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There are those who seem to feel that it is important for them to ruin a really great meal in some way or another. Here are a few of the ones that irk me the most. Please feel free to add to the list.

1) Bring up someone's medical issues.
2) Make a remark about how some of the food items, ingredients, or method of raising is detrimental to health.
3) When the meal is over, declare that after that, no one should have to eat again until some (large) amount of time has passed.

And guests that show up late, and say, I already ate.

and someone shows up late, and the hostess says we've already ask the blessing, so go ahead and eat.

So untold millions of family holiday get togethers for thousands of years.

There goes Uncle Joe getting drunk and making lewd jokes again.

Trump jokes.

Or at a get-together, the meal has started, people have their mouths full of food, and someone decides to call for a blessing.

Cold gravy.

Folks that take themselves too serious.

yes, that too. have seen it one way or 'nother from nearly every seat at the table.

and sometimes when they announce holding hands for the blessing, someone or another is down the hall in the bathroom. should we wait for them?

ahem. maybe, maybe not. might depend upon who it is?

Miracle Whip.

Mike

couple are invited over for dinner, the grabowski's, show up late, drunk, wifey proceeds to break an English bone china plate

in subsequent get-togethers, yours truly refers to them as the "gra-bundy's" LOL deservedly so, but hubby get's all butt hurt about that, never to be heard from again TG

Listen to my sisters family eat in the old days. (Divorce)

The Dad, a graduate of a private military academy in Virginia,
Mom, raised by my parents, was taught manners.
Younger daughter, not taught manners,
Older daughter, decent self taught.

Hands in plate, lip smacking like hogs, snorting, open mouth chewing, three of the four.
Got ugly when the young one was picking the eggs out of the macaroni salad, with her hands.
Yours truly had a fit, "You don't pick through the food, and you sure as [bleep] don't put your hands in the
serving bowl". My sister said "well, she likes the eggs". I couldnt phugginn believe it!

They thought I was rude.
They had no idea how restrained I was.
That day, I realized my mom had gotten old.
20 years ago no kid would have ever considered doing that at her table.
A visitor, would have only gotten a butt chewing.
If I had done that as a guest, I would have bled when we got home.

Horrible table manners is one of the worst "gifts" a parent can give a child... and it amazes me when adults with decent table manners do not demand it from their kids.

Some classics that have pissed me off in the past...
Eating smoked fish and putting fish bones back on the serving plate after pulling them out of their mouths...

Insisting they cannot eat a main course, getting something else made especially for them, only to eat the original.

Eating a meal before saying they are allergic to tomatoes and will get a huge migraine...

Once had a charter client take 90% of the pasta before half the table got any... and then left most on his plate.

Someone who picks out most of the shrimp or meat out of a dish. Fn HATE that. Inconsiderate pigs.

Finally.......I had about bitten my tongue off.

Had a brother-in-law who had a real weak stomach. He could also be a butthole, so if he was being a smartazz, and we were eating, I'd have to say something like I found a hair in the food, just to watch him quit eating and leave the table. I always looked at it as payback.

A fool proof way is to invite friends that unbeknownst to you, hate each other.

Ketchup.

Thanks for the laugh!!

About the time we sit to enjoy the evening meal and watch a little prime time TV, The Colorectal cancer commercial comes on and we get to see something that looks like a steaming pile of pig kidneys.