F Minus by Tony Carrillo for April 18, 2024

For some people, it should be.

In my early teens I agreed with her. But I grew out of it.

She’d be fine with the Venusians of Robert A. Heinlein’s Space Cadet. Eating in front of another was a real social faux pas.

I’d make a joke about “Un chien andalou”, but the search engine would take it completely in the wrong direction…

Get them a feed bag!

Or at least while blindfolded.

I knew somebody once who absolutely would not eat around other people (if it could be helped) He refused dinner invitations and what not. No restaurant visits, etc. Guess he had a bad childhood incident or something….

That’s how it’s done at our house, an activity to be enjoyed alone.

The sights and sounds (especially from some people) are not pleasant.

My eldest son hates the sound of people chewing. He absolutely has to have the TV on while we’re at the dining table to down out the noise. It drives him mad otherwise.

There was this one Star Trek TNG episode where the aliens thought that. Man, I am a nerd, an old one at that!

Premise of a sci-fi book I read long ago. Don’t recall which one. Nudity was blase’. But pictures of food and people eating was obscene.

Slurp, crunch smack. What did she just say ?

Darn right. I hate family values, too.

Especially people at hotel breakfast bars.

And don’t even think about competitive eaters. I get nausea just thinking about the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating event every July 4th…

Whenever I feel curious about the missed experience of child-rearing, I go to a restaurant catering to the very young. A few minutes of watching children eat is better than any other form of birth control for me.

Children should eat alone. They are gross to watch.

Yes, like breast feeding!

ha ha some times, some PEOPLE ;+)

Never pay attention to other people chewing. It gets more and more disgusting.

I comes out in private, usually.

There are peoples of S America of whom this is true.

If others in the family eat fast and you eat slowly, you can be left to finish eating alone (with the radio and reading material).