Terrible table manners

[sherrardk]

Went out for lunch today (cooker still dead and no replacement bought yet). Sitting at the table nearest to us were (what looked like) gran and grandad, mum and dad and two boys (about 6 and 13 years old). The lunches came and the elder boy picked up his whole (large) Yorkshire pudding, folded it slightly and poured some gravy on it and then proceeded to eat it out of his hand. His parents and grandparents didn't appear to tell him off. He then snaffled another pudding from somewhere and did it again (this time the younger brother joined in.) I was itching to go over and give them a clip round the ear. (Sorry it's just been bugging me all afternoon.)

[daisya]

I would have done that too sherra, I hate bad table manners or all bad manners to be truthful.

[karenmac60]

I was out a few weeks ago and at the table opposite was a wee girl of around 3, standing on her chair and waving a spaghetti strand around her head and hitting her dad in the face with it. He eventually grabbed it off her - but instead of telling her off, he started waving it about instead!

[Buenchico]

Maybe they were from Yorkshire?

In many a pub around Rotherham and Sheffield (and, I've no doubt, throughout the rest of the county as well) on a Sunday lunchtime the landlord brings out a big plate of individual Yorkshire puddings (or, in the more traditional pubs, one massive pudding, from which everyone rips a piece). It's accompanied by a giant bowl of gravy, into which everyone dunks their pudding before consuming it (sans eating utensils) with one hand, while holding their pint in their other hand.

Delicious!

[Wrongn3mber]

Karenmac that made me laugh!
Buenchico, with the plate of nuts having 40 different urine specimens in, I dread to think what lurks on this yorkshire pudding free for all.

[Mosaic]

Provding the eating is done neatly I can see no problem with this lad picking up his food. If he was socialising normally, not grabbing attention and being considerate to others then he can pick up anything ad eat it in my book.
But yes, other people's kids are bad enough without them standing on chairs and stuff in restaurants.
But kids are what they are made by the adults in their lives. and this includes their behaviour at table.

[Postdog]

That's how I atemy yorkshires today. If the food is good eat it I say.

[B00]

To be honest no, that wouldn't have bothered me. Other people's table manners, especially those im not seated with don't bother me- nothing, after all, to do with me. I concentrate on my manners as well as my family's.

[jno]

please pass the caviare, B00, if you would be so kind

[Wrongn3mber]

Aren't we a bit too anal with our tablemanners in the uk? Abroad everyone eats from every plate with their fingers whilst talking laughing with their mouths full and having a great time. This is how food should be eaten imo.

[DTCwordfan]

aye-ooop all foor en's oop in t'same place aniway.

so just put them yorkkshire's right up yer assan be dun...skipton out t'middle bit.....

[DTCwordfan]

foor should have read food.....

[Mosaic]

Surely DT, following the logic in your patois, one woiuld get one's manservant to drop them directly down the lavatory?

[DTCwordfan]

Aabbsolutely, daarling. How deprayved can one get.

After all, Yorkshire puddings should be eaten by the fork and knife that is laid out for one after the main couteau and fourchette, and before the fromage cutlery.

The "gravy" or better, the "jus" should be served from an appropriate gravy "saucier."

[Postdog]

I just got a cold one with butter and jam yum!

[Safiya]

I agree with wrongn3mber...

chris im in yorkshire and ive never seen free yorkshire puddings!!!!! grrrrrrr :(((

[Safiya]

dt your yorkshire accents crap lol

[Mosaic]

Couple of weeks back we hauled up our tent in a heatwave, set everything up then ate crusty french bread smeared with camembert straight from the box. Handful of olives, glass of well-breathed red, snooze in the shade. It was bliss.
There was a knife involved somewhere, but forks not needed, nor plates.

[DTCwordfan]

Because I am a Cumbrian by origin, I accept that, Safiya.

[NOX]

I really can't see wht there is to get uptight about, eating with your fingers is perfectly fine if it's done neatly. I think you either bring kids up to be uptight or relaxed and that very much depends on how you are yourself, and adults with cringe at people who are of the opposite persuasion to them, but folding a yorkshire pud and scoffing it like that shouldn't be a hanging offence in anyone's book.

[Safiya]

guess its better than my cumbrian one ;)