adventures in breakfast

[moominmolly]

Okay. This morning, the cream cheese on my bagel tasted like it was about 10% sand. The actual flavor was fine, but the texture was so off I was stunned. It wasn't the slightly-plastic taste and feel of light cream cheese. I ate it for a while, and then asked signsoflife to try a bite.

She claims it was perfectly normal. oooOOOOooo. Personalized cream-cheese! It's only sandy for ME!

It's not a good superpower, but it'll do for today.

Comments

[coraline]

is that a monkey kicking another monkey in the face? i can't tell.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Shoot, I lose! It is a monkey stepping on (http://www.intrepidheroines.net/images/trips/japan/monkey_play.jpg) another monkey's head.

And here is another monkey.

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Uh, weird pregnancy thingy?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

It must be. But, I mean, who has weird *texture* aversions?

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Heh, well sometimes I do, and I'm not even growing anybody. But then again I'm just a wee bit freaky.

But considering how funky the brain can be, nothing surprises me.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Me too! Texture is the main reason I don't eat certain foods, so this seems totally believable to me.

[heathey.livejournal.com]

Me three -- in fact, you could even say I have a Texture Issue. I've been that way long before I even *could* grow anybody, but I know of one or two pregnant women who never had taste cravings for anything, just texture aversions. Which you would think might broaden your options a bit, but apparently it doesn't.

Pregnancy certainly is far-reaching, isn't it? Now it's playing games with your brain! Isn't taking over the uterus enough?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Isn't taking over the uterus enough?

I believe it's headed for world domination.

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

This would be a clear sign to Stop Eating That! :)

Really.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not repeating that experience. It wasn't untasty, though, so I did finish my breakfast.

What's weird is that I was there on Saturday and had a bagel with cream cheese and it was fine. What happened? So curious.

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

What's weird is that I was there on Saturday and had a bagel with cream cheese and it was fine. What happened? So curious.

Obviously, you had enough of whatever in cream cheese you needed and your body told you "That's enough". Or more likely, there's an artificial chemical in that cream cheese that you shouldn't be eating at this stage of development, and your body hit the threshold level and kept ramping up the negative feedback until you noticed.

[coraline]

i'm impressed that the weird thing was TEXTURE though -- i mean, when i've got sand in my food, it makes my teeth go scrape-crunch! how can that possibly happen if it's not really sand?
weeeeeird.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

It wasn't precisely crunchy in the way food at the beach is -- imagine, maybe, silt or fine dust, in sand quantities.

I reeeeally don't get it.

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

i'm impressed that the weird thing was TEXTURE though -- i mean, when i've got sand in my food, it makes my teeth go scrape-crunch! how can that possibly happen if it's not really sand?

How often can you notice the texture of food while completely ignoring the taste? Mostly, you can't. Animals are so strongly evolved to enjoy eating (by way of enjoying the taste markers on food) that it's difficult to know what a pure texture is like unless you chew a substance with no nutritive content and no artificial flavors (ie. nothing to stimulate the taste response)... like dirt or sand.

I imagine dirt might have a texture similar to dried taco beef or pesto or falafel balls, but the taste of the food dominates, so that's what you remember not that it feels like a clump of moist dirt.

On the other hand, if your body is trying to tell you to stop eating, it might send a meassage that what's in your mouth is not food, and the signal sent is interpreted like something bad-tasting with which you do have familiarity... like food with sand in it.

All pure conjecture, of course. :)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Is anyone thinking of "A Wrinkle in Time"?

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I was just so nervous about getting it wrong. What if it really was sandy, and I just couldn't tell?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I figure that for the next few months, other people's opinions on food will be more objectively accurate, shall we say. Mine are still useful to *me*! Just not necessarily correct.