8 foods you should not order on your first date
There are definitely foods you should not order on your first date. Think about it, you’ve spent over an hour deciding what to wear, tried out countless numbers of outfits, took two hours to do your hair because you want to look perfect. There are 8 foods you should not order on your first date.
So, why would you sabotage all this initial effort with your poor food choice? You’ve spent the last 3 hours getting doll up to make that first lasting impression. You definitely don’t want to order something that will give you bad breath, jack-o-lantern smile or splash your outfit.
Not saying that once you get to know each other you can’t go for that type of food, but not on your first date.
Here are 15 foods, no matter how delicious it is, you should not order on your first date.
1. Ribs
Oh yes, delicious but messy. This is just impossible to eat without bringing on caveman vibes. Holding those ribs in your hands and bitting into that meat and tearing it from the bone is nothing more satisfying, but way too risky for your first date. Do not order ribs.
2. Garlic
You’re thinking, but garlic is the ingredient that makes food so tasty. Yes and yes. Garlic adds so much to any dish and it adds garlic breath to your mouth. If you’re holding out for that first kiss, hold out on garlic too. Sad but for a worthy cause, right. Make that first kiss memorable in a good way.
3. Spaghetti
Good old favourite, spaghetti. Your first love in the culinary world and it takes you back to your childhood happy memories. Those happy memories will quickly reveal how messy eating spaghetti can be. Spaghetti is not easy to eat, not without some slurping and splashing. It’s dangerous and risky to order on your first date, maybe at a later stage on the courting. Maybe you’ll be safer ordering a gnocchi.
4. Picking the most expensive item in the menu
That can be a bold move. It can be perceived as rude unless you’re going Dutch or splitting the bill. Then you can have whatever your heart desires. If you expect your date to pick up the bill then you must be considered. You do not know their financial situation.
5. Spicy food
Don’t want to say first dates are without any flavour but too much flavour will have your body do undesired things in response. Who wants to take that risk on their first date. Sweating profusely is not the desired outcome on your first date.
6. Beans
Beans are healthy and full of fibre. If you choose to ignore that bean song every child knows, you might head into trouble. Not exactly sexy on your first date.
7. Massive burger
As delicious as they are, just picture how one goes about eating a burger. Not really neat. First, you have to open that mouth wide enough to bit into it. Then on your first bite, there’s sauce dripping everywhere and fall of the filling begins to escape the bun. Just too messy.
8. Trying something new
You are an adventurous eater and we admire you for it, but maybe not on your first date. Too much at stake here. Raw food or anything exotic. What if it all doesn’t agree with you? Spending your first date bringing you food back up is not what romance is all about.
On your first date is wise to keep your food simple and easy to eat. Afterall, your first date is so much more than the food experience.
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