# Is eating a snack while taking a dump disgusting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763 "2000-10-05T13:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/21 "2000-10-05T17:24:13Z")
I’m glad I reread the previous post. I thought it said “a narrow rectum of gratification,” which, given the thread subject, is just too much scatology for one man to take. As far as the OP goes - Yes. It is disgusting. Am I the only man here who doesn’t have some weird connection to the toilet? I have business to attend to there. I go, I attend to my business. I leave. It isn’t the most comfortable seat in the house, the lighting could be better, the exhaust fan sounds like the space shuttle taking off, the whole attraction just escapes me. Eating? Drinking your morning coffee? Shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/22 "2000-10-05T20:08:47Z")
Every magazine I get, is poop-reading. But I could never, ever eat in the bathroom. No f’n way. My sister ate a pizza while taking a dump before. I almost beat her up. That’s disgusting. –Tim, “In one end and out the other” ---
**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:** [October 5, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/23 "2000-10-05T20:33:15Z")
If you are walking around a mall with a cup of coffee and you suddenly have to go really bad, what do you do? Leave the coffee somewhere outside, or take it into the bathroom, hoping nobody sees you. ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/24 "2000-10-05T20:35:45Z")
God that’s gross. I agree with the post about the smell. Doesn’t it bother you to inhale the fumes of feces while eating? Plus, give you digestive system one chore at a time. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/25 "2000-10-05T20:43:23Z")
Have I eaten food while crapping? Yes, but not very often. For the most part, the “fumes” destroy any real appetite I might have had on entering the bathroom. However, sometimes I’m eating something that doesn’t lend itself well to being just set aside and picked up later (suckers, apples, the last two bites of a sandwhich, etc.) so I just finish eating in the john. And, yes, I often pretend to poop just to take a break. And, no, the living room is emphatically **not** as relaxing. I crave privacy. I’m quite asocial. The bathroom, whilst I’m in it, is my domain and mine alone. There’s no beating the feeling of having your own little section of tranquility. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/26 "2000-10-05T20:59:00Z")
If you must eat some kind of food while taking a dump, please please **PLEASE** don’t make it one of those large-sized Tootsie Rolls! ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/27 "2000-10-05T21:03:28Z")
C’mon people, there’s nothing wrong with it. Might as well kill two birds with one stone; otherwise, the time spent on the toilet is basically wasted. (except for the essential task of excreting waste, but you know) So go ahead, put something in to replace the stuff you’re leaving. And I’m anosmic, so the smell doesn’t affect me. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/28 "2000-10-05T21:22:06Z")
This is really taking multi-tasking too far. (Actually - pooping, eating, getting blown by your s.o. and posting to the SDMB all at once would be taking it even farther) ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/29 "2000-10-05T21:31:21Z")
> [@](#): > > And I’m **anosmic** , so the smell doesn’t affect me. Scurrying over to my online dictionary… ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/30 "2000-10-05T21:36:13Z")
I was thinking several years ago about taboos I would never, ever break. Eating while on the toilet was at the top of the list. It just seems to me so very, very wrong. And while eating and defecating are inexorably linked, I prefer to keep the two processes separate. This thread, the peeing in the shower thread, ah the wonder of SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/31 "2000-10-05T21:41:12Z")
Okay, you relaxing on the john folks, I’ll take your word for it that it is relaxing. Still don’t understand it, but I’ll just accept it. > [@](#): > > I feel sorry for people who don’t understand the pleasure of a leisurely dump. But I just don’t understand how one takes a leisurely dump…how long does it take to come out?!? I’m not criticising here, it just baffles me how the process could be stretched out, so to speak. Maybe you just have more pooh than me, I don’t know. 😕 If you enjoy it that much though, feel free to take as long as you want. Once we get another bathroom, MisterTot can consider it his own private sancutuary. ---
**Author:** ![BrothaTJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@BrothaTJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrothaTJ)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/32 "2000-10-05T21:50:45Z")
I have trouble even going into the bathroom while I’m still chewing food, even if it’s not in my hands. That’s a psychological thing. I’d say it’s definitely weird to be munchin while crappin though. Me, I’m a “Shit in and get out” kinda guy. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/33 "2000-10-05T23:06:17Z")
I feel as if I’m really getting to know folks here now… ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/34 "2000-10-05T23:13:08Z")
Considering the congruency between sense of taste and sense of smell, yeah, I’d say it’s disgusting. It gives me an idea for another thread though… ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/35 "2000-10-05T23:27:16Z")
It’s not as bad as actually _preparing_ your meal in the bathroom, but yeah, it’s pretty sick. **tatertot** , the process itself doesn’t really take that long. If we are in a hurry we too can be in and out in no time. It just seems to be a male ritual to sit back and relax. A little private time. Like **Homer** , every magazine I get in the mail goes right into the bathroom so I have plenty of reading material for the next “session.” Hell, there’s been times when my feet and or ass have fallen asleep from lack of circulation because I’ve been on the throne so long. Now [slight hijack], how about watching TV while on the toliet? Or, if the angle doesn’t work, leaving the door wide open so you can hear the TV? I do this a a lot too. (Although not very often when I have visitors.) ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/36 "2000-10-05T23:34:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Purd Werfect \* > \*\*I feel as if I’m really getting to know folks here now… \*\* Purd welcome to the straightdope. 🙂 Reading material for the bathroom? My vote is reader’s digest. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/37 "2000-10-06T00:17:20Z")
In my college apartment, we have a bathroom reading selection of Smithsonian and Maxim. It makes a nice contrast. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/38 "2000-10-06T00:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gazoo \* > **Hell, there’s been times when my feet and or ass have fallen asleep from lack of circulation because I’ve been on the throne so long.** There’s been TIMES? It’s a freaking common occurance! You gotta do the shift’n’slide sometimes to keep 'em alive. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/39 "2000-10-06T01:31:08Z")
AAAAhhh!! I hate that. I have it all the time. Sometimes, you don’t really know, and you get up after wiping, and you nearly fall over because of your legs being asleep. Imagine what would happen if you fall, hit your head on the sink and pass out! They’ll find you unconscious and bare-assed! ---
**Author:** ![Omega007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9adbd/32.png) [@Omega007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega007)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763/40 "2000-10-06T02:06:58Z")
I haven’t eaten while I’ve been on the crapper, but I do an imense amount of reading. Now I’m not talking about Playboy, Life, Time, or anything like that. I’m talking about serious reading. Especially when I was in high school. I got most of my required reading done on the crapper. I’ve read all of great expectations, Some of Romeo and Juliet, Parts or Hamlet and MacBeth, I’ve also read Heart of Darkness while taking a dump. I’ve read many great classics while crapping and I’ve found it’s a perfect reading place. I don’t get interupted or anything. I am left to myself to read what I please. So to answer you question I haven’t eaten while taking a dump but I have done something just as weird and no I don’t think you are weird for doing. No more than I am for reading the classics on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-eating-a-snack-while-taking-a-dump-disgusting/35763.md?page=3)