Do you share food?

[IHaveBrilloHair]

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?

Indian or Chinese definitely. It would be super dull to only get one dish. I've never met any family which just orders their own in that case.

Nope! Order what I like and enjoy it. Occasionally finish the kids leftovers and occasionally DH finishes mine though.

If we eat out at a place where you order your own, say a steak restaurant, we always order differently so we can taste more.

DP has much plainer tastes than me so he wouldn’t usually want to share things like Indian or Chinese, mine would be too interesting spicy for him. We do share pizzas though. I’ll share tapas, dim sum and sushi with friends.

But basically everyone has to be on board or no one is.

@SleepyPartyTime

Indian or Chinese definitely. It would be super dull to only get one dish. I've never met any family which just orders their own in that case.

I’ve met a couple of people who do the ‘my order is mine’ thing but they’ve been the minority, ime. If we have someone with a specialist dietary need (like I have a friend who is gluten and dairy free) when eating out then often they will have their own out of necessity, but if it’s something simple like vegetarianism we tend to just order extra veggie dishes so that there’s plenty go around and the veggie isn’t being short changed.

All of life's 'sharers' I have encountered generally tend to be either greedy or tight. So they will inhale their own food and then come looking for someone else's. Or as PP have said, order the smallest, cheapest thing on the menu and then come sniffing for a 'taste' of lots of big, expensive dishes.

In this case I'm only talking about the two of us, group sharing is different.

No I hate sharing food
I have an ex friend who when you'd go out for meals she's try to put her fork into peoples plates to try stuff

I told her it was gross but she's very weird so I now don't have anything to do with her thankfully 😅

I share e.g delivery of Indian food or pizza out the box but once it’s on my plate I never share, I don’t eat off anyone else’s fork or spoon either or drink from their cup or bottle

I paid the whole bill btw and instigated the ordering, encouraged more, then added on takeaway for Dd's BF, so definitely not tight!
We managed 12 dishes between us.

Not if I can help it! I have been known to lick my pizza before DH can get at it!

@Cazzamoomoo

All of life's 'sharers' I have encountered generally tend to be either greedy or tight. So they will inhale their own food and then come looking for someone else's. Or as PP have said, order the smallest, cheapest thing on the menu and then come sniffing for a 'taste' of lots of big, expensive dishes.

I don't think you've met many Asian people! It's a cultural thing. Nothing to do with being tight or greedy 🤨

@Cazzamoomoo

All of life's 'sharers' I have encountered generally tend to be either greedy or tight. So they will inhale their own food and then come looking for someone else's. Or as PP have said, order the smallest, cheapest thing on the menu and then come sniffing for a 'taste' of lots of big, expensive dishes.

The sharers I know are European, Brazilian or Asian. They’re not tight or greedy 😂 it’s just a different culture and way of eating.

Generally no. I like to order and eat my own food. Pizza is probably the only exception...

And I hate "shall we all order something different and share it"

No

I want my own food!!!

So many like minded people! I hate sharing but thought I was odd.

I've had discussions at work where people find it amusing that I don't want to share (in a nice way).

No we are not sharers. I can see others might be and I don't have particularly strong feelings on the subject but I do get annoyed if people expect a bit of mine.

In fairness though it always used to be Dsis who would winge that " it's just niiiiice and faaaaamily boooonding". She genuinely does sound like that and is a giant entitled twunt so she would eat half of yours then find an excuse why she didn't need to share. So I fully admit I am biased and probably unhealthily protective of my food but so is DP so it works out.

At least we are together and not inflicting our food territories on any other poor bugger.

If hubbie and I go out to an Indian restaurant, we will order a main dish each and share them. This is great because we often can't decide what we want, and this way we can have some of each.

If you really want to taste more dishes, just..go back

You don't need to try every single dish in one setting!

@Cazzamoomoo

All of life's 'sharers' I have encountered generally tend to be either greedy or tight. So they will inhale their own food and then come looking for someone else's. Or as PP have said, order the smallest, cheapest thing on the menu and then come sniffing for a 'taste' of lots of big, expensive dishes.

Don’t know many Asians then?

Yes. Me and my partner usually order two meals and then split them half and half even in regular restaurants. In tapas places we would discuss and then share.

Sushi is a bit different as it's not necessarily a sharing plate, but just a portion of sushi per plate. But, we often do if we fancy it.

Although with anyone who hasn't my partner I probably wouldn't because they might order something I'm not interested in. Happy to share a few bites though.

Lol, I am neither ‘tight’ nor ‘greedy’ but carry on…

@Gullible2021

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!

Isn’t that basically the Gavin and Stacey story line where Smiffy gets all annoyed because everyone’s eyeing up his bhuna’s?? 😂

I think food always tastes better when you share unless it involves sea food 🤮. I prefer trying little bits of different food. Don’t you get bored eating a whole plate of the same food especially curry or Chinese dishes?