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Do People Secretly Think You’re a Pig?
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Posted 4 years ago by Dee from Tampa #
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Heehee! Tigger shaking head! I'm guilty of number 4! I always cut my steak up into small bite size pieces because I don't like the taste of fat/grizzle! Plus this way while i'm eating with someone I can continue to talk/make eye contact without dropping my eyes to my plate for a long time! I always chew and shallow my food before I talk! And if I'm thanking a waiter/waitress and there's still food in my mouth I cover it with my hand. Is that a no-no? Mom said to be polite and say please and thank you!
Hope you all still love though my ettiquette sucks! sniff!
Posted 4 years ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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hi Miu! naw it's not easy to hold silverware, specially if you might be a lefty! My niece has a hard time and does everything backwards to a righty! Wonder if she'll get pigeon-holed for that!?
Posted 4 years ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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I would caution one only to concern oneself with 4 of the 5 simple rules.Everyone knows the English are FAR too concerned and self-conscious of the horrible class-stigmas they are hopelessly mired in!(The upper-class ones anyways!Calm down MCW,Rubia,Polly's Mum and Hammo!:) )This is yet another SAD and rather desperate last-ditch attempt to revive a most morbidly hoary,musty and fading relic of a completely class-obsessed and anal bygone culture!(Let's take a culture sample and preserve it at the CDC in Atlanta!) :D
Let's ALSO see the hate-mail I generate from THIS! -
heehee tigger! hey wait! I noticed there was no rule about farting, burping or talking on the cellphone?
Posted 4 years ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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lol...i know ALOT of people who are pigs, and not just table manner wise. as for me, i try to be polite, but im not high frickin' society. and some people tell me dont eat junk food it makes u gain weight and isnt ladylike...well guess what...i a WOMAN and its good enough for ME. and as long as im not incredibly offensive, im not going to put on high airs. :) im a human being, i screw up, live with it lol. scchhhfllummppppflopflopgggrrraaaaammmmmmuurpppp wow tigs, what's in that bag? smells good
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As long as you keep your mouth shut when you are eating I don't really care about most of the rest. I just hate it when people speak with their mouth full, or chew with their mouth open. I don't want to see food going round in your mouth like cement in a cement mixer!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 4 years ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_26/05 #
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polly's mum nice visual and I agree with you!
Posted 4 years ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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I should point out that the rule this guys gives for holding one's fork only applies in America! In America, we have the silly rule that you hold the fork in your left hand while you cut your food, and then you put the knife down, and then switch the fork over to your right hand (holding it as instructed in this article) in order to pick up and eat the food. In Europe, people hold their forks in their left hands all the time, using the knife to put food on the back of the fork in order to eat it. Much more efficient! I wish I could get the hang of it, but the food keeps falling off the back of my fork! ;-)
Posted 4 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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About 15 years ago, my hubby and his family (ex-wife, son & daughter) lived in America for about a year and a half. The school really got on his daughter's case for the way she held her fork when she ate, because she always held it in her left hand in the European manner. They forced her to use her right hand according to American custom. Hubby says she continued to eat the American way for years after coming back to the UK - maybe she still does. I'll have to pay attention next time we have a meal together! :-)
Posted 4 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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Rubia...that is complete rubbish. With the youth problems of today in our school systems, I can't believe they would make such a big deal of the way someone eats. Especially knowing she was from Europe. They should be worrying about how to dodge bullets. Knowing that countries don't always share in the same mannerisms is what makes people so interesting.
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Wait as a sub teacher I can't believe a school would do that! That's horrible! I mean if she's left handed she would have been hopefully left alone one of my nieces are a lefty and her school nnecer forced that on her! Rubia was it a private or public school?
So sorry for her!
Posted 4 years ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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There are many different types of good table manners, depending on where you are. It's just polite to adopt as many as you are comfortable with if you move to a new country, but I do think it's silly to try to force anyone to cut their food in a particular way or use their fork/knife/spoon in a particular hand.
I eat English fashion - knife in right hand fork in left, and mostly don't turn the fork over to make a dish shape, but I don't expect everyone else to do the same.
I do always hope that people eating with me won't overload their mouths, speak with food in their mouth or chew with their mouth open - those are the important points, the rest is really custom and practice.Posted 4 years ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_26/05 #
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*notes all the above in time for Saturday* ;-)
Posted 4 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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Just make sure you do MCW, I'm very strict! ;-)
Posted 4 years ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_26/05 #
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Most left handed people actually hold their knife in their left hand and their fork in their right. My daughter is "cack-handed" (slang English term for a lefty) and that is how she eats.
Posted 4 years ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_26/05 #
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I have learned to ignore keeping the fork upside down in the left hand, but open mouthed chewing gets me--even over the phone when they crunch chips in my ear on their lunch hour--with their mouth open. Yuck.
Posted 4 years ago by SharoninAustell46 #
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I was raised with American WASP, country-club-set rules--the non-used hand goes in the lap and bacon (unless very limp) is held by the tips of the thumb and index fingers. Righties keep their forks in their right hands, even when cutting, but since I'm a lefty, that doesn't apply.
My husband was taught in the European fashion: the non-used hand rests on the table, to the side of the plate and bacon is NEVER eaten with the fingers, no matter how crispy. The fork is moved to the left hand when cutting so that the right hand can hold the knife.
We fought tooth and nail over table manners, ESPECIALLY since putting a non-used hand on the table is considered here to be as gauche as holding your utensils in your fist. Even an Emily Post article backing me up was rejected by Hubby--she OBVIOUSLY didn't know what she was talking about!
In later years he has relaxed on the bacon issue (although lately he has done an "end-around" by cooking only limp bacon). I don't care about the which-hand-holds-the-fork thing (that's how American spies were caught by the Germans during WWII), but the kids have learned the most important etiquette rule from me and follow it: when in doubt, do what the host does. It saves a lot of grief, especially when there is disagreement.
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