Anonymous: I was invited to a small dinner party of three couples with good friends. Between the appetizer and the main course, they passed a pipe around the table as an intermediary "appetizer". However, I found the thought of sharing the pipe after everyone had just eaten the appetizer rather unappetizing indeed. Am I wrong to not want to find particles of food on the pipe, or should I not be looking a "gift-horse" in the mouth?
It depends on the appetizer. A morsel of ortolan from your fellow dinner party guest would be fabulous. A drip of spinach dip? Not so much
