Food Habits
From Stu over at Contemplation, he has these questions. Instead of posting them in his comments, I thought I would do the whole linky thing. He said Thanksgiving made him wonder about people's eating habits, how and what they eat. So here it goes:
1. Do you eat all of the food on your plate equally, or do you eat section by section, i.e. all the meats first, then the vegetables etc? I eat it all equally. A little bit of this, and a little bit of that, but I don't put different foods in my mouth at the same time unless were talking potatoes and meat. Those blend. All others must be eaten alone.
2. White or dark? Dark, please.
3. How do you get Pringles out of a can? Pour them out or stick your hand in the can? Pour 5 or 6 out in my hand. Repeat. Over and over. Until can is empty.
4. How do you eat a stick of gum. Do you fold it in, or do you put the entire stick in all at once? I don't eat sticks of gum. If I chew gum, I chew bubble gum and it is Bubblicious when I do. I have this thing about blowing bubbles...
5. What hand do you hold your knife and fork? Left hand fork, right hand knife.
6. How long does it take your family to eat Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? If we're talking about my WASPY Celtic family, I'll say 1-1.5 hours. If we're talking my husband's Italian family and everyone is there... I think 5-6 hours. Or maybe it just feels like 5 or 6 hours. Maybe its really only 2 or 3. Either way, its a long damn time. Next question is... when with his very loud and demonstrative family, how much talking do I really do? Exactly... None. Sometimes I get a shout in here or there, but overall, I'm the proverbial sponge, soaking it all in and remembering where I last put the Advil...
7. Do you put gravy on your mashed potatoes? Blech. No. I'm a butter kinda gal.
8. Do you prefer canned or fresh cranberry sauce? I hate all cranberry sauce. Big Blech.
9. What do you usually drink with a regular dinner? What do you drink with Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? Water only with regular dinner. Water at Thanksgiving and Christmas too. All other adults usually have wine with their dinner, but Im just boring and plain and evidently have an immature palette. Water for me.
10. Turkey, Ham, or other main course for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? This has to be categorized by family.
His Family Thanksgiving: Yes. All of it. Turkey, Ham, Lasagna, Eggplant Parm
My Family Thanksgiving: Turkey. Very traditional.
His Family Christmas: Big ass Christmas Eve dinner with 5 courses and no meat... a Catholic thing... they eat fish and some seafoody white sauce (gravy) with spaghetti (macaroni)... usually a calamari gravy. Christmas Day: Yes. All of it. Turkey, Ham, lasagna and then 4 other courses. It truly is disgusting.
Christmas my family: Ham with Cheese grits and then all the fixins.
How about you?
posted by Bou | 9:45 PM
6 Comments:
1. Do you eat all of the food on your plate equally, or do you eat section by section, i.e. all the meats first, then the vegetables etc? Some things together, but generally everything. On thanksgiving, twice :)
2. White or dark? White, of course.
3. How do you get Pringles out of a can? Pour out 1-2 at a time. I don't really like them that much.
4. How do you eat a stick of gum. Do you fold it in, or do you put the entire stick in all at once? I don't eat gum either. My mom told me that it would clog my appendix when I was little, and even though I know better I still believe her. When I chew gum, though, I shove it in my mouth and chew it until I can blow bubbles. I'll blow bubble in any kind of gum thanks to Braces.
5. What hand do you hold your knife and fork? Either depending on the meal and the company. I'm mostly ambidextrous anyway.
6. How long does it take your family to eat Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? at least an hour. If the Armenian relatives are coming, it takes an extra hour for them to get there, then an hour to eat, on Armenian Standard Time.
7. Do you put gravy on your mashed potatoes? Neither. I like em plain.
8. Do you prefer canned or fresh cranberry sauce? I hated it until I made fresh, and now I love it.
9. What do you usually drink with a regular dinner? What do you drink with Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? Water or juice, sometimes diet soda with dinner, on holidays maybe a glass of wine or water or tea.
10. Turkey, Ham, or other main course for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? Turkey, but the sides vary by family. My family has all the traditionals plus Armenian food including pilaf, bereg (a phyllo/cheese dumpling), and yalanchi (vegetarian stuffed grape leaves, blecch). His usually has traditional plus Japanese including tempura, soy potatoes, etc. because my sister-in-law's mother is Japanese. It can be a real trip when we're at home for the holidays.
Wow that was long....
I can't drink plain water. I have to have something in it like a squeeze of lemon. The only time I drink plain water is at Tae Kwon Do when we are working out. I take a few sips from the water cooler to stay hydrated.
That's great. I suppose it could fall under the heading of "Food for Thought". OOOhh, bad pun. It's early here & I'm not fully caffinated...
You know, after reading a certain post from a few weeks ago (On Second Thought, I'll Pass on the Pringles), I'll never think of question #3 the same way.
3. How do you get Pringles out of a can? Pour them out or stick your hand in the can?I make them "float".
1. Do you eat all of the food on your plate equally, or do you eat section by section, i.e. all the meats first, then the vegetables etc?
- I eat section by section, veges first (get them out of the way!), then meat. Although with the veges, I tend to combine them, eg mashed potato on fork, push onto peas, now have both, yum!
2. White or dark?
- I'm assuming you mean meat here... white for me, definitely
3. How do you get Pringles out of a can? Pour them out or stick your hand in the can?
- Must admit, shove hand in can, try to get 4 or 5 out at a time.
4. How do you eat a stick of gum. Do you fold it in, or do you put the entire stick in all at once?
- Don't eat gum. However if I did, I'd be a folder I reckon
5. What hand do you hold your knife and fork?
- I'm a left hander, so for me it is left hand knife, right hand fork.
6. How long does it take your family to eat Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner?
- No Thanksgiving here in Australia, but Christmas usually goes about the 1 1/2 hour mark.
7. Do you put gravy on your mashed potatoes?
- Sure do, mmmm and cracked pepper too.. yuummm
8. Do you prefer canned or fresh cranberry sauce?
- Never had it, not too common here.
9. What do you usually drink with a regular dinner?
- Usually drink white wine, preferably a chardonnay.
10. Turkey, Ham, or other main course for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner?
- Always have the Christmas ham, usually chicken as well.
And that's it for me.
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