I hate it…I’m deaf in my left ear and the person on the right of me eats like a pig, diving into a bag if crisps like one might escape, crunching things with their mouth open, slurping coffee, gulping loudly.
Cos I can only hear in my right ear, that means that’s all i can hear while they’re eating.
Eating dinner round at my in-laws is worse though, sitting at the dining table probably sounds the same as the noises you’d hear at a caribou carcass on the Serengeti.
My wife thinks I have a problem with hearing people eat.
But my deafness makes my own eating noises sound loud to me, so I’m usually paranoid that people can hear me eat too.
I’m looking forward to when they invent a meal in a pill like the 80’s sci-fi movies promised.