Are you a food combiner?

[subversplat]

I don't mash it together, but on each fork full I'll have a bit of peas, a bit of broc, a bit of spud, a bit of stuffing, a bit of parsnip etc. And I'll tacticly eat my dinner so that my three or four favourite bits are left at the end to be eaten in one mouthful with the last remaining drop of gravy.

I voted yes before reading the thread

I am a 100% mixer when it comes to pasta dishes though (Spag Bol, whatever) as I really can't see the point of having this pretty dollop of sauce over bare spag *mix mix mix*

 

[May Kasahara]

So, all of you people who are strictly one-taste-at-a-time types: do you chew thoroughly and swallow, then swill your mouths out, making sure that every last trace of that item of food is gone before taking a bite of something else?

I quite happily enjoy eating different food items together without feeling the need to mash them all up into goo like some sort of fuckwit.

 

[wrysmile]

Food splitters - it's so divisive. Ugly.

 

[May Kasahara]

And I'll tacticly eat my dinner so that my three or four favourite bits are left at the end to be eaten in one mouthful

There is nothing more annoying than the unscrupulous eater leaning over and nicking those last few prized morsels off your plate, on the grounds that 'I thought you were leaving them cos you didn't like them' *innocent expression*.

Grr.

 

[northernhord]

I always leave my meat til last and my first is always my least favourite vegetable

Aye, that's how my old fella does, your'e not my dad are you, he's covered in hair too.

 

[marty21]

i do both, when eating a fry up, i often like to have some fried egg, bacon, beans and sometimes mushroom on the fork at the same time, and then direct the fork in the direction of my gaping mouth

in roast situations, i tend to combine a nice morsel of roast beef, with some roast tattie, and maybe the carrot/parsnip mash that i love

on other occasions i do go for the separate option, and enjoy the separate food items in glorious isolationism

 

[sojourner]

I'll combine items on my fork, but not mash them.

My daughter drives me nuts with her separatism She's done it ever since she could feed herself. Eats all the broccoli. Then the mash. Then the peas, etc etc. AND without gravy - EWW!!

 

[May Kasahara]

AND without gravy - EWW!!

My brother loathes cold sauces with a passion - mayonnaise, ketchup, brown sauce, apple sauce, relish, mustard, the lot. When we have prawn cocktails on Christmas Day (I know, how retro kitsch of us) he always has his without the sauce - just prawns, lettuce and tomato. He can't eat fast food burgers (not a huge sacrifice admittedly) because everywhere serves them up with at least one type of sauce on. Apparently there is some sort of mental block around the idea of cold sauce on hot food. But this really does my head in, because as anyone who has seen me post on food threads before will know, I am a condimentalist to the max and can't eat food with no sauce. How did we turn out so different?

 

[floopadelic]

I eat veg first (apart from potatoes), then meat, the potatoes last.

I can't imagine why anything would be 'bothered' by how someone else eats though unless it's a 'control' thing with parents / partners.

 

[mrsfran]

Different rules for different foods.

Peas and mashed potato = combined.

Anything that may make a non-soggy thing go soggy = separate. For example, beans must never touch toast until the last possible minute.

 

[Tank Girl]

I'm a separatist, unless I'm eating things that I know are good for me, but I don't really like very much - like salad, I need a fork full of that with something nice, such as coleslaw or chicken etc.

can you eat cake with salad, that might be the nicest way of getting salad down my neck.

I don't like foods overlapping each other on the plate, they need to be in their own little space.

 

[floopadelic]

Anything that may make a non-soggy thing go soggy = separate. For example, beans must never touch toast until the last possible minute.

You're so right about the 'soggy' question, which is why I dislike it when gravy gets poured over everything, or fish comes smothered in some awful cream sauce

 

[EastEnder]

Utterly fascinating* potential correlation: Are the food separatists the same people who as kids insisted on picking apart biscuits? I'm thinking jammy dodgers, bourbons, jaffa cakes, etc. I was always fastidious about disassembling the aforementioned items, paying very close attention to remove each component intact, before carefully consuming the bits separately.

I might be onto something here.




*There are those who may disagree with the true level of fascinatingness.

 

[floopadelic]

Utterly fascinating* potential correlation: Are the food separatists the same people who as kids insisted on picking apart biscuits? I'm thinking jammy dodgers, bourbons, jaffa cakes, etc. I was always fastidious about disassembling the aforementioned items, paying very close attention to remove each component intact, before carefully consuming the bits separately.

Not in my case. My biscuit strategy has always been to gobble them up as fast as possible and get another one

 

[sleaterkinney]

I'm a combiner, I even leave some food at the end if there isn't anything to combine it with. Like if I'm given too much mash, I'll just eat enough to combine with the other stuff - and leave the rest.

 

[sojourner]

II can't imagine why anything would be 'bothered' by how someone else eats though unless it's a 'control' thing with parents / partners.

I'm just a narky old cow

 

[sojourner]

I don't like foods overlapping each other on the plate, they need to be in their own little space.

aye, my girl is like that too, the amount of times I've been 'told off' for allowing curry to touch rice. It's friggin near impossible to keep them apart!!! Separate plates is the way forward

 

[marty21]

Utterly fascinating* potential correlation: Are the food separatists the same people who as kids insisted on picking apart biscuits? I'm thinking jammy dodgers, bourbons, jaffa cakes, etc. I was always fastidious about disassembling the aforementioned items, paying very close attention to remove each component intact, before carefully consuming the bits separately.

I might be onto something here.




*There are those who may disagree with the true level of fascinatingness.

fascinating if you are into food freaks, all that fucking nibbling away of the chocolate biting around the jammy bit and eating it last or sucking the jam bit out

 

[WouldBe]

Mostly separitist.

Foods cooked seperately get eaten separately. Foods cooked together (stir fry) get eaten together.

 

[subversplat]

Utterly fascinating* potential correlation: Are the food separatists the same people who as kids insisted on picking apart biscuits? I'm thinking jammy dodgers, bourbons, jaffa cakes, etc. I was always fastidious about disassembling the aforementioned items, paying very close attention to remove each component intact, before carefully consuming the bits separately.

I might be onto something here.




*There are those who may disagree with the true level of fascinatingness.

Hmm, I combine my food and separated my biscuits. I'm just one of those people that's never happy with what they've got It always was a major thing if a whole bourbon centre came off in one piece!

 

[Looby]

Utterly fascinating* potential correlation: Are the food separatists the same people who as kids insisted on picking apart biscuits? I'm thinking jammy dodgers, bourbons, jaffa cakes, etc. I was always fastidious about disassembling the aforementioned items, paying very close attention to remove each component intact, before carefully consuming the bits separately.

I might be onto something here.




*There are those who may disagree with the true level of fascinatingness.

According to Magic Sam no, he just shovels the whole fucking packet in.

 

[floopadelic]

aye, my girl is like that too, the amount of times I've been 'told off' for allowing curry to touch rice. It's friggin near impossible to keep them apart!!! Separate plates is the way forward

Blimey even I can cope with curry and rice mixed! And stir frys.

I see a split developing between the fundamentalist separatists and the moderates

 

[EastEnder]

fascinating if you are into food freaks, all that fucking nibbling away of the chocolate biting around the jammy bit and eating it last or sucking the jam bit out

Best of the lot was jaffa cakes.

1) Very, very carefully nibble away at the chocolate, starting at the edges and moving round. Top marks awarded for leaving the underlying sponge surface pristine and undamaged. Gold star for managing to remove all the chocolate off the orangey bit without leaving any visible signs of orangey bit distress.

2) Carefully remove orangey bit, ensuring at all times it is peeled away without any breakage or undue stretching.

3) Consume now denuded sponge bit.

4) Finally, consume immaculate orangey bit.

Note: Amateurs consume the orangey bit before the sponge bit. This is very wrong. The orangey bit is in the epicentre of the jaffa cake, therefore must be consumed last.

 

[Orang Utan]

So, all of you people who are strictly one-taste-at-a-time types: do you chew thoroughly and swallow, then swill your mouths out, making sure that every last trace of that item of food is gone before taking a bite of something else?

Yes, I have a specially prepared scoop of pepper sorbet to cleanse my palate betwixt each bite.

 

[Orang Utan]

Salad on a plate with main meal is another shocking crime.
Warm leaves! Eurggghh!
Salad is for between courses and cleanses the palate between one rich dish and another.

 

[marty21]

Best of the lot was jaffa cakes.

1) Very, very carefully nibble away at the chocolate, starting at the edges and moving round. Top marks awarded for leaving the underlying sponge surface pristine and undamaged. Gold star for managing to remove all the chocolate off the orangey bit without leaving any visible signs of orangey bit distress.

2) Carefully remove orangey bit, ensuring at all times it is peeled away without any breakage or undue stretching.

3) Consume now denuded sponge bit.

4) Finally, consume immaculate orangey bit.

Note: Amateurs consume the orangey bit before the sponge bit. This is very wrong. The orangey bit is in the epicentre of the jaffa cake, therefore must be consumed last.

my method is simpler, i put the whole jaffa cake in my mouth, and chew on it's gorgeousness

 

[WouldBe]

Yes, I have a specially prepared scoop of pepper sorbet to cleanse my palate betwixt each bite.

The combiners would just chuck that on the plate and mush it in with the reat of the meal.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Generally I'm a separatist. If I were eating, say, steak, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, then I'd eat each singly - though not eat all of one thing before moving on to one of the others, now that is screwy!

But if its sausage, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, beans, then I'll combine bacon/egg, sausage/tomato, bacon/beans etc, but never any more than 2 things at a time.

 

[Orang Utan]

I voted yes before reading the thread

You voted right.



Sticking more than one dish in one's gob is food combining.

 

[Orang Utan]

But if its sausage, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, beans, then I'll combine bacon/egg, sausage/tomato, bacon/beans etc, but never any more than 2 things at a time.

Yeah I'm willing to make an exception for breakfasts - sausage tastes nice dipped in bean juice and yolky bacon is divine.