Eating Utensils
A table sheet that you place in your lap at the start of a meal.
What is a napkin?
Turning your meal into toys and a game. You never do this while you eat.
What is playing with your food?
An Italian food, brought to the United States after World War II, that you can eat with your hands. Many companies serve this popular food as their main meal.
What is pizza?
Where you go to remove something that is caught in your teeth.
What is a restroom?
Placing a joint of your arms on the surface on which you are eating. This is very impolite, but if you are young, it usually goes unnoticed.
What is placing your elbows on the table?
Where you place a napkin.
What is your lap?
Trying to communicate by speaking when there is food in your mouth. You never do this while eating.
What is talking with your mouth full?
A sweet dessert, usually small and round, can come in many shapes and sizes. Types include macademia nut.
What are cookies?
Where you place a napkin when you are finished eating.
What is your left side?
Recalling what the server would like to be known as. Use this as often as possible throughout the meal.
What is remembering the waiter's name when s/he introduces him/herself to you?
A dropped fork, spoon, knife, or anything on the floor, you do at this time.
What do you pick up after you eat?
Moving jaws together and apart, with lips apart. Never do this while eating.
What is chewing with your mouth open?
Meat, cooked in this way, that is one you can eat with your hands. The meat comes from a well-known, flightless bird. One specific company serves these birds instead of beef.
What is fried chicken?
Moving your flat dish, typically circular and made of china, from which food is eaten or served, away from you. If you want to be known for your good manners, never do this.
What is pushing your plate away from you?
Making eye contact with your server. This is very polite.
What is looking the waiter in the eyes?
When you do not know which silverware to use, this tip is useful.
When do you start with the silverware farthest away from the plate?
Trying to wipe something off your fingers with your tongue. Never do this!!! Use a napkin instead.
What is licking your fingers?
Healthy foods that come from plants or are plants that have been cleaned. The one that comes from a flowering plant, in order to be a finger food, must be small. This other, which is a piece of or the entire plant, must be raw in order to be a finger food.
What are small fruits and raw vegetables?
What you do and say if you have to use the restroom. You obtain an upright position, supported by one's feet.
What is standing up and saying "Excuse me"?
Speaking to your servers as slaves. Never do this, no matter what.
What is talking to waiters and waitresses as if they are servants?
Where you place your silverware if you have not used it.
What is leaving your silverware where it is?
Eating or drinking (something) with a loud sloppy sucking noise. You never do this while eating.
What is slurping?
A vegetable, usually called a spring vegetable, is often considered incorrectly to be a food that should be consumed with a fork. This is long and green, with one tip that looks like tiny leaves, and another that is woody.
What is asparagus?
Where you place silverware that you have used. It is a circular dish.
What is a plate?
Being polite, and following what you have learned to say when you are asked what side orders or desserts you would like.
What is asking "What are my options?"