For me, it’s corn on the cob.

  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 months ago

    I work in film post-production. One time, my team needed audio of people eating, so our sound guy recorded us eating our lunch with a really sensitive mic. When I was editing the audio in, it was really gross at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly.

    The thing that still haunts me is the really subtle sound of forks hitting teeth. shutters

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 months ago

      One time, my team needed audio of people eating, so our sound guy recorded us eating our lunch with a really sensitive mic.

      Bad idea indeed. Next time tell him he should record people using forks and knives and plates, but not any sounds that come from the mouth.

      Scenes where people eat are “cleaned” very much in films. You see and hear people talking, playing a little with their food and that’s that. Never the real action of chewing, swallowing etc. (unless the film actually wants to create some bad vibes)

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    30·
    2 months ago

    My stepdad would eat bananas with his mouth wide open as he chewed. And he’d chew each bite for a solid minute before swallowing. Even though it’s a banana and you can literally just mash it agains the roof of your mouth with your tongue. He would do this as he was driving, so I think he’d just get distracted and forget that he was still chewing food. But it made every ride to school in the morning an absolute living hell.

    So I’m gonna go with bananas.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Were you a terrible kid? Sounds super passive aggressive (and kind of hilarious)

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        3·
        2 months ago

        Nah he’s just always had no self awareness when it comes to the noises he makes. Lots of loud chewing while you’re trying to eat, grunting and snorting in the middle of a conversation, full-volume “whispering” in movie theaters, etc. He’s not even hard of hearing or anything (dude hears like a bat, honestly), he’s just a very loud guy lmao

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      Same. I hate eating with other people unless theirs a loud tv/music in the background. I have found that those loop earplugs help with it at least but then you have to answer questions about what those are.

      • Webster@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh my god those loop earplugs have been a lifesaver! Started using them about a year ago. Can’t recommend them enough for anyone else suffering

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
          1·
          2 months ago

          My brother’s wife bought me a pair a couple years ago and I was really skeptical but they are great. They also help me not get stressed out when I’m around loud children which was another big issue for me. I actually enjoy going to family gatherings now and don’t have to step away to calm my nerves every 30 minutes or so.

  • Grabthar@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    I’m so deaf I could sit in a room full of large, sweaty men slurping chicken off drumsticks while making open-mouthed, gruntled dad noises with every gasping breath, and it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. Well, other than such a room existing, that is.

  • Tazerface@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    2 months ago

    The food doesn’t matter if the person eating is my dad. He makes loud nasty noises no matter what he is eating. Once he is done eating the noise continues for 10 minutes because he is cleaning his teeth with his tongue.

  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Jokes on them, listening isn’t my torture. It’s seeing people eat with their mouth open and especially bits falling out while chewing. Yuck

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    For me, it’s corn on the cob.

    Man, I dunno if I really want to explore this rabbit hole, but I’m sure that there’s much-less-tolerable stuff out there. Say, live mice or something.

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I was honestly envisioning foods that people eat normally, that might sound disgusting. But I don’t want to be too restrictive of answers now.

    • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Did you read the other person’s suggestion about mice or are there two people here to independently came up with this grim idea?

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I just posted it myself as the first thing that came to mind with something small and cute and noise-making. Hadn’t read other comments at that point.