Thursday, January 24, 2013

souper etiquette

this is my soupy chuckle for the day:

"Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm."

~ Charles Day, Hints on Etiquette (1844)

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