Table Manners....

[GaryDis]

I guess I'm not getting either the "eat with hands" or "fork and knife" for cupcakes. How can you get all the ice cream inside the cupcake if you're not using a spoon?

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Blowing your nose at the table while people are eating. I can't stand hearing the snot leave your nose and then going into a thin little tissue that will be kept on the table as I try to finish my meal.

 

[Turn the Page]

My ex always used to get on me for using my butter knife to help get food onto my fork. For example, when eating peas, it's hard to get them onto your fork so I would use my knife to assist. According to him, you're supposed to use your bread to do that. I always thought that was playing with your food but apparently either one is acceptable. Showing the Emily Post passage that said that to him didn't keep him from bringing the issue up though.

 

[leebee]

The noisy eating drives me crazy, too. Crunching is not too bad, but chewing with the mouth open, talking with food in the mouth, and lip-smacking are unbearable! Another thing that drives me crazy is sitting in a restaurant and the hostess seats a family or couple in my line of site and a grown man in the party is wearing a tank top. The last thing I want to see as I eat is someone's hairy, sweaty armpits. His female companion, bra-less in a stretchy tube top that needs to be pulled up every ten seconds runs a close second. Living in a tourist area, we see this behavior all the time, so we don't go out to eat often.

Queen Colleen

Edited to add: Sorry, I don't notice the dates of posts and didn't realize that this is a zombie post. My statements still stand, however.

Don't feel bad about reviving this particular zombie thread. I think about once a month, someone refers to the "how to butter a roll" thread, then others mention not having read it, what are you talking about, etc. Reviving THIS specific thread is almost a community service! The "how to butter a roll" thread will probably go down in DISboards history (along with the canned corn people)!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Zambies!

 

[slo]

I hate it when certain members of my family sit down and start eating before everyone else is seated (particularly the cook!). I think it's beyond rude, and I've said so - but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

My Grandpa was strict about this and since I spent a lot of time at my Grandparents when I was a kid this has really rubbed off on me. In my house no one is allowed to eat until everyone is sitting at the table. Now when we have someone over, regardless who it is, it drives me crazy when others don't do this. I don't say anything of course, but it does secretly drive me nuts.

 

[Kenny1113]

Ugh! Many of the above mentioned drive me crazy!!! -smacking,the napkin, using utensils correctly, not waiting for everyone to sit before eating.
I recently looked into etiquette classes for my kids so that we can learn some that maybe I don't know and so it's not just mom being crazy/old fashioned/a pain etc. however, i cannot find any in my area. Off to check YouTube!

 

[bcla]

You guys would have a field day in certain parts of Asia. I've witnessed "double-dipping" into communal food with one's personal utensils, as well as a place where all the customers were spitting bones directly on the floor.

 

[delilah]

Some of you wouldn't last a week at our office, which is a medical office. We regularly discuss the grossest things you can imagine at lunch. As a matter of fact, for about a 2-month span, we had a poster that graphically described different types of feces in our lunch room. That's the latest big thing that pharmaceutical companies are promoting. There is one new product that is specifically for narcotic induced constipation. And this has been ongoing. Years ago, while I was in medical school, my dissection group decided that the muscles in the head and neck looked an awful lot like chicken nuggets. We had a running joke about it in medical, with the old Wendy's commercial about "parts is parts", promoting their chicken nuggets which were actual pieces of chicken instead of molded chicken mush.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

OOOOO It's a Zombie thread. 7 out of 10 zombies don't care about double dipping chips and brain dip. 3 were too busy double dipping with their hands to answer the question.

 

[DeaverTex]

Buttering an entire piece of bread/roll and eating it, rather than breaking off small pieces and buttering each individually. It absolutely infantilizes the person.

(I loved that thread.)

I hate it when people chew with their mouth open, especially adults! And when people make slurping, smacking, popping noises while they eat.