I hold my plate with my left hand and eat with a Knork in my right hand most of the time, but can use cutlery properly if forced to sit at a table and eat in public!
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
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
I'm another who's right handed and uses their fork in the right hand. I was always getting corrected on it growing up but just cannot master the correct usage.
I'm another who's right handed and uses their fork in the right hand. I was always getting corrected on it growing up but just cannot master the correct usage.
I think you must have had your food cut up for you for a long time, or you are ambidextrous, your 'working hand' if you are right handed is your right hand, therefore to cut food up you need your right hand to do the work....:D....but as long as your food doesn't end up on the floor or in your lap what does it matter?
(Sits at computer wondering why it matters to me, but it does a little bit )
I can't say I've ever paid much attention to which hands I use. Even thinking about it now I'm uncertain, although I assume I use the knife in my right hand as I'm right handed.
I find it completely ridiculous that this actually bothers people, though. The fact that anyone actually considers this important or at all relevant to anything baffles me.
I can't say I've ever paid much attention to which hands I use. Even thinking about it now I'm uncertain, although I assume I use the knife in my right hand as I'm right handed.
I find it completely ridiculous that this actually bothers people, though. The fact that anyone actually considers this important or at all relevant to anything baffles me.
Just a bit of thought, before you eat your food maybe.....food for thought ;-)
I learned how to use chopsticks properly, so as to eat in the 'accepted' manner when I eat the food.
I watched closely when I first ate Arabian food, to see how it was done 'acceptably'.
I also eat correctly (more correctly) when I'm out, has to be said.
It has some importance I think, the ability to eat in a culturally acceptable way.
And I think that chopping your spaghetti up with a knife and fork looks uncouth.
I know, I am always telling my grandchildren that because it makes nanny smile with pleasure when they want to lick their plates, they must only do it at my house LOL.
I know, I am always telling my grandchildren that because it makes nanny smile with pleasure when they want to lick their plates, they must only do it at my house LOL.
Made me laugh:D
You just have to know HOW not to do it when you're at a posh restaurant.
When eating an overstuffed sandwich, I tend to pick it up with my right hand, hold it together with my left hand, and present it to my mouth with my right hand.
I'm right handed and eat with the knife in my left hand and the fork or spoon in my right. My dad is right handed and eats the same way, so I guess I must've copied it off him when I was a child learning to use a knife and fork. My mum, sister and brother all eat the opposite way and they're all right handed too!
That's the same as me, and I am right handed, are you contrary? ;-)
I must be
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!
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And wear a bib?
What is the correct combination though?
That's so wrong, I have got indigestion!
(Sits at computer wondering why it matters to me, but it does a little bit
I find it completely ridiculous that this actually bothers people, though. The fact that anyone actually considers this important or at all relevant to anything baffles me.
We were all taught to eat 'correctly' however, my 82 year old mother still throws her eyes to heaven when she sees my brother eat.
He's managed okay in life though, so it's hardly world shatteringly important.:D
Just a bit of thought, before you eat your food maybe.....food for thought ;-)
I learned how to use chopsticks properly, so as to eat in the 'accepted' manner when I eat the food.
I watched closely when I first ate Arabian food, to see how it was done 'acceptably'.
I also eat correctly (more correctly) when I'm out, has to be said.
It has some importance I think, the ability to eat in a culturally acceptable way.
And I think that chopping your spaghetti up with a knife and fork looks uncouth.
No, but I am sure there are those that do, and if they are lucky enough to have two, will be left or right footed.
I know, I am always telling my grandchildren that because it makes nanny smile with pleasure when they want to lick their plates, they must only do it at my house
Made me laugh:D
You just have to know HOW not to do it when you're at a posh restaurant.
Same here.
I'm ambidextrous (pretty well), but usually the conventional way for fork and knife, i.e. fork (left hand), knife (right hand), but spoon (left hand).
Rachel Sexton does.
Noooooooo, spoon right hand too...:o ;-)
Knife in right hand, fork in left.
Fork only - salad, spaghetti etc - right hand
Soup - right
Desert - spoon in right, fork in left.
Chopsticks, right handed. For those that have problems there are always these;-)
That's the same as me, and I am right handed, are you contrary? ;-)
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!