10 Things From The Past We’ve Almost Entirely Forgotten About Table Manners
In today’s day and age, folks treat the dinner table pretty casually. Sometimes meals aren’t even eaten at the table, instead being devoured on the couch or even eaten on the run in order to get from one meeting to the next.
But sitting down for a dinner or a lunch used to be a pretty involved affair. Before TV dinners took over, table manners were incredibly important for everyone, no matter what age.
How do you think your table manners compare to the standards of yesterday? We may not realize it, but our manners are probably way, way, way below the standards of the past.
I personally do a couple of these, but most of them are totally foreign to me.
Do you think that these manners should be brought back into play, or do you like the way things are now? Some of these dinner table expectations truly make a lot of sense if you think about them!
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You may not realize it, but you probably take sips of water or wine with food in your mouth all the time. In the past, you had to make sure your mouth was empty before taking a sip so no food debris got on the rim of the glass.
You were supposed to lay lunch napkins out fully in your lap, while inner napkins were supposed to be kept folded in half in your lap. You would always place the napkin casually to the right of the place setting once you were finished.
There’s nothing like a spicy dish to clear your sinuses, but back in the day it was rude to loudly blow your nose at the table, and you had to do it as discreetly as possible if at all.