Foods Touching on Plates

[prairie_girl]

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.

You definitely have to plan it out so that your last mouthful is going to be your favourite mouthful lol

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Anybody hate different foods touching each other on their plates?

My grandfather took it to the extreme. He had to have each type of food on separate plates. My grandmother's china set was mostly salad & bread plates, since she didn't want to use big plates for each item.

For me, not so much. I like the combination of flavors sometimes when things get mixed.

 

[CynBeth]

I do not mind usually mix everything together.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Doesn’t bother me at all!

Peas or corn mixed with mashed potatoes are the best!

 

[PollyannaMom]

It used to bother DS when he was little (we still have some of those divided white Corelle plates) and I think I was like that when I was really small too, but I grew out of it. One of DH's aunts still keeps everything separate when she can.

 

[Micca]

Peas or corn mixed with mashed potatoes are the best!

Let's face it, peas need all the help they can get!

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

For me, it depends entirely on the foods. If they go together, or they’re both “dry” they can touch. But two different sauces/juices should never touch. It’s about flavor, to me.

My aunt will have coleslaw touching mashed potatoes with gravy and that would drive me insane.

 

[Kitty 34]

My plate turns into a bowl.......I want a little meat with the potato, or a little veggie with the potato, etc; obviously it's because of the potato. It just really helps in getting everything in my mouth. I can use that I am "elderly", right?

 

[nene0182]

I don’t mind my food touching however I eat things in a certain order and don’t move onto the next thing until I’m done with the entirety of one thing. It goes Bread, vegetables, starch and lastly meat. Meat is my least favorite which is why it’s last and I don’t feel bad if I’m too full to eat it.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I was the same way as a kid. I hated my food touching and althouh I used just one regular plate, there had to be division amongst my food. The worst was when any condiment would touch any other food that it didn't belong to. I really hated that. I don't mind food touching or mixed now, but I'm still funny about condiments touching anything but the food it was intended for.

 

[KrazeeK120]

I cannot stand to have food touching. No way, no how. My parents still get divided plates for family get-togethers specifically for me and set out a separate bowl so I can put my ice cream in it and not with my cake. I pretty much eat like a 5 year old…scratch that, I have a 5 year old and he eats better than I do. We can’t all be perfect, I guess.

 

[EveDallas]

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.

I purposely put maple syrup on my sausage. It's delicious!

 

[fla4fun]

The only thing I can think of is I like to separate my cranberry sauce from everything else at thanksgiving. We make a really good homemade sauce that is a combination of cherries and cranberries. I love the stuff, but not in the same bite as the rest of the food. I am not a big sauce or condiment fan in the first place, so I rarely have wet foods that can run.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

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.

For that I'd probably toss the plate out the window and call you much worse than an evil woman.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

I have admittedly complicated rules about which foods are allowed to touch each other and not. And the rules can change under certain situations. Sometimes I need a separate small dish or bowl for veggies, sometimes not. It drives DW crazy.

Step-daughter got me a set of those half-circle things as a gag one Christmas. (That plate of spaghetti, peas, and canned fruit cocktail made me queasy, even with the dividers. Who would eat such a combo???!!! )

 

[PrincessShmoo]

The only thing I can think of is I like to separate my cranberry sauce from everything else at thanksgiving. We make a really good homemade sauce that is a combination of cherries and cranberries. I love the stuff, but not in the same bite as the rest of the food. I am not a big sauce or condiment fan in the first place, so I rarely have wet foods that can run.

Oooo, I love a bite of cranberry sauce with turkey.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

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.

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

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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.

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If anything, younger DD was even worse than me.

Hmmmmm. Sounds like a job for a pry bar and a plumber's helper.

 

[penn19]

I’m having a difficult time reading these comments.
I not only don’t like my food to touch (except for mashed potatoes and turkey and thanksgiving. I’m not totally nuts) but I eat my food one at a time. Chicken first, then the vegetable etc.

 

[luv2cheer92]

I don't love food touching each other on the plate, but I can tolerate it. Though there are some things that are definite no's, really anything that is juicy/runny/saucy. My weird thing is that I can only eat one thing at a time. So I have to finish one thing before moving on to the next. Typically I eat things in order from least favorite to most favorite haha. Though sometimes this bites me, especially on big holidays, because there are times where I'm too full to really enjoy my favorite thing.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

I'm okay with food touching, sometimes I even eat them mixed together like mashed potatoes and corn (sorry if that grosses anyone out!) but I did have a friend growing up who was like this where the food had to be separated. She would eat it if it touched but only the portion of the food that didn't touch the other food so there would always be leftover food on her plate if the foods ended up touching because of that. I have heard of people who will not eat the food at all if any part of it touched another of their food.