At
@AnnaBeg's request I've just suffered 3.5 min of Anna Bey's antics. My God....There is no improvement since Youtube recommended me for the first time her videos, I think it was around 2018 or 2019. You are right when you are saying that she become aggressive, acting superior and self-entitled. And the voice....My God, the voice...Her only chance to attract someone is to shut up. She is just ridiculous. Like "Affluent ladies do those mistakes, but I don't" it's just ridiculous, it screams that this woman has never been anywhere than Ibiza Beach&Co. The make-up thing and the nose thing set aside (which are common sense rules not étiquette rules) she has everything wrong.
1.The place of the glass is important in the beginning, when one prepares the table, but during the dinner the place of the glass is important only for the people who serve not for the people who consume. Once again I must point out that she confuses, like many, "upstairs" and "downstairs" ways of acting. Of course you don't want to have your glass at the other side of the table but this is not a "don't" as she pretended it. During all the fancy dinners of which I've been invited you can be sure that towards the end of the dinner all the glasses are at the wrong place.
2. All has been said about the salad, this morning too, by
@Arachne and
@lalalander. I have to keep for myself why there was such a rule of not cutting the salad with the knife, many of you know it probably but obviously she doesn't know. Today the rule is obsolete. In Switzerland for exemple, in a normal restaurant where the cutlery for the "entrée" is always composed by a fork and knife, everybody cut the salad with the knife if the leafs are too big, nobody cares. The only "faux-pas" about the salad is when you are the lady of the manor and you serve salad to your guests preparing the salad with too big leafs. There is an elegant way to eat the salad with the knife, by folding the leaves in a certain way, but obviously Anna doesn't know it, it is a matter of practice. And as I said it before, the most recurrent way of elegantly eating the salad is by helping the mouvements with a piece of bread. Oh, an important observation about her point on the salad : in an elegant restaurant or private dinner they don't serve the salad in a soup bowl, that why she has problems with the cutlery and invented the Robocop joke. She pretends to be étiquette certified and she doesn't know which plate goes with which meal. I know many restaurants want now to be "modern" and serve things in those kind of impracticable plates but if we are talking manners one needs to be capable to make the difference even at the level of restaurant's services.
3. The "sandwich" staff, so revealing of her misconceptions and confusions, I was laughing with tears. She is using an olive "tartinade" to explain that you don't have to spread the "tartinade" on the bread. My dear, this is the definition of the "tartinade", it is something to be spread on the bread! Some restaurants serve it on big toasted pieces, you have everything wrong here. The only products that you don't spread on the bread are : butter, foie gras and French cheese.
4. Refilling the glass. Well that's the problem with the escorts. They are never really served by the men, they think they have to do it. Yes, in Japan, in Gion more precisely. But in Europe, a women is served by a man, period. Water or wine. The only situation when a woman can refill the glass is if it is the glass of another woman and when the other woman is older and there are no men at the table. High caliber men are even vexed if they see a woman refilling her own glass or theirs. It a "faux-pas", it's mean the woman is saying to those men that they are rude by not refilling her glass quickly.
5. Holding the glass. I think I lectured you enough about her mistakes about it
Last observations :
-she doesn't know how to keep the knife in her hand, she is confusing the principal knife with the fish knife
-she is not very well informed about the differences between English style and French style
-French style is always sophisticated and elegant even with the elbow on the table provided that the woman is intelligent.
... so they are aging her too.. those high cheeks that should give her “ eLegAnT” vibe isn’t working. It makes her face look unfriendlier in a sense? And make her look very escort like ... her face before was way better and looked more warm, she just needed to lose more weight so that her face gets smaller.
