to think putting salt on your food before you taste it is rude?

[KirjavaTheCat]

FIL comes to stay every couple of months and this is a habit of his. I cook, I place the meal in front of everyone at the table and before we've all picked up our knives and forks he's shaking salt onto his food.

He hasn't tasted it, he doesn't know if the seasoning is to his taste or not, he just goes ahead and does it.

On Saturday I made everyone cheese and pepperoni omelettes for breakfast. As he went to pick up the salt I stopped him and said, 'you should try it first, pepperoni tends to be quite salty' so he tried it, and lo and behold he didn't want any.

He's wasted food before, declaring he couldn't eat anymore because it was a bit salty. After he'd shaken a load on before tasting it

AIBU to find this really rude?

ok, without changing my view one bit on adding salt or other seasoning to your food without having tasted the food to know whether or not in your opinion it actually needs it I would like to answer the why don't you put salt on your pudding question. Mainly because it's the funniest question I've read on here all day.

I would not add salt to a pudding because salt is generally a complement to savoury dishes and puddings are sweet dishes, therefore it could not reasonably be thought that salt may be needed or wanted. Also, if it was ice cream the salt would melt it.

I think it's brilliant someone actually asked that. I'm going to be chuckling for ages.

I bloody love mumsnet.

I think he has the right to add salt if he wants to. A lot of older people do prefer their food salty. DH's Dad always had loads of salt. We just accepted that was what he liked.

Also salt and sweet taste buds are very different things so the comparison is stoopid.

Derek I would love you for serving me a pile of salt.

salted caramel ice-cream.

NancyRaygun I add salt to my bread and butter if it's unsalted. Though I do tear my bread roll rather than cut it with a knife. That's apparently the correct way.

I hold my knife and fork in the 'wrong' hands though. I've never managed to work out what holding your knife like a pencil means, which means I probably do it.

I like my food peppery, others don't. When I cook I don't add a lot of pepper as it's not to other people's taste. No meal I have ever eaten anywhere has enough pepper added during cooking for my taste so I add it, I don't need to taste it first because I know it won't have the required amount of pepper for my taste. Chefs and anyone else cooks food with a level of seasoning that is to their taste, frequently comments on Masterchef are about seasoning, what is ok for one person is not for another.

is an abomination, chilly

I don't eat pudding. I don't like sweet things and certainly not 'puddings' although I do eat fruit (but prefer tart/bitter fruit).

how is it possible to hold a pen in the wrong way?

Dezza, are you sitting on it and then trying to write by twerking? you know the dr told you to stop doing that.

Putting salt on something you haven't yet tasted cbecause you 'know' it isn't salty enough doesn't make sense. So it must have a ritual function.

Perhaps it's uncomfortable eating food somebody else has prepared. There's a risk it may not be exactly as you like. The flavours and textures are unfamiliar.

But by shaking salt over it you can mask much of that unfamiliarity and discomfort, re-establishing/asserting control over the plate and making it yours.

But by shaking salt over it you can mask much of that unfamiliarity and discomfort, re-establishing/asserting control over the plate and making it yours.

Oh now here's another contender for over thinker of the month

Phone lines will be open soon....

I made shepherd's pie at school and I was conscious that I loved loads of salt so I held back.

My teacher tasted it and told me it wasn't salty enough and I'd used too much pepper .

It's only rude if he expects you to provide replacement food after he's rendered his dinner inedible through over-salting. If he won't taste, won't eat, and is prepared to hungry then that's his own lookout.

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Yeah I wouldn't care if he dumped a fuckload of salt onto his food before tasting it and still ate it, but he wastes it.

And it's truly wasted, couldn't give it to the dog. Could grit the garden path maybe.

I must be the exception that proves the rule here: I hold my pen wrongly. But I would never add salt to a meal - the vair idea!

how is it possible to hold a pen in the wrong way?

Let me tell you a little story...

My friend showed me a scrap of paper with 'Janine loves Gerry' and surrounded by hearts and flowers. If a monkey could write, that's what it would look like.

Then Janine said they'd been on holiday to Bangkok and one of the women in a bar had done it, though not with her hand.

She must have really concentrated on her Kegels.