What kind of an eater are you?

From locavores to femivores, to fast food junkies and punk domestics, here are 11 labels for every kind of person at the dinner table.

10. Picky eater

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The average American will have consumed 1,500 of these sandwiches by the time he or she graduates from high school. Courtesy of National Peanut Board

Chicken nuggets, white bread pb&j with the crusts cut off, soda, pasta, and maybe carrots if you feel like sitting around and bargaining for a couple hours. The definition of picky eaters may sound as if they are actually little kids but mostly they are people who have been raised on highly processed foods and have a hard time enjoying fresh vegetables because they never learned how. Interestingly, their dietary habits closely resemble those of college students, whose food preferences are limited by economic means, rather than tantrums.

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