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Do you eat the British way or the North American way?

Alistair said:
Taking a bite of food with the tines of a fork down seems awkward.
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It's not awkward at all. Since the food is more or less pressed onto the back of the for, it tends to stay there until it reaches your mouth. Since the tines are upside down, you don't have to swing the fork up when you're taking it out of your mouth. You simply lower your arm. And you don't have to keep flipping the fork over and over.

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I eat the North American way, switching hands. If the food is tender enough to cut it with my fork, then I don't use the knife and keep the fork in my right hand to cut and eat with it.
 
Bonus bit of randomness that's only tangentally related. If I get takeout or delivery, I have to eat with a plastic fork (or spoon). Using a standard metal one just seems really weird to me, and I start imagining I can taste the metal of the utensil. I don't have tgis problem with homecooked meals. Must be some psychosomatic thing going on.

Lex
 
freefall said:
^No offense to those who are willing to learn and use them, but watching non-Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese people (or other people who are not used to using chopsticks since early age) using chopsticks breaks my heart. Most of the time it's not proper and the table looks like a battlefield to these people as they are struggling to transport anything into their hungry mouths. While I appreciate their intention, please return to your forks and spoons.
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I learned to use chopsticks when on a backpacking trip the guy who was supposed to bring silverware forgot. I'm rusty, though; haven't done any Oriental cuisine in a long while.
 
For me it depends. If something is easy to cut using my left hand, like pancakes, I just cut with my left. If it's harder, like steak, I cut with my right but don't switch to eat.
 
Kulindahr said:
I learned to use chopsticks when on a backpacking trip the guy who was supposed to bring silverware forgot. I'm rusty, though; haven't done any Oriental cuisine in a long while.
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Well honey you can eat almost anything with chopsticks! Except very liquid substances though :lol: or materials that are small and very loose like semolina or bulghur. Some people who are used to it actually find it more practical :)
 
I eat like a human being. If its burgers, fries (chips for the Brits) or some other food that is to be eaten with the hands I do so. Otherwise I use the proper utensil for the job, in the appropriate manor. I've never before heard of using a fork with the tines pointed down. To easy for gravity to work on the food skewered by the fork and pull it off the tines. As for placing the food above the turned down tines..... Why not just use the spoon? I mean if you intend to use the fork as a spoon, it is that simple. As for placing the utensil back on the table.... what idiot does that? I just place the knife across my plate so I can pick it back up as needed. or suspend it between my 3rd and 4th finger to be swapped out with spoon/fork as needed.
 
Willie Boy said:
To easy for gravity to work on the food skewered by the fork and pull it off the tines.
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Actually, it's quite the opposite. The speared meat and the backs of the tines make a suitable platform for the potatoes and peas you pile onto it with your knife.

Of course, if you prefer to eat only one food at a time, then the tines pointing up may be the better way, but holiday dinners taste much better when each mouthful is turkey, gravy, cranberries, potatoes, and buttered carrots. An explosion of flavours.
 
gsdx said:
Actually, it's quite the opposite. The speared meat and the backs of the tines make a suitable platform for the potatoes and peas you pile onto it with your knife.
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Apparently you didn't fully understand my post, that's the time for use of the spoon, not the fork. Although I have seen folks use the fork like a spoon with tines up also. I must say that works better than tines down, as the curving of the tines doesn't allow for much to be placed on the upturned bottom.

Of course, if you prefer to eat only one food at a time, then the tines pointing up may be the better way, but holiday dinners taste much better when each mouthful is turkey, gravy, cranberries, potatoes, and buttered carrots. An explosion of flavours.
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Then why not just have a pot pie for holiday dinner? You'd get the same mixture of flavors, just with a far more efficient way of eating it.
 
Spoon holds all manner of food far better than the bottom of a fork. Even little children understand this. :telstra:
 
^ You go right ahead eating your holiday dinner with your spoon. For people with shaky hands, nothing - not even a spoon - beats tine-down forks
 
Who knew what way you hold your fork would be such a controversial and divisive subject.
 
oakpope said:
What surprises me the most is the way the young American people hold their fork in the hand. Like 3 years old toddlers.

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That makes American tourists who do that in Paris restaurants so..hum..childish ?
Don't understand why parents don't teach the young (I'm talking 20-30 yo young !) ??

Edit : found this : http://www.haivuong.com/news/european-and-american-dining-etiquette.html
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omg.

I know.

When I caught my niece and nephew doing this...we had 'the talk'. There are now actually courses being offered for 20 somethings in etiquette...including how to eat with utensils correctly.

I despair.
 
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