Picture the scene of a family dinner…

A nice Sunday roast…everybody is polite – no elbows on tables, no speaking with mouths full and a veritable plethora of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’s…

The present Mrs Pooflake smiles sweetly at me as I compliment her on the meal, and both Mini-Pooflakes are resplendent in their displays of impeccable table manners.

The meal is finished, more thanks are thrown about…I offer to take the plates to the dishwasher and suggests to my sweetheart that she takes a well deserved rest as I pour her a glass of wine and begin clearing up…

I get to the kitchen with the plates etc…have a swift look around…

Then SCHLUUUURRRRPPP! – I gorge myself on the surplus gravy / remnants from every plate, licking them clean with a frenzy like I was a rampant Labrador round another dog’s ringpiece.

Everything is then popped into the dishwasher…

The perfect crime
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:18, 10 replies)

That's quite unpleasant
Isn't there saliva in that gravy?
(frankspencer, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:20, closed)

Bloody hell
I chuckled as I read the story, then was almost sick at the end.

Disgusting.

But I like it!

*click*
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:20, closed)

That's really
quite horrible.
*shudders*
Is it only ok if it's family?
Would you do it if you had other people there for lunch?
( Cawl, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:22, closed)

I
do the same thing, i have to get alone with my plate, dont go as far as other peoples though.
( Trollman, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:22, closed)

^^Good points above...

I start with my plate first...going onto others is hunger depending.

(and yes, for what it's worth it stays with immediate family. If anybody else comes to dinner, I drop the 'polite' bollocks and get the missus to do all the clearing up)
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:29, closed)

My daughter's the same
She'll pour any surplus gravy into a glass and chug the lot

*Harry Hill voice*: "Graveeeeee!"
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:32, closed)

Oh god...
I haven't even had breakfast yet, and now I don't think I will...

*shudder*
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:47, closed)

This kinda reminds me of...
A time i was sat in a pub and these people finished their food and left. A guy on the next table, grabbed their plates and finished their food off for them! Was very eeeeeww.
Theres just something very off putting about other peoples left overs!
(Miggyman, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:57, closed)

Mates
I'll eat mates pub-grub. Especially if theres meat involved.

Some people have real problems with fat on meat and end up scuppering GOOD STEAK just because theres a squidgeon of fat attached.

Lightweights I say.

My beer belly grows...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:50, closed)

When I was an art student
I had a tutor who would cruise the cafeteria just to find left-over chips.

When I first started there he didn't have any top teeth but soon purchased a nice shiny new false set. He smoked gauloise.

Very random.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:59, closed)