[Sca-cooks] politely deflecting food you don't want

[Susan Lin]

In our family you were required to have a "no thank you" portion - it had
to be the size of a large olive.  Still holds true today and I'm nearly 50!

Shoshanah


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Susan Lord Williams <lordhunt at gmail.com>wrote:

> I learned from the King of Spain that two tablespoons full are enough to
> be polite but believe me I have had problems. It was ok at the 9 course
> dinner in a castle in Italy. Everyone, except my husband, another colleague
> and I were the only ones who did not fall asleep during the concert that
> followed as we only ate 2 tbsp of each course.
>
> On another occasion, raw brains did fit nicely under lettuce leaves.
>
> Another time, I called an older woman to tell her my son, Joaquin, a
> friend of his, and I were going to visit her village. She misunderstood
> thinking Joaquin was her grandson and immediately invited us to lunch. She
> was most disappointed to find the error. So were we. Lunch consisted of
> jellied pig trotters. We did not have enough lettuce to hide them!!!!
>
>  One night I was so full of the national cuisine in the country I was
> visiting that I spied a carrot and took the whole thing. The princess
> sitting next to me - asked after I had a mouth full of it, -  "do you like
> hot peppers?" - yakkas!!!!!! No water could put out that fire!
>
>
>
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