to shove her food in her face

[Talismania]

I know IABU. This is more a rant.

There's a woman who works upstairs for who some reason eats in our break area. I can't stand the way she eats. She always has finger food like sushi or pizza. She picks a piece up and stares at it before very slowly and deliberately moving it to her mouth, does this weird thing where she moves her lips away from her teeth and slowly tears off a tiny piece with her teeth, stares at the food again, slowly puts it down, then makes A lot of noise chewing (more like smacking her lips and tongue together than actual chewing) until she picks it up again for another bite.

It's the slow deliberateness of it. And the noise. I have misoph

That should be "thanks"

YANBU. I used to work with a guy who sat directly across from me and ate cereal noisily every morning (mouth open chewing, that sort of thing) at his desk and then when nearly done lifted the bowl up to his gob and loudly slurped the milk from it. He also used the milk which was bought by the company for using in tea and coffee so it often ran out before the end of the day. Just a selfish pig. He was a horrible character in other ways too. It's hard to say anything without looking like a dick though so you really just have to hope that they'll resign or die.

Gosh I'm not sure what to say really. You are having such aggressive reactions, is there any help you can get?

are you not allowed to go outside in your breaks? Who wants to be stuck in a gross air-con building anyway?

Bollocks to that, why can she eat in her own rest area?

I have misphonia too. I do make sure that I am not in the same room as my BIL when he eats as he hasn't mastered the ability to shut his mouth when eating and he smacks his lips. Bleaugh.

She is being unreasonable; sushi isn't finger food.

yes, it is

People who can't keep their mouths closed when eating need to learn some manners and stop being so disgusting! Nobody else should have to listen to their chewing noises

Thanks for your input, Lweji, but it isn't.

It can be eaten with fingers too, yes.

Can you buy a portable screen to put up round her? Maybe a nice brightly patterned one?

A Sunday Roast can be eaten with fingers. It is not finger food.

I may be projecting but it does sound like she has an eating disorder, or at the very least some issues around eating.

She's eating with strangers, rather than the colleagues who know her on her floor
She's taking tiny bites and chewing them in a deliberate, slow manner
She takes time to consider and examine food before she eats it.

Doesn't sound like a healthy relationship with food, does it?

That said, I do understand - I have misophonia too, and anorexia, so food noises are both aurally distressing and have a deeper reaction within me because food is something I am entirely uncomfortable with. I don't go anywhere without headphones as a result, and have been known to put them in when we're in restaurants until I can be moved away from noisy eaters.

Just avoid her, apply headphones, and feel sorry for her.

OP, I have misophonia too and the bathroom extractor fan was the first thing I dealt with in this place!

I realise this is just a rant. it must be infuriating. I would guess she's been asked to eat somewhere else or someone on her floor upset her? Sorry if you are stuck with this. I also haven't got anywhere to go if I want to leave the building and eat my (packed) lunch. I often eat my desk to avoid the noise of the break room.

In case you didn't watch the clip, the sushi master told that the roll should be eaten with the fingers.

I thought we are all meant to eat slowly. Eating quickly is linked to overeating because of the tendency to feel you haven't eaten that much because it's all gone so quickly. She's probably just watching her weight.

A tit is a bird, but birds are not tits.
A sushi roll is sushi, but sushi is not sushi rolls.

Still, not enough to say that it's not finger food, because it can be.

Though largely isn't.

She is being unreasonable; sushi isn't finger food.

Clearly some of it is. For all we know, she may be eating mostly rolls.

And it was the OP who called it finger food.

And according to sources, it's either ok to eat with our hands, or "the "proper" way of eating sushi in Japan."

I'm terribly sorry, I seem to have stepped into a playground by mistake. Suppose I'll leave, maybe go for a late lunch with the grown ups, eat some sushi with chopsticks.

Because you were not actually correct, Improbable? :)