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Originally Posted by Starbreeze  Eino took a piece of the funny looking yet tasty selling bread and placed it on his plate. First he examined it to make sure he wasn't eating something yucky. It looked safe to eat, so Eino took a small bite. It was very delicious. He then turned his attention to Professor Cerulean and quickly wiped his hand clean on the napkin before raising it. "Typically, the waiters just serve the food from, ummm, behind me?" The stood behind him, at least, but he wasn't quite sure what Professor Cerulean was looking for. As the rest of the students took a turn to speak, Eino continued to nibble of his fancy looking bread. She smiled at the boy's answer, " Well, Eino, you are actually correct...They do serve from behind you..." she said with a little wink his way....she was always amused with the student's answers...o the things they said some days. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
"If your drink is on your right...isn't there a chance of it being knocked over if the waiter served you from that side?" It sort of made sense. There was no harm in knocking over a bread plate and having a waiter lean around her back to serve her seemed sort of freaky. "So...serve on the person's left side and take on the right? Opposite of when we pass things around the table?" Or was it the same? All this was really overwhelming for Kurumi who had grown up living a very simple life style in the nonmagical world.
" Great point Kurumi!" she paused and walked a little bit closer to her table to answer her question, " Your waiter or waitress will be trained to avoid your water when they serve you from the right. Most of the time they have set up the table and have set it up with enough room for them to place the plates without causing a spill...however, it's always a good idea to lean just a little bit out of their way when they are serving or taking the plates away just to help them out...." SPOILER!!: Right-y-o Quote:
Originally Posted by hjhm Basic procedure when eating is of course, unfolding the napkin and put it onto the lap. Jonathan did so and the professor did say it as well. Throughout the discussion, Jonathan only listened to the professor. Muggles have quite similarities when it comes to dinner etiquette as well with the wizards and witches here in the wizarding world. Fascinating.
The brushetta looked really yummy too. Now for the soup, "Professor" he raised his hand to answer "People get served from the right" right? "And the food is taken from you, from the left side" maybe. Quote:
Originally Posted by Orla That was a weird name for bread she would never remember it! Ever!! She took some and ate it quietly it tasted okay, Although she would probably eat abything in front of her.. Especially the little snacks before hand!
She sure did ask alot of questions huh? After finishing her bread completely, Her hand went up AGAIN! "The proper way of serving the food would be from the right and if that's the way you serve it's obviously oppisite when it comes to collecting the empty plate,"
She simply gave a nod to the Proffesers rules, it wasn't like she was going to anything on her set of rules! Well except the tomato thing! SHIVERS! But she'd have to eat it now huh? Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassandra TAylor took a piece of the bread. SHe raised her hand to answer the question, "You get served from your right since it goes clockwise and it is taken from your left." She took a bite of her bread now that she is done talking. Quote:
Originally Posted by iBeJenn Selena picked one of the funny looking things off of the platter thingy. She had seen this thing before, at parties her mother liked to hold. She didn't like them. They never did look very fun eating. Still, she picked it up and placed it on her bread dish, which was apparently on her left. Right.
Selena knew those rules, obviously. She tried her best not to kick her legs back and forth as she listened to the professor speak. "Is the dish served from your right and taken from your left?" Selena asked after raising her hand. It would make sense since they were passing the dishes to the left, right? Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 Glad that he and so many other students had gotten the last question right, he watched as the plate of brushetta appeared above their table and someone began to pass it his way. He took the plate with his right hand, removed a piece of the bread with his left hand, and then passed it to the person next to him.
He took a small bite of the brushetta, his teeth easily making it through the crunchy bread. "Yum! This is really good." he said in a hushed voice to the other kids at his table, for Professor Cerulean was starting again.
So now was the soup. August eyed the floating bowls of hot soup that floated over their heads nervously but as he did so he answered her question with a raise of his hand. "Professor, the waiter's or servers will always deliver your food on your right and then when you finish it will be removed from your left side."
Now please don't spill soup on me! Quote:
Originally Posted by GinevraWeasley Vlimia was excited, to say the least. She had never had Muggle food except for at the Muggle Matinee Theatre! Vlim took a bruschetta and ate it carefully. She couldn't mess up the dinner when they were only on the appetizers! While chewing (with her mouth CLOSED), she thought about bruschetta. What a fun thing to say. Bruschetta! Bruschetta! It could almost be a name! Af course, all this immaturity took place in her head. When she finished the yummy appetizer, Vlim brushed her hands on the napkin that was on her lap. Just in case. Quote:
Originally Posted by alchemist_18 Raven read the menu of today. Wow, all of them sounded delicious! And Thank Merlin they didn't served vegetable salad or otherwise she didn't want to eat them.
She took a bruschetta and placed it into her bread plate. Well, there was a tomato on the top and she was not a fan of tomato. Then she tried to eat it, took a bite of bruschetta carefully.
"Wow, it was great." she murmured. Oh, another question. Raven raised her hand and answer.
"The food is served on the right and cleaned it on the left." she said. Argh, she didn't feel comfortable without her glasses. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jezabel Black Jez bit her lip, playing with the hem of her dress. She knew the answers to most of these questions - Merlin's beard, they'd been drilled into her since the moment she'd been old enough to sit at the table properly. Her parents would be turning in their graves if they knew she wasn't answering. But she'd kept quiet for most of the lesson. Let's stop that right here.
Jez raised her hand, not in her usual 'I know the answer!' quick way, but hesitantly. "The dishes are served from the right and taken from the left," she said clearly. "Basically a clockwise rotation." She took a piece of brushetta, carefully biting into it to try and avoid spilling everything. That would be undignified, and Jez was nervous as it was without adding humiliation to that. Quote:
Originally Posted by iceblossom22 Elise smiled, receiving the plate with her right hand and taking a bruschetta off it. Placing it on her bread plate, she passed the dish to the next person before tuning back towards Professor Cerulean.
Nodding, she took the notes mentally, processing the sounds into pictures. Got it. Raising her hand, Elise beamed. "The food is served on the right and cleared on the left. It's just going with the clockwise motion."
Smiling, she took a small bite of the brushetta. Nice. It was actually almost exactly the way Elise's mom used to make it. So, that almost made El cry, but she stopped herself. It wasn't good etiquette to cry anywhere. It was showing weakness, and weakness was something her father would not stand for. Quote:
Originally Posted by Herminny Nathan really did not have a clue on this latest question. What did it mattter the side your food is served from. Nathan raised his hand and hand and responded, "I honestly do not know. I hear many people saying from the right and taken from the left but what does it really matter. Is there a functional purpose to which way your dish is served?". Quote:
Originally Posted by elllla_Wtwins
Taking a bite from her bruschetta, Thea listened to everyone's answers. Jiggling her feet slightly, she chewed carefully. Mm. This was brilliant! She would have to remember some of these things to recommend to her Mother.
As she swallowed her last piece, she grabbed her napkin and dabbed her mouth, just in case. 'It's served from the right?..' Her head was cocked to the right as she asked this. This was actually harder than Thea had thought it was.. Quote:
Originally Posted by Quick Quotes Quill Perhaps the idea of a seven course meal is interesting, but isn’t it a bit much?, Gwendolyn thought as the took a bruschetta. Then, while listening to the Professor talk, the Ravenclaw tried thinking of the answer. It has to be left or right… but which one is it…? ‘I think the food is served from the right side and it is taken from the left’ Seems legit.
So maybe this class isn't soooo bad, the third year tried convincing herself as she waited for the next question to be asked. Quote:
Originally Posted by Symphora Gustav had his best suit on as he waited for the food to be passed on. The students looked simply elegant and it was quite a sight to see the girls looked really beautiful with their dresses. His face redden when an older girl caught him staring at her. He turned away quickly to avoid eye contact and continued looking downwards for awhile.
Gustav thought he didn't notice how food was being served because they always appear magically on the table from the kitchens to the dining area without people serving by you unless you called for them,it was also the same back home.But he had dining etiquette and didn't much learn anything else other than that. He wondered what other ways of how dinner was served in the muggle world. Quote:
Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn Aurora took a bruschetta and placed it on her bread dish. Yum yum yum Italian food!!! It always reminded her of her father... She raised her hand to answer the question. "Professor, the food is served from the right and the dishes are taken from the left." she said. At least, she hoped she was right... she sometimes struggled with her left and right... Quote:
Originally Posted by Gabrielle Glenn took one of a piece of bread from the bread dish before passing it on. She ate it slowly, paying special attention to chewing with her mouth closed. As to the next question, she had no idea, just like all the other ones. Her family's version of a night out was dinner at the local pub, with hot chips and fish bites that you were free to eat with your fingers.
She nervously brushed the crumbs off of her dress and listened intently to everyone's answers. Glenn wanted to write them all down in her journal that contained all the other spells and notes from every other class she had had since first year but she doubted that doing so would be particularly good etiquette. Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty As Sky took a piece of the brushetta and placed it on her bread plate, another question was asked. She looked around the room, shocked at some the answers. Really, were they that incapable of rational thought? And the one that asked if the bread could be dipped into the soup. Just… really?! Had that person been raised in a barn? Obviously the person had no class at all.
Sky raised her hand and added her voice to the correct answers. "If you really think about it, it's obvious. The food is served from your right and removed from your left, to keep up with the idea of going clockwise. I believe if the food is served from your left, then it would be going counterclockwise," she explained, sounding slightly snooty about it.
She then took a delicate bite of the brushetta. Yum, it tasted delicious! Quote:
Originally Posted by Team ronmione Everything was so orderly in this class today. The only thing he knew about eating soup an food was to not eat nor talk with your mouth opened. But this class had a rule for everything. Usually the first thing he had with soup, when at home was too eat it, an then jump up an down as he breathed out trying to cool it off in his mouth.
Adam raised his hand. "Isn't it served on your right?" At least from what he remembered of being out in a fancy restarunt he thought he leaned to the left so the waiter could serve on the right. But he couldn't remember which said the dish would be taken away. Quote:
Originally Posted by george is cool Lilly wasn't sure her answer was right, but she raised her hand anyway. "Is your food served to you on your right, and finished dishes taken away on the left?" she said, quietly. "Because that would follow a clockwise pattern?" Lilly added, uneasially. Even if that was wrong, it was a 50% chance. Quote:
Originally Posted by nogoodforyou When the tiny, mysterious but yet delicious looking things reached her, Nora helped herself with one and placed it on its dish, but not before taking a small bite. Mmmm. As for those rules... yes, she knew them, because her mother insisted all the time not to do anything inappropriate when eating.
"The food is served on the right, and the dish will be removed from the left?" She suggested when she raised her hand. Well, if it wasn't it, it had to be the other way around. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua Zhenya raised her hand and spoke, "Professor I believe the Left hand side is where dinner and other food is served and also for clearing side dishes, but the Right hand side is where plates are cleared from," she said. She really wasn't 100% certain of her answer but that was just how it was during her experiences. Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverTiger Smoothing out the napkin in her lap, and therefore her skirt underneath, Stella had stayed silent as the lesson had really officially begun. It wasn't exactly that she hadn't had any idea as to the answers. She just had decided to take it all in, almost pretend that it wasn't a lesson. At least the menu didn't look to be French, which helped her keep her thoughts seperate from memories of Beauxbatons. That kept her comfortable, and she delicately selected a piece of bruschetta as the plate was passed to her, then passed it on. Taking a small bite, she placed the rest on her bread plate and turned her attention back to Professor Cerulean as the discussion moved to the next course.
She sent a glance toward the student who had asked if they could dip their bread into their soup, though. Obviously they'd never gone to a formal dinner. She assumed the professor would correct them, though, and raised her hand along with the others as the next question was posed. "Dishes after the appetizer course are passed the opposite to the first course. That is, they are passed from left to right, enabling the server to replace the empty dish from the appetizers with the next course easily, and keeping things organized and moving smoothly," she answered, before lowering her hand and taking another bite of her bruschetta before the soup arrived. Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve. Looking at the bruschetta made her hungry but she just couldn't eat! Onto the lesson it was confusing for Eva because she had no idea to do that a lot of the time she would just eat in her room or with a bunch of friends that didn't care how she ate food like to much. Raising her hand she said; "Professor you get served form your right and it is taken from your left hand side." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Jory took a piece of the bread from the tray passed to him, placed it on his bread dish and then passed the tray to the student beside him.
While doing that, Jory listened intently to the Professor explaining the rules. He tried to remember them.
Jory raised his hand to answer the question. "The food's served from the left making it sensible to be removed from the right.''
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Originally Posted by Lockhartian Treyen was going to kill Arya for making him eat. Today had been the LAST time that his best friend was going to make him eat more than he wanted to. Why? Simply because he was now facing a seven course meal...and he'd just eaten. So, yeah, he wasn't precisely hungry.
Granted, Cerulean's servings seem to be small...so...he could at least try them, without finishing them, which she said was totally okay. As long as he took a bite or something.
He took one bruschetta and placed it on the bread dish, before passing it along.
Oh, another question. Hand raised. "The food is served from the left, which means it's removed from the right." Sort of like they were doing, no? Because they were passing that bread stuff to the left of each of them. So, basically, the food is served on one side and then the plate would be removed from the other side. Easy. Quote:
Originally Posted by Katergirl Angelina took a piece of bruschetta from the plate that got past to her right. Once she got one piece she past it to the person on her left. She took a bite of the bruschetta and placed it on her bread plate? She hoped she placed it on the right plate.
Raising her hand she said, "Professor wouldn't the server serve your food from your left and once you are done with the food you have it would be taken from your right?" Angelina was pretty sure she was right, it makes a lot of sence to! Its like a line almost where one side you recieve and the other end or side you give away. Quote:
Originally Posted by tomewitch Well..honestly, Beezus haven't eaten anything for the day since she was very busy getting ready for her attire in that Muggle Studies class. She wasn't used to dressing up and putting make up now. Merlin, she didn't even know how to wear those kind of shoes properly, she was only used to converse shoes. And because of that, the moment that food was served on their tables, it triggered her hunger.
And now, she was very hungry indeed. As questions came from left to right, she did not even bother opening her mouth since she already knew the stuff, she allowed the others to give out their ideas. Besides, if she opened her mouth, it'll just water at the mere sight of the Bruschetta bread. She would pounce on it if she had the chance. Hence, her delight when finally..Professor Cerulean said that they could try eating the bread now. Of course, she followed the proper rules of etiquette as she did.
When another question was brought up, she slowly chewed on the bread and listened to her classmates as they gave out answers. Most of them had it, she thought. Then she drank water as she nodded. Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo ... This was odd. Ellie was sort of just staring blankly at everyone, including the professors. There was a certain side that waiters were supposed to serve and clear your plates? And there was a certain direction you were supposed to pass the food? When Ellie was at home, the food was just put out on the table and everyone just sort of... dug in. Nothing fancy. And they never went to many restaurants, so she really had no idea.
When the Bruschetta came to Ellie, she eyed it before taking a piece and setting it on her bread plate. She looked up at Amelia next to her and pursed her lips. Mia knew that Ellie hadn't had much luck with keeping her food down recently. But Professor Cerulean just said that it was proper to at least take a bite of everything. So, Ellie took a small nibble. Hopefully, it wouldn't be too bad by the end of the lesson. Quote:
Originally Posted by keepmeclose22 Pam looked happily down at her food, and then over to Nate. She was excited to be here. It was her first ediquite class, and she was glad she was getting it at a young age. As she waited for her food to cool, she pondered on the question. After a couple seconds she raised her hand. "Wouldn't the food come from your left, and be picked up on your right?" Quote:
Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 Alyssa first took one of the Bruschetta's off the plate. She loved these little Italian breads with onions and tomatoes on them. She would wait until everyone had taken a piece before taking a bite out of hers. So she lay her piece on her bread plate and raised her hand to answer the Professor's next question.
"Professor, the server will always serve our food from our left side, and when we are done with our food, the dishes are removed from our right side. So it is always polite to move a little to the side when the server is serving or removing, so that you are not in their way." Quote:
Originally Posted by EastonionNW Nate raised his hand slowly, so as not to knock the tray of Bruschetta out of the air. "Would the tray be passed to you on your right, and removed from your left? That would follow the clockwise pattern," he said as he took one piece of the funky looking tomato bread with an official demeanor about him.
As the soup came out, though, something popped into Nate's head, and he had to ask before he messed something up. "Professor, is it still--allowed, per say, to dip our bread in the soup?" So long as it was his own soup and not Pam's or some of the other students' then it seemed like it was fine. Quote:
Originally Posted by Presley Black Presley shook her head in exasperation. They were all wrong! Every last one of them was just repeating the same answer! She threw her hand into the air. "Um, actually the food is served from the left, and dishes are removed from the right," she said somewhat shyly, somewhat frustrated. Had these people never been to a formal dinner before? Quote:
Originally Posted by HOPEendures Jezzabelle took one bruschetta and passed it on to the person sitting to her left. She took a bite and placed what she didn't eat onto her bread plate. The chewing gave her a chance to think things over as well as enjoy the taste. It was delicious and almost distracted her from the objective at hand. She swallowed the food and took a sip of her tea. Raising her hand she smiled and said, "They food is severed to you on your right side and the dirty dishes are removed from your left side." Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Minerva took the bread as it was passed to her. She placed a little piece in her mouth chewing it completely before raising her hand. "Professor you are served from your right and empty dishes are taken from your left." Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelsheen
Vickers took a piece of bruschetta and lay it on his bread plate before passing it to the student next to him. He listened quietly when the Professor went over the general rules of etiquette. It was like it was back home again, except the Professor says the rules much nicer than his grandmother ever did.
He raised his hand again on the next question "Food is usually served on our right, whether its by servers or passing it along on a long dining table. When the diner is done or there is reason to take the food away mid-meal servers clear the dishes from the left side of the diner." Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy ♥ Amelia took one of the weird looking tomato things and put it on her bread dish. She didn't care for tomato, so she wasn't sure how much she would enjoy eating the thing. Instead, she just turned all her attention to the Professor again as the lesson continued.
It didn't seem too complicated, there were quite a few similaries between this and what she knew already. Though she had to admit that she hadn't been to that many parties that required this type of eating.
She raised her hand at the question. "You would get served on your right, and your food taken from you on your left." It worked going by the whole idea of your food moving clockwise.
The young professor's face was excited about all of the right answers. " Yes the waiter would serve you from the right side and take your plate from the left side...so always try to lean away just a little bit so that it makes it easier for the waiter to reach your serving setting..." she flicked her wand and the cups of minestrone levitated down to their right shoulders and then levitated to the serving plate. " You need to use the soup spoon..." she held up the spoon from the right side of her plate and all of the soup spoons on the table rose up slightly. " to eat your soup."
She gave them a little bit of time to eat their soup, and for her to eat her soup, and when it seemed like a majority of them were done she flicked her wand and the next course, the salad, in little glasses, flew in from a side door and levitated on the side of the room.
" Okay let's go on to our next course, our fruit salad. It has strawberries, pineapple, melons, blueberries, peaches, and watermelons diced up very small." She flicked her wand and the soup cups were removed from the table on the students' left side and instantly the glasses of fruit salad levitated around the students' right side and landed. " Make sure you use your salad fork" she said holding up the little fork causing all of these forks to raise up a little bit, " for the salad course."
As the students began to eat, she decided it was time to pose the next question, " Can anyone tell me what you do with your silverware after you have used it....not at the end of the meal but...for instance, after you butter a piece of bread, what do you do with your butter knife? OOC: Remember to raise your hand before you answer. .And as always remember she is always watching you! But remember she doesn't handle rudeness towards Muggle ways very well, so you might want to keep those prejudices to yourself unless you want face the consequences! Try the soup and the salad...yummy...feel free to have LIGHT conversation at your table....but don't get carried away...
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