Anytime you have cooked a meal – slaving away sacrificially – and the result is anything similar to the above, you can more or less do one of two things.
- Throw things, and stomp off…
- Pretend not to notice…
But if your recipients are not polite – such as family members who dared to expect a good meal after all that time you spent in the kitchen – they will persist.
- Forks, spoons, and other utensils are dropped and an incidental clattering of them occur against the dish they are served in.
- Entire meal is pushed away accompanied by the unsolicited and dreaded advice of the ignorant masses. My son tends to be the most polite, but when sufficiently disappointed will say the much dreaded phraseology> “Sorry to tell you this dude…” and then makes excuses that he wasn’t really hungry afterall… no offence…
Running Down Vimy 