Do you share food?

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Dd and I went to Yo Sushi yesterday which is always been somewhere we share the dishes, kinda tapas style.
It suprised me that the other people around us all seemed to order their own.
We always share Indian/Chinese food too and wouldn't think to just get our own dishes, we always choose together.
Obviously in places where you order one dish we don't do anything other than have a taste of each others.
Are you sharers?

Not really. I share tapas because it's meant for sharing but if I'm ordering something I want I don't want dh eating half 😂

No. I order what I like and generally don't like what DH orders, I wouldn't want to regularly give up food in exchange for something I don't want to eat.

We share tapas because it's meant for sharing, but we order things we both like.

Absolutely not, if I’ve ordered it I want to eat it. The only exception is when you order enough to essentially make a buffet on the table, but I’ll still order something that is exclusively mine.

Not really. I quite like ordering anything I like!

No I don’t order to share generally - I most definitely live by the “Joey doesn’t share food” principle 😂

Not really no. Tapas is different but when I eat out or order a takeaway in real life I order what I want to eat. There was a thread on here a while back about going to someone's house for an Indian takeaway and the family did this thing where everyone had a bit of everyone else's dish. Most of us were pretty aghast and agreed we preferred to eat what we have chosen to order and not be pressurised into having a bit of this and a bit of that. There were some people that thought whole point of a takeaway was to share bits of everything but they were the minority. In all honesty, I'd feel a bit sick with all the different foods mixing and would probably avoid going back to a set up like that.

Anecdotally, I can recall a teenage friend from school who would pass her plate round all of us and demand we put a bit of our food on it (ie steak, salmon, seafood risotto) as "it's rude not to share". Back then we all were paying for our own meal either from our allowances or a summer job and she'd often pick the cheapest thing on the menu despite being one of the wealthiest amongst us and demand we bought the more expensive dishes (ie steak and lobster) that she wanted to try but refused to pay for. We all thought she had dreadful table manners!

No, I don't see the point. I order what I want to eat.

No, I hate sharing food. I don’t even like when DH asks to try my dinner because he always goes for a huge bite 😒

I order what I like. If someone else wants that too, they can order it!

We often share unless DH fancies something that I don't or vice versa. Even Italian we'll often get a couple of pasta dishes and maybe a pizza and split everything. Though if one of us particularly likes or dislikes something then that changes things. DH is Chinese though and sharing food is the norm in Chinese culture so we probably tend more towards sharing than most would.

No. I hate sharing food.

Places with food for everyone to share, I just don't eat; I feel wierd about how much of each thing to take and like I'm on display. I am happy to deliberately make/order sharing food for my imediate family, but that's it. Anything chosen or made specifically for me, no one else gets anywhere near - certainly no one has a taste. I have genuinely stabbed my brother in the hand with a fork before. I accept that I am wierd about food though (in more ways than this), so I don't know how representative I am!

Not really because I'm quite fussy. If it's just me and DH we do because he panders to my requirements 😂

Tapas is for sharing. Sushi isn't.

I'm vegetarian and I would be really annoyed if a meat eater asked me to share some of my veggie sushi dishes, because if their dishes contained meat then they wouldn't be able to reciprocate.

Equally, it's different if it's just close family, but if you go out in a big group of people then you don't know if other people have food allergies or other medical reasons to avoid certain foods. It's not cool to ask for some of someone's food, if your food isn't suitable for them so it's not equal sharing.

Obviously in places where you order one dish we don't do anything other than have a taste of each others

I find this very odd and for some reason quite irritating

Not really. DH is really fussy and when we do happen to order from a takeaway we both eat at I want to eat the dish I’ve ordered not have what he’s got as I don’t like it and he only eats that one dish. Although we do share rice from Indian.

If it was a meal designed for sharing that’s different but yeah in our house we just order one dish we like unless someone specifically says hey do you fancy splitting X dish with me I wouldn’t expect anyone to share

No.
I usually have little toddler hands reaching for my plate and that's the only little hands I'll allow near my plate .

If you want it, get it yourself but keep your grubby paws off my food!

This is a funny one because generally I don't like sharing my food, I don't mind doing tastes, but I hate when I end up only getting half of what I wanted, dh is a sharer, and will say he doesn't like what I've ordered but will eat a good chunk of it.

One of my sister's who eats exactly the same as me, we always choose similar so we share and I don't mind sharing with her as we order other dishes too and it means I get extra food 😁

Two of my brother's who like sharing but they get everything with Frank's sauce, I can't stand Frank's sauce so I end up ordering my own while they all share.

One of my sils just appears over your shoulder with a fork, for a 'taste', drives me nuts. Another one says she hates chips never eats them but will devour mine.

Actually reading this I seem to be surrounded by sharers, I'll have to sit at the end of table in future and scoff my food in one go.

Vodkabulary what's designed for sharing is definitely up for debate. Like it seems most people wouldn't expect to share if they ordered Chinese or Indian takeout but in both those cultures the food is usually shared so you could say it's designed to be shared.

as a self-confessed greedy guts, I am always waring of sharing unless I'm certain they'll be plenty of food. I have a couple of family members who always go on about how portions are so big nowadays, so they'll just have one dish between them, but then seem to hoover up a fair amount of other people's food. I know I have a big appetite and order accordingly, and get a bit narked if I'm left feeling hungry when others don't do the same.

I usually only share. When out for dinner my friends and I will order 4/5 starters and 3 mains or so and all dig in. You get to try far more of the menu that way!

Brunch we’ll order individually, but lunch and dinner definitely not.

I honestly thought this was the norm with Yo Sushi, or any small plate place really.
I wouldn't demand to have a bite of someone else's meal or anything, but we like to share/taste each other's food.

Ostryga
Yes, exactly that.
You get to taste more.

Yes. Love sharing. Often when out with DH we will make sure to order different things so we can both try them.
Sushi, tapas yes always. We will order a wide selection of foods to try.

Not usually tbh. We do occasionally which we will discuss in advance of ordering but usually we want different things and don't fancy a half and half approach. We do tend to share more at tapas or Yo Sushi small plates type meals or we might share a big dessert or something but as a general rule no we don't, we would tend to order our own Chinese and Indian meals for example.

No way.

Yes, I share. We do the same at Yo!, order a selection and share them.