Miss Manners: Is it stuck to eat a food on my plate at the same time?

Dear Miss Manners: As a pre -adolescent, someone told me that it was rude to eat a food on my plate at the same time – that I was supposed to move on my plate, eat bites of each article successively.

I like to enjoy all the food before continuing. The only thing I can compare is to watch a television show, and someone changes the channel in the middle. I want to finish the show I watch before I go to the next one.

The day I was told, I made a silent wish that I would always eat a food at a time, as I prefer. But I wonder if you have already heard of the rule that this person was trying to impose me.

I think it is rude to monitor the others, but then this person was still trying to do it when I was sixty. I am no longer in this person’s life, but the question harassed me for decades. Who was right?

Soft reader: you.

Even Miss Manners has no opinion on the order in which you eat your dinner – and would certainly never watch it.

As long as you do not try to consume the bread bowl before soup or make similar chaotic choices, it supports your decisions – both on how you choose to eat and to keep yourself away from this throbbing person.

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Dear Miss Manners: We had to dine with another couple, and my wife became horrified when I took the final sip of my cocktail, with an ice cube, then I brought the ice cube to the glass.

The final sip is the best sip! Is it so horrible?

Soft reader: Yes.

By all means, take this final sip. But Miss Manners will have to insist that you find a way to do it without the ice coming back naked.

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