Does anyone else's dh use a newspaper as a plate

[Slartybartfast]

every bloody time, little snack, crackers or sandwhich, just grabs a newspaper to eat it off. What about the crumbs, wails me, I will empty those into bin use a PLATE

Any horror stories from others? slobs

Ink transfer ink transfer!!?

and I just checked, the crumbs are still there

and dont get me start on the chopping board lack of

Ask him if he's enjoying the ink chemicals... and whatever is in the paper. There's a reason it's not used for food packaging...

Can't say I've ever seen DH, or anyone I know, eat off a newspaper!

ink transfer you say? Good, perhaps that will learn him

Ehrm no...

Plates were developed for a reason Mr Slartbartfast!!!

Unless it’s fish and chips, no!

I would never use a newspaper. But I do occasionally use a piece of kitchen paper for a dry snack instead of a plate.

No of course not as it’s ridiculous.

No, because he's a grown adult!! What a weirdo! The only answer is to get him a hand held back and a bib with a crumb catcher..

Hand held VAC

ha ha, a bib, good plan

I think his db does too.
must be familial

When mine eats an orange he eats it over the opened (de-lidded) kitchen bin. Every. Single. Time. Other "juicy" fruit (mango, melon etc) gets eaten on a plate so why this hovering over the bin with an orange? Even when he's just finished eating another piece of fruit off a plate it's straight to the bin with the orange. Grim. Is selectively deaf when I ask him why he does this.

oh boy!
That is annoying

No, but my dh gets the biggest plate he can find everytime. Making ds a slice of toast? Puts it on the largest dinner plate we have. It really annoys me. In my opinion, it makes more washing up- which is somewhat irrational I suppose as a plate is a plate. I just hate there being big dinner plates in the sink at 8am!

Surely it is a huge cancer risk.

Just grim, really. Especially when I've just emptied the hoover into the bin. Yuck. Given your DB comment presumably these are habits formed in childhood??

Mine makes a sandwich on a plate then walks off with the sandwich but without the plate, merrily dropping crumbs on the way. It drives me crazy

My DH drives me mad by insisting on using a plastic toddler plate for as much as he can. Toast, sandwich, even uses them as chopping boards. To be clear we have china plates AND chopping boards in abundance!

Mine makes himself a bib out of newspaper when he eats dinner. He doesn't like/can't cope with crumbs and spills.

Drives me mad.

My DH is obsessed with bits of wood. He'll bring in a chunk of log, sand it and oil it and say "That's good for serving pizza from"

I have massive chunks of tree all around my kitchen. He eats sandwiches off them too...at the kitchen breakfast bar.

Glad to see people are still buying newspapers. Print media has taken a real hammering in recent years. 👍🏼

He doesn’t eat off Page 3 does he?

People probably don't remember that fish and chips always used to be sold wrapped in newspaper. Ink? What ink? Nowadays, it's got to be plain white paper all pristine, all this bloomin' elf and safety gorn maaad

Slarti, my DH cuts a sarnie, then carries the bloody great big chopping board over from the counter top to the kitchen table and eats off it. OMG crumbs strewn everywhere. Bertolli smeared akimbo.

I feel your pain.