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[quote=Anonymous]I can find something on most menus that I will enjoy. If I eat at someone's house and the main dish is something I don't eat, I'll take a little bit of that and a lot of sides and I may or may not eat a couple bites of the thing I don't like (depends how much I hate it) but will compliment my hosts on the meal and make sure to eat plenty of the stuff I don't hate.

I think it helps that my pickiness is almost entirely around meat/fish. I don't have the discipline to actually be a vegetarian because I do like some meats and it's an efficient way to get full. But I have a lot of issues with meat. I don't like the texture of most fish or shellfish, and am extremely sensitive to the scent of fish -- if it's super fresh seafood, I can have a few bites and I'm not horrified, but I'm not going to order the halibut on purpose. I can also eat crab and lobster if they are in other things (crab cakes, lobster rolls) though again, it's not something I will choose to eat on purpose. I won't eat sushi other than California rolls (I know, it's not sushi, but that's what I order at a sushi restaurant, along with some tempura). I don't get excited about those things and a lot of people do and this makes me an outlier and I try to make it not annoying to others.

I also find some non-fish meats gross. Beef that is too rare, certain cuts of chicken, and any meat served on the bone. It's just gross to me. But I can eat a hamburger or a steak that's not super bloody. I like white meat chicken. It covers enough of the bases that I'm not a huge PITA when it comes to eating with me. And I'll eat pretty much any vegetable, grain, legume, mushroom, etc. I love that stuff.

If I just told people I was a vegetarian I wouldn't get the picky label. But I'm not. I eat bacon. I'm just picky about meat and fish. There are worse things.[/quote]

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