Eating in Public - a ribbish thread

[t-homo]

I've never really had a problem with getting food on myself and eat wings all of the time.

[Adeptus_Minor]

While I joke about certain things not being "date food", generally I prefer the company of people around whom I feel comfortable diving into my food.

[TYEster]

Depends on the situation but I usually don't give too shits about what people think how I eat. I'll TRY to be clean and civil, but when it comes to wings or ribs, fuck your civility. It's how barbarians ate those foods. I won't break that heritage.

It's usually the questions that bother me... "Why so much extra meat, why are you NOT eating bread, why this why that..."

[Porkchop]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Oh, here's a question... am I the only person on here that gets something on his shirt/pants EVERY fucking time I eat out?

Seriously... EVERY time... even at Joe's Crab Shack with the giant bibs.

Nope. Im pretty messy. It's not so much that I drop it on myself... its the inevitable splashing that comes with pasta, or the such. Usually something greesy that wont come out of a good shirt.

I was in Italy at Trevi Fountain, two weeks back. Had on this bright yellow polo, and decided it was a fantastic idea that I should get some dark chocolate gelato. As you can guess I had a nice deep brown spot right in the middle of my nice polo. I had to hide the spot as we walked back to the hotel. It was hella good gelato though....

[Tsunami]

I'm a pretty messy person, or disorganized, I should say. One of the things I am really anal and methodical about is eating. I am not sure how it happened. For example, If I eat soup noodles, all of the noodles has to be rolled neatly into my spoon and then it gets dipped in soup and everything gets slurped up. If I eat dumplings, I bite off a small corner and pour sauce directly into the opening.

I hardly get food all over the place and I hate getting my fingers dirty and sticky when I eat and getting sauce all under my fingernails. I prefer to eat drumsticks for that reason rather than wings. And I don't to do a lot of work for my food, so I don't eat ribs. You can never get enough meat off the bones. If there is a chance of grease getting on my fingers I will have a mountain of napkins on the side.

When I eat corn, I slather butter all over it, all the kernels and the creases has to be covered first, Then I will eat one section on the end first all around before starting on adjacent sections.

I love eating though, and I get irate when I am hungry, so I don't care who is watching.

[Smittie61984]

I am a notorious for being a messy eater. Maybe it is because I grew up not wealthy and when food was down you better make sure it was down.

Now when I am eating somewhere really really really nice I try to behave myself. However as my GF pointed out while I was eating a badass steak at Mortins (or something like that), a fine steak place is not the location to try and pop a pimple.

[VatorMan]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Oh, here's a question... am I the only person on here that gets something on his shirt/pants EVERY fucking time I eat out?

Seriously... EVERY time... even at Joe's Crab Shack with the giant bibs.

I can't wear white shirts out because of this.

[Gas Man]

I tell ya... on a first date... yes, don't order such foods. Otherwise... order up.

Kell if I was out with you and you told me such rubbish as "to promise not to look at you". I would make sure I watched you.

[Uma]

If I'm out on a lunch meeting for work, then I try to order food (not just a salad- screw that) that won't make too much of a mess. However, if I'm with friends I order whatever I want. No matter how hard I try though, I usually spill something.

[Flexin]

I don't normally think about how messy a food is, I just order what I want. Now when we have a big lobster feed at my grandmothers I bring an old teeshirt because that shit is going everywhere.

James