Fork Etiquette: a rant

[sojourner]

Just a quick one re peas - I didn't eat them for years, because my inability to keep a lot of them on the fork so they ended up in my mouth really pissed me off.

Someone mentioned the idea of using a spoon only to eat peas a few years ago, and I was like why the fuck didn't I think of that sooner!!

So yeh - forks - pile food on. Peas - use a spoon.

 

[pengaleng]

I love dinner etiquette.

 

[seeformiles]

Don't remember but he did use to spit in the fire - I'd often have to watch his phlegm sizzling and bubbling away!

My dad did that when he was eating grapes. Used to wind my Ma up something shocking.

As for cutlery rules - anyway is fine by me as long as people close their mouths while they're chewing. (another thing my old man never got the hang of...)

 

[yardbird]

My elder brother - rest his soul -taught me about restaurants and etiquette when I was in my teens in the 60's.
First rule.
Never be intimidated by a wine waiter.
Rule two
Use whatever implement does the job best
Rule three
Enjoy your food.


He was before his time, my bro.

 

[wtfftw]

Excuse me but how the fuck are you supposed to eat peas by pushing them onto the back of your fork?

Make sure you only eat peas with mashed potato.

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.

^that.

 

[jcsd]

Ther was a guy on Radio 3 a couple of years ago going on about some horny-handed son of the soil who, horror of horrors, would eat a sandwich with both hands.

You see I don't get that. Surfe two hands means greater stabilty for quicker bites, but the hands get in the way menaing you can't polish it off in 3 or 4 bites.