I think I may have inhaled a few over the past few years, but never eaten any, I keep food away from my work station, mainly because while solder fumes don't have much lead, it does build up on your fingers.
On the same vein as the OP, I have soldered on the bed, on the carpet while watching TV, On dinner plates (clean, just a convenient heat resistant ceramic), on my own leg (you generally only do this once),
Surprisingly printer paper makes a pretty good 1 off hot air gun area, it browns but it doesn't burn, and its pretty easy to spot the speckles if it jumps off the board.