My texture issues are TOTALLY texture. Cottage cheese, bleah. Sweet pudding, bleah. Crepes, ok that was a stomach flu aversion. Can't'do flan or custard, hate most gravies. Some yogurts get me gagging.

There is an element of sweet: I don't really do sweets, my downfall is salty crunchy.

But that's really separate from texture. Sweets I avoid. Texture stuff makes me gag.

Right. Your texture spans both sweet and savory, sara.

Gravy is meat juice + cornstarch or flour to thicken.

Thankfully not in the main cuisines I grew up eating.

My mom is one of those who can't eat pudding or flan. Never had a gravy problem, though.

I definitely had texture issues as a kid-- couldn't eat steak because the fat was gross and the chewy muscly-ness was disgusting.

I love custards.

But I also think poutine is the greatest thing ever invented. And have been known to dip Chips Ahoy in Con Queso while having beer.

I love custards that don't taste like egg. But abhor gravy that can resist gravity.

I like meat fat. Chewy, mmm. Heh. And then there is the inexplicable color thing (too many colors FREAK OUT! Too much white FREAK OUT) I contain multitudes!

dip Chips Ahoy in Con Queso

Oh, dude, I would totally do that. But I'm a salt fiend, so I don't know that I've ever found anything sweet that didn't benefit from a little salt.

Also I love flan and every thing else.

I like meat fat. Chewy, mmm.

Oh, except meat fat. I hate meat fat.

BACON YUM!