Foods Touching on Plates

[RedAngie]

Anybody hate different foods touching each other on their plates?

I’m still a bit squeamish about it, but I used to be really bad as a kid. Ewwww, the meat loaf has mashed potato germs on it!!!!

My mother eventually bought me a dish with dividers built in.



Back then things like these didn’t work too well, because string bean juice could seep underneath and contaminate the fish sticks.




And those foil wrapped TV dinners from the stone age. Somehow a pea or two ended up in the turkey or even worse, in the apple compote dessert.

I liked my grammar school cafeteria with its divided trays for lunch. No plates.



If anything, younger DD was even worse than me.

 

[mumto3girls]

I was a bit like that as a kid, not as an adult, although I still despise soggy bread so still cautious of wet food if I have a sandwich or bread.

 

[soccerdad72]

It's never bothered me, but my mom always hated it. She said she's gotten a lot better as she aged, but as a kid, she would need a separate plate or bowl for each part of her meal.

 

[1GoldenSun]

i kinda like my food to mingle. I tend to eat out of bowls with the food sort of "layered."

 

[disneychrista]

I bought my oldest one of those divider plates when she was little. She HATED food touching. Thankfully she outgrew it.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

One of my children hates it.

Meanwhile...

 

[luvnwdwgal]

The only issue I have with food touching is with maple syrup. I don’t like it getting on my eggs or bacon and sausage.

 

[kdonnel]

My grandmother had all her teeth pulled at one point to get two posts put in and full upper and lower dentures that would attach to the posts.

For about 6 months she carried around a battery powered blender and would put her food in the blender and drink it.

Sandwiches.

Spaghetti.

Steak with potato and green bean.

etc.

Whatever we prepared she blended it all together. She had no trouble with her food touching.

 

[Disneylover99]

I throw all my leftovers from the fridge in a bowl.
Heat and eat.

 

[prairie_girl]

The only issue I have with food touching is with maple syrup. I don’t like it getting on my eggs or bacon and sausage.

syrup on bacon or sausage is delicious and 100% healthy.

I don’t care about food touching. The only thing I don’t like is when sauce or juice from something makes something else mushy. Coleslaw leaking onto French fries is the worst offender for that.

 

[MrBellatrixLestrange]

My favorite meal at Cracker Barrel is the smoked ham with mashed potatoes and corn, each bite I make sure to get a bit of all three together. That noted, as a general rule I do try to keep my foods separated and eat my least favorite item first so I'm ending with my favorites. Of course I'm single so I don't really have to worry about that much anymore as I can 100% dictate what I'm making so no asparagus will ever sully my home much less my plate.

 

[RUDisney]

If you've watched Paging Mr. Morrow's posts on YouTube, you know that he makes sure to have a little of everything on his fork before he takes a bite... especially when mashed potatoes are involved.

I agree with his methodology of eating.

 

[Meriweather]

I plate them separately, but it doesn't bother me if they touch or mix some

 

[wenrob]

i kinda like my food to mingle. I tend to eat out of bowls with the food sort of "layered."

Same. I will cut up leftovers, throw them in a bowl and stir it all up. I’m a non food touchers nightmare.

Several people in my DH’s family and my SIL (and now nephew) are non food touchers. One not only won’t let their food touch, cold food and hot food can’t be on the same plate. Meanwhile here’s me throwing my coleslaw on top of my pulled pork.

I feel like DS could have gone that way but once they we past the finger food stage I plated their food butted up next to each other. I was taught to plate for presentation so they just never knew any other way.

 

[amcnj]

Was never a big issue for me, but a sibling loved those three sectioned plates for just that reason.

 

[BrianL]

Not a big deal to me with most things. Maybe if it's something with a bit of an overpowering flavor I would try to keep them seperate, but it's not the end of the world or anything.

 

[Micca]

No problem for me, I usually enjoy a little mixing together or foods on the plate. The meatloaf engaging with the mashed potatoes is a little slice of heaven

 

[Mysterian]

I was somewhat like this too as a kid, but if certain foods cross paths, I'm ok.

I don't like peas ending up in mashed potatoes, because the potatoes need to be a neutral playing field. It is here where those who are not mindful of flavor boundaries enter a realm where the palate is to brutally dismissed like a shy child in gym class. Yep, that sounds about right.

Lasagna mixing with salad, actually not bad. I would go for a lasagna salad meal.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

As kids, my sister and i would mix everything on our plates together and then put ketchup on it and mix it some more. So no, it never bothered me. Still doesn't.

 

[RogueX]

My husband doesn't like food on the plate touching, though he made the mistake of telling me that once and I built a tower out of mashed potatoes, peas, meatloaf and carrots. He cringed, called me an evil woman and ate. Now he plates his own food.