Remain seated if someone proposes a toast in your honour.
Obviously.
Remain seated if someone proposes a toast in your honour.
Obviously.
My granny was obsessed with good table manners so I really canât be bothered with the whole thing.
Jesus.
Farting at the dinner table is rough as fuck.
I would be desperately unamused by this.
Donât you worry saps, I am.
I even took his dinner off him once because of it. Next time, itâs going in the bin.
So itâs contagious??
Before leaving the table, saying a polite âthank youâ to the person that prepared the food and tidying up / taking dishes to the kitchen. Itâs a nice-to-have I think.
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Are any conversation topics off limits at the table?
I think weâve already established that bodies and bodily functions are taboo.
Sex.
Puts me right off my sausages
Itâs like SATC never happened.
I find these things unacceptable at the dinner table.
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my husband doesnât like it if I discuss snot, vomit or that sort of thing. Working with 5 year olds that kind of IS talking about my day though.
I have banned dabbing at the table as well
Iâd like you not to mention snot and vomit too, please.
At Mrs CCBâs parentsâ house, the rule is that you have to wait for the person serving dessert to pick up their spoon before you can start eating dessert. All fine and everything, except that Mrs CCBâs mum tends to get caught up in conversation or some task and forgets to pick up her spoon. Until Mrs CCB or one of her sisters tells her to hurry up.
Dabbing the corners of the mouth with a crisp white napkin is surely not a banned act?
Itâs rude to complain about food thatâs been made for you.
Some hosts appreciate honest feedback though. Tightrope.
My mother in law is a disgusting and loud eater. She chews with her mouth open, talks with her mouth full, laughs with a big open mouth full of food and bits spit out over her plate, which is normally already in a fucking state cos she has mashed all her food together into a single mulch. I hate eating with her, but also feel bad because she was treated really horribly as a child by her mother who bullied her really badly over not being lady like even as a tiny child, so the appalling table manners is really a reaction against that.
(Before anyone starts laughing at the out-of-touch old man: I do know what âdabbingâ is )
Iâve banned politics talk when eating with my parents. It always turns sour (the Tory dicks), so it just seems silly to even bring it up. Dad still does it of course (the Tory dick).
I also find it weird eating when thereâs some sort of food thing on tv. Dunno why.
But if you canât handler her at her worstâŚ