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Saturday, June 4, 2011
TWO DOGS DINING
All right, visitors, the video is long for bloggers' attention spans at over six minutes, but, once you start watching, I believe you won't be able to stop. I was hooked within a few seconds.
I love the deft use of the knife and fork to keep them from eating too fast!! Napkins well used, also. I wonder how they managed to make it last that long! Very cute!
The napkin could be a giveaway - I sometimes get odd looks down-South for the liberality with which I swab my mouth during a meal - also the placement of the dessert spoons (even the use of dessert spoons - the dessert fork is almost universal in the US nowadays, isn't it?)
But looking at it again, could it be Continental. Scandinavian, perhaps? The knife blades are a bit wide & curved to be British. They're of a shape that dates back to the 18th c, when food was conveyed to the mouth on the knife blade rather than the tines of the fork. (Americans were still doing this in the 1840's - Charles Dickens thought it funny and rather "low")
My father was a martinet about table manners, but he overdid it and made some meals miserable with his criticism. I've slipped a bit from his high standards, and I fell short in training my children - not that they eat like savages, but my father would never have put up with their habits at his table. I sometimes wished that he was around for me to send my children, especially the boys, off for table manners training for a week just to see how it would have turned out - for them and for him.
How they kept the dogs from snarfing the food down is amazing... the dog on the right had a few technical difficulties with hand to mouth coordination but the overall effect is hysterical.
A busty restaurant?
ReplyDeleteYes, the waitress.
ReplyDeleteThere was a Seinfeld show about busty waitresses.
I love the deft use of the knife and fork to keep them from eating too fast!! Napkins well used, also. I wonder how they managed to make it last that long! Very cute!
ReplyDeletesusan s., the dogs are surely obliging and well-trained. Yes, the video nearly kills with cute.
ReplyDeleteLapin, is it the forks or something else in the scene that makes you think the dogs are British?
ReplyDeleteI think it's the excessive use of the napkin that's the telltale British sign.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, yes - the vedy, vedy proper table manners.
ReplyDeleteThe napkin could be a giveaway - I sometimes get odd looks down-South for the liberality with which I swab my mouth during a meal - also the placement of the dessert spoons (even the use of dessert spoons - the dessert fork is almost universal in the US nowadays, isn't it?)
ReplyDeleteBut looking at it again, could it be Continental. Scandinavian, perhaps? The knife blades are a bit wide & curved to be British. They're of a shape that dates back to the 18th c, when food was conveyed to the mouth on the knife blade rather than the tines of the fork. (Americans were still doing this in the 1840's - Charles Dickens thought it funny and rather "low")
My father was a martinet about table manners, but he overdid it and made some meals miserable with his criticism. I've slipped a bit from his high standards, and I fell short in training my children - not that they eat like savages, but my father would never have put up with their habits at his table. I sometimes wished that he was around for me to send my children, especially the boys, off for table manners training for a week just to see how it would have turned out - for them and for him.
ReplyDeleteHow they kept the dogs from snarfing the food down is amazing... the dog on the right had a few technical difficulties with hand to mouth coordination but the overall effect is hysterical.
ReplyDeleteCaminante, I've lost count of the number of times I've watched the video. It's delightful.
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