# For the love of God, please don't talk with your mouth full! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964 "2008-09-10T16:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/1 "2008-09-10T16:53:47Z")
Seriously, isn’t this something we learned in kindergarten? I respect that you work through lunch and all, but would it kill you to swallow the contents of you mouth before speaking to me, or more importantly, to a customer?!?? ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/2 "2008-09-10T17:46:17Z")
Amen! That’s one of my pet peeves as well. I can’t understand why someone who is old enough to know better isn’t also mature enough to act better. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/3 "2008-09-11T01:32:38Z")
I have a couple of cousins who were never taught manners at the table. They were pigs when they were little, and they’re pigs now as teens. HUGE pet peeve or mine with the full-mouth talking. It’s just plain disgusting. Oh, and chewing while on the phone - whether it’s your lunch or gum. STOP IT!! I’ll hang up on you. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/4 "2008-09-11T04:52:37Z")
Or chewing gum, and cracking it, with your mouth open. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/5 "2008-09-11T08:55:17Z")
Conversely, I find it annoying when people won’t talk if there’s any food at all in their mouth. There’s a happy medium in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/6 "2008-09-11T13:06:54Z")
I have a friend who occasionally mentioned that bad habit of mine to me, but really bitched about it to a mutual friend, who relayed Friend 1’s bitching to me. I’m much better about it now but when Friend 1 & I eat together, she inevitably will ask me something when I’ve just taken a big bite of something! I’m not sure she doesn’t do it deliberately.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/7 "2008-09-11T13:14:14Z")
Related to this is smacking. As for when they talk to you and you have food in your mouth, don’t speak. The first words you say after wards is sorry I couldn’t speak with food in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-talk-with-your-mouth-full/462964/8 "2008-09-11T16:32:57Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Related to this is smacking. I find smacking to be even more disgusting. I don’t care much about talking with a full mouth, but when I’m reminded throughout the entire meal of the other person’s digestive process, it really folds up my appetite and hides it somewhere. Takes me hours to get it back again. > [@](#): > > As for when they talk to you and you have food in your mouth, don’t speak. The first words you say after wards is sorry I couldn’t speak with food in my mouth. Nah. If your mouth is full, and they see you have food in your mouth, and they still insist on conversing with you… then you responding with a full mouth is fair game. In other words, it’s equally rude to ask someone a question while they are masticating.