Will you share your meal/drink on the same plate/glass with your friend?.

I share. It doesn’t bother me and double dipping doesn’t bother me as long as it’s a friend. If I don’t know them, then no, they can’t eat out of my plate. They can demand all they want, I won’t share my food if I’m still eating it.

I would only do that if she is my girlfriend…other than that…NO WAY.

Stranger- Nope. Friends totally Yes because when you have people in your life you Real close to then it is not a problem…

All the time. I am not Queen Elizabeth.

No. Only an SO that’s it. It has only to do with germs not sharing. I will happily split and share my food and drink, but I do not want their fork in my part of the dish.

My first thought was to say yes on the plate, with their own fork, but no on the glass. Then I realized that if I was drinking an unusual beer and a friend asked for a taste, I would let them. So yes, I would if they just wanted to taste something.. A complete stranger? Probably not, seems like an odd thing to ask. If they wanted to just share my beverage or food off my plate? Only for my wife. I’ll scrape some food onto another plate for them. And you don’t get more of my beer than a taste unless you’re itchin’ for a fight.

I’m a sharer too; I think certain cultures are more accustomed to it. I had to break my husband in gently to the idea over many years – he’s English and I’m, let’s say, not.

As long as I or the other person does not have a contagious disease, no problem. It’s an old field custom in the Army, splitting up C-rats, Lurps or MREs.

ya i dont mind. But sharing with a dude is kinda homoish

I wouldn’t want to do that with anyone but my boyfriend. As it is, that never seems to come up. People ask if they can have some of what I’m having if it’s something you can take off like a French fry, but no one’s ever asked to share a plate with me and I’ve gone to restaurants and dinners with my friends countless times.

The really Wild method the Wife and I do at a restaurant with two other couples is to Rotate around the table, other people look at us strangely…

Yeah, except with my brother because he gets around too much. I don’t need any mouth warts or something good lord. But everyone else who I am friends with its not a big deal. but funny story I had a gf once who absolutely hated this type of sharing and so when ever I would let my friend have some of my coke or something she would flip the hell out. I would do it without even thinking though.

I have no problem sharing

No it is not good idea to share food or cups. Sharing cups, plates and utensils is away to spread germs.

if one can eat out of one plate, 10 can eat out of a plate, its a bonding thing

I usually prefer not to as it’s not a good idea to share food with other people. Well, at least I was taught that it was a bad idea to do that as it can potentially get you sick or something. I have shared food in the past, though. My last boyfriend and I shared meals a lot. We also shared drinks. I felt one with him. I’ve also shared food and drinks with my family and probably will in the future as well. Family is family, so yeah. As for everyone else, it depends on the situation. Oh yeah, and of course I don’t share food with my last boyfriend anymore. He doesn’t even talk to me anymore, so that’d be very interesting if I did.

Yeah, completely. Even with a stranger, provided they are not gross.

Sure.

@mass_pike4 Your homophobia is showing! Share or don’t, that’s your choice.
Sharing your food with a hunger man by giving him some is not a homosexual act, it’s an act of human charity and kindness.

@Dr_Lawrence – Thank you for saying that. You beat me to it. It was an unnecessary and rude remark.

As for the question, I will share with someone I know. If I’m having a meal with them, I probably know them well enough to share food or drink. Although I would want them to drink from a different spot on the glass.

I often share with my mate especially if we are in a restaurant and have ordered a couple of different dishes but I don’t like sharing with anyone else. Not a question of selfishness, I just don’t want anyone’s germs.

I agree rooeytoo .

If I’m not willing to kiss the person, i’m not willing to share mutual food or plates with them, either.

Yes, I have no problem sharing food or drink with people I know and, providing they are not selfish with their food, it is fine for people to just take food off my plate. My family has always been happy to share food and drink so it’s never been a big deal. @janbb It’s definately a culture thing!

Thanks so much for all of you!,great opinion,honesty,and toleration!,although I’ve seen some who being picky and some who consider about healthiness. Very informative!.

@Leanne1986 I’m pretty sure I am the same culture as @janbb and @pdworkin but I don’t want the germs. I think you generalization is incorrect.

@JLeslie But you don’t know what culture I am so how can you say it is incorrect? There are exceptions to every rule but culture does play a part in a lot of things and as far as this subject is concerned, some cultures are more likely to be relaxed about sharing food than others. That doesn’t mean that every single person of that culture shares this but a lot do.

@Leanne1986 True. I was assuming Ashkenazi Jewish of some sort, but as I stated above I was not sure, just pretty sure. And, actually I had read your answer too fast, because I did not realize you were saying you were part of the same culture. Maybe you mean a particular country? Care to share what culture you were talking about? I don’t disagree that culture counts and there are generalizations to be made that can be statistically true for the majority.

@JLeslie Actually I am a mixture of a few cultures thrown into one but the food part is definately Italian!!! My family around a dinner table is one big stereotype!

@Leanne1986 Well the Italian and Jews are very similar in many practical ways. I am fine with family style, I just don’t want anyones germy fork in my food. I did not know @janbb is Italian? Is she Italian Jewish? Or, half Italian half Jewish? I am pretty sure she has commented with me on Jewish threads and it says bubby on her profile.

@JLeslie She is all Jewish from her keppie to her feetselach.

@JLeslie No sorry, we misunderstand each other. When @janbb said it was a culture thing I didn’t know what culture she was reffering to but as fr as my own habits are concerned it is a culture thing that’s my excuse anyway and that’s why I was agreeing with her. I don’t know what culture she was refferring too.

@Leanne1986 ok, there is the confusion. I see, you were just making a statement that culture plays a part in things like this, and I was too literal. I agree with you, I am not trying to split hairs.

Just what kind of germs are many of you afraid of getting? What kind of sickness?

@Val123 People are usually most contangious 24 hours before and the first 24 hours during a cold or flu. So you can be contagious and not know it yet. Same with herpes, if you happen to drink from a glass od someone who is about to get an outbreak on their lip, or vene things like mono I would guess. Why can’t the person just take a portion for themselves without sticking their fork or putting their mouth on my glass? Why does it have to be a big deal to be prudent about spreading illness?

I was actually glad that with the H1N1 scare people might be a little more accepting of basic things like not sharing germs without thought, but mostly I just see people using purell every ten seconds. I don’t even own purell.

By the way, I’m not opposed to doing it because I’m worried about getting sick (although that certainly doesn’t help either), I’m mostly opposed to it because the idea of eating someone else’s saliva grosses me out…

I have heard other people say that before @DominicX so I know you are not alone. I also agree with whoever said above that if they would not kiss the person they don’t want to share food with them. I feel the same, and I have always been careful who I kiss. I had a roomate in college who said to me, “I’ll kiss anyone, it’s just kissing.” I was stunned. I had never thought of kissing someone I did not date. I did play spin the bottle in 6th grade, and I was not happy about it, pure peer pressure that I gave into.

@DominicX and @JLeslie Wait! This has been bugging me! OK, I totally would not want somebody else taking a drink of what ever I’m drinking, but as far as sharing food….I don’t think anyone is suggesting a “You take a bite, then I take a bite” kind of situation. I think they’re only saying, for example, if you have a plate full of chips, would you have a problem with people taking chips off of your plate to eat? You’re not swapping spit that way!

@Val123

I do that all the time. I’m not that weird. I don’t care about sharing chips or something made up of individual pieces that a person could just take. Or I wouldn’t mind breaking off a piece of bread or something. I assumed this question was referring to like a bowl of soup or spaghetti or something. Or a burrito. And it since it included “drink” as well, I thought it implied that spit would be swapped…which grosses me out. >.<

@DominicX K!

I agree with @DominicX

@Val123 I think most of us who said we don’t want to share germs are fine with sharing. We aren’t greedy or impolite; just grossed out or phobic :).

I agree Leslie .

I guess the question was a bit vague and confusing! Everyone agrees that they’d let someone try a bite of something from their plate…which is the same things as sharing, but no one would be particularly comfortable with sharing a drink so….