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FireboltAvis88 01-15-2012 07:19 PM

Alyssa first picked up her spoon and slowly sipped the soup until it was half finished. Then she left the soup spoon to the side of the soup bowl lying face up on it's serving plate. Next she took her salad fork and delicately picked up the salad and made sure that she delicately poked on the fruit so that it didn't roll around or fly all out of her fruit salad cup. As she did that she listened to the Professor's next question.

She thought for awhile before she raised her hand. "Professor when you are temporarily used with your utensil like the butter knife you rest it on the the side of your plate. The used utensil should never touch the table after it has been used ."

Eve. 01-15-2012 07:23 PM

Yum!! This had been tasting good especially for Eva who didn't eat too much but gee she would eat this a lot! Onto the question she again had no idea. Normally she put silverware down it was like a napkin or a plate. Hmm. Maybe she should answer that. Eva raised her hand and said "Do you put it on the right or on a plate?"

pundantic 01-15-2012 08:31 PM

Food... THIS was Selina's type of class. It seemed that whatever bad mood the door had put her in earlier was now long forgotten as the soup had been delivered. She picked up the proper spoon and delved into the delicious rich and hearty soup. If it were just a tad thicker she was certain it would have constituted as stew, but it was delicious none-the-less. So she happily ate her soup without slurping as she had been warned and was surprisingly quiet. Then again Selina was always quiet when food was on the table. It was just a reflex.

THEN IT WAS GONE! She was about to raise her hand to ask where the food had gone even though she had virtually finished hers by the time is disappeared when another course came out. It was some kind of fruit salad, but she was distracted by the strawberries inside to listen to the rest of the ingredients. This class kept getting better and better...

She rose her hand to answer her Professors question and said, "Do you leave your utensils on the small plate in each of our settings?"

porkpie 01-15-2012 09:13 PM

louise tried the soup it was very nice, she put her hand for the next question, "you would put your fork on your plate if you put it on the table it will be very unkind also the table will get dirty she hoped she was right

Jessiqua 01-15-2012 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10877584)
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...

Zhenya had a taste of everything in her salad, and raised her hand, "This is delightful Professor!" she said with her eyes lit up, "And... I know people get very grumpy when people put their buttery knives on the pristine white lace table cloth... even if it was an accident! So, one should never allow the uh... dirty part of the silverware to touch the tablecloth or table, but instead rest half of it off the plate. Or you can put the cutlery just on the side of the plate, similar to how you would place your cutlery if you have finished - but on the side," she said.

Steelsheen 01-15-2012 09:22 PM

SPOILER!!: Prof
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Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10877584)
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...



When the soup was presented to him he managed to get one or two spoonfuls in before he decided to stop. He found it pretty bland and was wondering if he could add some salt to it. But before he could ask to pass the salt the soup was taken away to be replaced by the palate cleanser -- which was a very refreshing citrus salad.

He took the salad fork and pressed it against a watermelon. On the next question he raised his hand again "Professor, after using the butterknife we return it back onto the bread plate. If for example we are done with this salad we replace our forks onto the serving plate that came with the salad." he said, tapping the serving dish beneath the glass container.

HOPEendures 01-15-2012 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10877584)
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.



"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


















































































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...

Jezzabelle ate her soup slowly. She couldn't swallow it all down because it was kind of hot. However, she was lucky enough so finish it before the bowl vanished. She took a sip of her water, only after the fruit salad had sat down in front of her. Taking a bite of watermelon she resisted the urge to moan in delight. Swallowing she raised her hand, "When you have finished eating, place them side by side in the center of the plate." But she wasn't finished eating was she?

Strawberries and Blueberries and Peaches, Oh my! She took another bite and smiled as she looked around to the people sitting with her. They were a quiet lot weren't they. Maybe they, like herself, were just enjoying the delicious food.

Lissy Longbottom 01-15-2012 09:26 PM

All this etiquette nonsense was making Alex's head spin. He still had no idea what knife was which and which fork was which--all he'd gotten was the b and d thing. That hadn't been too tough to crack, so why was the rest of it so COMPLICATED to him??

He raised his hand. "You'd put your dirty utensils on the plate, so you don't get food on the nice tablecloths," he responded. Obviously. One didn't want the tablecloths to get dirty with your leftover gravy and butter!

EastonionNW 01-15-2012 09:29 PM

Nate chuckled slightly and raised his hand to answer. "I honestly have no idea, Professor," he said without hesitation. This was an etiquette class, after all, and honesty was usually considered polite.

Lezleighd 01-15-2012 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 10877589)
He was on a roll! It seemed to have payed off that his mother had wanted them to be as fancy as they could afford even at dinner with just his small family.

Auggie watched excitedly as the soup landed infront of him. This, by far was already his favorite lesson of the term. They got to eat like crazy! And there were still plenty of other courses to come. Auggie watched as the soup spoon rose up in its place to the right of his plate and he retrieved it and began to eat the soup. It was really good too. "Excuse me, Professor did you make this food or was it the House Elves? I only ask because it's really great."

After the soup course was finished, Auggie had left some of it in the bowl because he didn't want to fill up too much, he was ready for the fruit salad. He quickly picked up his salad fork and then listened to the Professor's question, he raised his hand again and answered. "Aren't you supposed to leave them with the plate, cup, or bowl so the waiters can take it with them? Besides you have all the other utensils you need still on the table." he said with a nod.

Gemma's face lit up at the question from the student, "Well, Auggie, actually the House Elves did make most of these things. I went down and visited them yesterday and we spent all day working on these things...THey enjoyed learning some new recipes and, of course, I made sure we had made enough for them to have the courses as well.!" she said excitedly...she had had soooo much fun with the elves cooking and seeing them get excited about the new recipes...maybe they could work something into the feast...

SPOILER!!: Awesome...thanks!

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom (Post 10878055)
All this etiquette nonsense was making Alex's head spin. He still had no idea what knife was which and which fork was which--all he'd gotten was the b and d thing. That hadn't been too tough to crack, so why was the rest of it so COMPLICATED to him??

He raised his hand. "You'd put your dirty utensils on the plate, so you don't get food on the nice tablecloths," he responded. Obviously. One didn't want the tablecloths to get dirty with your leftover gravy and butter!

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Originally Posted by HOPEendures (Post 10878051)
Jezzabelle ate her soup slowly. She couldn't swallow it all down because it was kind of hot. However, she was lucky enough so finish it before the bowl vanished. She took a sip of her water, only after the fruit salad had sat down in front of her. Taking a bite of watermelon she resisted the urge to moan in delight. Swallowing she raised her hand, "When you have finished eating, place them side by side in the center of the plate." But she wasn't finished eating was she?

Strawberries and Blueberries and Peaches, Oh my! She took another bite and smiled as she looked around to the people sitting with her. They were a quiet lot weren't they. Maybe they, like herself, were just enjoying the delicious food.

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen (Post 10878045)

When the soup was presented to him he managed to get one or two spoonfuls in before he decided to stop. He found it pretty bland and was wondering if he could add some salt to it. But before he could ask to pass the salt the soup was taken away to be replaced by the palate cleanser -- which was a very refreshing citrus salad.

He took the salad fork and pressed it against a watermelon. On the next question he raised his hand again "Professor, after using the butterknife we return it back onto the bread plate. If for example we are done with this salad we replace our forks onto the serving plate that came with the salad." he said, tapping the serving dish beneath the glass container.

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Originally Posted by porkpie (Post 10878030)
louise tried the soup it was very nice, she put her hand for the next question, "you would put your fork on your plate if you put it on the table it will be very unkind also the table will get dirty she hoped she was right

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Originally Posted by Jessiqua (Post 10878040)
Zhenya had a taste of everything in her salad, and raised her hand, "This is delightful Professor!" she said with her eyes lit up, "And... I know people get very grumpy when people put their buttery knives on the pristine white lace table cloth... even if it was an accident! So, one should never allow the uh... dirty part of the silverware to touch the tablecloth or table, but instead rest half of it off the plate. Or you can put the cutlery just on the side of the plate, similar to how you would place your cutlery if you have finished - but on the side," she said.

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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 10877951)
Food... THIS was Selina's type of class. It seemed that whatever bad mood the door had put her in earlier was now long forgotten as the soup had been delivered. She picked up the proper spoon and delved into the delicious rich and hearty soup. If it were just a tad thicker she was certain it would have constituted as stew, but it was delicious none-the-less. So she happily ate her soup without slurping as she had been warned and was surprisingly quiet. Then again Selina was always quiet when food was on the table. It was just a reflex.

THEN IT WAS GONE! She was about to raise her hand to ask where the food had gone even though she had virtually finished hers by the time is disappeared when another course came out. It was some kind of fruit salad, but she was distracted by the strawberries inside to listen to the rest of the ingredients. This class kept getting better and better...

She rose her hand to answer her Professors question and said, "Do you leave your utensils on the small plate in each of our settings?"

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Originally Posted by Eve. (Post 10877856)
Yum!! This had been tasting good especially for Eva who didn't eat too much but gee she would eat this a lot! Onto the question she again had no idea. Normally she put silverware down it was like a napkin or a plate. Hmm. Maybe she should answer that. Eva raised her hand and said "Do you put it on the right or on a plate?"

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 (Post 10877850)
Alyssa first picked up her spoon and slowly sipped the soup until it was half finished. Then she left the soup spoon to the side of the soup bowl lying face up on it's serving plate. Next she took her salad fork and delicately picked up the salad and made sure that she delicately poked on the fruit so that it didn't roll around or fly all out of her fruit salad cup. As she did that she listened to the Professor's next question.

She thought for awhile before she raised her hand. "Professor when you are temporarily used with your utensil like the butter knife you rest it on the the side of your plate. The used utensil should never touch the table after it has been used ."

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Originally Posted by Orla (Post 10877846)
The fruit salad looked delightfull, LuLu couldn't wait to get her hands on it, she put her fork into it and ate it and listened closely to the proffesers words, she was getting good at this fancy dinner junk! Once she was done her hand raised up into the air

''If you are finished your meal completely, you usually place your knife and fork, and any other utensil you are using neatly on the plate in the 12 o-clock position, It is considered quite rude if you don't do so,''

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Originally Posted by keepmeclose22 (Post 10877807)
Pam smiled as the salad came out. She loved fruit, especially pineapple. As she picked up the small fork, she began eating her salad. Each bite was like nothing she had ever tasted. She liked being able to have something extrodinary to eat. Even if it was just fruit salad.

As she was enjoying her salad, the professor asked a question. Thinking for a moment she raised her hand. "Professor, don't you place it on your plate? Off to the side, so you don't bump into anyone?" She wasn't 100% sure it was correct, but then again, not many people did.

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Originally Posted by ballantd (Post 10877766)
Melanie looked over at the utensils. She was pretty sure she knew the answer to this, so she restrained herself from eating for a moment and raised her hand.

"I believe you place the knife on your plate, handle facing the right, so the dirtied part is over the plate."

Melanie was thrilled that she could finally excel in something. She felt so out of place in this new, magic world, but Muggle Studies? She could do this!

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Originally Posted by Deniiz (Post 10877664)
So far so good, Joćo was truly impressed with this class. It was enjoyable even to his standards who was accustomed to the very best of meals because of his parents' job. He had just focused on eating and let the others answer the questions, unwilling to cut off his pleasure of eating. Though, when the soup came, he examined it one second, tried his best not to show his disgust at the sight of it and tried one spoon just to be polite, before putting the spoon neatly back next to his plate.

And then came the fruit salad, luckily fast, and he ate that happily. Now though, he supposed he should answer a few questions or else he would just eat and have done nothing to earn some points.

Raising his hand, he said "You place them neatly on the plate so that they don't leave a spot on the table." Made sense, right?

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Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 10877634)
Whatever that delicious first thing was. Soup. Salad. It was already enough for Nora's stomach. How was she going to make it through all the other remaining courses? Uhm... maybe she could sneak a 'Scourgify' when no one was looking? Not really... she didn't want to get caught and get into trouble. Well, she'll only have to wait and see what was next.

"You place it neatly on the plate?" The girl said hesitantly, with a hand raised. Or maybe it should be placed back next to the plate? Hmm.

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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 10877627)
Minerva looked at the soup and salad it looks so good. She was about to try them when another question was asked. She put up her hand. "Well professor I think you put the silverware on your plate until you are completely finished." Then she went back to trying the next to items on the menu. They were so good. This was turning out to be a great lesson.

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Originally Posted by Starbreeze (Post 10877620)
The fruit salad looked delicious, but Eino almost felt bad about eating it. It looked like it had been very craftily sculptured into the glass, and eating would destroy it. Nonetheless, Eino picked up the appropriate fork (after checking around to see which one that was) and dug in when they were allowed to eat. The fruit was fresh, cool, and sweet! It felt like he was eating ice-sugar cubes. After taking one last bite, Eino put his fork down, but he was not done yet! He turned his attention to Professor Cerulean and listened to her question. He raised his hand and spoke when he was allowed to. "I believe that after you've used the silverware you place it, very neatly, might I add, on top of your plate." At least, that was always what he did.

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Originally Posted by iceblossom22 (Post 10877610)

Elise beamed, although she'd known she was correct all along. Leaning to her left just slightly, she allowed the soup to seat itself in front of her. Nodding at Professor Cerulean, she picked up her soup spoon.

Spooning the delicousness, she sipped from the side of the spoon as she was taught to do much earlier. She continued sipping her soup, tilting her bowl just slightly way from her until it was finished. She barely had the time to register that most of them were done already. Leaning towards her right, she smiled as the bowl flew away.

Leaning left again, she allowed the cups of Fruit Salad land in front of her and paid very close attention to what was in it. After she was sure that she wasn't allergic to any of the fruits in the cup, she took her salad fork and delicately speared a piece of melon.

Hearing the question, Elise swallowed before raising her hand. "I believe you put them on your plate, handle facing to the right with the knife above the fork. That would indicate that you are not yet finished with your meal. Putting them diagonally, with the handle on the bottom right would indicate that you are finished with the meal."

Lowering her hand, she proceeded to spear a piece of pineapple. Chewing delicately, she smiled at the slight sourness of the pineapple. It was the perfect balance between sour and sweet and was really amazing.

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Originally Posted by RachieRu (Post 10877593)
Yummmy. This fruit salad was very yummy. Indy had never really had a fruit salad when she was eating before, so this really was a new experience. The strawberries were her favorite, but then they were her favorite fruit, so that was bound to be really. Indy thought about the question as she ate her fruit. She kind of had an idea, especially considering that the layout of the tablet. Mmm. Indy nodded her head, before raising her hand. "Would you put the knife, and any of the other cutlery that's been used onto the side plate, or saucer." Sounded pretty good.



"Yes ya'll are correct!" she said shaking her head up and down. "Once used, your utensils, including the handles, must not touch the table again. Always rest forks, knives, and spoons on the side of your plate or in the bowl or cup." she picked up her used fork from her plate and demonstrated for them on the screen. "You should always place it on the outer rim of the plate if you grab a drink or wipe your mouth with your napkin or something similar. You should never let it rest gangplank fashion with half of it on the plate and half of it on the table."

She glanced around the room to see if the majority of students were done with the fruit salad course. "If you'll just place your salad fork in the cup, when you are done. This will signal that you are done with this course..." she waited for the students to do that and with a flick the cups where removed on the left side of each student and floated out as the next course flew in.

"This is the sorbet course...it looks like ice cream but it's more tart than that..." she paused and then remembered an important warning, "Don't eat it too fast or you'll get a brain freeze...this course is to clean the palate for your main courses..." she had to admit that this was her one of her favorite courses...she loved sorbet.



When it seemed that the majority of the students were done, she flicked her wand and the empty glass bowls disappeared and the next course came in.

SPOILER!!: Lasagna Course...you'll just get one of the circles


She flicked her wand and the next course landed onto their serving plates. "Alright this is our first main dish. You can use the Fish Knife for this course..." she said picking up her knife, as the other utensils had, this fork raised up from all of the tables slightly. She flicked her wand and baskets of bread flew in an landed in the middle of each table.



"Now it is important for you to pace yourself as you eat so that you don't finish before others are halfway through. So if you are a slow eater, try to speed up a bit on this occasion so you don't hold everyone up. And if you are a quick eater, slow down." she said eying her lasagna...this was going to be so good and the smell of garlic was just amazing!!! One of her favorites.

"In the next course, we are going to have sourdough rolls. Can anyone tell me what the proper way to eat bread is?" she asked motioning for them to start eating their lasagna...then she took her first bite.

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 lasagna...oooo I love the smell of garlic from the bread...yummy...feel free to have LIGHT conversation at your table....but don't get carried away...

Somnium 01-15-2012 10:03 PM

TAylor tried the dish. She raised her hand after clearing her mouth of food by shallowing, "You break off small pieces and eat the small pieces.

WhittyBitty 01-15-2012 10:07 PM

Amelia had to admit that she was liking all the food they were eating besides the tomato bread things. She had only picked at that one before placing it back on her bread plate. She was also discretely looking beside her to see if Ellie was eating; she had been so worried about her friend's health after the break up with Dallin.

She raised her hand now. "I believe you break the bread up into smaller pieces as it's not very polite to eat a big piece of bread all at once." And eat it with butter. Mmmm. She liked bread with butter.

She started on her lasagne now.

Tazzie 01-15-2012 10:25 PM

Merlin. she never knew she could enjoy Muggle food so much. But then again, Muggle food was her comfort food. It's just that she haven't eaten those kind that they they were eating now. They were a bit new to her taste buds.

Although everything was splendid, Beezus didn't liked the soup very much. She was never that fond of soup anyways. Still, she took a small taste of it just for table manners. However, the salad was the exact opposite of the soup. It was very delicious! And full of fruits, and very refreshing too.

But the best part was just.....MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! The main dish! LASAGNA! If she was just allowed to shout in their, she might as well have because lasagna was one of her favorites and the fact that she was having it, well..Muggle Studies, maybe ain't gonna be too bad for her this term.

She just kept eating while the questions poured out.

SilverDragon 01-15-2012 10:36 PM

The lasagna looked really good. Silvia had had lasagna before, but none that looked like this. She hoped that she would have enough room for dessert later.

After taking a sip of water, she raised her hand. "I think you should break off a piece of bread and eat one small piece at a time, rather than picking up the entire bread and taking a bite out of it."

Silvia picked up her fork and knife and started on the lasagna.

Starbreeze 01-15-2012 10:37 PM

Eino made note that everyone in the table should try to eat at the same speed. He was usually a fast eater, so that was something he had to be mindful of. The main dish came and it looked like something someone really rich would eat. Eino had had lasagna before, but not like this. He picked up the his fork and the fish knife when the professor instructed them to use it, and took a small sample of the dish to taste. Hot, hot, hot! Eino almost blew on his food but he recalled that it was rude, so he just waited a few minutes for it to cool down. Meanwhile, he raised his hand to share a response. "I suppose bread should be eaten in small pieces, no? It can make you feel full very quickly if you eat too much, so you wouldn't have any more appetite for the rest of the meal." And it would be rude to just sit there and watch everyone eat.

HOPEendures 01-15-2012 10:51 PM

Finishing her fruit salad, Jezzabelle placed her salad fork in the cup and watched as it floated away. In it's place sat Lasagna. On it smelled and looked AMAZING! Even the bread sticks looked amazing. She decided it was best to let the food cool before taking a bite so she raised her hand and said, "Well, for one you're not supposed to butter the entire piece of bread. Actually you're supposed to take a bit of the butter and scrape it off onto the edge of your bread plate and then proceed to break off little pieces as you go along to eat it." Yeah, it sounded a little complicated but it was the proper way to do things.

With that being said, Jezz took the first bite. It was so delicious. Almost tasted better than she had imagined it would. If she ate like this everyday it would make not only everyday a good day but it would make for one very happy and healthy Jezzabelle. She took another bite then a sip of her tea and followed it all up by lightly wiping her mouth. So good.

PhoenixWizard 01-15-2012 10:55 PM

catch up
 
SPOILER!!: Professor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10877584)
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.



"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


















































































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...



Angelina sat and ate her soup slowly, untill she was tired of it, it was good, but she was full of soup. Once she heard the salad was full of all her favorite fruit that was it, she was excited! She was in love with strawberries, pineapple, peaches, wwatermelons, etc. Happily she took the a small amount of salad. She was about to pick up her dinner fork, or whatever you call it and use it tell her professor reminded them all to use their salad fork. Angelina than sat and at the amazing salad while listending to the professor talking to them. Raising her hand she said, "Professor wouldn't you set it on your bread plate?" Well thats what she did.

SPOILER!!: Professor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10878103)
Gemma's face lit up at the question from the student, "Well, Auggie, actually the House Elves did make most of these things. I went down and visited them yesterday and we spent all day working on these things...THey enjoyed learning some new recipes and, of course, I made sure we had made enough for them to have the courses as well.!" she said excitedly...she had had soooo much fun with the elves cooking and seeing them get excited about the new recipes...maybe they could work something into the feast...

SPOILER!!: Awesome...thanks!





































"Yes ya'll are correct!" she said shaking her head up and down. "Once used, your utensils, including the handles, must not touch the table again. Always rest forks, knives, and spoons on the side of your plate or in the bowl or cup." she picked up her used fork from her plate and demonstrated for them on the screen. "You should always place it on the outer rim of the plate if you grab a drink or wipe your mouth with your napkin or something similar. You should never let it rest gangplank fashion with half of it on the plate and half of it on the table."

She glanced around the room to see if the majority of students were done with the fruit salad course. "If you'll just place your salad fork in the cup, when you are done. This will signal that you are done with this course..." she waited for the students to do that and with a flick the cups where removed on the left side of each student and floated out as the next course flew in.

SPOILER!!: Lasagna Course...you'll just get one of the circles


She flicked her wand and the next course landed onto their serving plates. "Alright this is our first main dish. You can use the Fish Knife for this course..." she said picking up her knife, as the other utensils had, this fork raised up from all of the tables slightly. She flicked her wand and baskets of bread flew in an landed in the middle of each table.



"Now it is important for you to pace yourself as you eat so that you don't finish before others are halfway through. So if you are a slow eater, try to speed up a bit on this occasion so you don't hold everyone up. And if you are a quick eater, slow down." she said eying her lasagna...this was going to be so good and the smell of garlic was just amazing!!! One of her favorites.

"In the next course, we are going to have sourdough rolls. Can anyone tell me what the proper way to eat bread is?" she asked motioning for them to start eating their lasagna...then she took her first bite.

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 lasagna...oooo I love the smell of garlic from the bread...yummy...feel free to have LIGHT conversation at your table....but don't get carried away...




Angelina looked sadly down at her fruit salad, it was all gone. She loved it so much! Since she was done she placed her fork in the cup and waited for the next course, and listened to the Professor talking, she didn't want to miss anything.

Yum, lasanga! She loved that lasanga. She hardly even has it though, this just made her whole day amazing. She doesn't think anything can ruin her day after this Muggle Studies lesson!

She looked down at her lasanga and couldn't wait to eat it, but as professor said, don't eat to fast. This would be find though, she can enjoy the amazing lasanga, no matter how good it is.

Raising her hand she said, "Professor, I believe you would eat your bread in little pieces, and not in one big bit(s)."

Lissy Longbottom 01-15-2012 10:56 PM

There was a proper way to eat bread?

Well, apparently Alex had been doing it wrong--stuffing as much of the bread into your mouth as you possibly could was apparently NOT right. He rolled his eyes. He was never going to remember this stuff after the homework.

He raised his hand. "You eat it in small bites," he explained. "It's improper to stuff the whole thing in your mouth at once," he told her.

sarahlooo 01-15-2012 11:10 PM

Merlin, there was so much food! Ellie eyed it warily and glanced up at Amelia. Who was looking at her. Probably making sure Ellie ate it. But she didn't want to because she knew it wasn't going to stay there very long... Ugh.

Following the Professor, Ellie used the specific eating utensils and cut her lasagna. This was so... precise. Ellie had never seen anyone actually do all this fancy stuff before, but... Oh well. It was for class, so she would do it.

Before Ellie took a bite, she raised her hand. She might know the answer to this one. For once. "It's rude to eat anything in big bites, so probably taking small bites at a time would be proper. Or maybe even cutting it in half if it's a larger piece?" Just her two knuts.

JustAlice 01-15-2012 11:37 PM

Aurora finished her bruschetta and started on her soup... oh Merlin, this was delicious! Mmm... tasty tasty! As she finished her soup the professor asked another question. Aurora raised her hand, "You place your knife and fork next to eachother on the plate, and the fork prongs should face downwards because some dressings and stuff can tarnish the silver." And with the prongs facing downwards most of the silver was off the plate. Problem solved.

Ooooh fruit salad! Aurora took up her salad fork and began to eat slowly and carefully. Wouldn't do to be impolite at yet another an etiquette lesson, would it?

sweetpinkpixie 01-15-2012 11:49 PM

*pokes timezones* XD
 
Kurumi remained silent through the next section of instructions, doing as she was instructed to do but not saying anything. Truth was, despite being told that the portions were very small, Kurumi was already beginning to get full. She just never ate huge quantities of food, especially ones with such rich flavors. Kurumi had never had lasagna before either, so her knife and fork slipped on the plate, making a soft clanging noise as the two eating utenstils met. She immediately bowed her head to everyone at the tabled and whispered an apology. Good thing none of the sauce had sprayed anywhere at least.

Now they were moving onto the bread and, well, Kurumi's dinner didn't usually consist of bread and whenever it did at home it was always a scramble between her three brothers as to who got to eat the most, so they essentially devoured it in one bit while Kurumi's mother made her tear off small bite and actually count how many times she chewed. Her mother insisted that it was how to behave like a proper lady.

Timidly, Kurumi raised her hand. "I-I suppose that after you have taken a roll from the basket and set it on your breadplate, if there is a basket, and have passed it to your left," it was the left things were being passed, right? Or was it the right? Merlin Kurumi hoped she never had to go to one of these parties...but dating Jonathan almost guaranteed that she would. SIGH. "That you...um...tear off small bit, about bit sized and chew it very slowly?" Kurumi's mother made her chew around seven or eight times before she was allowed to tear off another piece. This was why Kurumi preferred rice.

Bazinga 01-16-2012 12:03 AM

Minerva looked at the Lasagna and bread it looks so good. She put up her hand. "Professor you eat in small pieces by breaking it off as you go."

Lockhartian 01-16-2012 12:06 AM

He...cannot take another bite of anything. And it was very likely he wasn't going to eat this entire week. Treyen was already full...and more stuff kept coming.

Sigh.

OH! LASAGNA! That reminded him of Italy! He could...eat it, just for Italy. And Hadley.

But, first, about that bread thing..., hand raised, "One should break the piece of bread that you'll be taking...and if you want to butter it, just butter that piece. Never cut the bread with a knife." Not while having a meal, that is. Cut it when you're in the kitchen, like him and Conan used to do.

Steelsheen 01-16-2012 12:23 AM

SPOILER!!: Prof C
Quote:

Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 10878103)
"Yes ya'll are correct!" she said shaking her head up and down. "Once used, your utensils, including the handles, must not touch the table again. Always rest forks, knives, and spoons on the side of your plate or in the bowl or cup." she picked up her used fork from her plate and demonstrated for them on the screen. "You should always place it on the outer rim of the plate if you grab a drink or wipe your mouth with your napkin or something similar. You should never let it rest gangplank fashion with half of it on the plate and half of it on the table."

She glanced around the room to see if the majority of students were done with the fruit salad course. "If you'll just place your salad fork in the cup, when you are done. This will signal that you are done with this course..." she waited for the students to do that and with a flick the cups where removed on the left side of each student and floated out as the next course flew in.

SPOILER!!: Lasagna Course...you'll just get one of the circles


She flicked her wand and the next course landed onto their serving plates. "Alright this is our first main dish. You can use the Fish Knife for this course..." she said picking up her knife, as the other utensils had, this fork raised up from all of the tables slightly. She flicked her wand and baskets of bread flew in an landed in the middle of each table.



"Now it is important for you to pace yourself as you eat so that you don't finish before others are halfway through. So if you are a slow eater, try to speed up a bit on this occasion so you don't hold everyone up. And if you are a quick eater, slow down." she said eying her lasagna...this was going to be so good and the smell of garlic was just amazing!!! One of her favorites.

"In the next course, we are going to have sourdough rolls. Can anyone tell me what the proper way to eat bread is?" she asked motioning for them to start eating their lasagna...then she took her first bite.

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 lasagna...oooo I love the smell of garlic from the bread...yummy...feel free to have LIGHT conversation at your table....but don't get carried away...



Okay, next course-- Lasagna. For some reason Vickers always had white lasagna, perhaps it would be a good time to try something new. He took his portion onto his plate and picked up the fish knife as the Professor instructed. Then he saw the bread sticks before him. Hmm how to eat bread? Hand up again "Professor, take a piece and break it off with your hand, to a size that will easily fit your mouth. If its a loaf of bread, hold onto the bread with the cloth that came with the bread basket and use the bread knife to cut a portion for yourself, then lay it on your breadplate. "

Gabrielle 01-16-2012 12:47 AM

Glenn ate her lasagne very slowly. She wasn't particularly hungry and she was a slow eater any way. Oh? She's supposed to eat a bit faster uh-okay.

She was a little worried about messing up her make-up, namely her lipstick from eating all this food. Glenn guessed she had brought it on herself wearing lipstick at all to this class. Another question, great. She raised her hand, "Um- With a knife and fork?" That seemed a correct answer. She had always eaten bread rolls with her fingers, guess she couldn't do that here.


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