Seriously though, a 50's child who was taught the 'correct' way of eating but no one tried to change the way I wrote. So a bit of a mishmash. Great for painting walls as I can use both hands!
Got an image of 'Edward Painter Hands' of you in my head ;-)
I eat most things with my hands tbh. I don't like knives and forks and I don't use them 'properly'. I don't care which hand knife or fork goes in as long as food ends in my mouth. I do like spoons.
This really irritates me. I am the only one out of the four of us here (inc my sons girlfriend who eats here regularly)that uses cutlery correctly. Why my son eats like this amazes me as he was never brought up to do so. Another thing, which my husband does, is eats with his elbows on the table. It drives me crazy! It is such bad manners
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As a another poster said, I really can't understand why anyone is bothered about this. As long as someone isn't disgustingly chewing with their mouth wide open (which is indeed bad manners) why should anyone care how another person is holding their cutlery?
As a another poster said, I really can't understand why anyone is bothered about this. As long as someone isn't disgustingly chewing with their mouth wide open (which is indeed bad manners) why should anyone care how another person is holding their cutlery?
A spoon shoveler of peas is a disgrace I tell you! peas should be eaten from the upper side of a fork, no matter how difficult it may seem. (perhaps that is why peas are not often served at dinner parties?)
Conventional is to hold the spoon with the right hand, you are correct, but I don't normally, being ambidextrous.
ETA. If I want to pick up certain food to eat by hand, I'll usually use my left hand. My Muslim friends should be offended by this apparently, but as most of them drink or smoke or take drugs, it isn't usually an issue.
Most of them know I'm half Jewish as well, but do they give a f*ck.
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Right handed. Fork with my right, knife with my left.
I'd probably do that too if I was right handed. As it is I'm a lefty and am happy to have the fork in my left hand. Makes more sense to me to have the fork in your strongest hand and seeing as most people are right-handed I don't understand where the convention of the fork being your left hand came from.
I'd probably do that too if I was right handed. As it is I'm a lefty and am happy to have the fork in my left hand. Makes more sense to me to have the fork in your strongest hand.
Like a dining fork is heavy to lift, or was that a garden fork you are talking about.
Like a dining fork is heavy to lift, or was that a garden fork you are talking about.
Hehe, strongest was maybe a bad word - most dexterous instead? I don't know.....If I grab something, whatever that thing is it tends to be with my left as I'm left handed. As I have the fork in my hand more often than the knife and am moving it about more from plate to gob, it feels natural to have it that hand. Knives really don't do much work, especially if they're sharp. So yeah, if I was right-handed I'd hold my fork in my right.
Hehe, strongest was maybe a bad word - most dexterous instead? I don't know.....If I grab something, whatever that thing is it tends to be with my left as I'm left handed. As I have the fork in my hand more often than the knife and am moving it about more from plate to gob, it feels natural to have it that hand. Knives really don't do much work, especially if they're sharp. So yeah, if I was right-handed I'd hold my fork in my right.
If you were carving a joint of meat, which hand would you use the carving knife with?
I am not being awkward, but, what makes you left handed then? Is it just that you write with your left hand?
Not just that. I hold a snooker/pool cue in my left hand too, played tennis or badminton left-handed, ten-pin bowling the same. I throw left-handed. With a screwdriver I'm not bad with either but prefer left. Scissors I can use right-handed no problem, don't have to use those special left-handed ones. I swing a golf club or a cricket bat right-handed though, but I'd bowl the cricket ball with my left.
Perhaps I'm slightly mixed up but I'd regard myself as left-handed overall.
Not just that. I hold a snooker/pool cue in my left hand too, played tennis or badminton left-handed, ten-pin bowling the same. I throw left-handed. With a screwdriver I'm not bad with either but prefer left. Scissors I can use right-handed no problem, don't have to use those special left-handed ones. I swing a golf club or a cricket bat right-handed though, but I'd bowl the cricket ball with my left.
Perhaps I'm slightly mixed up but I'd regard myself as left-handed overall.
Edit: My computer mouse is in my left hand too!
After replying to this thread and using 'imaginary' cutlery to make sure of my left and right, with my hand firmly planted on my mouse in my right hand, I am willing to say, I am a stunted right hander ...:D
I think it's the norm among Americans, even when eating something quite knife-dependent (e.g. cut up meat etc using fork in left hand and knife in right, then put knife down and swap fork to right hand in order to insert food in mouth - no, I don't understand either).
Am left-handed, fork stays in left hand all the time even if a knife is involved.
That is how Americans are taught to eat, I work for an American company so have seen this a lot and it always looks such an ungainly way to eat to me. In fact one of my American colleagues taught himself to eat like Eueopeans as he was so conscious the way he ate was so dofferent to everyone else.
On the plus side, though, I can spot an American diner at 100 yds in any restaurant!
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As a another poster said, I really can't understand why anyone is bothered about this. As long as someone isn't disgustingly chewing with their mouth wide open (which is indeed bad manners) why should anyone care how another person is holding their cutlery?
A spoon shoveler of peas is a disgrace I tell you! peas should be eaten from the upper side of a fork, no matter how difficult it may seem. (perhaps that is why peas are not often served at dinner parties?)
Conventional is to hold the spoon with the right hand, you are correct, but I don't normally, being ambidextrous.
ETA. If I want to pick up certain food to eat by hand, I'll usually use my left hand. My Muslim friends should be offended by this apparently, but as most of them drink or smoke or take drugs, it isn't usually an issue.
Most of them know I'm half Jewish as well, but do they give a f*ck.
It can work.
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I've done it all my life
It makes my peas taste funny
but it keeps them on the knife.
I'd probably do that too if I was right handed. As it is I'm a lefty and am happy to have the fork in my left hand. Makes more sense to me to have the fork in your strongest hand and seeing as most people are right-handed I don't understand where the convention of the fork being your left hand came from.
Like a dining fork is heavy to lift, or was that a garden fork you are talking about.
Forks are unbearably heavy! I eat most things using just my hands. Mash with gravy's a right mess.
Hehe, strongest was maybe a bad word - most dexterous instead? I don't know.....If I grab something, whatever that thing is it tends to be with my left as I'm left handed. As I have the fork in my hand more often than the knife and am moving it about more from plate to gob, it feels natural to have it that hand. Knives really don't do much work, especially if they're sharp. So yeah, if I was right-handed I'd hold my fork in my right.
If you were carving a joint of meat, which hand would you use the carving knife with?
Right.
I am not being awkward, but, what makes you left handed then? Is it just that you write with your left hand?
Not just that. I hold a snooker/pool cue in my left hand too, played tennis or badminton left-handed, ten-pin bowling the same. I throw left-handed. With a screwdriver I'm not bad with either but prefer left. Scissors I can use right-handed no problem, don't have to use those special left-handed ones. I swing a golf club or a cricket bat right-handed though, but I'd bowl the cricket ball with my left.
Perhaps I'm slightly mixed up but I'd regard myself as left-handed overall.
Edit: My computer mouse is in my left hand too!
After replying to this thread and using 'imaginary' cutlery to make sure of my left and right, with my hand firmly planted on my mouse in my right hand, I am willing to say, I am a stunted right hander ...:D
My Mother was left handed and it's probably from her that I learned this pattern of behaviour.
That is how Americans are taught to eat, I work for an American company so have seen this a lot and it always looks such an ungainly way to eat to me. In fact one of my American colleagues taught himself to eat like Eueopeans as he was so conscious the way he ate was so dofferent to everyone else.
On the plus side, though, I can spot an American diner at 100 yds in any restaurant!
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Which side do you spoon on?
Tip food in blender
Right hand
Whizz it to mush
Left hand
Pour into Tommy Tippee mug
http://www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/easy-drink-beaker/
Right hand
Drink it.
Always the left. I actually think I'm ambidextrous.