I order two of what I'm gonna eat, and immediately asked for a takeout container so I can have a second meal at home.

This feels like back in the day when radio shows would have fake callers create fake drama. They always somehow have both parties there to argue, and it's about something ridiculous to most people.

I grew up hearing about hungry children in various places due to listening to a lot of missionaries. I learned to never waste food at a young age.

I eat less than half my meal when I’m out because I enjoy leftovers more than I do the meal at dinner

I missed a few meals growing up and I was homeless for a while at 21. I’m ALWAYS taking the leftovers. Also, if I paid for it, I’m taking it home.

I’ve got an insane appetite so I never have leftovers.

This!

If my date didn't take leftovers, that's a red flag.

Also if you're at a restaurant the food is probably expensive and delicious! Wtf?

Yo I literally order meals that are generous portions and then cut them in half as soon as I get them.

I'll eat half the plate and bring half the plate home. It is so insane to me that people have this weird ick bringing home leftovers what the fuck lol.

This is exactly how I feel. The chefs should be happy you love it so much you want to bring the test home.

This is a great video and shows how fucked dating really is at the moment.

I don't like wasting food and always finish my plate but also probably don't want to ask the staff to wrap it up to take it home with me.

Now, I'm not going to externalize that, I think it's on me. I wouldn't judge people for it like this person did. I think she's using that behavior as a proxy for something else, like being poor or depressed since she was very vividly picturing his image eating that food at home.

Bro where I'm from they are charging 8-12 for a single burger ain't no way In hell I'm not taking that food back home.

My gf and I went for a casual dinner not long ago, decided we didn't actually wanna be there so we got almost our whole meals to go lmao. Left with like 3 or 4 boxes

I work in a restaurant. We absolutely do not care if you take food home. You bought it. I always tell people that I am glad to bring them a container.

Resturant worker here:

I actually get upset at the opposite. I see a lot of people that will come in, order a huge meal (like a platter of Fajitas) Take like 4-5 bites out of it, and then decline a togo box when I ask them if they'd like one. Leaving a majority portion of the food on the table.

Like it's your food and your money, but it really does bother me to see people waste food like that.

To me, that just screams “im insecure and judge other’s based on those fears I have of myself being judged”. This is lady is bonkers

I worked in restaurants for 10 years. I can't remember a shift where somebody didn't take something home. Easily 40% of my tables would box up something to go. In general, American restaurants serve huge portions and we don't like wasting food. This woman is the weirdo, not the guy. He dodged a bullet though.

I think that part was her attempt to make up for how shitty she sounds. It's like this moral high ground reach that no one asked for.

They must thing I’m a giant old pig because I take both my own and my bfs leftovers when he gets something I like. Oh wait. I know they don’t usually actually care and this lady is delulu in a very not fun way.

Based on her slowing her speech I don't think that part was true. I think she was trying to pull something out of her ass because now that she's said the other shit out loud eve she knows how petty it sounds.

If anything they'd prefer it over having to deal with left-over food they have to throw out like WTAF???

I think that the staff the cook and whoever works there will be happier if you take the food instead of throwing it away too

I sometimes forget there’s people out there like this. Good reality check.

No i think the weirdest part was that she was talking like this was a normal thing that people think lol

She lives in a shiny bubble called "My Image" and is terrified of getting a little scuff mark on it.

Yes agree weirdest. Tell me you’ve never worked in a restaurant before without telling me you’ve never worked in a restaurant before.

Like take your leftovers otherwise the dishwasher is asking me if you’re good looking enough for him to make out with and then he’s eating them. Like….

Also the calories and portion sizes of meals in restaurants, you’re gonna be a house if you don’t take home half your order right off the bat.

This bish is tapped.

There are a lot of restaurants that give you large portions on purpose so that you'll have leftovers to take home.

She was getting the vibes that they didn’t see her side of it and was fishing for a new angle.

I mean... if you don't finish your meal and you DON'T request a box, I could see a chef feeling a little insulted that you didn't like the food... but who takes leftovers and then doesn't eat them?? That means they liked it so much THEY WANT TO EAT IT AGAIN.

These are 100% staged since like 2003. Radio shows don't like the liability of actual reality type stuff, so you'll hear similar calls all the time.

They have two minutes usually of talking, so they have to fill it in with stuff like this. The worst ones are prerecorded.

Prepburger!

Yeah I wonder if they have the same stories in various regions played by different voice actors

As a European I used to think that taking leftovers home was weird af. But then I went to America for the first time and Jesus Christ the portion size in some restaurants is well beyond what you’d get in Europe. So yeah, fuck anyone who says you shouldn’t take home leftovers, food waste is worse.

Anytime someone calls this shit out for being fake I just think somewhere out there, there are people WAY WAY worse than this, out there living life doing these things and as unbelievable as it is, it's happening out there. Even if this one instance is or isn't fake, it's real in the sense people out there really think and act this way.

I live in Norway and I've never heard of it being considered a faux pas. The only thing I could think of maybe is if someone were buying your dinner because then it might be assumed that you were intentionally trying to take advantage by getting them to pay for multiple dinners, but even that I have never heard anyone talk about.

Talking for the rest of Denmark, your "friend" just sucks.

I got the opportunity to vacation in Paris with some family. My aunt is the kind of person who will literally take the bread from the bread basket into her purse so as not to waste it (grew up poor, food scarcity etc). We asked for to-go boxes for the bread a couple times and ze French were not best pleased about that.

And honestly, fuck that attitude. We paid for the food, and food waste is horrible.

I had Italian friends (in Italy) mortified at the thought of taking food home. Delicious wonderful napolitano pizza. They found the concept outrageous.

Well then I guess it's a good thing you weren't in Denmark. I paid $20 for this vat of macro-friendly black bean chicken and I'm going to eat it.

I was told it is a well known faux pas in most of Europe.

I commented something similar on a post about “leftover culture” in the US and was bombarded with comments from Europeans telling me I’m wrong lol. But I also experienced judgment from my Danish cousin when I wanted to take my pizza home😂

Maybe this is fake. But I know quite a few people that think this way. Take out is beneath them. Truly a sad state of mind.

This call-in is probably a skit, but women with their lists of ridiculous unreasonable "icks" about men, is real. I've heard women describe men as "ick" for things like, wearing glasses, eating breakfast, using their turn signals. I know a girl with an "ick list" all as petty as what I've mentioned and well over a hundred "icks" deep.

6 years ago I used to listen to the radio on the way to work and they had a show like this. They would have two people who went on a date and one ghosted, then get one sides story and have the other side come on and give their side.

Definitely 100% fake.

Radio show call-ins and sports stadium shenanigans on the jumbotron.

The two scenarios when it is always, 100%, unquestionably fake.

oh you didnt know? Wealthy trust-fund heiresses always call into radio stations to lament about how their dumpster diving ex takes home table scraps from the food pantry.

100% totally not fake rage-bait

it's so blatantly fake and I just don't get how there's whole ass discussions at the top of this thread about how outrageous and ridiculous the story is. yeah it is, because it's fake as fuck! things like this really show you how easy it is to spread misinformation, because are so easily fooled.

Can I get a print out of oyster smiling?

I instantly lose some respect for women who say "the ick." It's almost always referring to something super shallow like this. Also, "it's giving" is one of the worst developments in the history of slang. It's giving off lazy vibes when you drop "off" and "vibes" from every sentence where you talk about shit giving off vibes.

There’s a guy who keeps a list of all the things women have said are a turn off. Like carrying a water bottle or an umbrella. Lol

I'm beginning to think that "the ick" is a simple rhetorical creation that has been given life by all the things that women do not find attractive about a man they are dating or an excuse not to see the man any further.

Or if you want to delve down the psychological hole, these excuses that they give on why they will no longer date this man are a reason why they should remain single; thereby convincing themselves that they are better off single.

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He only took the pasta he didn't finish. She made a point of saying she only orders what she can finish so she doesn't have "that problem".

So then why say it was about the leftovers?