You don't have to eat every little last morsel of food on your plate to be polite.
However, the more you do eat, the more the hostess is pleased. But, if the meal contains some food to which you are allergic or just simply don't like,
instead of leaving all of that particular food, it usually works well if you
push it around a little, even possibly concealing a portion of it underneath
something else where it won't be so noticeable that you didn't touch it.
Rearranging any food that you don't eat is usually effective, as far as the
hostess is concerned. If you think she might be offended, however, you
might mention to her alone, sometime after the meal, that you were unable
to eat the food to which you are allergic.
Also, during the meal, be sure to compliment the hostess on something that
you truly enjoyed. If the time seems appropriate, you might even ask her
about the ingredients in a certain dish or what the preparations were.
No it is not polite to throw away your trash facing upwards because then the people behind you have to look at the food you trough away. And its better for kids because then they can hide all the food they didn't eat and still be polite!
People eat because of genuine hunger, stress, boredom, depression, the food's appeal, and to be polite.
In Bangladesh people Usually eat their food in individual plates.
to put your food on and eat it off the plate with cutlery. thus meaning to hold your food.
plate tailed geckos eat desert insects and flying insects.
Another antiquated idea that has no merit in this day and age. If you want to eat all your food, go ahead.
Chocolate isn't on the My Food Plate because you are not really supposed to eat it. Less is better.
Work it out yourself.
cats can eat about 3 plate of food in one day
There is the Seder plate, or Keharoh, but no one eats off it. It is where all the symbolic food (according to some, not the matza) in placed.
A pig trough.
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