Going out to eat can be a fun experience, but it can also be stressful at times, especially if you're a picky eater. Even worse than that is when you're a picky eater and have to go out to a new restaurant because well, menus are rather terrifying at times.
Here are the 11 scariest menus to read if you're a picky eater.
1. The Menu In A Foreign Language
The pictures really aren't helpful if I don't know what that item consists of. Is it meat? Is it cheese? Who really knows?
2. The Small Menu
So, you're telling me I have to get a burger if we go here? But what if I don't eat meat?
3. The New, Long Menu
Not only is this menu super long, I've also never seen it before, which means I may need 30 minutes just to read the menu and settle on pizza anyway because everything else is foreign, I don't know what it is or can't pronounce it
4. ANY New Menu... At All
This could be a great thing or a really bad thing, but, nonetheless, a new menu is scary because you could either love everything or start counting the hours until you get to eat again.
5. The 'Not A Menu' Menu
OK, I get it, it's not a real menu, but it's equally as terrifying. What if the signs are wrong and I put something on my plate that I don't like, and it touches all of the stuff I do like and poisons it permanently? Or what if it takes me 30 minutes just to find the two things I actually want: macaroni and cheese and pizza.
6. The Wedding Menu
There aren't any choices on wedding menus. Maybe, they'll have a vegetarian option, but that may be just as unappetizing as the non-vegetarian option. Guess who is going through the McDonald's drive-thru after this?
7. The Dessert Menu
Desserts have such fancy names, most of the time I don't actually know if I like it. The pictures, admittedly, do look good — even to picky eaters — but all we really want is a nice, traditional scoop of ice cream.
8. The Menu With Only One Thing You Like
In theory, this sounds great because you have a go-to. You don't have to read the menu or go through the struggle of deciding what to eat. But, it's also the worst menu ever because what if you go, and they're out of what you want? Time to fill up on water, I guess...
9. The Menu With No Descriptions
OK, yes, I know what a grilled cheese is, but how am I supposed to know what type of cheese they are using? What are my bread options? I need answers here, people! You could potentially wreck my go-to dish!
10. Pizza Menus
At first glance, this may seem off because pizza is one of the go-to foods for most picky eaters in the world. But, they always hide our normal pizzas with simple toppings like cheese and pepperoni with these so-called "gourmet" pizzas. It gives us a brief second of panic thinking that even our staple dish is no longer edible — until we find the normal pizza section, that is.
11. The Healthy Menu
I like eating healthy — I really do. What I don't like, though, is not knowing what the healthy or organic version of my favorite food is going to taste like. What if that healthy substitute completely wrecks the taste, and I end up feeling like I'm eating cardboard?
