Table Manners....

[kimmar067]

Careful you're going to start the next trend in the Cupcake craze. Serve them uniced, and then everyone has to follow proper bread buttering technique in order to ice and eat their cupcake.

..... that's ME - a regular ol' TREND SETTER...

 

[Diznygrl]

On Cupcake Wars, the judges may eat the cupcakes with a fork, but I think that has more to do with making it easier for them to pick apart the cupcake and taste each element individually (cake, filling, frosting) in order to judge all the components. When the cupcakes are served at the party at the end of the show, everyone is eating the cupcakes with their HANDS, nobody is doling out plates and silverware.

cornflake, you lost me with your donut comments. Now I think you're just trying to

 

[cornflake]

I'm not the only one in the thread who said they break off pieces of doughnut. Leebee said the exact same thing. I didn't say I used utensils.

Krista - a bagel you just pick up the half and eat, interestingly. I've never pondered that one. It's not 'bread' though, it's a meal? I dunno.

I'll just be sitting over here waiting for suzannen to take me out to dinner - Bar Bouloud, a Rodham event... - I bring hostess gifts and everything! See? Etiquette!

 

[calypso726]

Originally Posted by calypso726
Gluttony would be if you're buttering each and every bite of everyone else's bread in addition to your own

...and that's wrong??

Well no, just if you're eating it for them too. That would be wrong and I'd probably stab someone with one of the forks I'm not sure what to do with

No, gluttony would be buttering your finger along with the bread and then licking it off.

Don't be silly. You use the BUTTER knife to butter the bread and then lick the knife off

Disclaimer: The above is said tongue in cheek mostly to amuse myself. Although I can actually identify my utensils I have never stabbed anyone with any utensils, nor will I in the forseeable future, gluttonous bread stealing tablemates notwithstnding. Furthermore, I do not lick butter off of my butter knife ... well not publicly anyway

 

[calypso726]

I'm not the only one in the thread who said they break off pieces of doughnut.

So, let me get this straight and I am honestly curious. If you're eating glazed or chocolate frosted doughnuts don't you get glaze or chocolate frosting all over your fingers by breaking off bites at a time Even wiping your hands on your napkin will still leave your fingers all sticky and I imagine you're not licking them clean I dunno that seems far more messy than taking a bite out of the doughnut. JMO

 

[mrodgers]

So, let me get this straight and I am honestly curious. If you're eating glazed or chocolate frosted doughnuts don't you get glaze or chocolate frosting all over your fingers by breaking off bites at a time Even wiping your hands on your napkin will still leave your fingers all sticky and I imagine you're not licking them clean I dunno that seems far more messy than taking a bite out of the doughnut. JMO

I want to see Cornflake eat an Oram's Creme filled donut by breaking off little pieces. That is about 3 inches thick and probably 80% or better custard filling over donut. (SO delicious!)

I could see eating their cinnamon roll donuts by breaking off pieces though. They are 7 inches in diameter. (Also SO delicious!)

 

[CowboyCO]

I am not seeing any sign (e.g. this guy ) to indicate that you are joking. Put a bib on me because I must be a big baby in your eyes, as is every other person that I've ever eaten with or in the vicinity of . If I noticed someone breaking their bread into small pieces and then buttering each little piece, I wouldn't think they were "infantilized", but I would think it was bizarre even if it is some kind of ancient bit of dining etiquette. It just strikes me as really strange that that would be anyone's biggest dining pet peeve .

Mine would be undertipping when the service is at least good, and double-dipping in a shared bowl of dip, sauce, oil, etc.

Tearing bread into small pieces and buttering it would be a mild form of OCD in my book...

 

[cornflake]

So, let me get this straight and I am honestly curious. If you're eating glazed or chocolate frosted doughnuts don't you get glaze or chocolate frosting all over your fingers by breaking off bites at a time Even wiping your hands on your napkin will still leave your fingers all sticky and I imagine you're not licking them clean I dunno that seems far more messy than taking a bite out of the doughnut. JMO

It's not as if the glaze isn't dried and frosting and such is usually on top. I mean yeah, you might get glaze residue on a few fingers but yes, I'd use a napkin or go and wash my hands if it were a problem. Or let my army of ferrets lick them.

I dunno, you make it sound like you're handling a doughnut with your whole hands and it's all drippy or something. The glaze is dried and you only use a few fingers...

Like I said it's not so much 'etiquette demands,' as if I'm sitting home with a doughnut I'd do the same thing.

 

[calypso726]

Or let my army of ferrets lick them.

That's too many ferrets to feed and I don't have enough fingers for them to lick anyhow. I've got enough for a squad or even a platoon if I include my toes. But an army ... no can do

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I want to see Cornflake eat an Oram's Creme filled donut by breaking off little pieces. That is about 3 inches thick and probably 80% or better custard filling over donut. (SO delicious!)

I could see eating their cinnamon roll donuts by breaking off pieces though. They are 7 inches in diameter. (Also SO delicious!)

To heck with Cornflake, I volunteer to eat both of those & I promise to get it all over my face!

 

[kimmar067]

Well no, just if you're eating it for them too. That would be wrong and I'd probably stab someone with one of the forks I'm not sure what to do with

 

[DeaverTex]

I've been known to break chunks off of a doughnut, just to make it last longer, but they're not at all bite-sized. I'll break off pieces of a large cookie for the same reason, and because many of them are soft enough that if you try to pick up the whole thing, it will sag and fall apart. I prefer to eat cupcakes with my hands, although I can certainly see the advantage of a fork for a cupcake that's really large and heavily frosted.

Now, to stir the pot a bit, I eat muffins by breaking off the bottom -- in as many pieces as it takes -- and eating that first. The top, where all the crunchy parts and goodie lives, goes last. Broken up or not, depending on how big and crumbly it might be.

The important thing is to transfer the food from the table to your mouth without making a mess or causing disgust in your dinner companions. If you're accomplishing those goals, then any etiquette faux pas you might commit will, at worst, be entertaining. Like using the wrong knife to eat your peas.

And of course, as everyone knows, I always eat mashed potatoes properly. You know, with chopsticks.

 

[Planogirl]

And of course, as everyone knows, I always eat mashed potatoes properly. You know, with chopsticks.

Has anyone talked about how to eat cornbread? That would be so messy if pulled apart into pieces. Yum, cornbread.

 

[WowLookAtThat]

The important thing is to transfer the food from the table to your mouth without making a mess or causing disgust in your dinner companions. If you're accomplishing those goals, then any etiquette faux pas you might commit will, at worst, be entertaining. Like using the wrong knife to eat your peas.

And of course, as everyone knows, I always eat mashed potatoes properly. You know, with chopsticks.

I am more along the lines of bringing my face to the plate.

 

[suzannen]

I'm not the only one in the thread who said they break off pieces of doughnut. Leebee said the exact same thing. I didn't say I used utensils.

Krista - a bagel you just pick up the half and eat, interestingly. I've never pondered that one. It's not 'bread' though, it's a meal? I dunno.

I'll just be sitting over here waiting for suzannen to take me out to dinner - Bar Bouloud, a Rodham event... - I bring hostess gifts and everything! See? Etiquette!

I'm having an engraved invitation sent right over!

 

[leebee]

Has anyone talked about how to eat cornbread? That would be so messy if pulled apart into pieces. Yum, cornbread.

OK, cornbread... I'll bite (pun intended!! )

I don't know that there are rules, per se, for eating cornbread, but I've always assumed it follows along the lines of eating any bread or roll. I've modified this over the years to keep it from being so messy. I bake cornbread in and 8"x8" or 9"x9" pan and cut it into 9 pieces. I take a square, split it horizontally, butter, and put the pieces back together with the butter in the middle. To eat, I break off bite-sized pieces.

OK, I'm ready!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

OK, cornbread... I'll bite (pun intended!! )

I don't know that there are rules, per se, for eating cornbread, but I've always assumed it follows along the lines of eating any bread or roll. I've modified this over the years to keep it from being so messy. I bake cornbread in and 8"x8" or 9"x9" pan and cut it into 9 pieces. I take a square, split it horizontally, butter, and put the pieces back together with the butter in the middle. To eat, I break off bite-sized pieces.

OK, I'm ready!

I have always done this the same way but I use a fork.


I took my children out to eat today at Olive Garden for lunch. We all picked up our bread sticks and ate them. so did everyone else that I saw eating them. Not one person ate them one bite at a time, and I was watching. It could be because we were in Auburn.... Roll Tide!

I do have a question though. I noticed that with the paper from the straws, papers from sweet and low and sugar, we had quite a mess going on there and I placed all of these things together beside me. What the heck else are you supposed to do? What is the proper way to handle this?

 

[usnuzuloose]

No way, this thread finally has had its say?

 

[MickeySP]

Someone on another thread asked about the Table Manners thread & poof it appeared so as requested a Walking Dead Thread

 

[PigletsPal2]

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.