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.

[CherryPavlova]

ID have removed my children’s meals if they played with food like that. Horrid to sit opposite.

[LondonCaIIing]

Life is easier when you don't get wound up over such insignificant things.

[AnnaBanana333]

I have a thing about keeping foods separate on a plate but even I couldn't give a toss if someone did that in front of me.

[Lindy2]

If that's how he enjoys his roast dinner then just leave him to it. It's definitely not really worth getting wound up about.

You eat yours the way you enjoy it.

[Dailyjunglegrind]

So long as one doesn't eat with their mouth wide open ( -whole other thread-) I can handle the mashing within reason, and no loud boisterous tummy rubs of sheer satisfaction

[diddl]

@rc22

I would find it acceptable with mash but it's plain wrong with roasties!!

Yup!

If you can mash roasties then surely they're not roasties?

[ThinkPinkStink]

This is my preferred way to eat. I usually hold back (and certainly do in polite company). I believe that in some parts of Northern Scotland it's known as a 'borock' (spelling unknown, but that's a phonetic approximation).

[Mythica]

Call it his potato irrigation scheme and find something else to worry about

I'm not sure I could care much about this tbh.

[FromMarch2020]

Toddlers tend to do that. Perhaps he never grew out of the 'habit'

[AnnaBanana333]

This has reminded me of a woman at work who would have the strangest combinations all mixed up on her plate. Like beef pie, gravy, and coleslaw.

[Lozz22]

I can't bear foods touching each other. To the exception of chips and beans if I've run out of tomato ketchup. And I have to eat in order. Least favourite first and favourite last. My exFil does it and it used to make me feel sick having to sit at the table when he did it. Mind you I think my exH picked some rank table manners up too!! We went for a curry one night and he picked up the plate and licked it clean in front of everyone

[CandyLeBonBon]

I want a big fuck off roast dinner now!

[Bunchofbarnacles]

It's the mashing of fried egg and tinned tomatoes that really gets me. I have to leave the table

That's definitely a bit grim!

Dinner mashed up and smothered in gravy sounds good though.

[YouCanBeMyWingmanAnyday]

@AnnaBanana333

This has reminded me of a woman at work who would have the strangest combinations all mixed up on her plate. Like beef pie, gravy, and coleslaw.

And???......

[percheron67]

That sounds disgusting. I would be too embarrassed to eat out with anyone who did that and it would put me off my food at home.

[GetawayfromthatWelshtart]

oh FFS. He can eat his food how he likes. OP, he loves your cooking and loves to eat them like that, you don't have to look at his plate, look at your own.

I love a good roast spud BUT I love to cut them up into little bits then, depending on my mood I'll either smother them with gravy and mash them a bit or add butter and branston pickle and mix them all together.

Bloody lush!

[covidco]

Let the man enjoy his food! I don't understand why it bothers you so much.

[WorraLiberty]

@CherryPavlova

ID have removed my children’s meals if they played with food like that. Horrid to sit opposite.

The OP didn't say he was playing with it?

If you have food issues to the point you can't stand the thought of your children eating differently to you, please try not to pass those issues on.

It's your problem, not theirs.

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

I would only do that with sponge pudding and custard! We all did it at my school I'm afraid. Don't have it often now though.

[AnnaBanana333]

YouCanBeMyWingmanAnyday And what???.....

[Llioed]

I haven't read the full thread but I couldn't put up with that if we were eating out for Sunday Dinner.
In the house fair enough, just the two of us, I would want him to be comfortable but not out... (I would wonder why he ate like this though, it's what children do then they learn some manners and etiquette when a bit older lol)
YANBU.

[Hoppinggreen]

That would make me feel quite sick, but I hate food all mashed together

[YouCanBeMyWingmanAnyday]

AnnaBanana333 and? bad or good?

[bluevioletcrimsonsky]

Do you have kids? If you do, does he find it ok if your children did the same in front of others and told it was disgusting?
That did the trick for my dh. He was the one who put salt/ketchup/mayo whatever all over before tasting. I said to him, I already put enough salt in the dinner, don't you mind your if child just putting extra salt without tasting the food?

[YouCanBeMyWingmanAnyday]

or indifferent?