The article was exhausting (unless you're into stuff like the history of table manners going back to the Victorian era) so I'll save you having to read it for t

The article was exhausting (unless you're into stuff like the history of table manners going back to the Victorian era) so I'll save you having to read it for the final paragraph which sums up the opinion nicely: > Really, what the average person would consider “good” table manners these days boils down to common sense: Chewing with your mouth open is, and always will be gauche. But the more specific etiquette practices — the rules for how to hold your utensils or scoop up your soup — are no longer uniform, and therefore, mistakes are less likely to be met with the same bougie judgement they would have been a century ago.