More 1950's etiquette

Today - we look at 1950's restaurant etiquette.

A woman from Texas wrote to Amy Vanderbilt asking how to order dinner when at a restaurant with her boyfriend.

Amy's reply:
"You do not pick up the menu yourself, but you wait until it is presented to you by your escort or by the waiter.  You give your order to the escort rather than to the waiter.....you give your order to your escort, for it is his masculine duty to scan the (menu) card and suggest things that might appeal to your palate.  It is also he who suggests the wine, if any.  A girl may know all about food herself, but, as a guest of a man in a restaurant, she defers politely to his suggestions, although, of course, she's not required to eat anything that she doesn't like."

I do so love the fact of how women's liberation has changed things.  Now we don't have to play this silly game of women deferring to men simply because they're men.  I love the proviso at the end about how a girl doesn't have to eat anything she doesn't like.  Wow, that's nice.

So ladies, give a big shout-out of thanks to all the women who firmly set themselves forward and said - we are self-sufficient adults and should be able to do those adult things like voting and not being considered chattel and - on a lesser note - being competent to order our own food when dining out with a man.  Because, after all, we are, in fact, adults.

Let the games cease!

Hip, hip, hooray!
Papillon