When you have your dinner do you eat your favourite food first or last?

Medusa22 · 14-11-2015 08:24PM #1

When I have my dinner I always eat my favourite food first, working my way along to my least favourite food, and I've always done this. My OH, on the other hand, eats her favourite last, savouring it, and eats the food she least likes first.

I also tend to be someone who is quite impatient and I need instant gratification, I am terrible waiting for surprises (I have to know what it is) and I always want to open my Christmas and birthday presents early.

So people of After Hours, what do you eat first, favourite or least favourite food? Are you the type of person who can't wait to open a present or do you savour the anticipation?

C.K Dexter Haven · 14-11-2015 08:26PM

Medusa22 wrote: »

I need instant gratification, I am terrible waiting for surprises

BOO!

Banjo String · 14-11-2015 08:29PM

So people of After Hours, what do you eat first

In before someone says furry burger.

Rothmans · 14-11-2015 08:34PM

I eat it all at the same time. ie. if eating potatoes, carrots, parsnips and steak I'd have a little of each on the fork. Only way to eat the dinner IMO. It'd be a bit boring if you only ate it one food type at a time IMO

Fr_Dougal · 14-11-2015 08:34PM

All depends, if it's a home cooked Sunday roast I'll save the best until last; the roast potatoes.

14-11-2015 08:35PM

In sweet and sour chicken, I always eat the sweet first and leave the sour till after.

blueser · 14-11-2015 08:39PM

I'll eat the baked beans first, leaving the (by then) tomato sauce impregnated toast til last.

TheNobleKipper · 14-11-2015 08:56PM

I'll eat a bit of everything as I go (not necessarily at the same time on the fork though), just to have a nice variety of tastes. But I always make sure to leave some of the best bits for last

Buford T. Justice XIX · 14-11-2015 09:02PM

Meat last, all the yucky veg and spuds/pasta/rice in combination till only the beautiful, glorious, fabulous, fantastic meat left to savour:)

Hungry now:pac:

_Whimsical_ · 14-11-2015 09:03PM

I always easy my favorite things last and the parts I don't like(veg) first.The stuff you don't like is always even worse if it has gotten cool. I eat it fast and then take my time over the stuff I like.

Medusa22 · 14-11-2015 09:04PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Meat last, all the yucky veg and spuds/pasta/rice in combination till only the beautiful, glorious, fabulous, fantastic meat left to savour:)

Hungry now:pac:

I'm making myself hungry as well now! I collected a pizza from Milanos earlier though that I will tuck into in a while, can't wait

The Backwards Man · 14-11-2015 09:05PM

I eat my favourite last in my own house, but in someone else's I eat it first for fear of them thinking I like it and giving me more.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 14-11-2015 09:06PM

Medusa22 wrote: »

I'm making myself hungry as well now! I collected a pizza from milanos earlier though that I will tuck into in a while, can't wait

But but but but all the nice stuff is mixed in with the not-so-nice stuff, how will you survive:p

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-11-2015 09:06PM

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DUBLIN_person · 14-11-2015 09:07PM

Now come to think of it, I usually save the best till last but I may try this new phenomenon of eating a bit of everything at once

Medusa22 · 14-11-2015 09:07PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

But but but but all the nice stuff is mixed in with the not-so-nice stuff, how will you survive:p

I'll just have to pick off the not-so-nice stuff, it has to be done!

Satts · 14-11-2015 09:10PM

I just eat steak, so it doesn't matter if I eat it first or last.

KatW4 · 14-11-2015 09:20PM

I always leave it until last. But then by the time I get to it, I'm usually stuffed and I can't fit it in.

TheNobleKipper · 14-11-2015 09:23PM

Ah I just realised the second half of the OP.

I refuse to open any presents before the event, be it Christmas or my very important birthday. It's bad luck and you will die if you open them beforehand.

my teapot is orange · 14-11-2015 09:49PM

Favourite first.

If there's no-one else around to judge, I'll even begin with dessert.

eternal · 14-11-2015 09:56PM

The only thing I can think of is if I get a Big Mac meal (treat) I eat the chips first then dig into the burger, leaving the best thing till last.

Kovu · 14-11-2015 09:56PM

Bit of this, bit of that, then a bit of the other. To be honest, if I don't really like something, it won't be on my plate or I'll leave it behind. (Spuds/rice/bread I'm looking at you)

Badly Drunk Boy · 14-11-2015 10:01PM

Depends on the meal, but usually all the others bits together, and then the best bit to finish.

With regards to presents, I'll wait, but if I have to open presents in front of the person who gave it, I usually painstakingly and very slowly remove every bit of sellotape to the extent that most people in the room will be more than trivially annoyed.

blueser wrote: »

I'll eat the baked beans first, leaving the (by then) tomato sauce impregnated toast til last.

I think the question was about regular meals, not fancy-schmancy Michelin level meals that are basically works of art.

Loopy · 14-11-2015 10:05PM

I'm all over the perfect bite. A little bit of everything on ones fork.

corner of hells · 14-11-2015 10:20PM

This thread reminds of the time I called up to my mates house to go to the pub with him.

When I arrived at his house his wife had barricaded herself in the bedroom with her JRT , Buddy also known as "that little ****in' bastard" by my mate.

My mate was having his dinner earlier and like some of the previous posters he liked to keep his favourite food to last .... his steak.

All that was left of his plate was his steak when got up to get himself a
beer , apparently the dog moved like a ninja jumping up onto a chair and onto the table grabbing the steak and legging it up the stairs.

We had to drink lots of beer that night.

futonic · 14-11-2015 10:26PM

both. Generally favorite first, mixed in the middle, then keep a little of the favorite till last. How could you do anything else.

Astrolabe · 14-11-2015 10:27PM

I eat one bite of everything first. Then I start with my least favourite and eat all of that, and so on, until my absolute favourite is left til last. On another note, I cannot bear for anything to be mixed, or even touching off anything else. So before I eat my dinner, I usually do some 'plate admin', where I push things around so that there are clear boundaries between everything. Then I fill up the gaps with rivers of yummy gravy :P If I find, say, a runaway pea under a piece of meat, that got overlooked during the 'admin' process, I go nuts!

lazeedaisy · 14-11-2015 10:30PM

I save the best for last, never thought about it before, but I like to enjoy every mouthful.

AgileMyth · 14-11-2015 10:32PM

Astrolabe wrote: »

I eat one bite of everything first. Then I start with my least favourite and eat all of that, and so on, until my absolute favourite is left til last. On another note, I cannot bear for anything to be mixed, or even touching off anything else. So before I eat my dinner, I usually do some 'plate admin', where I push things around so that there are clear boundaries between everything. Then I fill up the gaps with rivers of yummy gravy :P If I find, say, a runaway pea under a piece of meat, that got overlooked during the 'admin' process, I go nuts!

You remind me of a girl I knew once. She is a crazy person too.

darkpagandeath · 14-11-2015 10:33PM

I cover my head with a linen napkin when eating mine.

Giblet · 14-11-2015 10:38PM

Chips then Burger, if you're full, you'll always eat the burger. If you ate the burger first, you'll leave chips behind. Far from chip leftovers I was raised.

When you have your dinner do you eat your favourite food first or last?

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