I'll go first-
On a cross country flight, the person next to me started her meal by elbowing my coffee into my lap with barely an acknowledgement of the incident. During the meal, she proceeded to use my tray to discard her utensil wrappings and food lids. As the meal wore on she asked me if I was going to eat my roll and after I was finished asked if she could have my remaining green beans!
The rest of the flight wasn't much better! Not at all funny at the time but now it never fails to get me to smile!

Thats awful! Dining on a plane cant really get better--when I was a teenager my best friend and I were flying to Cali when she took out her retainer to eat and lost it. we looked everywhere for it then finally concluded the man sitting next to her mustve eaten it.

my most difficult dining companions are my neice and nephew. They eat chicken nuggets, ketchup, french-fries and ho-ho's. Once when eating at my home ( I do not serve these items in my home) my nephew actually THREW-UP all over the dining table becuae I had the nerve to request that he at least eat ONE 1/4 " peice of fresh tomato.

My neice thought she was giving me a compliment when she stated that the chicken baked in ratatouille I served to her "wasn't that bad...the chicken kinda tasted like the chicken inside chicken nuggets"...hmmmm, could that be becuase it was CHICKEN?

I'm so disgusted every time I have to watch these two little piggies eat. It is truly a nightmare to "dine" with them.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ginalee2:
"when I was a teenager my best friend and I were flying to Cali when she took out her retainer to eat and lost it."
This happened to me whan I was a teenager, my dad made me dumpster dive until I found it buried knee deep in nacho cheese and leftover hamburgers...That was devastating. Fortunately we too were out of town and so there was no possibility of being spotted by any one from school!

I met up with some friends in Italy a couple of years ago. They were on a two month tour of Europe. After spending six weeks 24/7 together they had had enough of each other when we got to Rome. So the one friend went off on her own for the day while my other friend and I toured the city together. The three of us met up later on for dinner. While sitting outside of nice restaurant by the Spanish Steps, they decided to let it all out as I quietly sat there eating my dinner. They harding touched their food, and the next thing you know, they both start crying and run off leaving me alone with the check. We laugh about it today and I refer to it as dinner and a show.

A week ago, I returned from a two week trip to Europe with three of my friends. Two friends and I went to Lisbon, Portugal, and then we went to Paris, where we met another friend. This fourth friend wanted to vacation on a shoestring. Every night, she had us search out the absolute cheapest meal possible. And she complained about the food! How can you be in France and complain about the food? Last Thursday night, we were at a wonderful place called Bistro de la Muette. It was their opening night. They offered a 34 euro menu that included three courses, including wine and coffee. She wanted to go the bistro next door because she thought it looked cheaper, even though their main courses were around 20 euro. We convince her to go. I translated the menu for her, but she wasn't satisfied and had the waiter translate again. As the waiter was reading the starters, which included foie gras and escargot, she curled her nose. She was disappointed that the menu didn't include chicken. The restauraunt had a beautiful glass waterfall on one wall, and she wanted to get up and look at it. Two waiters and the hostess followed her to tell her not to touch. I wanted to crawl under the table. Truly I did.

i'm about the biggest adventure eater there is, and yet, somehow, all my friends are picky eaters. one of my best friends is a vegan. another won't eat anything but white-meat chicken. just my luck, that's i like to travel alone most of the time so that i can try the dirty looking hole in the wall packed with people.

Im with yall on the traveling alone thing. I went to New Orleans over the summer, and while i love my 2 friends and traveling companions dearly, the would not eat at the Harrahs casino buffet, we had to eat at a fudruckers (i shouldve had the buffet myself now that i think about it, just didnt want to seem rude) THEN we had to eat breakfast at IHOP. this is NEW OREANS, mind you. they did agree to eat at Emeril's thank goodness, but my vegatarian friend was in pain most of the time. Now, when I went to Vegas, no-one would eat at the Bellagio buffet with me, so i went alone. The busboy told me not to make a habit of eating alone. I know he was trying to be nice, but eating alone isnt the worst thing.

wow bigdaub I got the same problem with you. too many picky. everytime we going out I asked what are we going to eat today.. and everyoen said..."whatever" so I suggest something new and we absolutly never try before. one says "Im ok with anything" others like " Im ok but lets just eat that old place again". So im assuming we goign to the place that i suggested. maybe is my mistakes for asking where we suppose to go again. the second time I ask(which we about to go) they seems to change their mind and asking lets try something else... so i said ok... any suggestion? and they later answer whatever..... ok back to square one... and this happens again and again bout an hour until we really hungry and decide to eat at old spot...

My sister is the worst picky eater I know. Not only that, she also shreds her food into tiny little pieces before she eats it. 26 years old and she has been doing this since she was 3 or 4 years old.

Majority of my friends will eat or try anything!

Imagine! Throwing up! The nerve of that kid!

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Originally posted by lmvo:
my most difficult dining companions are my neice and nephew. They eat chicken nuggets, ketchup, french-fries and ho-ho's. Once when eating at my home ( I do not serve these items in my home) my nephew actually THREW-UP all over the dining table becuae I had the nerve to request that he at least eat ONE 1/4 " peice of fresh tomato.

My neice thought she was giving me a compliment when she stated that the chicken baked in ratatouille I served to her "wasn't that bad...the chicken kinda tasted like the chicken inside chicken nuggets"...hmmmm, could that be becuase it was CHICKEN?

I'm so disgusted every time I have to watch these two little piggies eat. It is truly a nightmare to "dine" with them.

Wow, do I hear what you are all saying!! I think everyone and anyone can relate on one level or another! Here's a suggestion...it works 80% of the time on adults, on kids, that's a whole other issue...When your travelling with others, make a game out of where to dine, each person has to take a turn deciding where to dine and everyone else has to go along with that decision...Rule #1 is that you cannot pick the same place twice! Rule #2 is that you all have to agree that no matter where you go to dine, you make the best of it - after all, as long as your with friends or family and your having a good time, it really shouldn't factor in. The reactions are surprising... (Sometimes we add to the game...we order for the person that sits next to us and not for ourselves.)

Hi everyone! Yowzers, you folks had some hideous experiences! At least mine involved a stranger and not a friend or family member. Not to worry about the kids-apparently my brother-in-law sat at the table as a child and darn near heaved over having to eat a single pea. He is probably one of my favorite people. A good eater. But skinny. Real skinny

Having a late night snack with my fiance's high school friend in Cheng Chun. He was long past drunk when we met up, it was a few days after Chinese new Year and after a very loud bolsterous greeting he lit up what appeared to be a quarter stick of dynamite and hurled under some parked cars which preceded to set every alarm within 3 blocks off.

We all had already eaten dinner so we order a some light snacks, I can't even remeber what. There was several bottles of Tsing tao I do remeber. If he was going to be a loud happy drunk I might as well work toward joining him. My chinese is pretty limited, he had a slightly better grasp of the english language which consisted mostly of "I FRIEND!" "you Friend! I like YOU!" "I Hate Japanese!" "F@*K! "
This went on for about 45 minutes, the best of that was when my fiance headed to the rest room and left us alone. Oh I can't forget he threatened to destroy me if I ever did anything bad to my fiance Kathryn.

As a finale the bill came to a number, which escapes me now, that has the meaning of a fool in China. So he prceeded to argue with the staff to lower the bill because he was no fool. He was finally appeased by a deft waiter who suggested he pay 5 RMB higher then the bill to avoid being a fool. The irony was lost on him I'm sure. AFter some loud good byes and a bear hug he put us in a cab and we parted ways.

Can't wait to see him again at our wedding!