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For example:

  • When you open a fresh jar of peanut butter do you only work through one side until it is completely empty then start on the other side?

  • Or when you get those shallow tubs of hummus does it have to make it back home undisturbed? Then one of the baggers at the grocery store shoves it sideways into the bag completely ruining the symmetry.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My last bite should be of my favorite part of the meal. Finish my least favorite part first.

The greatest compliment I can pay a meal is that I couldn’t choose which part to make my last bite.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I do this too. It took a while for my wife to fully understand that if she wanted to try something on my plate, she better not wait til the last few bites

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[–] idunnololz 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used to do this but I have noticed one slight downside to this. My food goes cold by my last bite so the last bite does not have the optimal flavor.

My new thing is I try to eat my favorite part when I feel like the food is starting to go cold so I can still hit that peak.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Food should be finished at the same time. You work gradually around all of your sides and main dish so you have exactly one bite of each left, and then you finish your plate.

My SO drives me nuts because they can just eat the entirety of the main dish and then eat all of one side, and then all of another.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Eating one dish at a time ensures you're getting the full, unadulterated experience of the dish.

[–] weeeeum 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

But sides are made in consideration of the main course and are intended to be eaten/enjoyed together.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen anyone else ever do this and now I don't feel as alone.

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[–] TexasDrunk 21 points 8 months ago

I never want to eat in front of anyone who has replied to you so far. I'm a chaos eater. Nothing exists besides the current bite. I didn't remember what the last one was and haven't decided what the next one will be.

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[–] Just_Pizza_Crust 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Always eat the pizza crust. If you don't, I will.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

People who don‘t eat the crust shouldn‘t be allowed to eat pizza. Don‘t like the crust? Don‘t eat pizza. Aren‘t hungry enough? Eat it with the crust and pack the rest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I used to skip the pizza crust until I had a good pizza where the crust was just as good as the toppings.

That's why I think people who don't eat the crust haven't had good pizza.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Username checks out

[–] Naja_Kaouthia 43 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Food cannot touch on the plate. Each item must have a clearly defined DMZ between it and its neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago
[–] TexasDrunk 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was this way as a kid. I'm not sure when I stopped caring.

Carry on with your DMZ, soldier.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

A bite is not good unless it has a little of each thing on my plate. The flavors must all be in every bite.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I respect your opinion, but I am completely the other way.

A meal wants to be a journey through your flavors.
Each getting a small time to shine, before coming together in the end for that one last perfect bite.

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[–] MrJameGumb 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Any time I buy chips and dip I have to always work from the top of the dip down, trying to keep it level all the way down. I have no idea why I do this, but it drives me crazy otherwise. If someone else takes a chip and digs straight down to the bottom of the tub I just don't want it anymore lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am imagining the horrified look of the other people waiting to get some layered bean dip watch you take the top layer.

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[–] StickyDango 26 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Absolutely no digging in to the tub of butter, and no other food bits (usually bread crumbs) must be left inside.

If dug in to, it must be smoothed out before putting back in to the fridge. As for the crumbs, take them out and put them back on to the bread they came from. Now the butter can be put back in to the fridge.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago
[–] hperrin 24 points 8 months ago (7 children)

How good pickles are is inversely proportional to how whole they are.

  • Whole pickles: blegh
  • Pickle wedges: no thanks
  • Pickle strips: on a sandwich, sure
  • Pickle chips: yum, on a sandwich or alone
  • Diced pickles: oh yeah, please
  • Pickle relish: hell yeah!
[–] Quetzalcutlass 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Now all that's left is to try a pickle smoothie to confirm your theory.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

We've got to go all the way, time to vaporize pickles and inhale them

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[–] grasshopper_mouse 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Corn on the cob must be eaten from left to right. You must eat all the way around the cob so that section is clean before moving on to the next section. I suppose I'd accept right to left in the same fashion; it's the people who take totally random bites with no rhyme or reason or uniformity that make me crazy.

[–] june 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, I’m more typewriter with mine. Left to right in horizontal lines.

Question, do you rotate up or down? I always hate the first row because there isn’t a kernel to bite through cleanly with my eye teeth so I always rotate up.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

When I eat soft candies, I always have to bite them into pieces in a specific way. Like if I have a cola bottle gummy, I will bite off the "cap" first. If I have a gummy bear, I will bite the bottom legs off, separate the head from the arms and then split the legs and arms from each other. The gummy cherries, always bite the stem off first. Gummy bats, the wings separate from the body. Gummy coins I usually try to split down the circle, i.e. splitting in two thinner coins.

Most of the time it's just inside my mouth but sometimes I hold it in my hand and bite it off like that.

Also chocolate bars has to be eaten in the squares the bar is divided into. No splitting it across squares!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Bite their legs off first so they can't run. Smart.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I briefly microwave my ice cream before eating.

I don't want it to be soupy. I'm going for soft. And I am too impatient to let it sit on the counter a bit to reach that sweet spot of consistency.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (16 children)

There is no 5 second rule. If it touches the floor it's literally inedible.

[–] LordOfLocksley 16 points 8 months ago

Nice try household pest, that food is still mine

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[–] soar160 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sandwiches are eaten like a typewriter. It drives my partner bonkers, she says I'm nuts....jokes on her, she's still hanging around 😂

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sandwiches are eaten like a typewriter.

I'm so confused. You pivot your elbows and smash the sandwich into your face like the letters hitting the page? You take lots of fast, noisy bites like the sound of typing? You nibble the top piece of bread from left to right, then the filling from left to right, then the bottom, going 'ding!' in between?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don't hate crust but I prefer the texture of a sandwich without the crust, so I eat most of the crust before eating the rest of the sandwich... I usually only do this when eating alone lol

[–] theangryseal 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Haha, I always save the best for last. Same thing. Whatever I’m eating, I get the mediocre stuff out of the way first.

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[–] hperrin 18 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I will eat all of the chocolatey edges of a Kit Kat before I start to eat the wafer bit that’s left with just two thin layers on top and bottom at that point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Kitkat is from nestle . Just putting this information here its your choice to do what you want with it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only weird one I have is that I can't do cereal and milk. 100% rate of vomiting resulted the two times I tried. I grew up on dry cereal and will, for all roughly two times a year I eat it, continue that. No, I'm not interested in adding water/ice/juice; that's just making wet bread with extra steps. Doesn't bother me that others do it.

Being poor and living out of a car in my early 20s for a bit rid me of any childish restrictions otherwise.

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[–] lady_maria 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

When it comes to things like chocolate bars, cookies, brownies, pop-tarts, ect., I almost always pop them in the freezer for a bit because it changes the texture.

Cookies/brownies with chocolate chips/m&ms are the best for this, because the chips get crunchy, while the cookie part is chewier.

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[–] Maggoty 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Everything gets cut up before a pan gets turned on.

No plastic in the microwave. (Ceramics and glass only)

Range has to be clean before and after cooking.

Edit to add - can't believe I forgot this. I'll eat any leftovers cold and any fully cooked soup or chili cold too. I just don't care.

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[–] Bahnd 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The 200-mile rule. Sushi is amazing but raw fish has to be trasnported somehow. If your eating seafood and are not within 200 miles of a body of water where it could have been caught... Probably best to pick something else.

Montana is not famous for its aquatic cusine.

And I too do the peanutbutter thing you mentioned.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Vast majority of fish you're eating is flash frozen, even if you're on the coast.

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[–] j4k3 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I must eat from a small plate to make my little food seem big. NO BIG PLATES ALLOWED!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

My wife did that for a while. She stopped when she realized she was just piling the food higher instead

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

My wife pours the milk into an empty bowl then brings the cereal box to her seat and pours it in one spoonful at a time. She insists this makes sense to do, and it's the only way she'll eat cereal.

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[–] joe_archer 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A colleague of mine cannot allow beans to touch some other foods on their plate. So in an English breakfast for example, they require some kind of bean barrier, such as a sausage, to prevent the beans from touching other elements of food on their plate. I find this weird.

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