History Main / PickyEater

* One episode of ''TheSimpsons'' had Homer burn his tongue and when his taste buds grew back, he'd become super-sensitive to flavor. He had to resort to school lunches [[WhatHapenedToTheMouse which led to another plot ...]]

* This troper once saw a special on Food Network about adult picky eaters; belongs here and not in television because it's completely real. Rather than just being averse to certain foods, these people raise picky eating to a disorder not unlike OCD. Limited to a diet of perhaps three different dishes at best and finding anything else abhorrent, these people make what one usually thinks of as "picky eating" look normal (which they are, usually. Nobody likes everything). ** See this link for more info: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Recipes/extremely-picky-eaters-struggle-fear-foods/story?id=11721435

Sometimes it seems that adults are less picky eaters than kids merely because adults have more control over what they eat. Even adults carry some of their dislikes into adulthood; but they never have any fights with them merely because adults can't be told they can't leave the table until they eat their carrots. If an adult doesn't like carrots, green peppers, or broccoli? They just don't prepare it or don't order it, and pick out the stuff they don't like.

* Some animals can be picky eaters, too.

* Lorelai Gilmore from GilmoreGirls dislikes most healthy food.

->"He's a fussy eater! Fussy eater being euphemism for 'Big Pain In The Ass'"\\

* [[AxisPowersHetalia Italy]] is a gourmet, so he refuses to eat and/or openly insults any cooking that isn't absolutely delicious. He doesn't try to hide his dislike of Germany's sausages, [[PityTheKidnapper complains about the food every time some tries to take him captive,]] and once was extremely depressed about the lack of [[SignatureFavoriteFood pasta]] at Austria's place but still wouldn't eat the pasta the Holy Roman Empire left for him to find because it didn't look good.

* This troper once saw a special on Food Network about adult picky eaters; belongs here and not in television because it's completely real. Rather than just being averse to certain foods, these people raise picky eating to a disorder not unlike OCD. Limited to a diet of perhaps three different dishes at best and finding anything else abhorrent, these people make what one usually thinks of as "picky eating" look normal (which they are, usually. Nobody likes everything).

** There was a study done by a college that was trying to identify if picky eating really was a form of OCD. It wasn't asking what kinds of stuff that people liked/disliked to find what was the most disliked food (Other studies were done on that since even adventurous eaters have their own dislikes) but more about whether or not unfamiliar food being served at a social event caused people to feel uncomfortable.

It also doesn't help that kids have keener tastebuds than adults - so if something tastes slightly bitter or sour to a grown-up, it'll taste ''much worse'' to them. Some assume that adults' trying stuff they wouldn't touch as kids is a sign of growing up, but actually their taste buds' sensitivity has toned down so that something they hated as a kid is now tolerable.

See also DoesNotLikeSpam.

* George Bush Sr. famously did not like broccoli.

* "[[DrSeuss I do not like]] ''GreenEggsAndHam''! I do not like them, Sam-I-Am!"

* ''{{Arthur}}'' on PBS played with this: Arthur's little sister DW refused to eat anything with spinach, only to be served a pot pie that, unbeknownst to her, has spinach in it, and to then discover that [[GreenEggsAndHam she loved it]]. The opening of the episode shows she really just hates trying anything new.

* In the ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' episode "Mission: Imp Possible", Nefir the imp's scheme to make Aladdin and company help him steal the golden silk cocoon of a giant silkworm backfires horribly when the silkworm is revealed to be Mothias, one of the legendary giant moths of yore that ravaged cities, spread plague and pestilence, and ate imps -- and ''only'' imps. When Mothias accidentally ate Iago it immediately spit him out in disgust.

* The ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' episode "Mission: Imp Possible", Nefir the imp's scheme to make Aladdin and company help him steal the golden silk cocoon of a giant silkworm backfires horribly when the silkworm is revealed to be Mothias, one of the legendary giant moths of yore that ravaged cities, spread plague and pestilence, and ate imps -- and ''only'' imps. When Mothias accidentally ate Iago it immediately spit him out in disgust.

* The ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' the series episode "Mission: Imp Possible", Nefir the imp's scheme to make Aladdin and company help him steal the golden silk cocoon of a giant silkworm backfires horribly when the silkworm is revealed to be Mothias, one of the legendary giant moths of yore that ravaged cities, spread plague and pestilence, and ate imps -- and ''only'' imps. When Mothias accidentally ate Iago it immediately spit him out in disgust.

* The ''Disney/Aladdin'' the series episode "Mission: Imp Possible", Nefir the imp's scheme to make Aladdin and company help him steal the golden silk cocoon of a giant silkworm backfires horribly when the silkworm is revealed to be Mothias, one of the legendary giant moths of yore that ravaged cities, spread plague and pestilence, and ate imps -- and ''only'' imps. When Mothias accidentally ate Iago it immediately spit him out in disgust.

* Doumeki of {{xxxHOLiC}} is a rare picky Big Eater. As his grandfather puts it "He won't put anything in his mouth if he's not properly satisfied with it." Unfortunately for Watanuki, this means Doumeki [[HoYay will only ever eat his cooking, or food he trusts]].