Does anyone have any eating habits which defy cultural norms (prefurably your own)?

I will start. I am in the habit of eating canned food directly out of the can. Some people think this is uncivilized. I personally do not see why I should bother to put food in a bowl when it already has a perfectly good can.

I'm not sure if this defies a cultural norm, but I normally (unless it is some sort of formal meal) cut up all my food beforehand and then use a spoon or a fork in my right hand. There are two reasons for this - the first is that I broke my left elbow about 11 years ago, and with my arm in a cast from knuckles to armpit, I was rather limited in my movement - I tried the technique that I had observed being used by an earlier American girlfriend of using the knife in my right hand to cut, the fork in my left hand to hold down whatever I was cutting, and then put down the knife, transfer the fork to my right hand to pick up the piece just cut off and put it in my mouth (with the cast on, I couldn't get my left hand anywhere near my mouth). This finally struck me as involving too much wasted motion, so I went for the "cutting it all up beforehand" option.

Even when the cast was off, I still kept the habit, especially more recently when my eyesight deteriorated beyond the scope of the glasses I could afford, so I needed to take the glasses off and hold the book in my left hand ( I always read when eating - except when it is a formal meal) fairly close to my eyes - new glasses are the first priority once my brother gets our parents' wills through probate.

Not sure if this really counts either, but I moved to a new apartment in October and neither me or my roommate owns a can opener and of course, neither of us has gone out to buy one yet. So what do we do when we want to make soup?

The usual tools are my pocket knife and a hammer. It's loud and messy and sometimes you get a bit of metal in your soup, but it gets the job done.

I have cooked food in a can before without taking it out of the can, just removing the lid.

I do something similar to Pixel with my fork...or I eat with chop sticks - the chopsticks make my life so much easier.

The only other thing I do is refuse to eat pizza with my hands...I need a knife or fork.

I'll eat some dry spaghetti noodles while waiting for the water to boil. And bakes beans were meant to be eaten out of the can (-:

If I eat an apple, I usually eat it core, seeds and all. There's probably a little apple orchard in my stomach by now.

[quote:85747504db="fairyliquid"]The only other thing I do is refuse to eat pizza with my hands...I need a knife or fork.[/quote:85747504db]

I eat pizza with a pair of scissors and my left hand.

[quote:169a0a6807="KaptenKaries"][quote:169a0a6807="fairyliquid"]The only other thing I do is refuse to eat pizza with my hands...I need a knife or fork.[/quote:169a0a6807]

I eat pizza with a pair of scissors and my left hand.[/quote:169a0a6807]

That's cos you are too lazy or broke to get a pizza cutter .. at least, that was the reason I used a pair of scissors to eat pizza

Oh, scissors are the only way to deal with pizza.......admittedly you end up with tomato sauce on your work, but you're well-fed, what do you care?

Personally I find that food eaten from the pan/tin/other people's plates (preferably eaten standing up) is INFINITALLY more satisfying then anything placed tamely on your own plate in front of you. Does that count as defying a cultural norm? Or just being revolting? :oops:

knife and fork / knife or fork

whose to know the difference.

I did mean both knife and fork though

edit to make sense

[quote:5bccaa0788="Darth_Bemblebee"]Personally I find that food eaten from >snip< other people's plates >snip2< Does that count as defying a cultural norm? Or just being revolting? :oops:[/quote:5bccaa0788]

I thought that counted as stealing!

As for me, I have no weird food habits at all. No siree, absolutely zilch, nadda, none. My lips are sealed.

I eat with my tentacles.

I hope you wash them first.

*slaps Ben with tentacles*