OP after never talking to this person again:
What kind of stupid rule is that?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jontree255@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Okay
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t expect that ending.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Guess they love cold bread!
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Genuinely, I believe this originates from their family preventing them from filling up on bread at restaurants.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Families really mess some people up with their made up rules. Meet a girl that was raised that you can’t talk at the diner table. She thought it was normal to sit down, eat an entire meal, and then get up in dead silence.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That is a red flag text.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
“What an I suppose to Jerry!? Just ADMIRE it??”
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its called a stupid excuse.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
One person’s red flags are another person’s dodged bullets.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yeah, wait for the bread to stop being warm and fresh before you eat.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dodged a bullet, etc., but still, why? What’s the thinking here as to why you should wait to start eating the bread?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To signal wealth
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Only the poors enjoy bread enough to reach for it immediately.
CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I mean I prefer to have a roll while they’re still warm.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Nice, dodged a bullet
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That wasn’t the real reason.
Also, hot bread is fantastic.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m guessing in this case the real reason is self-sabotage.
adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
‘you have shit on your head’
‘it’s chocolate!’
‘oh thank fuck’
‘can I come in now’
‘no’
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
She’s confusing the rule about eating food dropped on the floor. SMH. 😔
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That’s outside floor, inside is 5 hours.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I once worked as a dishy in a not too fancy restaurant. One busy night we were all out of ladles. They were just gone. The head chef noticed one lying on the dirty floor under the sink that had dropped there God knows when. He announced: ‘Six months rule!’ and just plonked it directly into the soup.
I laughed for a goddamn week.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“We have a rule, if you order the nachos to share, one person can’t just eat all the fully loaded nachos.”
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unless they’re all stuck together, and then it counts as one big nacho.
Sergio@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
TRANSLATION: “You have to choose! It’s either me or the bread!”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Oh that’s easy
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I guarantee whoever wrote that will be single for their entire life.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry, they probably wrote it to themselves for internet likes.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
…Not that that makes it less true.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
No, it’s not. You just take the food home and then eat it later.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
These posts are fake guys.
Sv443@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
ok and now what?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Somebody read a post about negging but couldn’t think of a real thing to be an asshole about.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I think the rule being followed is “post ragebait to farm engagement”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What reasons do you come to a shit post community for?
For family?
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yes, but only the family I’d get engaged to
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Mmmmm yummy ragebait
slothrop@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Dumbest escape excuse ever.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You guys are getting free bread?
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“I’m sorry I wasted my time, R. All the best”
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
homes@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
If I had received this text, I would consider myself lucky
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bullet: dodged
Carbs: acquired
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
All hail the bread.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bullet: dodged
Crabs: dodged