessing cause looking at cold meat alone makes me nauseated. But i'm in my 20s now and still just cant eat cold meat. chicken, ham, turkey, cold pizza has to be reheated and cold sandwhiches for lunch is just a no-no for me. I find cold meat just disgusting and unpleasant, so I have to eat basically 3 hot meals a day (not weird outside of the US, but people here cant fathom cooking 3 meals every day and often mock me for it).
I'm picky about other things (food thats touched mushrooms or pepperonis are considered tainted to my tongue, I can't drink most hot drinks, etc) but these were the two major ones that often had me scolded and belittled for how I ate, because they were ''abnormal''. However all that the adults mocking me for this did was make me an excellent cook because they were too up their own ass to learn to make anything besides cold meat sandwhiches for lunch, while i was in my kitchen age 12 busting up some omelettes on the stove i was allowed to operate way too young and vegan sandwhiches for me to eat. It also got me obsessed with ranch which made them PISSED cause they hated to see me enjoying what I called my ''walking salads'', like a walking taco but its where i make a salad and stick it between two slices of bread and eat it. Everyone hates me for my ingenuity but at least i dont have to act like i'm missing out on the joys of a kraft single slapped over a ham slice.
The way I gasped at the meow mix 😂 love this style of video, it feels like I’m listening to an older sister who’s so much cooler and more knowledgeable than me lol
im not picky when it comes to trying things, but im really picky about what meals i make for the week. like, just having a bite to try something new is easy and fun but having to make something new that im gonna eat for a week is not so much
honestly i feel so seen about the meat thing.......especially when it comes to preparing it i become a shrinking violet it is just TOO MUCH
i want to thank you for speaking out on the cilantro soap gene thing. i also don't have the gene but HATE that herb!!!!!
I'm lucky that I can eat most foods, but I agree with you on beets. I hate the way they smell, I can't even be around them
I love picky eaters!
Picky eaters means more scraps for human garbage disposals like me to pick off my friends and family’s plates 😌
absolutely popped for the fanny dooley reference thank you nisa
I'm definitely a picky eater, I also am not good at trying new things at like, restaurants and such because if I'm paying for food, I want to be sure that I'll like it! It's too risky for me to buy a whole meal that I might not even like!
We’ve been communicating telepathically- I was just telling my bf yesterday that I needed to take back all the times I said I had the cilantro soap gene. It doesn’t taste like “soap” to me I just don’t like it!
I eat a lot of things, BUT I am super picky with the preparations of food.
I also aged into being kind of picky. As a kid I used to eat almost everything, I loved foods that a lot of other people hate (sharp cheeses, olives, all kinds of cured meats, seafood, especially mussels and clams and stuff like that). Now that I am an adult I gag when a bite feels a little weird while chewing
Just something to add to the sandwich reheating/general food reheating situation. Trust me on this, nothing beats a reheat in an air fryer, second day pizza has literally never been the same
Wow the way you describe eating meat makes me so incredibly grateful that I'm a vegetarian. I think if I weren't, I'd be considered a much more picky eater. 😅
often eating a mushroom feels like chewing on an earlobe and I just feel like more of us need to talk about it
Sometimes my body just physically rejects a food with bad texture. I’ll try to get something down like gristley meat and my mouth just spits it out by itself
first time hearing anyone explain my issues with chicken meat with bone so well :') im so picky about meat and veggies, going to a restaurant is a torture more often than not
Raw bell peppers: dis-GUS-ting
Roasted red, orange, yellow bells: yessss
Green bell peppers in any form are doomed, because they start off underbaked. Taste like burps.
Thank you for coming to my bell pepper roast.
I'm autistic so I have some -weird- food preferences. I will literally start gagging if I touch anything that has touched a mushroom with my mouth. I used to take two slices of plain bread to school to eat instead of a sandwich cause I didn't like the texture of an hour's old sandwich but I could stand the texture of plain bread. My current food hyperfixation is plain 2 minute noodles (yes with literally nothing in it), maybe with a tea spoon of Lao gon ma if I'm feeling ✨spicy✨.
the representation i never knew i needed 😭
i was casually eating my raw (orange) bell pepper when that part came 😩
I've got weird food icks and allergies and the hell I go through to explain them when going out is just.... lamb taste like soap, can't have anything in the celery family, avocado is grass, most COOKED veg makes me gag
your meat rules are so very similar to how i felt about meat before going vegetarian 10 years ago!
I'm a picky eater. My biggest thing is texture. Then i can't handle spicy food
Hi, I'm Niamh and I haven't eaten a vegetable in 6 months
valid and real 😭😭
Your name is pretty 💕🫧
Oh man, I feel you with the peppers, it's not just bell peppers though I just hate the texture of all peppers, and bell peppers specifically taste like grass. Tomatoes and onion are also no no's, I've gotten slightly better as I've grown up but I used to scrape all the tomato sauce off of any pizza that wasn't home made (where I could just make it cheese bread). Tomatoes just overwhelm everything and if I get a bite of them it's the only thing I taste, same with onion. Onion powder I can deal with, an actual onion? No thanks, also hate the texture of them and that crunch fills me with dread, though I think it's only because I'm expecting gross onion flavour. Mushrooms I think I could eat if they were like, a paste? Or something? But again, texture is BAD. Non fried potatoes? Texture bad, it's grainy and no thank you. Fried potatoes all day every day, unless they're soggy and then no thanks. Also green beans and celery, they taste like grass and I am not a cow. That's 7 things that are in everything everywhere and it makes my life difficult.
LEFTOVER CHICKEN FLAVOR i can'ttttt and I love chicken aghhhh
We have remarkably similar food rules. Nice to feel seen. 😊
I am also weird about meat texture, but I trust eating it off the bone more because I can gauge the texture in real time as I'm ripping it off. Compare that with, like, random cubed chicken in a pot pie and I think the random chicken is more dubious bc I have no clue where that piece came from and there's no way to ascertain the texture without putting it in my mouth or tearing it apart.
watching this while eating my risky reheated curry and naan and my hands are so gross and i fully put my palm up on the screen only to remember its a touchscreen and left a big oily handprint. worth it.