My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.

Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).

As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
away. Almost as if I gorge myself.

I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.

"meatnub" > wrote in message
...
> My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
> intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
> double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
> she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>
> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>
> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
>\

Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
lunch?

On May 14, 6:33*pm, "Kswck" > wrote:
> "meatnub" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> > My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
> > intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
> > double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
> > she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>
> > Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> > Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
> > mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
> > chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>
> > As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> > away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> > I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
> > cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
> > sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
> > tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
> >\
>
> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
love food,can't get enough.

Kswck wrote:

>
> "meatnub" > wrote in message
> ...
>> My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
>> intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
>> double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
>> she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>>
>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
>> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
>> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
>> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>>
>> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
>> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>>
>> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
>> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
>> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
>> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
>>\
>
> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
> lunch?

No, he's just impatient and obsessive-compulsive.


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meatnub wrote:

>>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
>>> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
>>> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
>>> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>>> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
>>> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>>> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
>>> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
>>> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
>>> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
>>> \
>> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
>> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
> love food,can't get enough.

I wonder how others feel about dining with you?
I also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.

Goomba38 wrote:

> meatnub wrote:
>
>>>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
>>>> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
>>>> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
>>>> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>>>> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
>>>> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>>>> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
>>>> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
>>>> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
>>>> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
>>>> \
>>> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
>>> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
>> love food,can't get enough.
>
> I wonder how others feel about dining with you?
> I also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
> losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.

I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
Like taking time to taste it?


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"Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>
> I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
> enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
> Like taking time to taste it?

*snort*

This coming from a shark.

cybercat wrote:

>
> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>
>> I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
>> enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
>> Like taking time to taste it?
>
> *snort*
>
> This coming from a shark.

Hey, our culture isn't all that different from yours. It's mostly just
wetter.

I'm a very slow eater. I'm always the last one finished, and usually by
a large margin. I enjoy tasting, not racing.

I also don't do caffiene; perhaps that makes a difference.

(Because at 60 I'm still young enough that I don't need it to stay awake.)


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Blinky the Shark wrote:

>>> Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
>>> love food,can't get enough.
>> I wonder how others feel about dining with you?
>> I also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
>> losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.
>
> I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
> enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
> Like taking time to taste it?
>
yeah, I agree! Not only take the time to taste it but also savor
it..discuss it.. have conversation just to be pleasant.
I have this image of someone holding a fork like a fist, shoveling it in
silently and then getting up and walking off but only after tossing
his napkin on the soiled plate. Ohyeah... just the kinda man any parent
would be glad their daughter brought home for dinner with the family. LOL

Kswck wrote:
>
> "meatnub" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> > away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
> lunch?

He is a phagiopath. He has developed a pathological
form of eating behavior. Best to avoid him if you
don't want to be bitten yourself.

On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:09:01 -0400, Goomba38 >
wrote:

> also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
>losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.

Sounds way better than spending an hour staring at something you
didn't want to eat.

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"Goomba38" > wrote in message
. ..
> meatnub wrote:
>
> >>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> >> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to
eat
> >> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
> >>
> >> - Show quoted text -
> >
> > Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
> > love food,can't get enough.
>
> I wonder how others feel about dining with you?
> I also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
> losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.

Sounds definitely unpleasant. Wouldn't want to eat around this person.
Would be downright disgusting to watch someone shovel food in as if there
were no tomorrow.

Jill

"sf" <.> wrote in message ...
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:09:01 -0400, Goomba38 >
> wrote:
>
> > also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
> >losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.
>
> Sounds way better than spending an hour staring at something you
> didn't want to eat.
>

Who stares at something they don't want to eat? A child, maybe, told by an
adult "you must eat this". As an adult, I'd simply say, no thank you and
never have to stare at it.

Jill

On May 14, 4:36*pm, meatnub > wrote:

> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>
> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.

I eat pretty quickly, although probably not as fast as you. However,
I find
that the more I paid for the food, the slower I eat it.

For me, a perfect bite is just one thing. I'm one of those "food
can't touch"
types.

Cindy Hamilton

On May 15, 3:18*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
>
> . ..
>
> > meatnub wrote:
>
> > >>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> > >> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to
> eat
> > >> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
>
> > >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > > Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
> > > love food,can't get enough.
>
> > I wonder how others feel about dining with you?
> > I also wonder if as a child you felt you had to shovel it in or risk
> > losing it? it sounds very unpleasant.
>
> Sounds definitely unpleasant. *Wouldn't want to eat around this person.
> Would be downright disgusting to watch someone shovel food in as if there
> were no tomorrow.
>
> Jill

LOL I must have come off the wrong way. No, I don't lean over my plate
shovelling in bite after bite with food all over my mouth and snorting
like a pig. I do take some time to enjoy and savor the flavors and
what I am eating. But at the same time I eat fast, it is just a
compulsive nature about me as someone posted earlier.

Compared to my wife who doesn't eat slow to savor the flavor, just
eats slow, period.

On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:33:43 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>cybercat wrote:
>
>>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>
>>> I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
>>> enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
>>> Like taking time to taste it?
>>
>> *snort*
>>
>> This coming from a shark.
>
>Hey, our culture isn't all that different from yours. It's mostly just
>wetter.
>
>I'm a very slow eater. I'm always the last one finished, and usually by
>a large margin. I enjoy tasting, not racing.
>

i'm a slow eater, too. when dining out, i tell others to go ahead
with dessert without me. (when alone, i'm always reading a
newspaper.)

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:33:43 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> > wrote:
>
>>cybercat wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>>
>>>> I'd hate to cook for him. Wouldn't you rather cook for someone who
>>>> enjoyed more than just setting records for how fast he could pig it down?
>>>> Like taking time to taste it?
>>>
>>> *snort*
>>>
>>> This coming from a shark.
>>
>>Hey, our culture isn't all that different from yours. It's mostly just
>>wetter.
>>
>>I'm a very slow eater. I'm always the last one finished, and usually by
>>a large margin. I enjoy tasting, not racing.
>>
>
> i'm a slow eater, too. when dining out, i tell others to go ahead
> with dessert without me. (when alone, i'm always reading a
> newspaper.)

I always take a magazine to lunch when I'm going to be eating alone.


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Mark Thorson wrote:


> He is a phagiopath. He has developed a pathological
> form of eating behavior. Best to avoid him if you
> don't want to be bitten yourself.

Instant psychobabble! Well done.




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Default User wrote:
>
> Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> > He is a phagiopath. He has developed a pathological
> > form of eating behavior. Best to avoid him if you
> > don't want to be bitten yourself.
>
> Instant psychobabble! Well done.

Hey, "phagiopath" is a well-established scientifical term!
Look it up on Wikipedia as soon as I finish
writing up their entry on the subject!

"meatnub" > wrote in message
...
> My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
> intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
> double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
> she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>
> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>
> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.

I have one brother and a brother in law who, like your wife, are slow eaters. Lance,
the BIL, is just really getting into his meal about the time everyone around him is
finished. My brother is not only a slow eater, but he eats only one thing at a time;
i.e. he eats all of his meat before eating any of the potatoes.
I have another brother who eats more like you. He's done before anyone else has
really made a dent in their plate. We often joke about whether or not he can actually
taste any of it!

Me, I'm neither slow nor particularly fast. I like to taste my food, but I don't move
at a snail's pace. I do have some idiosyncrasies...for example, I get very irritated
by certain foods touching on the plate. Corn would be the best example of that. I
hate for anything, especially gravy, to touch my corn. I do not want corn *in*
anything either. When I have something like a waffle for a pancake, and also have
sausage or bacon or eggs, they shouldn't touch the waffle/pancake, and should
preferably be on another plate. On the other hand, if I'm having, say, roast beef and
mashed potatoes and gravy, I always have all 3 on every bite. But I don't want my
veggies anywhere near it!

kimberly

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:32:38 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>i'm a slow eater, too. when dining out, i tell others to go ahead
>with dessert without me. (when alone, i'm always reading a
>newspaper.)

Ah, another survey... combined with how you eat around the plate: One
item at a time, or stack them on your fork? When I was a kid, I used
to eat around my plate "clockwise" and ate everything separately. I
only remember it because my dad laughed and said it out loud.
Otherwise I wouldn't have know.

Guess I was a picky eater too.... but I don't remember that part. Mom
was so picky, my pickiness seemed like I had a broad culinary scope
compared to her range.

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Nexis said...

> "meatnub" > wrote in message
> ...
>> My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
>> intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
>> double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
>> she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>>
>> Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
>> Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
>> mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
>> chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>>
>> As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
>> away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>>
>> I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
>> cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
>> sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
>> tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
>
> I have one brother and a brother in law who, like your wife, are slow
> eaters. Lance, the BIL, is just really getting into his meal about the
> time everyone around him is finished. My brother is not only a slow
> eater, but he eats only one thing at a time; i.e. he eats all of his
> meat before eating any of the potatoes. I have another brother who eats
> more like you. He's done before anyone else has really made a dent in
> their plate. We often joke about whether or not he can actually taste
> any of it!
>
> Me, I'm neither slow nor particularly fast. I like to taste my food, but
> I don't move at a snail's pace. I do have some idiosyncrasies...for
> example, I get very irritated by certain foods touching on the plate.
> Corn would be the best example of that. I hate for anything, especially
> gravy, to touch my corn. I do not want corn *in* anything either. When I
> have something like a waffle for a pancake, and also have sausage or
> bacon or eggs, they shouldn't touch the waffle/pancake, and should
> preferably be on another plate. On the other hand, if I'm having, say,
> roast beef and mashed potatoes and gravy, I always have all 3 on every
> bite. But I don't want my veggies anywhere near it!
>
> kimberly


I'm basically an all natural diner.

I don't restaurant, unless there are females in my presence.

I also cook for myself. That's how I bulked up to 247 lbs. I blame r.f.c

Best,

Andy
6'3/193 lbs.

"meatnub" > wrote in message
...
On May 14, 6:33 pm, "Kswck" > wrote:
> "meatnub" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> > My wife takes her time when she eats. Ever since she was little. Not
> > intentionally, but she is just naturally a slow eater. Takes her
> > double the time to eat compared to me and the rest of her family when
> > she grew up. Kinda funny. Don't know why either.
>
> > Me, I wolf it down. As if I can't get it to my stomach fast enough.
> > Oh, I enjoy the tastes in my mouth, but at the same time I fill my
> > mouth up with as much food as possible (without looking like a
> > chipmunk or being gross or obscene about it of course).
>
> > As soon as the mouthful is about to go down I am ready to refill right
> > away. Almost as if I gorge myself.
>
> > I also like to make every bite almost perfect. If I am eating salad, i
> > cant just have lettuce on my fork and dressing, there needs to be a
> > sampling of everything else in the salad on the fork - 1 cherry
> > tomatoe, 1 or 2 pieces of crouton, some chick peas - the perfect bite.
> >\
>
> Um, were you edumacated in public school where you had 18 minutes to eat
> lunch?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
love food,can't get enough.

Just asking. With some folks, that kind of 'training' lasts a lifetime.

Andy wrote:

> I also cook for myself. That's how I bulked up to 247 lbs. I blame r.f.c

<snip>

> Andy
> 6'3/193 lbs.

Nice job.

I went from 236 to 181, back in the '90s once. 14 weeks. Really rigid
about my eating, I was.


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"Kswck" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> Nah. Ever since I was a kid it only ever took me 5 minutes to eat. I
> love food,can't get enough.
>
> Just asking. With some folks, that kind of 'training' lasts a lifetime.
You can unlearn that, just like smokers unlearn smoking. I am naturally a
slow eater, but I have a friend who is lightning fast, has been hospitalized
twice in a year for blood pressure spikes and was told to eat much, much
less. Because she ate so fast she was unaware of how much she was eating--
it takes 20 minutes for the signal "full" to get out. I talked her into
eating while trying to figure out everything that was in a dish. It really
slowed her down. She got very good at it, too, plus she has lost about 12
pounds.