My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

Would this bother you? Food related

192 replies

UnfinishedSymphon · 21/06/2020 19:03

Or am I just too picky?

Whenever DP has a roast dinner, he'll put his gravy on and then mash his roast potatoes and veg together into one big pile in the middle of the plate. He'll then douse it in more gravy and mash it some more.

Don't get me wrong, I love my gravy and have quite a bit but i think it just looks soooo wrong when he does this, even more so when we have Sunday lunch out.

OP posts:
Report

Am I being unreasonable?

442 votes. Final results.

POLL
You are being unreasonable
45%
You are NOT being unreasonable
55%
cardibach · 21/06/2020 19:06

YANBU. That’s ridiculous.

Report
Brieminewine · 21/06/2020 19:08

Weird but each to their own!

Report
RHRA · 21/06/2020 19:09

Is he 2?

Report
YaWeeSkitter · 21/06/2020 19:09

I do this when I have mashable food. Ive just had Mince and Tatties which mash together nicely.
But not when eating out . Not because of etiquette but because I like to concentrate on the textures that are on the fork.

Dont look if its annoying you.

Report
DramaAlpaca · 21/06/2020 19:10

I wouldn't be able to sit at the same table as someone who played with their food like that.

Report
Aquamarine1029 · 21/06/2020 19:11

Gross. Your partner eats like a child who hasn't been taught proper table manners.

Report
UnfinishedSymphon · 21/06/2020 19:11

Hard not to look when we're sitting opposite each other

OP posts:
Report
candilemon · 21/06/2020 19:11

He’s eating like a little boy!

Report
CMOTDibbler · 21/06/2020 19:11

He mashes it all together? That is just disgusting, and I'm really not fussy about how people eat their food. Is he not capable of cutting it up and chewing like a normal person?

Report
WorraLiberty · 21/06/2020 19:12

It's weird but it wouldn't bother me.

As long as people enjoy their food and they're not making slurping noises that disturb others, then each to their own.

Report
JuniorMumto1 · 21/06/2020 19:13

I'm all for having a little bit of food with my bucket of gravy but mashing a beautiful roasty up like that sounds horrendous.

Report
DorotheaHomeAlone · 21/06/2020 19:14

That is grim. I’d tell my 5 year old off for that let alone an adult. We all love gravy here but we still eat properly.

Report
PickAChew · 21/06/2020 19:15

It looks disgusting but is probably delicious.

Report
AppleJane · 21/06/2020 19:15

Who cooked? I'd be annoyed if I'd cooked the roasties. All that effort, you might as well serve up mash and put your feet up early!

Report
summerfruitssquash · 21/06/2020 19:16

My favourite hangover cure when I was still living at home was my mums roast mashed up like baby food 😂😂😂 it was so yummy, bit of everything at one time, with tonnes of gravy!

Report
jellybeanz1212 · 21/06/2020 19:17

Fine at home put not fine when out

Report
WorraLiberty · 21/06/2020 19:18

@DorotheaHomeAlone

That is grim. I’d tell my 5 year old off for that let alone an adult. We all love gravy here but we still eat properly.

Why would you tell your child off for eating their food in a way they most enjoy?

The OP's DH is still 'eating properly', he's just mashing his food first.
Report
BendyLikeBeckham · 21/06/2020 19:18

Disgusting to watch and a waste of good roast potatoes! I'd have to eat in a separate room

Report
UnfinishedSymphon · 21/06/2020 19:19

I cooked

OP posts:
Report
Picklypickles · 21/06/2020 19:19

My oh does this with his potatoes, he'll comment on how "perfect" the roasties look when I get them out of the oven and then smashes the poor things to bits and drowns them in gravy, always irks me watching him do it.

Report
C152H · 21/06/2020 19:23

YANBU - that's really off-putting. I'd grudgingly put up with it at home, but I certainly wouldn't eat out with him if he thought it was acceptable to do that in public.

Report
Samtsirch · 21/06/2020 19:24

Yes that would bother me.
You could always start whizzing his meals up in the blender before you serve them 😁

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

SomewhereInbetween1 · 21/06/2020 19:26

YABU. just let the man eat his dinner fgs.

Report
Institutkarite · 21/06/2020 19:29

I'd go and stand behind him, gently caress his head then push his face into his food. Not really!! But what an awful way to eat, it's like a child. He'd be an ex, that sounds revolting and I would choose not to live with a mucky eater.

Report
FlamedToACrisp · 21/06/2020 19:29

It wouldn't bother me at home, but I would think less of my DH if he didn't know better than to do that in public.

FWIW my DH annoys me by swirling his ice cream up with the sauce - but not in a restaurant!

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.