What Not To Order On A Date - Halitosis ?

Your date looks at you and smiles and you think it is love

Actually, there is spinach on your teeth. You think a beer is a cool drink to break the ice, but a little later you find yourself burping and your date smirking. The ice cream you slurped is all over your tee and sadly your date thinks it is messy and not cute. These are just some of the first date food disasters that landed a few youngsters in a soup! So, what should be on your date menu? Something that’s simple to bite into, doesn’t play dirty with your breath and is light on the tummy, say the experienced. We bring to you a date food guide complied by the city youth.

“Any dish prepared with onion and garlic is a complete no-no on a date,” says Christopher Peter, a fund-raising professional with a not-for-profit group. He smiles, “It is important to smell good when you get close to your date.” “Bad breath can put off anybody,” nods Vikram Singh, a banker. Also, you should avoid any kind of food that you aren’t comfy eating! “I am a completely chaat-papri, golgappas and chutney person but I’ve never eaten golgappas on a date,” says Gurleen, a student of MBA.

“I’ve been with my guy for three years now, yet I find it embarrassing to be caught in a situation where my hands and mouth is all dirty with chutney.” Neeraj, a second-year college student says, “Eating with chopsticks is challenging, I prefer sticking to the fork than struggling with noodle strands.” The sight of cheese dripping out of one’s mouth disgusts Swati Pant, a doctor. She says, “A burger or pizza with extra cheese and mayonnaise tastes yum but is difficult to handle. No paper napkin can come to your rescue when you’re eating and talking simultaneously.”

A die-hard non-vegetarian Anshu Malik, a banker, steers away from non-veg when on a date. “The only way to enjoy a leg piece is to hold it in your hand and gorge on. But on a date you’ve got to be all sophisticated and use a fork and knife even to eat chicken,” she quips. And crabs too come in the avoidable list. “To begin with, they are so difficult to cut and then it is a time consuming dish,” says Vikram. Bhavna Gupta, a journo, shares another ‘chicken’ story. “I once ordered a juicy chicken leg on a date and the look in my guy’s eyes said I need to attend a finishing school,” she chuckles. “Boneless dishes are the solution,” says Neha Mittal, who works in a NGO. She adds, “Using your hands can get quite messy.”

Neha avoids heavy meals and even beer on a date. “You don’t want to embarrass both yourself and your partner with all the burping,” she laughs. As for Priyank Rastogi, a senior strategy consultant with an IT firm, he avoids North Indian cuisine on a date. And, why? “Consuming Indian dishes requires a lot of attention. One can eat sophisticatedly with hands too, but then all the attention is on the food and not the date!” he reasons. Now, as long as the focus is on the date and not on the food, nobody is complaining, right?

Source - Times Of India

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