Dear Julia,
thanks for your E-Mail, let me give you some information about food and table manners in our family and in restaurants.
Lets start with the table manners in a restaurant.
- Remain standing until invited to sit down. You may shown to a particular seat.
- Put your napkin on your lap as soon as you sit down.
- The fork is held in the left hand and the knife in the right hand while eating.
- Do not begin eating until the host or Hostess says "Mahlzeit" or "Guten Appetit".
- Finish everything on your plate. So you show the cook that it was good.
- You have finished eating by laying your knife and fork parallel on your plate.
During the week, I never eat breakfast because I do not have enough time in the morning to eat something. When I have a long day at school, I eat something for lunch from the buffet at our school. If I have a short day, I take the bus and my mum usually cooks lunch for me. In the evening I only eat fruits or joghurt.
On the weekend we usually have breakfast at half past eight. The whole family is sitting at the table and we have breakfast together.
We usually have lunch at two o'clock. We start to eat when we say "Mahlzeit" or "Guten Appetit". Do not talk while you are eating. If you have finished, compliment the person who has cooked for you.
Special Food in Austria
Wiener Schnitzel
Germknödel
Kaiserschmarrn
Mohnnudeln
Linzer Torte
Palatschinken
Tiroler Speckknödel
interesting posting, Sabine. Mind the following:
ReplyDeleteto be / eat AT table (not BY),when we SAY (not says), the persons who HAS cooked for you, be careful with your 3rd person "s" !