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People with long hair, Have you just accepted having your hair hitchhike on your food into your mouth?

I have.

It's, just sometimes that occurs when I eat.

Munching for a bit, then hook my finger and pull my hair out.

I can't push my hair back, because it is wavy and demands to be able to flow over my shoulders.

I can't tie it up lest it rebels and consumes the hairband.

I have just learned to accept it. Have you?

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I have adopted a somewhat haughty looking stance for eating where my head is angled back just to avoid this.

Yes.
What I have difficulty with, is when some wayward knotted cluster I've inadvertently consumed, tries to jump ship the next day in the restroom, while having managed to braid itself on one end into my derrière hair, while the other side of it is still chilling somewhere up in my small intestine.
- Those probably aren't hairs you've eaten; long hairs tend to just fall into your shirt/pants and are worked up into your butt as you walk around for the day.
- nice reading this 👍

i just tuck my hair into my shirt before i eat

I just put my hair up when I eat

Back when I wore it long, the problem was getting it in my pants?? How did I have that problem but not getting it in my mouth

I have lion style so it never fall

I normally make a pony tail while eating (or at least brush then back over my shoulders and into my shirt to hold them there) I also have very strong hair, I recommend those silicon hair ties which look like sealing rings, they hold everything. If they break, just get thicker ones

I just make a something like a chingion tail. Normal pony tail + another half. This works for me.

...i tie back my hair or tuck it behind my ears when i eat...
- As a guy who used to have long hair, this. If it's long enough, you could also tuck it underneath your shirt collar in a pinch.

It's just extra seasoning.
- Delicious scented shampoo flavour!
- That spicy keratin

I've have long hair for about 35 years now. I guess mine is wavy too (?) although when it's humid I'll get some tight pipe curls. Just tie it back out of the way. Best hair bands I've found are made of pantyhose material, they don't snag or wrap up in your hair. They do come in different sizes so if you have thick hair you can get a larger band.
Regardless, no matter what you do you'll always eventually get some hair in your food.

For the last three years I've let my hair grow out and donate it once its about 15in long. My hair is probably 2c if I let it air dry. It was annoying but I learnt to live with it by tying the sides of my hair back and tucking my crown's hair underneath the tie. Some strands will sneak out eventually but it's manageable.
However, what I have not found a solution for is my moustache. I like to have my moustache grown out, Tsar Nicholas style, but eating anything is a chore. Sandwiches, burgers, and pizze mean I'm munching on my own stache and pulling some hair out, soups and stews mean I'll be patting dry the contours of my mouth down to my chin. The only things I can eat comfortably are things I can skewer with a fork. Really puts on a damper on my hair game since I have to trim it a lot for it not to be a bother.
- I find a tiny pair of scissors to be very useful. I trim back only one part of my facial hair, the 'hitler mustache' area. It can be done quickly and easily and with care, few would notice there was anything trimmed at all. For me, it makes a world of difference when eating. I wont try to convince you further, I know Ii'm set in my ways, just wanting to say that there is an alternative to lip hair inhalation.
  RE soups and stews: Leave it. Let it dry. You never know when you might need an emergency ration. Soak it in a bowl of water for a light snack or a mid-afternoon burst of energy.

I have dreadlocks. If there are hairs in my food, i will know :D

No, I pull it back when I eat. And when I cook or serve food.

Most girls I see with big curly (or other textured) hair use wraps or bonnets of some kind, usually silk. It does usually have a snug elastic band around the forehead, backs of the ears, and nape of the neck, but the top that holds the actual hair is usually looser and flowy. Another option is to contain the hair in a silk scarf wrapped in some sort of elaborate layered wrap system that you can either look up on YouTube or possibly go learn from a black or other curl / texture specializing hairdresser. If you're looking for something more masculine, black men usually call it a do-rag, or you could get a bonnet that is in a darker more subdued color and side profile.
In either case you would have to accept that big textured hair does demand somewhat counter-cultural styles just for practical reasons; there's a lot of stigma around them, at least in the states. I work in an institutional setting in a predominately black area and one of the more twisted bits of US irony is that we institutionalize black and other non-white people more often, then don't stock the hair products they need, then send them to court looking a fucking mess.
We had a really really beautiful success / recovery story this week after I had an utterly hellish experience with the same patient the previous week and I was reflecting that I really live for those moments because it can be otherwise difficult to justify my role in this system, and I work in the kinder mental health half now, not the completely fucked correctional end. Sorry for the tangent, I've had some pretty big emotional highs and lows of late.

Eh, a ponytail is easy.
But, yeah, back in my younger days when I let it stay loose when I wasn't at work, and now when I'm feeling all sexy, it can get in the way of things.
Less now, what with the balding, but still.
Tbh though, the only time I ran into heavy infiltration while eating was when there was a lot of air movement. Since neither my Jr high or high school was air conditioned, that was pretty much all warm days, and the cold days where they needed air flow. Those ceiling fans could move.
I have fairly straight hair once it's past shoulder length, so that might help. It's super fine though, so it doesn't take much to get it moving.
My beard doesn't get in the way at all. My mustache, however, when I let it reach soup strainer length and don't use wax or balm, sandwiches are a laugh :)

No. Sometimes.
Beards are sometimes like that too.
Let's talk more about the headbands. I use the cheap elastics and haven't had an issue. Have you tried a large handkerchief?

This wasn't a problem for me back when I had long hair but recently I was growing a wicked long mustache that was half way down my chin. The peanut butter getting all up in it every morning after my toast was getting annoying so I chopped it off.

Ew, no. I don't use my hair as a filter. Saliva smells gross when it dries, I can't imagine hair with dried spit smells good. I don't understand what you mean when you say you can't push it back, I literally just push my hair to either side of my face so it doesn't go in my mouth when I eat. I can't imagine a hair type that's impossible to avoid chewing on.
- Here is what happens in a step by step process.
  I push my hair behind my ears (out of the way)
  I tilt head down to choose something to eat
  I select an item to eat.
  I raise the item up.
  At about this time, my hair has pulled itself free by sheer tensile force alone.
  Hair flops onto the edges of my mouth.
  Food item enters my mouth, hair latching on.
  I now have hair in my mouth.
  This is what my wavy thick hair does everyday, every meal, every time.

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