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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm thinking you took your mom's advice a little too literally, OP.  $5 doesn't matter.  At all.  She meant don't order lobster if your hosts are getting grilled cheese.

I once took my secretary out for a thank you meal to a restaurant near our office.  We were all government workers, so I wasn't making bank.  I ordered a sandwich from the lunch menu at a sit down restaurant, and she ordered the lobster roll that cost 3 times what my sandwich cost and was a real outlier on the menu.  I was appalled.  That's what your parents are saying to not do.  I would not have noticed if her meal cost $5 more than mine.[/quote]

No, I can remember getting in trouble because I came home from McDonald’s and reported that I got a chicken nugget happy meal when the kid whose family took me got a hamburger happy meal because the chicken nuggets cost more.  I just looked it up and today there is an 11 cent price difference, I imagine it was less in the 80’s or 90’s.

So, I am pretty sure she didn’t just mean “no lobster”.
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Well, that's her own weird hangup but not common etiquette. "Don't order the lobster" is how it is commonly interpreted. In your original example, if you want the 35 dollar entree and the first person to order picks something that's 30, that's fine. It’s a rounding error on the overall tab. They'd probably be horrified to know you picked something you wanted less to save them 5 bucks. [/quote]

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