Dating Tips

5 foods to avoid eating on your date

So, you’ve got a date lined up and it involves going out for a meal. Meals are a great way of getting to know someone, but if you’re keen to make a great impression, it may be best to avoid certain foods. Here’s why!

1. Spaghetti

It’s a lovely Italian favourite and much-enjoyed pasta dish, but unless you’re totally au fait with twisting and twirling spaghetti around your fork in the true Italian way, it’s best avoided. Eaten gracefully, spaghetti is fine, but if you’re less adept at dealing with it, you could find yourself in nightmare date alley.

Imagine the scene: you’re eating spaghetti, chatting up your date and trying to look really cool. As you attempt to manoeuvre your next mouthful of spaghetti onto your fork, it all goes out of control. The spaghetti slips, the sauce flicks and your calm composure is lost. Flicking sauce on yourself is bad enough, but it gets worse if it goes anywhere near your date. No, spaghetti is definitely one of the top five foods to avoid if you’re on a date.

2. Garlic

Unless your date is also happily consuming garlic-based dishes, or foods such as garlic mushrooms or garlic bread, then it’s another best avoided date food. You don’t want to end up reeking of garlic for the rest of the evening and, if you’re hoping for a kiss (or two!), then your chances could be seriously dashed by the garlic lingering on your breath.

3. Hot and spicy curry

In a similar vein to garlic, it’s also a good idea to give a wide berth to a hot and spicy curry, or at least on your first date. The smell of curry is well known to stay with you and, if you want to make a memorable good first impression and not one that’s based on the smell of what you ate, it’s best to not choose a spicy curry.

4. Seafood that involves shell removal

Even if you love seafood and can’t get enough of it, it may be best to avoid eating seafood that involves shell removals on your date. That includes plates of food that come with the seafood still in the shells, like paella or other dishes. Although you may enjoy picking apart the crab shells or pulling out the lobster meat, doing that at the table with a potential new date isn’t the most alluring thing.

Not only is it cumbersome and messy, but you’ll also end up with an extra plate on the table – full of empty seafood shells – and as many tables for two aren’t oozing with space, this could take up valuable hand-holding room. So definitely think twice before you order and avoid the seafood on your date.

5. Greasy or messy foods

As much as you may be yearning for a plate of greasy chips, it’s not the best choice for a date. As a rule, it’s best to avoid any obviously greasy foods, as the grease could easily get transferred to your hands. If you’re touching your date, they’ll not end up too impressed by the feel of your greasy hands.

Likewise, any obviously messy foods, like a burger that may squish out of the bun, spare ribs that involve being picked up to eat or corn on the cob that could get stuck in your teeth, are all best to avoid eating on your date. After all, you want to be remembered as someone who was fun to be with – not someone who made a mess or spent the remainder of the time picking food out of their teeth!

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