# Do you make noises while you eat?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 4, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883 "2008-04-04T03:14:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/1 "2008-04-04T03:14:58Z")
I need to think about something besides meth. So:
Do you make sounds pf pleasure while you eat? I mean real pleasure sounds. Quiet, vaguely orgasm-like sounds. My long lost gf did, and so does a woman at work. It seems unconscious to me. When I asked her (the woman at work) “good lunch, huh?”, she just stopped and said “Yeah, really good”.
That’s all.
Peace,
mangeorge
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/2 "2008-04-04T03:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
I need to think about something besides meth. So:
Do you make sounds pf pleasure while you eat? I mean real pleasure sounds. Quiet, vaguely orgasm-like sounds. My long lost gf did, and so does a woman at work. It seems unconscious to me. When I asked her (the woman at work) “good lunch, huh?”, she just stopped and said “Yeah, really good”.
That’s all.
Peace,
mangeorge
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First of all, yes I do. Only when alone, with my best friend, or with my husband.
With my best friend, because she understands and does it too. With my husband because he says he likes when I do it. I wouldn’t do it around anyone else because I wouldn’t want to gross anyone out.
ETA: and why are you needing a distraction from thinking of meth? What’s goin’ on?
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/3 "2008-04-04T04:12:51Z")
I might make yummy sounds if I’m eating a Schwartzwald Kirchetort.
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### Author:  [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/4 "2008-04-04T04:17:11Z")
If I accidentally put something way too hot in my mouth I point my face to the ceiling with my mouth wide open and go, “AH AH AH AH!”
Does that count?
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/5 "2008-04-04T04:52:08Z")
The other firefighters at hubby’s station make fun of him for “making love to his food.”
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/6 "2008-04-04T04:57:46Z")
No. I go out of my way to make sure that I don’t draw attention to myself. No slurping, no chewing loudly or with my mouth open, none of that stuff. Frankly, I find people who do that sort of thing to be utterly repellent. If that’s your thing, stay away from me while you’re eating.
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### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/7 "2008-04-04T05:01:35Z")
If I’m eating on my own, no (short of burning myself & going “ouch” or “ahh”).
If I’m with hubby or my best friend, and I’m eating something neither of us have tried before and it’s really, really good I’ll go “Mmmmm”
Apart from that I try to avoid eating noises.
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### Author:  [@ignis\_glaciesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignis_glaciesque)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/8 "2008-04-04T05:02:24Z")
I sometimes do the whole ‘om nom nom nom’ thing, if I’m trying to be cute.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/9 "2008-04-04T07:05:18Z")
It’s considered good manners when eating ramen.
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### Author:  [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/10 "2008-04-04T07:40:38Z")
Only in front of SO or good friends. And only if the food is worth it.
In public? No. It’s kinda like eating buffalo wings or ribs…an activity best left to the privacy of one’s home.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/11 "2008-04-04T07:53:53Z")
If it’s especially nice food, I’ll sometimes show my appreciation by not suppressing my groans of delight, otherwise, I try to keep quiet.
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/12 "2008-04-04T08:05:18Z")
Does burping count?
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### Author:  [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/13 "2008-04-04T11:53:12Z")
I have TMJ, hence I cannot help but make clunky noises when I eat. Aside from that, no.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/14 "2008-04-04T12:27:49Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
No. I go out of my way to make sure that I don’t draw attention to myself. No slurping, no chewing loudly or with my mouth open, none of that stuff. Frankly, I find people who do that sort of thing to be utterly repellent. If that’s your thing, stay away from me while you’re eating.
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Ditto.
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### Author:  [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/15 "2008-04-04T13:14:56Z")
No. I would have been left to the wolves if I’d ever made noises while eating as a child. Aside from that, it really squicks me out to hear people making noises like that while eating.
\*I do slurp my ramen, though. Not loud, gross slurps, but audible, and only when in my own home or in the company of Asians.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/16 "2008-04-04T13:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
No. I go out of my way to make sure that I don’t draw attention to myself. No slurping, no chewing loudly or with my mouth open, none of that stuff. Frankly, I find people who do that sort of thing to be utterly repellent. If that’s your thing, stay away from me while you’re eating.
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Yes.
I love my grandma a whole lot, but I’ve seen her bloody death played out in Technicolor detail in my head many a time just because I sat next to her during a meal.
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/17 "2008-04-04T13:27:43Z")
I’m sort of a loud swallower, particularly since my thyroid removal where they messed around in there. I have trouble swallowing certain types of things because of the texture - if it’s sort of slippery, it seems to spasm since the surgery. But other than that, no. When I’m in company, if I really like something I’ll make a remark about how good it is.
StG
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/18 "2008-04-04T13:28:02Z")
According to **L’ilChief** , I “chew loudly.”
My mouth is closed, I don’t slurp. I just bite and chew. He’s the only one who has ever mentioned it to me.
Maybe it’s because he’s a teenager and _everything_ I do annoys him.
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/19 "2008-04-04T13:45:17Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer]
It’s considered good manners when eating ramen.
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I remember that from when I was there in the mid 60s (Navy), yums and slurping at the noodle house. I loved it. 😉
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-make-noises-while-you-eat/443883/20 "2008-04-04T14:57:25Z")
I’m with Doors, Beetle and Cell. I’m quiet and I really don’t enjoy eating in front of people either.
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