Reply to: Table Etiquette [Dear Beaker]

[Platypus]

mmm yes it is

the reason you put the knife in your right is because it is expected to give better control etc - thus why it should be reversed for left handers.

Balls.

Yes but most etiquette is purely for its own sake rather than for logical reasons

Correct.

[SimonMac]

knife in right hand, fork in left - for right handers opposite for left handers

I am right handed but I old my knife and for the wrong way round

[fullyautomatix]

She is clearly utterly depraved. Which means he's having much better sex more often than you. Lucky lad.

WDS

Probably swallows too.

[d000hg]

mmm yes it is

the reason you put the knife in your right is because it is expected to give better control etc - thus why it should be reversed for left handers.

Yes but most etiquette is purely for its own sake rather than for logical reasons. For instance if you're eating food that requires little cutting, it makes more sense to hold you fork in the right hand the 'wrong' way up, rather than trying to push food onto the back of your fork with a knife.

[original PM]

NOOOOOO !!!!

mmm yes it is

the reason you put the knife in your right is because it is expected to give better control etc - thus why it should be reversed for left handers.

[Troll]

How very lower-middle class you are.

Not according to this...unless your data analysis is flawed


1. What kind of area do you live in?
2. What type of house do you live in?
3. What type of education did you have?
4. What car do you drive?
5. What jewellery do you own?
6. What jewellery do you wear?
7. How many hand-made suits do you own?
8. Do you employ any "help"?
9 Where do you holiday/would like to holiday.
10 Whats you favourite TV programme

[doodab]

NOOOOOO !!!!

Why not? And really, WGAS.

[Platypus]

opposite for left handers

NOOOOOO !!!!

[original PM]

knife in right hand, fork in left - for right handers opposite for left handers

[Platypus]

Well the 'correct' way varies between countries - in the USA fork is in the right hand, and you swap hands when using the knife to cut.

I don't think it's "correct" in the USA, it's just what most of them do.

Table manners are import. Ensure that you and your sons hold your cutlery correctly and hopefully she'll follow your good example.

[d000hg]

Well the 'correct' way varies between countries - in the USA fork is in the right hand, and you swap hands when using the knife to cut.

[doodab]

what really shocked me was the way she held her knife and fork during meal times, both were held in the wrong hand and the fork used as a shovel.

She is clearly utterly depraved. Which means he's having much better sex more often than you. Lucky lad.

[sasguru]

My boys are now of an age where they are starting to bring bints delightful young ladies home to let me letch at introduce to mater & pater
Eldest is currently studying medicine oop North & turned up with a lass from Liverpool that is also on the course - very shaggable pretty, well spoken (but with a slight scouse twang) and obviously on her best behaviour - what really shocked me was the way she held her knife and fork during meal times, both were held in the wrong hand and the fork used as a shovel.

Now I was was bought up on a Northern council estate but had table manners drummed in both at home and at school from a very early age - it appears that this generation is not aware or chooses to ignore social conventions as I also see it more frequently in UK restaurants and on certain TV programs
Is it important ?

How very lower-middle class you are.

[shaunbhoy]

I've got a mate from Liverpool who holds his knife like a pencil. I've never said anything and he ignores my scowls.

If he's a scouser just be thankful he is not lifting the bowl up to his face, especially if he doesn't trouser it on the way out.

[MarillionFan]

I'd never criticise somebody who is holding a knife

Unless you were holding a gun.