Is eating a social activity, or a private one?

[Woodznutz]

Eating in a social setting, at home at the dinner table or out with friends, doesn't lend itself to properly chewing your food. So, in the interest of your health should you forgo the conversation, drama, and sometimes the stress of eating while interacting with others?

 

[the watcher]

It most certainly needs to be done with proper manners and a fine chianti. Don't be rude.

 

[cnm]

Yes

 

[Dekster]

Eating in a social setting, at home at the dinner table or out with friends, doesn't lend itself to properly chewing your food. So, in the interest of your health should you forgo the conversation, drama, and sometimes the stress of eating while interacting with others?

You could split the difference and properly chew the food while hoping all the yacky people choke to death I suppose. Ultimately such things are a personal choice. Unless I am with family, I usually just do soup and salad and I'm done. I don't do heavy social dinners.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It can be either.

 

[skye]

Social or private it doesn't matter as long as you eat in peace.

 

[Darkwind]

Eating in a social setting, at home at the dinner table or out with friends, doesn't lend itself to properly chewing your food. So, in the interest of your health should you forgo the conversation, drama, and sometimes the stress of eating while interacting with others?

I'll usually leave that up to the woman.

 

[sparky]

"Bless us, O God, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen."

~S~

 

[BackAgain]

Digestion is mostly private.

Eating can be communal.

Excretion should always be private.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Eating in a social setting, at home at the dinner table or out with friends, doesn't lend itself to properly chewing your food. So, in the interest of your health should you forgo the conversation, drama, and sometimes the stress of eating while interacting with others?

I can't stand sitting at a table with people who won't shut up while they're eating.

I don't wanna see your food while you roll it around your mouth and I sure as shit can't understand a word your saying anyway because the mouths are usually crammed as full with food as it can possibly go.

It triggers me. It triggers me greatly. I just wanna reach across the table and choke the ever living shit out of the asshole doing that.

And they're usually the same folks who constantly smack their gums and lips while they eat, too.

No etiquette at all. Same kind of people who fart in the elevator...

 

[braalian]

Eating in a social setting, at home at the dinner table or out with friends, doesn't lend itself to properly chewing your food. So, in the interest of your health should you forgo the conversation, drama, and sometimes the stress of eating while interacting with others?

I doubt whatever chewing/digestive benefit from eating in silence or alone is minuscule compared to the benefits of eating “socially”

Especially for kids. We always ate at the dinner table with no TV (and smartphones weren’t even a thing, of course) And we were forced to converse with our parents about life whether we wanted to or not.

Parents who let their kids eat dinner and scroll on their phones are weak parents taking weak kids

 

[Woodznutz]

I doubt whatever chewing/digestive benefit from eating in silence or alone is minuscule compared to the benefits of eating “socially”

Especially for kids. We always ate at the dinner table with no TV (and smartphones weren’t even a thing, of course) And we were forced to converse with our parents about life whether we wanted to or not.

Parents who let their kids eat dinner and scroll on their phones are weak parents taking weak kids

Kids are notorious for wolfing down their food. Not good.

 

[Woodznutz]

Social or private it doesn't matter as long as you eat in peace.

If the food is really good there will likely be little conversation. I was at a gathering where some great steaks were served. You could have heard a pin drop.

 

[Woodznutz]

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