Eating snacks while watching movies or TV is counterintuitive and dumb

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You don’t get to fully enjoy the snacks’ taste and feeling because you’re focused on the movie, and you don’t get to fully enjoy the movie because the snacking doesn’t let you immerse in it. The crunching distracts you, and the taste makes you feel good even if the movie sucks, giving you a false perception of it. It’s much better to do both separately.

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  2. ZV2Cox Avatar

    I’m capable of multitasking on this level

  3. Severalwanker Avatar

    Please speak for yourself.

  4. plutonasa Avatar

    Eating snacks during a movie is my subway surfers in the bottom right corner.

  5. lone_wolf1580 Avatar

    Speak for yourself.

  6. ItsOKtoFuckingSwear Avatar

    This isn’t an unpopular opinion. This is something health care people have been saying for decades to people who want to lose weight.

  7. Manowar274 Avatar

    I feel like this is a skill issue lol, I’m able to multitask both and enjoy them each as if doing them separately. May as well save time and do both together.

  8. Sarcastic_Rocket Avatar

    I personally exclusively enjoy my snacks in a sensory deprivation tank so I can savor the subtle flavors of my peanut butter M&M’s

  9. josh35767 Avatar

    This sounds like sensory issues or something like that. I’ve never once been that distracted from a movie because of my own chewing.

  10. Prestigious_Fella_21 Avatar

    Do you eat while watching something to discover you stopped chewing and all the food fell out of your mouth?

  11. Samael13 Avatar

    I’m capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time; it turns out I can also focus on a TV show and enjoy the taste of popcorn at the same time.

  12. caitimusprime Avatar

    I need my dopamine hits hard, eating and watching something at the same time is my dopamine hit of choice.

  13. WotACal1 Avatar

    I imagine OP sits in a silent dark room to eat his or her food, can’t be letting things like sound or seeing stuff distract you

  14. Monsterchic16 Avatar

    Someone doesn’t know how to multitask

  15. lordskulldragon Avatar

    Believe it or not, there’s actually people that eat dinner while watching tv.

  16. Sour_Patch_Drips Avatar

    What in the cinnamon toast fuck did I just read

  17. slidinsafely Avatar

    sad that your smooth brain does not allow this to happen for you. sadder still that you actually inflicted this on us.

  18. apexthestormclaw Avatar

    No kind words to express my opinion on this, but upvote for being unpopular

  19. reddd34red Avatar

    As a person whose favorite time of day is when I cook up a delicious meal then devour it while watching YouTube videos on my TV, I whole heartedly disagree. Take my upvote.

  20. Gotis1313 Avatar

    Sounds like a you thing. I’m capable of enjoying both at the same time