spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
the rationale is to make you take smaller mothfuls and eat more slowly, delicately.
Fork Etiquette: a rant
- Thread starter Mrs Miggins
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Fucken heathens - we should never have given up the colonies
Happy 4th (umm I mean 15th) of July!!!!! Pow! <- fireworks
health and safety conscious
Yeah and a bit off the reservation, just a little though *wipes slobber off chin*.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Ok ok.
(Tell it to Colonel Sanders or whoever runs KFC, isn't that the 1st place/time anyone saw a "spork"?...)
That's not a made up word.
It's the combination of spoon/fork
F108 is sexy!
I told you she only had sporks
I told you she only had sporks
Do you remember a few years ago when I used to put corks on forks and try to eat with them just for the hell of it? I do. Heh.
I remember a spork forum
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Sometimes I wonder if all these "looks" people get for supposedly breaking the etiquette rules aren't infact the product of a paranoid mind.
I bet you'd find in actuality that almost nobody cares how you eat your food, and if they really did, they'd at least say something!
I bet you'd find in actuality that almost nobody cares how you eat your food, and if they really did, they'd at least say something!
no lol was that one of the intoxicated phases of your life?
I remember that bin bag and the christian army tho lololol
Yeah I'm sure it was, well obviously, oh God, it just reminded me of something else that isn't fit for urban or even my brain at this juncture.
The bin bag and Christians....It's still too soon , it's like a dagger through my heart. STILL!
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Jesus.
I hope you don't go to east asia. your head will explode.
Oh no not me! anything goes for me! It's the mentalists that I come across sometimes that get upset about it.
yeah, but you'll have to remember where to place you chopsticks, where to point the spout of the teapot, who to give booze/tea to first, second etc.
it can be hard work sometimes.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Too fucken right!!
Although I have been amongst Gemans eating open sandwiches with a knife and fork which also freaked me out.
and as an aside...the term "open sandwich" also pisses me off because it's not a sandwich is it? It's a piece of bread with something on top! grrrrr...angry miggins tonight!
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
shite I see what you mean! yeah - even harder! but is that just seriously ritualised stuff for special ocassions or do people eat like that all the time?
scifisam
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@MA: did you eat a lot of pork with your corks on forks? Did you eat it in New York? Did you spill food on your norks?
Portmanteu words are a completely acceptable way of forming necessary neologisms.
Portmanteu words are a completely acceptable way of forming necessary neologisms.
The bin bag and Christians....It's still too soon , it's like a dagger through my heart. STILL!
I'm desperately sorry for your loss
(((ma)))
on the other hand chinese people don't seem to have any manners in some places, slurping, spitting bones at you, smoking while eating etc
I'm desperately sorry for your loss
(((ma)))
It's been years too.
But.....well, some wounds never heal.
scifisam
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I'm watching snakes on a plane and this line just came up the second after I posted on this thread (the characters are looking for something to fight the snakes with):
Air Stewardess: We don't have any silverware - all we have is this. *holds something up in her hand*
Samuel L Jackson: Sporks?
Air Stewardess: We don't have any silverware - all we have is this. *holds something up in her hand*
Samuel L Jackson: Sporks?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
you can say fancy shit as much as you like but I still hate made up words!!
Like someone the other day said they were going to a "fuddle" which apparently is a "food muddle" which is actually just fucking picnic. She told me on purpose because she knew it would wind me up
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Which is precisely the sort of thing that makes it all bloody nonsense. The Chinese I'm sure have food etiquette rules too - just different ones to poncey English cunts who look down on others for not squashing their peas on the back of their fork like some sort of mentalist.
The things known as "sporks" used to be called "runcible spoons".
As for etiquette of balancing food on the convex side of the fork, holding sandwiches in just one hand etc. AFAIK it's extremely bad manners to point out that somebody is breaking etiquette.
A good hostess/host would either ignore the lapse or break the rule themselves rather than break the more important rule of not making a guest uncomfortable.
As for etiquette of balancing food on the convex side of the fork, holding sandwiches in just one hand etc. AFAIK it's extremely bad manners to point out that somebody is breaking etiquette.
A good hostess/host would either ignore the lapse or break the rule themselves rather than break the more important rule of not making a guest uncomfortable.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I do that, I just squish them onto the fork, but I also use my fork to scoop eg potato salad.
I don't mind how people eat eat as long as they do it with enjoyment and don't flick food in my direction.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I bet it works the same way - that it's social climbers and the class-insecure who care about that stuff.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Every dinner time, without fail:
Mum: 'Electrogirl! Hold your knife and fork properly!
Me:'oh for god's sake'
Mum: 'you're eating like a navvy!'
I don't even know what that means.
Mum: 'Electrogirl! Hold your knife and fork properly!
Me:'oh for god's sake'
Mum: 'you're eating like a navvy!'
I don't even know what that means.
redsnapper
Vintage Urban
Who are these freaks that live by bizarre codes of contact like which way up your fork should be when you eat?? I've seen people trying to eat with their fork turrned round like that and it's a right palaver. Ponces and freaks 
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