[Food] Laps or dining table ?

Questions · Jul 2, 2019

I was in a conversation recently where someone reckoned it was a bit common and definitely working class to eat ones tea/dinner from a tray on their laps. Got me thinking because I mostly do although we have a perfectly good dining room table which hardly ever gets used apart from Xmas.
So do you ? and is it a working class thing.

I can understand if you have young kids sitting up at the table though.

So are you a middle class social climber or the scum of the earth.

Baldseagull · Jul 2, 2019

Dancing on the Lap and on the Table are both somewhat lower class, but dine where you wish.

Bevendean Hillbilly · Jul 2, 2019

I sit at table. Other half has hers on lap watching “love island”

One of us is from Brighton, the other from Ilford.

Which is which?

Munkfish · Jul 2, 2019

Dining table, Not sure how you can enjoy eating your dinner off your lap.

Its all a bit grubby for me, but whatever suits you, sod what anyone else thinks.

hans kraay fan club · Jul 2, 2019

All up to the table most nights. In front of the TV (still with small tables) on a Saturday, or if there is a football match on.

Bozza · Jul 2, 2019

I would guess we eat at the table four or five nights a week, give or take - generally if the three of us are eating at the same time - the busy afternoon/evening schedule of a nine-year old means that occasionally the lad needs to eat before us.

The other exception is weekends which brings Fun Food Friday - burgers & fries or pizza on laps in front of a Family Film. Fridays are really all about the Fs.

I think it's a good thing to all sit at the table for half an hour or so every day, with no other distractions going on.

Napper · Jul 2, 2019

Surely its only off lap if your obsessed with TV.

Bozza · Jul 2, 2019

This has made me wonder why we don't have any trays in our house though. They were used daily at home when I was a kid.

Mr Bridger · Jul 2, 2019

Bozza said:
This has made me wonder why we don't have any trays in our house though. They were used daily at home when I was a kid.

Lost or broke when skidding down the hill when the snow comes

zefarelly · Jul 2, 2019

I always eat at the dining table. I have just finished poached eggs on toast, sipping earl grey and am sitting at the dining table as I type.

crodonilson · Jul 2, 2019

Me and Mrs Crodo generally get home gut our housecoats on and then cook tea together and eat together at the dining table.

timbha · Jul 2, 2019

Always have breakfast at the table (but prefer it if I’m on my own with paper spread out).

Lap 5/7 evening meals

schmunk · Jul 2, 2019

Dinner at the dining table = upper class

Supper at the kitchen table = middle class

Tea out of your lap = working class

Eating out someone else's lap = ****ing class!

BLOCK F · Jul 2, 2019

Always have breakfast on the 'island' in the kitchen.
Lunch is usually a sandwich ,whilst on the settee reading my paper and if there are only two of us for dinner, back to the island again.
Of course, this only applies when the servants have the day off! :wink:

BNthree · Jul 2, 2019

Always eat at the table with the family as one of the few times the kids aren't looking at a screen. These days with on-demand tv and being able to stream/pause live TV there's no reason not to.

Bevendean Hillbilly · Jul 2, 2019

Mr Bridger said:
Lost or broke when skidding down the hill when the snow comes

It makes me happy to imagine Bozza sliding down Bear Road on a tray.

He’d be laughing like a drain with his little mittened hands gripping the crenellated edge, cheeks a rosy, an Albion scarf streaming behind him.

Until he reached the gyratory roundabout.

Oh dear.

Tim Over Whelmed · Jul 2, 2019

Bozza said:
I would guess we eat at the table four or five nights a week, give or take - generally if the three of us are eating at the same time - the busy afternoon/evening schedule of a nine-year old means that occasionally the lad needs to eat before us.

The other exception is weekends which brings Fun Food Friday - burgers & fries or pizza on laps in front of a Family Film. Fridays are really all about the Fs.

I think it's a good thing to all sit at the table for half an hour or so every day, with no other distractions going on.

Switch burgers to Frankfurters to keep those F's flowing!

bluenitsuj · Jul 2, 2019

Eat at the table most nights. 18 year old daughter will always tries to sneak her food into her bedroom but always gets caught.

Tim Over Whelmed · Jul 2, 2019

Table for us ... despite the boys being 16 & 13 it's a non-negotiable time, no phones and speak to us, if only for an hour ... just!

Bevendean Hillbilly · Jul 2, 2019

schmunk said:
Dinner at the dining table = upper class

Supper at the kitchen table = middle class

Tea out of your lap = working class

Eating out someone else's lap = ****ing class!

Not if the other person was an incontinent tramp.

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