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Kid Nickels
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American's have manners?Originally Posted by Rambo
ha...right. "American table manners" is a paradox in itself. I'm appalled by the **** I see even in "nice" restaurants. Eat as Europeans do... with some decor & common sense!
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ha...right. "American table manners" is a paradox in itself. I'm appalled by the **** I see even in "nice" restaurants. Eat as Europeans do... with some decor & common sense!Originally Posted by Kid Nickels
How, exactly, do you eat with decor? Do you snag some wallpaper and use it to wipe your chin, or do you grab a candy dish and use it to shovel soup into your mouth? -An American
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Any generalization will be sterotypical to some extent... I'm in HK now so you could just grab your chopsticks, put the bowl to your lips and shovel it in!!! No one here seems to care
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I mean not like a slob or a little kid.... just recently at a "nice/ upscale" restaurant in LA I saw a grown man with his wife for dinner, in between audible belching, pushing food onto his fork with his finger.... I mean really... that falls into the realm of the indecorous....
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Apologies I should have said "decorousness" but I figured the point was clear... I wasn't aware the grammar police were out in force today....
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Apologies I should have said "decorousness" but I figured the point was clear... I wasn't aware the grammar police were out in force today....Originally Posted by Kid Nickels
Oh, my bad. Tuesday is for the manners police and wednesday is grammar police day?
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Oh, my bad. Tuesday is for the manners police and wednesday is grammar police day?Originally Posted by iammatt
anyway... c'mon.... I'm not being argumentative.... the point was/is having some level of propriety while eating .... in public I guess should be added. It can't be ignored sometimes when you're dining in a small, cozy bistro and the people at the next table are belching, talking and chewing while food is dropping out of their mouths, etc....
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matt, you're being really american, I mean rude.
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matt, you're being really american, I mean rude.Originally Posted by Master-Classter
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When I invite my North American family to restaurants in France, they are shocked by our practice of making mouillettes (dipping bread into the leftover sauce on the plate).
North Americans also love dressing up to eat out somewhere nice, which means I frequently come off as a slob in restaurants here.
Different strokes?
North Americans also love dressing up to eat out somewhere nice, which means I frequently come off as a slob in restaurants here.
Different strokes?
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It I hold my fork in my left hand with the curved part up...Originally Posted by Bhowie
I learnt from my mother who was born in a British colony so it was always tines down with the fork in the left.Originally Posted by fwiffo
This is absolutely the proper way to use a fork in terms of etiquette, but how contra-functional!
Next question: who spoons their soup away from them?
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