11 year old & Food touching on plate

[aanderson5]

Sorry to go off topic, but does WDW have a Kosher kitchen? I've assumed they ordered the Kosher meals from outside vendors and that's why they need 24 hour notice.

Interesting question. I have no idea if Disney has a kosher kitchen. It is big enough that it probably could have a one location that prepared kosher meals for all the restaurants. I worked at one place (institutional) where we ordered kosher meals from outside venders but did have a chef that prepared halal meals. They had their own area and equipment in the kitchen. I also worked for a caterer that was able to provide kosher meals and had basically 2 kitchens.

 

[LovesHerTaurus]

I'm 38, and still don't like my food to touch! If my food is touching at a restaurant, I will eat it, but first I kind of move stuff around so it's not touching. When I fix my plate at home, I don't let my food touch. I'm trying not to pass my "quirk" on to my kids so I always make their food touch!

I don't like my sauces to mix. I hate gravy on salad I don't like my steak making my salad warm. I don't like my rice dirty with food piled on top of it. Meat sauces moving over to my veggies is ucky

My 10 year old mixes ALL her sauces. She says it tastes better. She loves to pile her food.

My 12 year old hates all sauces. ALL sauces.

Food should be an art and personal preferences should be allowed as long as the kids EAT. Super picky eaters drive my up the wall. I think my daughters are very open minded about food when we go out because I give them choice and control at home. Ketchup on steak? - my girls are welcome to condiment up their food as they want and I won't say a word. As long as they eat it. They don't eat their food for ANY reason I wrap it and put it straight in the fridge for them to snack on. We get ice cream, they get to microwave their own leftover plate to snack on. No biggie, no forcing of cleaning the plate. It isn't healthy. You're done, fine - scrape your plate, sink it and sit with us and chat together until we're all done.

I was a forced fooder when I was growing up - forced to sit and finish plates of food. I still have problems with food control and knowing when I'm full. I have major food issues. My daughters are healthy weights (unlike I was and am still fighting) and eat at their own pace. Who cares if we all sit together visiting at the table for an hour?

*phew* food rant over! If you're worried, buffet/family style it. That is our plan mostly since we all have such different preferences, and she eat the way that makes her happy

 

[ksumn1]

OP, I would simply ask your server nicely to request that the kitchen not "stack" the meal components, if possible. Simply put them on a plate sided by side, if it's not a problem. Since they have all the components and just have to assemble them for the plate presentation, I imagine it would be easy to simply put it on the plate instead.

And I don't like my food touching either...if I prepare it. In a social setting, restaurant etc I'll eat it with not a 2nd thought. But if I fix a plate, the components will be seperated. And when I eat, I eat one item at a time. It's something I do subconciously and didn't even realize until DH pointed to out to me years ago. My Mom said I did the same thing as a child. And as long as I ate, she never made it an issue. I do eat casseroles, burgers with toppings, and strangely enough love gravy on mashed potatoes. I always thought of it as a weird little quirk. Certainly not as this huge problem and selfish behavior other posters have made it out to be.

 

[luvthemouse71]

I have concur, I thought the same.


I am all for helping put a smile on my children's faces - but whatever happened to parents running the home and telling their kids "this is the way it is going to be. PERIOD."

Sadly, the kids rule the roost now. And until you've seen people who have not enough to eat, you don't realize just how ridiculous this neurosis about foods touching is...

 

[Pumbaa_]

wanting your food to not touch is not a recent phenomenon. My 47 yo brother had this issue as a kid. Heaven forbid anything touched

He outgrew it by his teens though

I am sure disney will be happy to accomodate your niece until she outgrows it

Have a great trip!

 

[CamColt]

I just wanted to add here there is a Facebook page "I hate it when the food on my plate touches other food..." and it has 21,734 people (including me)who like it, so I guess this isn't an uncommon issue.

 

[BYC]

This topic made me laugh because I just thought about this a couple weeks ago. It amuses me how I won't let any food on my Thanksgiving plate touch another food. But at a restaurant, if there isn't a presentation on the plate, the meal does not look as nice.

I'm sure if you ask, a restaurant will be able to accomodate your daughter.

I am just the opposite on Thanksgiving! I spear a piece of turkey, dip it in the mashed potatoes and gravy, and then dip that in the peas with pearl onions. Absolute heaven!!

 

[Gigi22]

Just a quick suggestion for the OP--could you, or your niece's mom, give your niece a quick cooking lesson? Something simple, familiar and fun, like cookies or muffins. Perhaps when your niece sees what ingredients go into a familiar food like a cookie, she will be less stressed about food touching on her plate?

 

[acc82]

Sadly, the kids rule the roost now. And until you've seen people who have not enough to eat, you don't realize just how ridiculous this neurosis about foods touching is...

thanks so much for the harsh judgement!!

again - THINGS LIKE THIS KEEP US FROM BEING CARBON COPIES OF ONE ANOTHER. Thanks. Living life as an individual is very freeing. I suggest everyone try it.

AND........who said that people who have a food preferance like this doesn't eat their food?!?!?!? Yes, there are children that are starving, I have personally seen them and cared for them. The way in which you eat says nothing about your appreciation for food; they are unrelated. I'm sure nobody here can say they've never wasted food at a restaurant?? That food goes in the trash. Buffets are the same way. Trashed food that is uneaten. This is why the cruise ship industry is now charging for certain foods (because of amount of waste).

 

[bdoyledimou]

Living life as an individual is very freeing. I suggest everyone try it.

Which one shall i choose..

To re-iterate, it is not the act of not liking food touching that is troublesome. It may go all the way back to the cavemen not wanting their Sabertooth tiger touching their root mash.. but while i have witnessed a large number of children complaining about their food touching, i have never seen one who complained once "Oh my food is touching and I do not prefer that" and then ate it without following up with "this is gross, i hate it, i am not going to eat this" and mom and/or dad reaching over and separating the foods while the child pouts.

As i said, I did it myself with my child for 9 years before i finally said forget this, eat or don't eat.

 

[ksumn1]

Which one shall i choose..

To re-iterate, it is not the act of not liking food touching that is troublesome. It may go all the way back to the cavemen not wanting their Sabertooth tiger touching their root mash.. but while i have witnessed a large number of children complaining about their food touching, i have never seen one who complained once "Oh my food is touching and I do not prefer that" and then ate it without following up with "this is gross, i hate it, i am not going to eat this" and mom and/or dad reaching over and separating the foods while the child pouts.

As i said, I did it myself with my child for 9 years before i finally said forget this, eat or don't eat.

But as the OP reiterated, it is NOT her child she is asking about, it is her neice. Therefore, the discussion on what she should do is kinda usesless, since she is not the child's mother and it is not HER place to take action on the neices eating habits. She simply asked if her neices' request would be accomodated at WDW. To continue beating a dead horse for no reason seems redundant to me.

 

[Tommy_B]

I don't like my sauces to mix. I hate gravy on salad

Well you are just plain crazy then..... gravy, much like bacon, is good on anything!!

 

[TreslovesWDW]

I did not read all the posts, but I hope that they would do that if requested. This reminded me of my sister who is 27 she never and still does not like or eat anything that touches another item. I still tease her at every hoilday when I mix my corn a potatoes and get her attention as I put it in my mouth...it is still funny after all these years. Anyway she will be coming with us to Disney ,wow this should be interesting eating with her. Good thing I planned most buffets so she can seperate her food...haha