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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the butter discussion fascinating! I had no idea that you are not supposed to butter your whole piece of bread :)[/quote]

Really? You are either young (under 35) or not raised UMC.[/quote]

Not that poster, but I'm 36, and my Dad was a law firm partner, so we were comfortably upper middle class. And yet I butter my bread wrong. If I ever heard of it before, I've totally forgotten. Maybe people have been secretly judging me all this time. Oh well. Frankly I think the focus on etiquette as a marker of class may be somewhat regional. My DH's family can be weird and formal about stuff like that even though in many respects they are far more working class than my family. But they are from up North. I'm from the South, and people don't generally focus on formalities as a sign of class status. Politeness and chivalry are a pretty big deal, but politeness is judged by how you relate to others, not table manners and knowing where to put a spoon.[/quote]

It may be regional, but I think you're from a different part of the South than I am.  My southern family was not rich, but very focused on table manners (including the bread/butter thing), and formalities as a sign of class status. It was drilled into us.  [/quote]

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