Saturday, March 7, 2009

Food and Eating

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Food and Eating

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Merienda
by Carlos V. Francisco


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1. Warnings and Signs

  • If a spoon falls during a meal, you will be visited by a woman. If it is a fork, a man will be visiting, while if it is a teaspoon, it will be a child.
  • A woman who switches seats many times during a meal will have many suitors.
  • If you change your permanent place at the family table, the person you will marry will have a short life.
  • If you eat too much onions, you will become a playboy or playgirl.
  • Eating ripe papayas everyday controls your sexual urges.
  • If you choke briefly at mealtime, someone far away remembers you, or is talking about you. To find out who that person could be, immediately ask for any number from the people who are eating with you. The number that will match a letter in the alphabet will be the first letter of the person's name who knows you and is the one who might have remembered you.

2. Things To Do and Not to Do

  • If you have to leave the table before finishing your meal in order to go on a trip, turn around the plates on the table so that your trip will be safe.
  • Do not put money on the dining table while eating.
  • The number of persons sitting down in a meal should not add up to 13.
  • When cooking, leave a few grains of rice in the sack and then tie it tightly. This wayt, your guests will not consume all the food at once.
  • If you leave some rice in the pot there will always be something to eat in the house.
  • If a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, don't tell a soul; turn your plate around three times and the bone will disappear.
  • It is good to use plates when serving food to your guests. The grace of your guests will remain on the plates and be a blessing to your family.
  • When a stranger or distang relative arrives in your home, serve him water first so that he brings you only good news.
  • When dining in the home of strangers, always eat food from the center of the plate.
  • Do not stack dirty dishes one on top of the other, or it may lead to adultery.


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