have you got good dinner table manners??

Question

or do you eat with yer mouth open, and with yer elbows on the table.

Answer 1

Growing up italian, if you had your elbows on the table you'd get slapped.

If you had your mouth open while eating, you'd get slapped.

Sometimes, you had to wonder after being slapped, which did you do?

Believe me when I say, automatically I eat all food on my plate, I do not put my elbows on the table nor do I eat with my mouth open.

Footnote:
Nor do I take the last of something, I leave it for the other person or people.

Answer 2

Have I good table etiquette? Of course. I find it necessary to open my mouth when eating however, and you may find that offensive. I have been known to sneak an elbow on the table while having coffee with a friend, I must admit. Yet I am a little proud of my upbringing. Most people seem to be under the impression that good manners are some form of play-acting, rather than a way of life. I find these people to be repugnant as they are aspiring to something which (in my opinion) is more than likely, just not in their DNA. True etiquette was designed to make others comfortable, NOT yourself. If a guest were to make an embarrassing faux pas at the dinner table, polite people ignore it as though it didn't happen. Unless it's something on a grand scale and simply could not be ignored by anyone if they tried. (Let's say they haphazardly poured the champagne contents into the hostess' lap while falling out of their chair). The correct behavior here is to actually laugh light-heartedly and assist the person back into their previous state of comfort. A good hostess will laugh the heartiest and see to her guests' dressing arrangements, as well as her own. If there were no laughter, one would think that this kind of behavior was normal from the poor guest, for Heaven's Sake! And I'd like to stress the importance of being a good host/hostess. In scenarios like this, it sometimes takes the emotionally injured a while to recuperate and must be given a shot of brandy in a separate room to quiet his frazzled nerves. Why these events usually happen to handsome young men is beyond my comprehension, but I do know that they need much reassurance from me when serving in the hostess role. For some reason, I am not as patient with women who need my husbands' assistance from time to time. As a hostess, I will ban them from my parties because I simply cannot afford to replace my Baccarat every time that annoying woman comes to visit. Ladies who socialize discuss such matters and you can bet that we have our place cards in order, over in our corner. Our corner cupboards, silly.

Answer 3

LOL, No, not with my mouth open but I have never understood the no elbows on the table rule unless it is at a huge formal event or a business lunch, etc. It does drive me nuts when people don't hold their utensils properly though, like holding their spoon or fork with their fist. I also hate it when someone sucks their stings of spaghetti.

Answer 4

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Not sure what kind of Italian she is, but my whole family has absolutely no class at the dinner table. Most of us talk so darn much we eat and talk at the same time (not in public, we're just a very close and fun family). Christmas Eve is the BEST...especially when I decide to start throwing empty crab shells at people, or when I've had too much wine and make the crab legs sing (lol I know...I'm 30 right).

Answer 5

When I am at home, yes. I am very rude at the table. Because most of time it's me eating alone there. But even whenmy husband is at home on weekends, we are rude together. However when I am out in public I keep my manners up well.

Answer 6

my cousin used to wear a baseball cap to the table , when he was at our grandmothers house she would force him to take it off, well he did and all we could do was gasp, it looked like he hadn't washed his hair in a year and his forehead was covered in red raw acne, the type of pimples that are half a centimetre above the skin surface with huge white or green heads, all of this was topped off by the smell of unwashed 15 year old boy. not very nice, but he really should have kept the hat on. no matter how rude, any how she sent him from the table and made him take a shower, he ended up wearing one of my gran's boyfriends shirts which was a XXXL on a boy who was tall and built like a bean poll.

Answer 7

At home I do put my elbows on the table,but thats a rebel move on my part as my Grandmother was a stickler on that so now that she passed away I do it all the time at home,but in public
I mind my p's & q's....=)

Answer 8

Not really.So don't invite me for a candle lit dinner.Just some Chinese on the carpet floor and some wine infront of a large screen tv will do just fine for me.

Answer 9

Elbows on table sometimes.

Answer 10

Sir, I use the butter-knife even when their is nobody about.
Perish the thought of poor manners, my dear fellow.

and I bid a Good Day to you, Sir.