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Nothing makes a first impression like a face full of saucy, gooey food entrails dripping away from your smile in the aftermath of a scrumptious lunch. The person across from you will undoubtedly fall head over heels in love with your wit and banter when it’s coated with melted chocolate and white cream filling. A first impression is the key-master to any gate-keeper of a social situation. Don’t be the one whose key is too oily and sloppy to open a possible life-changing gate. Check out our easy-to-follow list of foods to stay away from when dining publicly.
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Foods Not To Eat In Public
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Oreos
Nothing says hello like a mouth full of black cookie crumbs and white cream.
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Corn On The Cob
Seriously, there's no way to eat this without looking like a drunken caveman.
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Melty Ice Cream
On a hot day, ice cream tends to melt faster than you can enjoy its blessings. Don't get caught with the creamy, gooey evidence on your face.
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Grapefruit
Grapefruit is notorious for having a long-range squirt radius. There's no rhyme or reason to the direction of a grapefruit's spray - no one in the room is safe from its wrath.
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Buffalo Wings
This makes football season difficult when it comes to dating. It's an absolute impossibility to not look like a ravaging carnivore while imbibing saucy hot wings.
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Cheetos
The orange menace of all snack foods. They keep it cheesy all right, and then they leave a residue of oily cheddar dust on everything you've touched all day.
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Sloppy Burgers
We all love a cheesy, juicy, mouth-watering burger. A solid hunk of cow slapped between two buns cooked to perfection is pure edible bliss. Never mind the juice running down your chin and arms posing as an aphrodisiac.
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Sloppy Spaghetti
Spaghetti can be a messy. With its long, floppy strings catapulting sauce with every slurp, you're in danger of taking out someone's eye.
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Popsicles
Especially during the summer, they melt before you can even begin to enjoy them. Not to mention the implications about your social life that can ensue.
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Meatball Sandwiches
Similar to spaghetti and its sauce-flipping tendencies, meatballs fall out of sandwiches quickly, leaving a saucy body outline on anything they touch.
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Shellfish
Lobster, crab, and pick-n-peel shrimp all have something in common beyond being delicious. They're a mess, with juices flying freely like a grape squishing competition in Napa.
