What's the proper way to recover from food falling out of your mouth when you're eating?

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(When you're taking a bite. After that, chewing with your mouth closed, obv.)

1. Just let it fall
2. Try to suck it back in
3. Push it back in with your finger

I ask because they guy sitting next to me is slurping his food back into his mouth with every other bite. It's f'disgusting. But I'm not sure what I'd rather see him do. Al least with options 1 & 3, I can look away.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Act like you spit it out because it was horrible, curse the cook, try to get them fired.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Let it fall and NEVER look around to see if someone is looking.

My father sounds as though he inhales his tea. The noises are most unsettling.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

barbra to thread!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot beverages need to be banned until people can learn to drink them quietly.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

scream!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

5. fall right in behind the food?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

lift your head quickly, hope it flips back in your mouth, makes you look proactive

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

like feeding time in the seal enclosure

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think if food is falling out of your mouth while you're eating, this indicates a more fundamental flaw in eating technique. Treat the cause not the symptoms.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

For real - TAKE SMALLER BITES.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Flee the room sobbing, surely

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

onate is otm.

but when it happens cover your mouth, retrieve the object and put it on a plate aside, obv.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What about that thing where you try to bite a slice of pizza and you accidentally yank all the cheese and topping off the pizza while it's half in your mouth, and you can't chew through it because you have no leverage because it's just hanging limply from your mouth haemorrhaging gunk everywhere

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the right response to that is to hurry up and eat the entire slice all at once. It's just polite.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If it falls on the table, quickly stab it with your fork as if it were trying to run away.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I JUST DID THIS RIGHT NOW WITH A BITE SIZED ALMOND JOY

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Seppuku is the only socially acceptable solution, I'm afraid.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't have a prehensile tail that can flick out undetected to pick up dropped food you should only eat liquid foods.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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