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Hate the sound of people eating when I am not eating.

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I hate the sound of people eating crunchy  and/or smelly food when I am not eating with them, and the person concerned is either with me or are eating in a non food related place (including supermarkets). If I am eating with them, I am fine. I do not know why this is the case, but I feel angry and as though I want nothing to do with them. I am also very pedantic and think that food should be eaten at set times, my set times. And while knowing that it is unrealistic for other people to abide by my rules, I get angry when people do things like munch on biscuits in a public walkway, shop, or when there mind is engaged elsewhere. Forgive my snobbery, but I think it is uncouth and animal like

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  • Interesting stuff Darth Reagon.

    I also think it is not so much WHAT you eat (although obviously from a health perspective this is very important) but HOW and WHERE you eat. This is because manners are very important. I think that free-market liberalization has a lot of responsibility for the breakdown in social norms. Individualism and the consumer society emphasise individual choice, including where you decide to eat, even if, from a social perspective, it is arguably antisocial, and with reason. Eating in a busy shop is smelly, dirty and obtrusive.  If, for example, you are looking at some clothes in the supermarket and a person next to you is chomping noisily on a gooey pasty, what goes through your mind?. I, for one, want to walk away. I do, I must admit, have quite a strong sense of smell, and can smell things that don't bother other people. But, then there is the munching noise (quite distracting) and the fact that the pasty could dirty a new item of clothing. And it is arguably anarchic to eat like this. Far better, in my mind, to sit down at a table, in a cafe say, than to walk around the street eating.

    Mindful eating - focusing on food with minimal distractions- is very important, and allows us to treat food with respect.

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  • Interesting stuff Darth Reagon.

    I also think it is not so much WHAT you eat (although obviously from a health perspective this is very important) but HOW and WHERE you eat. This is because manners are very important. I think that free-market liberalization has a lot of responsibility for the breakdown in social norms. Individualism and the consumer society emphasise individual choice, including where you decide to eat, even if, from a social perspective, it is arguably antisocial, and with reason. Eating in a busy shop is smelly, dirty and obtrusive.  If, for example, you are looking at some clothes in the supermarket and a person next to you is chomping noisily on a gooey pasty, what goes through your mind?. I, for one, want to walk away. I do, I must admit, have quite a strong sense of smell, and can smell things that don't bother other people. But, then there is the munching noise (quite distracting) and the fact that the pasty could dirty a new item of clothing. And it is arguably anarchic to eat like this. Far better, in my mind, to sit down at a table, in a cafe say, than to walk around the street eating.

    Mindful eating - focusing on food with minimal distractions- is very important, and allows us to treat food with respect.

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