Why I would die on the East Coast

[pearwaldorf]

Maybe this is just because I grew up in a place where you can walk into foofoo restaurants in jeans and sandals and nobody will bat an eye, but is this really a big deal? As long as you're not digging into the meat with your bare hands or putting ketchup on turkey (*eyes agnostic_jihad*), is it really that big a deal if he can't figure out which fork to use?

Comments

[whiterecluse.livejournal.com]

Dude, I live on the east coast and I put my elbows on the table and sometimes I even EAT CHICKEN WITH MY FINGERS (unless it's covered with a lot of sauce).
Nitpicking like that is just...I don't know. I don't care if Boyfriend has perfect manners as long as it looks like he's comfortable. If he, yeah, went face-down in a plate and had at it, then there might be a problem, but he doesn't, so there isn't.

[redgreenblue.livejournal.com]

As a rule, I tend to avoid fancy restaurants. I have yet to actually do it, but if I wanted to take out my partner to a special meal, I would invite them to my place and cook it myself. What’s more effective—taking someone you love to someplace hoity-toity and dropping all sorts of money unnecessarily, or putting forth the effort to learn and prepare a meal that they love? Of course, I run with a crowd that tends to shun these types of bourgeois excursions, so your mileage may vary.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I wish there was a way to just get the food without any of the crap that comes with it. And sometimes, one just doesn't want to cook.

[christyedna.livejournal.com]

Five bucks says that poor guy's whipped and if he says one thing out of line, he ain't gettin' any that night.

I usually dress in good jeans when I go out to any place to sit down (Chili's, Bennigans, etc) and if it's anywhere any higher-end (more than $15-20 per person) I wear a nice shirt with my jeans. :) Or khakis.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

She's mad. I say this as a true rural girl, who has gotten into fights with people who automatically assume that farmers are dumb on online forums, and who runs in fear at cities, so I'm probably not the one to ask.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Quite. There's this incredibly laid-back culture on the West Coast that I love, and it totally floors me when people flip out about shit like manners and salad forks. It's like, don't you people have better things to worry about?

runs in fear at cities

I think you'd like Portland. It's just big enough to be cool, but small enough to be nice still.