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• Vic

  2 October 2009, 11:39AM

  Vic

  Not exactly, but I'm still traumatised from the smell, sight and sound of a man eating cloves and cloves of raw garlic on the tube. Ugh. I changed tube lines.

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• cesia

  2 October 2009, 11:57AM

  cesia

  Thank god it's not only me! I'm absurdly sensitive to food noises, but only when I'm not eating as well. To this day I dread staying over at someone's house as the sound of hearing one or more people slurping and chomping their way through bowls of cereal leaves me feeling nauseous. And yet I love cooking and eating, and take real pleasure out of a shared meal.... Perhaps it's just my body's way of telling me that actually I want to dig in as well?

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• Stavros

  2 October 2009, 12:32PM

  Stavros

  I wouldn't say i suffer from a phobia as such, but i hate the sound of others eating! I used to live with a girl who would always (and I mean always) eat with her mouth open, subjecting you not only to the sound of every bite, but the sight of it as well! The number of times I had to leave the room... Having said that, I reckon when i'm eating certain types of food (pizza surprisingly included) I make the odd slurp - I should count myself lucky that i've bnot recieved a frying pan round the head!

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• sioden

  2 October 2009, 2:16PM

  sioden

  I don't have a phobia of hearing people eat...but I DESPISE noisy eaters. It's bad manners. I have a friend who would make noises when she ate. I had to tell her to stop. It's the open mouthed eating I hate, it sounds like a baby sucking milk (which is OK because it's a baby and it's cute). But when you learn to eat you should learn to close your mouth! I still have one friend that I can't stand sitting next to when she eats, and I can't tell her because it's been too long..... drives me crazy

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• the kitkat

  2 October 2009, 2:40PM

  the kitkat

  Slurping and munching are two things that annoy me no end. I feel my blood pressure rising when someone slurps on their coffee. Read my rant here http://thekitkat.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/a-horse-with-a-turnip/

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• the kitkat

  2 October 2009, 2:41PM

  the kitkat

  http://thekitkat.wordpress.com hmmm, how do I hyperlink!?

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• Mark

  2 October 2009, 2:43PM

  Mark

  Great post! I would only really have taken exception had aI caught a whiff of the egg sandwich. Yuck! But my old flatmate would definitely sympathise with you. He is phobic of the "lip smacking" louder eaters engage in. This, of course, was a red rag to the bull and I would regularly come up behind him eating an apple or something in an exaggerated manner. This was enough to drive him from the room in apparent agony, leaving me king of the sofa. Moo HA HA!

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• miniminx

  2 October 2009, 4:22PM

  miniminx

  i live in constant paranoia of my boyfriend going mad at me every time i 'bite the spoon' when eating soup. apparently it's bad table manners, but sheesh, i have a small mouth! i can't stand noisy eaters either, but it's food breath that really makes me gag. someone should have outlawed coffee in the teacher's room at my old school!

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• Aedara

  3 October 2009, 11:26AM

  Aedara

  I've been going around for years thinking it was just me who couldn't stand the sound of people eating. Every time I go home and visit my family I desperatly want to eat in a different room from them because I honestly don't understand how anyone can make so much noise eating. But at least they keep their mouths shut when eating (unless they're talking at the same time as chewing, the worst crime ever in my book) so many people don't even bother with that any more. I have to stick around in the same room when my housemate is eating because I feel so rude otherwise but I'm usually cringing all the way through and have to turn the television on or something. I think I'm probably hyper-sensitive but hearing someone eat really can be a hideous experience. But then sometimes I sit there and wonder, I wonder if people are thinking the same thing while I'm eating.

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• myra1984

  3 October 2009, 11:44AM

  myra1984

  Thank god I'm not the only one! I feel much better about the seemingly irrational anger and offense I instantly take when someone dares to open a bag of crisps next to me on the train. I find myself scowling and giving them disaproving looks, but they carry on and I can only assume they have no idea what they're doing is so irritating and wonder what my problem is! Don't even get me started on chewing gum...

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• Emily

  3 October 2009, 8:37PM

  Emily

  The worst is when you're watching a film or a play and at a key moment in the action someone along the row starts rummaging in their bag, then gets out a bag of rustly wrapped sweets, unwraps them painfully slowly, then sucks and crunches loudly. I always glare at them (I learned from my schoolteacher mother) but it usually has no effect

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• busylizzie

  4 October 2009, 1:22PM

  busylizzie

  Oh! dear, this is something that has never bothered me. I never even think about whether someone is making a noise when they eat. But....now I've read all the comments perhaps I will look out for it and it will start to annoy me. What if I can never have lunch with someone again because they slurp their soup? I'm starting to feel paranoid already.

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• Sam

  5 October 2009, 2:12PM

  Sam

  It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but early on in our relationship I noticed that my (now) husband would leave the room suddenly when someone else was eating. I commented on him rushing off when his Dad was eating an apple, and he admitted that he can't stand to hear anyone chewing. I always thought he was weird, but it seems he's not the only one!

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• Clare

  5 October 2009, 3:57PM

  Clare

  I can't stand hearing other people eat, even though I know I am guilty of the occasional mmmmmm when eating something delicious. I have to leave the room when my mum drinks tea, I cant stick the sound of swallowing urgh.

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• Jo_Cooks

  7 October 2009, 10:11AM

  Jo_Cooks

  Two things drive me mad... when someone licks every single one of their fingers in order having eaten something sticky (yuck, please wash your hands!) and chewing gum. Everything about it.

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• StormyRaincloud

  9 October 2009, 4:39PM

  StormyRaincloud

  It irritates me no end but I have learned to live with it because my husband has a sinus problem and can only eat with his mouth open or he can't breath. It's not a fixable problem either. I used to mention it when we first got together but it makes him so self conscious and he apologises and then loses his satisfaction in the food, it just isn't worth it. And to think that I nearly didn't take another date with him because it annoyed me so much, I persevered and I'm very glad I did, even if it does still annoy me sometimes, I know he can't help it.

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• aimathews

  15 October 2009, 9:11PM

  aimathews

  I don't mind people making a few noises of enjoyment when eating their food but I can't stand it when people eat in an unpleasant manner as it puts me off my food. One of my pet hates is my dad slurping his spaghetti. It's so annoying!

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• Mary A

  16 October 2009, 3:30PM

  Mary A

  I don't think public transport and eating should really mix! Although I have been starving on the way home from work and had to succumb to the odd bag of crisps - but I am so self-conscious when eating, imagining all the people on the opposite side of the carriage judging me! I used to have this housemate at uni who, during the exam period (she didn't have any exams), would come down to the kitchen while a couple of us were revising together at the kitchen table and literally slurp and slosh and chew her way loudly through her cereal. Cereal!! v. annoying!

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• ginabreslin

  16 October 2009, 3:43PM

  ginabreslin

  I have this problem too but I only know of one other person with it and he has to eat by himself. I don't know where it comes from but I've tried looking it up on the internet to see if there is a scientific term for it (hatredofmouthnoisosis type thing) and have wondered if treatment by hypnosis might help as it's quite serious when you steer away from training seminars or the cinema in fear that someone there will be obliviously chewing gum...or loudly chomping on popcorn.

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• 3vista

  20 October 2009, 6:16AM

  3vista

  I have a really serious probelm with not being able to stand the site and sound of people eating...it's beyond an anoyance....it makes me feel so out of control and weird at the same time. Family gatherings in particular Christmas kill me . Knowing that there are others out there with the same issues does comfort me a bit..... How do we get over it..I've been fighting thisall my living memory...does anyone have any relief measures

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