Are individuals lacking social awareness if they eat with their mouth open? 🍽️ #socialawareness #etiquette #eatinghabits
Understanding Social Awareness and Dining Etiquette
Do you wonder if people who eat with their mouths open lack social awareness?#manners #dining #foodetiquette
• Is Open-Mouthed Eating a Sign of Social Ineptitude?
• The Impact of Open-Mouthed Eating on Others
• Tips for Improving Dining Etiquette
Eating with your mouth open during meals can impact how others perceive you and your level of social awareness.
So, do individuals who exhibit this behavior lack the awareness of proper dining etiquette? Let’s delve deeper into this topic. #etiquetteawareness
Social Awareness: Why It Matters
Eating with your mouth open can be a sign of poor social awareness. It can affect how others view you and your manners.
By practicing good dining etiquette, you can showcase your social awareness and leave a positive impression on those around you. #socialskills #respect
Tips for Improving Your Dining Etiquette
To enhance your social awareness and dining etiquette, consider these tips:
1. Chew with your mouth closed.
2. Avoid speaking while food is in your mouth.
3. Take small, manageable bites.
4. Use utensils properly.
5. Say “please” and “thank you” during meals.
By practicing good dining etiquette, you can improve your social awareness and make a positive impression on others. #practicemanners #showrespect
Remember, small changes in your dining habits can have a significant impact on how others perceive you. Practice good etiquette and enhance your social awareness today!
They have brain damage and deserve to burn in the fiery lakes of hell
I suspect that, like so many people, they live in their own world. The rest of us are just NPCs to them.
Many people are oblivious about their lack of manners.
I knew someone who would close their eyes while chewing which doesn’t sound to bad but it just felt really weird!
Eyes closed for minutes at a time, while I’m sat there perplexed.
I did asked why – they said they didn’t realise they did it.
Which confused me even more. How can you not notice it suddenly gets pitch black everytime you have a mouth full of food??
One thing that is worse than those open mouth chewer..
.. Is those who eat with closed mouth and have pure vaccum inside the mouth and that fscking noise that chewing makes.
I can’t breath though nose due to genetic disease so :/
I don’t care for it either, but some people just cannot breathe through their nose.
I chew with my mouth closed, because I’m not a monster. But i have been known to put my forearms/elbows on the table. I don’t care who knows it!!!
While this isn’t the case for everyone… but my husband can not breathe through his nose.
Same with people who chew gum with their mouth wide open, smacking and popping loud as possible. They should be banned from having gum.
For a lot of people, it’s a cultural thing. If you smack your mouth, chew loudly, it means the food is good.
I honestly cannot stand the sound and sight of someone else’s food. I’ll remove myself from the room.
I used to frequently not be able to breathe through my nose due to allergies 🥲
It was truly a struggle to eat and breathe at the same time
I don’t get enough air through my nose. I try to do it as subtly as possible but I need to breathe. (I mean this in an *if someone abducted me and duct taped my mouth so I wouldn’t scream I’m 90% sure I would literally suffocate to death* kind of way)
When somebody eats loudly I just assume it’s because they have a condition or they just really stupid
Some people are mouth breathers and it just happens naturally. Some people have been doing it their whole lives and really don’t notice it! Some people have even been married to people who do it and never noticed until someone else pointed it out…then wanted a divorce lol.
But yeah…I think it’s possible they don’t realize.
The best is when you’re on a Teams meeting and said person is called on AND THEY ARE CHEWING AND TALKING IN ALL OF OUR EARS. Yuck!
They seem to do it on TV and in the movies whenever they’re eating … gross.
Chewing with your mouth open isn’t disrespectful in some cultures. I had to tell two of my asian friends (Korean and Vietnamese) that it’s bad manners in America, one said they don’t care and the other didn’t believe me.
I can’t stand this. It’s disgusting. It makes me so angry. Nobody is trying to hear that or see it. Gross and anyway why you eating so damn loud. The worst is when they drink loud with loud gulps. Omggggggg I can’t. Why you have a tiny throat
The guy who sits next to me at the office does this and it drives me insane. I put my earbuds in
attention fellow mouth breathers: take smaller bites, it’s not rocket science.
For the record, a lot of them straight-up can’t breathe through their nose.
Not all of ’em, but a lot of ’em.
My mom eats on the phone constantly. I find it absolutely disgusting to hear someone smacking their lips like a cow.
Some people simply can’t because they have breathing/sinus problems or small mouths.
The same social awareness of people who are on speaker phone in public. The same awareness as Belinda in Accounting who clips her toe nails in the office. The same awareness as the lady who begins rummaging in her purse AFTER everything is wrung up so she can use a 3rd party, out of state check, post dated with a library card as id.
As someone who cannot breathe through their nose, I’ve always eaten with my mouth open. However I try to keep the smacking to a minimum because (most of the time) it can be controlled. I often hold my hand in front of my mouth hiding a good amount of my chewing too. I always have to breathe while I chew. If I cover my mouth I start to feel light-headed in a couple minutes because I can’t get the air through my nose. I have CPAP due to sleep apnea and even when a machine is forcing oxygen into my body, none goes up my nose. Someone on here said to “handle your shit before you eat in public”. As a kid, doctors said it was all allergies and wouldn’t perform sinus surgery. I took allergy shots and guess what? They didn’t help. Now, as an adult, I currently don’t have the means to get sinus surgery. I remember the first time I heard mouthbreather as an insult and I have been so insecure about it since. I try to breathe through my nose but it just doesn’t work. My dad has the same problem. Thank you for listening to my impromptu venting about breathing problems and my experience in lack of oxygen.
They could be people like me. I got a lot of cavities between my teeth and this created an extreme sensitivity to hot and cold. This led me to often eat with my mouth open to avoid/reduce the pain.
I’ve made changes to my dental hygiene that have greatly reduced my sensitivity to hot and cold but I suffered with it for a couple of years and it’s hard to unlearn some things.
My ex used to eat with his face about an inch over his plate like a dog. And gobbled it just as fast.
When I finally said something to him out at a restaurant because I was so embarrassed, he said he ate with his face so close to the plate so the crumbs would fall in the plate and not his lap. He thought it was being mannerly.
So I think people are aware and choose for some reason to do it anyway. How could they not have even a slight awareness?
1. You’re correct it’s socially disgusting.
2. You have misophonia…look it up. It’s hell on earth.
It’s disgusting. I don’t even care what the “excuse” is. No want wants to hear you make noises that sound like someone fisting a mayonnaise jar. It pushes me towards rage.
My father used to do that intentionally at the dinner table every night. He did it because he hated us, his family, and it was his way to passively/aggressively taunt us.
Had another guy who was our bandleader out on the road do the same thing. He always had a sh*t-eating smirk on his face while he smacked his food or chewed gum knowing none of us would say anything and risk getting on the bad side of the “rock star”.
Yes, people know when they’re being rude, and they do it intentionally as a way to use stupidity and nuisance as a way to assert dominance. Their biggest thrill in life is to get one over on someone in the most petty, childish and passive/aggressive way possible and silently gloat about it.
It’s an invisible but powerful way to step on other’s boundaries. It re-assures them that they are powerful enough to be rude/offensive and get away with it. Many people are miserable and this kind of thing gives them some sick relief.
I have a seething hatred for anyone who does this kind of sh*t, petty as it may be.
I will usually eat with my mouth closed, but if my sinuses are blocked up and I can’t breath through my nose, I don’t really care how anyone feels about it. You could always say something to my face, but my comeback is going to sting…
Most people who do this cannot breathe through their nose due to any variety of issues. Its not a bad habit so much as it is necessary for them to continue breathing lol.
We’re all taught not to eat with your mouth open and not to talk with your mouth full. But then any food influencer on YouTube will try something and then proceed to review it while chewing.
I get not being able to close your mouth because you cannot breathe through your nose.
But when people do not just eat with their eyes open. There’s this friend who does not roll his noodles on his fork and will just pick some with his fork and stuff them into his mouth and slurp the long noodles until all of them are in his mouth. Sometimes he even chews on them so that they fall back into his plate.
It is outright disgusting!
It’s the same with people who intentionally slurp as loud as they can. And we’re not just talking soup here. Think cabbage rolls. Like, come on. Why are you using your lungs to put food in your mouth. You have perfectly good hands and a tongue. I have misophonia, and people slurping and eating with their mouth open is repugnant to me.
People with blocked sinuses have a hard time eating with their mouth closed. It’s more common than you think
Some people have allergies or sinus problems that makes breathing through their nose difficult.
my old coworker use to eat with her mouth open and it made me ill just being in the same room as her. My father smacks’ his lips while eating and that just makes my skin crawl. This is why I go to eat alone.
It could just be a bad habit but yes it is a lack of social awareness
And on TV and in films! I often wonder if it’s an ‘acting choice’ and supposed to be part of the characterisation or no one thinks to question it.
Disgusting—I agree. But to me it screams “bad parents.”
ETA I sympathize with the mouth breathers/sinus sufferers but some on here have the answer: they take small bites. I appreciate their thoughtfulness.
To appease parents and grandparents, I would hold my breath while chewing while I had seasonal allergies. That also annoyed them.
I don’t have seasonal allergies anymore so I don’t chew with my mouth open anymore. It’s a breathing issue.
Well, my autistic son smacks a lot, and yes he definitely lacks social awareness 😂
my MIL sure doesnt.
I’ve always stood on one leg like a flamingo when brushing my teeth. I never noticed until my 2nd wife and stepdaughter pointed it out and ranked on me mercilessly. Sometimes I’m conscious of it, but I can’t make myself stand there with both feet in the floor; it just feels wrong and uncomfortable.
I once had a friend who did it to make a political statement about something or other. It wasn’t the main reason I stopped being their friend, but it was on the list