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Ophelia[_14_]

"Mark Storkamp" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> wrote:
>
>> From "Anne of Green Gables":
>>
>> "...But it isn't good manners to tell your company what you are going to
>> give
>> them to eat, so I won't tell you what she said we could have to drink.
>> Only
>> it begins with an r and a c and it's a bright red color. I love bright
>> red
>> drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color."
>>
>>
>> What I wonder is, why WAS it bad manners, in 1908, to "tell your company
>> what
>> you are going to give them to eat"? Does anyone know?
>>
>
> I don't know why it was like that, but I do like the concept. Now days
> every guest seems to bring a list of what's acceptable. Just look to
> posts like:
>
> "Does anyone have any nice veggie meals to share. I have a friend
> coming for dinner again and I am all out of something new."

Why is that unacceptable?

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