Dinner Table Diplomats Pillows

"I find it hard to give thanks for broccoli casserole."

'Sorry, Moses... I forget you don't like your meat touching your potatoes.'

"I'm new here. How much do we leave for a tip?"

"Do you know I fought an hour with that salmon you're eating."

"I believe I'll skip the appetizer. I ate the flowers."

"For dessert, absolutely no flambé!"

"No dessert until you finish your dark matter."

"So are you can't cook or won't cook?"

"Those are insightful and legitimate questions about our country, Tommy, and if times were different, your mom and I probably wouldn't have to report you to the government for asking them!"

Thanksgiving Family Get-Togethers

"I thought we agreed that the dining room was a buffer zone."

"How many times have I told you? No trading Asian market at the dinner table."

"I like them. They hate the same things we do."

'My dad must like you, or he would have charged by now.'

"Is anyone enjoying anything?"

'For once can't we all just sit down and eat as a family?'

'No, there's nothing else: At this time of year, we eat salmon!'

"Tell him I can still hear him chewing."

"Do you have to mime looking at your mobile at the dinner table Marceau?"

'My fortune says you're a liar, so I won't even ask what yours says.'

'We'd like a quiet table for 47.'

'When a cow laughs real hard, does milk come out of her nose?'

Screen Time at the Dining Table

'Spuds were watery. And where's my damn dessert?'

Nuclear Families

Opting for Chinese food for lunch, the law partners decide in principle to share their dishes and, accordingly, before ordering, negotiate a comprehensive pre-victual agreement.

'It's gluten-free or free range or something. Enjoy.'

'It started out with lactose, but ow he's intolerant of everything.'

"Is this the table with a complaint?"

"Yes, Jamie -- you have an insight?"

"Ambitions . . . never, ever to eat broccoli again."

'Thanks, Sis, but I think it's my turn to leave the stealth tip.'

Dear, this is the third time we've had broccoli casserole since you declared an end of major hostilities.

"Use your phone once more during dinner...And I'll send you close-ups of my patients' wounds."

"Our steaks are unusually tough tonight."