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Dining etiquette

Just what should the protocol be for checking your mobile phone between courses in a restaurant?
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Sir, I have noticed an increasing number of diners consulting their mobiles between courses. This seems to have become the equivalent of the intermezzo, in which the screen is refreshed rather than the palate. May I suggest that such a breach of dining etiquette is referred to as an internetzo?

Peter Sergeant

Hathern, Leics