Angieneering

There’s something about the last bite or should I say the last morsel of delicious food. When the girls were younger, both of them just loved to pick their food apart and saved the so-called best for last. This practice was much more evident with Western food, especially pizza, than Asian or Chinese food.

It came to a point where it was very annoying for me as I felt table manners were neglected and eating sequence was not in order or by the rule. A pizza would be ripped apart with the pepperoni first, picked out from its place with the rest to sit aside like a prized possession for the last savoury bite. Then the sauce scraped off with the fingers and licked off, followed by the side crust given a chomp, and finally the pizza base nibbled upon. Why? Why do children do that? I never did that when I was young. If I had a slice of pizza in my hand, I’d eat it whole, as is, not ingredient by ingredient!

Whenever they did this, stacking their prized grub, the hubby would usually ask, “Are you full already?”

“Just about,” would be the standard answer from either one of them.

“I guess you don’t want those then if you’re just about full,” he would eye their pepperoni stack menacingly.

“Noooo” they’d defend their prized grub in between bites. “No you don’t want?” he’d try his luck.

“No, not full yet!” you could hear the alarm in the voice.

I guess his technique worked better than my annoyance because they stopped saving the best for last. Having said that, I should say that the practice has ceased temporarily until we do pizza night again, which is a rarity these days.

Tags: Asian food, Chinese food, food, Pepperoni, Pizza, table manners