Do you say grace or give thanks before meals?

btw there is another thread: Do you say Grace before meals? but it's not a poll and it's pretty old

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Never. Used to be enforced but I mean what wasn't.

i grew up catholic so we slurred through that prayer xp every night for dinner, but generally didn't pray before any other meal.

i'm not catholic or christian anymore so i don't do that prayer anymore. my wife and i give thanks before eating. occasionally i'll give thanks silently if i'm eating by myself and i remember it. helps if i'm really grateful for the good, like i take myself out to lunch or something.

*grateful for the good food

generally though i enjoy the practice of acknowledging the food and stating some gratitude for it, or acknowledging the company if we're eating with friends. it's a nice practice.

occasionally at family holiday dinners my mom will ask everyone to do this, but i never do it of my own volition (nor does anyone else in the family)

no

I can dig that but like five time olympic gold winner steve redgrave, "its not for me"

My wife and I employ a sort of quasi-grace at the evening meal. We hold hands across the table silently, close our eyes a moment and think whatever thoughts we choose. When we both open our eyes, it is over and we eat.

No

No, but I had to say Burns' Selkirk Grace at a wedding recently. It was a big room and I don't think anybody had given thought to how it should be done - I think standing at one's place is normal but there's no way my voice would've carried all around - what happened was I got called up to the front by the toastmaster guy and a microphone pressed in my hand. There was a kind of podium there for the speeches, but no fucking way am I mounting a podium to deliver grace, I'm thinking, I'm not a televangelist.

So I ended up doing this sort of walking grace between the tables, eyeballing guests individually as I went around barking out the lines. I imagine it looked like the most ridiculous cod-flamboyance ever.

At least I got a taste of how Bono must feel

Not if you didn't love every second and then attempt ascension on the last line

visits to pious irish relatives would sometimes be accompanied by this

usually some cheapshit guilting references to the starving poor in africa, there but for the grace of god and all that

We'd have eaten better if not for them fuckin trocaire boxes twice a year, ironically

nope

yes, but only in drive throughs

No, but I sometimes say いただきます or 잘 먹겠습니다.

I only did this when we visited a certain side of the family, when my great grandparents were still alive, and they would start it off. Now no-one in the family is religious but I do like the custom and wouldn't mind bringing it back if I ever have a family of my own. Seems like a good thing to do.

Itadakemasu is great for humility (w/o reinforcing religious adherence or imposing guilt) but I like bon appétit and all the variations thereof which bascially mean, 'enjoy the grub'.

I don't cuz why lazy and not particularly religious but when I was growing up we would say a ha-motzi. I always preferred my grandfather's Xtian prayer: "Our father we are truly grateful for the gifts we are about to receive. May our lives always be examples of love and kindness. Amen."

i'm an atheist

so dyou just thank yrself then

my stepfather, who is a saint basically, does silent grace every night--in vietnam (drafted), when they went into a village they went around each corner in each hut single file, he was the point guy. he never knew if he was going to get his face blasted off. i can only imagine what he's giving thanks for (never killed anyone btw)

We say grace and we say ma'am
if you ain't into that then we don't give a damn

there's a family circus cartoon where billy admonishes jeffy in a restaurant, "we don't hafta say grace. we paid for it."

i give thanks to big ag

I don't give thanks, but I do make sure to check my privilege before I eat

I can never forget my grandfather from Kerry. The type of violent house monster who would dig his rosary out during The Angelus (ding....ding...ding..etc), say grace before meals, violent wife-beater. I Didn't give a shit when he croaked tbh. That was my "holiday" as a child, visiting this house of fun for a couple of weeks, used to be jealous of friends that went to Southport or fucking Brid. The last years were the best, after he had a stroke my grandma took over the show and would shower me with ciggies and booze gifts when I was 13 and we had a good laugh. No more grace:)

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Rub-a-dub-dub
Thanks for the grub
Yay God!

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