You don’t want to look shellfish, Eva. Plus, isn’t it messy? What if I leaned over and wiped my mouth on her puffy sleeves? Even with my pinky finger extended, it would ensure no second date.
Huh?
(What’s wrong with messy? Or do you just want to keep your face nice and clean for later? That’s what the nice, warm, moist towels are for!)
If you have no common sense or table manners, though, I don’t know if I can help you.
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[sup]Sounds rather than smells fishy** to me!**[/sup][/ul]
How about a picnic in the park? Cheese, French Bread fruit, wine
I hear people have sex much like they eat food, so try some Lobster & see how they handle it.
Y’know, I prefer not to be cracked open with a mallet and have my flesh plucked out from my insides, but maybe that’s just me, handy.
My wife and I had as our first meal together Eggplant Parmesan, cooked by my brother, served with cheap red wine. Tres romantique.
Our first date-meal together? Breakfast. 
Daniel
Spaghetti and meatballs served in the alley. You could scoot the meatball over to her with your nose…and then you and she could slurp up the same spaghetti noodle and accidentally kiss.
A picnic lunch. Bring the fixin’s in a basket with a blanket/tablecloth an let the meal include the assembling to your own preferences.
A half loaf of fresh baked bread, sliced or crusty rolls
A yummy chilled chicken salad with grapes and almonds and some sliced roasted turkey
Chilled Fresh fruit with poppy seed dressing
Chilled Tortellini salad
a small assortment of cheeses, crackers and summer sausage
S’more brownies and homemade oatmeal cookies
and Lemonade
Seeing as how I loathe mayo and tuna, either of the options in the OP would leave me starving.
Boy does that picnic sound good right about now.
I meant to ask, what are stubbies?
Come on folks. A glass of nice chianti and a slice of double chocolate raspberry torte. Two forks, dim light, soft music. Does it get any better?
Zenster I like chinese and I am passable at chopsticks, but I don’t think I’d attempt them on a first date
Phlosphr you made my mouth water.
One of the all-time most romantic movie scenes! (Parodied – or perhaps honored – by a scene in the movie Hot Shots).
In my youth (when I was a dating man), I used pizza, barbecue, tacos, or spaghetti as a first date weeding mechanism. If the girl I was interested was too stuffy to enjoy a good ole messy meal, she wasn’t likely to be a repeat date candidate.
SC
Inspired my Phlosphr (and my very weird mood):
“Come on folks. A glass of nice chianti…”
some fava beans
and
YOU
I think it all depends on how much you want to spend and how much romantic you want to be.
Personally, if I wanted to impress but not spend too much, I would find a great dessert place. Nothing works better than chocolate to get to a girls heart.
I had a friend of mine take a girl to a very fancy restaurant on their first date. Very remantic place, very impressive. And then he wanted to stop off at a bar because his friend was having a bachelor party there. Needless to say, she never called him back. But I hit him in the head.
I like fondue – it’s fun, it’s different, and it gives you something to do while you talk, so you’re not just sitting there in awkward silence (if that’s the case), and it takes a while. The only problem with this is that if you’re really not hitting it off, it still takes a while. And it’s usually kind of expensive, if you go to a fondue restaurant. But, there’s always the whole fondue-party-foul game, with the kissing. That could be good.
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Stubbies can mean:
- Beer bottles that are short, squat and made from brown glass. Typically about 300-400mls.
- A variety of shorts. Typically tan and made from an uncomfortable cotton/polyester blend. Usually worn by men 40+ yr.
If it’s suitable, a picnic lunch at a sporting/music event is pretty nice.
Thanks Rabid_Squirrel. I guess in this context the poster meant the beer.
stargazer How do you play a fondue-party-foul game?
ouisey, that was laugh-out-loud funny. thanks.
Scribble, the shell is edible in that dish (salt and pepper shrimp in shell). Really. No peeling necessary. It kicks major ass.