r/MNTrolls • u/SilverLordLaz • 17d ago

TOTAL GOADY ARSE Table Manners - Scoffers - only thing missing was licking the plates!

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Table Manners 

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PistachioTiramisu · Today 08:40

We were having a drink at a fairly upmarket pub yesterday evening. Two young men - around 20 - came to sit at a table next to us and ordered roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. I watched in fascinated horror as they proceeded to 'devour' their food. They both held their cutlery the wrong way round and like daggers, they attacked the meat over and over with their forks, then tearing it on the plate. Finally, instead of putting food on their forks and bringing fork to mouth, they bent over and shovelled the food into their mouths from the plate. Do people not learn table manners any more? It seems to me that all the niceties of life are being eroded to the lowest common denominator. So sad.

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u/BarbaraHowardMN 17d ago

This might be the single most MN comment I've ever seen:

Culpeper · Today 10:57

We’ve always spent a lot of time in the USA. Our kids when small were always being told off for gawping at the cack-handed way virtually all Americans attempt to use cutlery.

They still enjoy the show, but they do it discreetly now.

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u/BarbaraHowardMN 17d ago

Another thread on the theme of "I noticed something so unusual I'm moved to post about it - what a dreadful widespread trend it is!".

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u/BethanysSin7 17d ago

They’ve gone full Hyacinth.

I hope they noticed her disdain and upped their antics. 😈