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From burgers to pizzas and even PASTA – all the foods you’ve been eating wrong your whole life

Published on April 25, 2025 at 07:06 PM

IT’S crunch time for biscuit lovers, who were told this week that choc digestives should be eaten with the chocolate side DOWN, not up.

Are you ready for even more shocks?

Family of three enjoying breakfast together in their kitchen.
It turns out you are probably eating a host of foods – from burgers to bananas – the wrong way

It turns out you are probably eating a host of other – from burgers to bananas – the wrong way, too.

Grant Rollings explains – though, really, it is mostly a matter of taste . . . 

FLIP THE BURGER

WE’RE used to munching into with the sesame-seeded larger bun on the top.

But it’s better to turn the sandwich upside down so all that lovely juice from the meat has extra bread to soak into.

A hand holding a half-eaten hamburger.
It’s better to turn a burger upside down so all that lovely juice from the meat has extra bread to soak into

PIZZA D’OH

NO more slicing into triangle shapes.

Instead, we should fold the whole thing into a wallet shape.

Hand holding a piece of margherita pizza.
Fold the whole pizza into a wallet shape – just like they do in Napoli, Italy

That is how they are eaten in in , the birthplace of the pizza.

POUR THINGS

ONE of life’s great frustrations is trying to get the tomato sauce out of the bottle before your chips get cold.

But don’t bang fruitlessly on the bottom.

Hands pouring tomato sauce from a bottle onto a plate.
One of life’s great frustrations is trying to get the tomato sauce out of the bottle before your chips get cold

Tap where the bottle narrows at the neck — on a bottle it is where the “57”; is.

WORLD’S YOUR OYSTER

OYSTERS are usually consumed in one gulp without chewing them first.

But some chefs argue that this misses the chance to enjoy their delicious flavour.

Hand holding a fresh oyster on the half shell.
Oysters are usually consumed in one gulp without chewing them first

Considering how much this pricey dish costs, it certainly seems to make sense for you to savour them.

SHAPE MISTAKES

WHILE it is tempting to take whatever type of pasta is at hand, the different shapes are designed for different sauces.

should be served in a broth and is best tasted , not spaghetti.

Penne pasta with bolognese sauce and grated cheese.
While it is tempting to take whatever type of pasta is at hand, the different shapes are designed for different sauces

BANANA SPLIT

IF, like most people, you peel your banana from the stem-like neck at the “top”;, you’re doing it wrong — according to chimpanzees.

It’s arguably easier to start at the “bottom”;, by pinching and then peeling.

Peeled banana on a blue background.
It’s arguably easier to start at the ‘bottom', by pinching and then peeling a banana

OUTSIDER

WHEN hungry, many of us have made the mistake of simply tucking into a and then burning our tongue.

To save yourself the pain, eat from the edge of the bowl first — because it is cooler.

Creamy pumpkin soup garnished with thyme and croutons.
To save yourself the pain, eat from the edge of the bowl first — because it is cooler

PEAK HACK

AND now it turns out that we have also been snapping our chocolate bars the wrong way.

Rather than pulling the top of the triangle sections outwards to break them off, we should actually be pressing the ridges inwards, apparently.

Toblerone bar with honey and almond nougat.
It turns out that we have also been snapping our Toblerone chocolate bars the wrong way

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