Bad Table Manners

[FSUZeta]

All of what y’all said, plus elbows/leaning on the table, which might be because my mother would nail us for it if we did it.

And I am now traumatized by Phrozen Sands cereal crunching.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Hard for me to picture what you’re talking about, PB.

I’ll try to find it on YouTube and post it.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by carnation

Thse kids are 16-18 and should know better! We warned them that American kids wouldn't sit with them at lunch if they snarfed their food like that. One never learned.

Lol I was thinking when you said “tiny” I was thinking they were all little kids. Yeah, 16-18, they should know better by that age..

Originally Posted by Zach

Food is food, to me. I consume mine to survive. How I get it in my mouth, I don’t care. As long as it gets in there, that works for me.

This reminds me of those expensive ass restaurants that are $75/plate and they give you small ass portions of food. They’ll make it look decorative and all, which I don’t understand since I’m going to eat it anyway. I got a gift card to a restaurant like that for two once. I took my girl and neither one of us left full. Who cares about the presentation. Good grief. I hear you.

Originally Posted by andthen

Met through online dating, if someone set me up on a blind date and that's what I observed, I'd never let that person set me up again. I think we might have spoken on the phone once to set up the date. I had a rule back then is that if I met you through an online dating site, we have to have at least one conversation by phone before I'm willing to meet you.

Mind you I sort of broke my own rule when I met my now husband. We texted a bit for about a week before we met for dinner. At the end of our date, he said to me call me so I know that you made it home ok (which was thoughtful). I then said, oh we can finally speak by phone? He likes to share that bit of trivia with people whenever they ask how we met.

He sounds like a keeper with good table manners Lol

[lake]

This was just a few years ago...I was having lunch with one of my co-workers. Towards the end of the meal she pulled out one of those floss picks and began flossing her teeth right at the table. I lost my appetite immediately.

[cheerfulgreek]

When someone orders a sandwich with mayonnaise on it and after they take a bite of the sandwich or hamburger, some of the mayonnaise ends up on the corner of their mouth. And then they’ll just keep talking with the mayonnaise on the corner of their mouth. Any kind of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise or sauces that end up on the corner of their mouth is really gross. When it happens I’ll go like “Umm.. you have.. um.. this like..” while pointing at the corner of my own mouth where the mayonnaise is on theirs. Mayonnaise is disgusting as it is.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by lake

This was just a few years ago...I was having lunch with one of my co-workers. Towards the end of the meal she pulled out one of those floss picks and began flossing her teeth right at the table. I lost my appetite immediately.

🤢🤮

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by lake

This was just a few years ago...I was having lunch with one of my co-workers. Towards the end of the meal she pulled out one of those floss picks and began flossing her teeth right at the table. I lost my appetite immediately.

Lmfao!!!!! Hahahahahahahhahahaha!!!!

[FSUZeta]

Another one-when someone finishes his/her meal and blows his/her nose at the table.

[navane]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

The way someone holds their fork or spoon while eating. If they wrap their hand around the fork or spoon (making a fist, with their thumb on top of it), that is not only tacky, that tells me a lot about their upbringing.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Hard for me to picture what you’re talking about, PB.

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

I’ll try to find it on YouTube and post it.

Hold on, fellas! I've got you!




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Additional help for diners: https://www.etiquettescholar.com/din...manners_6.html

[Phrozen Sands]

I don’t know. Maybe that’s what PB was referring to? That’s what I was picturing too, navane.

[jolene]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Since I have misophonia, I cannot eat with anyone whose food I can hear or see. I can tolerate taking a bite of carrot or such, but that's stretching it.

I'm not proud of this, but it's very real to me.

You are my people! I hate to say this but my father in law is a loud eater and I always make a point to not sit near him at family dinners. I may have contemplated murder of a few people.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by navane

Hold on, fellas! I've got you!




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Additional help for diners: https://www.etiquettescholar.com/din...manners_6.html

Thanks, navane. That’s pretty much it. But it’s when they’re in the motion of eating and holding the fork or spoon like that.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

...For me it’s when someone just can’t stop talking while they’re eating, and with their mouth open, with small particles of food occasionally coming out of their talking mouth....

<------This without a doubt

Slouching
Snorting/strange noises while eating
Elbows on the table
Stabbing your food
Playing with your food
We all belch but without saying 'excuse me' -- just acknowledge you did it and move on.
Treating wait staff/host like trash.

I'm just talking BASIC manners. If i think of anymore Ill add.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

<------This without a doubt

Slouching
Snorting/strange noises while eating
Elbows on the table
Stabbing your food
Playing with your food
We all belch but without saying 'excuse me' -- just acknowledge you did it and move on.
Treating wait staff/host like trash.

I'm just talking BASIC manners. If i think of anymore Ill add.

Lmao!!!

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Lmao!!!

Listen, I know a guy....