When Rednecks Dine Out (#2)
March 22nd 2011 08:02
So anyway, we were all sitting down to dinner and I realized (as I did at the posh restaurant my husband and I visited) that there were two sets of cutlery. And since I had too much of a life to actually research this topic since my first encounter with it, I still had no idea what was what.
Then came the dilemma; they served a kebab.
Now, I’ve never rolled in high society but I’m pretty sure kebabs they aren’t on Gordon Ramsey’s menu. And since they are essentially chunks of meat on a really big toothpick, I picked it up and began to eat. Upon seeing this, others at the table gave a combined sigh of relief that someone had done it first and picked up theirs as well.
Now I’m normally not one to just shuck convention, but I came to the conclusion that it looked sillier to try and cut the meat off the stick than to eat with my hands. So that began a conversation, at the table, about what is proper, which fork to use first and so on; and the general consensus was that although some knew what was right and some didn’t, no one really cared.
Which brings me to my next point; the rule about holding a wine glass by the stem and not the ‘bowl’ as it’s referred to. I’ve been told that when you hold it by the bowl, the heat from your hand can affect the flavour of the wine. I understand this if you are perhaps in Bordeaux, France sipping on a $200 dollar bottle of la France’s best, but if you bought the bottle with a twenty note or poured it from a bladder, I may just slap you if you hold it by the stem.
I’d like to think that one day I’ll be so rich that when I hold a wine glass by the bowl, instead of people saying, “Oh, isn’t she uncultured,” they’ll say, “Oh, isn’t she rebellious.”
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