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you first, i like the meal, i’m not a pig

I have several neuroses about eating at other people’s houses if the family sits at a table. I cannot eat until someone who lives in the house starts eating or if they tell me it’s okay to dig in. I have to finish all of the food on my plate because I don’t want people to think I didn’t like it or I was being wasteful. But I cannot finish eating first, because I don’t want to seem like I’m just scarfing the food down like a pig.

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45 Comments
tags: food, human interactions, ritual

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  Wookie says:

  Seems like normal good manners to me.
  Good for you

  - August 28th, 2009 at 9:08 am
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  Random Commenter says:

  This isn’t normal?

  - August 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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  sally says:

  I do this too. I was actually taught as a child that this is proper dinner etiquette

  - August 28th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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  Xeraans says:

  I do this too, along with always having to let everyone else go through a door before I do. I have to let the driver of a car get in before I do. When walking with friends, I can never walk towards the front.

  Some of my friends call it my “Pack Mentality.”

  And some people get really annoyed I do this, while others think I’m just polite.

  - September 1st, 2009 at 2:03 pm