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?"

"For dessert, absolutely no flambé!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Is anyone enjoying anything?"

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

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

"Tell him I can still hear him chewing."

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

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

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

Screen Time at the Dining Table

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

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

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.'

"Our steaks are unusually tough tonight."

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

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

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

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

"Is this the table with a complaint?"

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

'Today I learned it's hard not to sound condescending when explaining science to a religious person.'