Do you eat your meals all pell-mell or do you have a system?

[yvr girl]

I have a system. I eat all of one thing first, then the next etc. I also tend to eat clockwise. Generally speaking, I like to eat my least favourite thing first and work up to my favourite.

When I was about 6 I frequently had dreams about standing on a soapbox in Hyde Park in London preaching about the evils of 'mixing your food.' I'm not sure what the evils are anymore, but the system remains.

The funny thing is, is that this behaviour is very much against my basic personality. I'm much more abstract random than concrete sequential.

And yes, I know - I have given this entirely too much thought.

[terrya]

1. I eat my meals like I'm afraid someone is going to take my food away.

I'm one of the fastest eaters around. I have no system...except to shovel food in my mouth as fast as possible. I'll be done eating when everyone else still is. :-)

[sniffa]

4. i'm the sLowest

so there! :D

[sniffa]

2. i spend a few minutes preparing my pLate

cutting up the entire meaL into eatabLe pieces, and mixing together the parts i think taste best when eaten in the same bite. if needs be, i then add whatever condiments to it.

by the time i'm ready to eat, some peopLe are done

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. I also eat one thing completely and move on to the next

Also, my foods can't touch or I lose it.

I was once told that eating, for instance, all of your meat, then all of your potatoes, etc., means that you finish one thing before you start another. Ha! I'm lucky if I can get things finished...except for meals!

[yvr girl]

6. That's really interesting

I like having projects in my work life. I like to be fully absorbed in something, finish it and then move on. I hate repetitive tasks.

[skygazer]

5. I have a system

I take a bite of each item in turn and I plan it so that in the end, I have one bite of each left. Very bad form to have run out of one or two items and have more than one bite of another. This is simple with regular meals of 2 or 3 items but for Thanksgiving feasts and the like, it is extremely complicated and requires much engineering on my part.

[Pithlet]

41. Same here

It does make Thanksgiving type meals difficult.

[SpecialK84]

7. We would never get along ...

Haha. I am a "bite of everything"-er. Unless it's a totally outlandish combination I like to have the "mixture of flavours" going on. My personal favourite would be chicken, potato salad and tomato together.


Although, I still think you should come to London and talk at Speakers Corner about the evil of mixing your food. It will be at least more entertaining than the Christian Cowboy from Florida and the other biblethumpers who just go on and on about how everyone is going to hell and seem to think insulting the English WHILST IN ENGLAND is the way to win over their hearts. Brilliant, really.

[yvr girl]

13. If I ever get to the motherland, I may just do that

BTW, I love 'whilst' it's one of my favourite words. I'd use it if I didn't think would accuse me of pulling a Madonna.

[SpecialK84]

17. I am a Madonna. *hangs head in shame*

I'm certainly not British (although, dual citizenship is on my Christmas Wishlist!) I'm just a student here. It's become second nature to spell differently and use "whilst" instead of "while" because of essays and school work.

I'm actually from the redneck Midwest (Missouri). And yes, I get LOADS of shit from the hicks when I return home for holidays and use "that funny english".

*sigh*

[yvr girl]

18. If you're there, it is perfectly acceptable to pick up Brit words

Environment does affect you. Do you put on the accent though?

I keep meaning to get my British passport.

[SpecialK84]

20. Only after a heavy night of drinking ...

And then it's just joking.

I'm horrible with accents ... I couldn't even if I wanted to.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. I'm not one of those freaks who can't have different foods touching.

You know, those people who are full-grown adults, but who have sgemented picnic-plates at dinner? Those people scare me.

[terrya]

That is frightening.

Please...it all will go down in the same place. And leave in the same place a few hours later.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. I know. I can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing.

I'm like you, Terry. I eat like I do everything: fast, furious, and messy.

[terrya]

11. Wellllllllllllllll.....

I'll take your word on that one. :-)

You've got me blushing. I didn't think that was possible. :-)

T

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. I usually need a wet-nap afterward.

[yvr girl]

15. I don't mind if my food touches

I like to completely savour one thing at a time.

[indigobusiness]

25. It's the smegmented picnic plates that scare me.

The horror...

[Inland]

9. I eat my vegetables first,

not because I like them or have OCD like the rest of you yahoos, but I believe that it keeps me from overeating things that are less health.

[Lisa0825]

14. I usually pick up a bit of one item on my fork, and then

scoop up a little of a second item, so I have two foods on my fork at once. I rarely have a bite of only one thing alone, unless it's all that I have left. When I was a kid, i used to put a big glob of potatoes on the middle of my place, squish it down some, cut up the meat, pile it on top of the potatoes, toss the veggies on top of that, then drown it all in gravy. Kinda looked like it belonged on the movie Close Encounters!:silly:

[scarlett1]

16. Boy, I'm really boring I have no system

I just eat. I tend to eat slower than others I'm with even if I don't talk much. At Lunch I usually eat a sandwich first then the fruit or sides if I'm at home, however if I'm out I usually just eat with no system, just what hits my fancy at that moment.

I never thought about it until now.

[Phentex]

66. Me either. I know I mix it up a good bit...

but I don't think I have a system. My husband works with a guy who eats only one food at a time. Not sure if it's counter clockwise though!

[RagingInMiami]

19. I usually eat as I'm cooking

[fluffernutter]

21. i like to mix things up, like mashed potatoes and peas

stuffing and cranberries with a bite of turkey

chips in my sandwiches

fries dipped in chocolate shakes

mixed is best :9

[mtnsnake]

22. I can't let certain foods touch each other

Like at Thanksgiving, I'll wait until there's room on my plate before I put cranberry sauce on it, for fear some mashed potatoes or gravy might touch the cranberry. No way toss salad can go on the same plate with the main course either. Salad has to have its own separate bowl or I'm not eatin it. Same with something like jello. Anyone puts a piece of jello on my plate with other foods on it and they're in for an ass kicking!

I don't mind if certain things occasionally bump into each other, though, like it's okay if french fries touch a steak, just as long as none of the ketchup gets on the steak or none of the steak juice gets on a french fry.

[indigobusiness]

23. That's the weirdest thing I have ever heard...

And I had so much hope for you. I mean, weird is one thing, but you've gone beyond Pro.

I eat my meal, then SMOKE a Pall-Mall.

[yvr girl]

24. You don't find my quirks charming?

I don't impose my system on others.

I won't even tell you about my quirks regarding time and alarm clocks - you'd really think I'm nuts.

[indigobusiness]

26. That has travelled way beyond quirk, and made it safely into pathology.

I've donned my garlic necklace and am searching for my silver bullet.

But I'm dying to know about the alarm clocks, and time.

I like to span time.

[yvr girl]

27. I am not a monster!

I don't like rounded numbers. If I give an estimate of when I'll be done something, I am much more likely to say 11 minutes than 10.

I generally don't use an alarm clock, because I don't like to woken up. I really don't need them anyway, because I wake myself up before the appointed time, so I won't be surprised by the alarm.

When I do use an alarm, I only set it at numbers ending in 1, 3, 7 or 9. Zero and five are out, because they're just too common - everyone uses them.

I use a 7 or 9 number if I psychologically want to get up early. Using a 1 or 3 lets me sleep in.

I betcha you're really scared now.

[indigobusiness]

31. IT'S ALIVE...

and ALL life is precious. Including the way-beyond-weird varieties.

Alarm clocks lost their war with me decades ago, so we agree on that, but your feng-shui wrinkle is as interesting as it is peculiar.

I think I love you...may I dissect you?

[yvr girl]

34. That sounds a bit painful

Couldn't you just conduct extensive interviews or something.

Way-beyond-weird? I'm quirky, dammit.

[indigobusiness]

37. It's for science.

We could resort to photography?

[yvr girl]

40. Back to the Blue Lagoon

I don't see what help the photos would be in understanding the workings of my mind. Human behaviour should be observed or questioned/probed - not photographed.

I think you may have other motives than science.

[indigobusiness]

43. I've gone all balmy and tropical

suddenly.

[yvr girl]

46. Sounds like malaria to me

You should get to a doctor.

[indigobusiness]

49. I'm doing the diagnosing here.

Now lay back, and relax. This won't hurt a bit.

[yvr girl]

51. I'm a little suspicious about...this

What are your methods? You are a doctor aren't you? How long will this examination take?

[indigobusiness]

53. Trust me. I'm qualified. And it's for your own good.

I have your best interests at heart. Now, assume the position.

[yvr girl]

55. ...said the wolf

The 'position' - Am I being arrested?

[indigobusiness]

57. You are being...

researched.

[yvr girl]

58. What exactly to you expect to discover?

[indigobusiness]

63. The truth.

Grape?

[yvr girl]

69. That was a pretty short mud-bath

Cranberry?

What game is this that we're playing now?

[indigobusiness]

75. You'll have to peel your own cranberries.

I refuse to play games.

[indigobusiness]

76. I didn't mean dissect.

I would never ask to dissect you.

[yvr girl]

83. That's a relief

Too much like an episode of CSI

[indigobusiness]

86. Disect.

I meant disect.

[indigobusiness]

88. No, it is dissect. But I meant psychologically...

Not into the sorts of things that dredges up.

[yvr girl]

90. But, I'm just a simple country girl

Well, not really.

Do you care to offer up a preliminary diagnosis.

[indigobusiness]

94. I'll need Xrays and an MRI to be sure, but as soon as I've finished

doing all the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-doo" opus, I'll make a wild guess.

[yvr girl]

96. But do you know the words?

And do you know who Casey and Finnegan are?

I'll wait for your guess.

[indigobusiness]

103. Casey and Finnegan are Terrence and Philip's

evil twins.

[yvr girl]

107. I must say that I am completely unfamiliar with these

Canadian icons. They must be from the "East."

[indigobusiness]

110. East South Park. Certified Canadian Icons. May I ask you something?

What are these Canadians doing?

[dr.strangelove]

30. All my clocks are ten minutes fast

I don't use an alarm though. I wake up every day at 5:30 without an alarm.

[indigobusiness]

33. My biological clock is ten minutes slow...

but my libido is ten minutes fast.

[dr.strangelove]

36. LOL

My libido runs 24 hours fast. My wife can never keep up with it, though we give it the old college try.

[MissMillie]

28. Protein first

veggies second

then I MIGHT have room for a bite of starchy carbs (fiber-filled, of course)

[dr.strangelove]

29. YOU ARE MY TWIN EATER

Holy shit. My system is your system. Maybe a little diofferent. I always turn the plate so the side dish I prefer is at 6:00 and I start there. I always eat sides first, then the main course. Usually its a veggie first, then a starch, then chicken/fish (and sometimes beef). I eat one at a time and go clockwise from the first side. I always place my food in the plate so I can go clockwise starting with my first starch.

My wife thinks I am nuts and need professional help. I'm glad there is another like me.

[yvr girl]

32. I always wanted a twin

Although I don't think we'll be able to dress alike and fool people. Still - hello twin.

I eat in the same order. Too funny.

[dr.strangelove]

35. Yeah - maybe we are not identical

I mean I am a guy and all. But it is good to know someone else out there is as strange as me.

[yvr girl]

38. We're not strange - we're unique

Now you can tell your wife that you are not the only one with 'your system.'

We'd most likely have trouble dressing up alike. No one is going to confuse me for a guy.

[indigobusiness]

44. Aberrations

is the word.

[dr.strangelove]

64. You are right on there

I just saw your pic in the DU gallery. I wish it was only my beard that kept us from being twins. If I may say so, you are one attractive lady. Once I can talk my dear beautiful wife (now that I have said you are attractive, I better quickly compliment my wife or I'm going to hear it) into posting a pic of us on the net, we'll have ours up in the gallery too.

Hear that honey, I'm not the only one with this strange character trait. Maybe yvr girl and I are the only normal ones and the rest of y'all are strange.

[yvr girl]

68. Why, thank you

You are too kind.

My cousin eats exactly the same way I do. So there's at least three of us.

[indigobusiness]

77. He's just trying to soothe your tattered soul.

I have mud in my ears.

[yvr girl]

81. I have been feeling a bit tattered lately...how'd ya know?

About the mud. Maybe you can get one of those Japanese pillows and your mom can clean your ears for you. Too weird.

I don't play games - I'm pretty straight forward.

[indigobusiness]

84. My mom is dead.

But thanks.

[dr.strangelove]

104. I'll soothe that cute a soul any day.

[yvr girl]

105. I'm pretty sure your wife would object

But thanks for the ego boost.

[dr.strangelove]

109. SHE ALREADY HAS!!!

I am in trouble.

[yvr girl]

113. I'm sure you'll make ammends some how

Just don't say sorry with flowers. Surprize her with them in a week - you'll store up some bonus points.

[Left Is Write]

39. Systems like yours are not at all uncommon.

Few people get as persnickety about it as my uncle, though.

He will eat only one food at a time until it is gone, moving on to the next food afterward. None of the foods can touch the other foods on his plate. When he was a little boy, he used to believe that there were little men in his stomach, each responsible for one kind of food, and he didn't want to confuse them. He doesn't remember where that belief came from, but the habit/need to eat only one thing at a time remains.

My mother (six years older than he) loved to tease him when they were kids by mixing her food all up into mush and eating it that way.

For myself, I like to finish everything at once - a bite of this, a bite of that, sometimes mixed if the flavors work together (like a bite of mashed potato with a bite of cranberry sauce, for example). No real system. No big deal.

[yvr girl]

42. When I'm by myself I often cook one thing at a time

I'll eat that thing. If I'm still hungry, I'll make the next item.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

45. Had a roomate that ate corn the long way.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[indigobusiness]

47. This has become The Closet of Dr. Caligari...

What will be revealed next?

[yvr girl]

48. What do you mean?

Corn on the cobb: Eat end to end, rotate away from you, eat end to end again. Repeat.

That's normal isn't it?

[indigobusiness]

50. Vertically?

That is so wrong.

[yvr girl]

52. The corn is being held horizontally

It's like a typewriter. Too much rotating involved in the other method.

[indigobusiness]

54. It just looks that way to you...

because you are horizontal.

[yvr girl]

56. I almost always eat in a vertical position

Unless someone is peeling me a grape.

[indigobusiness]

59. My mud-bath has been readied...

I must go wallow.

When I return, I'll bring grapes, and peel them for you.

Ciao.

[trof]

60. You people are WEIRD.

Be right back.
Touched the "W" on my keyboard and I have to go wash my hands 3 times and say the Pledge of Allegiance backwards.
;-)

[TrogL]

61. I use the same system

without the clockwise thing

[yvr girl]

62. We're all such creatures of habit

I don't think I could eat a bit of this and a bit of that if I tried.

[the Princess]

65. I eat by color

Darkest to lightest.

Hey - you asked. LOL

[yvr girl]

67. That's funny

I like your system. It wouldn't work for me, but it doesn't need to.

[indigobusiness]

80. I eat by touch.

Soup can be finger food.

[Cadence]

70. Wait who are Pell and Mell?

;)

[yvr girl]

71. Canadian Icons

unkown south of the 49th

[Cadence]

72. Well can I still invite them for dinner so I can answer

properly? :shrug:

[yvr girl]

73. Naturally

As long as you don't mind them eating with their forks in their left hands (upside down) like a good Canadian should.

[Cadence]

74. Oh no, that's totally fine. I glued all of my furniture

to the ceiling last week so it should work out perfectly. ;)

I just need to learn to speak Canadian before then. Do you think there is time?

[yvr girl]

78. If you apply yourself. Here's something to get you started...

You Know You're a Canadian When...


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You stand in "line-ups" at the movie, not lines.

You're not offended by the term "Homo Milk".

You understand the sentence, "Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my poutine."

You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.

You drink pop, not soda.

You know what it means to be on pogey.

You know that a mickey and 2-4's mean "Party at the camp, eh!"

You can drink legally while still a teen.

You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.

You don't know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap place to travel with good cigars and no Americans.

When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it instead of telling them to stay out of it.

You're not sure if the leader of your nation has EVER had sex and you really don't want to know if he has!

You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.

Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.

You drive on a highway, not a freeway.

You know what a Robertson screwdriver is.

You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.

You know that Thrills are something to chew and "taste like soap."

You know that Mounties "don't always look like that."

You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly."

You know that the Friendly Giant isn't a vegetable product line.

You know that Casey and Finnegan are not a Celtic musical group.

You participated in "Participaction."

You have an Inuit carving by your bedside with the rationale, "What's good enough protection for the Prime Minister is good enough for me."

You wonder why there isn't a 5 dollar coin yet.

Unlike any international assasin/terrorist/spy in the world, you don't possess a Canadian passport.

You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, and color.

You know the French equivalents of "free", "prize", and "no sugar added", thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.

You are excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.

You make a mental note to talk about it at work the next day.

You can do all the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-doo" opus.

You can eat more than one maple sugar candy without feeling nauseous.

You were mad when "The Beachcombers" were taken off the air.

You know what a toque is.

You have some memento of Doug and Bob.

You know Toronto is not a province.

You never miss "Coaches Corner."

Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favorites food groups.

[Cadence]

92. Wow! I'll get busy getting this memorized!

Thanks! Pell Mell here I come!

[yvr girl]

97. You better brush up on your hockey references too

You might need to stick-handle an issue. A comment may be off-side. You may need to assign 2 minutes for roughing. (Pell and Mell are all hands.)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

79. i often have dessert first

[indigobusiness]

82. I just spilled my poutine...

on my serviette.

[yvr girl]

85. That's what serviettes are for

As long as you didn't muck up the chesterfield.

[indigobusiness]

87. And poutine.

I'll smoke soggy Chesterfields, if I have to.

[yvr girl]

89. I'm not sure what poutine is for

testing out your constitution perhaps?

Chesterfields are for sitting on, not smoking. I think you're just pulling my leg though.

[indigobusiness]

91. Nobody is sure what poutine is for.

It's one of those mysteries of life.



If you sit on your Chesterfields, it can bend them, and make them hard to keep lit.

[yvr girl]

93. I live in BC

It's illegal to smoke anything but pot here.

[indigobusiness]

95. Why do you think...

I'm trying to seduce you?

[yvr girl]

98. A. I just feel used now. And ...

B. I thought you were a scientist?

[indigobusiness]

100. I have

dual specialties.

[yvr girl]

102. Is this a common joint major at American schools?

Which are you better at?

[indigobusiness]

106. Uncommon joint majors are at a premium the world over.

I'll let you decide.

[yvr girl]

111. Alas, I must decide some other time

I need to bid you adieu.

[indigobusiness]

112. Ciao.

[On the Road]

99. When I Go to the Salad Bar,

I don't get lettuce and then sprinkle things on the top. In fact, I don't get lettuce at all. I get a discrete pocket of carrots, one of celery, one of cucumbers, one of feta cheese, one of tuna fish. And that's how I eat it.

[yvr girl]

101. How do you eat non-salad items?

do you make pockets of everything?

[On the Road]

108. I Don't Mix Everything Around on My Plate

if that's what you mean. But I do prefer to eat foods discretely (as opposed to discreetly).