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re: 11 Table Manners That Still Matter
Posted on 10/24/11 at 2:52 pm to LSUBoo
Posted on 10/24/11 at 2:52 pm to LSUBoo
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I know I damn well take my cocktail to the table whenever the table is ready.
In fact, in many places the waitstaff or host is usually the one who carries my cocktail to table for me.
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Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:12 pm to Thomas Hudson
What about passing out face down in your plate and snoring?\
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Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:13 pm to LSUBoo
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* Keep your elbows off the table at all times.
I break this one. Why can't I put my elbows on the table?
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:21 pm to Zach
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Why can't I put my elbows on the table?
Mom never had an answer for this when I asked her. Now that I'm older I realize she was anti-elbow because her mom was anti-elbow. And grandma was cause of her mom and so on and so forth. Probably a rule some old rich limey woman made up 1,000 years ago just to bitch out some kids.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:24 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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* If you are the recipient of a toast, keep your glass at arm’s length—never drink from it. Instead, simply nod your head and graciously say, “Thank you.” I don't get this. NEVER drink from it?
After the toast is made and all others have toasted and drank and you have acknowlegded the toast with the thank you.
I'm surprised because I thought that was one of the most well known.
That one and the elbows on the table. I do bring a drink on occasion. And I wear cheaters so they may sit on the table with my phone as well.
Most of the rest I'm pretty good about.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:26 pm to LSUballs
if we're at a restaurant, chances are i will obey the elbow rule but not at home.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:32 pm to LSUBoo
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* If you are the recipient of a toast, keep your glass at arm’s length—never drink from it. Instead, simply nod your head and graciously say, “Thank you.”
I say thank you and then drink.
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* Never take your cocktail to the dinner table.
* Allow your food to cool on its own—never blow on anything.
Stupid
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* Keep your elbows off the table at all times.
Only if it interferes with someone. I know my forearms are always on the table because it's comfortable.
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* Take food out of your mouth the way it went in. If a piece of steak fat went into your mouth with a fork, spit it out onto the fork.
WTF? I would say something if I saw someone remove some fat from his mouth with a fork for all to see instead of discreetly depositing it into a napkin.
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* Taste everything on your plate before you add salt or pepper.
Not if it's a dish I prepared or have had numberous times and know it needs it
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:34 pm to S
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if we're at a restaurant, chances are i will obey the elbow rule but not at home.
I still obey it cause the second they hit the table I have flashbacks of being banished to my room without supper.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:39 pm to etm512
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WTF? I would say something if I saw someone remove some fat from his mouth with a fork for all to see instead of discreetly depositing it into a napkin.
into a cloth napkin? rather appalling, IMO.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:43 pm to Rohan2Reed
So you would rather them spit it out onto a fork?
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:46 pm to LSUBoo
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If you are the recipient of a toast, keep your glass at arm’s length—never drink from it. Instead, simply nod your head and graciously say, “Thank you.”
I'm gonna say 'thank you', and then drink up. If I don't get to drink it, I an't gonna hold it up at arms length through a long arse toast.
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Don’t put your purse, keys, sunglasses, or eyeglasses on the table.
At a fine restaurant...fine. For lunch and casual dining, frick that. I'm not sitting through a meal sitting on my phone with my keys in my front pocket.
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Taste everything on your plate before you add salt or pepper.
Well, no shite. How do you know if and how much it needs if you don't taste it.
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Leave your plate where it is when you are finished with your meal—don’t push it away from you.
I thought that's what told the wait staff you were done.
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Never take your cocktail to the dinner table.
Okay, fine. I make my bitches bring it over for me.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:46 pm to etm512
Yes and then put it on your plate off to the side. I don't think the article has in mind a huge fork full of something that's been chewed for 20 seconds before the person realizes they want to spit it out. For that.. yeah, you may need a napkin. 
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:47 pm to LSUBoo
if i dont hav ea purse, my keys and phone end up on the table. if the backs of chairs are round, my purse ends up on the table. i am not placing the pruse on the floor of a public restaurant.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 3:55 pm to LSUBoo
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I know I damn well take my cocktail to the table whenever the table is ready.
I do too. I am not going to down it before going to my table.. I'm not going to waste it and throw it out either.. And I'm not waiting to finish it and losing my table.
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* Allow your food to cool on its own—never blow on anything.
I do this, and I really need to stop. Bad habit.
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* Don’t put your purse, keys, sunglasses, or eyeglasses on the table.
A lot of people leave their phones out. I don't, and as a server, it's a pain in the arse. When I'm coming to your table with a scorching hot plate, I'm going to set it on your phone if it's in the way. Move that shite off the table.
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* Leave your plate where it is when you are finished with your meal—don’t push it away from you.
Can't tell you how many men do everything they can to get me to take their plates away, and I WILL NOT do it while the lady is still eating.
Posted on 10/24/11 at 4:00 pm to BayouBlitz
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At a fine restaurant...fine. For lunch and casual dining, frick that. I'm not sitting through a meal sitting on my phone with my keys in my front pocket.
I know for men it's a bit different since they obviously don't have purses, but at the very least, find somewhere discreet on the table to put it. Multiple times a night, I come out with hot plates and have to ask the patron ignoring me to move their phone from where I need to set the plate.
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