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Ribs and wings may be delicious, but their saucy nature makes them terribly hard to consume without a huge mess all over your hands and face. As a general rule of thumb, if your food requires a moist towelette, it's best to avoid. Nothing brings attention to the crude nature of eating like slurping down some chowder. The combination of the noise, the potential mess, and hunching over a bowl are a losing combination. It may be tempting to order a whole lobster to impress your date. But between trying to wrestle your crustacean out of its shell, getting lobster juice on your hands and butter on your face, wearing a bib, and setting an expensive precedent, it might be something better served for a date much, much further down the road.
Forego foods with lots of sauce. Skip soups. Ignore the lobster.