How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

[1000yearstoolate]

"This week we're going to have an easy class," Seivarden said, smiling at the students. "This might seem like a silly thing, but as I know most people on the island have a problem with it, I felt it needed to be adressed."

She gestured at a table where food has been arranged, a selection similar to what you would find at a Fandom picnic. Mainly finger food.

"Never, ever, eat food with bare hands. Not even with a knife and fork of course, but definitely not finger food. There's cutlery available, although of course you can eat pastries with your hands, but don't stain your gloves like a five year old."

Looking around the classroom, Seivarden continued: "Well, that should be easy enough. And of course there's tea for you all."

[Wait for ODC OCD is up]

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Sign in

[1000yearstoolate]

With food.

Re: Sign in

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat

Re: Sign in

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina Argentum

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[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri

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[thishouseishaunted]

Mae Borowski

Listen to the lecture

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden will be surprised if you have questions. Unless you're Mae.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri's hand shot up. "But what if you are in countries where they primarily eat with their hands?"

Never go to Ethiopia, Seivarden. Or Ghana.

"There are countries where they wash their hands first, of course, but mostly eat with their fingers."

Re: Listen to the lecture

[1000yearstoolate]

Someone should warn her.

"Then you bring your own cutlery, or at least wear gloves in a colour where the stains won't be to obvious."

Re: Listen to the lecture

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"So brown gloves, then?" Shuri mused, writing down some notes.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae . . . was not listening to the lecture. Mae was admiring her hands covered in what were clearly used gym socks. Especially the fact that this time, she didn't have weird extra long fingers to deal with. . . .

Re: Listen to the lecture

[1000yearstoolate]

"Mae?"

Re: Listen to the lecture

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae saluted with one dingy-sock-covered hand. "Yo."

Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

At least you get a nice afternoon snack. Mod picnic food, eat finger food with cutlery or just try to avoid staining your gloves.

Re: Eat food

[bookbeltof_love]

See, the nice thing about Traditional Morning Breakfast was that at this point Nina had a lot of experience in eating her breakfast with gloves on.

Nina had salad, a sandwich, and some popcorn.

And, like, eating popcorn with a spoon was actually neater than eating it with her hands anyway, so this wasn't proving much of a challenge for her, even if she did feel silly eating a sandwich with cutlery.

And was eyeing the chips speculatively.

Like, they were too big for a spoon. Stabbing them with a fork would result in chip-bits everywhere, and a knife would result in the same thing.

Not eating them was probably the more civilized thing to do and yet…

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden gave Nina an approving nod. "Have you tried that before?"

Re: Eat food

[bookbeltof_love]

"I haven't," she admitted honestly. "Since, like, it's not really the done thing back home????????????? But I must admit that I think I might prefer eating it this way…………"

It was so much tidier!

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae's socks-for-gloves were already a sort of dingy grey from use, did that count as being stained? They were at least pretty uniformly dingy grey?

They would not remain questionably-stained for long, though, because Mae went right for the drippiest, spilliest, stainingest foods she could find.

". . . Now everything tastes kind of like lint."

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden turned away looking slightly nauseated.

"Perhaps try something made of plastic next time."

No, she wasn't being serious.

Re: Eat food

[unusual_sith]

This really made Lana wish she'd thought of fingerless gloves. Ah, well.

She was going to eat a sandwich. With her (gloved, alas) hands, because that was how you ate a sandwich.

And she had a blue-milk latte with her.

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"That could be eaten with a knife and fork," S ivarden pointed out. "Not that it's completely unacceptable to eat it with your hands as long as you're wearing gloves."

Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

If she's here.

Re: Talk to the TA

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

She's here! And wishing there were far more people in this class to hear this particular lecture, and also feeling morbidly curious how this one would go over with certain classmates who shall not be named.

And vaguely wondering how painful it might have been for Seivarden to have actually gone and picked out all that finger food while, of course, helping herself to some to be eaten properly with the provided cutlery.

Re: Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

"It's a bit silly that this should be something needing a class but I think it does."

This was just after the lecture, before either of them had seen the results.

"What is it like in the dorms?"

Talk to Seivarden

[1000yearstoolate]

Who is here, of course.

OOC

[1000yearstoolate]

I can't think of anything to say here.