Poll: Do you and your partner order the same thing at restaurants?

[AndreaDM]

Very rarely unless it's a place known for something special. For example, one place we go has a weekly prime rib night so if we go that night we might both get the prime rib.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Sometimes if it’s a seafood dish because we both love shrimp but my husband’s more of a beef, pork, chicken guy and I never order that. I’d rather have salad or fish/seafood.

 

[slo]

Once in awhile we’ll order the same thing and then we’ll make fun of each other for doing it - LOL!

 

[White Cat]

We generally split a meal.

 

[Meriweather]

We order what we want.
Occasionally it is the same, but usually it is something different

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I voted other. When we go out to eat, DH & I always order different things & share. It's typically 2 or 3 appetizers, depending on size or 1 appetizer & 1 entree for variety. When eating take-out, we usually order 2 appetizers or share an entree. I agree with kdonnel. Portion sizes are too large for us to order two entrees.

 

[Kitty 34]

We sometimes order the same entrée but our drinks are different......me; a rum and coke; DH, a Bloody Mary.

 

[Minnesota!]

My husband is HORRIFIED at the thought of duplicating an order. He will change what he is getting if someone orders what he wants before he gets to ordering.

So, we make him go first.

Nobody else in this house is that weird

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Sometimes we order the same things, sometimes we don't.

Sometimes we'll say "what ya having" and then it's be like "you know that sounds good I'll get that too". But neither of us are bound by saying "I must get something different than you" or "I must get the same thing as you"

We have different tastes on some things. He like meatloaf more than I do and I can't remember the last time I ordered that out much less had that for dinner and I like goat cheese items and he would never order something with that.

But a good chicken fried chicken is a mutual love of ours lol among other dishes.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

We don't even eat the same stuff when we cook at home!

lol we always have the same thing if cooking at home only difference is if it's leftovers or ordering from a restaurant for deliver or pickup.

What's something Kitty likes that you don't and what's something that you like that Kitty doesn't?

 

[cedricandsophie]

Never. My husband iften orders soup and salad. He’s just not a big eater unlike me. But if he does order an entree he usually asks me if I want to try it. I usually say no thanks because ‘if I wanted it I would have ordered it’. I usually let him have a bite of mine although I was often not kind about it during our early years together. He had a big mouth and takes what I consider huge bites. I’m an only child and never had to share with anyone. It’s taken me many years to be ok with it! He always tells me I order the most expensive thing which isn’t true but it’s always more than soup and salad.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

He had a big mouth and takes what I consider huge bites.

That sounds like my mother-in-law. It's an inside joke but one that we all kinda get irritated about. She'll ask to try something but have the fork or spoon basically already at the food, she's gotten only marginally better over the years.

However, I don't think being an only child means interacts with how you feel about sharing/portions I think that's just about mutual courtesy. Most people wait to be offered something and most people try to take a small amount because that's just being polite

 

[mikehn]

Most of the time we just share an entree. Cocktails are a different story.

 

[GAN]

I answered other.

We often split meals because portion sizes at American restaurants generally are large enough to feed two.

Same here…we’ve been doing the same exact thing lately.

 

[sheilafri]

We try to order different things. After 40+ years of marriage our tastes have converged so sometimes we both really want the same things so that’s what we order. We often will share appetizers and desserts.

 

[BayouQueen]

We almost never do order the same thing. His favorites are not mine, and vice versa. Sometimes we will order things that go together and share, but that's rare, too.

 

[mamamary]

I’m a pretty picky eater so we usually don’t order the same things. On occasion though we may both want burgers and will get the same thing.

 

[barkley]

only ordering 'rule' is at one particular restaurant-they have both a spectacular lamb sandwich as well as a reuben. we order one of each and split. otherwise-order what you want.

 

[WDWJDS]

Sometimes. With my mother though, she will purposely wait until everyone has ordered and try to order something different. Then she asks for a piece of everyone’s dish

 

[kcool]

My family (and by family I mean extended family) is an embarrassment at Luby’s. We all get the Luanne with fried fish and tartar sauce. Sometimes people vary the sides, but usually Mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. The first time my husband went with us, he wasn’t sure he was allowed to order anything different lol