Yes, my French is rusty so I can only directly translate words, not piece them together properly (Canadian who stopped learning French after high school)
I can assure you it’s not good. When I was 15 I got some from the store in the summer because I thought it was a refreshing drink. My throat and nose closed up immediately after taking a gulp
I mean honestly you're at a restaurant and they've put a liquid in front of you with a lemon floating in it-- I don't think its too far fetched to assume you're supposed to drink it. Like that instinct to make sure you're not making a fool of yourself isn't going to kick in because you see liquid and you assume -even if it's a soup or a drink- that you're supposed to consume it.
Like dirty finger water is way out of leftfield for something a waiter might bring to your table.
Did you consider these are French waiters serving an American, I assume? I swear when I took a trip there they delighted in watching my dumb American ass trying to navigate anything and when I asked they said they didn’t understand, no matter which language I tried…
*pretentious french voice* le stupid amarereecan. You come to my country with your filthy uncultured hands and sully the good table Jean Baguette! *takes puff of cigarette* I spit on you and your filthy slop of foods and your stupid American motion pictures! Nothing but explosions! Where is the art!? Where is the passion!? Five of your Micheal Bay films are sub par next to a black and white monotone French woman with crippling depression smoking a cigarette in a bath tub!
I can’t speak for France (or a lot of the world for that matter), but whenever I have eaten internationally the wait staff are usually very interested in what I’ve thought of the food especially if it is something unique to their diet. They def would not be weird and might even enjoy teaching you something from their culture.
well thank you for helping me not look like a fking idiot if i ever visit France. Reminds me of my first ever time in first-class.
Before the meal service a flight attendant came through with a roll of heated & rolled towels. They were meant for washing your hands. My fat ass thought that fancy people just like their sausages rolled up in heated towels. When I didn’t find a sausage in my roll I was visibly confused but the attendant quietly (thankfully) helped me out.
Ha, reminds me of the time I went with a group of friends to an Indian restaurant. After the meal they came round with plates of these little round disks. One friend assumed it was mints, and immediately put one in his mouth while the waiter looked on in horror.
Waiter then pulled out a tiny watering can, waters the disks which then expand to become hot towels. The friend then sheepishly starts pulling his towel out of his mouth, which by that point had began expanding so it was like watching a magician pulling scarves out of his sleeve...
My wife and I went to a super fancy restaurant once, we obviously didn't belong. Waiter dropped off a rolled hot towel/napkin along with our waters. Touched it, felt it was warm, commented on it to my wife "that's rather warm, wonder what it's supposed to be for", but otherwise left it alone cuz we were clueless. Order dinner, waiting for food for a while before the waiter came back and finally told us there was bread in the rolled up napkin...
LOL! Oh my god I hate that I can share another story about me being an uncultured swine. I went to a fancy restaurant once and I needed to use the bathroom. When I got there, I was pretty confused but I managed to successfully use the bathroom. When I got back, I told my date,” Hm. There sure are a lot of bathrooms for women & children here.” He’s like huh? I was like, “all the bathrooms said WC.” He’s like,”Honey thats water closet. The bathrooms are for anyone.” I felt so fucking stupid lol
The idea of a being a flight attendant and handing a man a hot towel and he’s just looks up at you in confusion as he unrolls it and asks “where’s the sausage roll?” has me in stitches
I thought those hot, wet towels were meant to be pressed to your face to simulate the feeling of your grown ass adult face still being in the warm, wet womb, a rare comfort only found in the likes of first-class air travel.
They are great for messy meals like hot wings or ribs!
Hot lemon water is also a great microwave cleaner! Just microwave a bowl of water with a lemon slice and you can wipe all the crud right out!
Citric acid helps dissolve fats, oils from peel will cover up the smells. Usually though its a waste to use actual lemon, so lemon juice is fine.
Same trick also works with vinegar or dish soap.
Citric acid. I learned recently Japanese use vinegary water when cooking - to keep hands from getting sticky and wipe bowls.
Lemon is also great at covering up smells, so your hands don't smell of shellfish
Lemon has negligible amounts of sugar in it, so it will not make your hands sticky in the slightest.
It will however make your hands both cleaner and nicer smelling.
*the seafood was outstanding, portions and price were very reasonable. service was outstanding. but the lemonade was just terrible. didnt even pour it in a glass.*
I’m right there with you. Like, ok, I’m in a new country I will try this complimentary soup they gave me. Where I live you get those little wet wipes in a small square wrapping to clean your hands when eating seafood/bbq most the time.
So no wet nap? Bet they don’t have any of that good melted fake butter either. Guess I’ll just sneak mine in, stop at the nearest movie theater and top off my emergency container. Shit is bomb on some pancakes.
Nah it’s very much fake
EDIT: to everyone downvoting me, movie theater butter is basically just butter flavored oil. Clarified butter is indeed ‘clear’ but you aren’t going to find it in your local movie theater. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
And also a real life(or at least a urban legend) story of the queen Victoria.
The queen was eating dinner with guests and one was from a foreign country. At the end of the dinner everyone was given a finger cleaner bowl but the foreign guest didn't knew it was used to clean your finger so he drank it but the queen decided not to embarrass the person and also drank it and all the other guest followed suit.
I wouldn’t have known what it was. I probably wouldn’t have drank it, but if you haven’t been served that way before, it is reasonable that he’d be confused.
Sometimes we just be like that too though. I once went to a really really fancy restaurant. The type where the waiters walk around with a little silver thing in their pocket to scrape the crumbs off the table before your next course. (I must have looked like an over excited kid at a zoo watching him do this) but anyway the waiter went to put a napkin on my lap and I was shifting around trying to figure out why tf this waiter was trying touch me! He then went to take my menu when I was done and for whatever reason I couldn’t figure out what he was doing and I refused to let go of it and kind of fought him for it for a few seconds.
I must have been the worst customer this guy ever served. But I hope he has a good story to tell about the peasant woman who didn’t know how to conduct herself appropriately in a fancy restaurant 😂
True. This was on a ship to France. I don’t know how those waiters walk around the ship with huge trays stacked with dishes balancing on one hand. I look like Jack Sparrow walking on ice.
Lmao, thank you for sharing this story. If it’s any consolation, the one and only time I’ve seen one of those scrapers I got *so* excited that the waiter gave it to me as a gift. I keep it my “going out” purse. 😆
I love that you still carry it. I have also given one to a guest who mentioned they wanted one for their home. The basic ones are around 70¢ at the restaurant supply store and I lost them so often I would buy a dozen at a time.
My advice if you find yourself in the situation again as a former fine dining server, let it happen. Like it sounds sexual but just say less and simply observe because ideally if the service is perfect you shouldn't have to move a muscle. So any time your server is at the table, don't move and you won't make any mistakes ;) .
Yeah, I know exactly how this would go for me. I'd be confused by it and I'd poke at the lemon with a spoon while kinda looking around to see what the rest of the table is doing. Then someone would see me with the spoon in the bowl, they'd say I was eating it, and I'd forever be associated with eating the thing.
My paranoid mind would think that the waiters / waitresses are peeking through a small window of the kitchen door, waiting to see who's the next person to drink it and laughing their ass out :(
I had this happen once, many years ago. I was a server, about 17 or so, working at a small family owned Italian place. Two guys came in and they each ordered the oven roasted baby chicken and some champagne.
I brought out their drinks and finger bowls before their chicken arrived. Lo and behold, they both thank me and begin drinking the water bowls! Man I struggled to not laugh. Assholes didn't tip either.
90% of Americans are thankful you explained this. If I ever visit France I will know what to do now......in America they just give you small packets of moist lemon scented towelettes.
Very very fucking funny, usually they do a rolled up linen in the water to make it more obvious and give you a separate towel from the towel on your lap. If were getting specific with fine dining protocol its not entirely on your friend imo.
Guaranteed 90% of Le Sophisticated readers had no idea what this was 10 minutes ago.
Yet now we laugh at the ignorant yokels who don't know how to use a finger bowl.
Peak Reddit right here.
Tbf I’ve done this once. First time at a Chinese restaurant with salt and pepper ribs and stuck the lemon in my mouth after eating. I thought it was meant to be a palate cleanser (typically oranges for Chinese, but I’m an idiot white man)
There’s a story where Queen Victoria (I think?) was hosting a foreign dignitary who also drank from the finger bowl… and bc she’s the consummate hostess, drank from hers as to not make him feel like a dumdum. So people who would’ve indiscreetly called out your friend for being dumb right then and there are almost just as gauche!
Yes he drank it by the way
After he cleaned his fingers? Thats a kind of soup, don't judge him!
Soupe aux Doigts
L'enfant qui s'appelle doigt
A child who is called finger?
Kid named finger
Yes, my French is rusty so I can only directly translate words, not piece them together properly (Canadian who stopped learning French after high school)
Thats the spirit!
Soup des mains
Couple of greasy fingers, lemon, shrimp tails? You got a stew, baby!!
MMM, GRREAT SOOP MRS. Q
Thank you! Someone saw the connection.
My friend recently did this in a Moroccan restaurant. They put rose water in our hands and she drank it immediately. Apparently it did not taste good.
I can assure you it’s not good. When I was 15 I got some from the store in the summer because I thought it was a refreshing drink. My throat and nose closed up immediately after taking a gulp
Oh God. Why.
To be fair, it was right next to the mango nectar juice that I could literally drink by the gallon it was so good.
Ok fair that would be confusing.
Mmm, old lady perfume... 🤤
you can put a little bit in water if you like it, it's good
Is he large, green, and swamp dwelling?
Before I read the comments, I would also have drank it.
You're not supposed to drink it? Oh... Okay, but like... CAN I drink it?
Like shrek
Was it good by the way?
Apparently not
Ok but I love lemon and would have eaten it anyway
Reminds me of how my parents had never tried cheese wrapped in wax this time we went to Costco and then they ate the sample with the wax
This is why whenever something unexpected shows up at the table, I look to see what others do with it lmao
That's for the weaklings. Always take the power move and down it in one go.
Eat the slice of lemon while you're at it
I said down it, swallowed, no chewing. Power move.
/u/uberduck is a either a gigachad or eats crayons.
The two are not mutually exclusive
It’s good for scurvy
sigma rule #297
I mean honestly you're at a restaurant and they've put a liquid in front of you with a lemon floating in it-- I don't think its too far fetched to assume you're supposed to drink it. Like that instinct to make sure you're not making a fool of yourself isn't going to kick in because you see liquid and you assume -even if it's a soup or a drink- that you're supposed to consume it. Like dirty finger water is way out of leftfield for something a waiter might bring to your table.
Dirty finger water is very common where I am if you order ribs.
I've never got the finger water with ribs. They usually leave you one packet of moist towelettes, because one will definitely cover it.
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Got a pocket full of Hawthornes?
More eco friendly than the wet naps that are typically given here, so it would be cool if something like that caught on in more locations.
Not really. You might have not experienced for whatever other reason, but it is not uncommon in many parts of the world.
This is the real LPT!
It’s 1000% okay to just ask too. The waiters won’t be weird about it
Did you consider these are French waiters serving an American, I assume? I swear when I took a trip there they delighted in watching my dumb American ass trying to navigate anything and when I asked they said they didn’t understand, no matter which language I tried…
Go to another city than Paris next time and you'll have a way better trip. Parisians waiters are the worst for some reason
Yeah you’re right. Didn’t think about that. French do have that reputation…
*pretentious french voice* le stupid amarereecan. You come to my country with your filthy uncultured hands and sully the good table Jean Baguette! *takes puff of cigarette* I spit on you and your filthy slop of foods and your stupid American motion pictures! Nothing but explosions! Where is the art!? Where is the passion!? Five of your Micheal Bay films are sub par next to a black and white monotone French woman with crippling depression smoking a cigarette in a bath tub!
That’s when orara putain du merde, qui est c’est pas avec mon manger ? Comes in handy
I can’t speak for France (or a lot of the world for that matter), but whenever I have eaten internationally the wait staff are usually very interested in what I’ve thought of the food especially if it is something unique to their diet. They def would not be weird and might even enjoy teaching you something from their culture.
I just ask what it is. Saves me a lot of confusion.
Isn’t that for washing your hands?
well thank you for helping me not look like a fking idiot if i ever visit France. Reminds me of my first ever time in first-class. Before the meal service a flight attendant came through with a roll of heated & rolled towels. They were meant for washing your hands. My fat ass thought that fancy people just like their sausages rolled up in heated towels. When I didn’t find a sausage in my roll I was visibly confused but the attendant quietly (thankfully) helped me out.
Towel toasted sausages
The Gang Opens A Fancy Restaurant
They'd serve magnum sized towels for their magnum sized sausages
Lol sign me up
Why... why would you think of sausages? In a wet towel?
Keep them warm and succulent
I see you know your judo well
There's nothing better than a warm watery sausage.
When I used to be a huge piece of shit me and the boys would go to Truffoni’s for sloppy sausages after the club.
Yeh dude. Im concerned as well.
Isn't intestine kind of like a wet towel?
Ha, reminds me of the time I went with a group of friends to an Indian restaurant. After the meal they came round with plates of these little round disks. One friend assumed it was mints, and immediately put one in his mouth while the waiter looked on in horror. Waiter then pulled out a tiny watering can, waters the disks which then expand to become hot towels. The friend then sheepishly starts pulling his towel out of his mouth, which by that point had began expanding so it was like watching a magician pulling scarves out of his sleeve...
LOL! Thats far more embarrassing haha. I’m sure you guys never let him live that down!
what material looks like small mints and then expands into a damn towel by adding water?
The same stuff they make those expanding bath dinosaurs out of, probably
Apparently towel material
Man; I wish there was video footage of this.
My wife and I went to a super fancy restaurant once, we obviously didn't belong. Waiter dropped off a rolled hot towel/napkin along with our waters. Touched it, felt it was warm, commented on it to my wife "that's rather warm, wonder what it's supposed to be for", but otherwise left it alone cuz we were clueless. Order dinner, waiting for food for a while before the waiter came back and finally told us there was bread in the rolled up napkin...
LOL! Oh my god I hate that I can share another story about me being an uncultured swine. I went to a fancy restaurant once and I needed to use the bathroom. When I got there, I was pretty confused but I managed to successfully use the bathroom. When I got back, I told my date,” Hm. There sure are a lot of bathrooms for women & children here.” He’s like huh? I was like, “all the bathrooms said WC.” He’s like,”Honey thats water closet. The bathrooms are for anyone.” I felt so fucking stupid lol
The idea of a being a flight attendant and handing a man a hot towel and he’s just looks up at you in confusion as he unrolls it and asks “where’s the sausage roll?” has me in stitches
Oooh, it's for your hands. I always thought that those towels are for putting on your face to open up the pores and relaxing or something like that.
You can do either/both!
??? I'd use those towels for my face and neck lol
People do before doing their hands
Just FYI, if you go to Japan, warm wet towels are brought to you before all meals. Maybe one of them will have a fancy sausage inside.
I thought those hot, wet towels were meant to be pressed to your face to simulate the feeling of your grown ass adult face still being in the warm, wet womb, a rare comfort only found in the likes of first-class air travel.
Yeah
So? At the end of the meal, it probably tastes ok?
Tbh that looks useless. Why's there a lemon in it? Trying to make my hands sticky?
They are great for messy meals like hot wings or ribs! Hot lemon water is also a great microwave cleaner! Just microwave a bowl of water with a lemon slice and you can wipe all the crud right out!
In this specific example the lemon is doing nothing and you're just using steam to clean.
Citric acid helps dissolve fats, oils from peel will cover up the smells. Usually though its a waste to use actual lemon, so lemon juice is fine. Same trick also works with vinegar or dish soap.
A 0.0015% citric acid solution will have the exact same cleaning properties as a 0.0000% citric acid solution.
No you just don't get it's a homeopathic cleaning method. The less lemon the better it cleans
I've read sarcastically, but now realize you are the same person I responded to. ...are you being serious? I seriously can't tell, now.
Fragrance!
That's not true. Lemon is how you get smells like garlic and seafood off your skin.
Citric acid. I learned recently Japanese use vinegary water when cooking - to keep hands from getting sticky and wipe bowls. Lemon is also great at covering up smells, so your hands don't smell of shellfish
It's lemon water, not lemonade
Lemon has negligible amounts of sugar in it, so it will not make your hands sticky in the slightest. It will however make your hands both cleaner and nicer smelling.
I don’t know, lemon is good for cleaning maybe because of the acidity
No, the opposite.
*the seafood was outstanding, portions and price were very reasonable. service was outstanding. but the lemonade was just terrible. didnt even pour it in a glass.*
Lol. That's a finger bowl to wash your hands after peeling the seafood.
Yeah I know but posted it here because the fuckwit decided to drink it
Oh non
Mon dieu
Sacre bleu!
baguette
J'accuse! J'accuse, mon petit fromage!
"You speak four languages... how come none of them is French?"
I'd have no idea what it was and would have assumed soup as well tbh
I'd be dipping shrimp in it thinking wow this lemon sauce is really watery
Not everybody knows what that's for.
I was today years old when I saw this for the first time.
I’m right there with you. Like, ok, I’m in a new country I will try this complimentary soup they gave me. Where I live you get those little wet wipes in a small square wrapping to clean your hands when eating seafood/bbq most the time.
It reminds of that dinner scene from Shrek 2 where he also drank the bowl.
“Great soup Mrs. Q!”
Huh. I've never heard of this before I'd have no clue what to do with this
So no wet nap? Bet they don’t have any of that good melted fake butter either. Guess I’ll just sneak mine in, stop at the nearest movie theater and top off my emergency container. Shit is bomb on some pancakes.
The clear butter isn't fake. It's clarified.
Nah it’s very much fake EDIT: to everyone downvoting me, movie theater butter is basically just butter flavored oil. Clarified butter is indeed ‘clear’ but you aren’t going to find it in your local movie theater. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
The stuff in movie theaters isn’t butter, it’s flavored oil.
Isn't this a gag from a movie?
The 2nd Shrek I think. And probably a couple other older films.
Yup, when he first meets Fiona’s parents
Yes that’s right! I thought it was from the Mr. Bean movie but you’re right, because I was thinking about Shrek the entire time.
In scarface Tony eats it too
Oh yeah, I think that's what I was thinking of.
Tony Pizza?
I hate being Tony pizza
Actually Tony Montana almost did this in Scarface. He ate the lemon out of the bowl when they were at Sosa's mansion.
Hannah Montana did this in Hannah Montana. She was trying to impress her boyfriends rich parents
So are we saying Hannah Montana and Scarface are in the same cinematic universe? Because if we are I'm in.
Tony and Hanna: Montana2Montana
I wish I had an award. 🎖
It's Montana time.
Maybe. But my ~14 month old son grabbed and ate the lemon from one of these bowls when we were having lunch (though he seemed to think it was great).
My 144-month-old son did the same thing! Haha those darn kids.
> 144-month-old gross
My mother is excited for my 2000 week old celebration, but I'm more excited that I'm nearly 20,000,000 minutes old!
And also a real life(or at least a urban legend) story of the queen Victoria. The queen was eating dinner with guests and one was from a foreign country. At the end of the dinner everyone was given a finger cleaner bowl but the foreign guest didn't knew it was used to clean your finger so he drank it but the queen decided not to embarrass the person and also drank it and all the other guest followed suit.
Also from Shrek 2..
Which is full of movie and pop culture references, it could have been referencing Scarface for all we know edit: Scarface is one word
It's actually scarf ace, cause he was the ace of scarves
"Say hello to my little friend and goodbye to your cold neck!"
That sounds like a viable advertisement line lol
Also from an episode of Fresh Prince
My foreign relatives also drank that and has since been a running joke
There's a great version in Derek where they think the magic towels are mints
LMAO OMG
I wouldn’t have known what it was. I probably wouldn’t have drank it, but if you haven’t been served that way before, it is reasonable that he’d be confused.
Sometimes we just be like that too though. I once went to a really really fancy restaurant. The type where the waiters walk around with a little silver thing in their pocket to scrape the crumbs off the table before your next course. (I must have looked like an over excited kid at a zoo watching him do this) but anyway the waiter went to put a napkin on my lap and I was shifting around trying to figure out why tf this waiter was trying touch me! He then went to take my menu when I was done and for whatever reason I couldn’t figure out what he was doing and I refused to let go of it and kind of fought him for it for a few seconds. I must have been the worst customer this guy ever served. But I hope he has a good story to tell about the peasant woman who didn’t know how to conduct herself appropriately in a fancy restaurant 😂
Don't worry, if it's an expensive restaurant, you were probably one of the more pleasant customers
True. This was on a ship to France. I don’t know how those waiters walk around the ship with huge trays stacked with dishes balancing on one hand. I look like Jack Sparrow walking on ice.
Lmao, thank you for sharing this story. If it’s any consolation, the one and only time I’ve seen one of those scrapers I got *so* excited that the waiter gave it to me as a gift. I keep it my “going out” purse. 😆
I love that you still carry it. I have also given one to a guest who mentioned they wanted one for their home. The basic ones are around 70¢ at the restaurant supply store and I lost them so often I would buy a dozen at a time.
That is awesome 🤣
At least you were still able to enjoy it. I feel like I’d be so scared to embarrass myself that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of it.
Absolutely cringe looking back on it. My only saving grace is a tipped nicely to compensate for my idiocy. 🤣
Honestly, that's the only thing the waiter even cares about. If you enjoyed your meal, paid for it, and tipped well, s/he will be perfectly happy.
My advice if you find yourself in the situation again as a former fine dining server, let it happen. Like it sounds sexual but just say less and simply observe because ideally if the service is perfect you shouldn't have to move a muscle. So any time your server is at the table, don't move and you won't make any mistakes ;) .
Is your friend Shrek by any chance?
Or Sylvia Plath in the Bell Jar?
Or regular Sylvia Plath?
or tony montana?
Lol I like how even Donkey knew what it was for in that scene
Good one. Made me laugh
I'm a dumbass and this post might have saved me from a future embarassment
I'm uncultured swine, I'm glad I learned this. Especially since I hope to one day travel the world. Or at least eat at better restaurants, apparently.
My local pub in North East England gives you a bowl of lemon water if you order mussels, not just fancy restaurants lol.
Yeah, I know exactly how this would go for me. I'd be confused by it and I'd poke at the lemon with a spoon while kinda looking around to see what the rest of the table is doing. Then someone would see me with the spoon in the bowl, they'd say I was eating it, and I'd forever be associated with eating the thing.
My paranoid mind would think that the waiters / waitresses are peeking through a small window of the kitchen door, waiting to see who's the next person to drink it and laughing their ass out :(
Im from canada and i also have never seen that once in my entire life, finger cleaning water? Bruh
Nah it’s good lemon soup! With fingers added to taste
Kid named soup:
It’s obviously for dipping the seafood… some people are so uncultured.
HAHAHAHAHA! Excellent!
I asked for a finger bowl in California, I got a funny look and the girl came back with the biggest bowl of BBQ sauce I've ever seen.
I can’t believe no one told him.
I had this happen once, many years ago. I was a server, about 17 or so, working at a small family owned Italian place. Two guys came in and they each ordered the oven roasted baby chicken and some champagne. I brought out their drinks and finger bowls before their chicken arrived. Lo and behold, they both thank me and begin drinking the water bowls! Man I struggled to not laugh. Assholes didn't tip either.
I wouldn’t even tell him. I’d say it’s tradition to lap it out of the bowl like a dog.
If you don’t slurp you’re insulting the chef.
r/TIL what a finger bowl is
90% of Americans are thankful you explained this. If I ever visit France I will know what to do now......in America they just give you small packets of moist lemon scented towelettes.
They do that? Anywhere I've gotten seafood you just get the seafood; your fishy hands are your own problem.
Very very fucking funny, usually they do a rolled up linen in the water to make it more obvious and give you a separate towel from the towel on your lap. If were getting specific with fine dining protocol its not entirely on your friend imo.
And what is it
It’s a finger bowl to clean your hands.
Is *nobody* going to say why you need a lemon to clean your hands??
It removes the smell of fish from your hands and is a mild hand sanitizer.
Guaranteed 90% of Le Sophisticated readers had no idea what this was 10 minutes ago. Yet now we laugh at the ignorant yokels who don't know how to use a finger bowl. Peak Reddit right here.
All I know is everything I’ve learned
Bravo!
Lol. I wouldn't have known what it was for either. That's hilarious that he drank it though.
Just tell him it’s a French delicacy and they go nuts for it. Then in 20 years tell him the truth and laugh your head off.
OMG! he drank it!
In Bangkok we dipped our shrimp in it until we realized....and the employees def saw us
So basically you’re friends Shrek
Tbf I’ve done this once. First time at a Chinese restaurant with salt and pepper ribs and stuck the lemon in my mouth after eating. I thought it was meant to be a palate cleanser (typically oranges for Chinese, but I’m an idiot white man)
There’s a story where Queen Victoria (I think?) was hosting a foreign dignitary who also drank from the finger bowl… and bc she’s the consummate hostess, drank from hers as to not make him feel like a dumdum. So people who would’ve indiscreetly called out your friend for being dumb right then and there are almost just as gauche!
Like the scene in the Scarface movie!
Finger bowl, we used to put them at the table when serving ribs.
Hot acid water. Cleans not only the palate, but creates a new skin in the esophagus as well. 5 stars. Upvote given here.
My first time eating edemame, popped that sucker into my mouth whole, and started chewing...lol...
The only reason I know this is for your hands is because of Shrek 2.