Worst table manners?

Question

I was walking past a cafe earlier, on my way home from work. Couldn't help but notice a young girl of about 20 ish, l*****g her plate!!! Eurrghh! Made me feel ill. I know people appreciate their food but surely not to that extent and in public. In some countries, i have read it is seen as acceptable to burp after eating. This is apparently seen as the fact they enjoyed their food.

What's the worst table manners you've seen? Or do you have filthy ones? Own up ;o)

Answer 1

There was this family that  use to come to my church back when i was a young girl, they were problable the nastyest family i had every meet, one church get together i seen the mother stiring a dish she had brought, she takes the spoon out lickes it and sticks it back into the bowl. Another time we went to their house for a dinner, know this poeple had money and had a very nice house. We were eating pasta, and the wife picked up the plates after we were done and took them to the kitchen so i get up to help with my mother, we walk into the kitchen and that woman was l*****g her plate, and one of her younger children was eating his pasta off the floor, were he had spilled it, So as you can probable guess we never ate there again or ate any thing that they brought to the togethers!!!!

Answer 2

As soon as I read "l*****g her plate" I gagged.

That is so freaking wretched!!!!!!!!! I work at a restaurant and I've never seen that.

I've seen a woman (about her mid 40's) wiping her plate with her finger before.

I LOATHE how people blow their noses at the table. That is super-uber disgusting. I think it's extremely rude to use cell phones and wear hats in a dining room. I suggest to folks they can hear better outside or offer to hang their hats for them, but they don't realize that what they are doing is rude. I wish men would stand when a woman arrives and departs from the table and help with her chair, coat & door.

After working in fine dining my bad table manners have been corrected.

(I'm still realing over the chick l*****g her plate.)

Answer 3

It was a hot day and this woman who just sat down to a table and was complaining how hot it was and that she was sweating like crazy. She then picked up a napkin (thank goodness that it was paper) and started to wipe her under armpitts. That has got to be the grossest thing ever!!

Answer 4

thats gross but i do ten second drop even in public

Answer 5

I have impeccable table manners, of course. ; )

I *briefly* dated a guy who was very picky (god it was annoying), and he used to come over for dinner at my place, and then pick at whatever I made. He was unemployed, and I later realized he was just eating at my place because it was free. One day I finally had it. He came over to eat dinner one night; I was horribly broke and working two jobs, and I made sloppy joes for dinner. He picked up his fork, said, "What's this...goo???" and began to poke around with his fork. I said, "That's it." I took his plate away from him, put it in the kitchen, and said, "You're not eating my food." He thought that I was joking, and tried to laugh it off. I told him that I was serious, that I had told him before that he was being rude and he kept doing it, and that he was no longer welcome to join me for dinner.

I also knew a guy that would use his fork and other objects to pick at his teeth after eating. I don't mean discreetly; I mean, it looked like he was trying to do a dental procedure. When I told him that it was inappropriate, he said that his mother told him it was fine. (He was 32 at the time.)

Answer 6

Well, I don't know if you would consider this table-manners, but I once invited neighbours for dinner and everything was fine , until the lady called her dog over and let him l**k clean her plate.

I didn't even know what to say----I love dogs, but would never do something like that at someones house.

Answer 7

chewing with mouth open is very disgusting and so is the endless burping and smacking lips... UGH!!! i can't stand it

Answer 8

I live in Florida, so sandals or flip-flops are the uniform of the day year round. I was eating at a Chili's one day and noticed a 20- something year old woman who's shoes were off, her legs were curled up "Indian style" in her lap, and she was picking at her bare toes while eating a fajita and sipping a margarita! I had to leave the restaurant. Hope that does'nt make you lose your lunch.

Answer 9

Oh I'm getting grossed out with that one about the feet...my dinner came up a bit.

I thought it was bad that my bf eats roasted chicken with his bare hands. I told him you can only eat fried chiken with your hands, use your knife and fork for the roasted chicken... he still does it anyway! His brother's worse though. He holds the chicken leg like it's a club. I feel like he was raised in the medievel times. In fact when we went to Medievel Times, he fit right in. I hated it cause I had no silverware!

My bf, I don't know HOW he does it, also gets BBQ sauce all the way up to his knuckles on every finger when he eats anything with BBQ sauce on it. On both sides of his fingers! I only get it on my finger tips.

He also eats his meal with his left arm on the table, in front of his plate, and sort of shovels his food in. I've rid him a bit of that bad habit though. If my dad had ever seen/met him,  he'd DIE! My dad was blue collar but he had impecable manners, being French and all.

I went so far as to ask him if his mom had actually ever taught them any manners... cause he and his brother eat like savages!