• uniquely-ironic said on Oct 29, 2007....

  I hate it when people have self imposed severely restricted diets.  The other day I arranged for a luncheon for one of my departments.  Two of the out of town staff members told my boss they could not eat the pizza I ordered because they were on a salads only diet.  I had to make a second trip to town just for them.  To me that seemed excessive.  When you're at a work function you eat what's offered or you fend for yourself.
   
  I also hate eating with people who eat off of my plate too.  You know, "Can I have a bite of that?" kind of people who polish off 1/2 of your meal.  They also rarely reciprocate.

• hinana said on Oct 29, 2007....

  i dont really have a problem with people eating habits as long as theyre not either starving themselves.

  but the one thing i cant stand about people while theyre eating, is the sound.

  im really wierd about that, i honestly hate hate hate the sound of people chewing, ESPECIALLY when theyre the type who chew really really loud.

• silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2007....

  i hate it when people cannot close their mouths when chewing or insist on sharing every single sound with everyone around them.
  
  ed

• moonriver said on Oct 29, 2007....

  beyond -- having been around a lot, it's a miracle i've kept a lot of my own impeccable eating habits like mama taught all of us... but on the other hand, i also think i've come to tolerate and even try eating habits that would have been blacklisted in my parents' house. such as...
  
  ... talking about repulsive things at dinner (we three boys actually specialized in doing this when our parents and sister we not around the table with us)
  
  ... eating with one's hand while standing, holding the plate with the other hand (i do this often at the office just to set a good example...lol)
  
  ... picking one's nose with the little finger while doing #1 and #2... i absolutely won't do this myself, but when i see a person doing it, i intently watch him do the surgical procedure, and when he finishes, i ask him, "can you do the other nostril and see if you notice that a bigger booger has fallen onto your plate?"
  
  i'm not making this up... one of my friends from way back, the artist who first befriended michaela, really does this when he's all focused on his painting session.
  
  
  

• beyondtheveil said on Oct 29, 2007....

  unique- I would never send someone out in a situation like a work function. It makes me wonder about those who would even ask. I also wonder if they would have done that for you. The "bite" thing bothers me too. I've also run into many who insist I taste something off their plate- that's worse for me.
  
  hinana- You would have been pleased to sit in the same room with my two sons eating chips. I could have heard them outside.
  
  Ed- Not closing the mouth is one of the worst. Also, that lip smacking thing has got to go- just tell me its good.
  
  moon- Ah, the young boy's repulsive dinner conversation, now that I remember being guilty of. That surgical procedure is beyond my capability, I have never been that focused. A friend of mine that I always visit in my hometown eats dinner standing at his house. I've asked him why and he has no idea. I think its because he got divorced and can.
  

• moonriver said on Oct 29, 2007....

  beyond -- see? we all got skeletons in our dining room drawers...lol.
  
  i'm also asked why i occasionally eat standing up (only in certain settings, though). i sometimes tell them with a smile, "to make sure the food is firmly tamped down inside." or "to show you it could be done."
  
  i'd never do it when sophie and the kids are around, though... she'd probably glower like hell's fury and ask me to either sit down and eat at the table or eat outside with the dogs...lol.
  
  i think i picked this up from way way back when i was a union organizer, attending impromptu meetings at miners' homes, where this seemed to be the norm when the many visitors couldn't all sit around the small table.
  
  which reminds me, when i first immersed among them, the workers always chided me for eating soooo slowly (all the while, i had thought i was a normal-paced eater...), while i noticed that most of them seemed to wolf down their food in 10 minutes flat. later, i realized that it was how they adapted to 15-min lunch breaks.
  
  

• crybabylu said on Oct 29, 2007....

  I think my eating habits are within the correct boundaries, because that was   something really drilled in my head as I was growing up, but It doesn't really bother me too much about other peoples eating habits.  In my line of work, there are few surprises,and after awhile, you almost don't even notice.

  But!  if I had to pick something, I think it would be "That kind of snorting sound that comes out of some peoples noses, when they are gulping their food down."  You know, when you almost want to hand them a hanky, because " surely", they want to blow their nose or something.   Ha!  just being funny, here!

• lfbno7 said on Oct 29, 2007....

  Most annoying eating habit to me has already been mentioned above.  People who just won't close their mouth when they chew.  You hear every sound.  You tell them, at gunpoint, aiming an atom bomb at their heads, to please close your mouth when you eat, and they still won't, nukes be damned.  And they answer "I'm just eating!"

• secretlife said on Oct 29, 2007....

  my girlfriend can't stand it when someone touches their fork to their teeth---it drives her up a wall....like fingernails on a blackboard she says.....
   
  eating with her drives me nuts. 

• gingersoul said on Oct 29, 2007....

  I hate, simply hate people who eats with their mouth open...its gross, disgusting..it tells me so much about that person i don't ven know where to start..

  I myself have a big no no...dont let me hear, please, the sound of  a fork scratching the plate....it makes my gums jump to my ears.....

  Secret...do you think its the same thing of your friend?....lol.. 

• polarheart said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Hi Beyond!
   
  I am a bit of a pain when it comes to such things.  Things that give me goosebumps in a bad way are: scratching knives and forks on the plate; squeeky teeth (some people's teeth actually squeek when they chew); slurping and sucking sounds; people who dont mind half their food actually stuck around the outside of their lips without wiping it off; open mouthed eaters; talking whilst eating; watching someone put food in their mouth and immediately take a drink of something so you know the food & drink are in their mouth at the same time!
   
  As I said, I am a bit of a pain when it comes to this! LOL

• ellamae14 said on Oct 30, 2007....

  polar : my sister make that squeeking sound when she chew her food. fortunately it's something she can control. She just used that "squeeky" chewing sound to annoy me because it sounds so much like a rat was being murdered inside. it gross me out so much that i'll strangle her just to make her stop.....
  
  unique and beyond : I also hate it when people take food from my plate. Especially when someone else drink in my glass. and I don't feel comfortable to take food from someone else's plate even if it was offered...
  
  and another thing, when someone did not even checked his/her teeth after eating and kept on talking and smiling and you can actually guess what he/she had for lunch or dinner. I don't have patience for such..

• lfbno7 said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Ooo, can I have some of that, it looks so good.  Hey, look over there - Elvis!  It's Elvis!
  
  haha made ya look, so I could swipe something from your plate.
  

• scipio said on Oct 30, 2007....

  People who talk with their mouth full.

• destinydiva said on Oct 30, 2007....

  my mum smells her food before she puts it in her mouth! always has done :-) my youngest daughter does too,
  my eldest daughter is funny, she eats pizza upside down! :-)
  I hate it when people eat with their mouth open
  :-) xx
  

• scipio said on Oct 30, 2007....

  DD -

  Your mum smells food before putting food in the mouth. My mum has smells salt only before putting the same in the cooking pot. Not with any other spices or condiments. Wonder what the reason was ???

• hotaka said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Ex-gf's grandmother used to talk while eating rice. I used my napkin as a shield.
  
  Don't you hate it when you go out with people you don't know who order a shit load of food for everyone to share and after they scarf down way more than you can they insist we all split the bill evenly?
  
  I had no idea what to do with my food at the Asian buffet last night. I am sure the chef would have cringed if she had seen the way I just mixed and loaded stuff on my plate. Heck, I didn't know what everything was. I just picked whatever looked good. Later I found I was supposed to put certain things together. Well, it tasted good to me the way I ate it.
  

• lfbno7 said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Des your oldest daughter sounds very smart to me.  When I was a kid I used to have pizza by eating the crust first.  I think that is what you meant by eating pizza upside down.  I may be wrong though.  Does she eat while standing on her head?  Or does she turn the cheese and sauce side down towards the floor?

• Fallyn said on Oct 30, 2007....

  my mom fills her mouth too full when she eats.
  not sure if she just has a small mouth or what...but she looks like an overstuffed chipmunk....and it drives me batty.
  
  my ex. he wouldn't eat a LOT of different foods. he had to have meat at EVERY meal, if it wasn't perfectly done i had to cook him something else.....if someone else cooked the meal i would STILL have to cook him his own meal.....he couldn't eat other peoples cooking.....
  PICKYNESS is my BIGGEST no no for food. especially from GROWN MEN.
  

• secretlife said on Oct 30, 2007....

  ging: she doent like the sound of the fork on the plate either!

• MissMimi said on Oct 30, 2007....

  fork scraping on the plate, no question.  My other half scrapes up every microscopic bit of food on the plate, and it just makes my teeth buzz. 

  Another one is holding the fork or spoon like a three year old.  I had a friend in college who used to hold his fork like a shovel.  He put his head down and just slurped it all in.

  No elbows on the table, use your napkin, not your shirtsleeve.

• missread said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Smacking while eating, scraping the fork on the plate, and slurping while drinking all make me wish I had a hearing aid to turn off the noise! It all sounds so nasty!!! mr 

• uniquely-ironic said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Just thought of another one that probably drives people crazy.  Unfortunately it was (and sometimes is) mine.

  When I was a kid I would insist on the food not touching.  All the different types of food had to be completely seperated.  Then, I would eat whatever was directly in front of me and turn the plate clockwise to the next item, etc.  I don't turn the plate anymore, but there are some foods that I don't like mixing.  I love those sectional paper plates, a godsend.

• lfbno7 said on Oct 30, 2007....

  UI, I'm a little like that myself.  Funny to see someone else doing it.  I'm so methodical about eating.  Finish one thing, then go on to another.  If I have peas and carrots I'll eat all of the peas before going after the carrots.

• quietone said on Oct 30, 2007....

  The only thing that bothers me is someone hacking while eating...like they have something stuck in their throat.  There was a guy at work that sat at our table that did that...Or someone who will blow their nose right there facing you at the tabel with their napkin, and then put it back on the table.  I also don't like the sound of teeth hitting the fork.  But, I can eat my peas and carrots together!! LOL

• CreativeWoman said on Oct 30, 2007....

  I don't like when people smack their lips while they are eating.  I also hate when people eat so fast that they get food all over their face , wipe it off with their hands, and then rub it on their pants.  Yuck.
  
  CW
  

• Eilan said on Oct 30, 2007....

  I don't like lip-smacking and fork-scraping.  I also prefer that my foods don't touch; my husband's the same way.
  
  My private eating habits can be somewhat bizarre, probably bordering on the disordered at times.
  

• pookiedookie said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Some who goes to an "all you can eat buffet", and gulps down there food, almost inhaling, then sits there and picks his teeth, berps real loud, and passes gas, then turns to you and smiles.

• beyondtheveil said on Oct 30, 2007....

  moon- My wife's cousin married an educated and very proper girl from Mexico. We love her (more than her cousin) but she eats so sloooow. We have to allow an extra hour for her when we go out to eat. At home it doesn't matter.
  
  crybaby- Hey, I've heard that snorting. I just roll my eyes and go on.
  
  7- Undoubtedly, a fear of everyone at the table, an open mouth eater. So gross.
  
  secret- Is that the sound of biting on the fork and pulling it out of the mouth? If so, I find myself waiting for the next one. And the next, and the next.
  
  ginsoul- You know, it does tell something about the person who eats with their mouth open. Is it possible to enjoy any meal when this happens? I never could.
  
  polar- I laughed all the way through your comment, and you know what, its all true. I hadn't thought of food and drink in the mouth at the same time, but its not a good visual.
  
  ellamae- Oh geez, taking a drink from another's glass has to leave food behind, doesn't it? Another I hadn't thought of.
  
  scipio- A bozo-no no. That's as bad as eating with mouth open.
  
  des- I have before smelled food before eating, but don't do it regularly. I've never heard of eating pizza upside down. That has to be a first.
  
  hotaka- Oh, the rice flies, doesn't it? And as to the bill, another thing that bothers me is those who order the most expensive on the menu whether they want it or not. I have a son and nephew like that.
  
  fallyn- Ha ha- overstuffed chipmunk! I've seen many that had to get as much as possible on a fork before putting it into their mouth. And I see why your ex...is your ex. That must have been difficult to deal with. Picky eaters gripe my butt.
  
  secret- Ok, its the sound of the fork on the plate then, I don't like scraping the teeth either.
  
  mimi- I've seen so many men who held a fork like a caveman. I even knew one guy who not only scraped the plate clean, he licked it. I had only seen that from small children before meeting him.
  
  missread- Slurping while drinking- and milkline. No way.
  
  unique- Those sectional plates are a Godsend to many, in my experience.
  
  quiet- Blowing nose at the table is downright disgusting.
  
  CW- You and me both, on everything you said. Especially the pants thing.
  
  eilan- I have a cousin that not only wouldn't let food touch, she wouldn't allow more than one thing on the plate at a time.
  
  pookie- Oh, now that's a real pleaser. I've seen people at 'all you can eat' that ate more than I thought was possible.
  

• gingersoul said on Oct 30, 2007....

  Secret....ok, when we will go out for dinner together you promise not to scratch the fork on the plate and i promise of pretending to not hear if you do it.......lol....

• moonriver said on Oct 30, 2007....

  polar -- you know what's worse than the habit you described of food and water mixing inside the mouth? this: he takes a gulp of water but doesn't swallow it immediately. instead, he plays with the mixture inside his mouth a few seconds more, his cheeks puffing like when you rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth... and then he swallows. hahaha.
  
  oh yes, i can deal with it, i can watch the ritual with morbid fascination like a surgeon looks at an extracted bullet. i just get freaked out because, why does he have to do that? (there's even a worse habit, but i'm not telling you now because it's dinnertime in much of the western hemisphere as i write this...hahaha)
  
  

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