Презентация "Правила поведения за столом для истинных англичан"

The etiquette of conducting English meal

Things you should do:

• If you are a guest, it is polite to wait until your host starts eating or indicates you should do so. It shows consideration.
• Always chew and swallow all the food in your mouth before taking more or taking a drink.
• You may eat chicken and pizza with your fingers if you are at a barbecue, buffet or very informal setting. Otherwise always use a knife and fork.

• When eating rolls, break off a piece of bread before buttering. Eating it whole looks tacky.
• On formal dining occasions it is good manners to take some butter from the butter dish with your bread knife and put it on your side plate [for the roll]. Then butter pieces of the roll using this butter. This prevents the butter in the dish getting full of bread crumbs as it is passed around.

• In a restaurant, it is normal to pay for your food by putting  your money on the plate the bill comes on.
• When you have finished eating, and to let others know that you have, place your knife and folk together, with the prongs [tines] on the fork facing upwards, on your plate
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Things you should not do:  

• Never lick or put your knife in your mouth.
• Never chew with your mouth open. No one wants to see food being chewed or hearing it being chomped on.
• It is impolite to have your elbows on the table while you are eating.

• Don’t reach over someone’s plate for something, ask for the item to be passed.
• Never talk with food in your mouth.
• It is impolite to put too much food in your mouth.
• Never use your fingers to push food onto your spoon or fork.

• It is impolite to slurp your food or eat noisily.
• Never blow your nose on a napkin [serviette]. Napkins are for dabbing your lips and only for that.
• Never take food from your neighbours plate.
• Never pick food out of your teeth with your fingernails.

• How to eat Soup : when eating soup, tip the bowl away from you and scoop the soup up with your spoon. Soup should always be taken [without slurping of course] from the side of the spoon, and not from the ‘end’ as in most of the rest of Europe.
• What do you say or do if you’ve accidentally taken too much food and you cannot possibly eat it all? Say: “I’m sorry, but it seems that ‘my eyes are bigger than my stomach’. Or “I’m sorry. It was so delicious but I am full”. The main thing is not to offend your host.