Bad Eating Habits
I have terrible eating habits- it’s not the variety of food, it’s the way it I eat it. I pick at it like a fussy child and for some reason dissect it all.

I can’t eat a chocolate bar normally. Take a Mars Bar for example- I pick off all the chocolate with my teeth, then peel off the caramel, and then eat the nougat. I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten one “normally”.
I have no idea why I do this, there’s probably a reason why it’s all together in the first place, and it just creates mess!

I lick the flavouring off crisps before I eat them.

If I have something like a burger or an enchilada, I’ll start eating it normally but pretty much always end up taking it apart and eating it in bits.

I’m also like a child in that I can get bored of eating something halfway through and start something else.

I hardly ever leave a clean plate; it’s a habit to leave something there, even if it’s a couple of bits of pasta, or a piece of vegetable.

First dates tend not to include dinner…

(I have a feeling I'm going to get flamed for this...)
( awayfromthenumbers, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:56, 4 replies)

I'm like this too! A nibbler, I call it.
Wispas get the chocolate from the side removed, then the top and then I eat them bite by bite. Fig rolls get the sides then bottom removed, then I chomp on the sticky fig paste and eat the top last.

Even chocolate peanuts get nibbled. It makes things last longer though! ^-^
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 16:47, closed)

I do the same thing with chocolate bars
if they're made up of different constituents. Only I don't do the whole bar at once, just in bite size pieces. So with a Mars Bar I'll bite off all the chocolate on the sides/top/bottom of about the first 2cm of the bar, then eat the caramel from that section, then the nougat. Then repeat until I've eaten the whole bar.

I think it's a leftover habit from when I was a kid and chocolate was a really rare treat, so I'd stretch out the eating process (and therefore enjoyment) as long as I could.

I don't eat complicated chocolate in public because of this.
(teff, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 1:04, closed)

Semi-acceptable weirdness if you're a girl.
If not, please hand your man card back at reception.
(Billy The Fish wants to gargle with Lucy Pinder's bath water, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 18:18, closed)

Clean plates
are essential. Leaving food gives starving children in Africa AIDS.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 14:57, closed)