Dining Etiquette
The dining manners in Chad are comparable to those in other Arab and North African nations. That is one of the lists of Chad culture, customs, and etiquette. For details on standard North African and Arab eating etiquette, please visit Egypt dining etiquette and Sudan dining etiquette. The dining manners details provided below include Chadian modifications to standard North African and Arab eating manners.
- Chadian Food and Mealtimes. Boule-pourage. Tan kul in the south (sauce served over fish or meat and beans) or nashif in the north (usually meat plus a spicy tomato sauce).
- Dining etiquette in a Chadian home. Do not intentionally come at mealtime. Honored guests may receive gifts.
- Dining etiquette for seating. Many meals are taken seated on a mat on the floor. Men and women eat separately. Your feet should not point toward other guests or the food. Tuck your feet up.
- Dining etiquette for using your hands. Eat with your right hand.
- Dining etiquette for when to begin eating. Begin eating only after the host indicates that it is okay.
- Dining etiquette taboos. Giving eggs to children will turn them into thieves in adulthood. Don't give pregnant women too much food so that they do not deliver fat babies.
- Dining etiquette compliments. It is a compliment to call someone fat.
