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Has holding a fork or spoon like a shovel been mentioned? To me that is a sure sign that table manners were not part of someone's childhood training.
I agree and would go further to say that any type of entertainment expierienced during a meal (beyond softly played music) detracts from the culinary experience as well.
Along with that is the arms around the bowl or plate and hunched over like someone is going to take their food from them. What is that about??
Well, I've got 3 bad-mannered pooches and 1 greedy boyfriend, so in my house that's not so far from the truth! He shovels it in like nobody's business, so I have from time to time been reduced to growling like Belker in Hill Street Blues when he starts eyeballing my plate...
I have a manners question: is it considered better manners to bring the food to the mouth or inclining the mouth toward the food?
Some foods, like Philly Cheesesteaks and other greasy fare, you HAVE to eat that way unless you wanna risk wearing 'em...Along with that is the arms around the bowl or plate and hunched over like someone is going to take their food from them. What is that about??
Dammit, I always get that wrong.....and I blame Emily Post, who IRL was very sloppy at table.....You bring your food to your mouth and not the other way around
Dammit, I always get that wrong.....and I blame Emily Post, who IRL was very sloppy at table.....
Ok well....first off.....don't show up drunk to the first dinner with your fiancées parents........shakesheadDon't you have anything to add to this thread? .... I know you do
Ok well....first off.....don't show up drunk to the first dinner with your fiancées parents........shakeshead
Has holding a fork or spoon like a shovel been mentioned? To me that is a sure sign that table manners were not part of someone's childhood training.
This whole thread has me worried about my table manners.
I do have a serious question, however. If you are not supposed to use a fork to "scoop" your food (only use the tines to "stab" or stick things), how do you eat certain foods? For instance, I had a salad tonight that had cut up little pieces of cabbage and grated carrots. Although I tried to mix this with the lettuce leaves so I could "stab" it, most of it was at the bottom. Since with a salad you have a special fork, I am assuming that you would use the salad fork to "scoop" it up- i.e. like a spoon? Or are you supposed to switch to a spoon (this seems wrong to me)? Or leave the good part?
Also, given the no scooping with a fork, are you supposed to eat something like a curry or rice pilaf with a spoon?
Apparently I missed the no using a fork as a spoon lesson.
One more:
Loud sipping of tea. Hey! I'm trying to make a Tea Time.. not a "messy loud drinker" time. You know, when you give your guest the porcelain tea set, and they behave like it's.. oh, I don't know.. unbreakable cup, and take the liberty to blow into it to "cool it down". No! You do NOT blow into tea!
Yes, they are.. but I'm not in China. Western way of drinking tea does not include slurping, blowing or holding a cup with your whole hand.Is it the Chinese who slurp tea to show appreciation of it?