Nah, I just tuck it behind my ear and eat with a weird little hunch and it’s fine

I just usually keep my hair tied back with a rubber band, a head band, or under a bandana, if doing most anything but just sitting.

i just use a hat or a bandana to keep it back when i’m eating.

I just put my hair up when I eat

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

…i tie back my hair or tuck it behind my ears when i eat…

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.

I normally make a pony tail while eating (or at least brush then back over my shoulders) 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

It’s just extra seasoning.

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’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.

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

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

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 nicer 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.