Guys..
Watching a Russian Woman eating a meal is like a ZEN Meditation exercise in..
P A T I E N C E . . . .
(now breath deeply.. and say.. Ooooooommm)
Now the 1st thing you notice.
Is just how precisely but SLOWLY she uses her fork and knife to work with her food.
The 2nd thing you notice.
Is the Microscopic amount of food she actually places on her fork and SLOWLY lifts to her mouth..
The 3rd thing you notice.
Is just how SLOWLY she chews on her food and the number of times she actually chews on it.. usually about 10 mouse-like nibbles before she FINALLY swallows it.
And finally the 4th thing you notice.
Is just how much she goes into STEALTH NINJA mode while eating.. Or in other words she waits till you are distracted or talking before she SNEAKS a bite out of her food.
AND THEN when that’s done.. You get to REPEAT the whole MEDITATION CYCLE all over again..
Now because the normal proportion of food that she usually eats is SO TINY you will only get a chance to watch this process repeat itself about a dozen times or so..
So to give you an actual REAL WORLD example..
Take 1 SMALL SCOOP of ice cream.. (and i do mean small)
Put it in a dainty little ice cream glass with a dainty little tea spoon..
Now watch your average Russian Girl SLOWLY nibble on it one “pinkie nail sized” chunk at a time. This process goes SO SLOWLY that by the time she eats only HALF of that scoop… the other half is completely melted. Even when it’s melted she won’t mind at all.. and will be just as happy to scoop the liquid ice cream cleanly out of her glass in the same slow artistic way.
Honestly when you see this… You’d think that she was trying to win the Olympic gold metal for figure skating by the way she draws precise graceful scooping patterns in her melted ice cream… And if I had a gold metal I sure as heck would give it to her.. complete with a 3 tiered platform to stand on with the Russian National Anthem cranked over the sound system.. Oh and let’s not forget the huge white, blue and red tri-color flag being raised too.
(By the way.. ALL Russian Women secretly fantasize about this..)
Now when I first arrived here.. I was completely horrified by my overall lack of classic table etiquette in comparison to these Women.. This was due I’m sure to the behavioral conditioning that comes with eating at one too many King Sized Chinese Buffet houses..
Now I’m no hand grubbing BARBARIAN when it comes to eating.. but I know I’m not exactly Prince Charles dining with the Queen either.
But thankfully I quickly followed my “When in Rome” instincts when it came to dining with a Russian woman and adapted QUICKLY.
Although I forced myself to SLOW DOWN my eating style while on a date.. I gotta tell you..
It WASN’T EASY trying to keep the Cookie Monster of food in his cage for the sake of being a proper Gentleman to a proper Lady.Food that Mr. Cookie Monster just really wanted to INHALE .. But thankfully I pulled it off.. And so can you.. I know you can do this EVEN if you’re normal idea of fine dining is actually a $9.99 Buffet Spread or a Little Ceasar’s Big Foot Pizza..
To many American’s like myself these classic table manners may initially seem arcane and out of place. However it’s IMPORTANT to exercise them if you are to properly impress upon a lady that you are truly a REAL Gentleman and not some hairy knuckle dragging caveman named GROG in disguise.
This type of cultivation COMPLETELY demonstrates self-respect and discipline.
So when you see it in her..
Make sure she see’s it in you..
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That’s a very healthy way of eating. Just making sure food are completely break down and all in the liquid form before it enters stomach. That makes it much easier for stomach and our bodies to digest food. It’s unnecessary to put so much of stress on our body when it tries to break down food that is not completely break down.
When you keep doing that way, you will find that you are consuming less and less food and get full much quicker. That’s what I have discovered when I started to eat that way. I find myself that less food I eat, much more energetic I become.
Another question… Do those Russian ladies constantly try to make sure their man/husband/boyfriend have enough food to eat?
Just that I kept being bugged by my grandmother about myself eating enough food. Sometimes, they constantly cook so large portion of food for me. Just that they don’t want me to be hungry all time. I don’t really eat very much when I’m all by myself.
I can’t stop laughing at how those obese American women behave when they are at any buffet places. They kept going after those abundance of food and eat, eat, eat & gulp, gulp, gulp like pigs or Homer Simpson from the “The Simpson”. We can call them “buffet destroyers.” No wonder why they are so obese. Man, they are letting themselves go without absolute self-discipline.
All true! I’ve seen it myself over and over. Again, this is symptomatic of a woman where culture and etiquette are simply part of who she is.
I was recently in a restaurant in Munich and had the displeasure of watching and hearing a table of female American tourists. Good Lord the horror show! Loud, obnoxious, pigs is the only way to describe them. I was sickened and actually had to leave and eat outside. I couldn’t take it.
I am NOT talking ‘ugly American’ – this was much worse than the amiable nice guy/gal American from Peoria with a camera around their neck. This was way beyond that – this was simply disgusting.
This was the end result of a society that tells women they are perfect, can make no mistakes, and any problems they have are directly attributable to men. And then supports it with their laws. What do you get? A disgusting self centered pig who is so loud you can’t be in the same room with them.
I would add one area of advice is when you are with a Russian woman. You offer to buy her lunch or dinner. At first, she will most likely refuse and say that she is not hungry. DO NOT STOP. Wait a minute or two and then insists (politely) and she will relent.
When it comes to alcohol. Wait and see what she orders. Non alcohol… you order non alcohol.
Like the main post, start reading etiquette books. Emily Post, Leticia Baldridge and many others. Or take etiquette classes.
It was easy for me, because my parents were ‘old school’ when it came to manners and proper social etiquette. They never subscribed to the ‘tyranny of the causual lifestyle’. I still dress professionally for causual Fridays.
There is a famous story about the Nobel Prize winner playwright Harold Pinter and his etiquette lesson with a flight attendant. He was asking the attendant about his seat. She said: “It is over there, Harold.” He immediately turn around and looked at her and said: “My dear child, did we go to school together?” She said no. His response: “Then it is Sir or Mister Pinter.”
Sorry for going off subject.
That etiquette and culture of manners is very important. It is the glue that holds society together and lets people trust one another. It also keeps thug-ism to a minimum.
Oh, and I wanted to tell you rw_man to be careful. I heard that there is a growing nationalistic/skin head movement in russia.
Hey Russiangirl,
We already woke up to the injustice of feminism. We already woke up to see a bad attitude posed by yourself. We already woke up to your crazy game and refuse to comply with your nonsense shaming game.
This post is all about etiquette existing in the Russian culture. Being polite, respectful and showing self-respect when eating shows the sign of being a decent and respectful to eyes of other people. We want to act decent, showing good etiquette and manner to earn respect from other people. We put a lot of effort on ourselves to learn the Russian culture. Also, we put a lot of effort to learn how to act like Russian when we are in Russia in order to earn respect from those Russian folks. We want to respect and preserve the Russian culture.
It has nothing to do about defining women and telling women how they should act. We simply observe examples set by Russian women. Their actions and examples tell the whole story who they are. Rw_man is here to share what he has been observing Russian women and how they differ from the Western culture.
Perhaps we are dealing with an imposter… Every RUSSIAN girl that I have shown this blog to has loved it…
An imposter? Oh, something tells me ‘russiangirl’ is your run of the mill liberal arts major without a thought in her head – completely incapable of linear logic or any ideas beyond just shouting out a bunch of nonsense.
She’s a joke. Her post proves our point better than anything we could hope to write.
Thanks ‘russiangirl’ for validating everything in this blog.
I’ve read that fat girls in Russia are outcasts. Russiangirl is probably one of those.
But I am a caveman in disguise!
Seriously though, I once met a scientist from Eastern Europe who had never (even in childhood) climbed a tree. Sometimes etiquette can go too far.
Hi Joe,
Thanks for that bit of very true advice as well. I could probably devote a number of future posts to the subject of food and dining alone. But I’m more then grateful to have additional bits of wisdom thrown in.. Thanks.. GL
My Apologies about the coordinated bomb throwers who came in and took advantage of my down time.
Unless they are willing to be nice and put out logical and civil dialogue they will be on my spam list.
Technology is such a nice thing isn’t it?
GL
I will speak in generalities here, so don’t expect this applies to everyone in every place. This is what I found to be generally true. When I was in Russia, I had many a meal as described above. Meals are not meals as we know them, meals are an event. That does not only apply to Russian women. I found it very refreshing. The people there will focus on you intensely while you are together. A far cry from the average level of focus you receive at home. This is of course a huge difference in the women. Here, you spend time on a date wondering why you bothered. The woman usually spends her time bragging about meaningless things while you get to watch her spoil herself in anyway she feels at the moment, and she expects your undivided attention and to read her mind. You get to participate in some sort of game where there are no rules. It also seems that she is sizing you up to see where you fit on the financial scale, because most of her conversation is materialistic in tone and subject. She also seems to want to know if she is a better man than you. In Russia, the women focus on you, and you can act in kind without feeling you are being used and abused. The Queensbury rules of courtship apply. I believe the main difference in our cultures is that in Russia traditional courtship still exists, and here it is dead. In Russia the women understand the difference between men and women, here they don’t care and expect us to be the same. When you get together with a Russian woman, she is completely focused on who you are and what you are all about. They level of connection they are capable of is uncanny. They are intelligent, well mannered, cultured and dignified. They are not burdened with all the induced distractions of our lives. Connecting with people is the main thing. Basically they are what normal women use to be a long time ago on a planet far away. In Russia the women don’t believe they were dropped on the earth by God himself. Here, well… if you live here I don’t have to explain. In defense of the American woman, I will say that she was brainwashed from birth, and it is not her fault. She has been sold a lie and it was pounded into her Psyche as with most of us. In America, they just can’t make money on happy people. Happy people are happy, and they don’t need anything to achieve happiness. In Russia, they have their character, their intelligence, their education (which they highly value), they have their integrity, they have their families, they have their people and not a whole lot else. Material things mean so much less to them than to us. They can find happiness in small things. When Russia begins to have the same first world conveniences we have, when their markets are driven solely by capitalism, when their young minds are shaped by the marketing media, that’s when their normal people will disappear. We’ll have to catch the next space shuttle to the planet Argon to excape our demented cultures after that. Cheers!
Hi Average American Guy,
Thanks for the comment.. I loved your insight on not being able to make money on happiness. That says soooo much.. and those 5th avenue marketers really know how to put the spin on women big time to advance this unfortunately.
I think we should all carry one of those TV-B-Gone devices and start switching off millions of TV’s at a time to get some peace from the material and feminist propaganda. At least that’s one of my evil fantasies..
Please tell your friends Average and have them join in!
Cheers GL
This is interesting, because it is all positive observations about Russian women, and negative about American women. I agree that, generally, American women are not as appealing as they should be, for whatever reasons. But Russian women also have a few faults, wouldn’t any one agree? I have noticed that it is common for either gender or any age in Russia to be abrupt, to become gruff quickly over any perceived wrong or lack of intelligence in a decision by another person. However, the gruffness often turns easily into jovial joking, when the other person recognizes their error. For me, it is my main difficulty, to not take this sudden aggressiveness personally. It is not personal. It is simply the national character. This is also common in european countries and countries whom European culture has influenced, such as South America and Mexico.
Oh! Thanks big time for a chance to share a handful of remarks on manners )))
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Comrade Natalia
Hello everyone! I am from the former Soviet Union, particularly – Kazakhstan. I want to say that I really love the blog and what rw_man is doing to inform the people of the USA.
Currently I reside in London, UK. Well, women here would not call police if you approach them. But they would not talk to you either. There is an astounding number of fat, ugly women, which act in the feminist way.
I think the points made about marketers unable to make money on the unhappy people a right to the point. The bad thing is that the capitalism is taking over my country – Kazakhstan, and the live is getting worse there (for the majority) and better for minority of the rich people.
Many people say that the live level was much higher when we lived in the Soviet Union.
Everyone had a free healthcare, good transport (you was able to buy the car if you wanted), the homes were almost free – could any of you imagine getting home for working somewhere?
We had it all, and it all has crushed one day.
I am telling all that to you in order to waive the misunderstanding about the communism and socialism. We had it all,(arrests, propaganda, police) but the people knew the intents of the governors and the people knew that it could not be ideal.
Thank you for the great job and I will talk to you later.
I hear China is still communist, wouldn’t that be a lot closer to travel than the capatilist UK?
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This is so cute, I loved the read. It’s so accurate! I’ve lived in the U.S. for over ten years now and have forgotten all about these small intricacies…
eeps see this is from 2006 but here goes in case anyone is still alive
heyo
..long time lurker-girl here. This blog is Fabulous.
I went to Amsterdam 5 years ago (1st time outta the states, yes Amer Girl) and was floored by the beauty.
Those rosy, red cheeks were breathtaking.. everyone looked so healthy and toned!
Even the old ladies!
So was on a quest, forever, to learn more about the girls over there.
Not a whole lot.. then stumbled upon this blog .. just love it
As for “eating rituals”
Let me say, yes.. a lot of Amer Women do throw the whole house down in one big gulp..
I do think it does have a lot to do with what you eat and how you chew…blah blah
But here’s the deal
I wish Amer would get it through their lil’ heads instead of counting calories and all that jazz
It is the mindset in which you eat..
Here, we eat in our car, in front of the TV (oh there’s a movie on.. let me get some food), in front of the computer. We walk into the kitchen grab food and before we sit down 5 bites are already in our mouth.
Yes, and a lot is pre-packaged or cooked in less than 5 min by the handy microwave man.
I take it these Russian girls actually sit down before they eat, eat in social situations.. are not grabbing a bag of crisps and plopping in front of the boob tube. Plenty of hours between meals. All that water.. all that walking.
You have nailed the big key to our NA obesity problem.
There’s food in hand everywhere people go over here and 90% of the time it’s being gulpped down in front of some mind numbing electronic brain drainer.
In almost every country I have visited, women in particular, sit and eat a light meal in a calm social setting and then walk to where they are going next, often with a bottle of water in hand.
You are absolutely right about the mentality being different. It is so obvious to us NAs when we travel. And did you notice the majority of people sitting down to a pile of gutt burgers in other countries are usually tourists?
In Hong Kong I went into a McDonalds and looked around at the advertising and layout. There were lots of local teens there but the people with the giant sized meals were all tourists and without a doubt from NA. Even though they didn’t know it, I felt embarrassed for them. Also I couldn’t help wondering why someone would travel for over 20 hours by plane to get out and eat at an American fast food restaurant. The closest thing I ate to an American dish while I was in Hong Kong was a steak and we had that because the owner of our tour company wanted to show us how well they did ‘Texas style B-B-Q’ in his country.
Overall, were you impressed enough with your trip that you might return one day? That’s my measure of how well I like someplace. I think ‘would I go back again’ and if the answer is ‘yes’ then I pretty much liked it.
Jenny I would have to agree that social sitting has and mindset has alot to do with it. If you eat food for example standing up or fast it is harder to digest. I will admit I am sometimes guilty of doing that eat and run at work. Heck I looked closely enough even to my other coworkers who are not overweight and are carrying a normal weigh doing the same thing. They may not get a gut or become fat but in the long run it is going to give them digestive problems. And I need to change that or I am geting better at taking a lunch break and sitting and eating for thirty minutes.
Regarding the point about water, I was somewhat under the impression that drinking lots of water is not quite the stomach filling appetite suppressant that people are led to believe.
The pyloric sphincter (the valve that sits between your stomach and the small intestine) allows water to filter through, while retaining everything else. There’s no point leaving water sitting in the stomach (it doesn’t need digesting), it just needs to go straight through and be absorbed. One reason why lately some dieticians have questioned (watery) soup diets.