Icebreaker

Food and eating habit questions

Strange combinations, childhood tastes, the argument you'll defend to the end.

  1. Do you save the best part of the plate for the end or attack it first? Explain your logic.
  2. A week of nothing but aeroplane trays, or a week of nothing but station kiosk shelves. Which?
  3. Never have I ever eaten beforehand on the way to a dinner I had been invited to.
  4. Describe the last thing you ate like a TV food reporter, out loud, for thirty seconds.
  5. Explain how you choose what goes on the plate at a buffet, first plate to last, like a battle plan.
  6. Give up bread completely, or give up rice completely. Which goes?
  7. Never have I ever swallowed something I hate at work to avoid an awkward silence.
  8. Do an impression of your own face the moment you take the first bite of your favourite thing.
  9. Which dish from your childhood can you never taste exactly the same way again? Who used to make it?
  10. Breakfast food at every meal for life, or breakfast food banned for life. Which?
  11. Never have I ever burned something badly enough to set off the smoke alarm.
  12. Tell the person on your left which dish you think they would cook best, and why you think so.
  13. Roughly how many unused sauce packets are hiding in your kitchen drawer right now?
  14. Chocolate biscuits or salty crisps, forever, pick one and lose the other. Which?
  15. Never have I ever let a plate go cold because I kept adjusting the angle for photos.
  16. If anyone here has a snack on them, split it with the person beside you and hand it over.
  17. When you are too tired to think, what exactly ends up in your basket at the corner shop?
  18. Everything you eat with chopsticks, or everything you eat with bare hands. Which?
  19. Never have I ever cooked something purely to impress one specific person.
  20. Invent a dish on the spot, name it, and write it a menu description that sounds twice as expensive as it is.
  21. Which dish have you failed at more than once and still stubbornly refuse to give up on?
  22. Cold pizza or limp, soggy fries. Which are you eating?
  23. Never have I ever insisted it wasn't hot while sweating straight through my shirt.
  24. Invent the single worst pairing imaginable and describe it in the most loving detail you can manage.
  25. How many days past the printed date will you still eat it? Give the real number.
  26. A year living entirely off shop-bought ready meals, or a year where you cook every bite yourself. Which?
  27. Never have I ever opened a packet planning to have three and reached the bottom instead.
  28. The person on your right decides what you order next time. Say it out loud. No vetoes.
  29. What was the very first thing you cooked entirely by yourself, and was it edible?
  30. Cook dinner for a hundred strangers in one night, or eat dinner alone every night for a year. Which?