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[toadhjo]

I'm supposed to give a short (~5 minute) presentation about western table manners. I'm just looking for a couple more things that might be useful to say. I already have the following:

1) Don�t reach across the table!
2) Don�t talk with your mouth full!
3) Say good things about the food!
4) Only eat from your plate! Each person has their own food!
5) Don�t rest your elbows on the table!

Oh, and it's for public elementary students, and my co-teacher may or may not translate, so simple suggestions that I can reinforce with pictures would be best.

[detourne_me]

Don't chew with your mouth open
Ask politely to "pass the salt"
Place a napkin on your lap
the proper way to hold a spoon, fork and knife?
Then show them this:
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mmb4450/table_setting.jpg

[blackjack]

how to hold a knife and fork.

don't eat off your knife.

eat soups with the spoon going away from away from you.

taste the food before adding salt or pepper

don't you your fork as a spoon

don't start eating till the head of the table does.

Make no sound while eating

ask before leaving the table

[benji]

Dont sit on the floor.
If its a restaurant, no yelling at the servers to come over.

[kabrams]

Don't play with your food!

Don't point with silverware (especially not knives, lol!)

You do not have to finish all the food on your plate, but if you want seconds, you have to finish the food on your plate first.

Don't wear a hat/cap/coat.

Put a napkin on your chair if you want to leave for a moment.



This is an interesting topic, not just for your class.

[blackjack]

[proustme]

Don't stuff a softball-size ball of rice and galbi wrapped in lettuce into your mouth.

[kinerry]

[sugarkane59]

Don't lick your knife, bowl or plate clean!

If you are picking your teeth with a toothpick, cover your mouth/toothpicking action with the whole of your other hand. But who does this at the table any more anyway???

[blackjack]

[themagicbean]

fork and knife next to each other at about the 4:30 point on the plate indicate you are finished.

fork and knife on either side of the plate, with each utensil crossing onto the plate, heads facing each other, not touching each other though (like connecting them is an invisible horizontal line that bisects the plate) indicates you are pausing

utensils: start on the outside, work your way in

don't blow on your soup to cool it

...

[blackjack]

At the end of the meal place the knife and forks together in a 45 degree facing away from you

[fermentation]

You guys do all that? The only thing I keep in mind is to chew with my mouth shut and to not talk with my mouth full. Sometimes the latter is difficult when some people constantly ask me questions right as I'm taking a bite.

[kinerry]

[jdunca12]