11-08-2020, 03:17 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by realspeed
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Do you remember when it was polite to keep the little pinky finger up while holding fork/spoon with food on it.
11-08-2020, 03:19 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Oh yes Realspeed we always had to ask to be excused from the table too! Not talking with your mouth full was another (more common sense that one!)I think the soup bowl tilting thing was to prevent a hot thing spilling on to oneself but why does the spoon have to go from front to back too?!!!
As for lifted pinkies, I have never done that whilst eating but there's something about a dainty, china tea cup that just screams out for a raised pinkie!!
11-08-2020, 03:41 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Rhian
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..for table manners?My mother was so I think it rubbed off on me.
I don't like it when I dine with others, if someone starts a course before everyone else's has arrived.
I even eat my soup in the proper manner, even when I'm alone!!!
And as for burping or belching (some pass that off as a "compliment to the chef") ewwwwww disgusting!
11-08-2020, 03:44 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Rhian
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Oh yes Realspeed we always had to ask to be excused from the table too! Not talking with your mouth full was another (more common sense that one!)I think the soup bowl tilting thing was to prevent a hot thing spilling on to oneself but why does the spoon have to go from front to back too?!!!
As for lifted pinkies, I have never done that whilst eating but there's something about a dainty, china tea cup that just screams out for a raised pinkie!!
11-08-2020, 04:10 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Is there a chopstick etiquette? I tend to try to trap everything between the two prongs and then carry it like that carefully in to my mouth but the Chinese people actually take the bowl near their mouths and use the two sticks like a paddle to flick the food inI'd fear I'd miss my mouth doing that and end up throwing rice or noodles or veg everywhere!
11-08-2020, 04:12 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Rhian
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Is there a chopstick etiquette? I tend to try to trap everything between the two prongs and then carry it lije that carefully in to my mouth but the Chinese people actually take the bowl near their mouths and use the two sticks like a paddle to flick the food inI'd fear I'd miss my mouth doing that and end up throwing rice or noodles or veg everywhere!
11-08-2020, 04:12 PM
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Of course there used to be a fabuilous alternative to eating at the table.That was eating fish and chips out of newspapers. Salt and vinegar added as a help yourself to how much extra.
Now that is class and two fingers to manners, licking fingers was half the pleasure
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