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Subject: [Leica] OT (kind of) Table manners
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Tue Sep 11 22:10:31 2007
References: <46E76FF3.7070508@dlridings.se>

Daniel,

My mother taught me that when I was three years old-- 75 years ago!

Jerry


Daniel Ridings wrote:
> I noticed in my PAW this week that there is something that took a 
> while to learn when I came to Sweden.
>
> Here's the link again and look at the position of the knife and fork 
> on Gunn's (that's her name) plate:
>
> http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/36.html
>
> If you finish eating and put your silverware any other way than she 
> had done, you will get the host and hostess offering you more and more 
> food, second helpings, on and on ...
>
> By placing your silverware the way she has, it means: I'm finished. 
> You will be offered desert or coffee, but you won't be terrorized with 
> second and third helpings :-)
>
> Took a while to pick up that trick ...
>
> Daniel
>


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