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Shmanners

Hibachi

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and etiquette of HIBACHI dining! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend! Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.org/

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello, Internet.

0:27.3

I'm your husband host, Travis McElroy.

0:28.9

And I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

0:30.8

And you're listening to Schmanor's.

0:32.0

It's extraordinary etiquette.

0:33.3

Ordinary occasions, hello, my dove.

0:34.8

Hello, dear.

0:35.7

How are you?

0:36.6

I'm fine.

0:37.2

How are you doing, dear? Doing great. Oh, good. Top of the world. Okay. I'm on top of the world. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what the rest of the words are. I think he says that. I'm on top of the world a lot. A couple more times. Yeah. Yeah. Does that mean he's in like the Arctic?

0:56.6

Maybe. I'm freezing cold in the world. Eh. Um, none of that is what we're talking about today.

1:02.7

Correct. What are we talking about today, Teresa? We are talking about habachi. Okay. Tell me about

1:10.7

Habachi. I'm going to guess. Okay. All right. I love it when we do this. That is quite old. That is an old thing? No. Oh, man. Not in the way that we know it. Okay. All right. Have you ever been to a Hobachi restaurant? Yes, I have. Okay. I've been to prom, if that's what you're asking. It is a great place to take a large group of people. It is. Because you can see many people all at one time, all around the Habachi grill. I am a sucker for any time the food is cooked at my table. Mm-hmm. I like it. A little dinner and a show together.

1:46.6

And that's exactly the point.

1:48.5

And I enjoy that immensely.

1:50.4

I remember I also went to one with several other couples.

1:54.8

And one of the, like, cliche things that the habachi chefs do is they might flip like food into your mouth

2:02.7

and um my chef missed my mouth and a piece of very hot shrimp went down my shirt in your declatans

2:11.3

yes i he was profoundly sorry this might not surprise anyone who's seen the size of my mouth.

2:19.4

I caught five shrimp in a row.

2:21.9

Well, of course you did.

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