Are you a tonger?

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

While staying in Addison, TX we are at a hotel that offers a continental breakfast.  Now I am not sure where this phrase originated, but I do know that almost any food thrown hastily on on a table and offered with coffee is "technically" a continental breakfast.  As the old joke goes...

Q: What does "Continental Breakfast" mean?
A: It means you're hungry by 10:30.

Anyway, on the continental breakfast this morning were bagels and English muffins.  Next to these were a set of tongs to use to select your bagel / muffin.  It is simply a given that you are to use these when placing a bagel on your plate.  One of my pet peeves are the non-tongers out there who choose to use their hands to dig through the pile to select their choice.

The other place that we run into the non-tongers is at our favorite Panera Bread in Kokomo.  There is a plate covered with a glass top that contains small pieces of one of their monthly specials.  It is there for you to taste test before you buy.  It is here that the tongers and non-tongers meet.  We stop at Panera on the way to church and usually sit on the side of the building that has the glass covered samples.  My wife and I will place bets on people entering the building and heading toward the sample plate on whether they are tongers or non-tongers.  It is quite entertaining.  I give people the benefit of the doubt and usually bet that a person is a tonger.  I usually lose.

So the next time you are at a place where tongs are available, go with the tongs, help me win a bet!

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon