Okay, here's today's tough question. You're having dinner with a group of friends. You are at a restaurant. Thai. Each person has ordered a dish, and the waiters have just brought out all the meals.Do you want to share, or just have you're own dish, the one that you chose?
If you ask me, it's pretty obvious. I want my own food, to eat at my own leisure. That dish I chose? I chose that for a reason. I like it. There was a good reason why I didn't choose that greasy vego one with the fat slimy noodles. It's rubbish. Why do I have to suffer someone elses' dud choice while they reap the rewards with my thoughtful, wise choice?
The case is most clear with your Massaman Beef. This is a lovely dish, but it comes with about three chunks of meat and a couple of potatoes. If I order that, I want those three bits of meat. All three. But no, I get forced by peer pressure to share those three pieces with about seventeen other people. And those happy-go-lucky sharers are always the ones who get your meal first, and ravage it before you even get a look in. Curse them.
Now I have copped a lot of flack for my stance on sharing. I've been mocked and tsk-tsked. I've been called selfish or greedy. How dare I want to eat what I have chosen from the menu. The nerve!
The thing with sharers is that they are very self-righteous. They see themselves as pretty highly evolved. Oh, food means nothing to me, what's mine is yours. Help yourself to my dud slimy noodles. I'm not very hungry, I might just order a soup.But then they polish off two of my three chunks of precious Massaman. What they really mean is, what's yours is mine. Curse them.
To be honest, I have eased up. I hang around sharers, so have come to adapt. Changed out of regard for the weaker brother. I may even be passed off as a sharer myself. But still, deep down I know what is right and fair. I may smile at you as I pass over my Massaman, but later on I sneak out and let down your tyres.
Be warned.
15 comments:
I completely agree with you and it is amazing the amount of flack you get from people for not wanting to share. BACK OFF AND SHARE AMONGST YOURSELVES SINCE YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH! I'll be laughing when you get left with some bamboo shoots and bits of carrot from the plate you ordered.
We don' judge you for wanting to share and you shouldn't judge us for not wanting to.
We should make a t-shirt or something.
And then wear it out. At a thai restaurant.
is that you Em? unbelievable, i knew you would have a word to say.
I'm a sharer and I'm proud of it.
Sharing allows you to taste new things, plus you get the added joy of variety.
After all, variety is the spice of life :)
how are you anyway Em? :)
I knew a sharer would come back with the 'variety' argument
well what's wrong with variety?
Sharing is stupid. Enough said.
But since there are so many negatives to the shared meal I think I'll keep going.
You never feel full after a shared meal, even if you miraculously do manage an equivalent amount to a 'selfish meal'.
There's something about eating lots of little servings that just doesn't fill you up - kinda like when you go to a function and it's 'finger food' only.
I love to feel full. Bring on my own portion and the rest of you sharers can go hungry.
Jesus shared. Be like Christ :)
Benno...mate, there are ways around the going without scenario in a sharing aituation.. A quick head count, hopefully some insight into people's eating habits, e.g. you and me and then order two of the same. let the leeches leech and bask in the decadent glory of over supply!!! Sometimes it costs a bit more in the washup, but its all about being satisfied at the end of a meal!!!!
We need to visit a little indian place in Newtown, you and us...
Dishes that CAN be shared and so much cheaper than anywhere else...
Sam, I'm hearing you brother. It's all about being full. I want to relax and eat at my own pace, not wolf it down in case the supply runs dry.
Christine, Jesus shared, but He also had the power to make a bit of bread and fish into a feast for thousands. Until I have that power, I need to make sure I can be full.
Pete, yeah let's go the Indian. Sounds tops. See, I don't mind sharing in say, a group of four. You can keep track of the situation. More than five, and your fighting a losing battle. Yeah, a headcount is important. The most annoying sharers are the ones where your in a group of twenty eight, and they say, 'well, two dishes and a soup should do'. In your dreams, sharebear.
christine, you make me laugh:)
I'm all for sharing - variety is great!
And I unashamedly eat chips off Sam's plate...much to his distaste. I remember the first time we went out for dinner and I asked to try some of his dish (and of course offered a bite of mine). He looked at me like he was a magpie and I was trying to steal his babies.
Sharing is the most enjoyable thing I can think of - it is a pleasing thing seeing others enjoy what you have chosen.
Ha! That's funny Soph:)
Dad, in some ways we are similar, in other ways very different!
I get order envy, so I'm a sharer!
Ben - you need to give up going to restaurants that serve 'meat' dishes with only 3 pieces of meat and find places with proper serving sizes. Problem solved.
I don't really have that problem and am not sure if it is a "Minnesota Nice" thing. No one would offend others by taking something that another person might want. An example is that no one will touch the last slice of pizza or the last brownie. You might ask a couple of times to make sure no one else wants it.
Or it could just be that I order the mock duck or tofu platter that no one wants to try :)
exactly!!
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