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Yummy Knows Best

P’s & Q’s…You’d Best MIND THEM even if you don’t know what they are.

Escargot Etiquette

Dear YumYumCherry,
My boyfriend took me out recently to a very nice French restaurant in the City. He ordered Escargots for us as a starter course. How should one eat these properly?

Okay, well, I’m inclined to say that One probably shouldn’t eat snails, grubs or anything else you find under leaves on the forest floor unless you are in the cast of Fear Factor or Survivor #67–The Stupid Lost Tribes of Manhattan. Okay, that said, generally you are provided with utensils to extract those little suckers from their ‘Hidey Holes…’ Oh, wrong Riff.

I had escargots (they have to call them that because no one would order them if they actually printed SNAILS on the menu) at an Italian restaurant in the Lotte (Japanese) Hotel in Seoul, South Korea in 1983. Now, how do I recall this all so vividly?? Could it be the food poisoning and two day stint at the scenic 121 Evac Hospital of Yongsan? Yep, that may well have influenced my appreciation of the dish, but all the garlic butter and penicillin in the world couldn’t kill the fact that I was seated next to an aquarium throughout the dinner. I’ll let you fill in the blanks, but this is the stuff of which nightmares are made.

When in doubt, opt for the fresh greens with a simple vinaigrette on the side. You’ll thank yourself in the morning when you aren’t hooked up to an I.V.

Yummy

P’s & Q’s

You’d Best MIND THEM even if you don’t know what they are. I mean, how many people really MIND THE GAP. And what is this Gap? I remember growing up and we had the ‘Generation Gap.’ Now I’m at the early bird dining hour here in Florida with everyone I thought I had that with…..Reality Bites.

Whether you think you know it all, or really do–manners count. In this age of e-everything, we still have to interface with other humans, and it helps to have a code.

Why bother dressing well if your demeanor betrays you? Don’t you dare eat off the buffet table. After all, even if you got away with it at home, the chances are that someone (someone higher on that Food Chain…and we don’t mean another diner who has already been served their entrée) is watching.

Impressions make a big difference; you get ten seconds if you’re lucky (and how lucky are you?) to make that first one. It sticks. You may not.

Remember, Yummy Knows Best

Yummy Know Best…toute suite

Please pardon our delay…we’re attending a seance for Emily Post.