Chewing With Your Mouth Open
October 18, 2020
You don’t want to be the person at a restaurant chewing with your mouth open, and getting food everywhere. People who chew with their mouth open are lacking some table manners, or they don’t care about food potentially coming out of their mouth. Imagine if someone is eating dinner with their girlfriend’s parents, but they chew with their mouth open. That would leave such a bad impression on her parents. Nobody wants to see food fly out of your mouth.
According to Dr. Heidi Grant, chewing with your mouth open is the normal way you are supposed to chew. Research shows that chewing with your mouth open makes you feel more powerful, and that you are less sensitive to what is happening around you. So, even though you might find it disrespectful, it makes the person chewing with their mouth open perceive themselves as having power in the scene. Chewing food with your mouth closed is more satisfying and much easier to enjoy. You can also potentially eat less when you chew with your mouth open, because you enjoy your food more and are more satisfied when your mouth is closed.
Eating with your mouth open might be the right way to eat, but it’s not the respectful way to eat.
Maggie • Mar 16, 2022 at 7:23 am
I did an experiment and chewed with my mouth open for a few meals. Amazingly my digestive problems were much better. My food was a lot finer in a shorter period of time than with my mouth closed. I’m wondering if chewing with our mouths closed because of etiquette has actually harmed us? Believe me, open mouth chewers irritate me immensely. The question is, would it irritate us if we hadn’t been taught to chew with our mouths closed?
Ki • Oct 1, 2021 at 6:17 am
^Lucas just proved their point, “theyre too stupid to SENSE that they inflict irritation on others” yeah they arent sensitive to your irritability and everything around them, which in turn makes them feel powerful because if theyre still doing it long enough to irritate you, that means no one has told them to stop so they assume no one cares(which they arent sensitive enough to notice if someone does or doesnt) and/or feel no ones even gonna try to tell them to(which is the feeling as though theyre powerful), but that doesn’t mean they have it. There also many sources saying that chewing with your mouth open can make you feel more powerful.
Lucas Groves • Jun 20, 2021 at 7:21 am
This might the stupidest chunk of writing I’ve ever read. It pretends to be an article of some kind, but is just a series of inane statements. “power in the scene”? What are you talking about? Open-mouthed eaters are selfish and brainless; they are too stupid to sense that they inflict a needless irritation on others, and are comfortable in that stupidity. Why would we look for complicated ideas about perceptions of “power”? And eating with your mouth open has nothing to do with “food flying everywhere;” that’s pointless farcical imagery. Most people who eat with their mouths open are used to doing it, they don’t tend to spill the food out. I’ve known individuals who had difficulty keeping food in their mouth as they chew, but that’s a specific problem in itself.