Comments on: Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open

By: Dame Edna

Dame Edna — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:14:31 +0000

Here is a solution. Give their email or phone number to someone you know that they DON’T know, and have this person send them a message, or two, or three until the problem is resolved or you know they are just doing it to be annoying.

By: maria

maria — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:44:59 +0000

AHHH. I work in a school and we have recently aquired a student teacher who is very nice but has a horrible problem with chewing with his mouth open. It is not normal. It is not just talking and eating but his toung actually comes out of his mouth while he is chewing! I do not know if he needs to do this to keep the food moving around his mouth or if he has some sort of a problem but I can tell I am not the only person who can not stand this because the only empty seats at the luch table are the ones next to him! I hate getting to lunch last! Its a small table and he is so hard to avoid. There is nothing I can do to stop it. It takes all my attention not to glare at him!

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52:02 +0000

i’m dying inside. everybody around me chews with their mouths open…and it’s not just a 10-15 minute sit down, it’s over the course of an hour or so. they’ll take a few bites, talk, turn around and work on the comp, smack their food, wipe their hands and answer the phone with food in their mouth, then turn around and do it all over again. if you think that’s bad…hold onto your hat. lunch is with a korean, a cambodian, and a couple of mexicans. i have to smell fish, squid, kimchi, and whatever greasy food the mexicans are eating these days. oh, and the lunch table is 2 feet behind my chair. there is no ventilation in this room, and any unfinished food goes into the trash can with no lid that is 5 feet from my desk. if you want to talk about a stress test that’s out of control, i got a story that could top those of a vietnam vet’s.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:07 +0000

UGH!! I sit about 5 feet from a guy at work who faces me with no wall in between and he eats like a cowall day. Gum, cereal(which he slurps out of the bowl) and anything else he can get his mouth on. Plus, he takes a bite big enough for about 4-5 people and chews it 30+ times. I cannot stand it, I want to bang my head into the wall. I cannot use headphones at work since I have to answer the phone. I tried using only one ear, but his chewing is so loud, that won’t even drown it out. We are a small group, only 4 of us here and since we are so close together, I cannot play a radio either. You would think this guy is 5 years old the way he eats, but he is 35!! Plus, he is married. I do not know how his wife has not beaten it out of him yet unless she is a cow too!! I have been looking for a new job it is so bad!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:07:50 +0000

My brother (20) was just downstairs eating Chinese food. My god, I can not tell you how many times I have had to leave the room due to this terrible effing habit. Then he started crunching on a fortune cookie DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FORTUNE COOKIE. I honestly dont get what is so hard about closing the MF’ing trap.

I also hate how it’s always ‘my problem’ that I cant stand the noises……….

By: Kelly (again)

Kelly (again) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:01:53 +0000

Me again. I finally broke up with my boyfriend. It wasn’t totally due to the open-mouthed chewing but for christ’s sakes it didn’t help! The funny (horrible) thing is that my step-dad chews with his mouth open too! How the **** do you smack ice cream? I end up leaving the room. lol oh well. Only 7 more months :) Good luck all!!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:34:31 +0000

I hate the sound of people chewing with their mouths open. My mother actually told me I needed psychiatric help because of how much it annoys and angers me. As a result of my first snapping at my family to chew with their mouth’s closed, then asking kindly after repeated family discussions, I am no longer allowed (at the age of 22 years old) to ask someone in my household to kindly chew with their mouth closed. They literally think I have a clinical problem because of how much the sound annoys me.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:06:39 +0000

MARRIAGE IS BREAKING, please help!!
I feel so inappropriate and guilty to even write about this… My wife and I were married for several years, she is a very beautiful girl, and she is a true love of my life. I am a guy, and I am supposed to make our meals together romantic and enjoyable for both of us. But she has this habit to chew not quite closing her lips and talk just after taking a bite. This drives me nuts inside, and I can’t make things romantic. Just trying to deal with it inside and distract myself somehow. But my wife is suffering from my behaviour, because it is her life dream to have romantic dinners, talks, discusions etc. I’d love this too, but the moment she starts talking while having food in her mouth ruins everything. I know I shouldn’t even pay attention to such small things, because I am just a regular, uninteresting guy and a husband, and she is a very sweet very beautiful girl. But this really ruins our life and marriage. Couple of times (in several years) I tried to tell her what my problem is, very delicately I think, and thought it’s so simple just to make a small change and things would become great in our life. But she felt very deeply *insulted*, refused to change anything in herself, and felt that a normal man should be ashamed to ask a lady something like this. To even notice this. Now, her dreams of romantic relationship, enjoyable dinners filled with discussions are all gone. After years of marriage to me, she feels absolutely broken inside and says she developed a complex about her eating in public because of me. It’s either I do something to my percaption of this issue, or we’d have to get a divorce. It’s so silly. Such a tiny thing is able to ruin a marriage. I know she won’t change anything, I have to make a change in myself. Is there a therapy for this? Please advice.

By: Beti

Beti — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:03:13 +0000

The sound of chewing has always gotten right up my nose. My mom, whom I like quite a lot otherwise and who has impeccable manners, must have read somewhere that you should chew your food 100 times. She just sits there and chews and chews and chews. And chews. The funny thing is that she takes tiny bites so I think it’s probably all digested by the time she actually swallows! She does, at least, chew with her mouth closed. But it’s still really noisy. Uck.

My beloved, for some reason, has started chewing with his mouth open. We’ve been together for almost three years and this only started a couple of weeks ago. I have no idea where this came from. He’s especially bad about it when he’s eating chips and other crunchy foods. It’s almost to the point that I have to leave the room.

He doesn’t normally have bad manners, table or otherwise. He doesn’t belch or scratch himself in public and he opens the door for me. He also doesn’t chew with his mouth open at restaurants. All signs of a polite, well-brought up person.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why this has just started. He’s pretty great otherwise – kind and generous, thoughtful and hardworking. If this is his worst fault, then I’m not sure I can bring myself to complain about something that, in the great scheme of things, is pretty minor. And I’m sure I have annoying habits of my own.

It’s just so frustrating to me that all of us here have to be put in such an uncomfortable position. We shouldn’t have to ask people to have basic good manners. I mean it’s one thing to do what you want in the privacy of your own home – but in the company of other people? And at work where a person should be professional? I can’t imagine behaving like that. And I resent being the “bad guy”. And why on earth are people so proud of bad manners?

AND how does the food not fall out? I tried eating with my mouth open once (at home, alone, I must add) just to see. I totally couldn’t do it! Of course, this might explain all the “food on chin” comments I read here, too.

Thank you to whomever started this site. I feel a little better already. (Of course, he finished the darn chips so maybe that’s why…)

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:35:42 +0000

People who chew with their mouths open disgust me. It doesn’t matter if you’re eating sushi or steak, chewing gum or munching popcorn – there’s no acceptable reason to chew with your mouth open. I also cannot stand when people make noises while licking lollipops. The sounds always remind me of a mix between a dog licking its ***, and the sounds of someone giving someone else a sloppy blow-job (I apologize for that, but it’s true). I don’t need to hear all that. And I make no exceptions either, not for anyone.

My stepfather, half-sister (his and my mom’s daughter), and his entire family all chew with their mouths open, etc. I despise them because of this. We’re not cows, pigs or dogs – there’s no reason for all of that. It’s even worse because on my mother’s side of the family, we were specifically taught NOT to do this at a young age. Our grandmother would swat us at the dinner table if we didn’t “eat like we had some common sense”. It confuses me why my mother doesn’t teach my sister this, when she herself (as do the rest of us who grew up with my grandmother) has near-perfect table manners.

I also have a thing with people eating in general, but this I try my hardest not to complain about, because.. I’m not sure if it’s normal or not. I cannot stand the SOUNDS people make when they eat, even the well-mannered people who eat with their mouth closed. That wet, slosh-y sound of food being swished around inside other people’s mouths is enough to make me vomit, and this is why I eat alone. I’m find in the middle of a cafeteria, because the sounds of people talking usually drown out the individual sounds of people eating, but I can’t eat at a small table with just one other person because I’ll HEAR them eating and.. ugh.

But yes, I don’t know why these neanderthals can’t just chew with their **** mouths shut. It’s really not that hard at all. /rant