Eating habit

[Timsup2nothin]

I just saw a commercial on TV that caught my attention by making an out of the blue claim of the sort that is just obviously hyperbole that can be dismissed...but it made me curious.

Now, I suspect that most people might not have ever paid enough attention to be able to answer this other than speculatively, but the poll won't close so maybe just hold out until you have an opportunity to observe. And observe doesn't have to mean you, since by observing you will be influenced. Watch someone else and report their result.

Anyway, here's the situation. You are served a dinner (or lunch) plate with stuff on it. A meat dish; steak, meat loaf, chicken breast, whatever; maybe seasoned, maybe with a sauce, doesn't matter. A starch; usually potato mashed, cut in chunks and roasted, scalloped, whatever; or maybe rice pilaf or something. A veggie. Steamed or sauteed, or some other preparation, maybe mixed, maybe in a sauce, again, whatever.

What is your first bite?

 

[rah]

THE MEAT of course
Unless it's a sandwich

 

[Lexicus]

gimme that meat boi

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I see a potential trend, but there is not yet enough data.

 

[Hrothbern]

Barbarians !
I first start with a bite on what I guess the person that made that meal was most dedicated to, most proud upon.
If I made myself the meal as first bite that what was most tricky, sensitive to do.
If it is something new for me.. that.
And if that all does not apply mostly the starchy part.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The starches are the best part of most meals. I go for those first.

 

[MaryKB]

I'll go for my vegetable first, I enjoy their taste to get me started, and I'll generally work my way around evenly. It's rare though I'll have my plate like that, I'd be more likely to have vegetables, pasta, and maybe a small piece of meat.

Sometimes too I'll mix everything together, like cooking my vegetables in with my pasta and then adding my meat when I'm finished, so my first bite might be all three ... how does that count?

 

[Cheetah]

I take both a piece of meat and a piece of starch for the first bite... Doesn't everyone??

Second bite is starch and veggie. And afterwards I randomly alternate throughout the meal.

 

[Farm Boy]

Veggies, then meats, then starches.

 

[El_Machinae]

I tend to move from 'least tasty to most tasty', with a consideration to how everything tastes when it's either warmest or having cooled.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'll go for my vegetable first, I enjoy their taste to get me started, and I'll generally work my way around evenly. It's rare though I'll have my plate like that, I'd be more likely to have vegetables, pasta, and maybe a small piece of meat.

Sometimes too I'll mix everything together, like cooking my vegetables in with my pasta and then adding my meat when I'm finished, so my first bite might be all three ... how does that count?

Most of my meals are such amalgamations. The question is specifically about plates that are not.

I was expecting that most people wouldn't have a considered response, because I personally just shift to autopilot and have no idea where my fork is likely to land first. I'll have to wait to answer until the next time such a meal lands in front of me.

 

[Lexicus]

I mean i took the separation of the things into account. If I'm eating a meal where all the things are separate it's probably steak. So yeah I'm going to bite the steak first because that's the centerpiece of the thing.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I tend to move from 'least tasty to most tasty', with a consideration to how everything tastes when it's either warmest or having cooled.

I'm the same, but opposite. I go most tasty to least tasty. On average that usually works out to starch -> meat -> veg but it depends on what each specific dish is, how it is prepared, seasoning, etc.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Most to least, least to most...these seem to be based on prediction, not fact. I would guess that such predictions would be generally consistent; like "I generally find the meat the most tasty, and go most to least, so will sample a bite of meat first.

I'm thinking I probably get a bite of the starch first, usually, because I'm getting a fork full of something before I ever pick up a knife. The meat generally has to be cut, and so do a lot of veggies, but the starch can almost always just be glommed immediately.

 

[elmurcis]

"Check" meat (one small piece to make sure its worth to wait - rarely but can get some "faulty" taste), eat everything else and keep meat for the end for best pleasure.

 

[Ryika]

Vegetable, followed by vegetable, followed by more vegetables until the plate is empty, just like any non-barbarian should do.

 

[rah]

just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?
just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?
just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?
just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?
just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?
just eating vegetables/being considered a barbarian?

pass the meat.

 

[Ryika]

Don't worry, it's okay and legal to be a barbarian. For now.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Cows are vegetarians. I eat cows. Therefore I eat vegetarians.

 

[warpus]

Anyway, here's the situation. You are served a dinner (or lunch) plate with stuff on it. A meat dish; steak, meat loaf, chicken breast, whatever; maybe seasoned, maybe with a sauce, doesn't matter. A starch; usually potato mashed, cut in chunks and roasted, scalloped, whatever; or maybe rice pilaf or something. A veggie. Steamed or sauteed, or some other preparation, maybe mixed, maybe in a sauce, again, whatever.

What is your first bite?

Whatever my fork ends up grabbing first?

I don't have OCD or anything like that, so I'm not going to have a weird way of eating in which I sort my bites by food type.