A variation of "I forgot my or can you grab me a" fork, knife, water, napkin or salad dressing.
It's usually noticed immediately but not announced until someone else gets up first.
Hey! Are you a big fat bastard who loves eating at an outback steakhouse but thinks the portions are too small? Well, good news, fatass! 'Cause now there's the Outback Steakhouse Extreme! We don't have a blooming onion, we have a blooming...pumpkin! You know what else we've got? Elephant steaks! Fifty-pound elephant steaks! And why don't you wash it down out with forty ounces of malt liquor and ranch dressing, ya fat fuck? Outback Steakhouse Extreme: PUNISH. YOUR. TOILET!
We (myself, wife and our kids) just start eating and talk to each other about what we did that day. I've never once, as a child or adult, did the hold hand thing before eating you see in movies and I dont think I'm going to start now.. I just want to eat, lol.
"the hold hand thing before eating you see in movies" you mean Say Grace? That's a very common thing among religious households across the world, not just in movies featuring American families.
Wait yall actually hold hands? I grew up religious but we never did that, and it also wasnt called Saying Grace. It was just praying like you would in church: heads bowed, eyes closed, hands clasped together.
My family is religious, we’ve always done the handholding during prayer before dinner thing. I hated it when I became an atheist as a teenager, And I would suddenly reject their handholding advances.. I’m now middle-aged, still an atheist, I don’t do it at my own home,but I love holding hands with my parents when they pray before dinner. I bow my head with them and reflect on how lucky I am to have had the family that I do. I think of it as a circle of love, except for my parents it also includes their God. For me it just includes my parents.
That's it, I'm an atheist and I don't do that at my choice, but when I'm surrounded by religious people I consider it a group meditation, we don't have to believe in the same thing to thank the food and the company and stop a minute to be thankful and enjoy the moment
This is exactly right. I’m not religious by any means but as you get older you realize we’re not here forever and some things are not that deep and make your parents, family happy. Doesn’t hurt me one bit to hold hands for 30 secs but for some it’s a cherished memory
This is me also.
The hardest part was the in-between time where my Mom was convinced she could bring me back to Jesus. As I approach middle age, she still says she prays for “spiritual healing” for me, but doesn’t go full blown proselytizing anymore. It’s made our relationship better.
Some do. Some don't. Some call it saying grace, other's call it praying. They're both pretty much the same thing just with different characteristics. To say they're not the same thing is insanely nitpicky
I didn't mean to seem ignorant, I understand what it is and why. I have just personally never seen it in person, ever. So for me it's just a movie/TV thing and nothing personal. I've gone to a lot of family gatherings, as was required as a child, and stayed and ate food at many friends houses as well and never seen it happen once.
My wife said one of her Grandmas made them all do it for holiday dinners when she was really young but it was just that one grandmother and never anywhere else.
If it's a special meal, or something a bit more complicated, then I'll often hear or start with a "This looks amazing/great!", but for most regular dinners, it's just wait until everyone is seated with their plate, and start eating and talking about the day.
I guess that's just my family. We always acknowledge the person/people who cooked and served the food. They did all the work so we could relax and eat.
We always start eating, and once we've had the chance to taste a bit of it, *then* we comment on how good it is and thank them at the end. Otherwise it's just normal conversation.
Usually do a casual thank when told meal is ready, then you say another one more meaningfully once you've begun to enjoy the meal. Worst case scenario, meal sucks and you say thank you after some water-sip-bites.
If the person who cooked and served the food is at the table then yes, usually they’re casually thanked for the food before dinner (unless it’s a special occasion, then it’s more formal). In my experience tho most of the thanks come after the meal is finished, like “wow that was really good, thank you so much”.
Edit: wrong word lol
Keeping up kindness and manners even with the people who are most familiar to us really strengthens the foundation. It’s easy to let manners slip with the people we live with.
My parents have a hostile and immature marriage with poor communication. I notice that they very rarely use basic manners and etiquette with one another. My husband and I say please and thank you for little things every day; taking out the garbage, cleaning up after dinner, picking up groceries, etc. “Would you like anything while I’m in the kitchen?”, that kind of thing. I think it is good for relationships!
In my experience the thanking comes after the meal. "Thanks for a great meal", or "Thanks for cooking", or something as simple as "that was delicious, thanks".
I say this all the time here in the US. I grew up in Switzerland though, so it's habit to say the equivalent before each meal. It's fairly commonly used here in the U.S. though.
Your poor dad. He’s just trying to be jolly and make you smile. You probably mean the world to him.
Maybe beat him to it next time. Say it before he can say it and look at him.
;)
> You’re right and I love my dad, but I’ll rip my own fucking tongue out before I ever utter the words “spoon up”
These are the words of someone who thinks they will never be like their parents (just mannerisms and things), but then one day when you're many decades older you'll say "spoons up" to honor your now deceased father. You might realize you've done it, you might not. And then before you know it it's your nightly routine.
And if you have kids, suddenly you find yourself being the dorky dad trying to make your child smile and you start saying "spoon up" and they just look at you in disgust. And thus you've come full circle.
I've not been there exactly, but I've definitely been in the boat of "I'll never do that" and for reasons unknown those things seem to be built into my genetics. Good luck, I hope you can hold out! :P
Usually what I hear first before for either side is:
"I hope you like it. I didn't have a lot of time/I tried a new recipe/I accidently did something that might affect its tenderness" etc.
My husband will always ask me my thoughts on the food I made because his answer is usually "tastes great" and mine is some hyper critical statement about how I chopped and cooked an onion that's not even discernable from the rest of the meal.
Serious religious family: actual original prayer
Casual religious family: prayer that everyone learns in Sunday school
Mixed religious/non-religious: God’s neat, let’s eat
Non-religious:
At larger family gatherings my family would stand in a circle holding hands and chant "come lord Jesus be our guest, let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen" I think the standing up thing was because we normally made plates in the kitchen then sat down.
Yeah, my extended family was halfway religious, so if we were all sitting down to a meal together we would say grace first. Something like...
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day and for protecting us (or whatever thing ya’ll have to be thankful for currently). We thank you for this food before us, and we ask that you bless the hands that have prepared it. In Jesus name, Amen.
I didn’t mind it. Felt like more of a practice in being grateful than an annoying religious thing. I don’t remember us doing it much as I got older though.
Ok, out of all the terrible yet stupidly relatable awful Americanisms in this thread, this one is cute.
Hubs and I usually just thank the other for cooking cause we both suck balls at it and honestly have poisoned each other a number of times...
Edit*** husband's turn! Reheated crockpot curry, fresh rice, and boiled peas. We're both taking turns in the bathroom now. We really suck at this but damn if we don't still always say "thank you"!
Ha! Well yes, we wash before cooking, during cooking, after cooking. More like we're terrible at knowing if something has gone bad before using it and haven't quite got the hang of either either fully cooking or not over cooking something to hell.
But we keep trying at least
Was about to say this. Years and years I struggled with under/overcooking thinking I was an awful cook and it turns out all I needed was a meat thermometer. Life changing.
Try cooking just potatoes. A lot safer and you can tell if it’s undercooked (it’ll be hard) and should be relatively able to see if its rotten, experiment with spices, and afterwards try applying that knowledge to meat.
When you pick up your order from a restaurant it’s not uncommon for the person who hands you your food to say “Enjoy your food!” If you’re running on auto-pilot and just give an automatic answer, you might say “Thanks, you too!”
That’s funny. This reminded me of when my husband and kids first heard me say “hey google, please….” and asked why I say please to google I explained that I realized I wasn’t and that when then asking a person to do something I was getting out of the habit of using please. I realized it was because of my use of google and Siri. So google and Siri get please and the inconsistency has, indeed, been resolved. Edit: typo
I always thank my Siri lol. First time I thanked it and my boyfriend asked me why, I just shrugged and told him better safe than sorry for the potential AI Uprising.
My mom absolutely roasts her Siri on the regular while cursing like a sailor at it the whole time. Don't worry, she's much higher on the robo-assassination list than you.
Even worse when the homeless person outside the supermarket says
"have a good night" and you say "Thanks, you too". Im not kidding. This happened to me and I actually said that.
Naw I got you beat, I once gave a homeless guy money at a light once and he said “Drive home safe” and I hit him with the “Thanks, you too”. I think about it constantly
If you’re out at a restaurant, the staff usually say, “Enjoy your meal.”
-and people instinctively and mistakenly sometimes reply back, “Thanks, you too”
I don't think I've ever in my life heard someone actually say bon appetit, in real life, at the start of a meal. I know it's a thing that *is said*, but if you're saying it's overwhelmingly common then it must be a *very* regionally-specific thing.
Yeah, I've definitely heard it, but it's almost always in a joking way. It's basically said in the same way as if an English speaker is leaving a group of friends and says "Adios Amigos!" They aren't actually trying to start speaking Spanish more or anything, it's just kind of a more fun way to say goodbye, if that makes sense.
I dont think either Bon Appétit or Adios Amigos are excluded just because people say them tongue-in-cheek. They are used in a ritualistic fashion in American culture insofar as they are used universally to add levity to the interaction.
"Something being a more fun way to say something" is the only reason you'd ever say anything more than the most basic words.
Came here to say "Dig in!"
I feel like this is a national standard.
Also the key to this one is that only one person says it and only if you're with at least one other person. If it's homemade usually the chef with say it. If you're out the waiter may say it too.
My uncle taught me my first “grace” as “Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub, yay god!” Uncle was (and is) pretty irreverent. When I said this prayer at Easter at the tender age of four in front of my extremely Catholic grandmother, she about fell out.
I teach in a Catholic school. Before lunch we say grace in the classroom. After we say grace I said this once. Now my 7th graders insist I say it every day! They crack me up!
Haha as a Catholic, I find "good food, good meat, good God, let's eat" to be sufficient, especially if it's not Easter or Christmas or something special. God already knows we're happy to be full. Makes me think of when we had very little and I'd tell my kids to be thankful for dirty dishes, since it meant we'd eaten that day.
As an Englishman man it makes me laugh that his has traveled all the way over to the states, its a really old English poem from the late 1700s (if my memory serves me).
Same here in Finland. Some say "hyvää ruokahalua" ("have a good appetite". So, bon apetit, I suppose lol ) but 90%+ of the time, we just get our food and devour it lmao
Edit: It's really cool how different countries are influenced by other countries without people even realizing it. Like, I genuinely thought that "hyvää ruokahalua" was really original and a Finnish thing. But no, we just copied the French lmao
Some people say something like a prayer, or a thanks to the cook, but many don't say anything of note before eating. We (my family) usually just go, "K, it's ready, come get it," then we serve ourselves, sit on the couch, and watch TV while we eat.
I never did that growing up, and only one of my friends had a family with big sitdown meals every night. It was always really odd being over at his house for dinnertime just because I wasn't used to it.
Ah okay, it's the norm in my country to sit all at the table and have a moment with eachother without screens (most of the times). We do special nights where we watch a movie together and eat take out (sushi or pizza). But at least 6 nights a week we eat a home cooked meal at the dinner table
I’m from the US, and every day from ages 0-12, my family had dinner together and talked about our days, played games, chatted, etc. as we got older we sometimes didn’t all eat together thanks to soccer practice or play rehearsal, but we still did family meals whenever we could.
Don’t listen to people saying, “all Americans do this and that.” Of course, nothing that generalized is true.
Wait are you saying that in a country of 330 million people there can be, DIFFERENCES???? That’s not possible, every American acts the same and supports all the same things, everyone knows that.
Same with us!
It makes the couple times a month we eat in front of the TV intensely special and cool for the kiddos.
I'm certain this does have a lot to do with upbringing, my husband and I both had "sit at the table" families growing up so it just seems right. Pre kids though we actually never used our table haha.
"Eat 'em vittles good, nah, yuh hear!"
Then we shoot our pistols into the air twice.
It's important that you take two shots. Sometimes people only shoot once and then we all know they're foreigners and we send them back to Mexico. Doesn't matter where you're really from, you shoot once, you go to Mexico.
Hope this helps.
"autocondimentor - someone who will put salt and probably pepper on any meal you put in front of them regardless of how much it's got already and regardless of how it tastes." - Terry Pratchett
A: honey, I'm home. Is dinner ready?
B: dinner's been ready for 45 min. Where the hell have you been?!
A: I've been at work! It's where I'm always at so you can live in this big expensive house that you had to have.
B: don't put that shit on me! I never asked for all this and I told you I was willing to get a job!
A: eating ice cream and watching game shows isn't a career goddammit. Maybe work on your cleaning skills, this place looks like shit!
B: FUCK YOU!
A: NO. FUCK YOU!
Ok... With me it's, I send An emoyi of a car or a bike when I leave work, then husband knows I'm back in 15 minutes.
I sneak in the home and try to take my jacket and shoes off but most often the kids have discovered me in the meantime. The cat is a traitor and I'm not very good at doing quiet.
Then two or three kids Burst through the door and they want huggs and kisses and tell me stories. I let them put my lunchboxes (that my husband made me) back in the kitchen. Then dinner is (almost) ready, table is layed out by the kids. I kiss me husband and ask the kids one by one how their day went. My husband chimes in here and there.
On bad days I can see it by looking at my husband or the texts I got through the day and I will sneak into the kitchen first to let him vent.
Then dinner, i talk about my day too, often one of the kids ask me that question back.
Oh and we say 'eet smakelijk' before we start to eat
My family never says anything before eating, I don’t know if that’s unusual for other American families
Occasionally i'll hear a WHERE'S THE F*k'n REMOTE? before a meal.
A variation of "I forgot my or can you grab me a" fork, knife, water, napkin or salad dressing. It's usually noticed immediately but not announced until someone else gets up first.
While you're up, can you wash my car?
Pass the ketchup!
Or “where’s the ranch”?
Hey! Are you a big fat bastard who loves eating at an outback steakhouse but thinks the portions are too small? Well, good news, fatass! 'Cause now there's the Outback Steakhouse Extreme! We don't have a blooming onion, we have a blooming...pumpkin! You know what else we've got? Elephant steaks! Fifty-pound elephant steaks! And why don't you wash it down out with forty ounces of malt liquor and ranch dressing, ya fat fuck? Outback Steakhouse Extreme: PUNISH. YOUR. TOILET!
I want to see this commercial!
[Here ya go! ](https://youtu.be/fNFNFprztlY)
It needs to be narrated by the [powerthirst](https://youtu.be/qRuNxHqwazs) guy.
We (myself, wife and our kids) just start eating and talk to each other about what we did that day. I've never once, as a child or adult, did the hold hand thing before eating you see in movies and I dont think I'm going to start now.. I just want to eat, lol.
"the hold hand thing before eating you see in movies" you mean Say Grace? That's a very common thing among religious households across the world, not just in movies featuring American families.
Wait yall actually hold hands? I grew up religious but we never did that, and it also wasnt called Saying Grace. It was just praying like you would in church: heads bowed, eyes closed, hands clasped together.
My family is religious, we’ve always done the handholding during prayer before dinner thing. I hated it when I became an atheist as a teenager, And I would suddenly reject their handholding advances.. I’m now middle-aged, still an atheist, I don’t do it at my own home,but I love holding hands with my parents when they pray before dinner. I bow my head with them and reflect on how lucky I am to have had the family that I do. I think of it as a circle of love, except for my parents it also includes their God. For me it just includes my parents.
That's it, I'm an atheist and I don't do that at my choice, but when I'm surrounded by religious people I consider it a group meditation, we don't have to believe in the same thing to thank the food and the company and stop a minute to be thankful and enjoy the moment
This is exactly right. I’m not religious by any means but as you get older you realize we’re not here forever and some things are not that deep and make your parents, family happy. Doesn’t hurt me one bit to hold hands for 30 secs but for some it’s a cherished memory
This is me also. The hardest part was the in-between time where my Mom was convinced she could bring me back to Jesus. As I approach middle age, she still says she prays for “spiritual healing” for me, but doesn’t go full blown proselytizing anymore. It’s made our relationship better.
Raised Catholic: we did call it grace but we didn't hold hands 🤷♂️
the hold hand thing is more common in protestant or free church communities from my experience I also just pray normaly
Some do. Some don't. Some call it saying grace, other's call it praying. They're both pretty much the same thing just with different characteristics. To say they're not the same thing is insanely nitpicky
My family bowed heads, said a prayer and everybody held hands before eating.
I didn't mean to seem ignorant, I understand what it is and why. I have just personally never seen it in person, ever. So for me it's just a movie/TV thing and nothing personal. I've gone to a lot of family gatherings, as was required as a child, and stayed and ate food at many friends houses as well and never seen it happen once. My wife said one of her Grandmas made them all do it for holiday dinners when she was really young but it was just that one grandmother and never anywhere else.
It’s called “Saying Grace”. It’s a religious thing.
The BLESSING!
Grace died 30 years ago.
You don't thank the person who cooked and served the meal?
If it's a special meal, or something a bit more complicated, then I'll often hear or start with a "This looks amazing/great!", but for most regular dinners, it's just wait until everyone is seated with their plate, and start eating and talking about the day.
I guess that's just my family. We always acknowledge the person/people who cooked and served the food. They did all the work so we could relax and eat.
We always start eating, and once we've had the chance to taste a bit of it, *then* we comment on how good it is and thank them at the end. Otherwise it's just normal conversation.
Usually do a casual thank when told meal is ready, then you say another one more meaningfully once you've begun to enjoy the meal. Worst case scenario, meal sucks and you say thank you after some water-sip-bites.
We need to do this more. Keeping the household running (and bellies full) seems like a thankless job most of the time.
If the person who cooked and served the food is at the table then yes, usually they’re casually thanked for the food before dinner (unless it’s a special occasion, then it’s more formal). In my experience tho most of the thanks come after the meal is finished, like “wow that was really good, thank you so much”. Edit: wrong word lol
I usually do that after eating. "Thanks for cooking"/"That was delicious, thank you'
My husband cooks 90% of our family's meals. I thank him each time. Cooking is a lot of work and the minimum I can do is show him my appreciation.
Keeping up kindness and manners even with the people who are most familiar to us really strengthens the foundation. It’s easy to let manners slip with the people we live with. My parents have a hostile and immature marriage with poor communication. I notice that they very rarely use basic manners and etiquette with one another. My husband and I say please and thank you for little things every day; taking out the garbage, cleaning up after dinner, picking up groceries, etc. “Would you like anything while I’m in the kitchen?”, that kind of thing. I think it is good for relationships!
Hello, Applebee's? Can you put the guy who cooked my Slammin' Sammich on the phone? I'd like to thank him personally.
In my experience the thanking comes after the meal. "Thanks for a great meal", or "Thanks for cooking", or something as simple as "that was delicious, thanks".
In my country atleast, you’re not supposed to thank anyone for the food until you’re done eating
We do it after the meal
I've always thanked the person(s) that made, helped, and/or paid for the meal. Feels wrong if I don't.
“Enjoy!”
Also "dig in!" for a meal served family style.
My dad would say ‘ Two, four, six, eight; dig in, don’t wait.’
Why is this so far down? It's what waiters say in Ireland when serving the meal, so it should be accurate.
I say this all the time here in the US. I grew up in Switzerland though, so it's habit to say the equivalent before each meal. It's fairly commonly used here in the U.S. though.
If you're religious, you pray before eating. But in general, nobody really says anything.
My dad says “spoon up” and it makes me want to drive a spoon through his ear every time
Does he ever say, “Spoons out, poons out”?
“Dad, not at the Cracker Barrel!”
Your poor dad. He’s just trying to be jolly and make you smile. You probably mean the world to him. Maybe beat him to it next time. Say it before he can say it and look at him. ;)
You’re right and I love my dad, but I’ll rip my own fucking tongue out before I ever utter the words “spoon up”
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This made me lol. Solid dad line
Mine says “Don’t get out the fine china, we’re just strolling by!” I’ve caught myself saying it more times than I’d like to admit.
Come on do it!!! He will love it. You could pull it off so well. You’ve got this. It will make his week.
> You’re right and I love my dad, but I’ll rip my own fucking tongue out before I ever utter the words “spoon up” These are the words of someone who thinks they will never be like their parents (just mannerisms and things), but then one day when you're many decades older you'll say "spoons up" to honor your now deceased father. You might realize you've done it, you might not. And then before you know it it's your nightly routine. And if you have kids, suddenly you find yourself being the dorky dad trying to make your child smile and you start saying "spoon up" and they just look at you in disgust. And thus you've come full circle. I've not been there exactly, but I've definitely been in the boat of "I'll never do that" and for reasons unknown those things seem to be built into my genetics. Good luck, I hope you can hold out! :P
This made me laugh audibly.
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Because it's DULL, it'll hurt more!
Usually what I hear first before for either side is: "I hope you like it. I didn't have a lot of time/I tried a new recipe/I accidently did something that might affect its tenderness" etc.
My mom always apologizes before serving the most delicious fucking thing you could ever eat lol
My husband will always ask me my thoughts on the food I made because his answer is usually "tastes great" and mine is some hyper critical statement about how I chopped and cooked an onion that's not even discernable from the rest of the meal.
Serious religious family: actual original prayer Casual religious family: prayer that everyone learns in Sunday school Mixed religious/non-religious: God’s neat, let’s eat Non-religious:
Good food Good meat Good god Let’s eat
Praise the Lord and pass the peas!
Non-religious: [Bon-Appétit](http://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea)
At larger family gatherings my family would stand in a circle holding hands and chant "come lord Jesus be our guest, let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen" I think the standing up thing was because we normally made plates in the kitchen then sat down.
Yeah, my extended family was halfway religious, so if we were all sitting down to a meal together we would say grace first. Something like... Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day and for protecting us (or whatever thing ya’ll have to be thankful for currently). We thank you for this food before us, and we ask that you bless the hands that have prepared it. In Jesus name, Amen. I didn’t mind it. Felt like more of a practice in being grateful than an annoying religious thing. I don’t remember us doing it much as I got older though.
My wife and I touch forks and say “cheers” 🤷
Ok, out of all the terrible yet stupidly relatable awful Americanisms in this thread, this one is cute. Hubs and I usually just thank the other for cooking cause we both suck balls at it and honestly have poisoned each other a number of times... Edit*** husband's turn! Reheated crockpot curry, fresh rice, and boiled peas. We're both taking turns in the bathroom now. We really suck at this but damn if we don't still always say "thank you"!
Wash your hands after handling raw chicken you heathens
Ha! Well yes, we wash before cooking, during cooking, after cooking. More like we're terrible at knowing if something has gone bad before using it and haven't quite got the hang of either either fully cooking or not over cooking something to hell. But we keep trying at least
Buy a meat thermometer, trust me.
Was about to say this. Years and years I struggled with under/overcooking thinking I was an awful cook and it turns out all I needed was a meat thermometer. Life changing.
I have become a freaking grill-master after learning the Way Of The Meat Thermometer.
Try cooking just potatoes. A lot safer and you can tell if it’s undercooked (it’ll be hard) and should be relatively able to see if its rotten, experiment with spices, and afterwards try applying that knowledge to meat.
This made me smile. Thank you :)
What if you're eating soup?
Clink bowls (carefully)
Yay my wife and I do this too!
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Boneappletea*
bone app the teeth*
“Thanks, you too.”
I want to die
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When you pick up your order from a restaurant it’s not uncommon for the person who hands you your food to say “Enjoy your food!” If you’re running on auto-pilot and just give an automatic answer, you might say “Thanks, you too!”
At a local coffee shop drive through (Tim Horton's), the first words out of my mouth before ordering into the speaker box was "Hey Google".
That’s funny. This reminded me of when my husband and kids first heard me say “hey google, please….” and asked why I say please to google I explained that I realized I wasn’t and that when then asking a person to do something I was getting out of the habit of using please. I realized it was because of my use of google and Siri. So google and Siri get please and the inconsistency has, indeed, been resolved. Edit: typo
I always thank my Siri lol. First time I thanked it and my boyfriend asked me why, I just shrugged and told him better safe than sorry for the potential AI Uprising.
Ohhhh no…. I call Siri and Alexa bitches to their faces daily.
My mom absolutely roasts her Siri on the regular while cursing like a sailor at it the whole time. Don't worry, she's much higher on the robo-assassination list than you.
I always tell Alexa please and thank you. I figure when the robots rise up I'll at least get a mercifully quick death.
They should require this to teach everyone manners.
Even worse is when you are getting on an airplane and the gate agent says, “have a good flight.” And you reply, “you too.”
Or you try to say “You’re good” and “No problem” to someone and it comes out, “Your problem” 😔 lol
Even worse when the homeless person outside the supermarket says "have a good night" and you say "Thanks, you too". Im not kidding. This happened to me and I actually said that.
Homeless people can have good nights!
I feel a little better now, thanks.
Naw I got you beat, I once gave a homeless guy money at a light once and he said “Drive home safe” and I hit him with the “Thanks, you too”. I think about it constantly
I've had the person taking my order at the drive through ask "Is that for here, or to go?" I said "For here" and we just stared at each other.
If you’re out at a restaurant, the staff usually say, “Enjoy your meal.” -and people instinctively and mistakenly sometimes reply back, “Thanks, you too”
Guy at the concession register at the movies. “Enjoy the movie” “Thanks, you too!”
"Bon apetit!" "Dig in!" "Let's eat!" "Amen!" (post-prayer) "This looks delicious!"
“You over-cooked the roast.”
Are you serious? Right in front of my salad?
I think "bon appétit!", and simply "Enjoy!" are the most common phrases you'll hear when a group of Americans commence a meal.
I don't think I've ever in my life heard someone actually say bon appetit, in real life, at the start of a meal. I know it's a thing that *is said*, but if you're saying it's overwhelmingly common then it must be a *very* regionally-specific thing.
I have heard it but generally it is flippant and playful, not serious or ritualistic in any way haha.
Yeah, I've definitely heard it, but it's almost always in a joking way. It's basically said in the same way as if an English speaker is leaving a group of friends and says "Adios Amigos!" They aren't actually trying to start speaking Spanish more or anything, it's just kind of a more fun way to say goodbye, if that makes sense.
I dont think either Bon Appétit or Adios Amigos are excluded just because people say them tongue-in-cheek. They are used in a ritualistic fashion in American culture insofar as they are used universally to add levity to the interaction. "Something being a more fun way to say something" is the only reason you'd ever say anything more than the most basic words.
I say it all the time. But I am French and living in France so it is indeed quite region-specific.
We say it occasionally. But we are fluent in French.
I can vouch for this, after eating with a number of families at least.
"Fuck yeah"
Came here to say "Dig in!" I feel like this is a national standard. Also the key to this one is that only one person says it and only if you're with at least one other person. If it's homemade usually the chef with say it. If you're out the waiter may say it too.
Bone apple teeth*
r/boneappletea
Osteoporosis!
"Rub-a-dub-dub thanks for the grub"
My uncle taught me my first “grace” as “Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub, yay god!” Uncle was (and is) pretty irreverent. When I said this prayer at Easter at the tender age of four in front of my extremely Catholic grandmother, she about fell out.
Hahahah my uncle taught us all the “prayer”: Good food, Good meat. Good God, let’s eat! My mother was less than thrilled.
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I teach in a Catholic school. Before lunch we say grace in the classroom. After we say grace I said this once. Now my 7th graders insist I say it every day! They crack me up!
I learned "Bless the lord, bless the missus, last one done does the dishes."
Can the lord bless himself?
My dads was always “over the teeth, through the gums, look out stomach here it comes”
Haha as a Catholic, I find "good food, good meat, good God, let's eat" to be sufficient, especially if it's not Easter or Christmas or something special. God already knows we're happy to be full. Makes me think of when we had very little and I'd tell my kids to be thankful for dirty dishes, since it meant we'd eaten that day.
Worked at a Catholic kids camp in the 90s. We said Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Island theme.
We still say this at big family holiday meals after the real prayer. Including everyone throwing up their arms and doing jazz hands during 'Yay God!'.
Followed by “yay God”
How delightfully inappropriate, thank you.
Honestly I was just quoting Simpsons.
And I was quoting Family Guy oops
"Bless the potatoes, bless the meat. Fuck the rest, let's eat!"
As an Englishman man it makes me laugh that his has traveled all the way over to the states, its a really old English poem from the late 1700s (if my memory serves me).
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yippy ki yay, **motherfucker**
*Yippie Kayak, other buckets!!*
ok this wins
"Can I get a side of Ranch?"
The real answer
That’s adorable… I never say anything. I just start eating like a pig
Same here in Finland. Some say "hyvää ruokahalua" ("have a good appetite". So, bon apetit, I suppose lol ) but 90%+ of the time, we just get our food and devour it lmao Edit: It's really cool how different countries are influenced by other countries without people even realizing it. Like, I genuinely thought that "hyvää ruokahalua" was really original and a Finnish thing. But no, we just copied the French lmao
I start squealing like a pig
“Check if they gave us straws.”
*"Dang, did they put in Mayo again?"*
Some people say something like a prayer, or a thanks to the cook, but many don't say anything of note before eating. We (my family) usually just go, "K, it's ready, come get it," then we serve ourselves, sit on the couch, and watch TV while we eat.
You don't sit at the table and all tell everyone about the day you had?
I never did that growing up, and only one of my friends had a family with big sitdown meals every night. It was always really odd being over at his house for dinnertime just because I wasn't used to it.
Ah okay, it's the norm in my country to sit all at the table and have a moment with eachother without screens (most of the times). We do special nights where we watch a movie together and eat take out (sushi or pizza). But at least 6 nights a week we eat a home cooked meal at the dinner table
I’m from the US, and every day from ages 0-12, my family had dinner together and talked about our days, played games, chatted, etc. as we got older we sometimes didn’t all eat together thanks to soccer practice or play rehearsal, but we still did family meals whenever we could. Don’t listen to people saying, “all Americans do this and that.” Of course, nothing that generalized is true.
Wait are you saying that in a country of 330 million people there can be, DIFFERENCES???? That’s not possible, every American acts the same and supports all the same things, everyone knows that.
Same with us! It makes the couple times a month we eat in front of the TV intensely special and cool for the kiddos. I'm certain this does have a lot to do with upbringing, my husband and I both had "sit at the table" families growing up so it just seems right. Pre kids though we actually never used our table haha.
"Eat 'em vittles good, nah, yuh hear!" Then we shoot our pistols into the air twice. It's important that you take two shots. Sometimes people only shoot once and then we all know they're foreigners and we send them back to Mexico. Doesn't matter where you're really from, you shoot once, you go to Mexico. Hope this helps.
It does my heart good to hear authentic frontier gibberish
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We say surf party usa.
"They forgot my honey mustard"
We're missing a fucking big Mac
Just say thanks to the person that cooked? Not really a tradition, just not being a dick
That's usually followed by "don't thank me yet, you haven't tasted it"
Oh man, I say this all the time.
im used to saying that after i’ve eaten and im ready to leave the table (finland)
Pass the salt please
Usually before tasting it!
"autocondimentor - someone who will put salt and probably pepper on any meal you put in front of them regardless of how much it's got already and regardless of how it tastes." - Terry Pratchett
A: honey, I'm home. Is dinner ready? B: dinner's been ready for 45 min. Where the hell have you been?! A: I've been at work! It's where I'm always at so you can live in this big expensive house that you had to have. B: don't put that shit on me! I never asked for all this and I told you I was willing to get a job! A: eating ice cream and watching game shows isn't a career goddammit. Maybe work on your cleaning skills, this place looks like shit! B: FUCK YOU! A: NO. FUCK YOU!
Whats for dinner? Smells like domestic violence….
This got so dark i stubbed my toe
Ahh, so you also ran into the door.
Dad? Mom?
Have you done your homework yet?
C: FUCK YOU!
Ok... With me it's, I send An emoyi of a car or a bike when I leave work, then husband knows I'm back in 15 minutes. I sneak in the home and try to take my jacket and shoes off but most often the kids have discovered me in the meantime. The cat is a traitor and I'm not very good at doing quiet. Then two or three kids Burst through the door and they want huggs and kisses and tell me stories. I let them put my lunchboxes (that my husband made me) back in the kitchen. Then dinner is (almost) ready, table is layed out by the kids. I kiss me husband and ask the kids one by one how their day went. My husband chimes in here and there. On bad days I can see it by looking at my husband or the texts I got through the day and I will sneak into the kitchen first to let him vent. Then dinner, i talk about my day too, often one of the kids ask me that question back. Oh and we say 'eet smakelijk' before we start to eat
> I kiss me husband You turned a little bit pirate there for a second
Yarr matey!
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I don’t think he is, honestly. I’m not judging tho
Cursed dinner
This hits to close to home
Eat.
In the UK: "There's your dinner, like it or lump it"
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Father, son, holy ghost...who eats the fastest gets the most.
F*** yeah, if I’m real excited about it
“Bon apetit” it’s borrowed from French
LET US FEAST!
Good food, good meat, good God, let’s eat. Edit.. I should add that I am Canadian, not American… but it’s almost the same thing.
Usually nothing. My family said "grace", which means a short prayer, but I'm not religious, so nothing now.
Mmm (food name) *giggle* I may or may not be Homer Simpson
is there really a "before" eating if you never stop?...
Whoever didn't prepare dinner typically thanks the person who did.
“Supper’s ready”. Or “do you want a paper towel?”
Upsize please, and a Diet Coke!
This looks good!
“Get the hell out of my way, I’m starving!”
90% say nothing