#5 Debriefing Dinner Parties

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Armenians love to eat. And who can blame us? Armenian food is fantastic. But sometimes it seems that Armenians like to talk about food more than eating food. How did it taste? How did it look? Does it stand to Medz-Mama’s recipe? And of course the ultimate question of all: Aghe keecher? (Did it lack salt?)

Armenians always have to give their two-cents about a meal they just tasted—especially when they are invited to another’s home. Because no meal is ever perfect or even decent, the food that someone has labored all day will never meet the standard of an Armenian person.

A dinner party on Saturday night will be talked about on the phone lines (especially among the women) for days to come. Some of it is debriefing the meal, some of it is complaining, some of it is gossip (did you see what she wore?), and some of it may just be that the women like to hear themselves talk (in no way was that intended as a sexist comment, just an observation).

I hate to break the news to you, but if you have hosted an Armenian person for dinner, just know that everything about your party is fodder for  conversation in the coming week. But don’t worry, the chatter will die down by Monday morning of the following week when the next host’s meal is debriefed.