Manners 8

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Manners 8

• Wrestling Difficult Opponents

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When should chicken be eaten with the fingers?

• Eat chicken with fingers at a fast food
  restaurant or picnic.

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How should you eat an artichoke?

• Break off a leaf, dip it in the sauce, and pull
  the leaf and sauce through your teeth.

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How is paté de fois gras eaten?

• You eat any paté on crackers.

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You are served oysters or clams in their shells.
How should you eat them?

• Remove the oyster or clam meat with a cocktail
  fork and eat in one bite.

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When should you pick up a chop bone and gnaw off
all the meat?

• In the privacy of your own home.

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Which utensil should you use when eating an
avocado served in its shell?

• Use a spoon to eat an avocado in its shell.

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How should you eat large shrimp served in a
stemmed glass?

• Eat a large shrimp in a cocktail glass with a
  cocktail fork, one bite at a time.

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You are served strawberries for dessert. How
should you eat them?

• Hold the strawberry by the stem and eat in a few
  bites.

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You have been served a wedge of melon that has
been skinned. Which utensil should you use?

• Eat melon with a fork a piece at a time.

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Where should you put an olive pit?

• Remove the pit with your fingers if you put the
  olive in your mouth with your fingers. If you
  placed the olive in your mouth with a fork,
  remove the olive pit with the fork and place the
  pit in your tightly cupped fist.

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You have just been given a finger bowl. How
should you use it?

• You dip your fingers in the bowl and dry them on
  your napkin. If you are also served a washcloth,
  you dip the cloth in the bowl and wipe your
  fingers on the wet cloth so you wont be called
  sticky fingers.