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07 November 2006

I was just watching Alton Brown on Good Eats. Tonight he was doing frosting. One of the little factoid bumpers said that 69% of all Americans eat the frosting before the cake. I, perosnally, carefully separate the frosting from the cake. Eat the cake, then eat the frosting as a reward. (a process detailed photograpically here. yum.) Any idiosyncratic gustatory procedures you'd like to share with the studio audience?

post by: jonmc at: 19:41 | 24 comments

I eat the outside of Cadbury Creme Eggs first, saving the goo inside for last.

Yes, it takes some nimble fingers.

Yes, it's worth it.

posted by Greg Nog 07 November | 19:48

I tend to always eat a bite of the vegetable and the starch before I eat the protein, which is possibly more in the minor OCD vein. I also try to make sure that I have a balance of everything left, but that is more because I like the mixture of flavors.

I don't eat many ice-cream cones, but if conditions allow I like to eat the ice-cream down to the level of the (sugar) cone and then bite the bottom of the cone off, drain out the melted ice-cream and finish off the cone.

posted by Divine_Wino 07 November | 19:50

People eat the frosting first? How odd!

I don't eat the frosting, I carefully eat the cake away from it, leaving a wedge of sticky, tasteless sugar behind.

posted by Specklet 07 November | 19:58

I eat the heads off of animal crackers before I eat the bodies.

Sometimes I save the middle part of a piece of toast for the end because it's more buttery.

I try to eat french fries from the smallest to the largest.

When I'm eating corn on the cob, I eat from left to right and then rotate and anyone who does it differently is not to be trusted.

posted by paulus andronicus 07 November | 20:02

*boggles*

Speck, I've been known to buy cans of premade frosting and sit on the couch eating it with a spoon.

posted by jonmc 07 November | 20:03

I don't like frosting either. Most of it is awful and even when it's good, there's always too much of it.

And I call it icing.

posted by jrossi4r 07 November | 20:08

Wow, today I've discovered there are people who don't like the Stones and people who don't like frosting. It's a scary world out there.

*hides in bathtub with beer and shotgun*

posted by jonmc 07 November | 20:11

When I'm eating corn on the cob, I eat from left to right and then rotate and anyone who does it differently is not to be trusted.

Do you go "Ding!" before you rotate?

I think I related this once before here, but when I eat a baked potato it is an epic performance. I slice through the potato flesh several times with a knife until it is similar to mashed potato, scoop out this pulp, put in a generous wedge of butter, replace the pulp, and then do it all over again to the other half of the potato while the butter melts in the first half.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 07 November | 20:12

He was director of photography for the REM video, The One I Love. No kidding.

posted by getoffmylawn 07 November | 20:21

Do you go "Ding!" before you rotate?

Never out loud.

posted by paulus andronicus 07 November | 20:23

I like the really rich butter creme frosting on cake. But not the ridges/designs, just enough to lightly cover the top. I scrape off big chunks and they go down the drain.

I usually just avoid cake all together if it has the other bleh frosting on it, whatever it is called.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 07 November | 20:50

While I am not a routine-based cake eater, I do tend to eat about three bites of mainly edge of any Reese peanut butter cup, prior to eating the middle and remaining edge, which I feel affords a much better ratio of edge to middle.

posted by richat 07 November | 21:17

wife and I both eat cake and leave the frosting for last.

posted by terrapin 07 November | 22:50

Cake: Yes, eat the cake, frosting as reward. That is right and proper.

Sandwich: Eat crust first, good filling part last.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: Bite off half the solid chocolate walls, eat soft peanut butter part, then eat outer chocolate walls. Yes, that's what I said.

Corn: I don't eat r-to-l, I rotate around and eat a vertical circle, then go r-to-l.

French Fries: My weirdest habit, probably. I poke at each fry with a finger to determine the softness quotient. The softest fries are the most delectable. Those I eat first. Then I eat the too-hard, crispy fries only if I am still into tasting fry after the good softie ones are gone.

Great chat question, jon.

posted by Miko 07 November | 23:00

M&Ms, one by one, in singles-color order. Brown first, yellow last. Never two or more of same color left. It is a disgrace. Although not as big a disgrace as peanut M&Ms.

posted by carmina 07 November | 23:08

Oh, and chocolate bunny?

HEAD FIRST!!!

posted by Miko 07 November | 23:09

And I call it icing.

Frosting is the verb. Icing is the noun. When you frost the cake, you're putting the icing on!

If the frosting is nasty, I cut it off. I'm usually more concerned with that crappy fruit paste that's usually inside the cake. Umm, if I wanted fruit, I wouldn't be eating a pure mixture of sugary icing, starchy cake, and melty ice cream. Fruit is great, don't get me wrong, but when I am engaging in fatty face stuffening, the last thing I want is something even vaguely healthy anywhere near me (unless it's a tall glass of frosty skim milk).

posted by Eideteker 07 November | 23:29

Oh, and in case I wasn't clear, I eat the cake with the icing, and cookies and cream ice cream (Turkey Hill makes the best, I find) melting all over it. There is no dissection; there is only face to plate, hog trough style inhalation of sickening sweetness. Usually accompanied by a loud cry of ARR UMM NUMM NUMM!!!

posted by Eideteker 07 November | 23:32

Cake: frosting is last, duh.
Reese's Cups: they're only one bite. Chomp!
Corn on the cob: I don't eat it. Bleh.
Fries: softest to crispiest 'cause crispy is bestest!
Sandwich/M&Ms: just get eaten. Fussing with them is weird. 'Cause I said so.

jon: I've done that too (eaten cans of frosting), much to my shame.

posted by deborah 08 November | 01:02

Nobody's said it yet, because it's probably too obvious: the Original Oreo Plan of Attack™ (OOPA®):

1) Grasp top "cookie" with one hand.
2) Carefully twist top off "creme," taking care not to break top.
3) Wolf down top, "embossed" side up.
4) Carve artistic designs in "creme," using buckteeth as "tool."
5) Consume your "canvas," trying to make each bite match dental impressions.

Rinse (with ice-cold milk). Repeat.

posted by rob511 08 November | 02:23

Frosting is the verb. Icing is the noun.

Well, if we're being dogmatic about this - ice is the verb, icing is the noun. So there. No frosting here.

posted by altolinguistic 08 November | 04:44

i used to never eat the frosting, but now if it's a nice whipped or buttercream i'll eat it evenly with the cake! and it strikes me as weird to save the frosting as a reward to cake, don't you like cake? overall i think i prefer cake unfrosted.

and hmm weird food intake habits? when at home i tend to eat everything (even chips) with chopsticks and if I had my way every single cold beverage would be drunk with a straw, which always makes the person floating a straw in their can of soda.

i also like to carve watermelon rinds and write secret messages on bananas.

posted by Mrs.Pants 08 November | 08:31

Frosting is the verb. Icing is the noun. When you frost the cake, you're putting the icing on!

I have to disagree -- it's nothing more than a regional English difference. You frost or ice a cake, and eat frosting or icing, depending on where you grew up.

posted by Miko 08 November | 09:53

Well, that's what I get for being raised all over the country. I like my way just fine.

posted by Eideteker 08 November | 20:22

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