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It's schmaners. Hello, Internet. I'm your husband host, Travis McElroy.

And I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

And you're listening to Schmaners.

It's extraordinary etiquette. For ordinary occasions. Hello, my dove. Hello, dear. How are you? You know, considering. I'm doing great. Okay. Baby did not sleep great last night. Well, it's not just that. It's kind of like the winter slump. It's the winter doldrums. Yeah. It's that space between New Year's. The space between New Year's and Valentine's Day. And it's gray outside here in Ohio. That's the thing. So it normally doesn't bother me. I like the gray weather. I think I've talked about that before. Yeah. I like the rain. But this has been like a really dry snow.

Like it's really weird how dry it has seemed outside while snow is covering the ground.

And it just seems more like not so much fun gray weather.

So much it's just like, I want crawl in bed gray weather.

Yeah.

And when your baby isn't sleeping, you doubly want to crawl in bed.

Yeah.

So this episode is on all questions, Ask Schmanner's episode.

We haven't done this in a while.

So we thought we would tackle some of your queries.

Some of your quandaries.

Indeed.

This first one comes from Jay at Jay Moreno.

What's the best way to bring up dietary restrictions in polite company?

I have a bad habit of either just eating it and suffering for a few days, but that sucks.

So I assume Jay means, I assume when they say impolite company, they mean like

dinner party eating, not just like in conversation or...

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