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Is this in bad taste?

Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Good morning to all. My wife and I went out for supper last night for a multiple celebration. Two reasons. The first being that we finally set a closing date for our new to us house, and the second and most important is today is our anniversary. We went to a family type restaurant with a real laid back kind of atmosphere. I ordered a monster thick T-bone with all the trimminz', baked spud, mixed veggies, etc., etc. After getting done with all that was on my plate, I picked up the bone from the steak and chewed a few select pieces from it. An instant look of disghust settled across my wifes' face. Uh-oh! I did something wrong. Hang my head in shame. But why? When we got home my wife pointed out my mistake. She said it was in bad taste that I had picked up the bone and chewed on it. She then proceded to chew on me for longer than I did the bone. My question is this, and keep in mind the place we were. A small town eatery, kids screaming at each other, people up and talking to others, and no candle light. Was I wrong for doing what I did? To set some of your minds at ease, I do plan on taking her to a nicer place this weekend. One where I had made a reservation for on Monday.

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I think you can look at it two ways:

    First, it was YOUR steak, you should be able to eat it however you want.

    Second, it was your anniversary. You may have showed disrespect by possibly embarrassing her by chewing off the bone. In this case it wouldn't matter where you were, you were in public.



    Personally, I wouldn't have done it at a restaurant. I do it at home, though.



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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can see your point, but this wasn't where I had planned to take her for our anniversary. I said celebration for getting a closing date on the house. She kind of threw on the anniversary also thing at the last minute. She doesn't know about this weekend. The reservation for that I made on Monday.

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is in poor taste to gnaw the bone from your fingers in a resturant. It embarrassed your wife which is also in poor taste. At home is all together different. Even if it were fried chicken getting way serious on the bones would be a lapse of decorum. Best 'pologize and be on your good behavior for the real anniversary dinner.
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    Miss Manners is gonna' * you!
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Try this, this weekend, when you are giving your dinner orders to the waitress at your fancy restaurant, look at your wife with a devilish grin and order another T Bone steak, she may get tickled and laugh about it. Be sure not to naw on the bone, however if you must, take it home in a doggie bag.

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The original question "Is this in bad taste?"Sounds to me like it was because it tasted GOOD.At home, yes.In a resturant, no.At home I have to give the bones to my birds to naw on, after I have done my best of course.

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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bad manners, but I agree that meat next to the bone is some of the best bites on a good steak. Next time just ask for the 'Doggie Bag', they do not have to know you are the doggie. Enjoy when you get home.

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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Two bites. And I'm burned..at the steak!

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  • ClairClair Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Leave a little meat on the bone. That will make wife and dogs happy.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    YOU BARBARIC SAVAGE ... UNCOUTH AMIMAL ... HEATHEN!

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  • SP TigerSP Tiger Member Posts: 872 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Happy Anniversary! Today is my anniversary also (3 years). Congrats on the house also. I know it must feel good to have the deal done. The wife and I are also looking into buying a house.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just considered bad manners to do it in public. Mine always go home in the bag. No way this carnivore is leaving that choice bit of meat for the rats! Sorry, I'd have to say your wife was well within her rights to chew on you - an apology would be in order.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Manners, schmaners, it's your steak, you paid good money for it, eat it however you want to. If'n you'd ordered ribbs would you have to eat them with a fork also? Eatin' that steak down to the bone is just a compliment to the chef!

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    One time I was eating crab legs at Pete Renards on Anna Maria Island in Florida. I was cracking the legs with my hands and one of them got away from me, the meat came out and flew half way accross the restaurant. Me and the wife were with friends and we all laughed our aces off. The funniest part of it was that it landed on this old womans bee hive hair doo and she didn't even know it. Even the wait staff was laughing. It reminded me of something out of the three stooges or something. Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo, yuk-yuk-yuk-yuk.

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  • tin22tin22 Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Congrats. on your new home and your anniversary. I don't really know what to you say about you eating the bone. I guess, I don't really see it as a problem.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    So you`re the one that did it!!!
    Just wait till I tell MRS Bee!!!
    We`ll never go to that restauraunt again!!!

    .218

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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kimberkid -

    What's an "AMIMAL"?

    Well, come on, SOMEBODY was going to say it!
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Amimal related to the Animal, but not quite as evolved

    On another thread I spelt "erronous" ... erroneously when I saw my mistake I thought it was ironic ... and left it, I don't think its been noticed yet.

    (I usually see my errors after I click the "post" button ... but leave them just to irrigate folks, is that "bad taste" too?)


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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nah, "irrigating" folks ain't in bad taste, but it MIGHT tend to tick 'em off if they've got their Sunday go-to-meetin' duds on!

    An erroneous spelling of erroneous, now that IS ironic! Dang, I must have missed seeing THAT one. I would have absolutely HAD to say somethin' about it, you do know that, don't ya?
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .280 freak - At least a comment! I'd expect nothing less!

    If you can't laugh at your own misteakes ...

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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ROFLMFAO! Stop it, yer killin' me!
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Thanks,now I know why my wife does not like to go out to dinner with me anymore!If this is the worse you ever do in your marriage then your wife should be thankful.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Screw a buncha manners. If I'm paying for the meal I'll eat it any way I want. I don't think chewing on your steak bone is anywhere near as irritating to others as some idiot having a phone conversation from his table or somebody else who can't, or won't control their screaming kids in the restaurant.

    What's next, being ostracized for not curling your pinkie finger while holding your teacup?

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    The tenderest most flavorful meat on a T-bone is the part right next to the bone.

    When I eat a T-bone, or a pork chop for that matter, whether at home or in a restaurant, I always pick up the partly denuded bone and chew off the remainders of meat.

    I also remove my baked potato from the foil and eat the whole thing, skin and all.

    If anybody doesn't like it, they don't have to watch.



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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Me too. The ONLY way to eat a baked potato is to eat it all.

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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At least you will save money eating at home, because she won't want to be seen with you in public.

    Those savings add up to a new Gun.

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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let me tell you about trailer trash manners. If I'm paying for the meal, I'll darn well eat every stinking piece of food on the plate, and I dont care what I have to do do eat it. All you can eat salad bar...ha, ha, ha, we're gonna be here a while waitress, just dont you worry about us, I can see where the tea is from here. If I dont pass gass from either end while in public, my wife is happy. Manners be damned. Like others have said, you just control your kids, and dont worry about me, if you came for the show then you should have told me so, didnt know I was going to be watched while I eat. Anyone who wants that something special environment....you're going to pay for that, and you deserve it...so go ahead and make a reservation at the upscale expensive place and dont worry about me chewing on my bone, cause I'll be over at Denny's listening to someone's kids crying while I eat mine.

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I see that Red Lobster is running their all-you-can-eat special on snow crab legs. Big mistake. Lucky for them, I can't justify spending 20 bucks on dinner every evening, or they would have to close.

    I just tell the server to start me with two pounds and we'll see after that.

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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for all the responses. My question was pretty much answered in the manner I expected. What does that mean? With no offense to the posters, the first couple gave me what I got from my wife. NOT IN PUBLIC! About half way through it started getting a little more relaxed. NEXT TIME TRY THIS or THAT'S NOT NEAR AS BAD AS...And by the time it got down towards the bottom, it was more or less YOU SHOULD HAVE PICKED UP THE PLATE AND LICKED IT CLEAN. With my head no longer hanging in shame, thanks to all of you.

    4GodandCountry-If I get a steak this weekend, I'll be the one welldone.
    SaxonPig-I'm guilty of the butter thing too. The only difference being that I put mine under my leg.
    kimbrkid-You got a picture of one of them AMIMALS?
    sodbuster-Good point about the ribs. Should I bring that to her attention?
    nunn and Lowrider-I didn't think there was any other way to eat a baked potato. In fact the appetizer I got was an order of potato skins. Baked potatoes a little hollowed out with two strips of pepper bacon stuffed inside and big blob of melted cheese on top.
    robsguns-I knew I should have picked up the plate.


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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,510 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just do what I do....Wait till she has to "powder her nose" and do it quicky before she gets back.

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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago my wife and I went to one of those "Old Country Buffets". It was a truly disgusting experience.
    I saw, and I am not kidding a woman who had a chicken leg in one hand, and an ice cream cone in the other. She was alternating bites and licks between the chicken and the ice cream-I almost threw up-Ill never go into one of those places again.
    Is it rude to ask someone if you can eat their fat(the fat most people trim from a steak).

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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Salzo-I agree. Old Country Buffet is gross. Some friends and I ate there once, and vowed we never would again. Chicken and ice cream. Interesting combination. Sick. But none the less interesting. I don't think I'm qualified to answer your question about the fat. Have you forgotten that I'm the one who picked up my steak bone?

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Hey salso, roflmao, the last time I went to the old country buffet there was this fat woman that owns a local muffler shop there eating. She has a massive head of hair and you cant hardly see her face. All you could see was food disappearing into the brush, I started laughing and my wife kicked me under the table. Reminded me of Dan Akroyd in Trading Places with Eddie Murphy where he was dressed like Santa Clause at the Christmas party hiding food inside his coat and later on the bus when he was pulling the salmon out through his beard. The wife didn't find it as humorous though...lol...

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Your killing me, I cant stop picturing you asking the lady at the next table over from you if you can have the grissel she tried to chew but was forced to regurgitate back onto her plate. lol...lol...roflmao...

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, it's in bad taste, but it taste good. This would probably qualify under the "You might be a redneck if" series. I do it at home if there's no company present, but never in a resteraunt.

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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    4godandcountry-Ahhhh man. I hate admitting this after seeing how you enjoyed "the fat" comment, but I heard that line in the movie "caddyshack".

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider I am shocked speechless! You mean to say you do not curl your pinky while taking tea? BARBARIAN!
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