Do you mind if your foods are touching on your plate?

[m1469]

I know of somebody who would purposely serve his child's dinner with all of the different portions of food scattered around the plate, touching each other, mixing into each other, and, on top of that, would sometimes strike up an argument with his wife at the dinner table, just to see if his little boy would react by putting all of his food in order to deal with the chaos.

Maybe piano teachers should do something like that.  Serve everything up in some kind of confusing and disorderly way, and then on top of it, create chaos all around just to make a student resort to the piano and music as a form of order  .

At first the little boy actually organized his plate because he was sensitive to the situation and, out of love for his father, took the cue, but he eventually stopped out of love, as well, because it was a repetitive rut.  He wanted to open the possibility for a higher understanding between them.

[j_menz]

Is everyone you know completely nuts? 

[fleetfingers]

I know of somebody who would purposely serve his child's dinner with all of the different portions of food scattered around the plate, touching each other, mixing into each other, and, on top of that, would sometimes strike up an argument with his wife at the dinner table, just to see if his little boy would react by putting all of his food in order to deal with the chaos.

  That is messed up. Poor little boy. I wish I could give him a hug, an orderly plate, and a loving environment in which to eat.

[m1469]

That is messed up. Poor little boy. I wish I could give him a hug, an orderly plate, and a loving environment in which to eat.

Well, that's obviously not realistic... this world is so messed up, isn't it a shame for somebody to even want that?  Not sure what you are even getting at, exactly.  Perhaps it is much better, if somebody is looking for a particular aspect of life, to give them rather a contrast or an opposite to what they are looking for ... don't you think?  Or is there another way?

[fleetfingers]

Or is there another way?

Yes, see my post above. I listed three things.

[m1469]

Yes, see my post above. I listed three things.

Oh.  For some reason I detected sarcasm in that.

[fleetfingers]

In my first post? No, not at all! Sorry! The story bothered me. I'm sure your friend is a nice person, but I don't think it's right to do that to children. I know you were applying it to piano teaching, but I couldn't get past the story and really did feel sorry for the boy!

[Bob]

I know of somebody who would purposely serve his child's dinner with all of the different portions of food scattered around the plate, touching each other, mixing into each other, and, on top of that, would sometimes strike up an argument with his wife at the dinner table, just to see if his little boy would react by putting all of his food in order to deal with the chaos.

Sounds like the father has too much time on hands.  Don't just server the food.... Serve it, and then mix it up a bit?  That's weird. 

Dad, stirring food on plate.
Kid:  What the heck Dad?  Just give me some food.  Why the heck are you stirring it around?
Mom:  Just give him his plate Dear...
Dad:  Wait!  I want to see his reaction...


Years later...
Child:  Dad, you remember when I was a kid, and you wouldn't just give me food?  You'd stir it up first, just to see my reaction?
Dad:  Yes...?
Child:  Here's your medication.



*Bob wonders if this father is a professor.*

[rachmaninoff_forever]

That's a thing?

People won't eat their food if they're touching?

That's weak as hell!

[Bob]

I know a few people who keep their food separate. I don't really care.

I remember in school kids who put corn on their pizza and said it all ends up like that anyway.

What if... Your listening styles of music started blending and overlapping and the edges?  Or got mixed up?

[swagmaster420x]

lol im azn, and the whole point of rice is to mix ur food in it hardcore

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Imagine if we wouldn't eat food if they touched each other back in the day when we were cavemen.

That's goofy as hell.

[lostinidlewonder]

Music is a muddle of mess for most people anyway, a teacher is there to help them work out how to sort it out.

[outin]

I don't get this thread...The more mixed up my food is on my plate the better...Easier to eat fast and it's all going to be mixed up in my belly anyway...I really don't mind some chaos on my plate...or in music really

[m1469]

I don't get this thread...The more mixed up my food is on my plate the better...Easier to eat fast and it's all going to be mixed up in my belly anyway...I really don't mind some chaos on my plate...or in music really

I also know somebody who blended all of his food ... in a blender.  Chicken - in.  Potatoes - in.  Carrots - in they go!  Everything together.  A whole meal in a smoothie (this is serious).  Apparently it's the easiest way to digest it.  It sounds like perhaps you should give it a whirl!

[Bob]

Is meat the same as the vegetable and the same as dessert?  I doubt anyone would say they are.  I doubt anyone would say they're equal.

And people are keeping them separate?  Separate... but... unequal?   

Sounds like someone's a foodist.  It's foodism.

[outin]

I also know somebody who blended all of his food ... in a blender.  Chicken - in.  Potatoes - in.  Carrots - in they go!  Everything together.  A whole meal in a smoothie (this is serious).  Apparently it's the easiest way to digest it.  It sounds like perhaps you should give it a whirl!

Yes, why not...pizza smoothies sounds just great!

[quantum]

Just thinking...

Would you order a pita, then disassemble it into its constituent parts in order to consume it?

[Bob]

Whoever these foodist are, you'll freeze them in thought with that kind of idea. 

A taco is a whole unit.   And it's meant to be a unit, not separate.

It probably matters if the food types are different.    Taco plus fudge... Incompatible.