Sandwich Pickle Chips
A personality test of sorts:
How do you eat your food? Assuming you have multiple foods in a meal — say, a burrito, rice and beans — do you eat all of one before moving on to the next, or eat them all equally?
I’ve never been a Sequential Eater. My philosophy is that I want to enjoy everything for as long as possible, so I’ll take a few bites of one before moving on to the other. At this point, it’s automatic: look at the results of a fish fry when I was 75% done:
I had never given this habit a name, until I realized that my coworker/friend Brie did the same thing. She had dubbed it Sandwich Pickle Chips, since that’s her standard lunch (Brie’s philosophy of A Good Lunch could be a post in itself). Now, though, the battle lines have been drawn. Our foes have been named, and they are many. Which side are you on? Are you one of us, or one of them?
I suppose no one really gives it much thought, but then most people wouldn’t notice they had six peanut M&Ms left, two of each color, and then eat them in an even amount. (please note that I have never considered myself to have OCD; I just like symmetry).
They were Brie’s M&Ms, by the way.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Who wants to eat twenty (or even ten) bites of the same thing? When you put a dish together, you want the various components to complement each other. Taking this to its next logical step, you would have to eat a little of this, a little of that, or even put some of the parts in the the same forkfull, in order to experience this. For me, it doesn’t matter how good something tastes, ten bites of the same flavor and texture later, and my taste buds are encumbered. Variety is the spice of life.