At least Sergio is telling him not to do it.
By the way, this is continuing the recent tradition of every couple of weeks Baldo acting completely out of character for the sake of a punchline that doesn’t even make any sense.
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Eating food off of someone else’s plate is normal behavior in my family. I wouldn’t consider it rude (within my family).
It’s generally polite to get permission first (although in some circumstances I would pretty much assume), and panel 3 is still gross, but panel 1 seems unexceptional.
But it isn’t normal in Baldo’s family. Neither is Baldo getting aggressive over it afterward.
Presumably table manners are a form of political correctness.
I don’t follow this strip. How do you know it’s not normal in Baldo’s family to take food off of someone else’s plate?
Well, if it were, Sergio wouldn’t have said anything.
I keep telling my kids to not leave the cap off of the toothpaste tube, but it’s still normal behavior for them. :o
I was mostly just curious what other CIDU commentators thought about the typicality of eating off of another family member’s plate, though, wasn’t trying to start an argument about what Baldo’s family normally does.
WInter, I never thought you were!
“Well, if it were, Sergio wouldn’t have said anything.”
This does not follow. The fact that dad(?) doesn’t like it doesn’t mean that the rest of them find it objectionable, or comment-worthy. And he complained about it, but isn’t shown trying to block or stop it, which might imply resignation.
Having reached empty-nest stage, I mostly eat alone nowadays. But I could see it being common amongst a close-knit family.
Mrs. Shrug will occasionally “protect me” from a french fry or the like on my plate that “looks poisonous.” So far she’s batting a thousand, as the remaining ones have never poisoned me (and the one that she bravely ingests apparently is neutralized by her heroic goodness, so she is not poisoned either.)
Shrug: My wife will usually say “Oh no, they gave you too many fries! I can help you.”
In my day, I’ve been known to offer myself to bravely throw myself on the dangerous calories contained in a dessert. Very few times have I been taken up on the offer. Apparently, I only eat with very brave women.
As kids it was fairly common. Some of my siblings were rather picky eaters. Others not so much. So some redistribution of the food could be worked out.
Obviously, families are different: My family’s pretty tight, but it wouldn’t to occur to us to just pick food off one another’s plate.
The sole exception that comes to mind is that my wife (of almost 40 years) has carte blanche to pick cucumber slices out of my salad when we’re at a restaurant because she loves cucumbers and I won’t touch them.
“it wouldn’t to occur to us to just pick food off one another’s plate.”
Baldo asked first. Or, least, contemporaneously… in the same panel.
James, saying “I assume you don’t want that” WHILE taking it fails the requirement for “ask” in two ways.
Especially since he clearly had no basis for the assumption.
” fails the requirement for “ask” in two ways.”
That funny little mark at the end of the sentence means it’s a question. Which common three-letter verb goes with the noun “question”?
James, I assume now you’re just trying to be difficult?
James, I assume now you’re just trying to be difficult?
“Now”?
I only intended that as a question, as evidenced by the funny little mark at the end of the sentence.
B.A. You’re being sarcastic?
Or maybe just covering my ass by claiming that any statement with a funny little mark at the end is only a question, as James tells us?
Yes?
Really??
I thought the glyph “?” indicated imperative, as in, “Honey, why don’t you mow the lawn?”
Meanwhile, a not-quite synchronicity?
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I might offer something that I did not finish to my husband or vice versa, but we not take it this manner. My kid sister (the middle one) might finish my food, but only after my mom or dad asked if I was going to “eat that” and after I said no, it might be offered to my sister.