Overly Specific & Stupid Food Rules/Etiquette - Burning the midnight watermelon

[CallmeCicada]

Remembering all the stupid rules Italians have about food made want a thread on this subject. A lot of people are probably aware of the weird Italian eating rules and their reasoning of "because you just don't", but what are some less know rules from other cultures you guys know about?

A few that come to mind:
- Eating Pizza with a knife (NYC)
- How to cut cheese (France)
- Sprinkling cheese on seafood (fuck you Italians)
- Having the "correct" glass for your type of Beer (Germany)

 

[Dysnomia]

No elbows on the table. Fuck you that's a retarded rule.

 

[Surfin' Biiird]

I love table manners. I have been autistically obsessed with etiquette since I was probably around 7-8 and, even if they seem complicated or obnoxious, they're usually worth something, namely uniformity. Everyone acts the same way while they eat, so everyone feels comfortable.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Not filling a wine glass all the way. I'm a big boy. I can handle a full glass.

 

[TEA 3HF]

Anyone else have the "Cut your meat with the knife in your right hand and you fork in your left hand to a small bite and then switch the fork to your right hand to eat it" rule growing up?

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Not really a rule but...

Western soup spoons suck

Asian soup spoon superiority

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Not filling a wine glass all the way. I'm a big boy. I can handle a full glass.

That's for the benefit of the aroma, flavor, and breathing. Wine glasses are designed for it, and that's why some of us have autistically large and precise glass collections.

https://www.riedel.com/en-nl/blog/education/Your-ultimate-guide-to-different-types-of-wine-glasses

 

[TETRABAX]

Using a whiskey glass. Whiskey is meant to be drank from the bottle

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Anyone else have the "Cut your meat with the knife in your right hand and you fork in your left hand to a small bite and then switch the fork to your right hand to eat it" rule growing up?

"Growing up"? What sort of heathen practice do you use now? :-) (Unless you're European, in which case you not switching hands is the accepted.)

Etiquette is useful and wonderful. If more servers and diners understood how the position of your utensils on your plate signals whether you are still eating or finished, I'd have had to wrench my plate out of hands a lot fewer times in life.

 

[TETRABAX]

Anyone else have the "Cut your meat with the knife in your right hand and you fork in your left hand to a small bite and then switch the fork to your right hand to eat it" rule growing up?

You don't need a knife to eat steak. You have teeth for a reason

 

[Coolio55]

Not really a rule but...

Western soup spoons suck
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Asian soup spoon superiority
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I always wondered.
Is the handle of those supposed to be like a little straw?

 

[Angry Shoes]

That's for the benefit of the aroma, flavor, and breathing. Wine glasses are designed for it, and that's why some of us have autistically large and precise glass collections.

https://www.riedel.com/en-nl/blog/education/Your-ultimate-guide-to-different-types-of-wine-glasses

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It breathes just fine in the bag

 

[Colon capital V]

Literally no one raises their pinky when they take a drink. No one does this, this is a psyops by the brits into thinking mutts are less "posh" than them because they don't do this minuscule action.

 

[Ed Special]

That's for the benefit of the aroma, flavor, and breathing. Wine glasses are designed for it, and that's why some of us have autistically large and precise glass collections.

https://www.riedel.com/en-nl/blog/education/Your-ultimate-guide-to-different-types-of-wine-glasses

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Wine snobs get consistently proven to be full of shit in double-blind taste testing studies, and Aldi's $5 bottles of wine consistently roflstomp wine competitions, so excuse me for feeling somewhat skeptical of this.

For me, the thing about table etiquette I will never understand is why there are like five different types of forks. Nigger, a piece of metal with some pointy bits is a piece of metal with some pointy bits. Same with soup spoons vs table spoons.

 

[DumbDude43]

Not filling a wine glass all the way. I'm a big boy. I can handle a full glass.

bro have you seen how big some wine glasses are? if you were to actually fill one up to the top you'd have to drink like half a liter of wine lol

on topic answer: dedicated cheese knives are stupid

 

[CallmeCicada]

I always wondered.
Is the handle of those supposed to be like a little straw?

The shape is to help them stack for storage.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

eating alone = not having to follow excess manners

 

[Angry Shoes]

bro have you seen how big some wine glasses are? if you were to actually fill one up to the top you'd have to drink like half a liter of wine lol

Skill issue

 

[TETRABAX]

bro have you seen how big some wine glasses are? if you were to actually fill one up to the top you'd have to drink like half a liter of wine lol

on topic answer: dedicated cheese knives are stupid

I'm failing to see the problem

 

[CallmeCicada]

I'm failing to see the problem

More ≠ Better. Just order a bottle and drink out of it then, whats the point if you can basically drain a whole wine bottle in 3~4 glasses.