Brumotactillophobia. Go ahead and say that three times real fast...kinda rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?
I realized I had it when I saw this photograph of my Nephew Kirk and his daughter Jordyn. Kirk had a birthday last week and I think he wants to be a Viking:)
Notice their plates...Kirks is a real mess...but Jordyn ...I coveted her pretty pink divided plate immediately when I saw this photo on Facebook (photo used with permission)
Anyways Brumotactillophobia is an irrational fear of food touching. It is a quirk I have had as long as I can remember.
My stomach has compartments...I am convinced of it. Perhaps it is my CDO (Compulsive Disorder Obsessive) in hyperdrive! Or is it a control issue?
Sometimes I have a plate and several bowls at the supper table...you know one plate for my steak and my steak sauce way far away from my steak even though I drag my steak through the sauce I do not want it touching until I want it touching...the other bowls would be a salad and a potato...not together... separate bowls..and if I had a slice of bread it would be off my plate on my napkin...and holy moly if I had a pickle it would never be on the plate or in the bowls...it would be on the far corner of my napkin no where near the bread. Pickle juice on any other food is unacceptable to me...Far Guy doesn't care he balances his pickle and bread anyplace on his single plate. I try not to look at his plate or anyone elses while eating.
My eating habits are just chaos...and it is getting worse as I age. I watch lots of cooking shows...and when they stack food up all nice and pretty...stuff under the meat and stuff on the meat... it nauseates me...I am not a good one to take to a buffet...when Far Guy fills up his plate I cannot look at it because I will start to gag.
It is exhausting for me to put more than one food on my plate...If I put three foods on my plate I would be continually pushing them far apart as possible. I will never put Jello on the same plate as meat, veggies and mashed potatoes...ever. No red/orange/lime colored mashed potatoes for me or melting toward my meat or veggies... Jello Alert!! Jello always needs its own bowl.
I can eat soups and hotdish because it is all cooked together! So see I am a little bit normal!
Far Side
