Eating out - for just a few mouthfuls

Apex said:
why do people have such a fascination with what's on other peoples plates? you enjoy what on yours and eat it how you wish, and i'll enjoy what's on mine. i've never understood this desire for humans to judge what is and isn't on another persons plate.
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it's because humans just like to judge full stop. any opportunity to nit pick on someone else and they'll grab it.
 
Apex said:
why do people have such a fascination with what's on other peoples plates? you enjoy what on yours and eat it how you wish, and i'll enjoy what's on mine. i've never understood this desire for humans to judge what is and isn't on another persons plate.
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I have been to restaurants abroad and seen something a diner is eating and like the look of. Ask waiter what’s the man eating. Get dish name said or pointed to on menu.
 
Apex said:
why do people have such a fascination with what's on other peoples plates? you enjoy what on yours and eat it how you wish, and i'll enjoy what's on mine. i've never understood this desire for humans to judge what is and isn't on another persons plate.
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It's weird but I still think of starving children - seriously.
When I see a full plate that's been left I just think of the humans that could live a few more days.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
It's weird but I still think of starving children - seriously.
When I see a full plate that's been left I just think of the humans that could live a few more days.
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I get what you're saying, but do you just limit yourself to food and take the morale high ground on that, or do you actually believe what you say and stop eating out, stop your netflix sub, stop your gym membership etc, all the things you enjoy, so that you can donate all that money to kids so that they can eat?
 
cheesefest said:
I have been to restaurants abroad and seen something a diner is eating and like the look of. Ask waiter what’s the man eating. Get dish name said or pointed to on menu.
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that's different. that's looking to see what the food looks like and makes sense. sometimes i do the same with indian food as i have no clue whether an indian i'm ordering is a saucey one, or one with just flavoured meat and rice.
 
Apex said:
I get what you're saying, but do you just limit yourself to food and take the morale high ground on that, or do you actually believe what you say and stop eating out, stop your netflix sub, stop your gym membership etc, all the things you enjoy, so that you can donate all that money to kids so that they can eat?
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To be a good analogy, you would need to look at all the people who have such things but don't use them - Then think of all the couch potatoes suffering without either gym membership or Netflix!
 
cheesefest said:
Don’t get this at all.

Whenever I eat out or walk past an eating place with outdoor seating, why do some people leave the food after just eating a few mouthfuls? Like today, walked past a pub and a group of four (2 couples in their 50s) leaving a table with meals with a third eaten. Such a waste of money, food and effort.

If these people aren’t hungry, don’t eat! Doubt that the food is awful as would complain.

As my parents and myself leave empty plates (bar inedible things like bone), some waiting staff’s reactions think this a rare thing.
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Taken as a whole, people in this country waste 1/3 of the food they buy.

Which is quite disgusting.
 
ttaskmaster said:
To be a good analogy, you would need to look at all the people who have such things but don't use them - Then think of all the couch potatoes suffering without either gym membership or Netflix!
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I was going to give a similar analogy but that's good enough.
I can confidently say that anything I've paid out for I like to get my moneys worth because I'm tight like that.
My friends and family will tell you that if there's a meal on the table I'm struggling with I'll take my time until it's gone.
There was actually a restaurant in Cyprus where there was so much food it was ridiculous but I tried my best until somebody told me that all the wasted food was taken up to the hillside where the homeless lived - I didn't feel so bad leaving it. Feeding them also kept them off the streets begging so it was a win win situation for all.
 
dave28 said:
I cant understand why people eat out so much in the first place, its like they are too lazy to cook for themself and need someone else to do it for them
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I’m a bit handy in the kitchen, I can follow a recipe and knock up some very edible stuff, but my wife does the lion’s share of the cooking because she’s way better than I could ever be.
For this reason I thank her by taking her out to dinner once or twice per week, I don’t feel that she should be chained to the stove just because she’s a terrific cook.
Taking her where someone else can do the cooking is my way of showing her that I appreciate her.

Thekwango said:
it's because humans just like to judge full stop. any opportunity to nit pick on someone else and they'll grab it.
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Not this human, I could care less what the people on the next table are eating, it’s not my business, any more than it’s their business what I have on my plate.
 
ttaskmaster said:
To be a good analogy, you would need to look at all the people who have such things but don't use them - Then think of all the couch potatoes suffering without either gym membership or Netflix!
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surely the issue isn't paying and not using, but unnecessary waste/spend. So a gym membership is unnecessary as you can run outside, use body weight, buy a set of weights and have them at home etc?

i go to mcd and order a wrap of the day for £1.99. they give me a big brown bag, napkins, a paper straw if i have a drink, all of which i don't want and go instantly in the bin. think of all the money wasted that could go to starving kids.

my point being, that as much as i get the concern, there's plenty of "waste" in the world, that happens naturally and can't be stopped. if you try to live a world with no wasted food, you end up creating a situation where people don't want to eat out. it's also better to waste food, then over eat food and then be overweight, need to spend to now go gym etc.
 
Apex said:
surely the issue isn't paying and not using, but unnecessary waste/spend. So a gym membership is unnecessary as you can run outside, use body weight, buy a set of weights and have them at home etc?

i go to mcd and order a wrap of the day for £1.99. they give me a big brown bag, napkins, a paper straw if i have a drink, all of which i don't want and go instantly in the bin. think of all the money wasted that could go to starving kids.

my point being, that as much as i get the concern, there's plenty of "waste" in the world, that happens naturally and can't be stopped. if you try to live a world with no wasted food, you end up creating a situation where people don't want to eat out. it's also better to waste food, then over eat food and then be overweight, need to spend to now go gym etc.
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It's so short sighted to think of waste in this way, but unfortunately it's the only visible way for folk to get engaged. Take the paper straws nonsense - such virtue signalling and green washing. No discernible impact at all other than a worse customer experience.
 
dLockers said:
It's so short sighted to think of waste in this way, but unfortunately it's the only visible way for folk to get engaged. Take the paper straws nonsense - such virtue signalling and green washing. No discernible impact at all other than a worse customer experience.
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Doesn’t every little count though? How much plastic is saved by the straws. Also, not drinking every day from a new plastic bottle is surely a good thing? The person you’re quite does exactly that.
 
Apex said:
surely the issue isn't paying and not using, but unnecessary waste/spend. So a gym membership is unnecessary as you can run outside, use body weight, buy a set of weights and have them at home etc?

i go to mcd and order a wrap of the day for £1.99. they give me a big brown bag, napkins, a paper straw if i have a drink, all of which i don't want and go instantly in the bin. think of all the money wasted that could go to starving kids.

my point being, that as much as i get the concern, there's plenty of "waste" in the world, that happens naturally and can't be stopped. if you try to live a world with no wasted food, you end up creating a situation where people don't want to eat out. it's also better to waste food, then over eat food and then be overweight, need to spend to now go gym etc.
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You're completely missing the wood for the trees there...
The point is not to use the materials in the first place. Don't order food that you're not going to largely consume. You're clearly not in need of it if you only have a few mouthfuls and are sated.
 
sigma said:
Doesn’t every little count though? How much plastic is saved by the straws. Also, not drinking every day from a new plastic bottle is surely a good thing? The person you’re quite does exactly that.
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Not really. 1/3rd of the global pollution is generated by just 20 firms. So blaming you and I for the problem, and giving us sloppy paper straws - isn't really scratching any itch at all.

Oh, and the paper straws are non-recyclable.
 
dLockers said:
Not really. 1/3rd of the global pollution is generated by just 20 firms. So blaming you and I for the problem, and giving us sloppy paper straws - isn't really scratching any itch at all.

Oh, and the paper straws are non-recyclable.
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Who do those 20 firms produce goods for?
 
dLockers said:
It's so short sighted to think of waste in this way, but unfortunately it's the only visible way for folk to get engaged. Take the paper straws nonsense - such virtue signalling and green washing. No discernible impact at all other than a worse customer experience.
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i honestly don't think the reason they changed to paper straws was for any reason other than to stop the pics of turtles with a big mcdonalds straw up it's nose. that started to become a thing and images going viral, so they had to stop that as it was bad publicity.
 
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