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jbeach wrote:

"I don't think I'm alone, but I have to eat all the different dishes on my plate in the same proportion. I can't eat all of one thing and then go on to the next -- I know a lot of people who tend to eat that way. I like to end up with one bite of each component left. However, this probably doesn't annoy anyone. Hmm...I know I annoy myself with how many napkins I end up using when I go out to eat and they have those little dispensers with the cheap paper napkins--no matter what, I end up with a small mountain in front of me."

So true! I cannot figure out why my husband would want to eat one food at a time...in the meantime the other dishes are growing cold in the serving bowls. THEN, he puts Crystal hot sauce on almost everything (I could get a complex from that one-does he need to drown the taste of my cooking?! He says it "enhances" the food...well, whatever...!). I try to eat in proportions so that there is one equal bite of each dish left...and the best-tasting item is eaten last...with the last swallow of wine to enjoy along with it.

Guilty of this:

thatgirl153 writes:
"I am a messy eater....no matter how hard I try, when the waitress takes my plate away there is a ring of crumbs and debri left where my plate wasn't. I always try to push the mess over to my husbands side!"

Oh yes, the messy spot left after my plate is taken away at a restaurant and the pile of napkins...oy! My husband uses ONE at the very end to wipe his mouth...and not a crumb under his plate (or on his shirt or pants...how does he do it?).

And christine writes:
"I can't eat bananas with any brown in them -- and so I make my husband eat them."

The brown banana one is funny-there really is only one "peak" time that I'll eat a banana-it can't be too green or too ripe-I think the window of opportunity for it to be acceptable is an hour and half! Luckily my husband will eat them no matter what (pretty much...he draws the line at black).

with, not will!

I wouldn't really call it habits, but I have several idiosyncrasies when it comes to food that drive my husband up the wall. I have a VERY weak stomach, and as a result, I.....

Can't eat potato chips or anything else that's eaten with the hands if anyone else's hands have been in the bag. As soon as I come home from the grocery store, I take myself some of the chips or whatever out of the new bag, and put them in a ziploc baggie.

Can't usually eat when people with long hair do the cooking, or if they hover over the food. If I see a hair in the vicinity of something I am eating, it seriously gags me, even if it's not on my food.

Can't eat or drink after ANYONE, other than my husband. If someone wants to taste something I'm eating, I will usually give them the entire thing.

I am polite, and very subtle about this, and nobody but my husband is aware that I have these quirks. As I said, it drives him up the wall.

This is not my annoying food habit but my husband's. When I make any type of baked casserole, particularly those with melted cheese or crumb toppings, he eats from the top, leaving the rest of the servings sans topping! Unfortunately some of my children have inherited this.

Deborah Dowd
http://play-with-food.blogspot.com

I gather the miniscule crumbs from a slice of toast and put them back on my toast. I don't know why. Help.