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?

@Fashionablefennel
I can go back?

DP and I share in Wagamama, mainly because the meals come at different times so it feels selfish for one of you to sit and eat while the other is hungry and then is left to eat by themselves, so we usually order two meals we both like and take turns with them across the table! Same with Indian and Chinese - he’ll let me order, maybe adding on one or two must-haves that he likes, but he knows I’ll get a good selection. We always use lots of serving spoons etc to share it out, not just digging in with the cutlery we’re eating with.

With regular food like Nando’s or steak and chips etc we might try a bite of each other’s food, but don’t share as such.

He shares a lot with his DCs too whereas mine are all germophobes. I remember on holiday being quite put out that, having waited ages for our paella to arrive while the DCs ate their chosen meals, his DCs then leant over and nicked all the prawns out of it!! He thinks it’s funny when I get pissed off about people putting their fingers in my dinner, but there’s certain things I don’t share and certain ways I don’t like to share - other people’s fingers and forks in my food = not ok

We often share. Food at home is always in dishes in the middle - does that count as sharing? I would definitely always share at Yo Sushi, and if we get takeaway (Indian, Chinese, Turkish, pizza) we always share. Unless it is fish and chips, then we just eat our own.

Surprised at a lot of the responses. DH and I always share. Unless it’s Indian because he likes lamb and I don’t but even then we’ll still have a dook of each other’s with some Nan bread. Or if his sauce has onions or tomatoes I get some of this because he loves me 😹😹

With my family we share as well we don’t eat out with his family so they’re irrelevant.

If it’s an extended family takeaway, we might pool some of the dishes although once this led to quite a big falling out between DM & DSIL! They really clashed! If it’s just me & DH, we order what we want & would only share something like prawn crackers.

Not a fan, personally

I grew up sharing eg Chinese and was utterly perplexed the first time I encountered a family that didn’t. That said, DH and I don’t if we have curry because I can’t cope with very spicy food.

Depends, I am vegan and DP is not so depends if he (or whoever else I’m with) is prepared to have a vegan meals so we can share. I think last time we went to yo sushi we shared some of them but also had a few of our own.

I’m the same as you OP - small plate, tapas, Indian, Chinese are sharing meals imo but I think we’re definitely in the minority (well, outside of those countries/cultures anyway)! As a result I try to only eat out or order from those types of places with like minded people so definitely not my parents or siblings who are very much starter, main, side each no matter the cuisine but then can never finish it all and don’t eat leftovers .

Nope Joey doesn't share food.

I'm totally with Smithy (Gavin and Stacey) on this one.

No! Big fat NO!

I never share food. Those closest to me know not to pick at mine.

We share if we have Indian, Chinese, sushi etc.

But……

My sister and her ex used to eat off each other’s plates! I’d slap the fork out of DHs hand if he tried to eat off mine!!

Yep, we generally order a mix of things & the 5 of us dive in. Meals at home are generally served family style & everyone can help themselves.

The only thing I’d share is rice or naan bread or something like that.

Well this is eye opening! We always share. Well like an Indian or Chinese or sushi anyway!

Well, that's opened my eyes. Is it a British thing I'm guessing?

Definitely a sharer here, unless it's a 'one plate' meal like a steak etc. But even then if I went with my best friend we always get something we both want, eat half and swap - best of many worlds.

If I’m out with the DDs and their partners, sometimes we can’t decide between two menu choices, so a DD and I get one each and swap halves.
I have my set favourites at our sushi place, but will swap one or two eel or snow crab maki rolls for a piece of the DDs’ things if they ask. And we share the lotus crisps!

@Bearsbearsbears40

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

Came in to say exactly that!

@IHaveBrilloHair

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.

I find this really odd. Why do you want to "taste more"? Just eat your own meal.

You have probably guessed I don't share food! I don't even like sharing tapas really, I would rather have my own dishes.

@Wearywithteens

I think it’s generally well known that most people hate sharing food don’t they? Even buffets can piss people off (vegetarians, if you’re not at the front of the queue, for example).

Is it? I'm also shocked at the strength of feeling against sharing. Don't people want to try lots of different dishes?

On the matter of vegetarians and buffets, what many people seem to forget is that just about everyone eats things like cheese sandwiches and onion bhajis, they're not special weirdy vegetarian food that is only for vegetarians, it's normal food for everyone.

Yes, even in nandos my husband and I will order different sides and then split them up so we each have 4 sides.

Is it? I'm also shocked at the strength of feeling against sharing. Don't people want to try lots of different dishes?

No. If I wanted to do so, I'd go to a buffet.

@BarbaraofSeville I get the feeling you are not someone who has experienced being a vegetarian at a buffet and there not being enough food left that you can eat because people ahead of you went too hard on the veg samosas over the meat ones? Happens all the time 😭 no one thinks that non-veggies shouldn’t be able to eat it, just that they need to make sure veggies are appropriately catered for before piling their own plates. Then again buffets are probably not going to happen anymore anyway so at least there’s that