Different Sugar And Towel Customs

I ordered tea and this was set down on the table. It's a rather attractive set up with the pitcher of milk and bowls of white and rock candy-like brown sugar. The problem is that the bowls are too large to be for single use. I just know that the same bowls of sugar are recycled and given to everyone.

How many people have sneezed, coughed or put dirty spoons in the sugar? I don't mean to sound snippy, but restaurants here would be shut down if they did that.

Yeah, I used the sugar, but I wasn't happy about it. You don't expect me to drink unsweetened tea do you?




In the same restaurant, this was the mna room. (I learned very quickly that in Gaelic, mna is women and fir is men. ) That towel is for use by everyone. That would violate some rules here as well. I let my hands air dry.