# Single person stereotype - eating supper over the sink **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219 "2005-04-26T19:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/41 "2005-04-27T01:02:12Z")
> [@Cowgirl Jules](#): > > If I ate over the sink, where would I put my book? Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/42 "2005-04-27T01:02:22Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Have done, and do occasionally. > > Heh. It’s a guy thing. You wouldn’t understand. 😉😛 > > Oh – What is this ‘table’ of which you speak? 😕 dunno if this is a “table” per se, but i do have a big wooden thingy in the kitchen with chairs around it, it’s currently holding one of my fish tanks and some spare computer parts ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/43 "2005-04-27T01:08:22Z")
I’m with **lno** , if no one saw it happen, it didn’t happen. > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Where did this image come from? Also, exactly what is it supposed to portray? Sloth? Lonliness? Lack of couth? Depression? Sloth - see, if someone were put the food onto a plate, then he or she would have to clean the plate. But if that same person ate the food out of the same dish it was cooked in, fewer dishes! And no wiping the table after eating! Obviously, this is not appropriate for communal eating. But… ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/44 "2005-04-27T02:10:29Z")
Sometimes I will eat a sandwich or some other type of hand-held food over the sink. I mean, I made it in the kitchen, why not eat it in the kitchen? It’s not like I ever have a nice sit-down meal at home anyway. Also, I’m a big fan of the “eat it directly from the pan you cooked it in” method. It’s just wasteful to put macaroni in a bowl, when it’s already in a pan which is basically a big bowl with a handle, and it takes five minutes to eat it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/45 "2005-04-27T02:35:37Z")
**Campion** said: > [@](#): > > My uncle tells of “bachelor salad” Oh, Og, yes. Bright college days… Bachelor salad was a staple, along with “Bachelor Chili”, which was a couple cans of baked beans mixed with hamburger, with ketchup and mustard to taste. The selling point for bachelor chili was that it could be made in a glass baking dish on the stove, and when the leftovers sat in the fridge overnight they would shrink a little and pull away from the sides of the dish. The whole ‘loaf’ could then be turned out of the pan and cut into slabs to be eaten later, like pemmican. We wouldn’t just eat directly out of the pot, we’d put the whole pot into the fridge _along with the fork or spoon_ for future use, to keep from needlessly washing a fork. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/46 "2005-04-27T03:15:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > No way. The only way to eat a mango is to put it on a plate, slice it up, sit down on your couch or on the balcony, and relax and enjoy. > > How can you enjoy something if you can’t even leave your kitchem??? (Going off on a tangent…) No, there is a proper way to eat a mango, but the description may not be safe for those who are reading at work. I will say that this method involves surf, a sunset and two people (tequila is optional.) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/47 "2005-04-27T03:19:45Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Oh – What is this ‘table’ of which you speak? 😕 What is this… _‘sink’_ of which the OPer speaks? (Ok, I did rediscover the ‘sink’, sometime around when I married.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/48 "2005-04-27T03:20:24Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > (Going off on a tangent…) No, there is a proper way to eat a mango, but the description may not be safe for those who are reading at work. I will say that this method involves surf, a sunset and two people (tequila is optional.) Yeah, but then you have to pick hair out of your teeth. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/49 "2005-04-27T03:30:46Z")
What if you’re dating a woman with a shaved mango? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/50 "2005-04-27T03:36:05Z")
It’s like playing golf. I’ll forage out in the rough if that’s where my balls end up, but I like it better when the path to the hole is neatly manicured. Who am I kidding? It’s all good! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/51 "2005-04-27T03:41:20Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > Ever watch your friends masturbate? Yeah, me neither, but I feel certain they do it. But do you think they do it over the sink? Come on, stick with the OP! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/52 "2005-04-27T03:49:18Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > But do you think they do it over the sink? Come on, stick with the OP! 😃 Well, someone did it into a frying pan. Once. While listening to Duran Duran’s _Rio_. Cooked for about 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![GillianBoardman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GillianBoardman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GillianBoardman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/53 "2005-04-27T04:10:59Z")
In my family, eating over the sink is known as “doing a Grandmom D”. So clearly, it is not only bachelors but impatient old married ladies who do this. In this case it arises from an insistance that food be eaten the instant it is ready so that it not lose a single degree of temperature, which means that people are expected to be at the table prior to it being dished up, and the server may just not sit down at all. Why my ancestors think that a burnt tongue is a symbol of appreciation of ones cooking skills has never been satisfactorily explained. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/54 "2005-04-27T05:40:58Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Well, someone did it into a frying pan. > > Once. While listening to Duran Duran’s _Rio_. Cooked for about 20 minutes. Would that have been the infamous poster whose name rhymed with ManGeorge? Ah, what a lovely thread that was… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/55 "2005-04-27T06:16:23Z")
ABSOLUTELY FALSE!!! :mad: We eat in front of the TV, over this morning’s newspaper!! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/56 "2005-04-27T08:47:41Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Would that have been the infamous poster whose name rhymed with ManGeorge? > Ah, what a lovely thread that was… :eek: And let’s not forget the posters that feed the fish from time to time. Sure it’s off topic, but…well ok. It’s off topic. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/57 "2005-04-27T12:24:49Z")
A proper tomato sammich is always eaten over the sink. It must be slathered in mayo with several juicy slices of ripe tomato and salt and pepper. Heck, after eating a proper tomato sammich, one should have to go bathe. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/58 "2005-04-27T14:30:55Z")
I think I have eaten over the sink onlhy a few times. I am, however, guilty of eating food from the vessel I cooked it in, then throwing said vessel with leftover food right into the fridge, fork et all, for later comsumption. Alas, though, I usualyl forget they are there till they go bad…then don’t take them out then because I dread cleaning them…thus making it even worse when I do clean them. Right now, both of my casserole dishes and my glass roosting “pan” are in there with nasty, old food that needs to be thrown out. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/59 "2005-04-27T14:55:29Z")
I usually eat off of the pizza pan, cookie sheet, frying pan, pot or bowl from the microwave. I loathe to do dishes. Using the little George Forman grill I’ve been know to eat one hamburger over the sink waiting for the next one to cook. Same thing with grilled cheese. I have to admit this because there are witnesses, although it would be hard for you to get the fuzzie monsters to talk. Most of the time I eat on the coffee table or my desk. I’m not sure the last time I sat at my table to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219/60 "2005-04-27T15:09:39Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I can’t even understand this. How far away is a table!? Can’t you use paper plates? Anything? > > Obviously I’ve never eaten anything over a sink. See, now I don’t understand _this_. Why would I dirty up a clean plate for the sake of toast? I’m not much into housekeeping, so I tend not to use plates unless they’re required - toast, for example, gets eaten either over the sink or carried to the computer room on a square of paper kitchen towel. It’s okay to cringe at the idea; I get that a lot. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-person-stereotype-eating-supper-over-the-sink/301219.md?page=4)