- When: During any buffet
What: Standing in a line for food + Walking and eating + Sheepish grin to the server for second helping
Mitigation: Wear a shirt with enough pockets for storage, so you can go hide the food and go home and conveniently have it in your plate - When: Washing your hands using a finger bowl
What: Water is just not enough and you can't use it after 2 seconds once dirt mixes with it
Mitigation: When no one is watching, pour drinking water on your hand into the finger bowl; In case of a Chinese restaurant, you can utilize warm Chinese tea as an alternate to ice cold water - When: Badly made 'bakshanam' (thats Tamil for oily snacks / sweets!)
What: Chance of losing a few of your remaining teeth
Mitigation: Utilize a road roller** that might be near your house / grinder inside house to have a liquefied / powdered snack - When: Eating curd / rasam rice from a banana leaf (in South Indian marriages)
What: The buttermilk / rasam generally has a liking for flowing out of the leaf on to your lap
Mitigation: Befriend the cook and get a small plate to have 'liquidy' items (also utilized by Maamis for stealing the extra payasam or sweet for their beloved sons) - When: When you are stuffed to the brim by your in-laws
What: Showing you have not wasted too much food
Mitigation: Disperse the wasted food across the entire plate / neighbour's plate (obviously, when they are not looking at it) - When: Separate coffee, milk and sugar, served in aircrafts and five star hotels
What: Any mix of the above always ends in a crappy product to drink
Mitigation: Have tea or better, alcohol! - When: Chapathi / Roti
What: Tearing out a small piece, one after the other
Mitigation: Tell spouse that it is very romantic if he / she does the tearing and feeds you (in Tamil, called 'ooti-vittifying') - When: Food is too hot
What: The 'oof - oof' blowing to remove the vapors and the endless wait thereafter
Mitigation: 1 minute in the freezer - When: Pizza with fork and knife
What: That feeling of a wood-cutter working hard, with sweat all over.
Mitigation: The hand of God!, rather use your own hands - When: Spreading hard jam or butter on bread
What: You end up cutting the bread or breaking it rather than spreading the jam or butter
Mitigation: Adopt the idli - chutney mode of taking a piece of idly and mixing it with chutney / sambhar and having, where bread = idly and jam / butter = chutney (fall back option for #7 above in case you are pained with that as well)
* All in jest, so don't take any comment personally against your region's food
** Adopted from Koundamani suggestion in the movie Yejaman (Tamil)
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When: Your better half painstakingly makes "new" food for you
What: It isn't all that great, but you can't tell him/her that at the risk of making them your Bitter half
Mitigation:
1. If you have a Dog at home, sneak out the food
2. Profusely complement her/him on looks, brains, weight loss, etc and accidently drop the food (assuming that there is just enough for one person)
3. Start with a toast and get yourself drunk.. food tastes better
4. More?
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