Is there anyone else here who hates the sound of someone EATING?

[complain jane]

I can't stand it. I mean I truly cannot STAND it, and chewing gum is the bane of my existence. I think it's disgusting and I want to hear someone chewing/slurping/smacking their lips as much as I want to hear them go to the bathroom. And when I'm stuck in the movies next to someone who eats his or her popcorn with their mouth wide open constantly through the movie or a coworker decides to pop into my office with their big crunchy salad lunch in hand and plans to sit by my desk and eat it, conversing with a mouth full of food, I'm actually offended and it really just pisses me off.

Anyone else?

[MrScorpio]

1. Do not, under any circumstances, eat anything crunchy by my ear

If you do, consider yourself dead meat

[complain jane]

29. I work with a guy who is almost 7' tall and for some reason,

the fact that he eats like five bagels for breakfast and an enormous lunch seems to make him think that it's something to flaunt.

So he eats his meals walking around in the hallway for some reason. Sometimes he'll come into my office, or someone else's office, and just stand there looking at your computer monitor while you're working, eating real loud, smacking his lips, grunting out words with a mouth stuff full of food, shoving more in as he speaks.

I swear I work in bizarro world when it comes to people's eating habits.

[hippiepunk]

2. Oh, god

It's disgusting.

[Maestro]

3. Yes.

I cannot stand to hear crunching, smacking, slurping, etc...I even piss off myself when I think I am being too loud. My father, poor guy, is the worst. I can't be in the same room with the guy. And when we were growing up, just hearing my brother eat cereal made me want to smack him. Wierd but it is funny how are brains can stand some things and other things drive us over the edge. Put * eating a bowl of cereal in my kitchen and the Secret Service will be busy doin' some sort of protection.

[Mr Rabble]

4. Me too

we have issues...

[StaggerLee]

5. I am curious

What if you're in the vicinity of an animal that's eating loudly?

Same reaction?

[complain jane]

6. Only once.

A family member had a sheepdog who ate SO loud it would get to anybody. Other than that, just people.

Especially when it seems they're making no conscious effort whatsoever to minimize the sounds they are making.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Only when I'm married to the person.

By the end of our marriage, my ex husband so disgusted me that I couldn't even stand to hear him eating.

[electricmonk]

8. Me too

Just posted something similar on another message board. We were talking about pet peeves and that's one of mine. Can't stand the sound of people kissing either. It's great if you're in on the action otherwise it drives me up the wall. Especially in movies where it seems like they put a mic about 2 inches away from the couple when they film it.

[hickman1937]

9. The eating thing doesn't bother me, but I can't stand belchers.

Or people that spit on the ground, and the snot snorters make me want to slug them. You know, the ones that repeatedly gak it back LOUDLY.

[BuddhaGirl]

10. YES!

To clarify - if I'm eating with someone, it doesn't bother me AS much. However, if someone else (even my husband) is sitting next to me eating and I'm not, it drives me absolutely crazy. The chewing, smacking, slurping, etc...ugh.

Another pet peeve is when people make that sucking noise while getting food out of their teeth after eating. This peeve goes WAY back to early childhood - a great-uncle of mine would make that noise endlessly and LOUDLY after a meal.

[HEyHEY]

11. I hate it

[Abelman]

12. Certainly is

And very rude. It drives me crazy the many students I work with who can't chew with their f*cking mouths closed. It drives me batty.

[graywarrior]

13. Spoons scraping against cereal bowls when you'er trying to

watch Lost.

[bigwillq]

14. Doesn't bother me how people eat

I eat kind of messy and loud. Food is just too good. I just want to devour it!

[LisaL]

15. Nope. Doesn't bother me at all.

How do you go out and eat if you can't stand people eating? They would be eating all around you, LOL.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

22. Gobble away. Crunch, munch, lick, slurp,

One of the sexiest movie scenes is from "Tom Jones"... Tom and the young lady sharing a meal, ripping into a turkey leg, lots of finger foods, lust and lunch...

[Wapsie B]

24. Same here.

Better than the sound of farting.

[Southsideirish]

16. Soup slurping, gum cracking, popcorn snapping. Ugh!

[miss_kitty]

17. My best friend and I can go on about that for HOURS

and it's not limited to people. Our dogs-Stella was pretty bad about making chewing and licking noises when I first got her. Karen can't stand the sounds of wild animals eating on nature shows...

I had a roommate years ago who fucking smacked and slurped, which I would get, had she been raised in a house of slobs, but her parents stayed with us. No smacking, no slurping, middle-upper middle class people...

[No Mandate Here.]

18. My kids have always thought that they had to listen to music

while we eat so they would have a well rounded music education. In actuality, it is because I don't like the sound of others eating.

That's not the only thing. The sound of any plastic wrapper coming off a package or being rewrapped makes my skin crawl a bit, as well.

Oh, by the way... the kids are among the few their ages who can identify the difference between the various incarnations of Benny Goodman's bands, and have felt the incredible emotion of Simon and Garfunkel's Silent Night, as well as the evolution of Talking Heads and most of Bob Marley's music (and lots more). They're pretty good.

Hmmmm. All because I don't like to hear others eating. (Please don't tell my kids. Thanks.)

[Ivan Sputnik]

19. It's especially bad

when people on the radio do it. Yuck. And on my favorite talk radio network, too.

[peekaloo]

20. It's mildly amusing to me BUT my sister can make

eating a tortilla chip sound like a million locusts coming through the wall. THAT annoys me.

p.s. I gag watching nature shows when some animal is doing a chow down on its prey.

[4_Legs_Good]

21. Who the F*CK invented crunchy cereal?????

I could strangle the bastard!!!

It's bad enough that I'm freaking awake in the morning, but to have to sit at a table where someone else is munching away on some damned assed crunchy cereal for like 20 minutes!?!?!?!

I could shove a whole grapefruit down their throat!

:grr:

david

[complain jane]

27. Or GUM?!? Who invented CHEWING GUM?!?

[complain jane]

28. I think, that eating a meal should be

treated the same way as taking a dump.

Do it, please, behind closed doors, away from the rest of society, until you are completely finished, washed up and through making all of the noises that you need to make engaging in the act.

Just the same as someone having gone to the bathroom-

I DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO YOU DO IT.

Maybe we could have Eating Huts like we used to have outhouses? You want to eat, eat to your heart's content! Out back in the soundproof Eating Hut and don't come back until you're done.

[MollyStark]

23. yes... some people are cows

What the hell is wrong with parents that can't even teach their kids to chew with their mouth closed?

[Dervill Crow]

25. Oy, you should hear my husband.

There were six kids in the family, so I'm guessing maybe my hubby didn't realize the amount of noise he was making with all the other ruckus, but now there's no excuse. My god, he's the only person I know who can make a slurping sound when he is eating solid food. And when he's eating spaghetti he sounds like a Shop-Vac.

I love him dearly; I would walk through fire for the man, but when he is eating I just want to pinch his head off.

[complain jane]

30. "...I just want to pinch his head off..." LOL

My stepfather's the same way.

It's almost as if the meal is not being fully enjoyed if he is not going as far out of his way as possible to make as much noise as can be made with the food and utensils involved.

His face actually contorts with the effort he puts into squishing and mushing the food around in his mouth, drowning out the conversations of others at the table in the process. People who have come to dinner at their house who are normally not affected in the least by the sounds of others eating inevitably end up staring at him in disbelief. The food gets sucked in, slurped and sloshed and chomped at a startling volume, sometimes some falls out because it's all happening with the mouth intermittently open, and then before the current mouthful can be swallowed- he shoves in more... lots more.

Once in a while, for an extra treat, he'll try "speaking" with all of this in his mouth.

In the morning, the coffee cup cannot be placed gently anywhere, it must be slammed against the countertop with full force.

And on and on and on.

[bobthedrummer]

26. Only if it reminds of the eating noises in Mr. Sardonicus or The Fly.

:D

[complain jane]

31. I almost fainted when I found out

that there are people who get paid to do nothing but ADD IN THE SOUNDS OF CHEWING AND SLURPING FOOD to movies and commercials in post-production, just to make sure it's real audible.

Right now there's a commercial for some cereal, the father and baby are at the table, he's reading the paper, and he's eating crunchy slurpy cereal. I never get to the tag line of the commercial because they have the disgusting, irritating sounds of the guy chewing away and banging the spoon and slurping the milk in the cereal so loud that it makes my skin crawl and I change the channel.

[Dervill Crow]

33. LOL! Professional slurpers?!

I wonder if they submit .wav files with their resumes.

[Taxloss]

32. Yes, I loathe it.

I really can't stand it. And I don't know why.

[Writer]

34. A girl I used to work with used to eat with her mouth open...

She was this skinny little thing with these huge lips. She smacked them repeatedly as she masticated whatever gruel she had before her. Unfortunately, in my old workplace someone could bring their food to their desk and I sat right beside her in our pod. It was truly disgusting.

Actually this girl was incredibly insecure and a true bitch to me. After our group was cut, I beat her out for a better position at another company. That was a good feeling. Karma.

[nuxvomica]

35. I can't stand any of that

Open-mouth chewing of food or gum is rude. The gum stuff is especially bad what with the snapping and the popping. Also, sucking on straws and rattling the ice cubes around. I know a family who must have especially acoustic jaws cuz even though they chew with their mouths closed, you can hear every single crunch.