To be put off by date eating pub leftovers

[Runki]

I have never posted on here before so please be gentle! 😉 I just wanted some honest opinions from people. I've been seeing a man for a number of months. We went out yesterday to a pub for something to eat, at lunchtime. When we got there, the table next to us hadn't been cleared yet and there was quite a bit of food left on plates. I asked him what he wanted to eat for lunch, and he said he would just eat some leftover toast and sausages from the uncleared table. I thought he was joking and laughed. But he actually meant it. He took two pieces of left over, cold toast and some sausages and proceeded to eat them, with no plate. I said I would buy him lunch and he didn't need to eat leftovers! He said he couldn't stand wasted food. I ordered my own lunch and ate it, alone, as he had already gobbled up the leftovers from the people who had left. Would this put you off someone? Or should I more be accommodating?! In all honesty, it made me feel very uncomfortable and I found it very unattractive. How would this make you feel, can I ask? Look forward to hearing what people think. For context, he has never done this before, but has alluded to wanting to do it when we've been to other places. I asked him yesterday if he was worried that someone's saliva might be on the leftover food, but he said he couldn't care less.

[steff13]

Oh my gosh that's gross.

[thebabessavedme]

Ugh

[Tinkerbyebye]

Yuk. I would be dumping

[Drpawpawspaw]

Grim. Really grim.

[ladymuckofthemanor]

That's absolutely rank. I could not get past that at all.

How gross. I have the 'ick from afar'

Dump him immediately.

[ThatAlbinoCat]

He's a dirty, tight-fisted git

[Labradoodlie]

Ooooooh I know someone who did this. 10 years later and he’s still known as ‘pub pizza Dave’.
Bleugh.

[StopLickingTheDog]

I wouldn't be able to undo the ick on this one

[BrightYellowDaffodil]

That would give me the ick so much I’d feel myself slam shut like a startled oyster.

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Fuck me get rid

[Zanatdy]

Yes it would massively put me off. I can’t believe someone would do that, that’s disgusting

[Panastasia]

Completely revolting. I couldn’t get over this OP.

[thistimelastweek]

Plain wrong

[TheLovleyChebbyMcGee]

I honestly thought this was going to be about him hoovering up your leftovers, but oh my god, thats really gross!

[BodegaSushi]

Not a chance this happened unless you picked up a homeless man off the street?

[Monetm]

Is there any relevant context, before you rush to dump him? Did he grow up in poverty or with money really tight?

[DaftyInTheMiddle]

How did you even eat with him after he did that? I would have turned on my heel and noped right out of there.

[crankit]

Ewww
I used to work in a pub and one lad who worked there would eat the leftovers from the plates brought back into the kitchen, proper tramp

[HoppingPavlova]

Disgusting, get rid.

[WhateverMate]

Nah 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[BodegaSushi]

Has this never happened before in the months you've been dating?

[Runki]

Oh my, thank you so much, you lovely people! I have been worrying that I've been reading too much into it! But I haven't been able to get it out of my head! It is tight fisted! And as for claiming myself shut like an oyster, that is exactly what I did. Ha ha ha ha.

[TeeBee]

Oh that's vile.

[StarkRealism]

Rank. 🤢

[sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea]

Oh heaving jesus, that's grim. Not just the hygiene aspect, but the tightfistedness of it.
There is a world of difference between taking your own doggy bag home and snaffling leftover food from a random plate.