What makes someone a picky eater?

[Anonymous]

if you had to define it in your own words? What criteria does one have to meet for you to think they are a picky eater?

[CrimsonAngel09]

Well, I'm one.

If anyone gets pizza with olives and mushrooms, I pick them off.

If there's cooked peppers in rice, I'll pick them out.

If the bacon fat isn't 100% crispy, I tear it off.

If there's rice in a stuffed pepper, I'll just eat the rice.

If there's crispy cheese on a lasagna, I'll scape it off.

If they're like me, that defines a picky eater. If it's multiple things instead of one, they're a picky eater.

[Potteplante]

If someone has a very limited food preferences and refuses to try out new types of food - then they're a picky eater unless of course there's other underlying issues. Then it's a symptom of something else.

[Asker]

so its not just if you dislike a few foods right?

[Potteplante]

I think majority of people have something they dislike eating.

[dreamstar72]

All I have to do is look into a mirror a say gee there a very picky eater! What makes me so fussy have no idea. Could be stubbornness.

[strateguy632]

when their complaints overlap and reject both.

[Anonymous]

Being rich, having too much money, being spoiled, parents let them get away with it, lazy parents did not teach them how to eat, got to eat too much junk food.

[CrimsonAngel09]

You don't have to be rich, spoiled, or a lazy parent. It also has nothing to do with too much junk food.

I'm pretty sure you're a picky eater. Eat tribal foods in Africa including drinking goat's blood fresh.

Go to Vietnam and mix a snake's fresh gall bladder in with some alcohol and drink it.

Go to Thailand and eat raw or cooked coconut worms in sauce.

Get back to me when you tried all that honey.

[dreamstar72]

All the types you mentioned above I was the opposite. I had poor parents, I was not spoiled, never caused problems, my father worked two jobs, my mother raised 5 children, my mother cooked great meals also caned and froze food, we rarely had junk food, my two sisters and two brothers would eat anything. However I just hate most food, it is simply for me to list the food I like then to list the food I hate.

[Anonymous]

They don’t eat anything at all when given the chance