# 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:** 7
**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:** [March 19, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/121 "2009-03-19T15:53:11Z")
The two things people have commented on that I do is eating vanilla icing all by itself, and rip innocent muffins to shreds before eating them. Apparently you’re supposed to take big honking bites of them. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/122 "2009-03-19T15:54:25Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What if it’s salad? I mean, let’s face it, no one really wants to taste lettuce. This is why you should use some greens in your salad that actually taste like something and taste good, instead of iceberg lettuce. I hated salads until I moved to California and discovered salads that were not iceberg lettuce and sliced raw vegetables. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/123 "2009-03-19T15:55:42Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Some people think it’s odd that I eat things like rice with a spoon. Is that really so odd? I do this sometimes. It depends on the stickiness of the rice. Not sticky at all, individual grains completely separated = spoon. Moderately sticky, holds together okay but crumbles under slight pressure = fork. True Japanese sticky rice = chopsticks. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m currently being subjected to the sound of my lovely co-worker (she actually \*is \*a lovely person but has the social graces of a hyena)scraping the bottom of her yogurt container with her spoon. Over and over. Okay, Madge, I think you got your money’s worth now. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. This reminded me of my own annoyance. I had a coworker who brought in packets of instant oatmeal every day for breakfast. In order to open a packet without getting stuff everywhere you shake it to settle the contents, right? _Every morning_ the office was treated to an obnoxiously loud shaking session while she prepped the oatmeal at her desk. Drove me crazy. She’s actually responsible for me switching to oatmeal instead of greasy sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast, but I shake and pour my oatmeal in the kitchen like a civilized person where it doesn’t intrude on the whole office. And then of course my dieting coworkers would say that the days I get a delicious gyro and fresh fries from the local Greek shop annoys the hell out of them, because they can _smell_ the tasty. 😃 ---
**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 19, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/124 "2009-03-19T15:58:09Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > This is why you should use some greens in your salad that actually taste like something and taste good, instead of iceberg lettuce. I hated salads until I moved to California and discovered salads that were not iceberg lettuce and sliced raw vegetables. To be honest, most of them taste kind of bland to me. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/125 "2009-03-19T16:45:48Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The two things people have commented on that I do is eating vanilla icing all by itself, and rip innocent muffins to shreds before eating them. Apparently you’re supposed to take big honking bites of them. Pish Posh - I eat donuts from the bottoms up! (The cake part - then I save the tops with the yummy frosting for last. I do the same thing with Hostess Cupcakes. Each the bottom first and save the top.) No one should be able to dictate how you eat your pastry!! And I have a can of chocolate frosting at home in the cabinet. It sits right next to the half full bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips. There ain’t NOTHIN wrong with us!! ---
**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:** [March 19, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/126 "2009-03-19T16:48:40Z")
Cool. I eat donuts the same way. Save the sweet top for last. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/127 "2009-03-19T17:06:32Z")
Salads heavy on iceberg lettuce have always been my favorite. The bagged kinds with a few other veggies are pretty much the only salad I’ll it. It also needs Thousand Island sauce on it though. Actually, salads with some sort of animal in them are good too. Chicken, fish, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/128 "2009-03-20T15:13:48Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m currently being subjected to the sound of my lovely co-worker (she actually \*is \*a lovely person but has the social graces of a hyena)scraping the bottom of her yogurt container with her spoon. Over and over. Okay, Madge, I think you got your money’s worth now. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Oops, sorry! I just wanted the last of that strawberry goodness. I had a friend who would eat finger foods by shoving her fingers in her mouth up to the knuckles (accompanied by a myriad of slurping sounds) followed up by licking the fingers clean before starting the process over again. She’d also be talking the throughout the entire process. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![acetylene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@acetylene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acetylene)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/129 "2009-03-20T16:05:34Z")
I try to mind my own business when eating with others. Live and let live and all that. But I get furious when people (my SIL especially) put ketchup on prime rib. It’s disgusting, and worse, she only eats half, and I happen to love leftovers, but I can’t eat prime rib that’s drowned in ketchup. Grrr… Also, I’m from Wisconsin and I grew up eating tomatoes with sugar on them. I prefer salt and pepper but every now and then I still do it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/130 "2009-03-20T16:57:07Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I missed it because I had gone to the bathroom, but my wife won’t eat with my friend again because we went to a deli with him and his wife, and he finished off his soup by using his STRAW to slurp the remains That’s just brilliant. he should win this year’s MacGuyver award . . . ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/131 "2009-03-20T20:30:12Z")
I have to make a decision every time I eat sliced tomatoes - salt or sugar? I like them equally, jst depends on my mood. My mom used to put sugar in her bean soup and my dad used ketchup, all 3 of us kids use both now. As far as someone mishandling food, I hate when a restaurant serves me a bowl of salad with water in the bottom. That never used to happen, but in the last couple years it’s happened a lot. I even sent one back and the replacement salad they brought also had water in it, I’m talking 1/4 cup or so. I know because I poured it out on my plate because I’m a bitch like that sometimes. My husband likes jalapeno flavored Krunchers, oh god, I have to leave the room. They reek, and the crunching aargh, like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. That reminds me, I also hate the crinkling noise the chip bags make when someone’s digging around for a handful. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/132 "2009-03-21T13:25:12Z")
People who order a Single Malt Scotch Whisky and then put lemonade in it should be SHOT…slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/133 "2009-03-21T13:26:22Z")
People who order a Single Malt Scotch Whisky and then put lemonade in it should be SHOT…slowly. Why not just piss in it while you’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/134 "2009-03-21T14:51:06Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What if it’s salad? I mean, let’s face it, no one really wants to taste lettuce. I don’t mind people using condiments. I don’t even mind if they use condiments a lot. You want to dip your cheep pizza in ranch dressing, go right ahead, but if you want to dip your Chicago style stuffed pizza in ranch, I might be a little irritated when you say it tastes like every other pizza you’ve had. It probably tastes like the chicken breast, naan bread and egg rolls you had the previous nights since they were also drenched in ranch. To be fair, I’m exagerating my wifes habit a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/135 "2009-03-21T14:59:24Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I’ve never heard of anyone eating sugary tomatoes outside of ketchup or pasta sauces and I’ve lived all but two years of my life in the South. It’s a popular summer side dish in China. Of course, in China tomatoes are a fruit, and it’s not unusual to dig into a tomato birthday cake or buy candied tomatoes on the street. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/136 "2009-03-21T17:15:46Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > People who order a Single Malt Scotch Whisky and then put lemonade in it should be SHOT…slowly. What are there, 3 people in the entire world who do this? I’ve never heard of such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/137 "2009-03-21T18:41:09Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > and it’s not unusual to dig into a tomato birthday cake That sounds utterly disgusting. I must try it. Do you think [this](http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Tomato-Soup-Cake-I/Detail.aspx) might be a comparable recipe? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/138 "2009-03-21T18:45:46Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > One of my friends hates her food to have any…well, taste, pretty much. When she cooks, she likes her chicken plain, her vegetables boiled, and her bread white and 65% air. Her spice cabinet has 1) salt 2) pepper (but not too much) 3) maple syrup (she is Canadian) and 4) ketchup. Just the thought of choking down a plain chicken breast, no marinade, no seasonings, no breading, no ANYTHING, that’s been baked in the oven, with ketchup on the side, and a slice of white Wonder bread with margarine on the side…euurgh. I can’t stand it. Thus, I don’t cook for her (because I like, you know, flavor) and she doesn’t cook for me. Dessert is the only thing we agree on. > > Something that many more of my friends eat that I can’t stand is eating vegetables that have been drowned in cheese sauce, or butter sauce, or au gratin or what ever. Look, I really really like Brussels sprouts–if I’m going to eat them, I want to taste THEM, not the overwhelming butter sauce flavor. And similarly, I really like broccoli, and if I’m eating broccoli, I want to taste broccoli. Not cheese sauce. There’s a time and a place for melted cheese, and that is “nachos.” Please, not on any broccoli that I’m going to be eating. You don’t see the contradiction in what you’re writing? Your friend wants to taste the taste of chicken and you complain. You want to taste the taste of vegetables and you complain. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/139 "2009-03-21T18:47:45Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#): > > I tried some sugar on tomato last night and it was pretty damn good, but I still prefer my salt! Yay! Spreading new things is good! (that doesn’t sound quite like it should). I promise to try a tomato slice with salt this summer. I have to wait until summer because I refuse to buy what passes for tomatoes in the store. I can safely say I’ll never have a tomato sandwich if it involves mayo. I loathe mayo. I also tend to look askance at people who can’t seem to handle their cutlery. It’s one thing if they have a disability or are under age 6, but seriously, you should be able to cut up just about anything at table and not make a mess or a lot of noise while doing so. And chew with your mouth SHUT, please. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659/140 "2009-03-21T19:09:49Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > You don’t see the contradiction in what you’re writing? Your friend wants to taste the taste of chicken and you complain. You want to taste the taste of vegetables and you complain. Sure there is a contradiction but, to be fair, have you ever tasted unseasoned chicken? It’s HORRIBLE. My grandma cooks chicken by boiling it in water. So all the flavor goes into the water turning it into broth but she serves the chicken without anything else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-with-food-that-annoy-you/489659.md?page=8)