I have repeatedly asked nicely that this nonsense stops, at least within earshot of me, yet it continues.....maybe this is the answer to teaching proper dining etiquette?
Hehe,also a pet hate of mine. It's worse if the family visit from Cebu,I make sure it's known if they want to eat like a pig I can put a trough outside in the yard and they eat like them down there!
It's their culture. Why do you have to change it to suit you? Why do you call them pigs? I just smile and watch my g/f eat away. I can see she really enjoys her food that's just fine with me. The way she eats is part of her. I don't want to change that. Same as I don't want her to change me. If you know me and this is a pet peeve of yours please don't sit at my table! I wouldn't want my g/f to embarrass herself in your presence.
Outside of my living room I couldn't care less how loud anyone smacks at their grub (it drives me crazy to hear but I will say absolutely nothing outside of my living room).....but if you're living in my house rent free, eating free grub provided me, getting your education paid for by me and you drive my scooter wherever you like, whenever you like.....that only I put gas in....is asking for you to eat with your mouth closed really asking too much? And the only two things I ask for in return for all that is that the person cleans up after themselves (not after me) and that they chew with their mouth closed (well, three things: I also require any person who uses one of my motorcycles to use a helmet....that I also provide ). Saying someone sounds like a pig eating is not the same as calling them a pig. FYI: I'm not talking about my gf here. She knew to chew with her mouth closed and so did all but one of her family members before I met her. If everyone in the family knows they should chew with their mouth closed I don't really think it is a cultural thing. It's not something I regularly see (or hear) from most Filipinos. I think most that do it just haven't had any etiquette education in school. I wouldn't say a word at someone else's house/table and I wouldn't say a anything to a guest that ate like at my house either.....but I probably wouldn't come back a second time or invite a guest back that ate like that. What other's do and expect in their house or how they conduct themselves in public is really doesn't concern me and I'm not going to be rude to any guest in my house.
I don't mind eating open mouthed for a Filipino alltough it galls me. What really get me is a foreigner, on my table or where ever, eats with his hat /cap on his head. I'm brought up in a time that when you enter a house or eat (even outdoors) , you take off whatever covers your head. . Respect, respect, respect!! is what's lacking sorely nowaday's!
I don't mind someone eating open mouth (although I am truing to teach my boy not to eat that way) or a person wearing a hat while eating, but someone smoking at my table while I am still eating ruins my meal at that point.
I don't think "It's their culture" Some people scrump, but in all Countries, most people don't. The only positive thing about Scrumpers .... is they also catch the odd insect!
I don't think IMHO that it's a matter of culture, more like table manners that have yet to be taught and all Culture's contain persons of such habit.
