The Iced Coffee And Other Accidential Free Food

[zenrealized]

OK so I go to McDonald's this morning and try to get some breakfast and it turns out its lunch. I always get this part of their schedule wrong but instead of getting angry like Micheal Douglas in the movie "Falling Down"(which is a good movie BTW), I decide to get some lunch. So anyway I order my crappy meal and for some reason they get the order mixed up and give me a "free" iced coffee. The lady tells me to keep it after I try to give it back to her and that it was a mistake on their part. She tells me to share it with someone.

Now here's the question. I personally don't LOVE iced coffee. It's OK and I can more than tolerate it. If someone were to give me one for free there wouldn't be many scenarios where I would not find a way to drink it, even if to be polite. So I go to give this iced coffee to another person and they tell me they don't iike iced coffee and that they don't want it. I of course don't have a problem with this person not liking something. What annoys me is that for her there is no middle ground on things. Me giving her an iced coffee becomes an event to state a black and white perspective on all foods instead of consuming something that is occasionally not a first choice item. She goes on to tell me that she doesn't like orange juice either. Now that item is a perfect example for me personally of the concept of items I "sort of like". I don't like orange juice a lot but there are plenty of scenarios where if I had no other choice I would be more than happy to drink it. It's not a first choice but there's hardly anything that I don't like enough to never have it under any circumstances.

So yeah that's my question. Are you flexible on food or is everything pretty much black and white for you? Do you sometimes go with the flow if circumstances put you in a spot where you can't get the absolute first choice of what you would want to eat?

[sirkinm]

I'm personally pretty flexible on what I eat. For example, if I'm in a foreign country, I'll go with the flow. I recently went to a Filipino restaurant, and many of the dishes had pork (which I don't usually enjoy), but I tried them.

I do know some VERY picky eaters, and it doesn't bother me, though I can't help but marvel at how picky some of them are. I know someone who doesn't like vegetables or really anything that's not McDonalds, chicken fingers, or other foods that kids like (she's a medical doctor, btw). Her list of things she doesn't like is so long that it's just better to list the few things that she'll eat.

It's best not to let other people's behavior get under your skin. Sure, you might think it's rude that someone doesn't go with the flow and try to enjoy the food that other people provide, but you have to let them be.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by zenrealized

OK course don't have a problem with this person not liking first choice of what you would want to eat?

The main rule is not to take a drink from a stranger since you do not know what they put in it. That is in America since lots of times stuff is put in drinks. If you have a beverage, never put it down and watch that someone does not put something in it while you are holding it. You can let your kid take a car ride with a stranger and there is a good chance that he will come back unharmed. But why take a chance? You have a right to say No Thanks!

You can eat or not eat what you want to.

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by zenrealized

So yeah that's my question. Are you flexible on food or is everything pretty much black and white for you? Do you sometimes go with the flow if circumstances put you in a spot where you can't get the absolute first choice of what you would want to eat?

I'm flexible on most foods, not so much on some foods.

Foods that are fat (like the fat on a steak or something) or that are very chewy or that just look simply disgusting to me (like oysters) I wouldn't eat, no matter what.

Other foods I don't like so much, I'll eat a bit to be polite but won't ask for seconds.

[Angela]

I enjoyed eating brussels sprouts once.