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Ugh....I hate pulp in my orange juice....it's just so gross feeling!! Can't do it. I also can't do cold pasta salads...nasty. Butter and cheese both have to be melted for me to go near them. I can't eat instant mashed potatos, partly because they taste awful and partly because they are gritty, but I love regular mashed potatoes.For the same reason I don't like bagels, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, oysters, canned green beans, escargot, grits, fudge, and bananas that have gotten too ripe...
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Welcome to the world of neurodivergence and sensory issues with food.It goes beyond just disliking it; the textures will make me gag.
Mom was trying to make real mashed potatoes verses instant, and after a while, I told her "I'm sorry; I tried, I just can't do it." I can only tolerate it if they've been through a ricer/pureed or have lots of sauce on them from pot roast or short ribs (not just any gravy; it has to be something that changes the texture).
My brother is absolutely the same way, but his aversions are different. He eats oysters, for instance. But my mom, my brother, and me are in agreement on overripe bananas, escagot, and bagels. Dad will eat all of the above.
I don't really like orange juice that much anyway, but definitely not the pulp.
OJ is my other coffee. I have to have it every morning. I can take no pulp or some pulp not the most pulp oj.
At least he didn't do what I once did to my mother, which was when I figured out I could control the Spotify on the smart TV from work (pre-covid when I actually went in person to work) and decided to play the absolute creapiest music I could find while she was home alone.
@Mr Ferret 75 did anybody mention
Fresh orange juice (not from concentrate) is delicious, but I prefer mine with less pulp in it. But I can't have much juice anyway because of the sugar. I really don't like a lot of juice...I like Apple juice, and orange juice, and grape juice and that's about it. I don't really like any of the tropical stuff. I hate mango, passion fruit, pineapple...I don't like POG juice...nasty stuff! I know a lot of people LOVE it, and I was so excited to try it. And because of childhood trauma, I finished the glass they poured for me, because I was always taught you had to eat/drink everything you were given, especially in a restaurant where you ordered it! So I did, but then when I was getting more food, they refilled my glass! I finally put something over the glass....maybe a coaster? Or a sugar packet? Something to signal that I didn't want more, because I just could not force it down anymore.
