Mashed potatoes topped with gravy beg to have some sweet corn tossed in when it's on the table!

It depends.

it just depends on what I am eating and what I am in the mood for.

Yeah it depends... If I'm eating something with a sauce though, I definitely will mix it with something else.

It's a family joke, my dad, my brother and me all mix up our food, but my mum eats everything one after the other leaving her favorite till last. Especially if I've got boiled potatoes and some sauce, the potatoes have to mashed with my fork to soak up the sauce!

Most of the time I don't mix my food. I am not really into letting my food touch. I am very weird, I know. I am usually like davie_k's mom...I eat all of one thing and then move onto the next. I do love mixing cottage cheese with hamburger-potato hotdish (or casserole , occasionally mashed potatoes and gravy with turkey, and my dad's version of a stir fry over rice.

I am quite adamant about my food NOT touching! The only exception being Thanksgiving food which I think tastes pretty well blended together. But the rest of the time ewwwww!

NO!!!!!!!!!! I never have and probably never will. I guess it's one of quirky eating habits!

Nooo, most of the time I require total isolation for each dish. I don't eat one after the other, though. I rotate through them all. But, some things do taste good together, so I guess I'm an occasional mixer.

It really depends on what I'm eating. I would've eaten the kebab as a kebab, but if it were a chicken breast, I would've done what you did and mix it all together.

I usually don't like fruit juices spilling into other foods or the liquid from corn spilling onto my nice crispy bread. But if I need the bread to help spoon the corn onto my fork, then no problem. I'm not the kind of eater who eats one food and then moves to the next food on the plate until that is done and then so on and so forth. I know a girl who does that and yet she mixes ketchup with ranch dressing...

i hate when my food touches. unless it is meant to touch, i keep them separated.

mashed potatoes mixed with corn is to die for!

I love how common my favorite combo is on here-- corn and mashed potatoes!! I get made fun of for it way too often.

i use divider plates so that my food doesn't touch... mixing food is a HUGE pet peeve of mine and I can't handle it I also hate when people take a sip of their drink while there is still food in their mouth....so gross.

Rice and beans must be mixed... every Latina/Latino knows that!

I have never known so many people who don't mix food! After years of being made fun of, it is nice to know I'm not alone.

Very, very rarely. Asian and Indian food is okay, something like rice with veggies or naan with beans. But not random things.

Even when I'm eating something like curry or stew, I'll inevitably eat all the vegetables first, then starches then meats. I have to make a conscious effort to stagger what goes into my mouth otherwise it's always in that order.

well it depends, if its mushy food, like mash gravy, or spaghetti bolognese u mix, hmm i like to mix mouses so that they lose their bubbles and become smooth hehe but otherwise i guess not too often, however i havnt given it alot of thought

well it depends, if its mushy food, like mash gravy, or spaghetti bolognese u mix, hmm i like to mix mouses so that they lose their bubbles and become smooth hehe but otherwise i guess not too often, however i havnt given it alot of thought lol

i always think its crazy when people insist they can't have their food touching at all. how can you avoid that when yiur plate has no dividers at all? anyways i say it depends on the food i'm eating.

It really depends...I mix my food if there is rice.

It depends on what I'm eating!
Most spanish people do.

pinkflats, it is actually easier than you think to avoid your food touching.

I hate for my food to touch and I usually separate it.. no creamed corn touching mashed potatoes, things like that. Noodle and rice dishes that are topped with veggies and meat I usually mix, things like chicken curry..

I am against all forms of food segregation on my plate!

mwmsjuly19 - me too!

As kids my siblings and I had a problem with it, but my mom alway said, "it all goes to the same place anyway."

It might all go in the same place, but I don't have to taste it on the way down.

i only mix rice and green beans. i dont usually let my food even touch. if i have a vegetable that has a little juice with it i will put it in a seperate bowl and i always eat my salad in a seperate bowl. my boyfriend can mix all of his food on his plate and even put two different salad dressings on his salad. it just seems too gross to me.

I don't mind my food touching. However, I do mind purposely mixing them. The only exception to that is when I eat pasta.

I only mix food when there is rice involved. For some reason that just makes sense to me.

I mix Mexican food together.

When I was a kid, I was a really picky eater and squealed whenever food touched each other on my plate and ate everything separately- I even cut my pancakes up and dipped each piece individually in syrup! Now I'm much better, but my family still teases me a lot about it.

I am amazed at how many people don't like their food touching! It never bothers me at all. When my daughter was a little bit younger she would freak out at some things touching and I would tell her that is ridiculous....she finally stopped that.
I am from the Islands and rice is a staple. Most dishes have sauces, gravies or beans and are always mixed up.

arroz con frijoles!! yummy! & then some cheese on top

Really depends

No food touching! Arghhhh! I don't know why, but I've been that way forever. A possible exception is anything with gravy, but that should be mixed anyway, right? What is the deal with corn in mashed potatoes? Wow. I've seen that in the KFC bowl and always wondered where it came from.

mixing foods freaks me out. i never let anything on my plate touch anything else. a lot of the time i actually eat different foods at different times of the day because i have this thing about eating one food at a time...but i have really weird eating habits.

Well, we don't tend to serve sweet and salty together (like you do in your breakfast, with fries and eggs mixed with pancakes), so it's easier to mix stuff in your plate.

My cousin doesn't though, she eats every single thing separate from the other. Shame, really, that's she'll never taste the wonder that is tomatoe-and-lettuce salad. YUM.

normally i cant stand having my food touch but there are those special meals, mainly homecooked ones, that taste better in a mash. However, appetizer salad and side salads are better on a separate plate.

if it's supposed to be touching, it should come touching. otherwise, i dont like my food to touch AT ALL! the only exception is using my toast as a barricade for my corned beef hash from my eggs at a diner. i don't mind egg on toast because i like egg and cheese sandwiches. lol i'm weird, i know!

I agree with a lot of people who say it depends. Like of course I mix my sticky rice with veggies/meat, and I like to mix macaroni and cheese with peas. Sometimes scrambled eggs and hashbrowns jump onto my fork together. I won't intentionally make a sandwich out of a crescent roll, mashed potatoes and broccoli, but if they touch that's a-ok. However, I sincerely hate when things like beans and pasta salad keep running into each other, or when something's juices keep soggying my bread.

sometimes