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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I learned here that saying 'Brava' to a female is pretentious. I'm ok with that- at least I'm not ignorant and uneducated.

An American friend once informed me that it would be seen as pretentious in America to put beverages or condiments in non labeled crystal or stoneware instead of utilizing original containers. This seemed like something a cave dweller would do- we just never had labels on the table while growing up.

I must have an arsenal of pretension as I am British as well.

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Not pretentious. Just unnecessary dirty dishes. But if you're washing the dishes, then I don't care.[/quote]

I grew up in New England and we always put condiments into a bowl and beverages into a pitcher for meals served in the dining room (as opposed to rushed midweek dinners in the kitchen).  My mother was neither rich nor pretentious, just attuned to aesthetics and probably doing what she had seen her own mother and grandmother do back when they made a lot of the things that now come in jars from scratch.[/quote]

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