Are You a Fast or Slow Eater?

Question

Have you finished your soup or salad while someone is still midway theirs? You're starved...how can they take so long? And by the time the main comes you're bloated with a mixture of rolls and water...
Are you a slow or fast eater?

Answer 1

TRUST ME ..
a Career in the Military teaches one the value of eating fast indeed ..

Answer 2

That's what a liquid is for to wash it down.

Answer 3

Probably somewhere in the middle. I am not going to eat so fast that I choke, but no so slowly that I keep people waiting on me.

Answer 4

I generally have to slow myself down.

Answer 5

I'm usually distracted by something else.

Answer 6

I like to savor...

Answer 7

im not real fast but i eat slower than some people because if i eat too fast it get stuck sometimes in my esophagus and i have trouble swallowing sometimes.

Answer 8

I have that, too, recently... What IS that...

Answer 9

We might have a hiatal hernia...or the beginnings of...read above....

Answer 10

I eat fast

Answer 11

i used to eat slower but i think i really enjoy my food when i have time and not rushing. I found out that my digestive system is more efficient when i do not drink anything before or during my meals. Drink only after an hour. try it . it works

Answer 12

I eat breakfast in like 5 minutes.

Answer 13

Usually eat pretty fast.

Answer 14

It depends. Normally I eat a fast lunch, but when I'm having dinner with this gorgeous lady, sipping wine and having a deep conversation while watching her tongue **** her lips as she is enjoying the meal ... then only then will I eat slowly.

Answer 15

it annoys people when we eat out together because I take forever

Answer 16

All my friends hate me for it and make fun of me for it lo. But, I'm happy because I like to savour my food, and relax, not scarf it down and have a bloated stomach.

Answer 17

The food isn't going anywhere and besides! I am not trying to choke myself to death! Just enjoy every bite that all. The food have to digest or you'll get heart burn. JUST TAKE YOUR TIME.

Answer 18

People say I am. I say they eat painfully slow. I don't want to take extra time talking or staring between bites and I don't find the meal as enjoyable or tasty taking slow o small bites.

Answer 19

lol I'm the opposite.

Answer 20

I'm in between...slower when I'm just grazing and picking over the food. When it's good, faster than normal.

Answer 21

The same rules apply: eat fast or go hungry. :-)

Answer 22

I like to enjoy what I am eating.

Answer 23

Only because I have a hiatal hernia. Certain foods gets stuck where that hernia is and sometimes it takes a very long time for it to go down.

Answer 24

There is no point of eating food quickly why not just sit down and enjoy it?

Answer 25

Easier on the digestive system although how much time I have to eat does play a factor at times, I don't schedule my meals around how long it takes to eat them...

Answer 26

despite the fact I only get 20 minutes to eat lunch

Answer 27

Good grief another reason to eat alone: dealing with slowpokes.

Answer 28

Aint nobody got time fo' dat!

Answer 29

Depends on how hungry I am.

Answer 30

It's not so much that I'm starved, as that I can never know whether I'll get interrupted.

Answer 31

I eat fast because I enjoy my food very hot. Often I will nuke it before finishing due to it cooling off too much for what my hubs calls "old asbestos tongue".

Answer 32

A boyfriend from a family of 12...said about the same thing...lol...

Answer 33

I regularly consume an entire meal in less time than most, including my wife, can finish one course. Military and law enforcement.

Answer 34

The point of food is to fuel the human body. Why take your time when you could be doing other things with it?

Answer 35

I was always told if I ate too fast I would get sick. Plus I like to actually enjoy my food and I feel I can't do that if I scarf it all down.

Answer 36

somewhere in between. I don't inhale my food but I also don't take FOREVER to eat either!

Answer 37

I tend not to waste much time with eating when that is all I am doing. In USN boot camp we had 15 minutes to get 80 men in the door, through the line, sit down, eat, deposit tray, get out the door and back in formation. One learns to eat quickly and efficiently or starve.

Eating quickly like this does not involve being sloppy or "piggish" nor does it involve overeating. It involves efficiency.

When eating socially (with friends at a restaurant or banquet...) I can eat quickly to get through a course in process or slowly, taking bites between conversation while still maintaining manners. At a party type situation I can nibble throughout the time rather than sitting down to a meal.

I am able to adjust to the setting at hand, however the default is quick and efficient.

Answer 38

Well at least you're versatile... And it must have been horrible having to eat in about 15 minutes. I can't eat under pressure. Actually I can eat under pressure, I just can't digest under pressure...

Answer 39

I had no problem with it at all.

I guess I'm good like that. ;)

Answer 40

I was a dorm kid in a combination public/private high school for four years. I can polish off a sixteen inch pizza faster than most people can gulp down two slices.

Answer 41

I often find myself at restaurants twiddling my thumbs wondering " Sheesh! What's the hold up? I thought she said she was hungry." IDK As soon as I swallow it's time to put more food in it.