I’m almost entirely in @puzzlegal’s camp, but there are times…
Mostly, if I have a meal where a part of it will suffer a great deal from cooling, I’ll eat it first. French fries, yes, but a number of sauce based or gravy based dishes can go from sublime to slime very quickly if you don’t prioritize them.
Second, if I’m in a circumstance where I’m eating food chosen by another (dinner at a friends, my MiL, etc) and there’s something I really don’t want, I’ll take the smallest polite serving of it and get it out of the way first, so I can demure on having any more of whatever that food was. Then I’ll go back to my norm of having a bit of each to change up flavors.
So I could have answered with least to most in order, but instead chose the “not really, but don’t mind” option, both are mostly correct for me, depending on the circumstances.
Totally “Something else.” It depends on whether or not I’m eating alone, did I order fries or some other item which degrades rapidly when cool, do the items demand to be eaten together or not, etc.
The only time I eat in any order is when I order fried eggs and pancakes (or similar). Because I like to sop up the egg yolk with the bread. When I’m finished with the eggs, then I put syrup on the rest of the pancakes. If I have sausage or bacon, I wait on that until I’ve poured the syrup.
Other than that, I have no order at all, and don’t notice if anyone else is doing such a thing.
Something else, because it depends on what I’m eating.
Fries or onion rings before the sandwich.
Sandwich before potato chips.
Pancakes / waffles / french toast before sausage / bacon which is before orange juice.
Eggs before toast, which usually gets jelly spread on it, so it’s sort of like having a breakfast dessert.
Thanksgiving? No order whatsoever, and I don’t finish one food before the other. If I’m eating leftovers, I might even start with a bite of pumpkin pie.
Depending on the foods, I might even mix them altogether.
I usually eat a bit of each item. When I finish my meal I eat a final bite of each item.
I’ve started eating desserts like my daughter always has, her Zeno’s Dessert Paradox. She eats increasingly smaller bites as she consumes her dessert. Theoretically her cheesecake lasts forever.
I often mix things together on my plate, if it’s possible. A couple of my family members find that annoying. (both kids who had some food issues when they were young)
When I was a kid I was quite the opposite. I was very OCD about food – different food items could not touch each other. In fact, I insisted on a separate plate for each item, with separate utensils for each plate. Looking back on it, I’m surprised my parents tolerated it. Although I remember my uncle saying, with some exasperation, “They’re all going to be mixed together after you eat them!”
I won’t go so far as to eat all of one thing, then all of the next thing, and so on. But I’ll typically focus primarily on my least favorite item first, so that by the time I’m about halfway through the meal, that item is gone. By the time I’m about 75 percent of the way through, most of what’s left is my favorite item.
But if mashed potatoes are on the menu, the vegetables get mixed into them.
Well, I mean, I’m not going to allow something on my plate that I just plain don’t like. But I’ll certainly like some items better than others. At a restaurant, I’ll order the spicy chicken breast (assuming it’s on the menu) with two sides and be happy with everything I get. Even so, the green beans are going to be the first thing to disappear.
Re. “I was ogling over my sister’s new puppy (who lives across the road)”, my least favorite cow-orker wrote it in an email. I wanted to check that my 3 reasons for thinking it odd were real, and not just based on my dislike for this person.
For people who voted “Sounds odd to me for some other reason not mentioned in the poll”, what was the reason?
I didn’t check that the parenthetical was a problem, since referring to the puppy it’s fine, except I’d set it off with a comma rather than a pair of parentheses. If it’s supposed to refer to the sister, it’s in the wrong spot (I’d say “my sister-who-lives-across-the-road’s new puppy,” but I’d probably rephrase it in writing). I presume woman and dog cohabit.
The parenthetical reads as an awkward sentence construction to me, but not because it refers to the puppy. The puppy presumably does live across the road (as, I expect, does the sister).
I didn’t check that one, but did check the other two. I really hope they weren’t actually ogling the puppy; ewww. And I’ve never before heard/seen anybody say “ogling over”. I wonder if it was autoincorrect for “oohing over”?
The glasses poll is missing an option for ‘I never lose my glasses for more than a few minutes, because I see so badly without them that they’re always either on my face, within my reach, or at night in the bedside table’.
I, on the other hand, see well enough without them that I’ve sometimes forgotten to wear my glasses, but I only ever lost them once that I remember, and there wasn’t an option for “Never” or “Less than yearly.”
I used to be in @Thudlow_Boink’s shoes, but I’ve gotten old, and now I’m in @thorny_locust’s camp. Now, I wear contacts mostly, so my glasses are nearly always in one of two places: In their case on the bathroom counter or my face.
I almost always have my glasses on when I’m awake. When I take them off, there are exactly three places in the house where I might lay them down, depending on why I’m taking them off. It’s a rigid habit I’ve developed, and it’s been a lot of years since I’ve just out-and-out lost them for more than a minute or two. (And when I do momentarily misplace them on the odd occasion, finding them is simply a matter of asking myself if it’s in one of the other habitual places where I haven’t looked yet.)
Not saying it’s impossible that I could lose them. Just saying the habit has served me very well.
I’m firmly in the boat with @thorny_locust. I have a rule that I never set my glasses where I might sit on them or can’t see them because they blend in. In a year, I might put my glasses directly on the nightstand instead of putting them in their case, but I don’t lose them.
Ritz crackers are better for breaking up into chili or eating with smoked seafood. Town House crackers are better for cheese. Didn’t vote.