Are you afraid yet???? :biggrin!!! Well in reading my favorite magazine Real Simple, I ran across an article called Tricky Food Etiquette. It describes how you should get rid of items like pits and or tails from shrimp at a cocktail party. If you are a higher class than I you probably already know this information, but considering, I'm a champagne lady on less than a beer budget, cocktail parties and myself don't cross paths often :smile.
Anyhoot, to the Etiquette items I found in the article. I can not find a place to link the article so I'm going to type it out and give credit to the author and magazine.
You're standing at a cocktail party feeling not like a socialite, but like a squirrle ~ because you've got a secret stash of pits in your cheek or your clutched paw. When you're faced with discarding olive pits, shrimp tails, gristle, and the remnants of other awkward-to-eat foods, the golden rule according to Letitia Baldrige, manners authority and author of Complete Guide to the New Manners (Scribner, $30), is to be considerate of others. "The most polite thing to do when getting rid of pits is to turn away from the other guests, bring your napkin to your mouth, slide the pits into it with your tongue, and bring the napkin back to your lap," she says. "Then deposit them on your plate when no one is looking." If you're offered shrimp cocktail, says Charlotte Ford, author of 21-st Century Etiquette (Penguin USA, $14), spear each piece with a fork or skewer and eat it a mouthful at a time. "Leave the tails on your plate or in a cocktail napkin. If you don't have either, find the nearest receptacle."
-Additional reporting by Roopika Nayar
Real Simple Magazine September 2003 issue
I know you all are so happy I shared that with ya' :biggrin.
Well it is Sunday evening and tomorrow is the begining of another work week, that is unless you have the joys of a vacation this upcoming week. So I'll leave you with some work humor. :smile
Now for another funny and I promise I'll spare you all for at least a week on the joke issues, sound fair???
A woman was leaving a 7-11 with her morning coffee when she noticed a most
unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black
hearse was followed by a second long black hearse. Behind the second
hearse was a solitary woman walking a pit bull on a leash. And behind her were
200 women walking in a single line.
The woman who had just left the 7-11 was overcome with curiosity. She
respectfully approached the woman walking the dog and said, "I am so sorry
for your loss, and I know this is a bad time to disturb you, but I've
never seen a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
The woman replied, "My husband is in the lead hearse."
"What happened to him?"
"My dog attacked and killed him."
"And who is in the second hearse?"
"My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned
on her."
A poignant and thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two women.
"Can I borrow your dog?"
"Get in line."
:biggrin ~ Have a great week!!!
EVERY TIME I FIND MR. RIGHT MY HUSBAND SCARES HIM AWAY
...if people are going to be offended at you 'spitting' stuff out - they shouldn't serve it...mind you, ever been to a wine tasting??...nah, I don't spit there either!!..
We know several people from the UK who are good at guzzling at wine tastings! *G* We even have pictures to prove it!
I LOVE Real Simple! This is great basic advice that everybody should know. NO contests to see who can spit the olive pits the furthest, please!
That etiquette takes all the fun out of watermelons, seeded grapes, etc.
"Real Simple" is a great magazine (we get it up here at work), but the really simple solution would be to spit seeds and pits into somebody else's drink. Out of sight, out of mind.