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- Sep 20, 2016
I found it fascinating that Chantal ate her pizza with a fork and knife. She has been totally fine with eating slop with her hands, yet the food you're literally supposed to eat with your hands she gets polite with. Uh huh. I think this is her ODD gone amuck. Oh you want me to eat this with my hands? I'll show you! I'll use the utensils for the pizza, h8r!!!
The difference is that she was in a restaurant, and she's always been more self-conscious when dining in. She uses what few basic manners she does have, and she only orders food for one (fat) person.
She doesn't like being observed while eating when it happens IRL--that's why she's always so jumpy and nervous when eating in parking lots.
Which makes her disgusting, sloppy, excessive eating habits on-camera even stranger, because more people watch her make a disgusting sow of herself on YouTube than they ever have in even the most crowded restaurant. But hey, that's Chantal-logic for you.
Pre-covid, she rarely went to restaurants. Outside of the occasional family outing where she absolutely did make her family uncomfortable, that is --
Before they moved back in together, she and James used to get together once a month. She'd drive him to the comic book store, and he'd buy her lunch at a restaurant.
On her own, she never ate at restaurants; she'd pick up to-go orders, but end up eating at home or in her car because there was no way she could handle other people seeing (and judging) how much she ate.
I think James served as a buffer in restaurants--she could order an appetizer, eat the whole thing, and yet make it seem like James had eaten at least half of it. She probably ate a lot of stuff off his plate that he wasn't going to finish, like fries. And I wonder how many times she ordered some huge-ass dessert with two spoons, under the pretense that James would of course be eating half of it.
She can't stand people seeing her eat in her car, so restaurants are unbearable, plus she can only order a starter, main, and dessert, not the six full meals she really wants.
And yet she can sit in her kitchen and stuff her fat face with enough food for a small family while streaming on YouTube! It makes no sense at all. But I guess the disconnect of doing it online makes all the difference for her. It's just insane, though.