"Everybody knows [...]" means my parent(s) had some weird or strict rules and life lessons that I had hounded into me which I internalized into my very being and never questioned, and now I have unspoken and often unrealistic expectations of people and the world that no one has absolutely any reason to know about.
I remember meeting someone in high school that was confused that everyone was eating and drinking in the same meal. Because in their house and extremely limited world view, you EAT. Then you leave the table and go DRINK.
Families really mess some people up with their made up rules. Meet a girl that was raised that you can't talk at the dinner table. She thought it was normal to sit down, eat an entire meal, and then get up in dead silence.
Ehh ... It's more likely etiquette to not descend on the rolls like a starving Labrador retriever. Much of manners is about self restraint and making oneself 'small'. The idea is that you wait a minute or two, so it's not like being at the Chinese food buffet when a fresh load of sweet and sour pork comes out. Everyone piling in for the rolls is undignified. It's related to the idea that even if you really want that last roll, you ask if anyone else would like it before snatching it for yourself.
... but judging someone for grabbing one when they come out? Pretty prissy.
I think you're right. I guess they had parents who were big on setting rules, but not on justifying them.
I'm pretty sure my parents throttled my bread intake at restaurants when I was very young for the reason you state, but they accompanied their directive with a "don't fill up before you get your main course" justification. So I didn't assimilate it as a rule of etiquette, and instead understood the underlying logic.
"After seeing you enjoy good food as it was intended, I don't think I want to continue this. Everyone knows food must only be eaten after you upload pictures of it to Instagram and get a certain number of interactions."
I thought it was five seconds. Five minutes maybe for the last roll if you've had two or three already. I can't stand it when everyone is so damn polite not wanting to take the last one of a shared food item to the point of allowing it to go to waste. Give it a fair pause but then take that last roll or cookie or whatever if you want it.
I give everyone an easy out in that situation, because the people I eat with just look at me by default to take the last one. It did take a while of me saying, "Well if no one else wants it, I'll take it," to get to that point.
I once worked as a dishy in a not too fancy restaurant. One busy night we were all out of ladles. They were just gone. The head chef noticed one lying on the dirty floor under the sink that had dropped there God knows when. He announced: ‘Six months rule!’ and just plonked it directly into the soup.
Hmm yeah that's what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn't take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn't eat again for 24 hours 😆
This happened when I went to America many moons ago, not with bread but regular food.
We went to this restaurant and you order you main like steak and fries. Then you get a buffet starter and I swear to god it had any food you can imagine. Suffice to say I ate so much I couldn’t even start my main when it came.
I’d never seen such large humans as when I went to the USA. Breakfast was similar to with all you can eat.
The general thing to do is to peruse the menu to find what you want first to get that out of the way as the wait staff can be pretty quick when you first sit down. If the bread won't distract you during, go for it. You just really want to get your order in when they come by as it could turn into a while before they come back.
They were probably taught something like that, but it became so corrupted that the entire reasoning was lost, leaving only an arbitrary wait time.
i have known a lot of people from different walks of life, from different places in the world. I have heard some silly food etiquette but waiting for 5 minutes before enjoying the pre meal bread is fucking lol
it's one thing if they eat all the bread in 5 minutes, but getting the appetite started by helping yourself to the initial food offered when it's served is pretty normal IMO
79 Comments
homes@piefed.world · 183 pts · 199d
If I had received this text, I would consider myself lucky
ickplant@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 199d
Bullet: dodged
Carbs: acquired
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 199d
All hail the bread.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 199d
\[T]/ 🥖
PwnTra1n@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 199d
Fuck bitches, eat bread
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 199d
Bullet: dodged
Crabs: dodged
jontree255@lemmy.world · 161 pts · 199d
OP after never talking to this person again:
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 199d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 199d
Okay
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
Didn't expect that ending.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 199d
"Everybody knows [...]" means my parent(s) had some weird or strict rules and life lessons that I had hounded into me which I internalized into my very being and never questioned, and now I have unspoken and often unrealistic expectations of people and the world that no one has absolutely any reason to know about.
frog@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 199d
This should be the reply.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 199d
Nah it should be "bye"
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
¿Por qué no los dos?
snooggums@piefed.world · 55 pts · 199d
Guess they love cold bread!
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 199d
Genuinely, I believe this originates from their family preventing them from filling up on bread at restaurants.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 33 pts · 199d
I remember meeting someone in high school that was confused that everyone was eating and drinking in the same meal. Because in their house and extremely limited world view, you EAT. Then you leave the table and go DRINK.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 8 pts · 199d
Families really mess some people up with their made up rules. Meet a girl that was raised that you can't talk at the dinner table. She thought it was normal to sit down, eat an entire meal, and then get up in dead silence.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 199d
Ehh ... It's more likely etiquette to not descend on the rolls like a starving Labrador retriever. Much of manners is about self restraint and making oneself 'small'. The idea is that you wait a minute or two, so it's not like being at the Chinese food buffet when a fresh load of sweet and sour pork comes out. Everyone piling in for the rolls is undignified. It's related to the idea that even if you really want that last roll, you ask if anyone else would like it before snatching it for yourself.
... but judging someone for grabbing one when they come out? Pretty prissy.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 198d
If rent is more than 10% of my income, I AM a starving Labrador.
shutz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 199d
I think you're right. I guess they had parents who were big on setting rules, but not on justifying them.
I'm pretty sure my parents throttled my bread intake at restaurants when I was very young for the reason you state, but they accompanied their directive with a "don't fill up before you get your main course" justification. So I didn't assimilate it as a rule of etiquette, and instead understood the underlying logic.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 199d
That is a red flag text.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 199d
"What am I suppose to Jerry!? Just ADMIRE it??"
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 199d
Its called a stupid excuse.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 32 pts · 199d
"After seeing you enjoy good food as it was intended, I don't think I want to continue this. Everyone knows food must only be eaten after you upload pictures of it to Instagram and get a certain number of interactions."
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
https://i.imgur.com/YZouBub.gif
rumba@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 199d
One person's red flags are another person's dodged bullets.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 199d
Yeah, wait for the bread to stop being warm and fresh before you eat.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 199d
Dodged a bullet, etc., but still, why? What's the thinking here as to why you should wait to start eating the bread?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 199d
To signal wealth
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 199d
Only the poors enjoy bread enough to reach for it immediately.
CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 199d
I thought it was five seconds. Five minutes maybe for the last roll if you've had two or three already. I can't stand it when everyone is so damn polite not wanting to take the last one of a shared food item to the point of allowing it to go to waste. Give it a fair pause but then take that last roll or cookie or whatever if you want it.
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 199d
I give everyone an easy out in that situation, because the people I eat with just look at me by default to take the last one. It did take a while of me saying, "Well if no one else wants it, I'll take it," to get to that point.
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 199d
I mean I prefer to have a roll while they're still warm.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 19 pts · 199d
Nice, dodged a bullet
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 199d
That wasn't the real reason.
Also, hot bread is fantastic.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 199d
I'm guessing in this case the real reason is self-sabotage.
adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 199d
Massaged the butter into the bread with his bare hands without breaking eye contact. At least blink so they don't think you're a threat.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 199d
'you have shit on your head'
'it's chocolate!'
'oh thank fuck'
'can I come in now'
'no'
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 18 pts · 199d
She's confusing the rule about eating food dropped on the floor. SMH. 😔
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 199d
That’s outside floor, inside is 5 hours.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
I once worked as a dishy in a not too fancy restaurant. One busy night we were all out of ladles. They were just gone. The head chef noticed one lying on the dirty floor under the sink that had dropped there God knows when. He announced: ‘Six months rule!’ and just plonked it directly into the soup.
I laughed for a goddamn week.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 199d
I'd reply with 'I don't like people who can't use capital letters anyway' since we're going with unimportant things.
Sergio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 199d
no capital letters is OK, but you gotta capitalize "I". Otherwise you're lookin at someone who's gonna read you their bad poetry at some point.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 199d
“We have a rule, if you order the nachos to share, one person can’t just eat all the fully loaded nachos.”
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
Unless they're all stuck together, and then it counts as one big nacho.
Epp4@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 199d
Whaaaaaaaat? Bewildered expression
Sergio@piefed.social · 12 pts · 199d
TRANSLATION: "You have to choose! It's either me or the bread!"
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 199d
Oh that's easy
Dave@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 199d
Ok serious question. I live in a country where they don't serve you free bread.
What do you do if you eat all the delicious bread then you aren't hungry anymore?
I had this real life scenario happen when I was in Canada and we felt obligated to order mains even though we didn't want them.
Is it socially acceptable to pay for your drinks and leave?
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 199d
No, it's not. You just take the food home and then eat it later.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 199d
Hmm yeah that's what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn't take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn't eat again for 24 hours 😆
rbos@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 199d
Yeah, we go to Spaghetti Factory (Canada) and fill up on bread and just tip the main course directly into leftovers containers sometimes.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 199d
This happened when I went to America many moons ago, not with bread but regular food.
We went to this restaurant and you order you main like steak and fries. Then you get a buffet starter and I swear to god it had any food you can imagine. Suffice to say I ate so much I couldn’t even start my main when it came.
I’d never seen such large humans as when I went to the USA. Breakfast was similar to with all you can eat.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 199d
I guarantee whoever wrote that will be single for their entire life.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 199d
Don't worry, they probably wrote it to themselves for internet likes.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 199d
...Not that that makes it less true.
1984@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 198d
These posts are fake guys.
600 points upvoted and didnt even happen.
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 198d
ok and now what it's still kinda funny
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 199d
Somebody read a post about negging but couldn't think of a real thing to be an asshole about.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 199d
OP
FishFace@piefed.social · 8 pts · 199d
I think the rule being followed is "post ragebait to farm engagement"
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 199d
What reasons do you come to a shit post community for?
For family?
FishFace@piefed.social · 3 pts · 199d
Yes, but only the family I'd get engaged to
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 199d
Mmmmm yummy ragebait
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 199d
Dumbest escape excuse ever.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
The general thing to do is to peruse the menu to find what you want first to get that out of the way as the wait staff can be pretty quick when you first sit down. If the bread won't distract you during, go for it. You just really want to get your order in when they come by as it could turn into a while before they come back.
They were probably taught something like that, but it became so corrupted that the entire reasoning was lost, leaving only an arbitrary wait time.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 199d
"I'm sorry I wasted my time, R. All the best"
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 198d
You guys are getting free bread?
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 199d
Usually after the type of date that has you thinking about the future with the person and how perfect things seem.
Then you get that.
Gotta do one of those eye-blinking head shakes and just delete the convo and move on. Ain't worth it.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 199d
I feel like this has to be a guy writing this to a woman right? There's no chance that it's the other way around.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 199d
i have known a lot of people from different walks of life, from different places in the world. I have heard some silly food etiquette but waiting for 5 minutes before enjoying the pre meal bread is fucking lol
it's one thing if they eat all the bread in 5 minutes, but getting the appetite started by helping yourself to the initial food offered when it's served is pretty normal IMO
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 199d
What kind of fucking monster wouldn't be right there with said date enjoying the most excellent carb delivery system RIGHT NOW?!?!
As another said, bullet dodged.
EDIT: as you said ;)
Mac@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 199d
Give em my number, we boutta double team those rolls.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 199d
Sounds arbitrary. Don't they usually just bring more bread if you run out?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
If anything that text should've been sent in reverse.
Bosht@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
ITT: people taking a shitpost seriously again, lmao
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 199d
"iMessage" lmao. That feels like satire. iText and iClock hahaha
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 199d
create a script that places a lower case i in front of every word that doesn't already start with a lower case i