In your entire life, have you ever eaten food that was meant for someone else? What were the circumstances of at least one such incident? ~

The only time I can remember doing that was when my brother had an extended hospital stay and I was at the hospital most of the time for a two week period. When the meals were brought around for the patients, some of them had checked out. The lady who delivered the meals would bring me whatever meal was left. I will never forget her kindness.

Many times and many places, generally involved old C-Rations or some of the MRE's that were left by the time my units had received them.  Many a meal I asked myself who did this _____ of ______ really belong to?  I was convinced that poor Asop died in the Trojan Wars just to avoid being issued this ration. 

Do note I have a bad habit of exaggerating some points


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In the sense that I have eaten people who dared touch a sandwich destined for me; sure.

not yet

I can't think of a single instance.  I did on the occasion of a formal banquet dinner drink the glass of iced tea that belonged to the person seated next to me.  I was so embarrassed but since that day in the 1980s, she and I have kept in touch and become friends. 

I can't think of a single incident where I did it, but I went out with a friend a few months back. I live in the suburbs, which has been a constant source of mockery from said person who was accustomed to the culture of downtown Phoenix. This particular person has a thing for ethnic foods and loves boba tea, which I find repulsive because I cannot imagine eating a drink. That is soooo gross. But, I digress. There happens to be one shop near me which offers boba tea and I was over-the-moon excited that I finally got to take my friend there and show them that the burbs do indeed have swanky non-chain joints with edible drinks. 

So, we order and stand around for a while. They eventually call my number and I go up to the counter. There's nothing placed within easy reach and no employees are in sight, but there is a single bag of food which looks like our orders and one drink there. The drink is filled with nasty floating things, so I surmise it's my friend's drink, collect it, and pass it off. The friend drank some of it and then realized it wasn't theirs. Oooh. I did not hear the end of that one. The person was so mortified they wanted to leave there and then. I took the drink back and found an employee and told them I had taken it by mistake and drank some. They gave me the look of death, said nothing, took the drink, and left. A few minutes later, a different employee wordlessly left our drinks on the counter. 

My friend has not gone into a restaurant with me since. Oops. :/

Do you mean eating someone's dinner?   Not sure why I would do that.  Anytime you patronize a restaurant you are essentially eating food which was planned for a particular clientele or demographic rather than you specifically.  Unless you are such a good customer they alter their menu for you.  Or do you mean "may I have the shrimp/ potatoes/ rice/ peas you don't want?"  When I was young and less well off I would eat left-overs from tables people had vacated. 

My mother used to tell me that as a very young child, I would steal my father's French toast. Nothing much came of it, she just made more.