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… you start wearing a fucking bib to eat!
Ever since, well probably almost forever, I have never sat at the table to eat a meal when I was alone. I have always sat in my comfy chair with my feet up, either reading or watching tv while eating, and YES I KNOW this is a bad habit. Just like taking your iPhone to bed. So sue me. I do both. And when the flatmate returned there were both of us eating in our respective comfy living room seating during meals while checking out what was good on Netflix. And constantly spilling food down our fronts because, well, no table. Before when eating something especially spilly I’d tuck some paper towels into the neck of my Day PJs, elegant as always, and that seemed good enough. But was it really? So I googled adult bibs one day and omg it was sad, all kinds of medical websites and not actually any better options than a whack of paper towels. AND THEN I was in El Corte Inglés the other day and saw these light cotton aprons (6€ each) and decided, why not? Of course it’s a bit cumbersome (and hot in summer) to wear a full apron while eating, so I just cut them off at waist length, cut off the ties, and voilà. Bibs. With handy pockets for napkins. Bonus!
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Just yesterday at work I tucked a couple of sheets of kitchen roll into my short, bulldog clipping it in place! I was eating carrot & coriander soup (very orange), wearing a pale blue shirt, and I had a meeting straight after lunch so really didn’t want to attend with soup stains. But I had my fingers crossed no-one would walk in on me 😀 An adult bib sounds fab.
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*shirt*
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I mean, (some) people already tuck cloth napkins into their shirts. This is just more comfortable and covers more area. New gap in the market project?
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I remember seeing cartoons of this kind of thing being supplied to diners at the kind of seafood restaurants where you crack the crab or lobster claws yourself and inevitably make a mess, though I never saw it in real life (but then that is not a meal I would choose to eat). It seems very sensible.
Working from home for decades and now being in relative lockdown for most of the past 2+ years has ruined me for gracious dining. I mean I set a table, but after the two hip surgeries I find a typical dining chair really uncomfortable unless I can have my feet up on something the height of the chair seat, so there are two camel-saddle stools under the table even if we no longer need auxiliary seating.. And I look back on all the years that I sat down in restaurants with a certain horror. I really don’t know how I ever relaxed enough to enjoy a meal around yacking strangers (and their revolting children). So… wtf. Dine in a way that suits you.
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I probably should have googled lobster bibs! We were given something similar when we at the grilled calçots. I actually like sitting totally upright in a solid chair at a table as long as my feet can reach the ground, which doesn’t happen very often. As for bar stools… my short legs cannot cope. I lose all feeling within 10-15 minutes.
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