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[bcholmes]

I got into a long conversation about silverware while I was in Portugal last week. When you were growing up, did you learn the way to set your silverware on the plate to indicate that you were done or indicate that you were still eating?

Mirrored from Under the Beret.

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[frandroid]

We were working class so "learning" this might be overstating the case, as much as we xonly ate with company that would simply ask if he we were done, and we had to clear our own table :) but I think putting our utensils parallel together was the way to indicate we were done, as opposed to have our utensils separate on the plate indicated that we were still eating.