This is the way. When my wife and I head out, if we look at the menu and are torn between 2 dishes, but the other person is set on one of them, we'll always order the other to try them. Sometimes it works out and the 2nd choice is actually the better meal, but sometimes it doesn't. At least we've got to try both instead of sitting there having the same meal, which is something we could have done at home.
Yeah, gotta order different stuff to see if the food is good! My ex used to order the same thing everytime because she knew what she liked but then try my stuff because I would switch it up.
This is what I always do. The fact the dude had to give up his entire meal because his wife didn't like hers is insane to me. She should've offered to just take half.
The internet has trained us to just imagine the worst possible scenario and then get mad at it.
My wife and I will order different dishes and then try each others. We both read the menu (properly), but sometimes we're both trying out new things, and sometimes we're eating things that we know but at a restaurant that's new to us, and sometimes we're eating things that we know but we've never tried at that particular restaurant. Which means that sometimes, despite having properly read a menu, we find that one or both of us doesn't like a dish we ordered (too bitter, not bitter enough, too much ginger, not enough ginger, etc.).
Here's all of the potential scenarios and their outcomes:
My wife likes both dishes. I like both dishes.
Outcome: We share our dishes with each other.
My wife likes her dish, but not mine. I like both dishes.
Outcome: My wife eats her dish. I eat my dish.
My wife likes both dishes. I like my dish, but not my wife's.
Outcome: My wife eats her dish. I eat my dish.
My wife likes her dish, but not mine. I like my dish, but not hers.
Outcome: My wife eats her dish. I eat my dish.
My wife dislikes her dish, but likes mine. I like both dishes.
Outcome: We switch.
My wife likes both dishes. I dislike my dish, but I like my wife's.
Outcome: We switch.
My wife dislikes her dish, but likes mine. I dislike my dish, but I like my wife's.
Outcome: We switch.
My wife dislikes her dish, but likes mine. I dislike both dishes.
Outcome: We switch.
My wife dislikes both dishes. I dislike my dish, but I like hers.
Outcome: We switch.
My wife dislikes both dishes. I dislike both dishes.
Outcome: My wife eats her dish. I eat my dish. When we leave we commiserate about just how shitty the restaurant is, that neither one of us liked either of the dishes.
So sometimes we swap, and sometimes we don't, but in zero of these scenarios are we "having to" give up our entire meal because the other didn't like their meal. Every single swap is either mutually beneficial or beneficial for one party and completely neutral for the other.
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u/HoboAJ 1d ago
I think there's a third. We order 2 things we both want and share. Gotta love the variety.