To think eyeing up people's food is beyond rude?

[ButteredRadishes]

My uncle will hoover his lunch and then stare at your plate like a hawk, and say stuff like "are you going to eat that roast potato?" Or he'll be looking at your packet of crisps and say "they look nice....". All the time eyeballs on the packet.

He actually made his 6 year old son cry at lunch on Sunday, we were out for a roast,and nephew was taking his toe , went to the loo,and whilst he was gone took his Yorkshire pudding (yes, I questioned it before he ate it and uncles response was "well, he's taking too long" and then he ate it. Nephew came back and was understandably upset.

it's fucking rude. Yes?

So he ignored you and the child's mother and had 2 extra helping of yorkie, christ he is even worse that I first thought @

Yep, if anyone deserves a fork in the back of the hand it's him

I couldn't eat a meal with someone like that. I'd be on pins watching him watching my food. I just wouldn't enjoy it at home and would refuse to eat anywhere near him.

My aunt did this once. I was 13 and jabbed her with a fork. My mum told me off but my dad said I should have done it twice. She never did it again but told my dh the story. I said I'd do it again and she should have kept her hands to herself.

He's a greedy git and should be called out on it every single time.

Good mommy

Next time go to the bar and order another roast, then when they bring the extra plate out you can put it in front of him and declare in a big loud voice (so all the other diners can hear) "that's for you greedy guts, a whole extra dinner so you don't steal food off your own child's plate"

If that doesn't shame him I don't know what will!! Yes I know it means paying for another dinner but anything has to be worth a try at this point.

I'm not even convinced that it's about still being hungry in a lot of cases like this; I reckon it's just that they're so convinced that the world revolves around them and that they are the only one who matters, they like to cement their believed superiority by taking whatever they can from other people who can't or won't fight back.

A little bit like the food equivalent of Putin: if you were already in charge of a country that occupied 11% of the entire world's land mass but with only 2% of the world's people, would the first instinct of a sane, decent person be to believe earnestly that you must invade and take somebody else's land as well, because you obviously don't already have enough of your own?

(I know that is a gross oversimplification of the situation, but...)

Stealing food off his own child's plate is disgusting. I'd have made a comment like 'stop stealing your son's food, you had your own food'. If he tried to take a YP off of my plate I'd have stabbed my fork into his hand. He sounds like a greedy pig. He should cook more food if he wants to eat so much not steal from others plates.

Why are all the women being blamed for this man's shitty behaviour?

Going against the grain a bit here… Does your uncle have an eating disorder? He certainly has an unhealthy relationship with food. It’s really unusual for adult to behave like this and often there’s some underlying issue that needs to be addressed. Look up ‘food noise’.

No, auntie gave her son the Yorkshire

@ButteredRadishes sorry OP you have been landed with a selfish greedy slob of a bully for a nephew! he has not even been taught table manners!!

I wouldn’t want to eat in his company again. Can you eat before and just meet for drinks?
I would also tell him and his family why.

Op you’ll have to stick up for your dc. Say no more meals together unless he cuts it out.

My brother used to do that when I was a child and consequently I now eat far far too fast. He would take food from my plate and so I learnt to eat fast or lose it. I’m so self conscious about how fast I eat as an adult now.

This calls for co-ordinated revenge - group or family meal, arrange a distraction that gets him away from the table, then steal/eat all his food 😀👍

Yanbu. It's very strange behaviour. Never heard of anyone who does that. Your uncle is rude and needs to learn table manners....I'd be tempted to serve him 20 mins after everyone else. Stop having him over to eat and tell him why. It's rude

Not only eyeing up food but taking it yes I'd be livid.

Omg.!!!
A punch in the face would sort out out this shite behaviour.

Ugh. My sister was like this growing up. It was like eating dinner with a seagull. She’d take stuff right off my plate as well, didn’t care if anyone saw her and she never got bollocked for it.

I think what he did to his child is absolutely disgusting, he’s a greedy B and if he has a wife she should grow a pair and tell him so and stop him eating off of his child’s plate, I would have also made him order the child a new Yorkshire pudding. I cannot abide greedy people.

It’s like eating dinner with a dog

I hate the im on a diet but we can share dessert, if i eat half of yours it doesnt count, i am obessed with food cabt stop talling about but want some of yours, no we cant

I think there’s something wrong with him. Seriously.

He sounds greedy and disgusting.