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So, I have food issues. No, not any food allergies, or digestive troubles or anything like that. I just have weird issues with food that you might call being picky. Very picky.

You wouldn't know it upon first meeting me. In fact, I can successfully avoid revealing my weird food issues for a long time. Even when I go out to eat with people. See...there are plenty of food that I like. In fact, I LOVE food. A lot. I love food so much that over the past few years I've had to work out pretty hard to burn off all of that food that i love so much.

But anyways...back to my weird picky-ness. Here is a sampling of my issues with food:

I don't like meat and cheese together. Only exceptions: pizza (although i prefer just plain cheese...or cheese and pineapple...no ham) and tacos or quesadillas or similar 'Mexican' fare. Sure, I'll sprinkle a little cheese on a salad along with some chicken, but in general, meat and cheese together makes me gag. Literally. When I was little, my mom found that out the hard way when she made me eat a ham and cheese-melt. I promptly threw it all up right there on the table. I never had cheese on sandwiches for school. I would either have lunch meat on bread (no mayo or anything else) or a cheese bun. Yup, just slices of cheese on a bun. I'm weird like that. I guess its a texture thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure the first time I actually had a cheeseburger was after I was out of college. Unless you count the fast food cheeseburgers I got as a kid and made my mom scrape off all of the cheese and other toppings.

So another texture issue: Apple Pie. I LOVE pie crusts. I like apples. I like warm apple sauce, I like baked apples. But I hate apple pie. My whole family thinks I'm weird. In fact, apple pie is pretty much an all-around family favorite. But me - i hate it. When my mom made apple pie or apple crisp, I'd take my piece a la mode...minus the pie. Yup, just plain vanilla ice cream for me!

Ready for another weird one? I like Wendy's hamburgers the best out of any fastfood burger. Why? Because they are square. Yup. That really is the reason. For some reason, I think a square hamburger tastes better.

I could go on for ages with my odd food preferences. But by now, you may be wondering why in the world this even came up. Well, my friends, this weekend I had a food breakthrough. At the age of 26, I finally tasted a pickle for the first time in my life. Yes, you read that right.

And yes, people seem to find that very amusing. And odd.

But its true. In the first 26 years of my life, I had never had a pickle. In fact, I had myself convinced that I would HATE pickles. So much so that as a kid, when i got a hamburger Happy Meal, I made my mom take off the pickles. I wouldn't even do it myself because I didn't want to touch them.

So, what was the verdict on pickles? Umm...they're kinda good. I think I've been missing out all these years.


I guess maybe one of these days I'll have to give apple pie another shot...