Do indians have good table manners ?

[Shahmir]

Indians Have Some Really REALLY Disgusting Table Manners | NDTV.com

To eat or not eat isn't the question- it's whether to use a spoon or not, lick your fingers or not, and/or pick your teeth with your fingers or not.

Let's draw you a little picture... Imagine sitting at a restaurant and looking at the guy on the other table eating with his hands elbows deep in his dinner. While you make intricate maneuvers with your fork and knife, trying not to hurt your food, this guy chomps at his grub with brazen abandon. You watch him wipe the meat sweats off his face with the back of his hand, as you nervously pick your napkin from your lap to dab your mouth, going "eww" a million times in your head. A word of advice, this video isn't for your delicate palate.

Culture Machine's Being Indian presents this wonderfully nuanced video on how a true blue Indian enjoys his food and drinks.

They include:

- Slurping your tea with a chuski

- Pouring a Patiala Peg of whiskey and drinking only after offering some to the God of Booze

- Getting our hands dirty to achieve proper gastronomical pleasure

- Helping your Tandoori Chicken achieve nirvana by not leaving a shred on the bone

- Burping and spreading the joy of food

- Digesting your food with a cocktail of not less than three mouth fresheners

This video is so brilliantly bang-on you may want to order yourself a hot plate of Tandoori Chicken; or well, not eat for the next few hours.

Here's the hunger and laughter inducing feast:

 

[baajey]

PROUD INDIAN......
we eat at table/floor......manners can go to hell.

 

[he-man]

same as pakistan,bangladesh,bhutan,nepal etc

 

[Levina]

Table manners of some other countries

America.....

Some of the arab countries.....

Now compare it to the Indian style of eating....

South India

North India.....

Yes we sit and eat on floor thats how our culture has been......but I dont understand the intent behind posting this thread.

 

[third eye]

PROUD INDIAN......
we eat at table/floor......manners can go to hell.

Manners are important , thats what makes a man.


@ op

Besides tha Patiala Peg, for the record which of the facts mentioned do not apply tp Pakistan or BD ?

 

[Shahmir]

Indians it is your own media outlet NDTV that is mocking your eating habits, if you feel offended then register your protest against NDTV, they have it on their website , the link is provided in OP

 

[baajey]

Indians it is your own media outlet NDTV that is mocking your eating habits, if you feel offended then register your protest against NDTV, they have it on their website , the link is provided in OP

dont get it wrong buddy......everybody is literate here n can see the given link.
now what they mite be wondering is .....why did YOU post THIS thread ???
and we r not offeneded , at all. why should we be ???
we are not the ones who eat raw veggies with a knife and a fork, talking about table manners, and then attack the next middle eastern country.
ppl of south asia are khadyo roshik. they dont give a damn about the table or the manners which come with it.

 

[danish_vij]

how to digestthis one thing i accept i used to do as a kid

 

[Parul]

If foods are made by hands then why we can't use our hands to eat ??

 

[nair]

Table manners decided by whom????

 

[baajey]

Manners are important , thats what makes a man.

absolutely,
i dont prescribe jumping over the table while eating, either.
but the westerners just sweep it with a single brush. they find everything uncultured n barbaric anything they cant relate to.

If foods are made by hands then why we can't use our hands to eat ??

table manners......

 

[Indian Jaat]

In Pakistan People do all this things too .

 

[Parul]

table manners......

Logo kay ghar Table Nahi hai, Table manners ka kya karna!

 

[Skull and Bones]

The real fun of eating is with hands.

 

[Parul]

Table manners decided by whom????

NDTV who designed table manner!