I feel you, I leave the peppers on the sizzling dish and off the tortilla
I once knew a guy who would mix all the food on his plate and then eat it. Yes, it looked pretty nasty. I asked him why, and he told me that it all gets mixed in the stomach anyway. Might as well give the digestive system a head start. So I guess food is in the eye of eater, or you might say; "different strokes for different folks".