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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is a correct way, according to etiquette experts, to
eat a banana. This is a completely random thing, but
I actually saw this video, and I've seen this guy's
videos before, and I thought.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It was a parody. But he is very much for real.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
He is a British guy, and he teaches us all
the etiquette that we did not know. In a recent
viral video, there's a British etiquette expert. His name is
William Hunssen, and he demonstrated what he claims to be
the correct way to eat a banana, and that is
with a knife and a fork. If I gave you
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a banana and you used a knife and a fork,
I would take the banana away from you and lock
you up and throw it away, and then I would
erase your phone number and unfriend you and unfollow you everywhere,
and I would pretend that I had never met you
before my life, and we would never speak again. This
guy meticulously cuts off the ends, slices down the peel,
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and then eats banana from a plate, slating his approach
as more civilized than peeling it by hand, quote unquote
like a primate. So the video has over two hundred
thousand views. And of course as soon as I see
it as I go right to the comments. I mean,
that's that's really where the gold lives in most of
these videos is sometimes I just can't even wait to
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get to the comments. I can't even watch the whole
video before I get to the comments. And this person,
one person said, what kind of lazy, no good servants
do you have working for you in that big mansion
that don't even know that you're supposed to peel your
banana before you serve it to someone?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Preposterous.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He also did a tutorial and the Proper Way to
Eat Grapes, recommending the use of scissors to cut smaller
bunches for plating. What would you do if you saw
someone eating a banana with a knife and fork?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What other pizza is?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Or a pizza is one, by the way, but I
was gonna say one other food is unacceptable to eat
with a knife, Like a pizza with a knife and fork,
unless you're eating Chicago deep dish pizza that's really hot
and like steamy, and because once it kind of congeals,
you can pick that up, like if you slice it,
and like once it all kind of forms into one thing,
then you could, but otherwise I can see a knife
in a fork situation. Otherwise is there any should you
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ever be using a knife and a fork for pizza?
Should you ever be using a knife and a fork
for fruit?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Maybe berries if you're in a restaurant, Maybe so that
you're not grabbing it with your hands, don't.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, are there any other etiquette rules that you
guys were surprised to know?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Let me think about it. I don't understand why I
can't eat my piza with a ford?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Why do you need to eat a pizza with a ford?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Because sometimes it gets messy, it may be greasy, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I like to cut every now and then pick it up.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I block my pizza and everyone makes fun of me
for that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
All I get in the grease sauce just a little bit.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I mean, lord knows, I'm not getting it all off.
But sometimes when it's really wet, I'm like, I don't
really want all that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I just feel like I feel cute and I use
a knife and a fork. I had to eat boneless
wings with a knife and a fork. Ooh, I do
people do?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I wouldn't if I had, If I had to eat
that I won't eat that, so I do the wings
with bones, I do know, Yeah, but if I had to,
like I don't think I would, I would use my hands.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Do you use the knife prefers bon yes, boneless wings?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you use a fork if there's super saucy than
I would. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I guess because I don't. I don't need to
pick it up because there's no bone. I've seen people
use a knife and a fork for ribs, and I've
seen people use a knife and a fork for chicken
wings and there's not that much meat, Okay, so like
I'm sorry, I'm picking it up now.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Then again, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I mean, I guess if you're like a fancy word
fancies serving ribs, but ribs need to be picked up.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah, I use a fork sometimes, but I get the
meat off of it with it. Yeah, I just use
it like pick the meat off and then I go in.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
On the bone. You guys all gotta do both. Do
you have any etiquette rules that?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, so I've got one from growing up, and I
don't know if it's a real rule or not, but
this is a rule in my house. My dad instilled
this in us, and my dad came along when I
was like eight nine, the guy who raised and adopted me,
so I was old enough to be like have to
adjust to this rule. It wasn't like it was ingrained
to me as a child. But he hates it when
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a waiter or a server, waitress, whatever, takes food away
from the table before everyone is done eating. He will
slap their hand, like he will physically stop them.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And it is very difficult.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
At some restaurants because I guess some restaurants, like the
management or whatever is meticulous about if there's an empty plate,
it needs to go.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, And so what will happen is, especially they're working
in teams, he'll have to do it multiple times because
like they'll come see a plate and they'll go to
take it because that's what they are supposed to do,
that's what they were training. And he doesn't want it
because he feels like it rushes everyone else who's still eating.
So like, if you're a really fast eater and you're
done and I take the plate away and now it's
just you and me and your plate still there, it's
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like I'm just sitting there looking at you. Yeah, But
if I have a plate in front of me. It's
like I'm still eating, You're still eating, so you don't
have to be rushed. He I not stand it.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I can't stand that, Like people will wait for me
if I'm not seated at the table to start eating.
I know it's like a respect thing, but like eat
your food, you know what I mean, Just get started.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't think we all need to wait for everyone
to be seated.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh that's another one. That's another one. If everyone doesn't
have their food.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Then yeah, yeah, usually I'm last because I'm like doing
stuff for grabbing stuff, and I'd rather not feel like
people are waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just enjoy.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Did you guys have anything that your parents made you
do that may or may not have been real etiquette?
It just is ingrained in you, because yeah, that one.
That one, like to this day, and I've had to
get kind of like comfortable with it because it has
become more commonplace that restaurants want the tables cleared, and
so it's like it's by the fourth time somebody comes
to take your plate's like, just take it right.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I don't want to argue with you.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm tired. I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm tired. You're supposed to put your napkin next to
your plate, not on it. I'm going through a list
of these things. You're supposed to shield your lemon when squeezing.
No one does that. No one seems to do that.
But I don't know why that's not obvious. Like if
I've got a lemon and you're sitting next to me,
I know it's going to go everywhere if I just go.
You know that's the noise it makes. I don't know
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why that's the noise it comes to mind. I don't
know what what noise is squeezing a lemon make.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's why I'm not the sad effect guy in the show.
You're always supposed to pass food to the right. I
didn't know that, really, I didn't know that it mattered
you always Apparently you're supposed to meet the speed at
which you eat your food, Like you're supposed to eat
slower on purpose, Like even if you're really hungry, you're
not supposed to just go at it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I guess because we eat more than we should that way.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I mean, if I, like, like get distracted and take
a minute while I'm eating a meal, I'm like, whoa,
I am full.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I just had to wait a second. You know, you're.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Supposed to introduce the person of higher status first. So like,
if I'm in a room and I suppose it's like
I don't know the boss and then you guys, and
I'm introducing to people, I'm supposed to introduce the boss
first because he's supposedly of higher status. I say, supposedly
I would consider all of you of higher status to them,
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but I apparently no, But I wouldn't do that though.
I would introduce them you guys first, because the people
know you guys, they don't know who that person is.
You know what I'm saying, Like, if we're going to
an event, people want to meet you guys first, so
I would introduce you that you're the ones, You're the stars,
so I would introduce you guys first. Apparently it's bad
etiquette to add your boss on social media.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
What Yeah, I don't like that our old boss that
isn't here anymore. He follow kept following me, and I
kept removing him from my followers list on my Instagram
because I just don't need Like that's just gonna cause me.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Are we talking about the guy who only followed you
and no one else on the show.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I let him follow me.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
But there was a guy, a guy in this office
that is to be here that I just I just
thought nothing good can come from this, so I kept
removing him from my followers.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Why, like, why are you watching it?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Outside of work.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah, but our but our boss, you know, our closer boss.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I let him follow me.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Because there was one guy that he was a big
wig in the company. He is no longer, which that
you know, like every other person, it doesn't it's no longer.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, no, it's the only ones left. And I don't
know for how much longer.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But they uh, he only followed he met all of us.
And I've known the guy for like a decade. He
does not follow me on social media. Okay, I literally
have known the guy since he was not a big wig,
and now again he doesn't work here anymore. We had
a meeting with all of us. We leave the meeting
and by the time, like five minutes later, he's following
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Kaylan and only Kaylan and no one else. And I've
said something to him. When I finally said, I said,
I said to the guy, h I go do well? No,
it was just like, can you be a little less
can you be a little more slick next time? You know, like,
he obviously wants to see your stuff and only your stuff,
but maybe add the rest of us so it doesn't
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look that obvious.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh what did he say?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I was like, dude, I've known you for a decade.
You only followed Kaylen And he was like, I don't
remember what he said, but it's like, oh, I thought
I phoned.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, I get it though. Yeah, I'm kind of like
that with my followers. I only want to see pretty stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well I can't understand why he would only want to
look at Caitlin and not my ugly ass. But at
the same time, it's like, can you can you make it?
Can you make it a little bit less obvious?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
What?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It was funny, but you're a creeper that you're a lecturess,
so you only follow pretty people?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah, Like I only like to see pretty stuff on
my timeline, ugly people on my timeline.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Like it like it triggers me. I'm like, oh god,
not you again?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Like why so not you again?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yes, I only like to see pretty stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I think you're complimenting me.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I am okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well I don't I don't think you have a choice
but to follow everyone else in this room.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Cute. I think we are a good looking show, especially
for radio.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Wow, that especially for radio and T
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The radio