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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2014, 07:13:44 AM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on January 27, 2014, 06:42:29 AM
Salad forks, along with fish forks and demitasse spoons (along with demitasse cups) ...


I don't know what demitasses are actually meant for, but I find coffee is best enjoyed in very small amounts. You can only drink so much, before it cools down.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2014, 08:37:50 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 27, 2014, 12:48:17 AM


I see that the fourth season is available at the PBS website. Is it advisable to jump in on the middle of things?

UK TV does not give out multi episode actor contracts like US TV does, that being said, I would start with the 1st episode and go forward. Each season is 6-8 episodes of an hour in length.

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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2014, 09:34:34 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 27, 2014, 12:48:17 AM
What is easy news?



Somebody gave me one of them digital TV box thingies. I plugged it in, and connected it to my teevee, and it picked up one or two channels (we have at least 5 around here). PBS was not one of those channels. I don't know if there's something else I'm supposed to do with it.

I see that the fourth season is available at the PBS website. Is it advisable to jump in on the middle of things?

Have you tried rescanning for the stations?  A couple of the stations around here changed their frequency, so we had to rescan to pick them back up.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2014, 10:55:42 AM »
-WARNING- Heathen Alert:
One of the best meals I've ever had was "served" with a spork, a paper plate, and a plastic cup.  I have a hard time getting worked up over the size of a fork or the order the flatware is presented.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #29 on: January 27, 2014, 11:17:33 AM »
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It's like they're afraid that if they have good knives, a terrorist will take over the restaurant and crash it into a building.

I think it's an idiot nerfing measure more than anything else. When you consider the amount of downright dumbasses out there that shouldn't be allowed to leave the house without adult supervision...

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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2014, 12:28:22 PM »
Fistful,

You never went to a Dining-in or Dining-out when you were at Ft. Hood?

I remember teaching members of my platoon the proper etiquette for the Regimental ones we had in Heidelberg.


(As young Cadets we had a Dining-out where the cadre taught us the proper etiquette for said events.)
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2014, 12:55:58 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on January 27, 2014, 12:28:22 PM
Fistful,

You never went to a Dining-in or Dining-out when you were at Ft. Hood?

I remember teaching members of my platoon the proper etiquette for the Regimental ones we had in Heidelberg.


(As young Cadets we had a Dining-out where the cadre taught us the proper etiquette for said events.)

Marine Corps Dining In - you have 20 minutes in the mess hall and better finish everything on your tray.  Stainless steel knife, fork, and giant soupspoon provided.

Marine Corps Dining Out - The reason MREs come in pouches is so you can eat from them while humping to the next hill.  If you are lucky you got a spork; if not, a plastic spoon.  Both would break if you looked at them.

Marines dress up for the Birthday Ball.  And we get to use our saber [it is NOT a freakin' sword!] to cut the cake.  Senior NCOs and officers are made to dress up for other occassions, but are not allowed to bring their sabers. =(

Other than that, Marine ettiquette seems to be rather limited.

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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2014, 04:42:17 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on January 27, 2014, 12:55:58 PM
Other than that, Marine ettiquette seems to be rather limited.

stay safe.

If ever there was a statement of the obvious.   ;/

Anywho, 
MP Regimental Ball (Dining Out)  1 Oct-(ish) of each year.
St Barbara's Day Ball  (Dining Out)  3 Dec-(ish) of each year.  (Baumholder was home for 8th ID DIVARTY and all the FA Bn's).

And then there was a Brigade Dining-In with several NATO allies in Frankfurt.  Kevin and I did the "Michelangelo and the Pope" skit from Monty Phyton Live at the Hollywood Bowl. (Thanks to MWR-costumes in Aschaffenburg).  The Brits were roaring, the French were bored, the Dutch confused, and the Germans were not amused, but it resulted in a new rule that the Brigade XO would from henceforth, preview ALL skits, acts, songs, any and all other "entertainment" prior to said Dining-In.

I also found a 1950ish version of Guide to Proper Etiquette for the Army Spouse which included chapters on the wearing of gloves (when and what type; along with chapters on Calling on Senior Officers and/or their spouses, Calling on Junior Officers and/or their spouses, and the proper use of calling cards and the types of trays in which to receive them.  500 and some odd pages of etiquette.  There was even a chapter on proper place settings.   The Ex was not amused.

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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2014, 05:05:58 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on January 26, 2014, 08:29:16 PM
I know the difference.

I'm also old enough to have attended a school that had mandatory etiquette courses for us.

Does anybody do that anymore?   ???

We work every meal to get the little heathens our children to use proper etiquette.  We are usually rewarded with some small portion of barbarous behavior (7 & 9YO).  Luckily, they have behaved themselves when on sleepovers & such.  They save the truly outrageous antics for us.

We have looked into "manners camp" locally.  The earliest/youngest they have is a cotillion deal that covers table manners and goes into dress and formal dancing.  I was hoping for a more boot-camp like experience, but learning to dance formally would be handy in some circles.  Set up the little buggers for success, says I.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2014, 08:14:27 PM »
Do you people not have Grandmas?

Etiquitte is important to Grandmas. Especially when they dress up their darling little grandaughter, with those pretty little ringlets and big blue eyes, and then invite all her church friends over for dinner.

I guess the cuteness factor is undercut when the darling little granddaughter is racing hell for leather, screaming her bloody head off and just acting like a little heathen.


(weirdly enough, despite the imposition of behaving like a little lady for the sake of being shown off to old ladies, I loved visiting my grandparents)
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2014, 08:22:56 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on January 27, 2014, 12:28:22 PM
Fistful,

You never went to a Dining-in or Dining-out when you were at Ft. Hood?


Never heard of it. Besides, it wouldn't explain why they give you a tiny fork, for eating big chunks of vegetable.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2014, 12:56:53 AM »
Quote from: fistful on January 27, 2014, 08:22:56 PM

Never heard of it. Besides, it wouldn't explain why they give you a tiny fork, for eating big chunks of vegetable.

It's so you can more easily spear only ONE big chunk of vegetable, when 2-3 might be too much for your mouth.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2014, 04:40:15 AM »
 ^ I said that already.  More or less.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2014, 06:10:18 AM »
Don't eat salad. Problem solved.

Besides, salad is what food eats.  :P
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2014, 12:34:18 PM »
When I need a fork at home I go for the salad fork. It's sharper tines makes stabbing things easier.

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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2014, 05:54:53 PM »
Quote from: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on January 28, 2014, 06:10:18 AM
Don't eat salad. Problem solved.

Besides, salad is what food eats.  :P


Salad done right is good eatin'. And by "done right," I mean thick chunks of peppered bacon, and bigger chunks of bell pepper.

Oh, and then you can also have some lettuce and stuff, too.
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Re: Let's talk about salad forks.
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