# Ever witness someone eat a normal food in a really strange way? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748 "2007-06-04T20:22:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/61 "2007-06-05T12:06:31Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] I do the same thing! It’s the only way to eat a muffin, says me. [/QUOTE] Wow! I have never met anyone who ate a muffin like me. Someone once remarked after seeing me eat a muffin she would never eat another one. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/62 "2007-06-05T12:20:37Z")
I havben’t seen this, but I’d like to. Robert Heinlein, in his non-fiction travel book **Tramp Royale** , describes how South Americans eat fruit – using a fruitknife and a fork, neatly dissecting the fruit without ever touching it with their hands. Do they still do this? Has anyone seen it? Is it still commonly done? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/63 "2007-06-05T13:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] I remember when I was a teenager for a while I used to make a snack by getting a slice of white bread, cutting of the crusts, putting on a slice of cheese and then folding, rolling and squeezing the whole mess into a little ball. [/quote] It’s a great way to show argumentative kids that _maybe their hands did actually need washing_. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/64 "2007-06-05T13:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Oh, I love this! I slice strawberries up very thin, then cover them with balsamic vinegar and let them steep in the fridge for a couple days. Then I spoon them, vinegar and all, over good vanilla ice cream, preferably Breyer’s. I haven’t met anyone yet who appreciates this like I do, but it is awesome. [/QUOTE] I just had this for the first time this past weekend. I thought my tongue was going to explode with joy. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/65 "2007-06-05T13:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I eat my Snickers with a knife and fork. …What, you _don’t_? [/QUOTE] Um…my husband actually does this. He did it the other day and I found it highly unnerving. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/66 "2007-06-05T14:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] I am one of the most non-violent people you will ever meet, and yet this thread makes me want to punch someone. [/QUOTE] I kinda know what you mean. If I was eating with someone and they started to disect their pizza and scrape the sauce off I would feel like standing up, flipping the entire table and it’s contents onto the floor, and scream “what the hell are you doing?!!” ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/67 "2007-06-05T14:43:17Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Wow! I have never met anyone who ate a muffin like me. Someone once remarked after seeing me eat a muffin she would never eat another one. [/QUOTE] You mean there are people who actually just take a big honking bite out of a muffin? No foolin’? Iiieeeeewwww. Muffins are only to be eaten by pulling off a bit at a time. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/68 "2007-06-05T14:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] I kinda know what you mean. If I was eating with someone and they started to disect their pizza and scrape the sauce off I would feel like standing up, flipping the entire table and it’s contents onto the floor, and scream “what the hell are you doing?!!” [/QUOTE] Yeah, but I don’t do that _in public_. Eat with a knife and fork, yes - I don’t want pizza on my clothes, but the whole disecting thing is at home only. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/69 "2007-06-05T15:20:42Z")
Oh, here’s something: where I went to school, it was the fashion, when hamburgers and potato chips were served, to put the potato chips INTO the hamburgers. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/70 "2007-06-05T15:33:11Z")
I was raised by parents who came of age during the great depression. Wasting food was not tolerated. You WILL eat the pizza crust. I don’t hate the crust, just that it is rather dry, and not how I want to finish the meal. So I always eat the crust first, then the rest of the slice. All my friends make fun of me for eating my pizza “backwards”. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/71 "2007-06-05T15:39:31Z")
Good pizza can only be eaten with a knife and fork. Ask anyone from Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/72 "2007-06-05T15:42:22Z")
I’ve got a friend who really tries my patience while eating out. I’m sure his mom really would be disgusted at the way he eats. He always eats with a knife and fork, as is the common European style but he is so focused on every single aspect of the meal. It’s quite irritating but I don’t know why. Every single bite will be a perfect combination of meat and sauce, or potatoes and such. And he’s so annoyingly focused on eating that it’s mainly annoying because he can’t even hardly hold a conversation while he eats, and at the end, he uses his knive to get any remaining sauce or juice left. Is plate will literally be clean. I find that so nerve-wracking I don’t understand the thing about eating all of your food. I think it’s a horrible idea. Just throw it away, what’s the point in treating your body like a trashcan? Any extra calories you consume will be converted into fat anyway. ---
**Author:** ![amelioration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@amelioration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amelioration)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/73 "2007-06-05T15:46:04Z")
This thread reminds me of when **Alistair McCello** and I went out to eat a couple days ago, and he was very amused by the way I ate a Chinese donut (which are the size of donut holes): cutting them into three pieces or so and eating them with a fork. Apparently I do that with donuts fairly often, but I don’t even notice. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Christopher** > Good pizza can only be eaten with a knife and fork. Ask anyone from Chicago. It’s so true! There’s a Chicago-style pizza place near my college with absolutely amazing pizza, and it would be impossible to eat it any other way. It’s so very thick, stringy, saucy and delicious. Mmm. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/74 "2007-06-05T15:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] Oh, here’s something: where I went to school, it was the fashion, when hamburgers and potato chips were served, to put the potato chips INTO the hamburgers. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. [/QUOTE] That really rocks on a peanut butter sammich. ---
**Author:** ![Freezair\_SilverEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Freezair\_SilverEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freezair_SilverEye)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/75 "2007-06-05T15:47:35Z")
Before I can eat a grilled cheese sandwich, I must carefully spread a layer of ketchup on top of it before it becomes edible. Tried it one day as an alternative to tomato soup and never looked back. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/76 "2007-06-05T15:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] I’d ask if you are my dad, but he’s dead. I heard that little ditty approximately 1,345,489 times in my life. Today is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone but my dad say it. You’re really making me miss my dad. Stop it. [/QUOTE] My dad used to say this all the time, too. ---
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/77 "2007-06-05T15:52:24Z")
I eat one thing at a time. I generally eat whatever would taste the worst cold first. Turkey dinner would probably go like this: broccoli, then squash, then mashed potatoes, stuffing and turkey last. I will actually turn my plate so what I am eating is directly in front of me. When my daughter was born my husband insisted I give her a bite of cereal then a bite of fruit (“and repeat until gone”) so I didn’t “break her”. My husband and kids like to put grape jelly on their grilled cheese sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/78 "2007-06-05T15:58:20Z")
Many years ago I was in Palm Springs on a business trip and decided to eat in one of the local Mexican restaurants. A couple of tables away from me was a young lady. When her food was served, she pulled a pair of chopsticks out of her purse and ate her Mexican meal with them. FTR, she did not appear to be asian, and seemed to be a typical college coed. ---
**Author:** ![Freezair\_SilverEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Freezair\_SilverEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freezair_SilverEye)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/79 "2007-06-05T15:59:32Z")
I’m also guilty of dipping French fries in milkshakes, but I picked this up from my mother. Message board scuttlebutt from various places suggests this is not an uncommon practice, either. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748/80 "2007-06-05T16:00:40Z")
[QUOTE=Hunter Hawk] This is how I eat bananas. If you try to peel a banana from the stem end, the tip gets squooshed, which is revolting. [/QUOTE] Not if you take a knife and make a small quick slice at the top, just below the stem (kind of like you’re slitting its little banana-y throat), then pull. Peels nicely, no tip squooshage. I tend to sort the M&Ms by color first. I mean, not the whole bag – just the handful I’m working on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-witness-someone-eat-a-normal-food-in-a-really-strange-way/406748.md?page=5)