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Has most of
your dining lately taken place at the drive-thru or over the kitchen sink? If
so, your social dinning skills may be a little rusty. When you chaueffer kids
from activity to activity, it’s not often that you take time to hone your fine
dining skills. And that’s the excuse for my recent eating disaster.
Although
I’ve attended many functions where food is served, while at a recent workshop,
I lost a fight with a chocolate chip, cream cheese muffin. It happened during the
continental breakfast. It was an informal setting, no tables, just rows of
chairs set up lecture style.
As I broke
off sections of the muffin, a chocolate chip went flying in one direction and a
cluster of brown chunks in another. I changed my strategy and attacked the
muffin with my plastic fork; moist bites of muffin finally reaching my palate.
A bite of muffin. A sip of Hazelnut coffee. A moan of delight slipped from my
mouth.
The woman
behind me took a bite of her muffin, “this good. Is this what you have?” she
asked. I nodded my head in agreement and
mumbled, “mmm” trying not to talk with my mouth full. With a satisfied tummy, I
dabbed at my mouth with a napkin.
It was
almost time for the workshop to begin so I went to the restroom to freshen up.
Upon inspection of my face I noticed a speck under my eye and another above my
lip…leftover muffin. I’m not quite sure how crumbs made it behind my glasses,
but it’s obvious that I haven’t mastered the use of a napkin.
The next
time I attend a workshop, I will focus less on the food and more on the
information presented (although I still learned a lot).
What is the
etiquette for eating a muffin? Have you experienced any social eating blunders?
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