ABSTRACT
There are picky eaters, and then there are picky eaters. According to Hana Zickgraf, who has studied this form of eating, it is a "rigidity of presentation" that leads some to reject "foods that have touched other foods." Many picky eaters don't even like different foods to mix in their mouths, and some eat the different foods on their plate one at a time. Of course, with food, some things go together better than others. A lot of folks enjoy spaghetti and meatballs, which combines noodles, meat, spices, and tomatoes among other things. There's a parallel with criminological theory—some people like mixing, others don't. Some scholars believe that a dish served with a dash of social learning and a heaping of social control, cooked at just the right temperature, produces a more powerful theoretical recipe of behavior. Others, however, are picky theorists—they oppose any mixing and prefer theories to remain "separate and unequal".
