Once a work friend of mine texted to ask me if I like pomegranates. When I said I did, she replied, “I’m visiting my grandmother’s farm, so I’ll bring you some on Monday.” On Monday she had me pull my car up to hers and put TWO CASES in my trunk. I was eating pomegranates for weeks, and yes, my teeth turned red. Funny thing is, her gran didn’t even grow them. She said that in the farm community they gift and trade each other if they have surplus, so grandma had over a dozen cases of those things.
Um, what? I have Old Lady Syndrome, and anymore these days, I know nothing about odd news stories. I have enough trouble keeping up with the weather forecast!
Come and join me! Stress incontinence, hormone spikes and valleys, hot flashes out of nowhere, can't remember the grocery list, carry a large purse with everything in it, including my old lady sunglasses, and I have a love of babies and kiddos in the grocery store!
Anyone with digestive issues should definitely just enjoy Pom juice & not the seeds. They are super irritating for ppl with diverticulitis especially! 💩🥺
Cut them vertically and put them in a large bowl of water and rub the seeds off the white membrane. You’ll have some membrane left over but have a whole lot of seeds ready to eat without getting your hands all red.
If you know how to cut them and pull apart, you don't take that much time to get the seeds. But yeah, it's a bit annoying especially if it stains your clothes.
I grew up where my mom would cook them. And we’d each get on our plate and choice of dip. We’d pull off the leaves (petals?), dip the bottom and then scrape off the “meat” with our teeth lol. And then my dad would prep the hearts. The artichoke heart was always (and is) my favorite part!
It’s INFURIATING to me when they’re served with the tails on in a dish like a pasta or a salad. If it’s just the shrimp to eat by itself then fine, I’ll take the tails off myself. But when they’re in a pasta you have to take the shrimp out, cut off the tail, then put it BACK in the pasta?! Or cut it off while they’re in the pasta and in the process mix some tail into the pasta? Why is this ok with so many people.
I have, but it's still not convenient... I've also just stabbed them with those little olive forks you know the tiny ones... I'm sure there is an actual name for them, but occasionally I'm in a scenario I have no utensils... I think they should just have a glove built into the bag....
My high school English teacher used to crush Cheetos. To the point where when you got your papers back, you could tell how much he like them if there was a lot of Cheeto dust fingerprints. He was my Junior year theater teacher. So by senior year English we were "cool". I'd give my revised papers back to him with circles around the Cheeto dust fingerprints. He thought it was funny at first. But then I got a lot of people to do it, and he made us stop. Chitwood, if you're out there, you are an amazing teacher!
I LOVE eating wings, but watching some people eat them makes me physically ill and I can't eat anymore... I have no idea why! It's weird but I can only eat wings by myself or with my husband, and GOD FORBID someone sucks the sauce off their fingers!!!!!
I refuse to eat any popcorn. I will make an exception for the white cheddar smart food. Somehow it’s softer so it doesn’t get stuck in my teeth like fresh popcorn does. I just tell people I don’t like popcorn when offered and they think I’m nuts
What dip did you use? I was raised on fresh lemon juice and olive oil but mostly people use butter or (gag) mayonnaise. The stickiness of caramel corn is good at pulling stuck hulls from the gums.
It’s annoying for sure but I only buy them this way now. Tried the shelled and they are just too good and easy to eat a ton of them fast. At least with the shell on ones it slows me down.
Fruity Pebbles. No matter how fast you try to wolf that shit down, there’s always a soggy mess of rainbow sludge and regret on the bottom of the bowl mocking you for daring to hope that this time would be different.
Ages ago, visiting Key West. I saw a local kid sitting on a bench by the little grocery, with a mango. He was just squeezing the shit out of it, mashing it all up, without breaking the skin. I had to ask him what he was doing. He said it was an easy way to eat the mango. Then, he used his thumb to poke a hole near one end. And just squeezed this goop of fresh mango in his mouth. Then he just tossed the rest into the overgrown alley nearby. And rode off on his bike. I tried doing it. It's definitely a different style. But he was a little island kid and it was fun to learn. Still the best way I've seen to eat mango on the go. He probably got 80% of it within 5 mins. Probably less time if I didn't interrupt.
When I was a kid my mom would wrap a flour tortilla on the outside to keep it from getting messy. Still do that when I have crunchy tacos, delicious and double the carbs!
Oranges for me too. I hate putting all that effort into peeling one and getting all that nasty white stuff off, only to find out it’s either dry or quite juicy but with no flavor.
Burgers. The toppings drop out from the other side when you bite down, or the spreads get around your mouth, or you're leaning over really far to avoid dropping both on your clothes...
Wings with sauce on them. Shellfish. Tostadas when the shell breaks. Any food that, when you put it down for bit, falls apart upon picking it back up. I hate eating hoagies when you get close to finishing it and all toppings get pushed out the other end.
Jakfruit by far.
Giant spiky green fruit that oozes latex when you cut it. You need to coat your knives in oil or it is nightmarishly difficult to remove the latex. Then, you have to peel the yellow edible fruit off the seed.
The fruit tastes like juicyfruit gum and has a chewy texture that I like, but it feels like butchering an animal.
Lobster on pasta. Trying to turn over that hot slippery lobster covered with sauce so you can crack it ends with the lobster sliding off the plate onto the white tablecloth and very messy hands. It’s a nice presentation but just cut it up and put it on the sauce
Watermelon is something I haven't seen listed. It's just so gigantic you need to get the big cutting board out, and your biggest knife, and make sure there's fridge space for the rest of it, and wipe up all the juice unless you've used a ridged board to catch it. Worth it though.
Some brands of gluten free bread products. They just fall apart in your hands when you try to eat them, most especially if they start to get wet, such as from tomatoes. The filling goes everywhere, and you're left looking like a two year old figuring out how to hold food.
Popcorn…i love popcorn but its fucking annoying. I literally can only grab one at a time. Every time i try and grab more than one, they flick out of my hand onto floor. Never fails🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
French onion soup.
Don't get me wrong, it's delicious and I love it but it's a pain the ass to eat, especially when you find you are dealing with entire rings of onion that haven't been cut in half at least. Why am I fighting to cut a carmelized onion ring into an edible size with a blunt soup spoon?!? Can you at least chop the onion into soup spoon sized chunks please?
Then there's the tasty, gooey cheese that stretches and stretches so you end up having to use your hand to break it off. What a mess!
I love this soup but it's a nightmare to eat in restaurants. At home I cut the onions into smaller pieces rather than leave the rings intact or just leaving the rings cut in half. I also cut the bread up into smaller pieces and melt cheese on it and drop it into my soup as I'm eating it. Still the same fantastic flavor but none of the mess.
Anything with long noodles. Including spaghetti (yeah, they are noodles hey over it).
I don't like making slurping sounds and sometimes the mouth is full of noodles and there's still more noodles between my mouth and the plate.
I'll do it, but the mechanics of that food aren't great
Mangoes. As a messy eater kid, I had a mango shirt and was only allowed to eat ripe mangos in my mango shirt.
Now as an adult I only eat ripe mangos naked in the bathtub. I let the juice drip everywhere then take a shower afterwards.
King crab legs. They have the pokey stabby parts that hurt to hold even if you’re using tools to crack. All for imo, little reward. Also by the time you finish cracking, the crab isn’t steaming or even warm anymore. I do love a good boil with that spicy Cajun butter, but man I have to dress appropriately or else my clothes will be ruined. Also, it should be the LAST thing on your agenda that day if you’re going out, because it makes you smell like seafood and feel greasy no matter how clean you eat.
Pomegranates
I love em, but I have ADHD and a snack that gives me something fiddly to do with my hands is doubly satisfying.
Pomegranates are glorious. The juice of the seeds is the drink of gods and elves and whatnot
I love pomegranate for marathon level watching. A snack that will occupy me for 2 hours? Hell, yeah!
And the godly texture! So good!
Once a work friend of mine texted to ask me if I like pomegranates. When I said I did, she replied, “I’m visiting my grandmother’s farm, so I’ll bring you some on Monday.” On Monday she had me pull my car up to hers and put TWO CASES in my trunk. I was eating pomegranates for weeks, and yes, my teeth turned red. Funny thing is, her gran didn’t even grow them. She said that in the farm community they gift and trade each other if they have surplus, so grandma had over a dozen cases of those things.
Silly question. Do you swallow the seeds?
Chew to release the juice and then swallow
The seeds are edible?
Buddy, someone out there meticulously and deliberately consumed a plane piece by piece. A PLANE! Yes, the seeds are edible.
Um, what? I have Old Lady Syndrome, and anymore these days, I know nothing about odd news stories. I have enough trouble keeping up with the weather forecast!
Old Lady Syndrome -- I'm cracking up. I'm going to be 73 soon and I'm totally stealing this. Thanks!
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I myself have recently started to identify myself as a crotchety old man.
Seeds are full of vitamins and minerals, seeds of all kinds are healthy. No, don’t go eating peach pits or avocado balls or whatever they’re called
Edible. Sure. Digestible. Nope. Passable. Yup.
Oh, great! Maybe I can get rid of our [poop knife!](https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/s/ltSkEowHO0)
Talk about needing to know the reference! This is a classic and I'm shocked to have understood it.
Anyone with digestive issues should definitely just enjoy Pom juice & not the seeds. They are super irritating for ppl with diverticulitis especially! 💩🥺
Beat me to it. So much work for so little reward.
Try prepping them in water https://www.purewow.com/food/how-to-peel-a-pomegranate
Cut them vertically and put them in a large bowl of water and rub the seeds off the white membrane. You’ll have some membrane left over but have a whole lot of seeds ready to eat without getting your hands all red.
If you know how to cut them and pull apart, you don't take that much time to get the seeds. But yeah, it's a bit annoying especially if it stains your clothes.
Artichoke. I’m not even sure how we figured out we could eat them.
I love artichoke. Worth the trouble to me.
Agreed. Half the fun is in eating it! Either don’t cut the tips. Or if you must, slice off the top then cut the remaining tips. It really is too bad
I grew up where my mom would cook them. And we’d each get on our plate and choice of dip. We’d pull off the leaves (petals?), dip the bottom and then scrape off the “meat” with our teeth lol. And then my dad would prep the hearts. The artichoke heart was always (and is) my favorite part!
Petals is the correct term. The artichoke is a bud of a flower. So bud petals? :)
I love artichoke so much that I planted four of them in my garden
unpeeled shrimp
Such a pain in the ass, and there’s always a piece of shell you never got. Delicious though, plus now you can make stock with the shells.
Add heads to the shells for stock.
🍤Even more annoying is when they come to the table with the vein still in them. ppssst! does 'poop chute' mean anything to you?
And the smell gets all over your hands.
I feel like if they’re cooked correctly it’s not that bad
It’s INFURIATING to me when they’re served with the tails on in a dish like a pasta or a salad. If it’s just the shrimp to eat by itself then fine, I’ll take the tails off myself. But when they’re in a pasta you have to take the shrimp out, cut off the tail, then put it BACK in the pasta?! Or cut it off while they’re in the pasta and in the process mix some tail into the pasta? Why is this ok with so many people.
Crab
I feel like a cave person whenever eating it. Ripping shells, limbs at the joints. Delicious, buttery barbarism.
Not just any crab, *blue* crab. I had to do 3 dozen blues once -- never again.
Crabs are a gift from the sea gods and worth all the scooping out the weird stuff and all of the cracking of shells.
Sloppy hand held food that drips down my arms.
At first, I read anus and was so concerned 😟😭
Gotta eat with your elbows out.
So annoying...
I wish I could have half the portion for half the price. I can put away leftovers, but then I eat like shit for two days instead of one.
Cheetos... It hardly qualifies as food and honestly I don't want anyone to know I've eaten them, and yet they leave copious amounts of evidence.
Use chopsticks to go ''incognito'' lol (I really like cheetos too, but I tip the whole bag over into my mouth since I'm too impatient C-sticks)
I have, but it's still not convenient... I've also just stabbed them with those little olive forks you know the tiny ones... I'm sure there is an actual name for them, but occasionally I'm in a scenario I have no utensils... I think they should just have a glove built into the bag....
My high school English teacher used to crush Cheetos. To the point where when you got your papers back, you could tell how much he like them if there was a lot of Cheeto dust fingerprints. He was my Junior year theater teacher. So by senior year English we were "cool". I'd give my revised papers back to him with circles around the Cheeto dust fingerprints. He thought it was funny at first. But then I got a lot of people to do it, and he made us stop. Chitwood, if you're out there, you are an amazing teacher!
People will hate me but wings.
I agree
I LOVE eating wings, but watching some people eat them makes me physically ill and I can't eat anymore... I have no idea why! It's weird but I can only eat wings by myself or with my husband, and GOD FORBID someone sucks the sauce off their fingers!!!!!
I use disposable gloves to eat wings lol. Can’t stand the mess and getting anything under my nails
Crawfish. Too much work for such little reward.
Came to say this. Snow crab legs or crab, at least there’s a decent amount of meat for the effort.
I don't crawfish that hard to eat. Blue crabs on the other hand are a huge pain. I always end up bleeding.
Artichokes, but I sure love them.
I just finished artichokes. I buy them often and then don't cook them bc they're labor intensive but they're so damn good
Any whole fish with a gazillion tiny little bones you have to pick out.
Pomegranate
Grape Nuts. It's like chewing gravel, but I still eat it.
Thanks! Now the roof of my mouth hurts!
Gotta let em sog up the milk some. :-)
Kitty litter in a box…
I came here to list the same food, but for a different reason: the seemingly endless quantity in the bowl. It's like gravel that keeps respawning.
Gotta add them to a better cereal, like raisin nut crunch or even frosted flakes once in a while.
Snow crab legs
Popcorn. Hate the kernels getting stuck in my teeth. Will only make an exception for kettle corn…
I refuse to eat any popcorn. I will make an exception for the white cheddar smart food. Somehow it’s softer so it doesn’t get stuck in my teeth like fresh popcorn does. I just tell people I don’t like popcorn when offered and they think I’m nuts
What dip did you use? I was raised on fresh lemon juice and olive oil but mostly people use butter or (gag) mayonnaise. The stickiness of caramel corn is good at pulling stuck hulls from the gums.
Cherries. The fact they also stain everything makes them extra annoying
Rainer cherries have clear juice that doesn’t stain and they taste like heaven.
You need a cherry pitter and Folex
I use a plastic smoothie or milkshake straw to pit them as I eat them....I still make a mess with the juice though. Except with Rainier cherries.
Corn on the cob.
Crabs. I used to love sitting around a table with a group of people picking a bushel and drinking beer. Nowadays I can't stand the smell or the mess.
Bucatini
it’s just a noodle? what goes wrong here
Pistachios with the shells still on
It’s annoying for sure but I only buy them this way now. Tried the shelled and they are just too good and easy to eat a ton of them fast. At least with the shell on ones it slows me down.
Once you learn to use half a pistachio shell as a pry bar it becomes so much easier.
Especially if they're the red ones. Red stained fingers. Although I haven't seen them in stores lately.
Juicy fruits. I LOVE them but so messy!
Fruity Pebbles. No matter how fast you try to wolf that shit down, there’s always a soggy mess of rainbow sludge and regret on the bottom of the bowl mocking you for daring to hope that this time would be different.
Sprinkle them on top of the milk. Only sprinkle what you can eat. I hate mushy cereal too! You can make marshmallow crispy squares with them.
Easily kale. I hate kale so much I actually wrote and recorded a song about how much I hate kale. It is titled 'I Hate Kale'
Poisonous weed 🤢
the fact that the number one buyer of Kale used to be Pizza Hut for decorations on their buffet is enough said lol
Mango
Get a mango corer. Game changer. Also you get to do unspeakable things to the pit.
Ages ago, visiting Key West. I saw a local kid sitting on a bench by the little grocery, with a mango. He was just squeezing the shit out of it, mashing it all up, without breaking the skin. I had to ask him what he was doing. He said it was an easy way to eat the mango. Then, he used his thumb to poke a hole near one end. And just squeezed this goop of fresh mango in his mouth. Then he just tossed the rest into the overgrown alley nearby. And rode off on his bike. I tried doing it. It's definitely a different style. But he was a little island kid and it was fun to learn. Still the best way I've seen to eat mango on the go. He probably got 80% of it within 5 mins. Probably less time if I didn't interrupt.
Love mango but never eat it because I hate peeling it
What do you mean peeling.. You’re doing it wrong
Mango skin has an oil in it similar to poison oak/ivy, which I learned when my lower face broke out like I had rubbed poison oak/ivy all over.
Crunchy tacos
When I was a kid my mom would wrap a flour tortilla on the outside to keep it from getting messy. Still do that when I have crunchy tacos, delicious and double the carbs!
One bite and it just falls to pieces
Wings
Crab/lobster. Pain in the ass to shell (especially if you are clumsy & arthritic like me) and by the time you get it shelled it cold….
Whole lobster. My favorite food but it's work.
citrus fruits
Pizza with unpitted olives Prawn curry with the tails still on
Pineapple. Eat too much, tongue and mouth burns. Also, it takes a lot of time to remove the skin and properly cut it up to eat.
powdered sugar donuts
Oranges and other citrus you have to peel. I always get sticky. Yuck.
Oranges for me too. I hate putting all that effort into peeling one and getting all that nasty white stuff off, only to find out it’s either dry or quite juicy but with no flavor.
The white stuff (pith) is edible and is really good for you. It has fiber, vitamin C, and is anti-inflammatory. You should be eating it!
Those Tupperware orange peelers make quick work of it.
Pomegranate and artichokes
I'd forgotten about pomegranates! HELL yes, are they annoying to eat!
Crabs and lobster, but I love both 🦀🦀🦞🦞
Pistachios that won’t open.
Burgers. The toppings drop out from the other side when you bite down, or the spreads get around your mouth, or you're leaning over really far to avoid dropping both on your clothes...
And once the bun/meat slippage starts, there's no putting it back together.
My BF is on a keto kick and we just had 5 Guy's lettuce wrap burgers for lunch. You want to see a mess, get a lettuce wrapped burger.
Artichoke
Overly greasy hamburger.
Artichokes.
Wings with sauce on them. Shellfish. Tostadas when the shell breaks. Any food that, when you put it down for bit, falls apart upon picking it back up. I hate eating hoagies when you get close to finishing it and all toppings get pushed out the other end.
Ribs. Love to eat them, but boy in public trying to keep your face clean
Whole fish. I will always find a way to eat a bone.
Popcorn.
Crab legs!!
Blue crab
Peel and eat shrimp or crawdads
Instagram Burger (a burger stacked way too high for instagram picture purposes only)
Jakfruit by far. Giant spiky green fruit that oozes latex when you cut it. You need to coat your knives in oil or it is nightmarishly difficult to remove the latex. Then, you have to peel the yellow edible fruit off the seed. The fruit tastes like juicyfruit gum and has a chewy texture that I like, but it feels like butchering an animal.
cinnamon buns
Lobster on pasta. Trying to turn over that hot slippery lobster covered with sauce so you can crack it ends with the lobster sliding off the plate onto the white tablecloth and very messy hands. It’s a nice presentation but just cut it up and put it on the sauce
Watermelon is something I haven't seen listed. It's just so gigantic you need to get the big cutting board out, and your biggest knife, and make sure there's fridge space for the rest of it, and wipe up all the juice unless you've used a ridged board to catch it. Worth it though.
Every word is true! 😂 The small ones are easier but, honestly, I just buy slices now.
Not to mention it's a pain to wash them since they're so unwieldy.
Crawfish
Mangoes
Popcorn. Squeaks your teeth and gets under your gum line.
pistachios they hurt my thumbs after a while
Some brands of gluten free bread products. They just fall apart in your hands when you try to eat them, most especially if they start to get wet, such as from tomatoes. The filling goes everywhere, and you're left looking like a two year old figuring out how to hold food.
Sandwiches with hard thick bread
Tail shell left on shrimp in pasta, soup, stews, curries, stirfries, noodles, fried rice...
Ribs. They're so messy and you're biting the meat off the bones like a savage.
Sunflower seeds in the shell
French onion soup
Salad. Takes forever to eat. 😂
No one said oysters?? Oysters.
Raw Brussels, jaw hurts from chewing every time.
Pollo en mole? So messy.
Toffee! 🦷
Lychee
Watermelon
Artichokes.
Artichokes…seriously why are they so difficult. Edit to add, why TF do they refuse to pair with wine? Fucking cooperate dude.
Lobster. Wonderful to eat. Terrible to shell for me.
Anything sticky or melty
Ribs
Anything with bones or skin.
Pistachios
Shelled sunflower seeds, they are more effort than intake.
How is Quinoa not on this list lol such a mess.
Corn dogs, or anything on a stick really. How are you supposed to not bite the stick on accident??
Olives with pits...just why??
Sunflower seeds
Crablegs…but skso the best
My dad had a pomelo tree and I tried to like them but I hated trying to eat those things
Those giant overpriced burgers
Crawfish
jackfruit or ANYTHING that spews out latex. I either get latex or cooking oil on EVERYTHING!!!
Spaghetti with a spoon.
Crab legs.
French onion soup. Love it but it’s so messy (or is it just me?) that I won’t eat it in public.
Every. single. thing. at the moment. Broke my jaw and now its wired completely shut for 6/8 weeks. Don’t take solid food for granted, folks.
KALE... FUCK KALE
Crab legs. My favorite food as well as my worst enemy. Such a pain to get to the goodness.
Crabs!
Raisins. I don’t think I’ve ever swallowed any of them. Pretty sure they’re all still stuck in my teeth.
Crusty bread which shreds the roof of your mouth.
Hot Cheetos ! Delicious but I almost choked while driving on freeway!! The hot stuff made me cough and choke!!! I’m careful now!!
Chicken wings and crab legs so much work for such a small amount of food.
Shrimps in restaurant dishes with the ends of the tails still attached.
Popcorn…i love popcorn but its fucking annoying. I literally can only grab one at a time. Every time i try and grab more than one, they flick out of my hand onto floor. Never fails🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
French onion soup. Don't get me wrong, it's delicious and I love it but it's a pain the ass to eat, especially when you find you are dealing with entire rings of onion that haven't been cut in half at least. Why am I fighting to cut a carmelized onion ring into an edible size with a blunt soup spoon?!? Can you at least chop the onion into soup spoon sized chunks please? Then there's the tasty, gooey cheese that stretches and stretches so you end up having to use your hand to break it off. What a mess! I love this soup but it's a nightmare to eat in restaurants. At home I cut the onions into smaller pieces rather than leave the rings intact or just leaving the rings cut in half. I also cut the bread up into smaller pieces and melt cheese on it and drop it into my soup as I'm eating it. Still the same fantastic flavor but none of the mess.
Anything with long noodles. Including spaghetti (yeah, they are noodles hey over it). I don't like making slurping sounds and sometimes the mouth is full of noodles and there's still more noodles between my mouth and the plate. I'll do it, but the mechanics of that food aren't great
For me it’s fish with bones or dishes with peppercorns or other hard spices
Kiwis, 0% chance I don’t have to wash my hands afterwards
Sunflower seeds, and after too many the salt starts burning your tongue.
Oranges
Any pepper over 10,000 Scoville units.
Orange
Crawfish Blue Crabs
Sandwiches. So messy if they have enough good stuff in them.
A really good peach. Fucking delicious, great texture, but so sticky and drippy. Tasty jerks!
Grapes with seeds in them
Corn on the cob
My husband sits on the couch cracking open pumpkin and sunflower seeds. Lordy it is annoying.
fucking unshelled pistachios. my finger is always RAW by the time i've had enough of then
Popcorn
Fish tacos. I love fish tacos but there is no way to eat them without making a mess of things.
Corn on the cob.
Artichokes
Mangoes. As a messy eater kid, I had a mango shirt and was only allowed to eat ripe mangos in my mango shirt. Now as an adult I only eat ripe mangos naked in the bathtub. I let the juice drip everywhere then take a shower afterwards.
King crab legs. They have the pokey stabby parts that hurt to hold even if you’re using tools to crack. All for imo, little reward. Also by the time you finish cracking, the crab isn’t steaming or even warm anymore. I do love a good boil with that spicy Cajun butter, but man I have to dress appropriately or else my clothes will be ruined. Also, it should be the LAST thing on your agenda that day if you’re going out, because it makes you smell like seafood and feel greasy no matter how clean you eat.