Hi all. I have this burning curiousity about a particularly unique eating habit. It's eating your meal one item at a time, typically the least important (or least prefered) item first and the main meat item last.
My little ten year old niece was the first person I had ever seen to eat a meal like that (she's in her early 20s now. Not sure if she still has that habit). And then I recently met an adult who has this same quirky eating habit. Being Mr. Nosey, I had to ask both of them where and why this habit began and they both said they don't remember. They said it was ALWAYS how they ate their meals. I either read or heard from someone who was familiar with this particular eating habit that adults start this habit as very young children but their parents typically break them of it before it does turn into a permanent habit.
I can't think of any drawbacks to having this quirk other than raising a few eyebrows from snooty dinner guests. Although I do recall my neice often having to re-heat her main dinner item because it would take a considerable amount of time for her to finally get to it. Other than that I'm just really curious about this interesting eating habit and where it actually stems from.
There's two other unusual eating habits I've learned of that have interesting origins. One involves people that eat their meals extremely fast. I heard this comes from being one of many children and if a child wanted more of a certain food, he/she would have to eat fairly fast before that item ran out. A long-time friend of mine has ALWAYS eaten his meals at lightening speed and he happened to come from a family of nine children.
The other unique eating habit is resting your arms around your plate as if you were guarding it from predators. There's no surprise this is a habit that stems from a lengthy stay in prison, but I've heard it's a habit that ALSO stems from being a child that lives with many, many siblings.
Does anyone here eat their food items individually before moving to the next item or KNOW of anyone who does that? Is there any info' on the net about unusual eating habits? As a kid I once had a habit of saving up all the crust from my slices of pizza and having them as a snack later. I'm sure I had much weirder habits, but that's the only that comes to mind.
My little ten year old niece was the first person I had ever seen to eat a meal like that (she's in her early 20s now. Not sure if she still has that habit). And then I recently met an adult who has this same quirky eating habit. Being Mr. Nosey, I had to ask both of them where and why this habit began and they both said they don't remember. They said it was ALWAYS how they ate their meals. I either read or heard from someone who was familiar with this particular eating habit that adults start this habit as very young children but their parents typically break them of it before it does turn into a permanent habit.
I can't think of any drawbacks to having this quirk other than raising a few eyebrows from snooty dinner guests. Although I do recall my neice often having to re-heat her main dinner item because it would take a considerable amount of time for her to finally get to it. Other than that I'm just really curious about this interesting eating habit and where it actually stems from.
There's two other unusual eating habits I've learned of that have interesting origins. One involves people that eat their meals extremely fast. I heard this comes from being one of many children and if a child wanted more of a certain food, he/she would have to eat fairly fast before that item ran out. A long-time friend of mine has ALWAYS eaten his meals at lightening speed and he happened to come from a family of nine children.
The other unique eating habit is resting your arms around your plate as if you were guarding it from predators. There's no surprise this is a habit that stems from a lengthy stay in prison, but I've heard it's a habit that ALSO stems from being a child that lives with many, many siblings.
Does anyone here eat their food items individually before moving to the next item or KNOW of anyone who does that? Is there any info' on the net about unusual eating habits? As a kid I once had a habit of saving up all the crust from my slices of pizza and having them as a snack later. I'm sure I had much weirder habits, but that's the only that comes to mind.
