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Miscellaneous šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø Table etiquette

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They say manners are the foundation of a civilized society. And having conventions about how to eat certain foods is something we find across the board everywhere in every culture. The pouring melted cheese over an assembled burger matter that was raised recently on a different thread brings this issue to the forefront.

Do you know anyone who eats pizza with a knife and fork? Mrs. Maister does. I, on the other hand, tend to treat it as finger food. The one exception is possibly if the pizza is a deep dish that's super drippy with sauce, then I might use a knife and fork, but the other 99% of the time it's finger food.

How do you tend to eat fried chicken - with a knife and fork? If you eat it as finger food, do you pinch off pieces of the coating with your fingers or do you hold the whole piece and eat it like you might eat spare ribs? Speaking of spare ribs, anyone use silverware for that?

What are your quirks or peeves when it comes to table manners?
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Jaguars think the proper eating etiquette is devouring a fresh kill raw using only your face, while walking on all 4's, and violently attacking anyone who tries to take your meal.
 
I eat most everything with a fork and knife. Fried chicken, wings, sandwiches and pizza (I do pick up tje pizza crust with my fingers). I prefer not to get my fingers messy or to have sandwich contents fall away from the bread.

If I'm at a restaurant that hands silverware wrapped in a napkin, I set the silverware in their proper places and set the napkins aside until I need it.

At home, i use cloth napkins. For some reason, this wrecks my siblings' meal. Theu most often ask if they can use the cloth napkins, and my brother-in-law gets a paper towel to use as a napkin.
 
Let's hear how gauche everyone is. I want to see some monocles drop with shock.

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I have three growing boys. It is a miracle if we make it though the meal without some level of significant disruption.

In all seriousness, there are some foundational elements of our meals. 1, we always pray before we eat. 2, if there are others at the table, there are no phones permitted.

My oldest does not put ketchup on his hot dog or burger, but rather dip them into the ketchup. My middle son tends to forget that he has a fork, unless it is spaghetti. The youngest just sits there angry because he does not like steak, roast beef, grilled BBQ chicken, East Carolina Pulled Pork, or 10,000 other things.

Pizza, wings, and anything with a bun is a finger food. As are French Fries.

We almost always use paper towels as napkins and we do Buffet style. This is something new though, before that it was restaurant style where I spent time making everyone's plate look good, but that turn out to be a waste of time and effort. Now I fix the plate for my wife and I (because I do all the cooking in our house) and then the kids get their own damn food.

A good example is this is my wife's favorite dish. It is grilled chicken on fettuccini with a creamy lemon sauce & steamed broccoli.
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I use a fork for pizza. I never knew that was odd.

As for table manners, we are pretty informal. i discourage books and phones at dinner time, unless the person is eating alone.

Happy 24th Birthday Portland MAX Airport Line!!!

Opened September 10, 2001, after a weekend of testing.

I was originally going to attend the ribbon cutting and rubber chicken event that night at the airport and fly home the next day, but decided I was tired after the busy weekend so I skipped the party and flew home that afternoon.

One of those random decisions that prevented major inconvenience. (We still haven't gone back to normal . . . probably never will.)

JNA said:
People on their smart phones.
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I see more and more people with flip phones. Maybe the 00's are coming back.
 
Thin crust pizza you eat with your hands unless you are in Italy, deep dish pizza flavored casserole you eat with a knife and fork.

Weā€™re not formal by any stretch in our household. I only cook for myself and the kids and mostly use paper towels as napkins.

We are well mannered at restaurants.
 
We've been struggling with our daughter on table manners. I keep threatening her that she's going to have through cotillion classes. My family only ate at the table a couple of times a week, but when we did you followed the rules. I was also forced to go through etiquette training for a club and at church.

The one that drives me crazy is chewing with your mouth open and talking with food in your mouth. I have a coworker that I cannot sit next to during a meal.
 
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