11-08-2020, 04:17 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by realspeed
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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
11-08-2020, 04:20 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I see them all queuing outside our local chippy, two metres apart, masks on when they enter the shop only to get their chips wrapped in old newspaper. I wonder how many people have licked their fingers before turning the pages???
11-08-2020, 04:24 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
How they've changed being served over the decades: Pre-1980s – To keep prices down, portions were often wrapped in old newspaper – a practice that survived as late as the 1980s when it was ruled unsafe for food to come into contact with newspaper ink without grease-proof paper in between.
11-08-2020, 04:25 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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There is a chop stick etiquette. A Chinese person told me years ago that the two chopsticks are not exactly the same, one is the static one and the other the one that you move. I cannot remember which is which though.
11-08-2020, 04:29 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by Rhian
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The top one is the moveable one as far as I'm concerned
11-08-2020, 04:36 PM
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Re: Are you a stickler..
Originally Posted by realspeed
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How they've changed being served over the decades: Pre-1980s – To keep prices down, portions were often wrapped in old newspaper – a practice that survived as late as the 1980s when it was ruled unsafe for food to come into contact with newspaper ink without grease-proof paper in between.
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