I have a big problem with too much garlic. And raw onions. I know this puts me squarely in the minority but I have a physical reaction. Like whoa. So that would be hard for me.

I once had a boss who ate so much garlic my eyes actually watered whenever we spoke. He could never understand why I kept backing up.

For better or worse, I wasn't alone.

Or... if you'd break up with someone that ate food you disliked?

We have had several firm discussions about the amount of pepper that is acceptable to put in food.

The Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream that looks like regular chocolate chip (it isn't dyed green) at 3 a.m. led to a....strident discussion.

I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?

I let DH have his Paul Simon and he lets me have my Oingo Boingo. But I'm not sure either of us is really a music-lover when it comes down to it.

Food...that's trickier. I'm not sure I would last long in a relationship with a cilantro-hater, because where would we go out to eat? What would I cook for them?

When it comes to food, I think people are more likely to break up with me than I with them... I'm not really sure a vegan would ever want to be with me as I'm a total meat-arian.

I am sure there are people who would never date a vegan, and people who would never date carnivores.

I know someone that said that ketchup on scrambled eggs was a dealbreaker.

Pro or con?

Flea, I think I could date a vegan, but it would have to be a certain type of vegan -- one accepting enough of my non-vegan ways. I'm pretty laissez-faire so if you want to eat baked products that use no dairy, more power to you. As long as you don't force your oat-cake on me.

I would be hard-pressed to find someone who read more lowbrow stuff than I do, so.

In other words, if you set out to write trashy entertainment that makes people forget their troubles for a while, people have less room to turn up their noses if you succeed in writing a highly entertaining trashy novel.

This sounds right to me. And is actually the same way I feel about a lot of music -- I like pop music that appeals to the masses, and basically believe that if millions of people like it, it's got to have something going for it.

I can't imagine a food that would be a deal-breaker.

Actually, I would probably have more of an issue with someone whose taste in movies wasn't compatible with mine, since I think of movies as something to do together. So if he only ever wanted to see obscure and depressing films, I would be bummed out.

Pro or con?

They were very anti-ketchup.

They were very anti-ketchup.

they're right - it keeps the Old Bay from making it to the eggs.