How Do You Have Good Table Manners?
One easy way to make a good first impression is to have amazing table manners. There is hardly a bigger turnoff, when on a first date or when meeting someone for the first time, than horrible table manners. Here’s how to make it through dinner without embarrassing yourself and those around you. Keep your lips together when there is food in your mouth. If there is food in your mouth, your lips should be touching until you swallow that food. Chewing with your mouth open or talking with a mouth full of partially chewed food is just plain gross. Avoid setting your elbows on the table. This is probably the oldest and most well-known rule at the table. If you rest your elbows on the table, it makes you look like you are starving and might just dive into your food with reckless abandon. The key is to look relaxed while eating, not like you haven’t had anything to eat in the past week. Don’t hold your eating utensils like a shovel. Gripping your fork in your fist is not very becoming, it makes
