Can Your Food Touch?

For those who hate their food touching, they must have hated the elite restaurants that piled the items on top of each other. For presentation. I recall when this trend started and a server brought out my meal, he explained ”isn’t this brilliant?” I said “no.”
 
I live alone and continue to have food presented "nicely". Ok for vegetables/meat to touch or piled on the carbs (potatoes/rice/pasta) as long as the "rim of the plate or bowl is visible. Putting "used" utensils on the table will bring out the "mean mom" syndrome.
 

Food separation has no value once beyond our mouths. So just presentation aesthetics, and the enjoyment of sensory mouth feel, taste, and smell. Some foods work better mixed, others not to a range of degrees. One doesn't add peppers to a cake or sugary frosting on a slice of bacon. And why drinking liquids during meals, helps reset our mouth senses between spoonfuls.
 
I'm only idiosyncratic about my food ending up "evenly". I don't like to finish one item first before the other. If I have two waffles and one piece of bacon, I'll cut the waffles in 4ths and then cut the bacon in eight pieces, so I can have a piece of waffle and a piece of bacon together. It's silly, I know, but that's the way it is....

I can remember my great-grandfather piling the food on his plate and then covering all the food with a layer of sorghum molasses. He had to have molasses on food for every meal.
 
I don't like too much food piled on one plate. I much prefer to have side dishes and just put what I want on my plate. I probably got into that habit because once it's all mixed in together, I'd probably just chuck whatever is uneaten.
 
I don't care if it touches, more concerned that there's enough.

Too, I do not believe in taking comestible prisoners, except at a restaurant where I have no control over portion and can request a take-home box.

A plate with food left on it invites the curse of bad ju-ju.
 
I have no problem with my food touching unless it is something like worcestershire seeping into sweet potatoes. When my brother was a child he would eat one food at a time, clean his fork, then start on the next one. This is the kid who would eat a stick of butter in the car on the way home from grocery shopping.
 

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