Trump's Bigly Salt and Pepper Shakers

Rexedgar said:

How many know that you don’t put the butter directly from the serving dish onto your dinner roll? Soup spoon? Wtf is a soup spoon? When you are eating by the pound etiquette matters not!

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Have you noticed that in even so-called "nicer" restaurants, the salad fork is the same size as the dinner fork? This is just wrong.

nota bene said:

Have you noticed that in even so-called "nicer" restaurants, the salad fork is the same size as the dinner fork? This is just wrong.

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Table manners are just a non-starter any longer. I think we must be of the same generation. Manners were impressed upon me with serious consequences. I hate to sit at a table with slobs, to this day; usually I comment and that blows the atmosphere.......

Rexedgar said:

Table manners are just a non-starter any longer. I think we must be of the same generation. Manners were impressed upon me with serious consequences. I hate to sit at a table with slobs, to this day; usually I comment and that blows the atmosphere.......

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I never say a word; I just talk **** to my best friend later. :mrgreen:

But here is a true story. I and my daughter had lunch with a guy after church one Sunday. First, he ordered an appetizer...for himself and didn't offer to share. Sigh, okay, fine.

Then the salad arrived, and every time he stabbed a piece of lettuce, the fork tines nearly shattered the glass plate, and surely everybody nearby heard every stab. By now my 10-year old kid is kicking me under the table.

But then the man got something caught between his teeth. And dug for it. Yes. And then in Rosanne Rosannadana fashion, examined it between his fingers and then--yes--popped it into his mouth in front of our horrified eyes. I swear.

We had a rule: Wait until we're in the car. We almost didn't make it before exploding in grossed-out screams of laughter.

Rexedgar said:

How many know that you don’t put the butter directly from the serving dish onto your dinner roll? Soup spoon? Wtf is a soup spoon? When you are eating by the pound etiquette matters not!

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What's worse is slurping soup, coffee or whatnot. Perhaps good manners in foreign land, not so much here.
Chewing loudly or talking with food in your mouth. Of course they do it on tv all the time, esp in some of those food shows. The chefs shove the obligatory sample of their creation in their mouth and immediately start saying how good the food it, although one can only guess that is what they are saying.

Lovebug said:

What's worse is slurping soup, coffee or whatnot. Perhaps good manners in foreign land, not so much here.
Chewing loudly or talking with food in your mouth. Of course they do it on tv all the time, esp in some of those food shows. The chefs shove the obligatory sample of their creation in their mouth and immediately start saying how good the food it, although one can only guess that is what they are saying.

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I was in my late 20's before I saw someone actually shovel food. He literally put his face a nostril hair away from the plate, turned the fork sideways, and began shoveling. I just about plotzed.