Man who’s only eaten mac & cheese for 17 years explains why
Warning: This article contains details about eating disorders some readers may find triggering
A man has revealed he has spent the last 17 years of his life eating macaroni and cheese.
Austin Davis, a 20-year-old man from Florida, has explained his day-to-day life – including his dinner – in a short documentary by Vice.
He lives with his grandparents, Richard and Fay, in a small town called Keystone Heights, northeast of Gainesville.
In one scene, Davis visits a grocery store with the documentary crew and says nothing else on the shelves excites his taste buds, while the raw meat section is a ‘hellscape’ and he’s unfamiliar with most vegetables.
The only thing he’ll buy for himself when at the store is Velveeta macaroni and cheese because it’s the most ‘consistent’ and ‘always tastes pretty much the same’.
“I don’t wanna say I’m addicted to mac and cheese because it sounds so weird, but my body wont let me eat anything else,” he said.
“I didn’t choose to be like this.”
The young man has a large cupboard stacked with macaroni and cheese boxes at home and in the documentary, he’s filmed as he whips up a pot of his go-to dish before eating his ‘comfort food’ at his desk while watching YouTube.
He knows he has a problem and even said he’s ‘sick of it’, but doesn’t want to open up his diet to anything else.
“When I try to eat new foods, the first thing that happens is like blinders on the food,” Davis explained.
“It gets to the point where it’s like somehow in my hand, I’m about to eat it like, as soon as it enters my mouth, it’s just like a sensory overload of all the things – ‘this is the texture, this is consistency, this is how it feels in your mouth, oh God there’s the taste and there’s a bunch of new flavours that you’ve never experienced before,’ even if I like what I’m trying, I’ll still have this involuntary gag.”
Austin Davis always eats the same…..