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I had heard the expression 'drinking out of the finger bowl' many times as the epitome of uncouth, uncultured behavior. Finally around the age of 30, I found
by JackFr 10y ago
I had heard the expression 'drinking out of the finger bowl' many times as the epitome of uncouth, uncultured behavior. Finally around the age of 30, I found myself for the first time at a dinner where there were actual finger bowls, I could not stop myself and had to pretend to drink out of it.
(But interestingly, I also discovered they're quite useful. The meal featured a bit of a messy seafood course which required eating with your hands, and they allowed a bit of a wash up at the table.)
- hammock 10y agoOn the flip side of this, growing up eating whole lobster in Maine most of my childhood, the first time I ordered it at a 5-star, haute cuisine restaurant I was extraordinarily disappointed to find out they had already shelled it (albeit beautifully, perfectly) in the kitchen before serving it to me.
- Symbiote 10y agoThat is disappointing. I was very pleased, the first time I ate at a similar restaurant, to be given all kinds of tools with which to attack the large pile of seafood. (This was in Copenhagen, but two anecdotes isn't enough to generalize.)