Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

In our house 'something inside so strong' is a naughty euphemism.:o

The one that has me and OH trying not to look at each other if we hear it in public is the 90s song with lyrcics, "you say it best, when you say nothing at all / the smile on your face lets me know that you love me" etc.

OH is completely convinced that there's a reason she's silent and showing "love" at the same time.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was just watching one of those Jamie Oliver 15 minute menu programmes (too lazy to get remote and try to find something else). What he made sounded really nice ..... but I realised on both of them that it was a good job he then ate his food as I'd have "eaten it wrong".

First was a chinese thing, I thought you'd stick it on a plate and eat it with a knife/fork - no, you shoved the meat into the bun (like a burger). Second was a crab thing with salad, I thought it was finger food, but he ate it with a fork from a plate. Doh.

Never mind peasants not knowing which cutlery to use..... I wouldn't know how to eat the stuff

Eat it how you want to....its your home!

vivatifosi

Has anyone got the latest Daft Punk album? There's a track on there - Fragments of Time - that has Todd Edwards on vocal. Vocally he really reminds me of someone from the 70s but can't think who. Probably around Seals and Crofts or Little River Band time, so early to mid-70s.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, yes, but it's nice to know you're eating something right or not....

Right is subjective. E.g. I eat asparagus with my fingers usually, but often check around a table to check the table etiquette. DH explained the at a table of Italians at an international thing and they then insisted we all eat with our fingers and I was trying to explain that as it we american lead it probably wasn't the correct form for them.....

We were the only table to eat with our fingers, the asparagus wa unsauced, no one was in the 'wrong'. If unchecked I would have opted for 'fitting in' for ease.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, yes, but it's nice to know you're eating something right or not....

I mean ... you make those cold soups ... you don't serve them in a wine glass through ignorance

I might. It would be funny. I love tomato consomm!, it would be fab in a wine glass.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Right is subjective. E.g. I eat asparagus with my fingers usually, but often check around a table to check the table etiquette. DH explained the at a table of Italians at an international thing and they then insisted we all eat with our fingers and I was trying to explain that as it we american lead it probably wasn't the correct form for them.....

We were the only table to eat with our fingers, the asparagus wa unsauced, no one was in the 'wrong'. If unchecked I would have opted for 'fitting in' for ease.

Then you have the whole thing about how to hold your knife and fork. I find the US technique quite extraordinary, yet both are correct AIUI.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I might. It would be funny. I love tomato consomm!, it would be fab in a wine glass.

Never heard of that. I thought there was only one cold soup, gazpacho (?sp), which I would expect to be green (no idea why, never seen it .... but it sounds green).

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Then you have the whole thing about how to hold your knife and fork. I find the US technique quite extraordinary, yet both are correct AIUI.

Yep. Its funny how irate people get about things though. For me if people eat quietly and without speaking with their mouths full I'm pretty content to share a table with them.

Pn, there is nothing wrong with checking what others do first, many experience people do it in unfamiliar situations.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never heard of that. I thought there was only one cold soup, gazpacho (?sp), which I would expect to be green (no idea why, never seen it .... but it sounds green).

Gazpacho is fab. I make it lots in summer and live off it for days at a time. Its red. Its basically blended tomatoes, peppers, onion and garlic,and cucumber, and some sherry vinegar, olive oil and a pinch of sugar. Lots of people put bread in. I don't but give cubes of all the above plus bread to guests getting it for lunch.

Tomato consomm! is clear. Leek and potato can cold, and Thai chick soup is really nice cold too!

There are. A fair few cold soups. Quite a few American fruit 'savoury ' soups that personally I don't get on with well.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Yep. Its funny how irate people get about things though. For me if people eat quietly and without speaking with their mouths full I'm pretty content to share a table with them.

Pn, there is nothing wrong with checking what others do first, many experience people do it in unfamiliar situations.

I'm currently reading The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England having previously read Tim Moore's Continental Drifter. Both of which conveniently discuss the use of forks. In Elizabethan England, it was considered foppish to use a fork, though people were starting to return from early grand tours with such implements. Thomas Coryate, who Moore wrote about, was acknowledged as bringing the fork to England.

In terms of how important it is to eat correctly, I recall reading (IIRC Asne Seierstad's With their Backs to the World) how Serbians were affronted with our involvement in Kosovo, stating "they were eating with their hands while we were eating with knives and forks" (paraphrased).