Went in to a New York Diner the other day with my visiting parents. After finishing my own food, and despite having zero appetite, I had no hesitation in taking my Mum's offer of taking her meal, because I knew I would be able to ask the Waiter for a "doggy bag".
In Britain, for some reason, there is a bit of a stigma associated with taking home your left overs. I think it suggests that you are a little stingy. When I worked in a waiter a few years ago, only one person ever ever asked to take the remained of their meal back home and I must admit, I gave them a bit of an odd look.
But fair play, it means good food does not get wasted, when too much of the food I cleared from the tables at The Three Moorhens during my Waiting days, went to landfill. Maybe it's because Americans have bigger plate fulls to start with, but hey. American utilization of resources 1, mutually destructive British snobbery 0.
In Britain, for some reason, there is a bit of a stigma associated with taking home your left overs. I think it suggests that you are a little stingy. When I worked in a waiter a few years ago, only one person ever ever asked to take the remained of their meal back home and I must admit, I gave them a bit of an odd look.
But fair play, it means good food does not get wasted, when too much of the food I cleared from the tables at The Three Moorhens during my Waiting days, went to landfill. Maybe it's because Americans have bigger plate fulls to start with, but hey. American utilization of resources 1, mutually destructive British snobbery 0.
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