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When you have a meal, and there is one thing that you like more than the rest, do you eat it first, eat it last, or intersperse it with the other items?

Do you have things that you always eat together, rather then one before the other?

Suppose that you have a dish that is a combination of elements that are normally eaten together, like spaghetti and meatballs. Do you eat the meatballs first, along with appropriate amounts of spaghetti and sauce, or do you ration the meatballs so that there will be plenty left for the last few bites of spaghetti?

You have a stir-fry, that is served with rice. On top of, or next to?

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  • My wife and I are polar opposites. She rotates between bites and carefully rations it so when she is finished, there is one bite of everything left.

    Me? I'm a one-type-of-food-at-a-time guy. Its the steak, then the potato, then the beans or whatever. Start with the main course, work your way down to the smallest sidedish. If things mix, I don't mind that much, but I prefer to eat one thing at a time...
    • I'm one at a time guy too, but I eat sides first, starting with my least favorite, then work to the main course. I usually take bites of bread throughout the meal, but I want the last bite to be that tasty rare steak. Mmmmm...

      If eating something like chicken parmesean, I usually eat it together, but make sure the last bite is just chicken and cheese and sauce and maybe one or two noodles. I don't want to run out of chicken and have noodles and sauce left. If I do, I stop eating. If I'm eating at Fazol

  • When you have a meal, and there is one thing that you like more than the rest, do you eat it first, eat it last, or intersperse it with the other items?

    When I go to a restaurant, I eat each thing before moving on to the next. I start with whatever is closest to me. No, I have no idea why I do this, I just end up doing it.

    For example: If I go to Cheddar's, I'll typically order Steak and Tenders with kernel corn and mashed potatoes. Usually, they place the plate in front of me such that the steak is close

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  • I will always eat the bread first (if the bread is separate - does not apply if it's a sandwich or something). Then I usually eat the vegetables next, and after that I will eat the main course. Salad is almost always last. I have done it that way for years and I have no reason why.

  • not that i do, i'm just wondering...

    say no to food segregation!

    Seriously, it all is (presumably) going to the same place, so i don't think about this very often.

    i THINK that i eat some of one thing, some of another, and then go back and finish the first thing. i will pay attention tonight when i eat dinner.

    Stir-fry goes on the rice. Rice goes in a bowl. Don't eat the bowl unless it's made of something reasonably digestible.

  • With sushi, there are always favorites. With me, it's the crab legs, smoked eel and octupus. One of those is always the last thing, but most are gobbled in the beginning and middle.

    The hot Sake (oh, hot sake...) may dull the sense of taste a bit, so it's best to make one pass over everything early, unless you are one of those tea drinkers..

  • I chop everything up into tiny bits and separate it like I'm quarantining plague victims from one another.
    • Haha, oh man. Why is it kids (at least my two kids anyway) go apeshit when the food gets mixed together? Even "almost touching" foods is bad.
      • they know stuff... deep stuff...
        • I wish they did.

          My sister kept insisting for YEARS that I was NOT to tell her boys where eggs come from. (If you do, he'll never eat anything containing egg for the rest of his life).

          This is the same sister who cured her kids from drinking from her glass by saying "Do you know where my mouth has been?" and looking at her husband ... (yeah, they knew what a blow job was even when they were yung'uns).

          So, instead of telling them where eggs came from, I told them how chickens are raised, and what they're fed

  • they fail to plan.

    Part of the joy of a meal, for me, is planning out what I will eat and when. Every meal is different based on what is available and the quantities.

    As a rule, I tend to disperse my favorite thing throughout the meal, but always save some of it for last.

    When my wife and I were dating we had the infamous shrimp incident. We were at a seafood place. When my plate came I made my plan. Pretty much finished the fish first, worked at the potato while I had shrimp and sc
  • Or so I've been told. Which is to say that I eat one dish at a time. Order in not terribly important. Yes, I generally do take it to the extreme of eating all my sphagetti before my meat balls. With cereal, I don't specifically avoid the marshmallows until there's only one layer of cereal in the bowl, but at that point, it's ceral first, marshmallows after, milk last.

    What this has to do with being Jewish, I have no idea. It is however, the first thing I think of when someone mentions how they eat, sinc

  • I'm not really anal about it, but I like my foods seperate on the plate, but when I eat them I mix things up. So I'll take a fork of stir fry and then a fork of rice and mix it in my mouth.

  • with me, its random. completely... or at least to my awareness its random.

    since my meals tend to be very simple... things are not entirely segregated. i think, looking back at last night's dinner... i ate cabbage separately, then had the potatoes.

    i think i'll start paying more attention, john. why? because your ideas intrigue me, do you have a newsletter?
  • A lot of that depends on whether I'm eating out or at home. At home I'l usually start with whatever item I like the least and then work my way up to the item I like the best. If it is stir fry I put and the rice in a bowl and mix it all up with Mongolian Fire Oil (if you like heat that's great stuff to have around;-). Same goes with spaghetti and meatballs- it's all mixed up and eaten together.

    At a restaraunt, since you're paying for it and you don't really have control of the portion, I always start w

  • Eating (Score:2)

    by nizo ( 81281 ) *
    If I eat while sitting in front of the computer at work, usually I warm up/open the food and then minutes later notice it is all gone and the container/wrapper is in the trash and I don't even remember eating it :-( However the rest of the time I usually start with a big helping of the food I like, followed by bits of whatever else is on the plate, usually in order of preference. I mean if I fill up before I can eat it all, I don't want the good stuff still on the plate right? The only exception here is des
  • My brother used to manage restaurants, and one thing he recommended to me was that when eating a good, thick steak, to go right for the center of the meat first, rather than starting at an edge and working across. That way you are getting the best part of the steak at its best rather than having it cool down while you work your way through...
  • First of all, I have food issues, so maybe I'm not the one to ask ;-)

    However, let's say I'm eating cake. Well, my favorite part of the cake is the icing. So, I'm going to make sure that I leave part of the icing for the last bite. But, that's just me, see? I also want to make sure that I get some icing on some of the other bites too...so I'm going to ration it out very carefully. :-)

    Now, let's talk about food food. I guess I do the same thing. If I'm eating something I really like, then I want to make sur

  • Favorites last, but it has to really be a fore-runner. Unless it's a "hot" item (meaning something that degrades when it cools).

    I have a tendancy of eating broccoli first, or most vegetables, because as they cool, they tend to become mushy fast.

    However, all things being close to equal, I'll dive around the plate randomly. While eating sushi, I have a tendancy of leaving a salmon or tuna until last (unless there's a Spider roll). But these are one bite items, so perhaps this doesn't count...

    The very od

  • I usually save my favorite thing for last, and eat the things I like least first.

    Most of the time, though, I will mix bites, like having a bite of bread with my greens, or dipping the carrot into the mashed potatoes. The more "good" stuff I have for a meal, the better. It's great to have a bite of ribeye with sauteed mushroom, and then one with some baked potato & cheese sauce, and then one with garlic bread... Damn. I just went to the store yesterday. Should've gotten a steak.

    Anyway, I do employ ca
  • I don't specifically segregate foods, some I mix, (veggies and smashed potatos) some I don't, but I don't get bent out of shape if things happen to co-mingle.

    I do agree with Bethanie, tho. I will quit eating my salad when the main course arrives, because I'd rather eat the main course hot and it's not like the salad is going to be bad if it gets cold.

    ^_^

  • Since you asked oh-so-rudely, I will tell you.

    I tend to eat intersperse the "favorite" item with the other things I'm eating, rationing it out as I go, but I'm not that picky.

    I do have a few things that I prefer to eat together if I can, though again I won't throw a fit if I don't get it that way. I like blackened (Cajun) catfish with creamed corn, for example, or sausage gravy and biscuits with grits, or Rouladen (stewed beef rolls) with Spätzle (Swabian noodles). But for the most part it's not ab

  • I tend to eat my favorite thing last - a habit learned early with yucky dinners and a dessert as a reward for finishing. I also tend to scarf everything else down together as if I don't have enough time, then sit back and savor the favorite. Spaghetti definitely gets the scarf treatment - usually the meatballs are finished off early because there are never enough.

    Stir-fry depends - I usually like it placed on top if the flavors are very strong because that gives the juices some time to mix in and be dilut

  • Yes! (Score:2)

    by Tomble ( 579119 )

    When you have a meal, and there is one thing that you like more than the rest, do you eat it first, eat it last, or intersperse it with the other items?

    I forget how long ago it was, but yeah, I developed the strategy some years ago of having whatever I like least first, and leaving what I like most for last. Although not in an absolute "all this, then all that" way as there's still a degree of interspersing, and if there's not much preference I'm much more vague about it. I've heard people advocate the e

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