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You are eating at your favorite local restaurant. A couple walks in. The waiter brings their first course, and instead of dishing up, bow their heads and quietly say a brief prayer thanking God for their food. Then they begin to eat like nothing happened.
How do you think people would react to this in your country?
Even in the supposedly uber-religious USA, this kind of thing is uncommon.
You are eating at your favorite local restaurant. A couple walks in. The waiter brings their first course, and instead of dishing up, bow their heads and quietly say a brief prayer thanking God for their food. Then they begin to eat like nothing happened.
I did this @ thanksgiving.... It shows respect and knowledge that you realise you are eating something put here as well........
Never seen this in a restaurant. But i've seen it a lot at work in the canteen. We have some people from the strict reformed church at work and they allways pray before lunch. Allways a kind of awkward situation, but we respect it though. We wait till they're finished praying. (if they're on our table)
I've noticed this a couple times at restaurants in my life, but it is very rare. How would/did people react? Exactly how you'd expect them to, they ignored what the strangers were doing at their own table and did not have any reaction to it at all. I imagine it would be the same in most places.
It's not that people aren't grateful. I've been to dinner at restaurants with people who I know say grace in their homes because I've dined with them there, but they do not typically do so at restaurants. I guess it's just the setup of restaurant meals being different, what with the ordering and snacks before the meal arrives, it feels like the event that is the meal has in a way commenced before the food arrives, so it feels strange to many to perform a ritual that typically marks the initiation of such events in what feels like the middle of one.
Yep.
I've never seen anyone do this out, or at their home.
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