redlights sez:

I also use my fork funny,

Please elaborate on the funny use of the FORK. This is important stuff.

Redline wrote:redlights sez:

I also use my fork funny,

Please elaborate on the funny use of the FORK. This is important stuff.

Maybe it's held backwards...

i don't make much of a mess while i eat. but i am always the first one done.

Angriest_Dragon wrote:

Redline wrote:redlights sez:

I also use my fork funny,

Please elaborate on the funny use of the FORK. This is important stuff.

Maybe it's held backwards...

Well..From what I see, most Americans use their fork as a shovel with their right hand. Occasionally they stab something with it and wave it around to make a point clearer or something and then put the food in their mouth.

I, however, turn my fork upside down, commonly called continental style, hold it in my left hand and spear whatever food I possibly can. I also put it down a lot. Most of my american dining partners keep one utensil in their hand constantly and use either the fork or the spoon throughout the entire meal.

Amy Vanderbuilt's Complete Book of Etiquette wrote: " I see no real reason why a person who all his life has employed the Continental style in using his fork and knife should change to the American unless he feels needlessly self concious about the difference. Here, the knife is used for cutting and is never used to pile food on the back of a fork, which then, European style, is conveyed to the mount upside down and with the left hand. In America the fork is mostly used in the right hand, so that it corners the food by itself with little or no help from the knife who's funciotn ceases after its cut the meat......"

I better get with the program. After all I've been in America for quite a few years now.

I try to get as much in my mouth as possible.







oh, snap.

I usually just take my shirt off to eat. It has saved me from many unsightly stains.

Leaving crap on your clothes or around you on the table usually comes from:

1) eating too fast
2) using your utensils improperly
3) not breaking bread over the bread plate or basket
4) not taking care to square your plate in front of you, close to the edge of the table.

I do all of these. It's really embarassing. I collect etiquette books, read them carefully and know everything I am supposed to do. But it all goes out the window during that wonderful moment when your food is set in front of you and everybody shuts the hell up to eat.

itchy mcgoo wrote:I collect etiquette books, read them carefully and know everything I am supposed to do.

Aren't there 20 different kinds of forks that are supposed to be used in different scenarios or something like that? Do you know how to use them all and when to use them?

Angriest_Dragon wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:I collect etiquette books, read them carefully and know everything I am supposed to do.

Aren't there 20 different kinds of forks that are supposed to be used in different scenarios or something like that? Do you know how to use them all and when to use them?

I too collect Etiquette books and know what I'm supposed to do. Not only are there 20 different kinds of forks, there are 20 different uses of them depending on who's talking and where you are eating

Start from the outside and work your way in with forks is the general use of flatware for those who really don't care to read about it but it really isn't hard to tell what each does. Look at how sharp the fork is , the shape, length and layout of the tines and decide where to go from there.

I don't usually have too much of a problem getting shit on me (except for coffee, every morning I get at least one spot on my shirt--those fucking plastic lids don't work), but my fiancee complains a lot when I eat. I'm kind of tall, so I feel like I'm a long way away from my food, which causes me to hunch over my plate. The lady says it's disgusting to watch me eat because I don't finish chewing one bite before I throw in another one, like I'm afraid someone is going to take it away. I think it has something to do with growing up in the concentration camps, maybe not. I dunno?