[Leica] OT (kind of) Table manners

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Daniel:

I was taught as a child here in Boston, that one simply crosses the 
knife and fork on the plate to send the same signal.

Jim

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