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?

I hate sharing food. I'll do it occasionally with one or two specific people if we can't decide between two dishes that we'd both enjoy but otherwise I hate it. I don't want to order four or five different dishes and I often want seafood or sometimes vegan dishes that many people don't care for. I want to eat those dishes, not pay for food that I don't particularly care for.

I despise sharing 😂.

I remember going for an Indian for my friends hen do and I was gutted when everyone assumed we were all sharing. I hardly saw my Tikka.

I am definitely not a sharer

NO!!!

I order what I want, if anyone else wants some of my food they should have bloody well ordered the same dish.

My meal is MY MEAL 😡

I would perhaps split a platter of sushi, but not kaiten -sushi from a conveyer belt like in Yo Sushi. They are individual portions and you order as you go.

I’d split larger tapas dishes, and sometimes go half and half with DP or close family with indian dishes and sides. But we’d decide that as we were ordering, there wouldn’t be a presumption it would all be shared when it arrives at table.

No. I know what I want to eat and that's it's the right amount for me and that's what I expect to eat! It really annoys me when people do the sharing a takeaway thing, a load of mine disappears and I get palmed off with a mish mash of other stuff I didn't want.

I like sharing when it's done on fair terms.

Ugh no -can’t stand those twee couples joined at the hip who ‘share desserts’. Cringey.

I don't mind sharing with dp
and kids if we order loads of food .
But I hate when you're ordering and somebody says they don't want anything.
But the food comes and they dive in,no that boils my piss.

Out in a restaurant I'd just eat my one food,wouldn't share.

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

I just don't get this at all. Why do you regularly taste each other's food ? It just seems weird to me.

We share because its a nice thing to do, you get to try more things. In groups of friends for Chinese or Indian everyone takes a portion from what they ordered and passes it back to the middle of the table for others to have a bit. Within the family we share Chinese and Indian takeaway. Even for pub meals with family we always offer each other a taste, or split things half and half. DH and I always order different meals too, and often will share a starter and share a pudding so we can have both without being stuffed. Nothing tight or greedy about it, the opposite in fact, I see it as generous, sociable eating.

There is a huge difference between having a serving plate in between you and you each take food off it, and somebody taking food off your own plate. I can't bear the latter.

All the time with DP, by agreement of course. We pass plates back and forth! Don't think I do it with anyone else, although we both shared a pudding with my SIL last time we ate out with her.

I share, i'd finish what's left on someone else's plate, too.

I've a stomach of steel in general.

@HollowTalk

There is a huge difference between having a serving plate in between you and you each take food off it, and somebody taking food off your own plate. I can't bear the latter.

I agree with this.

Nothing worse than the feeling of people eyeing up your food and coming at you with a fork! It's such bad manners and I'd avoid eating out with them again.

DP and family share Chinese take away by ordering lots of different things, I enjoy the buffet style and"event" of it, but I would rather just eat my Singapore chow mein by myself.

How are people doing it in restaurants, are they asking for extra plates and scraping half their dish on each?

When I share in a western place we swap out plates if we're properly sharing or just place a bit of the food on the others plate if just tasting each others.

In Asian restaurants it's common for all the dishes to be on plates in the centre of the table and everyone seated around the table is given an empty plate to fill up. I live in Asia and it is fairly common for even western food to be served this way.

If its a plated meal, we cut a bit off and pass it to the other person's plate before starting to eat our own. Or if its eg leftover chips we might push the plate toward whoever wants them to take with their own fork. Shared starters we put in the middle and both use our own cutlery, puddings we ask for an extra spoon.

Yes, and I'm surprised at how many are saying no!

@Shopaholic100 If I'm ordering a meal, I am ordering what I want to eat. If I want to taste something else I will either go back another day, or order a selection of side dishes instead of one main for eg in an Indian restaurant, and any leftovers are my lunch for the following day. I don't tend to get bored of a dish halfway through, if I don't like something I'll just leave it to one side and offer that around just so it doesn't go to waste.

@NigellaSeed

DP and family share Chinese take away by ordering lots of different things, I enjoy the buffet style and"event" of it, but I would rather just eat my Singapore chow mein by myself.

Wow I've never met anyone who doesn't do the sharing style thing for Chinese, it would be very odd to just have one dish. In the restaurant they put it all in the middle and give individual plates. That said when I'm with someone else's family I'm always way too polite and end up coming away hungry so I know what you mean.

Never. I had to stop being friends with 2 people are they each took food off my plate.

Reminds me of that episode of Gavin and Stacey. I'm with Smithy, I don't like sharing my food even if it is sometimes the polite thing to do.....

Tapas style dining stresses me out as obviously you have to be polite but coming from a family of 3 children I'm secretly preoccupied with getting my fair share, albeit in the politest way possible.

Me and DH share. Sometimes we'll make sure we order different things so can try each others I get him to finish mine aswell if I can't. He's happy to oblige lol

The only place I've heard of sharing meals (as in ordering different mains to share) is Mumsnet.
Obviously I've heard of buffets, sharing side dishes, sharing desserts etc.

My father has Coeliacs. Not sharing food as it could make someone ill was something I learnt as a teenager (when he was diagnosed).