What table manners were you taught

[Uncle C]

When I was young, and with a big family seated round the table, my mum would have a wooden spoon alongside her to give a sharp blow to anyone with their elbows on the table.
I still dont do this today - job done.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Good ones.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Don't murk anyone at the dinner table.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Elbows off the table
Knife & fork pointing handle towards to on your plate when you've finished eating
No vodka shots for pudding unless you've eaten your greens

 

[CHAPPERS]

No sniff at the table.

 

[RM-Taylor]

None to be honest.

Or not that I can remember.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

We did elbows off the table for our two (who are now adults), and no speaking with your mouth full, and close your mouth when chewing. Also no-one starts until everyone is ready (unless under special permission). And you have to ask permission to leave the table.

Sounds like the 50's - but every house needs its rules.

 

[CHAPPERS]

No petting.

 

[Uncle C]

Did anyone say prayers as well?

 

[wehatepalace]

My folks never liked it when I had a sly one off the wrist at the dinner table

 

[CHAPPERS]

No bombing.

 

[wehatepalace]

No bombing.

 

[steward 433]

We did elbows off the table for our two (who are now adults), and no speaking with your mouth full, and close your mouth when chewing. Also no-one starts until everyone is ready (unless under special permission). And you have to ask permission to leave the table.

Sounds like the 50's - but every house needs its rules.

We do that with our littlun

Just manners and they go a long way

 

[SurreySeagulls]

We are teaching our two little ones (5 and 2) to remain at the table until we are all finished and to then ask to leave the table.

To say please and thank you when asking for food in bowles i.e greens and potatoes

Also taking their empty plates to the kitchen.

Good manners go a long way

 

[footychick]

Permission to leave the table and grace on sundays were ones I can remember.

 

[CHAPPERS]

No fat chicks.

 

[Cian]

None that I remember, other than my mother being dismayed that I apparently hold my knife and fork backwards.

To add to that we also eat in the kitchen cause the dining room was and still is full of computer and TV gear... :whitetrash:

 

[The Large One]

We did elbows off the table for our two (who are now adults), and no speaking with your mouth full, and close your mouth when chewing. Also no-one starts until everyone is ready (unless under special permission). And you have to ask permission to leave the table.

Sounds like the 50's - but every house needs its rules.

Pretty much what I was brought up with. Oh, and thanking Mum for the dinner once we'd finished, and no moaning that we were being served cabbage or broccoli.

Shouldn't really say this, and I'm not necessarily one to talk, but my step-daughter, uncorrected by her mother, still eats 'American-style'. One elbow on the table, only using her fork to cut the food, push it round her plate and eat with, while leaning over her dinner to shovel food in. Even if we're having roast beef.

Might as well stick it in a trough and have done with it.

 

[bhaexpress]

Apart from all the above don't eat with your mouth open, surprising how many people do and the other thing was the correct way to hold and use a knife and fork. Not quite as simple as it seems.

 

[backson]

Fart to the left, belch to the right.