Would this bother you? Food related

[UnfinishedSymphon]

Or am I just too picky?

Whenever DP has a roast dinner, he'll put his gravy on and then mash his roast potatoes and veg together into one big pile in the middle of the plate. He'll then douse it in more gravy and mash it some more.

Don't get me wrong, I love my gravy and have quite a bit but i think it just looks soooo wrong when he does this, even more so when we have Sunday lunch out.

YANBU. That’s ridiculous.

Weird but each to their own!

Is he 2?

I do this when I have mashable food. Ive just had Mince and Tatties which mash together nicely.
But not when eating out . Not because of etiquette but because I like to concentrate on the textures that are on the fork.

Dont look if its annoying you.

I wouldn't be able to sit at the same table as someone who played with their food like that.

Gross. Your partner eats like a child who hasn't been taught proper table manners.

Hard not to look when we're sitting opposite each other

He’s eating like a little boy!

He mashes it all together? That is just disgusting, and I'm really not fussy about how people eat their food. Is he not capable of cutting it up and chewing like a normal person?

It's weird but it wouldn't bother me.

As long as people enjoy their food and they're not making slurping noises that disturb others, then each to their own.

I'm all for having a little bit of food with my bucket of gravy but mashing a beautiful roasty up like that sounds horrendous.

That is grim. I’d tell my 5 year old off for that let alone an adult. We all love gravy here but we still eat properly.

It looks disgusting but is probably delicious.

Who cooked? I'd be annoyed if I'd cooked the roasties. All that effort, you might as well serve up mash and put your feet up early!

My favourite hangover cure when I was still living at home was my mums roast mashed up like baby food 😂😂😂 it was so yummy, bit of everything at one time, with tonnes of gravy!

Fine at home put not fine when out

@DorotheaHomeAlone

That is grim. I’d tell my 5 year old off for that let alone an adult. We all love gravy here but we still eat properly.

Why would you tell your child off for eating their food in a way they most enjoy?

The OP's DH is still 'eating properly', he's just mashing his food first.

Disgusting to watch and a waste of good roast potatoes! I'd have to eat in a separate room

I cooked

My oh does this with his potatoes, he'll comment on how "perfect" the roasties look when I get them out of the oven and then smashes the poor things to bits and drowns them in gravy, always irks me watching him do it.

YANBU - that's really off-putting. I'd grudgingly put up with it at home, but I certainly wouldn't eat out with him if he thought it was acceptable to do that in public.

Yes that would bother me.
You could always start whizzing his meals up in the blender before you serve them 😁

YABU. just let the man eat his dinner fgs.

I'd go and stand behind him, gently caress his head then push his face into his food. Not really!! But what an awful way to eat, it's like a child. He'd be an ex, that sounds revolting and I would choose not to live with a mucky eater.

It wouldn't bother me at home, but I would think less of my DH if he didn't know better than to do that in public.

FWIW my DH annoys me by swirling his ice cream up with the sauce - but not in a restaurant!