Dodged a bullet, etc., but still, why? What’s the thinking here as to why you should wait to start eating the bread?
What kind of stupid rule is that?
Submitted 7 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 42 minutes ago
jontree255@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Okay
homes@piefed.world 7 hours ago
If I had received this text, I would consider myself lucky
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
One person’s red flags are another person’s dodged bullets.
CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I thought it was five seconds. Five minutes maybe for the last roll if you’ve had two or three already. I can’t stand it when everyone is so damn polite not wanting to take the last one of a shared food item to the point of allowing it to go to waste. Give it a fair pause but then take that last roll or cookie or whatever if you want it.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
“Everybody knows […]” means my parent(s) had some weird or strict rules and life lessons that I had hounded into me which I internalized into my very being and never questioned, and now I have unspoken and often unrealistic expectations of people and the world that no one has absolutely any reason to know about.
frog@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
This should be the reply.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Nah it should be “bye”
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Yeah, wait for the bread to stop being warm and fresh before you eat.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
“What an I suppose to Jerry!? Just ADMIRE it??”
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 hours ago
Nice, dodged a bullet
snooggums@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Guess they love cold bread!
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Genuinely, I believe this originates from their family preventing them from filling up on bread at restaurants.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
I remember meeting someone in high school that was confused that everyone was eating and drinking in the same meal. Because in their house and extremely limited world view, you EAT. Then you leave the table and go DRINK.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ehh … It’s more likely etiquette to not descend on the rolls like a starving Labrador retriever. Much of manners is about self restraint and making oneself ‘small’. The idea is that you wait a minute or two, so it’s not like being at the Chinese food buffet when a fresh load of sweet and sour pork comes out. Everyone piling in for the rolls is undignified. It’s related to the idea that even if you really want that last roll, you ask if anyone else would like it before snatching it for yourself.
… but judging someone for grabbing one when they come out? Pretty prissy.
shutz@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I think you’re right. I guess they had parents who were big on setting rules, but not on justifying them.
I’m pretty sure my parents throttled my bread intake at restaurants when I was very young for the reason you state, but they accompanied their directive with a “don’t fill up before you get your main course” justification. So I didn’t assimilate it as a rule of etiquette, and instead understood the underlying logic.
BillyClark@piefed.social 7 hours ago
“After seeing you enjoy good food as it was intended, I don’t think I want to continue this. Everyone knows food must only be eaten after you upload pictures of it to Instagram and get a certain number of interactions.”
foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That is a red flag text.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The general thing to do is to peruse the menu to find what you want first to get that out of the way as the wait staff can be pretty quick when you first sit down. If the bread won’t distract you during, go for it. You just really want to get your order in when they come by as it could turn into a while before they come back.
They were probably taught something like that, but it became so corrupted that the entire reasoning was lost, leaving only an arbitrary wait time.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
I guarantee whoever wrote that will be single for their entire life.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Don’t worry, they probably wrote it to themselves for internet likes.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
…Not that that makes it less true.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
She’s confusing the rule about eating food dropped on the floor. SMH. 😔
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
That’s outside floor, inside is 5 hours.
Dave@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
Ok serious question. I live in a country where they don’t serve you free bread.
What do you do if you eat all the delicious bread then you aren’t hungry anymore?
I had this real life scenario happen when I was in Canada and we felt obligated to order mains even though we didn’t want them.
Is it socially acceptable to pay for your drinks and leave?
DrSoap@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No, it’s not. You just take the food home and then eat it later.
Dave@lemmy.nz 4 hours ago
Hmm yeah that’s what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn’t take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn’t eat again for 24 hours 😆
rbos@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Yeah, we go to Spaghetti Factory (Canada) and fill up on bread and just tip the main course directly into leftovers containers sometimes.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
This happened when I went to America many moons ago, not with bread but regular food.
We went to this restaurant and you order you main like steak and fries. Then you get a buffet starter and I swear to god it had any food you can imagine. Suffice to say I ate so much I couldn’t even start my main when it came.
I’d never seen such large humans as when I went to the USA. Breakfast was similar to with all you can eat.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
That wasn’t the real reason.
Also, hot bread is fantastic.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I’m guessing in this case the real reason is self-sabotage.
adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Massaged the butter into the bread with his bare hands without breaking eye contact. At least blink so they don’t think you’re a threat.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
‘you have shit on your head’
‘it’s chocolate!’
‘oh thank fuck’
‘can I come in now’
‘no’
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I’d reply with ‘I don’t like people who can’t use capital letters anyway’ since we’re going with unimportant things.
Sergio@piefed.social 6 hours ago
no capital letters is OK, but you gotta capitalize “I”. Otherwise you’re lookin at someone who’s gonna read you their bad poetry at some point.
Sergio@piefed.social 6 hours ago
TRANSLATION: “You have to choose! It’s either me or the bread!”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Oh that’s easy
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“We have a rule, if you order the nachos to share, one person can’t just eat all the fully loaded nachos.”
Epp4@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Whaaaaaaaat? Bewildered expression
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Unless they’re all stuck together, and then it counts as one big nacho.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Give em my number, we boutta double team those rolls.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Somebody read a post about negging but couldn’t think of a real thing to be an asshole about.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Dumbest escape excuse ever.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
“I’m sorry I wasted my time, R. All the best”
FishFace@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I think the rule being followed is “post ragebait to farm engagement”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
What reasons do you come to a shit post community for?
For family?
FishFace@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Yes, but only the family I’d get engaged to
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Usually after the type of date that has you thinking about the future with the person and how perfect things seem.
Then you get that.
Gotta do one of those eye-blinking head shakes and just delete the convo and move on. Ain’t worth it.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Sounds arbitrary. Don’t they usually just bring more bread if you run out?
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
What kind of fucking monster wouldn’t be right there with said date enjoying the most excellent carb delivery system RIGHT NOW?!?!
As another said, bullet dodged.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 18 minutes ago
I feel like this has to be a guy writing this to a woman right? There’s no chance that it’s the other way around.