“This isn’t anything special. It’s pretty basic”
“This isn’t hard. I can do this myself at home”
“Why are you spending money on this? It’s literally just [lists ingredients]”
Holy fucking shit shut the fuck up im trying to enjoy this fucking meal why do you tag along and waste my money and time
There's actually a fair bit of theory on this. For example, Bourdieu's book Distinction often drifts into asides about table manners and other related habits as things that signal and situate the classes. It isn't that all table manners are bourgeois, but that what are table manners tends to be different according to one's position in the social order.
Yay new book rec