Do you hate the sound of chewing?

[Constance]

Hello there Avalonians :yo:

Do you hate the sound of chewing? Find out the possible explanation for this and why you are not alone :bigsmile:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_NkC5_tyE

[Intranuclear]

Or, more likely, people who chew loud are simply unsophisticated animals who simply don't care about other people around them. Very much like cows.

[Ewan]

Or, more likely, people who chew loud are simply unsophisticated animals who simply don't care about other people around them. Very much like cows.

You just called my wife an unsophisticated animal.

:ROFL:

[kirolak]

Hahaha, but I also hate the sound of chewing - it seems so rude, so in-your-face. . . . I am convinced that we should chew with our lips closed & not impose our slurping, lip-smacking & grunts of pleasure on our neighbours. I'm always horrified if I make any sort of noise when I am eating, & apologize to anyone near me. One of the main things young Buddhist monks were taught in Thailand when I lived there, was to chew with their mouths closed as part of mindful eating.

[Ewan]

My wife is Thai, and she stayed in a monastery for 6 months. Those Buddhists were obviously of the unmindful sect. :(

[Marikins]

Hahaha,I went to a Mindfulness weekend and all meals were conducted in Silence. They would ring a bell when we were allowed to exchange a positive thought with the person next to us, then another bell to be silent again. All I remember is the sound of great mounds of greens being stuffed into their mouths, extremely loud chewing, then slurping of bean soup. Endless loud chewing followed by endless loud farting! It was these least mindful or centered I have ever been in my life. I decided I would never go back (that and the Mindfulness Walk where I was firmly gripped by a mindful woman who thought I was shy and could not walk by myself for a freaking hour - I'm okay really, get away).

[kirolak]

Strange people the Thais - I loved living there (apart from the heat). There was always one set of public behaviour, but at home, no holds were barred & the true person was released! I remember a relative of my husband's, a perfect model of soft spoken decorum - but at home she was a virago who shrieked & yowled at her kids, even kicking them!

[Althena]

I had a Chinese housemate in college and every time he ate he slurpped instead of chewing the food making a horrible noise. When he sat down at the table we all got up and left...

[Zillah]

I don't mind the sound of chewing so much, but it's the sound of forced air out of one's nose accompanied by a whistle that drives me bonkers!

[DeDukshyn]

Or, more likely, people who chew loud are simply unsophisticated animals who simply don't care about other people around them. Very much like cows.

No, some people have a serious problem with normal chewing sounds. I live with someone who used to kick her dog every time it tried to drink water, because she couldn't stand the sound. This same person yells angrily at me even for chewing normally with my mouth closed. If she's hears 1db of any type of liquid, swishing, or crunching sound, anger and hatred erupt in her, then the verbal diarrhea spills out infecting the entire vicinity. Yells and screams at the kids, no one is allowed to make any normal "eating sounds" or they WILL pay hell.

Your comment is leaning toward indicating that you have this disorder - it's the emotional overreaction part that gives it away ;)

[Johnnycomelately]

Hi Ewan and DeDukshyn, greetings from nine years into the future. Yous are the only commenters there that l know.

What a tense little thread! Wacky 2:45 OP vid that kicked it off. “Misophonia” sounds like something Big Pharma would make up, but your stories give me pause.

I found this vid about a history of chewing gum, in my tabs, and finally watched it. Then I ended up here, looking for where to share it.

I hope to re-brand this thread as a place to talk about chewing in ALL its mystery, including its glory.

Lots of range in the topic, including not chewing lol. I remember my mom admonishing “John don’t wolf your food down, chew it properly!”.

And, in more than one old-west (North America) book story from my youth, aboriginal women were sometimes described as having the task of chewing hides for processing into leather, and meat in the process of making pemmican. Said their teeth wore right down.

So here’s the vid. I have rarely used chewing gum, and not for decades now. One thing in the vid I did try, was Spruce gum (~7:00 / 17:43). Mine came right off the trees, and was reliable and pleasant enough. For sure I never used it enough to get max benefits, just took it as a taught taste test. Was surprised to learn that that was produced and marketed commercially for a while.

Hey Everybody, nobody I know, doesn’t chew. Let’s chew the fat on this.

A History of Chewing Gum

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

1.48M subscribers

41,271 views, 12.09.24

“ A century ago, on December 9, 1924 William Wrigley secured the trademark for Wrigley's gum. So it seems appropriate to take a bite out of the history of those bits of foil covered joy. And the surprising history of gum might, well, blow your mind.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFPUtks4IM

[Mike Gorman]

Mastication, some people have a very active salivary response and that wet sound can be unpleasant - it is funny but some kinds of appreciative eating are not annoying, I suppose it is highly contextual!

[grapevine]

Websites online give the advice to chew (each mouthful) 32 times before swallowing, which is bound to cause gulping, air swallowing and chomping. Making food as small as possible - ie. soup - causes inadvertent slurping, unless you went to Finishing School of course and mastered the art of silent lip pursing. Interestingly there are many descriptive words for the sound of eating, none of which are silent:
Here are just 11 from Grammerly:

Munch
Crunch
Slurp
Gobble
Chomp
Guzzle
Om nom nom
Smack
Champ
Chew
Gnaw
https://grammarhow.com/eating-sounds-words/

[Johnnycomelately]

I eat almost all of my food with a spoon. Crunch add-to-hot-water noodles in the package, cut or break up any veg or meat in a dish. Even on a sandwich, no big chunks.

I never thought about the sound. Sucks to be those triggered folks. How do they manage to get their own food down? Oof. I bet they eat with Bluetooth headphones on like me, watching YouTube vids at home where their gross sounds are not judged. Or the radio cranked, or have loud kids or whatever.