How do you put food into your cake hole?

[Essex Boy]

Have you had any interesting experiences going out of your comfort zone while eating unfamiliar foods?

Normally I'm right-handed but when I eat I hold the knife in my left hand and the fork in my right. When I eat with a spoon I hold that in my right hand; so when I have to eat with a fork and spoon together, whichever way I hold them feels wrong so I drop tarte tatin or whatever all over the place. Thank God for sporks!

Pastry forks and fish slices: Why? Is that thick bit on the side of the fork meant to help you to cut through the pastry? What are left-handed people meant to do? A knife and fork would be better. In the best houses fish is traditionally eaten with a pair of forks.

^ (He used to have a good tutorial but he's taken it down.)​

I've been having fun practising with chopsticks. Salads are actually easier to eat that way. It's easier to pick up cherry tomatoes with chopsticks than to try to skewer them with a fork and risk squirting tomato juice across the room. Also chopsticks make me eat slower, which is good because I'm in the middle of a bout of raging reflux.

I used to eat out sometimes with work colleagues in a "real" Indian restaurant (lots of Indian and Pakistani regulars). The first time, one of our all-white British group amazed us by revealing that he was actually born and raised in the same region as the people who ran the place. Not only did he order the whole meal in (I think) Hindi, but he ate his with a piece of bread in his fingers and made less mess than we did with knives and forks.

 

[pigface]

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[rareboy]

I use anything to hand. Including hands.

I am pretty adept at chopsticks and certainly grew up learning to use bread or flatbreads as a utensil. (shovel).

 

[unloadonme]

I can use chopsticks or bread, but generally resort to a fork or spoon so that I can eat my food before it goes cold.

 

[pigface]

Typically a butter knife, a fish knife, a knife for the main course, a salad fork, a fish fork, a meat fork, a dessert fork, a soup spoon and a dessert spoon.
Of course if escargot or citrus fruit is on the menu, suitable additional cutlery is placed at the setting.

 

[gsdx]

Usually with a fork or spoon, and sometimes (if appropriate) with my fingers, but whatever I use, the food often ends up on me rather than in me because my hands shake it off first. There is so much food I can't even eat anymore.

 

[LilBit]

I strap on a feed bag like any other civilized person.

 

[Kahaih]

With a cocktail glass with ice, and a pill bottle.





Of course not really. I don't drink or use drugs. I'm just a bit perplexed that no one has admitted to doing such.

I prefer meals that I can eat with a spoon. Stews/soups. Leave all the cutting and probing instruments in the kitchen.

 

[belamyi]

Oh, it was not a metaphorical question using euphemisms.

 

[Kahaih]

Oh, it was not a metaphorical question using euphemisms.

If the court will allow, I'd like to submit "cake hole" as exhibit A.

 

[me203]

I prefer meals that I can eat with a spoon. Stews/soups.

I prefer mostly using a spoon as well.

Less chance of stabbing my face than with a fork.

 

[belamyi]

If the court will allow, I'd like to submit "cake hole" as exhibit A.

Please do proceed.