People who leave scraps all over their plate when they eat

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Obsessive interests have much to do with ASDs. The OP seems to obsess over the amount of food that other people leave on their plates. The OP is also diagnosed with an ASD.

Thanks for your replies. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this.

It's not about finishing every scrap on your plate so you become overweight. It's about if you had rice and chicken and you finished your meal, but you leave a few bits of chicken and a mouthful of rice spread across the plate, not because you're full, but because you are finished eating, but that's the way you leave your plate.

It means that the person washing the dishes, always has to rinse your plate off before it goes into the dishwasher.

Sometimes I lick my plate clean too, especially when the dish was one of my favorite, and I don't like to leave food on my plate either. I'm not overweight, though people sometimes tell me I eat too much...

Btw, dish washing is my least hated chore, I hate washing up the floor and vacuuming the most.

Not quite OCD, but I ALWAYS scrape off any excess food into either the trash or garbage disposal and RINSE my plate and utensils before putting them into the sink with the other dirty dishes (for somebody else to wash). I just think it's common courtesy to the poor sucker that ends up having to wash all those dishes!

This is what I do too.

i am a member of the doggy bag club. if i can't finish something, i will put it away in a smaller dish or covered bowl, and then lick my plate shiny clean.

Hmmmm..........that shows how vulnerable a person is if they obey the "eat every scrap" rule. Perhaps such an "ethic" only makes sense if the cook knows about it and so doesn't overload the plates or put anything on them that might be too much for the eater to comfortably consume. That includes inedible bits such as bones and bay leaves. But of course, the eater who operates the "every scrap" rule unilaterally has to take their chances that the cook will be willing to buy into the ethic.

When I go out to a restaurant I'd eat the garnish too (if it's edible), much to the embarrassment of the others...

one of the reasons i don't particularly like to eat in public, is that i am restrained from my normal tongue hygiene on the plates. i have to leave traces of food on the plate, and i hate having to do that.

In restaurants, you ask for a doggy bag if you don't finish your food. But in buffets you can't do that and some of them do allow you to take it home with you but they charge you extra.

Actually, it wastes neither if you put those plates in the sink, fill with hot water and dishwashing liquid, so the plates are submerged. Walk away and do something else. Then when you come back later, scraps are loosened, come off easily, the water has cooled down so you can put your hands in it to wash, and you only need a little bit of water to rinse. Even easier if you have two sinks where you fill the second with clean water for rinsing. Sounds like this would save water and electricity.

I too hate when people leave morsels of food strewn in disarray across their plate. Often times I will deliberately reposition objects such that they obstruct my view of the mess (much to the confusion of my tablemates).

I have an aversion to eating the last bit of any food on a plate. I don't know why; it's just icky. Of course there are also inedible parts of many foods (Bay leaves, fruit pits, bones, skins, and fat trimmings, etc). But I do usually tend to leave the last bits of things like rice, or a pea or two, etc. I just find the idea of eating them to be unappetizing, and somewhat sickening at times. I don't make a mess of the plate, but I don't neaten the scraps either. They're just left behind as-is.

Charles

We usually do that too.

I can't stand it either! Especially when they say they're still hungry afterwards.

I hate it when I see people leave plates in the food court with half their meal stewn across the plate. Personally I always finish every scrap of my meal unless it has a vegetable in it I don't like and if so I scrape it all to one corner.