Cutlery etiquette when you've finished eating

[Tank Girl]

For me it's fork and knife parallel at 5 o'clock. It's slightly less aggressive that way, I feel.

I agree, and it stops you knocking the cutlery with yer belly/boobs

 

[madamv]

I voted together at 6 o.... thanks Cloo. Great to know my mum wasnt an obsessive compulsive or somthink!! I was taught that anything else was 'european' and not english manners. Maybe because we had foreign students in the house often!

Funny thread

 

[Cloo]

Well, I deliberately posted this on suburban rather than anywhere else, where it would probably developed into some kind of class war thing (although I don't think this practice is class-specific, TBH)

 

[subversplat]

If I repeatedly swap them other whilst I'm eating, does it really matter what I do with them when I've finished? Just don't use either the knife or fork to scratch any part of your body, and you're fine

sometimes I'll use the handle of the fork to scratch my head

 

[Orang Utan]

If I repeatedly swap them other whilst I'm eating, does it really matter what I do with them when I've finished?

That's another cardinal sin though - fork goes in left hand, knife in right and should never be swapped

 

[Phototropic]

I voted six 'o' clock. I can't remember ever being taught it is just something I have always done.

 

[subversplat]

That's another cardinal sin though - fork goes in left hand, knife in right and should never be swapped

My fork always goes in my right hand, knife in my left. People look at me strangely when I sit down to a pre-placed table and immediately swap them over. I never swap while eating though (because I can't eat right handedly, even though I'm right handed )

 

[T & P]

Someone told me if you cross them it's a sign that you are dissatisfied with the food?

 

[Cloo]

Oh, I hold my cutlery appalingly, although not as badly as my bro, but he at least has the excuse of being left-handed!

 

[Relahni]

After I've finished eating I leave them casually at 8 o'clock - followed by a slight move to 7 o'clock with a firm and decisive final move to 6 o'clock.

 

[mr steev]

I think I was taught that you put them together if you were eating out, but we never ate out. I didn't realise they had to be at a certain angle, that sounds a bit anal to me

 

[Orang Utan]

he at least has the excuse of being left-handed!

Shouldn't really make a difference, in fact left handers at an advantage when it comes to holding cutlery

 

[Cloo]

Not my bro, but like several members of the family (me included) he's just got crap coordination generally.

 

[rennie]

My fork always goes in my right hand, knife in my left. People look at me strangely when I sit down to a pre-placed table and immediately swap them over. I never swap while eating though (because I can't eat right handedly, even though I'm right handed )

happens to me as well... i hold the fork with my right hand n I'm right handed. and i do occasionally have to swap... who cares anyway?

 

[Wess]

I alway's hold my fork in a fist and stab downwards....and I have my own knife because the little silver ones that they have don't have handles.