There are two types of people in this world: people who peel their food and people who dunk it.
I am a peeler. Kit Kats? Scrape all of the chocolate off each stick, peel each wafer apart, scrape off weird filling, eat wafers.
Oreos? Twist, scrape, eat.
Grapefruit? Peel, separate into sections, peel sections, eat.
So what about you? Peeler, dunker, or shudder mixture of the two?
I eat food; I don’t play with it. If it has a peel, I peel it. If it doesn’t have a peel, I don’t peel it.
What, pray tell, do you think a “dunker” does with a grapefruit?
Ditto.
I like complicated food with multiple ingredients. And if a food has multiple ingredients, I want to get all those ingredients in every bite. Otherwise what’s the point in putting them together in the first place? If you want a bare wafer, pray, tell, why would you buy a Kit Kat?
When I eat sandwich cookies, I just eat them as is, fully assembled. Although when I was a kid, I used to pull them apart and eat the half without the frosting first, then the half with the frosting. Delaying Gratification came naturally to me; it’s Carpeing the Diem that I’ve had to work on.
Yes, I have to agree with Nametag. Your premise is faulty.
Bite, chew, swallow. Bite, chew, swallow.
Things with inedible peels are the only things that require peeling for me. And I don’t like crumbs in my milk.
The concept is a false dichotomy. There are many types of people who approach food in different ways. Some people like to nibble the edge off a Reeses Cup before eating the inside and some eat an apple by eating the peel first then the flesh. Some do other things in different ways.
Approach the thread that way. How do people eat food in ways that might not be considered “standard?”
I eat pizza from the crust in. That way I don’t end up with dry crust at the end. I also like to eat cake from the bottom up, saving the frosting for last.
With whole chocolate (the kind without “bits” as they say here), I like to melt it in my mouth for as long as possible before I chew. I sometimes do this with chocolte with bits in, but it depends on the bits. Fruit bits and cookie bits are melties, nuts and carmel are eaten normally.
As previously mentioned, cake is eaten frosting last (although I like to get just a bit on the fork with each bite). Any flowers or decorations are eaten dead last.
Cookies are eaten edge last if I can help it, unless the cookie is crunchy, in which case, it is eaten all at once.
I am sure that I will think of more (and I know there there are savoury ones as well, I have just forgotten them).
Years ago, my method of eating a Snickers bar involved nibbling the chocolate off the sides and the bottom; then eating the bottom layer; and then eating the top gooey, nutty layer together with the chocolatey top. But I don’t do that anymore.
I have noticed the dunking/peeling type thing, at least as far as cookies goes. My husband dunks his cookies in milk. If I’m eating an Oreo-type cookie, I twist it apart, eat the plain side, and then eat the side with the creme filling.