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.

Amen to that! I watch television for entertainment, not to be constantly told that I am probably dying of one thing or another! Also completely idiotic are commercials telling me what prescription drug to tell my physician to prescribe for me.

People that chew with their mouth open.

The last two posts.

I have a strong stomach, have eaten many lunches in a dairy barn.
Could eat breakfast beside a beef being gutted.

People however, can gross me out.

People that can't put down their phones and turn off the TV during the meal.

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

BBQed for our clubs bench rest comp. Guy grabs a huge plate of tri tip. Comes back the next day asking if there was garlic in the tri tip? It makes stomach and bowels upset.

Of fugging course! Who grills without at the LEAST, salt, pepper , and garlic?

That fugg needs a nice extra large bowl of my gumbo then.

What was the downside, again?

talking about how expensive some of it was. makes me feel like i need to ask for a bill.

or even worse, potlucks with people who you know are fuggen pigs and you go after them.

Reading all of the above darn near ruined my meal.

Now I know why I would rather eat alone.

LOL

People who come to the table with copious amounts of bowel gas stored in their intestines and then proceed with flatulent bursts, long and loud, about the time I'm taking a bite of creamed potatoes and peas. That's an appetite killer.

L.W.

^^^This^^^

Gross. Those folks would be asked to leave on the spot and never asked to return.

Open mouth chewing of food grinds my gears

Late..u better have a medic on your arm from the car wreck on the way over..... u had a year to get here on time a u f that up ...wtf !

Are you in a fraternity or serving our country OCONUS?

Yeah....apparently a good fart is a complement to the cook.......somewhere.

what the fugg kind of people do you eat with? that type of behavior would get a Jap slap in my house.

Deer camp.