# Things people do with food that annoy you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659 "2009-03-16T20:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/21 "2009-03-17T03:41:29Z")
Seconding the ice cream paddles. Why do they even make those things? On the other hand, I loooooove ketchup. A lot. I have a t-shirt that says "I put ketchup on my ketchup. And I tell people “and sometimes, I put ketchup on the ketchup that’s on my ketchup. Because I’m hard core!”. In general, I don’t like plain food. I gotta have some type of sauce, ketchup, _something._ What annoys me? Hmmm, chicken wings. I hate the sight, smell, and taste of chicken wings. There’s almost no actual meat on them, and there’s just as much gristle and disgusting stuff on them as there is meat (if not more). Yet whenever I see someone eat them, they’ll put the whole thing in their mouth and just suck everything off. then pull out the bone and munch contentedly, with no shame whatsoever. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/22 "2009-03-17T03:50:32Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > What annoys me? Hmmm, chicken wings. I hate the sight, smell, and taste of chicken wings. There’s almost no actual meat on them, and there’s just as much gristle and disgusting stuff on them as there is meat (if not more). Yet whenever I see someone eat them, they’ll put the whole thing in their mouth and just suck everything off. then pull out the bone and munch contentedly, with no shame whatsoever. :eek: I half agree. I looooove chicken wings, so I eat them in the neatest way possible. I pick the meat off with my fingers, dip it (in my OWN container of dip, thank you), and pop it in my mouth. The bones never touch my mouth. I hate the way most people eat them–it’s simply disgusting. Seeing other people gnawing and sucking on bones sets off my gag reflex. ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/23 "2009-03-17T03:57:06Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > The only thing I can think of is the way some people will add salt and pepper to their food before even tasting it. C’mon, make sure it needs salt before adding it. :rolleyes: Not even pepper has enough pepper for me. I always add it before tasting because there just isn’t a possibility in my mind that anyone would prepare a meal with as much pepper as I like. The guy with the grinder frequently pauses and looks at me to make sure I’ve not fallen asleep - yep, keep going…I know it’s a lot of pepper. And to add my contribution: slurping those 2 drops of soda out of the little gutter of the can after each sip. The guy in the next cube does it all the time, then throws the can in to the garbage as hard as possible. ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/24 "2009-03-17T03:57:58Z")
So, when I order sushi, I’m not supposed to eat the soy sauce, wasabi and ginger that comes with it? I didn’t know. This isn’t sarcastic. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/25 "2009-03-17T05:16:23Z")
Basically, anyone who puts ketchup on anything but french fries pisses me off. Ketchup is like the brutal idiot dictator of food. It suppresses all good flavor and overwhelms it with awful tomato+corn syrup flavor. Ketchup on a burger? Shame on you. You’re missing the beautiful symphony of hamburger + lettuce + mustard + raw tomato + onion +pickle. Ketchup on a sausage? (And I include hot dogs in this. I’m from the Chicago area.) You’re an infidel. Only fire can cleanse you. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/26 "2009-03-17T05:22:45Z")
Eating ice cream with a small wooden spoon? Pah! Nothing, I tell you, to eating tamales off a cardboard tray with a wooden spoon. In all the schools I went to tamales were served to the students this way, and the sound of a wet wooden spoon scraping against a wet cardboard container…it put me off tamales entirely for years. Fingernails on blackboards were music by comparison. Incidentally, the elementary, junior high and high schools I attended were about 97% Jewish, and for a time I was convinced tamales were as Jewish as gefilte fish and matzoh balls. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/27 "2009-03-17T05:27:44Z")
> [@Jodi](#): > > I don’t like deli sandwiches where they put like four pounds of meat on the sandwich. Okay, I get it, you’re generous with meat, you make a good hearty sandwich – but if there’s so much meat on it that it’s basically a big ball of lunchmeat with two pieces of bread that aren’t in the same area code – and nevermind trimmings or condiments – then I’m annoyed. If I wanted something I had to eat with a knife and fork, I wouldn’t have ordered a sandwich. I’m not saying I only want one piece of bologna with a small schmear of mayo, but there’s a lot of room between that and trying to stuff a whole package of lunch meat into a single sandwich. Don’t go to Jason’s Deli then. I enjoy a generous helping of meat, but they really go overboard. My daughter and I used to split a turkey sandwich, and get a single trip each to the salad bar. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/28 "2009-03-17T05:31:01Z")
> [@oliversarmy](#): > > So, when I order sushi, I’m not supposed to eat the soy sauce, wasabi and ginger that comes with it? Roughly speaking: -You dip some sushi in the soy sauce; you dip the fish part so you don’t get too much. When in doubt, ask the chef. -You eat the ginger as a palate cleanser between servings. -You ignore the wasabi (IMO). The sushi chef should have already put the appropriate amount of wasabi on the pieces that need it. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/29 "2009-03-17T05:33:53Z")
Well, yeah, but what if they didn’t put enough wasabi on? And what if you’re hardcore and enjoy making your eyes water? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/30 "2009-03-17T05:51:12Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Well, yeah, but what if they didn’t put enough wasabi on? And what if you’re hardcore and enjoy making your eyes water? Some might find that insulting to the chef. He always puts the right amount of wasabi, you just don’t know better. That isn’t really the reason why I dislike it when people do that kind of stuff though. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/31 "2009-03-17T05:51:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just posted in the current commercials thread that I hate to see people with food on their faces (or hands, or whatever), so again, that. Barbeque? _shudder_ I’m with you on that one. Food on my face (or other peoples’) is my biggest phobia. Barbecue is handled with knife and fork, and to watch me eat corn on the cob is faintly pathetic, for I eat it one or two bites at a time, and then have to stop to attend to the butter and salt on my face. Everyone else I know can go through two or three cobs of corn (and half as many napkins) in the time it takes me for one. Other annoyances: I make use of my college cafeteria a lot, and inevitably people will eschew plates and pile food directly on the tray. This shouldn’t bother me–the trays are usually still warm from the dishwasher, and I know that using fewer plates is a good idea, but _eew_. The only other thing that will want to make me leave the room is letting your cereal go soggy and then eating the resulting slurry. [This](http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~morin/misc/capn/) is a good approximation of how I feel about cereal. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/32 "2009-03-17T05:54:16Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Sometimes when you buy ice cream you get little wooden paddles to eat it with. They are made like a flat spoon out of the same wood as popsicle sticks. They squick me out. Whenever I post this, someone else always agrees with me. > > I don’t know what it is–texture and taste mostly. They are nasty and I cannot stand to see other people use them. So do you hate corn dogs and corn on the cob too? Or does the wood only make sweet stuff disgusting? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/33 "2009-03-17T05:58:20Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > Ketchup on a burger? Shame on you. You’re missing the beautiful symphony of hamburger + lettuce + mustard + raw tomato + onion +pickle. What annoys me most: people who feel a need to dictate what other people eat. I’d much rather put ketchup on a burger than a leaf of warm, wilted lettuce. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/34 "2009-03-17T06:02:02Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Some might find that insulting to the chef. He always puts the right amount of wasabi, you just don’t know better. > > That isn’t really the reason why I dislike it when people do that kind of stuff though. So if one chef puts on a huge amount of wasabi and another puts on hardly any, then…who’s right? All these rules are for the birds. I’m with **panache**. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/35 "2009-03-17T06:06:23Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > So if one chef puts on a huge amount of wasabi and another puts on hardly any, then…who’s right? The one who puts on hardly any is more likely to be more right than the one who puts on a huge amount. If he’s putting on a huge amount, it’s unlikely to be real wasabi anyway. But hey, if you want to prove your manliness by ingesting large amounts of green-tinted horseradish, go right ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/36 "2009-03-17T06:17:39Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > The one who puts on hardly any is more likely to be more right than the one who puts on a huge amount. If he’s putting on a huge amount, it’s unlikely to be real wasabi anyway. > > But hey, if you want to prove your manliness by ingesting large amounts of green-tinted horseradish, go right ahead. Manliness? ::checks out slit:: Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/37 "2009-03-17T06:19:03Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What annoys me most: people who feel a need to dictate what other people eat. I’d much rather put ketchup on a burger than a leaf of warm, wilted lettuce. Hey, if you want to put ketchup on your burger, go for it. That’s your right. But it’s still my right to point out that ketchup overwhelms most other flavors and to me, makes a burger pointless. Hell, it tastes entirely of ketchup. Just eat a bowl of it if that’s what you want. That’s my real complaint with ketchup. It’s like the condiment permanently cranked to 11. No subtlety, no cooperation. Anything you put ketchup on tastes…well…like ketchup. If that’s what you like, more power to you. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/38 "2009-03-17T06:29:03Z")
Excessive condiments of any type bother me. A bowl full of ranch dressing for dipping french fries, for example. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/39 "2009-03-17T07:10:53Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > So if one chef puts on a huge amount of wasabi and another puts on hardly any, then…who’s right? > > All these rules are for the birds. I’m with **panache**. Whoever prepared the food you are eating at that particular moment. I don’t want to get stuck defending another person’s opinion though. ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/40 "2009-03-17T07:34:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Manliness? ::checks out slit:: Hmm… Oh jesus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659.md?page=3)