We all have have weird food habits. We all had some weird kids in school. When the weird kids have weird food habits, that is when things get truly strange. These Redditors reveal the strangest food habits from the weird kids from their school. Some stories have been edited for clarify.
Celery Stalker
“This girl Maggie would find someone new to latch onto every month or so. When she found someone she wanted to befriend, she would do crazy, over-the-top stuff in an attempt to impress them.
At one point, she was obsessed with a girl we’ll call Kat. One day, Kat brought in a baggie of celery and was dipping it in a sauce cup of peanut butter. Maggie WOULDN’T STOP staring and basically watched Kat consume every last piece of celery….
Sure enough, the very next day, Maggie comes into class with, I kid you not, like 6 bunches of celery stalks, and a family-sized tub of peanut butter. She just eats it ALL day, with the biggest smile on her face, all while staring at Kat from across the room.
This is a lighter example of the many off-the-wall things Maggie has done for her transient idol of the month, but the endless bushels of celery is just something I’ll never forget.”
There Are Other Condiments
“Mustard Boy. I’ll never forget him. He would cover his lunch tray in mustard. Chicken nuggets? Mustard. Mexican pizza? Mustard. Breakfast for lunch? Mustard. It didn’t matter what it was, he would drench it in mustard. He wasn’t doing it to just to make a mess of his lunch tray, he always finished his mustard-food.”
So Cheesy
“When I was in kindergarten, I brought cheesy broccoli in for show and tell. It was my favorite thing that my mom made to eat and I wanted to share it with everyone. I was really excited too and helped her prepare it the morning before school and thought everyone would think it was cool I brought something everyone could eat instead of something like a toy like most people.
The rest of the class was not as excited as me and no one, except the teacher and I think maybe my friend Nick, ate any of it. I was a bit disappointed that nobody liked it, but at the same time was happy because it meant more for me.
From that day on, I was the weird kid that brought vegetables to show and tell. Luckily, my friend Nick was also weird and so was Juan that came to our class the next year, because although we were the weird kids of the class, we weren’t alone.”
You Can’t Blame Them
“I wasn’t there when it happened (I had changed schools) but I keep in touch with my old friends. The weird kid (also a friend of mine) had gone up to the ‘popular kids’ table and told them he had a surprise for them tomorrow. So of course they think he’s going to shoot up the school, they have a lock down, evacuate his class and an officer goes in to talk to him. Turns out he bought some donuts for the ‘popular kids’ to try and make friends with them.”
Every Class Had That Kid
“This kid was only around in 3rd grade. But I’ll never forget him eating paper. He ate so much paper. He’d tear a page from a notepad, rip off corners in textbooks, etc. And he offered it to kids sitting near him like it was a snack. What a weird kid.”
There Are Better Things To Eat
“The weird kid at my school ate slugs. A few years later, we read a story about a guy in Australia who ate a slug as a dare and it infected him with a disease that left him brain-dead. The Australian kid ended up dying. This other kid is still alive fortunately.”
Twix Wrapper?
“Kid I went to school with was a nice kid, but weird. Definitely had some form of special needs, but I never knew what exactly. I’ll never forget the day I watched him walking down the hall with a Twix wrapper across his eyes. Like he was wearing a Cyclops (x-men) visor. I asked him why he would do that. His response was ‘well I can see through it, so I wanted to see through it’ (Yes, it was translucent enough to see through).
I felt so bad for this kid. He was bullied badly. The kids at school were awful to him. One day at lunch, I watched a horrible kid walk up to him after just sitting down with his lunch. Grabbed the kid’s backpack and also his Gameboy from the table (which was like the only nice thing the kid owned), threw it straight in the trash, and then dumped the freshly bought lunch right on top of it. God, that makes me mad just now thinking back on it.
On top of the constant bullying he received from the kids, the teachers had a hard time dealing with him (they did try, but it was tough when the kid comes out of left field with things and had zero home support), and everyone knew his mom didn’t care about him. Wouldn’t take him to doctor’s appointments, wouldn’t get him his meds, wouldn’t do laundry for him or help him with basic hygiene. She ran a salon and told him to sit in the corner and not bother her. He would ask for things like water or a snack, and she would just yell at him, in front of clients (which is why everyone knew all this).
To be honest, I was seriously afraid of him shooting up the school. My city was a hair’s width away from being in the woods (lots of camo and country music), so it would have been not too hard for him to get a weapon somehow. I was actually planning (based on his schedule) escape plans, and what I would say if I encountered him on a rampage.
One day he knocks on my door. Tells me he’s moving down south to live with his dad, and he seems really excited. Thanks me for being his friend, and wished me well. Then, a couple years later, he was visiting the area again, knocks on my door, and says hi, asks how I’m doing, tells me he was thinking about me. He tells me things were much better, that he was happy living with his dad, and things were better. If I were a betting man, I’d bet that his dad actually got him proper meds, and acted like a half decent parent to the kid.
I hope things are going well for you, Josh. I hope that you got it together, because you always deserved better than pretty much everyone in town gave you.”
Just Why
“One kid was rumored to have been caught in his backyard by his older brother having his filthy way with a watermelon. Someone had the gall to actually ask him if he did it, and he said ‘Yea, so? I did it and my brother is telling everyone. So what??’ He earned the nickname Seeds after that. It really didn’t seem to bother him.”
I’m Kind Of Jealous
“We were sat in English class, and some kid answered a question, so we all turned to look at him as he answered (pretty normal)
Kid was rather quickly upstaged by the weird kid next to him pulling a full cooked chicken leg out of his jacket pocket, no wrapping or packaging, and just started eating it.”
A Whole Box
“There was this guy everyone called Big Andy. He was kind of nuts. I mean like, the most caustic neckbeardy guy you’ve ever met in your life. I was kind of one of a few people that figured he was mostly harmless, but dude was that militant nerd variety that made it kind of hard to defend him. Threatened to bash people’s faces in, blow stuff up… I mean he had some serious issues.
Reason people picked on him, was that he was about 300+ lbs, in high school, constantly wore anime t-shirts that were about 2 sizes too small, jean shorts, and carried a box of doughnuts around. No seriously, a box. He also had a really high pitched squeaky voice. I mean, all of that, and people are horrible.
He had it in his head he’d go become a computer programmer, start a video game company, and land a helicopter on the roof of the school during our reunion (His words).
I always wondered what happened to him. I don’t know of him ever having any friends, and he dropped off the face of the planet after we graduated. Looked him up a few months ago on Facebook, and just couldn’t find him. So no clue whatever happened to the guy.”
Free Protein
“During P.E. he would go around trying to capture bugs, then go to corner of the gym and try to eat them. I guess he thought he was Bear Grylls, Jr.”
The Good Stuff
“We weren’t allowed to have drinks other then water in class in my high school but there was this one guy we shall call Kevin. Kevin was in my french class and I’m fairly sure had a minor learning disability. He loved Coca Cola and so decided to sneak a can of coke into class. Now our teacher had no control of our class and on this particular day we had been acting up a lot to the point the teacher snapped and was threatening to call our parents (I went to a boarding school and the ultimate punishment other than suspension and expulsion was contacting our parents). Now, Kevin had a very bad disciplinary record and was on the verge of expulsion which in a school like ours was a big deal (spent 6 years there and nobody was ever expelled).
So when the teacher finally got us settled down, we were working through some verbs or whatever you do in french when Kevin shouts out, the whole class turns to Kevin at the back of the class with blood poring from his lips and his mouth. The teacher brought him straight to the school nurse, without asking what happened. Upon further inspection by one of my classmates we figured out what happened. Kevin had been drinking a can of Coke down the back of class and when he heard that our parents could be contacted for our behavior he decided he needed to get rid of the can before the teacher noticed. To him the best option wasn’t putting the can in his bag or throwing it out of the window he was sat beside. No, Kevin’s genius plan to get rid of the can was to eat it. We found a bloody can with chunks missing and bite marks in it, To give him credit, he did eat a good bit of the can which was fairly impressive.
Just on a side note, Kevin once went to the pool after drinking a can of Budweiser and thought he was too hammered to swim so decided to just stop swimming and nearly drowned.”
Dipping Dots
“Not me, but my brother would always dip his food into whatever he was drinking, soda, juice, water, you name it, and then he would eat the soaking wet snack on one big bite (especially if it has bread, bread absorbs). The worst part is that he puts ketchup on everything, and he doesn’t care if his juice has a little ketchup in it. Sometimes he still does it just to gross me out and infuriate me.”
Passionate About Food
“One kid in my freshman speech class was extremely socially awkward so this was already just a perfect setting for disaster. We had to give a one minute speech the second day of class off the top of our head about some of the things we like and present an item or two that symbolizes your passions and interests.
He goes up there, pulls out a pack of juicy fruit and just holds it up, pauses for a second, then said ‘This is Juicy Fruit, my favorite gum. If you don’t like Juicy Fruit then you can eff off,’ then went back and sat down.
Everyone paused for a sec, looked around and just bust out laughing. It wasn’t for a grade or anything so I’m pretty sure the teacher just didn’t care cause it was so funny.”
He Does What Now?
“Ah, who could forget Edward. I could write a novel of all the weird stuff he did in high school.
I remember him yelling and cussing out his pet rock surrounded by a puddle. ‘What have you done Dexter?! Whhhyyyyyy?!’
He’d wear an Abraham Lincoln hat and demand his hat be respected. Of course teachers would let him be. They genuinely thought he was insane.
In class he’d face the wall speaking in tongues whispering crazy stuff.
Dude used to stink as well. Doubt he ever bathed.
Definitely the most insane guy there was.
Last I heard he’s a chef and still crazy. Fisting the soup then licking it off.
His folks were kinda insane too. Went over to his house and his dad had the chair facing the wall looking at a bike. He just sat there. Then all of a sudden he yelled. ‘Who’s effing bike is this!!!’ I swear I nearly had a heart attack from laughing.
Started making a documentary about him on my phone but alas it fell in mud and all the footage was lost.
A rare breed he was. Was really funny come to think of it. Just an all round crazy dude.”
An Honest Tragedy
“Not the weird kid, but my kid. My son is 4 years old, and has a feeding tube. We had to have this tube surgically placed in his stomach due to his absolute refusal to eat any type of food. It became a choice of letting our child starve to death or go through this surgery. (Obviously not much of a choice) so now we blend up food in a blender and use a syringe to push it into his stomach through his surgical tube.
The problem is no medical places in our area have seen a child like ours. All the group’s for children with feeding tubes we join the children all have an underlying reason like autism or down syndrome or their child’s internal workings aren’t right. Our son simply has a fear of eating. All tests show he’s fully functioning and has no signs of any underlying issues.”
Remind Me Not To Breath
“I was the weird kid.
I wore a dirty green windbreaker. EVERY DAY. I live in GA so it got super hot some days.
I did not wash my hair. I showered, but my hair got ignored. So it was always greasy. Don’t ask why, I honestly don’t know. Teen me was an idiot.
I got the nickname ‘Bomberman’ because I ignored most kids, read books in class, aced tests without paying attention, and would argue with teachers and have them concede I was right. I got known as the quiet kid who was gonna kill everyone somehow.
One day I decided I didn’t want to go to school. Dad made me. Friend was joking the day before about how he had exlax on him and was going to give it to someone. I just took it all and ate it.
I did not get the poops. Oh no. I got gassy. I’m sitting in class, my butt hanging off the side of my seat, just releasing into the breeze for entire classes. My history teacher opened the door and all the windows and begged whoever it was to please go outside. My typing instructor just began asking if someone needed to see a doctor.
The chemistry teacher kept lighting a match to prove it wouldn’t ignite. He was cool.
Finally the day ends and I go to chess club. And was kicked out of chess club because they FINALLY realized it was me.
So yeah, what I did that my friends never forgot was spend an entire day on an exlax fueled fart bender.”
Love And Food
“A few years ago, I was going through my son’s (3rd grade) backpack and found a can of ravioli. That’s all well, except I never bought any ravioli. When I asked him about it, he burst into tears and and pulled out a box under his bed filled with Ravioli! He then proceeded to tell me how this girl that picks on him and says they are married gives him ravioli everyday and makes him take it. I can just picture this girl’s mother telling her the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”
Thats Creepy
“I used to eat dino bites (dino-shaped chicken nuggets) all the time and I would bite their head/limbs off and dip the exposed chicken in ketchup and pretend it was ‘blood’
I also didn’t remember until I started typing this post but I used to eat the breading off of them and then eat the chicken last and I don’t know WHY I did that because that sounds disgusting now.”
Breaks The Boredom Up Atleast
“In my middle school band, we were playing one of those slow, boring songs. In the middle it had a rest where literally nobody was playing that the director would hold for a solid 4 or 5 seconds. One day, about a second into the rest, one of the saxophonists shouted ‘FRIIIIED CHICKEN’ at the top of his lungs. The director tried to keep going, and he made an admirable effort, but eventually he, like everyone else in the band, succumbed to laughter.”
Gopher On The Loose
“In grade 5 there was this weird kid named Jordan. He was the new kid that year and seemed a little off. Nothing too major, just didn’t really seem to fit in.
One day after lunch, the class was getting ready to start a lesson when the school janitor shows up at our door. He says to my teacher ‘looks like we have a gopher in the school’. My teacher laughed and asked him how a gopher got loose in the school (gophers aren’t in my area). The janitor said ‘No he’s right here!’. In walks Jordan with a look of shame. The janitor tells everyone that he saw Jordan digging in the flower boxes and eating the tulip bulbs that the gardening club had planted the day before. Jordan looks at everyone and says ‘I was pretty sure they were onions’. He ate six of them without realizing they weren’t onions…
The next day Jordan had to spend his lunch re-planting the ‘onions’. He moved shortly after.”
Never Tried That Pie
“At my high school we had this kid that everyone called ‘Jesus Kid.’ He had some sort of mild learning disability, so no one was mean to his face, but we did kinda laugh at him behind his back. He’d go around and talk about nothing but Jesus all the time. And he spoke really slow and soft, with a heavy southern accent. Anyways, he was in my art class and one day my friend was joking around about how much she loved pie. So Jesus Kid turns around and stares into her soul and goes, ‘Jesus is my pie.’ In the most serious way. It took all we had not to laugh.”
Everyone Loves Syrup
“I remember I saw a kid quite a few years younger than me at lunch doing something I will never forget. It was pancake day and naturally we had syrup, but I look over to see this kid sitting by himself at a table with no tray in front of him just a HUGE puddle of syrup on the table and the kid was just wadding his whole hand through it and licking it while simultaneously wiping his grubby syrup hand all over his face. It was mesmerizing, like watching a train wreck and I couldn’t look away, went on for a while before the lunch staff saw him.”
WWE School
“This kid got super angry there was no more milk left in the cafeteria and started yelling John Cena quotes, I know it was John Cena quotes, cause right before he kicked a hole through the wall he screamed
‘AND NONE OF YOU CAN’T SEE MEEEE’
He was suspended because they didn’t know how else to handle destruction of school property.”
Not The Point Of That Banana
“So there we were in 8th grade health class. The teacher was handing out rubbers and bananas. Just about every one is laughing but one by one every one turns to look at this one kid. He has ripped the rubber off his banana and placed it on his head like a swimming cap. But that’s not the weird part. The funny part was when he casually start peeling the banana and eating it. The odd part of it all was that he wasn’t the weird kid. Just a kid who had grudge with the health teacher and liked making life difficult for him.”
The Ol Sneaky
“We went to go see Star Wars episode 1 in theaters when it first came out, we all had our popcorn and drinks and 30 minutes into the movie my buddy next to me whips out a pickle and starts eating it, and I was like, ‘Dude, I didn’t know they sold pickles here?!’
And he just tilted his head and said, ‘They don’t, I brought this from home’. He literally was at home looking for a snack to bring to the movies and when he came across the pickles he thought ‘perfect’ and just threw it in his pocket.”
Nutrition Meltdown
“There was this weird kid named Gavin who sat in the front row of my nutrition class. One day, he was not in class (he never missed class) so as the teacher is doing attendance she asks ‘Where’s Gavin?’. Just as she says this, everyone looks outside to see Gavin throw his backpack down a couple flights of stairs, jump down the stairs, and begin beating his backpack with a baseball bat. The teacher silently walked over and closed the blinds as the entire class burst out in laughter. Guess he couldn’t handle nutrition. Had to be one of the most hilarious moments in my High School experience.”