What is your most embarrassing dinner faux pas?

Question

Or funniest thing that ever happend during dinner?

Answer 1

I was having dinner in Paris with a vendor. They served just about everything you could think of...so I said, "Christophe, this menu is so extensive." And he replied with his thick French accent, "Don't worry I'm paying". I was SO embarassed, he thought I said "expensive". I didn't want to push my luck so I just sunk down behind the large menu. Arhh.

Answer 2

I recall almost making a faux pas in a Japanese restaurant many years ago, but my cautious side kept me from embarrassing myself. The place setting included something that appeared to be some kind of eggroll or such in a white rice wrap. I thought "how nice, a warm appetizer on a cold night as quick as we sit down. Not beinig Japanese, I wasn't absolutely sure what it was so I cautiously touched and poked at it and slowly discovered that it was a rolled-up moist warm wiping cloth for the fingers and face. I 'm very happy that I didn't try to pick it up and bite into it.

Then there was the time in a school dining hall when I was cutting a tough piece of meat and it shot off my plate across the table about three diners down the line. Someone said something like "Hey,not bad, can you pick off the that guy in the red shirt over there at the other table?"

Answer 3

Although I have committed a few Fauxes-par, this is one committed by a friend of mine.
He had been staying with us in Thailand, and as a rent payment, he took my wife and myself out to dinner.
He had had a few drinks during the day, but was usually able to hold his alcohol, and remain a gentleman.
We were living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and he took us to one of the more expensive eateries, for a blow-out.
We had a cocktail before dinner, and then a bottle of white with the starters of fish.
We had steaks for main course, with a robust claret, and then a couple of brandies with coffee. He paid the bill, and it was time to go. When he tried to stand, he kept falling back into the chair. He asked me if I would move the chair as he stood, and then he would be alright. I wasn't sure, but he insisted.
Yes - he stood, and as he fell backwards he grabbed the table cloth, which he managed to pull over himself like a blanket as he fell. As the table hadn't yet been cleared he was covered in and surrounded by all manner of crockery, glasses and utensils. I wished I had had a camera, but perhaps fortunately I didn't. It was quite embarrassing extricating him from the mess, and apologisng to the management while all the other guests looked on

Answer 4

This is to answer one of the funniest thing that ever happened....

Our family and some friends were out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant for our son's 10th birthday. After eating for a bit, our 14 year old asked the waiter for some "hot" sauce...and out came the hot sauce.

So now the 14 year old asks anyone if they "dare" to try this hot sauce and of course, the little brother, the 10 year old says sure.

So the 14 year old puts as much sauce as he can on two different sets of chop sticks and gives one set to the 10 year old. Then he states "Ready, Set,...Go" and they both put the sauce into their mouths at the same time.

Now, the little guy takes his stick out of his mouth with nothing left on it and starts making faces and grabs water...then the 14 year old takes his chop sticks out of his mouth with the sauce still on it!

:)

Well, may be you had to have been there, but it was pretty funny at the time and we all had a good laugh.

Answer 5

When my youngest daughter was about 5, we were sitting in a Chili's Restaurant. We ordered a skillet queso as an appetizer. The youngest ask the wife what it was and was told a cheese dip with beans to dip the corn chips in. A the top of her lungs the youngest replied,"Do give that to Dad, he'll fart all night!". The restaurant was deadly quiet for a moment...followed by a roar of laughter, it is not so bad now as we look back on it. :)

Answer 6

At a formal dinner I went to pour a cup of tea and forgot to hold the lid down. I nearly broke the lid and spilled tea on the linen.

Answer 7

i was at a bob's big boy diner with my college roommates and needed some ketchup so the waitress brought me a bottle of it. well, i couldn't get it to come out so i hit the bottom and then shook the bottle really hard. the cap flew off and rolled across the floor and there was ketchup EVERYWHERE! i didn't know if i should laugh or get the heck out of the diner!

Answer 8

My brother so inexperienced at getting catsup to flow, hit the bottole on the table. (opening up) when he hit the bottom on the table the SUP went straight up and SPLATT on the ceiling....That would be OK if it were Denn'ys but this was a 4 star restaurant. OOPS. Now we see the restaurant serves him Sup in a bowl.....HMMM see they do remeber the customers..

Answer 9

I added salt instead of sugar to my coffee. The place was too dim, dammit! Imagine my face, trying not to spit it out! I couldn't be further embarrased, I'm with a nice looking guy and did not want to spoil it. Ergh, disgusting.

They should label those I tell you!

Answer 10

Sometime back at Patrica Murphys, a fancy place in NY, I was eating and talking with a tableful of people when my knife slipped and I sent peas flying everywhere, and I mean flying.