Thread 214141704

where does your country stand on food etiquette

>>214141704 (OP)
That's not true at all here

>>214141704 (OP)
Nazi tier shit

-don't stain the table cloth
-eat cake with a cake fork and not your tea spoon
-don't dip or double dip your spread knife in jars (jam, honey, etc.) use a seperate spoon to put the content on your bread/toast
-never call 'toast' 'bread'
-your knife is supposed to assist your fork, don't use your fork like a shovel

there was this tibetan monk at a chinese restaurant and the guy couldn't stop burping loud

>>214142644
You don't do that in Germany?

>>214142861

Ah, permettimi di rischiarare il tuo evidentemente provinciale orizzonte con una rivelazione tanto sfolgorante quanto innegabile: ti sei mai, nei vasti e tortuosi labirinti delle tue meditazioni, anche solo sfiorato l’idea che qui, nel fulgido colosso culturale universalmente celebrato col nome di Germania, noi possediamo, anzi, incarniamo, quella ineffabilmente sottile cosa (la cui stessa definizione nella tua patria sventurata è o del tutto assente, oppure ridotta a una manifestazione tanto pateticamente rachitica e goffamente maldestra da suscitare più compassione che ammirazione)? Sorprendente, non è vero? Curioso, deliziosamente curioso!

>>214142979
You will never be Italian, Manfred Biscotti.

>>214141704 (OP)
No elbows on the table. Make sure cutlery and utensils are placed the right way next your plate if you are the host.

Fork on the left, knife followed by spoon on the right and laid on a napkin.

>>214143070
Next to all plates. Not just your own. Ffs**

>>214142644
I had a feeling I was a germ.

>have dinner at a mixed Chinese/Indian household
>if you finish everything on your plate they assume your insulting the portion size
>if you don't finish everything on your plate they assume you hated the food

>>214143189
modern Canadian problems

>>214143134
-Don't put your fucking cigarettes, any other content of your pockets or mobile phone on the table where people eat.

>>214141704 (OP)
t if you clinked the bottom ofthe spoon in a soup bowl while eating they would take you out back and kill you

I don't know how common this is in the US overall, but when you go to a restaurant, you wait until everyone has food in front of them before you start eating. Then usually, the person or people without food will say "Don't wait for me! Go ahead and eat while it's warm." It's a 50/50 from there if everyone start eating or say "No, I can wait. I'm sure your food will be right out."

Some bad luck superstitions I've heard:
>don't cross knives
>don't eat the fortune cookie (Chinese restaurant thing) until you're fully done with your meal
>if you spill salt at the dinner table, take a pinch from the table and throw it over your shoulder (very common, old saying but nobody actually does this)

>>214143390
What if I am the only one who has ordered an entrée?

>>214141704 (OP)
>avoid chewing or talking with your mouth open
Is this not true everywhere? Where the fuck do people chew with their mouth open or talk with food in their mouth?

>>214143439
In plenty of places in Asia it is completely normal for adult men to chew like 5 year old kids.

>>214143216
Same. Though nowadays a bit ignored since everyone carries a cellphone and will inevitably use it at the table in between courses.

>>214143439
>where
The bad side of town. Peckham.

>>214142644
I approve that no double dipping in jar thing

>>214143390
I once went to a restaurant where they made a point of serving everyone at a table at the same time, but didn't have the staff or coordination to try and time a table's entire order to be finished at the same time, so three of us got burgers and the 4th person got a real entree that took actual effort to make, and by the time the 4th person's food was ready, the 3 burgers had been sitting on a counter in the kitchen for like 15 minutes and were cold and soggy as fuck

>>214143522
Same applies to butter. No one wants your fucking bread crumbs on their butter or in their jam jar.

Hate eating out in Portugal most of the time.
I leave food on the plate most of the times.
>OOOOHHHHHhhhHHHHH, WaS SoMeThiNG WRonG?!
>DiDnT You enJoy iT?!!
>Do you wanT SoMeThing eLSe?!!

And the worst part is that yeah, something was wrong most of the times. But Portuguese people are pigs who just eat about anything as long as the quantity creates a pyramid shape on the plate, and they don't fucking understand, no matter how explain it, people just end up either taking insult, or insulting me as the odd one out and picky eater.
So I just make up something as "i'm not feeling hungry" or "i'm feeling sick today"

I'm turning to Vegan restaurants more and more just because I found out there's less of a chance of cooks/chefs/butchers/management fucking shit up with their decision to making food.

>>214143438
Do you mean like if you get an entree but others order appetizers? Appetizers are pretty much always shared here but if you ask the waiter to order it as an entree they'll bring it out with everyone else's food. If you mean you go to a restaurant and you're the only one to order food, I feel like that's not very typical. If you're with friends or family, they will definitely pick off of your plate.

>>214143680
No, if only one person ordered an entrée and the others didn't order anything.

>>214143216
Oh yeah another one:

-don't fucking try change the composition of items on the menue, all allergenes of seperate meals are printed in the back. You are allergic against something or have an intolerance? Totally fine, simply don't order it.

>>214143712
Yeah, just not too common here. If you go with your gf or a close friend they will definitely take bites without asking. Drives me nuts.

>>214141704 (OP)
>Chile
I can't imagine someone eating some random hallulla sandwich or a completo with cutlery

>>214142644
>>214143216
>>214143134
This is just general Yugomanners thoughbeit.

>>214144039
It’s common continental manners. European.

>>214144201
I don't even throw garbage wherever I go, I just keep it in my pockets before emptying it in the designated bin.

>>214143802
It's totally fake news, sandwiches are eaten with cutlery.

>>214144290
People throw garbage around in FYROM?

>>214144819
Gypsies and shqiptaroids do, low IQ maymoonodonian students throw sunflower seed shells everywhere.

>>214141704 (OP)
Saar?

Does your language have a word for chewing with your mouth open so that it makes a wet sound? Couldn't think of a perfect match in English. "Smaska" in Bork.

>>214145047
Yeah "Schmatzen"

>>214145248
Nice, wonder if it's cognate.

>>214145047
Шлaпaњe

>>214145376
Cool. Macedonian confirmed as quality language.

>>214145047
Mljackanje.