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PurgedVoter

(2,220 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 04:57 PM Jun 2022

When was the last time you saw an adult throw food?

I don't mean throwing popcorn or grapes for someone to catch in their mouth. I don't mean feeding bears or ducks. I mean in anger, threw food. If you did see it, what would you think?

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When was the last time you saw an adult throw food? (Original Post) PurgedVoter Jun 2022 OP
I would think the person is mentally unbalanced. And I wouldn't stay around to see it a second time Walleye Jun 2022 #1
Yeah, I would consider it cause for invoking the 25th Amendment. PurgedVoter Jun 2022 #7
That should have happened after he tried to grab the steering wheel. gldstwmn Jun 2022 #25
Maybe it's time to inventory the White House dishware C_U_L8R Jun 2022 #2
Wasn't there a scene in animal house? Ray Bruns Jun 2022 #3
My first husband and I left soon after Tree Lady Jun 2022 #4
Good for you for getting out! yardwork Jun 2022 #18
I left with kids while he was at work Tree Lady Jun 2022 #21
You were young and brave. You got out. That takes courage and intelligence. yardwork Jun 2022 #22
Thanks nt Tree Lady Jun 2022 #23
Me just now when I saw the orange F-wad on my TV screen. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #5
Here you go: no_hypocrisy Jun 2022 #6
Probably in a movie, never in real life. milestogo Jun 2022 #8
The last time I saw an adult deliberately throw food peggysue2 Jun 2022 #9
Yep, my Dad when he was 90 years old and had dementia. Midnight Writer Jun 2022 #14
I hear mentally ill people do it quite frequently. Ferrets are Cool Jun 2022 #10
It was a couple of years back Xavier Breath Jun 2022 #11
Damn! Doesn't he know what the cost of ketchup is? imanamerican63 Jun 2022 #12
Pulling the table cloth do all dishes glasses, silverware fall to the floor. boston bean Jun 2022 #13
That jumped out at me, too. That's calculated. yardwork Jun 2022 #19
Five years ago, in the local nursing home. Talitha Jun 2022 #15
The 2007 Fenway Pizza Incident bluedigger Jun 2022 #16
That's great. Xavier Breath Jun 2022 #20
I don't understand why a fan would throw pizza at another fan? Wednesdays Jun 2022 #31
Outside of a health care setting? Not since college. nt RockRaven Jun 2022 #17
I saw Teresa Giudice do it on the Real Housewives this season. gldstwmn Jun 2022 #24
Yes, but there was a backstory gay texan Jun 2022 #26
A long time. It was way back before I ever saw anyone throw paper towels to hurrican victims and dameatball Jun 2022 #27
I haven't seen any kids throw plated food either pandr32 Jun 2022 #28
Sounds like my ex-wife Victor_c3 Jun 2022 #29
Actually, in 1981 PJMcK Jun 2022 #30
My aunt's husband once threw a plate of spaghetti at the wall. kskiska Jun 2022 #32
Um....you might be my cousin. LuckyCharms Jun 2022 #40
1978 Bleacher Creature Jun 2022 #33
I did on Father's Day happybird Jun 2022 #34
I used to work the window, graveyard shift, at a Carl's Jr. Iggo Jun 2022 #35
My father threw a cup of coffee at the wall when my mother told him that I was knocked up again liberal_mama Jun 2022 #36
Chef Gordan Ramsey does it often Raine Jun 2022 #37
When I was a teen I was making cake batter. It was in a big bowl with a handle on applegrove Jun 2022 #38
LOL..Your sister deserved it! LeftInTX Jun 2022 #42
I'm sure she thinks the shower she had to take to get it out of her hair applegrove Jun 2022 #45
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #39
I threw spaghetti at my husband once LeftInTX Jun 2022 #41
It's not uncommon in domestic violence. herding cats Jun 2022 #43
I would think throwing food... myohmy2 Jun 2022 #44
100% believe it... I saw Trump throw a tantrum in the Houston airport JCMach1 Jun 2022 #46

PurgedVoter

(2,220 posts)
7. Yeah, I would consider it cause for invoking the 25th Amendment.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:05 PM
Jun 2022

The second time, I would definitely invoke the 25th, but maybe that that doesn't seem unhinged if you are a Republican.

Tree Lady

(11,500 posts)
4. My first husband and I left soon after
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:02 PM
Jun 2022

For good. Only people with major anger issues do things like that.

He threw a plate of eggs at the wall because he didn't like how I cooked them. Needless to say that was eye opening.

Tree Lady

(11,500 posts)
21. I left with kids while he was at work
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:16 PM
Jun 2022

I knew he would try to stop me from taking kids. It was huge mistake, I was young and dumb.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,110 posts)
10. I hear mentally ill people do it quite frequently.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:07 PM
Jun 2022

And people with anger problems. Oh, and small children. Not PRESIDENTS.

Xavier Breath

(3,656 posts)
11. It was a couple of years back
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:07 PM
Jun 2022

when I was sitting and waiting in a drive-thru line. When the "gentleman" in front of me reached the window, he began having a heated exchange with the cashier. He apparently did not like the way his order had been handled, or how he was being treated, and when he was handed his meal, he threw his milkshake back at the clerk and drove away in a hurry. She was a kid, maybe 17, and was shaken and being consoled by the manager when I pulled up. Both she and the window were covered in vanilla shake. I asked the manger what happened and she just replied "Some people...."

boston bean

(36,223 posts)
13. Pulling the table cloth do all dishes glasses, silverware fall to the floor.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:10 PM
Jun 2022

He’s a fucking imbecile lunatic.

Talitha

(6,622 posts)
15. Five years ago, in the local nursing home.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:12 PM
Jun 2022

People with problems often do problematic things (tfg included).

Wednesdays

(17,438 posts)
31. I don't understand why a fan would throw pizza at another fan?
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:53 PM
Jun 2022

Since the victim fan didn't do anything warranting it. Maybe he was throwing at the Angels' player and missed?

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)
24. I saw Teresa Giudice do it on the Real Housewives this season.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:21 PM
Jun 2022

She was on The Apprentice and is best known for flipping a table. She and her husband went to prison for fraud but didn't score a pardon from TFG.

gay texan

(2,477 posts)
26. Yes, but there was a backstory
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:34 PM
Jun 2022

Bored out of our skulls at a restaurant we worked it, I had a spatula and my best mate had some used dinner rolls.

A baseball game ensued in the dishwashing era.

Still laughing about that shit to this day.

dameatball

(7,400 posts)
27. A long time. It was way back before I ever saw anyone throw paper towels to hurrican victims and
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:35 PM
Jun 2022

think it was funny. Kinda reminds me of someone.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
29. Sounds like my ex-wife
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:41 PM
Jun 2022

She’d throws things, hits things, and breaks things all the time over the slightest of reasons.

Life has been immensely better since our separation for both my kids and myself.

PJMcK

(22,054 posts)
30. Actually, in 1981
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:45 PM
Jun 2022

A very famous conductor had a party at a NYC restaurant with lots of liquor. After dinner he picked up a buttered roll and threw it at one of the guests. Then another guest tossed a glass of water at him. He grabbed spaghetti off a plate and threw it at the water-thrower. Soon, several of the guests joined the food fight.

I went to the men’s room then left. Appalling.

kskiska

(27,048 posts)
32. My aunt's husband once threw a plate of spaghetti at the wall.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 05:56 PM
Jun 2022

It remained there for some time and hardened because neither one would clean it up.

happybird

(4,637 posts)
34. I did on Father's Day
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 06:03 PM
Jun 2022


But I am a cook who was getting my ass kicked. We were stupid busy and, out of sheer frustration and inability to leave my hotter than hell station, I threw a mistake in a styrofoam box in the direction of the trash can. It hit the wall and exploded. I felt better.

Iggo

(47,572 posts)
35. I used to work the window, graveyard shift, at a Carl's Jr.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 06:56 PM
Jun 2022

You might be amazed how often they throw food through the window. But probably not.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
36. My father threw a cup of coffee at the wall when my mother told him that I was knocked up again
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 07:09 PM
Jun 2022

out of wedlock for the 3rd time (by 3 different men). That was 29 years ago now! But other than that that, I haven't seen any adults throwing food in anger. None of my 3 now adult kids threw food in anger, even when they were young.

applegrove

(118,829 posts)
38. When I was a teen I was making cake batter. It was in a big bowl with a handle on
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 10:42 PM
Jun 2022

it. My older sister came along and started dipping clean fingers into my batter one by one and then putting each finger in her mouth and licking it off. I told her to stop. She did not. When she got to about her 6th finger I picked up the bowl and turned it upside down on her head.

There may also have been a food fight involving watermelon being thrown out the front door when I was in my late teens.

That is it.

applegrove

(118,829 posts)
45. I'm sure she thinks the shower she had to take to get it out of her hair
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 02:37 AM
Jun 2022

was worth the story both she and I have.

LeftInTX

(25,589 posts)
41. I threw spaghetti at my husband once
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 02:14 AM
Jun 2022

He was inviting this guy over for dinner and didn't ask me first. I was pissed.
Here I was making spaghetti and he says, "Richard is coming over"...

Hubby kept bringing Richard over unannounced. Richard was smarmy.
I had told him that he needed to ask or let me know ahead of time.

After that, he cut his ties with Richard.

herding cats

(19,568 posts)
43. It's not uncommon in domestic violence.
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 02:26 AM
Jun 2022

I've dealt with people who spoke of their abusers throwing food many times. Sometimes at them, leading to burns, others at objects including walls.

myohmy2

(3,180 posts)
44. I would think throwing food...
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 02:31 AM
Jun 2022

...would occur when a person was truly out of control...just the kind of person you'd want with their finger on a nuclear button...

...he's running again and his maga truth-challenged hordes love him and all the shit around him...too much trump is never enough...

...if you were thinking of immigrating to the United States you may want to wait until this blows over...

...no telling what's going to happen...

JCMach1

(27,575 posts)
46. 100% believe it... I saw Trump throw a tantrum in the Houston airport
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 03:06 AM
Jun 2022

In the 90's... I have never seen someone berate their employees like that in public.

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